Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | "
The multilayered picture tends to have a gently immersive effect, akin to a stroll through the world's most expensive diorama." — Slate Posted Mar 26, 2009 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 94%
| Gone Baby Gone (2007) | "
Flawed but impressive." — Time Out Posted Jun 5, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Fresh 64%
| Stop-Loss (2008) | "
It’s the film equivalent of a weary shrug – capturing the national mood at a moment when we’d all prefer some mood enhancers." — Time Out Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| The Legend of Drunken Master (1994) | "
Chan has always seemed like a silent-screen virtuoso self-catapulted into modern times." — Village Voice Posted Apr 15, 2008 |
— | Rotten 37%
| The Brothers Grimm (2005) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 100%
| You See Me Laughin' (2002) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 65%
| The Man Who Copied (2005) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 92%
| Home Of The Brave (2004) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 63%
| Jay Z - Fade to Black (2004) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 60%
| Voices Of Iraq (2006) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Rotten 43%
| Who Killed Bambi (2004) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Rotten 26%
| Noel (2004) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 76%
| Brother to Brother (2004) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| The Puffy Chair (2006) | "
When everyone finally shuts up, the silence is startling." — Time Out Posted Apr 27, 2007 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 84%
| Old Joy (2006) | "
Such watchful reticence takes a bold, confident filmmaker." — Time Out Posted Jan 26, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Notes on a Scandal (2006) | "
Bill Nighy is stunning in the small but pivotal role of Sheba's devastated husband, and Dench locates the desperate pathos in Barbara's malevolence." — Time Out Posted Jan 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Tideland (2006) | "
Gilliam’s brash disregard for conventional narrative rhythms and structures is one of the many thrills of his best work, but here his freewheeling navigations veer so far off-road that the passenger is left exhausted and bewildered." — Time Out Posted Sep 23, 2006 |
— | N/A | The Broken Giant (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Aug 19, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| Akeelah and the Bee (2006) | "
Its clichés seem bigger and its characterisations broader than they would on the more forgiving telly." — Time Out Posted Aug 17, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Who Killed The Electric Car? (2006) | "
Paine is preaching to the choir, but the sermon should be heard nonetheless." — Time Out Posted Aug 3, 2006 |
— | Rotten 20%
| Fanfan la Tulipe (2003) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jul 19, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Fanfan La Tulipe (1952) | "
Cahiers-savvy cinephiles will recognize Fanfan as the type of handsome prestige production that the French New Wave overthrew in the early '60s, but this example of the 'cinéma de qualité' is hardly a musty artifact." — Village Voice Posted Jul 18, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Metropolitan (1990) | "
None of Stillman’s endearing characters quite fits their prescribed social context, and in its exhilarated final movement, Metropolitan finds an exit out of the stifling UHB salon." — Time Out Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Mean Girls (2004) | "
Happily, Fey and Waters gently tweak the studios’ usual high-gloss caricature of adolescence and aim for acutely hilarious and surprisingly empathic sociology." — Time Out Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) | "
The film holds few surprises, though it builds a remarkable level of suspense during the fait-accompli interrogation scenes, and is a well-intended commemoration of a courageous young woman." — Time Out Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 22%
| Alien vs. Predator (2004) | "
The title alone betrays an entire Hollywood mindset of rehash, reheat, recombine. Re-please." — Time Out Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| War of the Worlds (2005) | "
The film succeeds as pure sensation, an exacting distillation of fear." — Time Out Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Anatomy of a Murder (1959) | "
Coolly absorbing, nonchalantly cynical." — Time Out Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| Thank You For Smoking (2006) | "
Aiming at all targets and hitting none of them, the movie is as harmless and inconsequential as a candy cigarette." — Time Out Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Surviving Christmas (2004) | "
The moral is that money can indeed buy happiness." — Time Out Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| N/A | Animals and More Animals (1994) | "
Philibert is most enamored of the museum's vast collection of unheimlich mammalian heads and grants them many a haunting close-up." — Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2006 |
Fresh
| N/A | Ice/Sea (2005) | "
Fun and free-associative, the movie ventures to Rio, Miami, Montpellier, the Dead and Black seas, and elsewhere, keeping a visual diary of lumpy beach bods, boardwalk architecture, and celebrity sightings..." — Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Friends With Money (2006) | "
As a creator of characters, Holofcener has strong instincts for emblematic situations and telling habits, yet she takes a reticent approach to development -- she observes her subjects closely, but doesn’t necessarily interpret." — Time Out Posted May 25, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Shakespeare Behind Bars (2006) | "
Albeit a tad repetitive, Shakespeare Behind Bars succeeds in humanizing men we might too easily label as monsters, and provides a solid argument in favor of prisons that place rehabilitation above retribution." — L.A. Weekly Posted May 11, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Free Zone (2006) | "
Per usual, Gitai largely eschews exposition, but his reticence sits awkwardly beside his penchant for saddling his deliberately stereotyped figures with trite, unwieldy speeches and symbolic-ironic biographical data." — Village Voice Posted Apr 4, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006) | "
The documentary holds no illusions about insanity as a career move; there's a whiff of the freak show in Johnston's latter-day concerts but never in Feuerzeig's approach." — Village Voice Posted Mar 28, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2006) | "
The movie carefully obscures its attitude toward these stunning Samaritans, or so it would seem." — Village Voice Posted Mar 21, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Mardi Gras: Made in China (2005) | "
This sly, engrossing doc is an expert riposte to smug proponents of the fetterless free market." — Village Voice Posted Mar 21, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Stoned (2006) | "
The rock hero starts out dead and so does the movie." — Village Voice Posted Mar 21, 2006 |
— | Fresh 91%
| Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Mar 18, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Joyeux Noël (2006) | "
Carion is no Jean Renoir, but he does strike an appealingly low key of tender, faintly goofy affinity between the combatants." — Village Voice Posted Feb 28, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Tsotsi (2006) | "
That the story can be so easily transposed to the post-apartheid present day is one of the movie's saddest inferences." — Village Voice Posted Feb 21, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| Winter Passing (2006) | "
The film is so grindingly predictable that I was writing out a full plot synopsis in my notebook before it was half over, though the thick grains of Terry Stacey's photography and Deschanel's understated performance add a little kick." — Village Voice Posted Feb 14, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Merci Docteur Rey! (2002) | "
A limp, smirky lark." — Time Out Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Primer (2004) | "
This film imagines its viewers to be smart, possessed of a decent attention span and game for a challenge. It doesn’t happen all that often." — Time Out Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| S.W.A.T. (2003) | "
he high definition SWAT training footage resembles a US Army recruitment ad, appropriate since TV journeyman Johnson imagines downtown LA as an unpatrolled Baghdad, swarming with guntotin' mercenaries pursuing their share of the bounty." — Time Out Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Kiss Me Deadly (1955) | "
A crucial influence on what would become the French new wave, an irresistibly seedy trip through the Los Angeles underworld, and a valuable artifact of Cold War anxiety." — Time Out Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| X2: X-Men United (2003) | "
The emotional spectrum has widened, too, encompassing buoyant mirth and heroic tragedy." — Time Out Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Raging Bull (1980) | "
This film does more than make you think about masculinity, it makes you see it -- in a way that's relevant to all men, not just Bronx boxers." — Time Out Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 6%
| Gigli (2003) | "
Mitigating factors: a carefully curated sampling of J-Lo butt cleavage, and an arrhythmic Christopher Walken cameo which momentarily diverts the doomed ship from collision with the iceberg." — Time Out Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
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