Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Bad Sleep Well (1960) | "
Opening with a bravura wedding sequence and ending with a sycophantic bow to a replaced telephone receiver, the film has its longueurs, but Mifune's buttoned-down avenger is a compelling portrait of righteous obsession foundering on unpredictable reality." Posted Jun 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) | "
Number derives sleek hysteria from its audaciously constraining narrative strategy." Posted Jan 2, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Rosemary's Baby (1968) | "
Superbly acted (especially by bone-thin Farrow and Ruth Gordon as the ultimate neighbor from hell), it’s a satantango in the land of Is-this-real-or-am-I-crazy?, with a luridly literal ending that doesn’t negate the previous, more interior terrors." Posted Sep 19, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| The Parallax View (1974) | "
It's an astringently cynical take on official history, with Warren Beatty as a muckraker investigating the strange aftershocks of a senator's killing." Posted Jun 7, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | Slow Jam King (2004) | "
Enthusiastically scored to the titular quiet storms, ersatz c&w, and hip-hop textures, the anti-rockist Slow Jam King is more fun to listen to than watch..." Posted Jun 6, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| Nathalie (2003) | "
Nathalie is intricate, provocative, cleanly acted, but it's never entirely convincing -- and never more so than in the table-turning climax." Posted Apr 11, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| Game 6 (2006) | "
A gratifying playground of high-wire language." Posted Mar 7, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| London (2006) | "
Syd's emotional tailspin is embarrassingly banal, and his assertion that 'everybody here hates me' quickly applies to the audience as well." Posted Feb 7, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 51%
| White Countess (2005) | "
Irredeemably dull." Posted Dec 20, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) | "
To this viewer and reader, the decade-old juggernaut is as deeply felt as it is flawed, dense and illogical and laudably weird." Posted Nov 15, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) | "
A whimsical success of a very high order: The pace never lags, the invention is incessant, and it makes you want to have a bite of cheese afterward." Posted Oct 4, 2005 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Rodnees: We Mod Like Dat! (2005) | "
We're going to trot out the mandatory one-word Beatles-album-derived closer: Help!" Posted Sep 27, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 31%
| The Baxter (2005) | "
The Baxter nods to better-behaved comedies of the past." Posted Aug 23, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| A State of Mind (2005) | "
One leaves the film with the Twilight Zone sense that the place isn't quite the hellhole prior reports have suggested." Posted Aug 9, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Saint Ralph (2005) | "
Ralph Walker is no Max Fischer, and his monomania gets dull fast." Posted Aug 2, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005) | "
Though the film lacks some of the paper incarnation's subtlety, Dai's infidelity to his own text keeps things interesting." Posted Jul 26, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) | "
Fun and nourishing, Charlie's the topsy-turvy equivalent of a three-course dinner in a single stick of gum." Posted Jul 12, 2005 |
— | Rotten 44%
| Evergreen (2004) |
Click here to read article Posted Jun 18, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Wheel of Time (2005) | "
Patient and fascinated, but never succumbing to abstraction." Posted Jun 14, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) | "
The multiple story lines can feel choppy, but the dialogue has snap, and the pants' powers never distract from the teenagers' emotions." Posted May 31, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Saving Face (2005) | "
Despite a fairly explicit lesbian boobfest (projected attendance just went up!), the film is more good-natured than provocative." Posted May 24, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| 2009: Lost Memories (2005) | "
The amped-up Dickian scenario features too many frame-filling fireballs." Posted May 17, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 87%
| 3-Iron (2005) | "
The change in tone, from swiftly destabilizing drama to outright fantasy, feels less like Kim provocatively switching gears, and more like he's painted himself into a corner." Posted Apr 26, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| House of D (2005) | "
Marred by a rambling voice-over at one end and a pat therapeutic resolution on the other, the film has a nice half-hour patch somewhere in the middle." Posted Apr 12, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| The Ring Two (2005) | "
The let's-travel-through-the-TV-screen sequence was better in Fat Albert." Posted Mar 22, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Millions (2005) | "
Feels contrived." Posted Mar 7, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Bigger Than the Sky (2005) | "
Bigger lopes along endlessly, a no-surprises foray into backstage high jinks and the notion of life as the best acting coach there is." Posted Feb 22, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Sky Blue (2005) | "
Most of the action is tedious, and the less you pay attention to the dialogue, the less you'll feel your hand inadvertently twitching as if with joystick." Posted Feb 15, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005) | "
Several sharp jolts give the doc its dramatic shape, and one episode in particular, caught with a neighbor's lens, will make you gasp with grief." Posted Feb 8, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| White Noise (2005) | "
Vigorously pushes the supernatural line throughout, but unfortunately its final movement is so incoherent that the whole thing collapses." Posted Jan 11, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004) | "
Exasperating Southern-lit seminar." Posted Dec 28, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Fat Albert (2004) | "
The overall approach is to throw preordained movie sequences (rap number, shopping spree) together and hope for the best." Posted Dec 21, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) | "
Jessica Yu's elegant new doc In the Realms of the Unreal is a spry, creative response to his oceanic talent and claustrophobic life." Posted Dec 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| N/A | AmnesiA (2004) | "
So true to its title that I've forgotten many of the details already -- and I just saw it this morning." Posted Nov 30, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| National Treasure (2004) | "
National Treasure gets more entertaining as the preposterousness rises." Posted Nov 23, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004) | "
Could SpongeBob, all gangly goodwill and ice cream appetite, be the anarchic savior for our stressed-out times?" Posted Nov 23, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| Jandek - Jandek on Corwood (2004) | "
Chad Friedrichs's doc has too many rock-crit talking heads, too often saying the same thing based on scant information -- a clumsy portrait of the artist that inadvertently serves as a mirror of the critical faculty itself." Posted Nov 16, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| The Polar Express (2004) | "
Unnervingly smooth, mouths moving in strange, even frightening formations, the Polar people are the least convincing things on-screen, glaring impostors amid the otherwise painstakingly rendered scenery." Posted Nov 9, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Enduring Love (2004) | "
Razor-walking self-consciousness (or just plain braininess) is perhaps impossible to depict coherently on-screen, and the someone's-watching-me vibe is otherwise overfamiliar to moviegoers." Posted Oct 26, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Yes Nurse! No Nurse! (2004) | "
Styles range from cabaret to barbershop to toe-tapping bubblegum, and the rainy-day serenade at the start nods Cherbourgward, with a soupçon of Low Countries sass." Posted Oct 26, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 12%
| Stella Street (2003) | "
Stella Street goes from can-I-laugh- yet? to wanna-go- home in about three minutes." Posted Oct 20, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Untold Scandal (2003) | "
E J-Yong's transposition illuminates, with satisfying crispness, the hyper-Confucian high society of the time, as well as the underground Catholic movement." Posted Oct 12, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| Shark Tale (2004) | "
The filmmakers don't have enough faith in the world they've created." Posted Sep 28, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) | "
His nostalgia enabled by technology, Conran takes the ghosts in his machine seriously, and the results appear at once meltingly lovely and intriguingly inhuman." Posted Sep 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Head in the Clouds (2004) | "
I remember best [Gilda's] mutable hair, which went from a bob to a wave to a longish Angelina Jolie coif." Posted Sep 14, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| Evergreen (2004) | "
Though the acting is tentative at times, with performances not quite landing on the same page, Evergreen is a compassionate slice of Pacific Northwest misery." Posted Sep 7, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 80%
| Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004) | "
In the rare moments when a rifle, grenade, howitzer, bayonet, dagger, fist, land mine, or flamethrower isn't being deployed, the film pushes its melodramatic plotline with soap operatic shamelessness." Posted Aug 31, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) | "
Scenes end abruptly, laughs are as rare as yetis, and the overarching question seems to be: Can we turn this into a franchise?" Posted Aug 17, 2004 |
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