|
1/4
|
55%
|
Married Life (2008) |
"
When the characters in Married Life cry out for help, the entire mise-en-scène stifles them with irony."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 19, 2007
|
|
|
40%
|
The Ringer (2005) |
"
An uncomfortable intermingling of message movie and gross-out comedy, a sporadically funny vehicle that indicts its audience for laughing. Come on, guys. You can't have your fun and eat it too."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 28, 2005
|
|
|
44%
|
The Comedians of Comedy (2005) |
"
Watching the quartet doing laundry, playing arcade games, or getting haircuts evokes the banality of road life far too accurately, and at 105 minutes, the film hardly leaves us wanting more."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 8, 2005
|
|
|
41%
|
Going Shopping (2005) |
"
Henry Jaglom's latest study of contemporary female obsessions among a noxious clan of West L.A. bourgeoisie is of more pathological than cinematic interest."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 27, 2005
|
|
|
17%
|
Loudmouth Soup (2005) |
"
Loudmouth Soup perpetuates the same shallow myths about Los Angeles that it pretends to indict."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 20, 2005
|
|
|
22%
|
Formula 17 (2005) |
"
Mark my words: There is no way an innocent like Tien and a Meat Loaf-style heartthrob like Bai could ever make a love thing happen."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 23, 2005
|
|
|
31%
|
Valiant (2005) |
"
As education by anthropomorphism goes, Maus this ain't."
—
Village Voice
Posted Aug 16, 2005
|
|
|
75%
|
Just One Look (2005) |
"
A paean to cinephilia that might goad viewers into questioning the value of film itself."
—
Village Voice
Posted Jul 26, 2005
|
|
|
41%
|
Second Best (2004) |
"
An ugly, amateurish film that champions mediocrity in a meta-attempt to justify its own ineptitude."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 24, 2005
|
|
|
58%
|
Stolen Childhoods (2005) |
"
As cinema, this is standard, on-the-nose PBS fluff, but it's the grade school principal's perfect guilt inducement tool for slackers who arrive late to class."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 17, 2005
|
|
2.5
|
57%
|
The Interpreter (2005) |
"
Subversive, maybe, but hardly explosive. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 19, 2005
|
|
|
21%
|
Uncle Nino (2003) |
"
Sounds Disneyfied enough on paper, but the elderly, violin-toting hero's successful attempt to infiltrate his miscreant nephew's mall-punk garage band is too creepy to fulfill the hipness quotient."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 8, 2005
|
|
|
61%
|
Swimming Upstream (2004) |
"
Saddled with a ham-fistedly literal title and copious aesthetic ineptitude."
—
Village Voice
Posted Feb 2, 2005
|
|
|
43%
|
Bob, Verushka & the Pursuit of Happiness () |
"
While Waite's deadpan delivery eases the torture, Stigliano's micro-budget film plays like a preachy relic of the Gorbachev era."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 16, 2004
|
|
|
57%
|
Cowboys & Angels (2003) |
"
In general, a film in which the protagonist exalts his friend on a city sidewalk, raising his arms to the sky and proclaiming, 'You've worked your magic on me, and I'll never be the same again!' should not be seen by anyone."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 14, 2004
|
|
|
5%
|
The Cookout (2004) |
"
The pointlessness of The Cookout exudes a modicum of charm, but the simple-minded mess still lacks the wit and moral weight of an episode of Family Matters."
—
Village Voice
Posted Sep 7, 2004
|
|
|
25%
|
Off the Lip (2004) |
"
This inane debut feature is based around neon-suffused stock surfing footage from a Compaq commercial, so it's a notable accomplishment that Off the Lip succeeds at being laughably highfalutin."
—
Village Voice
Posted May 4, 2004
|
|
|
73%
|
Showboy (2002) |
"
An ill-conceived, often implausible hybrid of fact and fiction."
—
Village Voice
Posted Apr 6, 2004
|
|
1/4
|
4%
|
The Mod Squad (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
1.5/4
|
67%
|
Cztery Noce z Anna (Four Nights with Anna) (2008) |
"
Four Nights with Anna is one part funny ha-ha to 99 parts funny-strange."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 13, 2008
|
|
1.5/4
|
76%
|
Assisted Living (2005) |
"
Greenebaum never molds his inchoate elements into any clear shape."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 1, 2005
|
|
1.5/4
|
47%
|
The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
1.5/4
|
48%
|
Cruel Intentions (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
1.5/4
|
61%
|
Mystery Men (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
1.5/4
|
50%
|
Outside Providence (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2/4
|
76%
|
Let it Rain (Parlez-moi de la pluie) (2010) |
"
A question: If you spend an entire career chronicling power relationships among the incurably self-absorbed, is that not in itself a form of self-absorption?"
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 15, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
67%
|
Les Amours d'Astrée et de Céladon (Romance of Astrea and Celadon) (2008) |
"
To borrow the film's vernacular, the words never stab into the soul."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2007
|
|
2/4
|
82%
|
Hustle & Flow (2005) |
"
Talent and practice isn't enough to realize your dreams. To get on MTV, sometimes you gotta shoot somebody."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 13, 2005
|
|
2/4
|
53%
|
Dallas 362 (2005) |
"
plays more like a vanity project from a rich kid who never got to do his share of macho posturing. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 21, 2005
|
|
2/4
|
82%
|
Rock School (2005) |
"
There's something unsettling and downright Dickensian about Green's hard-knocks method and proprietary stance."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 22, 2005
|
|
2/4
|
53%
|
Melinda and Melinda (2005) |
"
Plays like the product of a Woody tribute act that couldn't decide if it preferred Annie Hall or Crimes and Misdemeanors."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 23, 2005
|
|
2/4
|
40%
|
Varsity Blues (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2/4
|
67%
|
Sugar Town (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2/4
|
78%
|
Get Real (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2/4
|
53%
|
Payback (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2/4
|
67%
|
Stir of Echoes (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2/4
|
82%
|
Happy, Texas (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2/4
|
7%
|
Jawbreaker (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2/4
|
29%
|
200 Cigarettes (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2/4
|
46%
|
Forces of Nature (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2/4
|
51%
|
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
57/100
|
33%
|
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) |
—
Apollo Guide
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2.5/4
|
82%
|
The End of America (2008) |
"
The End of America gives author and public intellectual Naomi Wolf an Inconvenient Truth-style platform to remind Americans about the Bush administration's assault on our civil liberties."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 3, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
52%
|
Four Brothers (2005) |
"
A crackerjack B-movie."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 11, 2005
|
|
2.5/4
|
23%
|
The General's Daughter (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2.5/4
|
19%
|
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2.5/4
|
97%
|
The Winslow Boy (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2.5/4
|
56%
|
Mumford (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2.5/4
|
61%
|
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
2.5/4
|
85%
|
The Sixth Sense (1999) |
—
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
67%
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