Fresh
| N/A | War on Kids (2009) | "
Cevin Soling's lively documentary lays out in hair-raising detail the authoritarian underpinnings of America's child-centered culture." — Village Voice Posted Nov 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
Alone of all the earnest players in this turgidly euphemistic melodrama, Sheen seems to grasp that the only way you can keep a straight face through this choked-up virginity is to carry it way into camp." — Village Voice Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe () | "
Other than a few tasty tidbits, like the fact that he wrote Joseph McCarthy’s will while still a young family attorney, there’s not much fresh news about William Kunstler in this documentary." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Four Seasons Lodge (2009) | "
The lyrically complicating hand of Mr. Maysles, who shot the film with several collaborators, is everywhere apparent in the way the camera picks a path around coherence, refusing narrative in favor of the thick detail of life unfolding." — New York Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Uncertainty (2009) | "
The result is some nice atmospherics tethered to a cripplingly half-baked existentialism." — Village Voice Posted Nov 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
A Christmas Carol is a whiz-bang 3-D thrill-ride with all the emotional satisfaction squeezed out of it." — Village Voice Posted Nov 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| Act of God (2009) | "
Baichwal is the least judgmental of interviewers, which is a double-edged sword when the solemn testimony ("I had come to meet me") induces a barely resistible urge to laugh." — Village Voice Posted Nov 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Skin (2009) | "
Workmanlike, but enormously moving." — Village Voice Posted Oct 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Wedding Song (2009) | "
This spirited film sustains its momentum as a tale of powerless women uniting to take back control of their destinies." — Village Voice Posted Oct 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Killing Kasztner (2008) | "
Ross is very good at teasing out the politics behind Kasztner's shifting fortunes, not to mention his murky ambitions. But closure is the last thing that's needed here." — Village Voice Posted Oct 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 34%
| St. Trinian's (2009) | "
With the right attitude this cheerfully calculated effort to update the old girl for a tween market can be enjoyed in all its endearing awfulness, as a loony High School Musical with posher accents and a lot more going on upstairs." — Village Voice Posted Oct 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Visual Acoustics: The Modernisms of Julius Shulman (2009) | "
Just about everyone in Eric Bricker's festschrift seems to love Julius Shulman, including (adorably) the unstoppable old gent himself. What's not to like?" — Village Voice Posted Oct 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| A Serious Man (2009) | "
The production notes are larded with the Coen Brothers' disclaiming protestations of affection for their hapless characters, but make no mistake: We're being invited to share in their disgust." — Village Voice Posted Sep 29, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) | "
[A] scattershot, lazy slice of agitprop, which recycles Moore's usual slice-and-dice job on corporations, while bobbing a curtsey to the current crisis." — Village Voice Posted Sep 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Disgrace (2009) | "
Though overwrought in its early scenes, the movie quickly settles into an intelligently faithful rendering of a calling to account, whose visceral power and political implications need no hyping." — Village Voice Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009) | "
There's little in this pointless rehash to distract audiences from the pleasure of watching Tamblyn, a fine young actress whose direct, grownup stare belies her baby features." — NPR Posted Sep 14, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| The Other Man (2009) | "
It hurts to see a terrific cast (including the lovely and intelligent young Irish actress Romola Garai as the couple's quietly seething daughter) squandered on such dreary filmmaking." — Village Voice Posted Sep 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Rashevski's Tango (2003) | "
The Rashevski Tango begins and ends with a burial, but the movie teems with cranky life." — Village Voice Posted Sep 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Amreeka (2009) | "
The thriving subgenre of immigrant displacement dramedy gets a confident new spin from Cherien Dabis." — Village Voice Posted Sep 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 31%
| Tickling Leo (2009) | "
Davidson weaves deeper questions of who a Jew is into this powerful tale of a clan shredded by the rage and hatred passed down through three generations." — Village Voice Posted Sep 1, 2009 |
— | Fresh 100%
| To Hell and Back (1955) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| Adam (2009) | "
Other than Rose Byrne's on-screen radiance and a soothingly warm palette lit by cinematographer Seamus Tierney, there's not much to get passionate about in this amiable chamberpiece from theater director Max Mayer." — Village Voice Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Flame & Citron (2008) | "
Of all European nations, Denmark enjoys the nearest thing to a heroic record of resisting the Nazi occupiers -- which adds both poignancy and punch to Ole Christian Madsen's fact-based drama about two posthumously honored Danes." — Village Voice Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| The Cove (2009) | "
The Cove is properly enchanting, horrifying, and rousing, but it comes dangerously close to making the narcissistic case that dolphins deserve to be saved because they're cute and breathe air like we do." — Village Voice Posted Jul 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 31%
| The Answer Man (2009) | "
The laid-back charm of Daniels and Graham's bumpy courtship gives the movie a much-needed edge of idiosyncrasy." — Village Voice Posted Jul 21, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Homecoming (2009) | "
If nothing else, Homecoming should effectively squelch any movie-star ambition on the part of Mischa Barton, though the camera is more than usually attentive to her cleavage." — Village Voice Posted Jul 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| A Woman in Berlin (2008) | "
One of the best of a new breed of indigenous movies prying open the Pandora's box of German suffering in World War II." — Village Voice Posted Jul 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009) | "
Celebratory but clear-eyed." — Village Voice Posted Jul 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | "
There's no breathing life into a formula that ought to have bowed out gracefully while the going was good." — Village Voice Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| I Hate Valentine's Day (2009) | "
Vardalos calls her film "the ultimate indie experiment," and if that's what is meant by ham-fisted pacing, writing, and acting, this is as ultimate and as indie as it gets." — Village Voice Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Afghan Star (2009) | "
If you think it's impossible to underestimate the cultural significance of American Idol, go see British filmmaker Havana Marking's documentary about its Afghani imitator." — Village Voice Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| Quiet Chaos (2009) | "
Not even the momentary participation extraordinaire of a vertically challenged famous filmmaker self-exiled from the United States can save this phony pseudo-drama from its final collapse into a heap of inconsequence and male vanity." — Village Voice Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 25%
| Land of the Lost (2009) | "
A pleasantly undistinguished pudding." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Séraphine (2008) | "
Lyrical but bracing." — Village Voice Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Laila's Birthday (2009) | "
Laila's Birthday is beautifully shot and overlaid with a spare, lyrical score that lends rueful emphasis to Masharawi's exasperated fidelity to a chronically malfunctioning city." — Village Voice Posted May 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Departures (2009) | "
Departures is built for simplicity, and, if nothing else, the appeal to decency and integrity of this sweetly old-fashioned tale make it a must for Bernie Madoff's prison Netflix queue." — Village Voice Posted May 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 51%
| Easy Virtue (2009) | "
Stephan Elliott's deliciously cheeky screen adaptation of one of the satirist's lesser-known jabs at the British upper crust will charm your pants off." — Village Voice Posted May 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Burma VJ (2009) | "
A roller coaster of alternating hope and despair." — Village Voice Posted May 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 36%
| Angels & Demons (2009) | "
The movie clips along, tricked out with state-of-the-art hardware and a hotter, brighter partner for Hanks." — Village Voice Posted May 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Treeless Mountain (2009) | "
Kim is deft and sensitive with her tiny co-stars, but Treeless Mountain lacks the freshness and surprise of In Between Days." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| The Soloist (2009) | "
Foxx and Downey's disciplined duet come close to redeeming The Soloist from its visual excesses." — Village Voice Posted Apr 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Il Divo (2009) | "
Hard on the heels of the acclaimed Gomorrah, Italian corruption gets a much quieter but equally vigorous workout in Paolo Sorrentino's highly stylized portrait of the country's most enduring political leader." — Village Voice Posted Apr 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Empty Nest (2009) | "
Empty Nest comes thickly and pleasurably detailed with the minutiae of domesticity." — Village Voice Posted Apr 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Three Monkeys (2009) | "
[The film's] hauntingly slow rhythms underscore the immanent violence and impotent rage that cripple already attenuated lives." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Guest of Cindy Sherman (2009) | "
A highly entertaining evisceration and celebration of the milieu." — Village Voice Posted Mar 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| Shall We Kiss? (2008) | "
Bogs down in the philosophical shallow end and never quite recovers from what's clearly meant to be a deceptively light tone." — Village Voice Posted Mar 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| The Country Teacher (2009) | "
This sweetly ingenuous film, written and directed by Bohdan Sláma, is a lot less sentimental about cows and flowers than it is about its human protagonists, who fall domino-like in love with churls who won't love them back." — Village Voice Posted Mar 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| The Great Buck Howard (2009) | "
No one does raging unlovability quite like John Malkovich, who’s a total gas when he drops the bombast that often bogs down his more serious roles." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Perestroika (2007) | "
On the evidence of his new movie, Slava Tsukerman, who made the 1982 cult movie Liquid Sky, would make a brilliantly entertaining dinner guest." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| Everlasting Moments (2009) | "
Lovely to look at but too slow and deliberate to get lost in." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 5, 2009 |
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