— | Fresh 100%
| Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (2003) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 31, 2009 |
— | N/A | Lost Junction (2003) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 26, 2009 |
— | Fresh 80%
| I Capture the Castle (2003) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Street Fight (2006) | "
"...completely gripping and enraging."" — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Jan 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| Night Watch (2005) | "
...better than most of our domestic product..." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Jan 19, 2009 |
— | N/A | The Year That Trembled (2002) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Dec 31, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) | "
Despite its length and expansive pace, it's never dull. And, despite the dubiousness of its stabs at being "meaningful," it still leaves you with more than most mega-productions." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Dec 23, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 91%
| Gomorrah (2009) | "
[T]here's nothing here to draw us in -- nothing particularly interesting or engaging about the stories or the characters." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Dec 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 80%
| Nothing But the Truth (2008) | "
Lurie's style has grown increasingly fluid, and the players (especially Farmiga) deliver, but he tosses everything away with the last twist." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Dec 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| Adam Resurrected (2008) | "
It seems to have been written in a tone of magical realism, but the director is Paul Schrader, a filmmaker who has many talents, but no feel for whimsy, let alone magic." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Dec 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Wrestler (2008) | "
... handily his best leading performance in years ... possibly ever .... Director Aronofsky ... plays it straight, giving us a clear, linear narrative, interrupted only by one intercut flashback. The step away from pyrotechnics becomes him." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Dec 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Gran Torino (2008) | "
[It gives] Eastwood a chance to be funnier than he's been in a long time." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Timecrimes (2008) | "
A witty, well-made addition to the [time travel] subgenre." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Doubt (2008) | "
Shanley [opens] up his four-character original enough to make it more cinematic without destroying the claustrophobic air of the characters' school-bound, almost medieval, world." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) | "
Gort the robot looks the same but is ten times bigger and a tenth as interesting -- a good metaphor for the whole project." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Frost/Nixon (2008) | "
Howard and Morgan are able to structure a series of largely mundane events for maximum suspense." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Milk (2008) | "
[Later] you realize that [Penn] doesn't innately look that much like Milk -- which is a sign of how terrific his performance is. Josh Brolin is no less perfect as White..." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| Transporter 3 (2008) | "
For the most part, the fights and chases are as implausible as the story, but there's an extraordinarily clever escape-from-certain-death bit about 20 minutes from the end that I don't think I've ever seen before." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
— | N/A | My Dinner With Jimi (2003) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Dec 3, 2008 |
— | N/A | Undermind (2003) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Dec 1, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 22%
| Nine Dead Gay Guys (2003) | "
Takes place in such a cartoonish, good-natured universe it's hard to imagine anyone taking offense." — Variety Posted Nov 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| The Dukes (2008) | "
Between the performances and the nice visual style, the whole feels greater than the sum of its plot points." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 20, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| A Christmas Tale (2008) | "
Once the connections become clear, however, this often bitter story almost becomes a thriller, as we fear the next outburst or revelation and its aftermath." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | B.O.H.I.C.A (2008) | "
Director D.J. Paul and screenwriter Joseph "Bo" Colen don't bring much new to the notion of boredom being the toughest part of war." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| The Alphabet Killer (2008) | "
...a big problem is the preposterousness of the mystery's solution..." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 17, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Quantum of Solace (2008) | "
[Craig] seems rigidified, with no more inner life than a mechanical action figure." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 15, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 45%
| Soul Men (2008) | "
This may not be a great movie, but I still couldn't help falling in love with it." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Captain Abu Raed (2008) | "
Nadim Sawalha gives a terrific performance, subtle and complex, and most effective when the camera simply lingers on his face." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Loins of Punjab Presents (2008) | "
The most obvious model for this sweet, low-budget production is Christopher Guest's Best in Show ... except with desis instead of doggies." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| Changeling (2008) | "
Both the best qualities and worst flaws in Changeling have been evident in Eastwood's work for some time now." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Fear(s) of the Dark (2008) | "
All except di Sciullo's are beautifully drawn, in a variety of distinct styles." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Synecdoche, New York (2008) | "
It's really quite brilliant. But it's also so difficult and so emotionally downbeat that it's hard to characterize it as "entertaining."" — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Flashbacks of a Fool (2008) | "
... an uninspired rearrangement of familiar elements, with little emotional force to justify the entire project." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) | "
One of Leigh's most upbeat films, as well as one of the best." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Ashes of Time Redux (1994) | "
... magnificent on a purely sensual level ... The new version is shorter by about ten minutes and is divided by chapter headings, which make the film slightly less confusing." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| W. (2008) | "
... while not the ideological lambasting many probably expected, it's nonetheless not a portrait the subject himself would find flattering." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
N/A | Fresh 79%
| Ashes of Time Redux (1994) | "
Third Degree: Wong Kar Wai" — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| An American Carol (2008) | "
... the jokes are lame and the caricatures too removed from any defensible reality." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Religulous (2008) | "
... while he tries not to look snarky, his comic impulse sometimes overwhelms him." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Rachel Getting Married (2008) | "
... perfectly calibrates the gradual revealing of the family dynamics, while dragging you through a gamut of strong emotions -- not necessarily the most enjoyable experience." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Obscene: A Portrait Of Barney Rosset And Grove Press (2008) | "
... a justified tribute to [Barney] Rosset, who in his mid-80s is still feisty, with a refreshingly lighthearted attitude toward all he accomplished." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 37%
| How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) | "
... slickly constructed and frequently funny." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 52%
| Allah Made Me Funny (2008) | "
The whole thing is like an HBO comedy special -- Allah made these guys pretty funny -- and it's hard to see why it's getting theatrical release." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 30%
| Lucky You (2007) | "
... captures the manner in which both the smallest and largest events on a road trip can build a sense of camaraderie among three strangers with very little in common." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 34%
| Miracle at St. Anna (2008) | "
It might have been easily trimmed by a half hour, which is a shame, because there are so many good moments buried in there -- a proverbial two-hour movie struggling to get out." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Righteous Kill (2008) | "
Russell Gewirtz's script is built around a trick, one that is simultaneously too clever by half and not clever at all (which itself is quite a trick)." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 47%
| Lakeview Terrace (2008) | "
Lakeview Terrace is well enough made to partly overcome my general distaste for films ... that are unpleasant, yet without catharsis or edification" — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Sukiyaki Western Django (2008) | "
... for all its virtues, Sukiyaki Western Django is a one-gimmick film that eventually wears out its welcome." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| What Women Want (2000) | "
English's attempts to fit The Women into a modern setting are intelligent, but that, unfortunately, does not suffice, because the film is so limp in so many other ways." — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Towelhead (2008) | "
Ball drops the poisonous little voodoo dolls he mistakes for characters into a ... realistic environment, as though that will somehow render his story more "serious."" — Los Angeles CityBeat Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
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