Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Humpday (2009) | "
Lynn Shelton's breakthrough bromance comedy is funny, sharp and true -- with no preachy sexual politics." — Salon.com Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Tony Manero (2009) | "
A memorably claustrophobic evocation of its time and place, as well as a reminder that the so-called escape offered by pop culture can sometimes be an escape into soul-sucking madness." — Salon.com Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Unmistaken Child (2009) | "
Unmistaken Child stands above most others in offering us an intimate look at Tibetan Buddhism in action, with no external commentary or narration." — Salon.com Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| Tetro (2009) | "
It has a verve and vitality that's been missing from [Coppola's] pictures for 25 years, and its various and visible flaws all result from too much of that verve rather than too little." — Salon.com Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
Helgeland's story is so formulaic and the characters so stock that we're just sitting there waiting for these guys to perform like circus animals." — Salon.com Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
An engaging and often wrenching film, Food, Inc. covers a wide range of material, including the horrific, the humorous and the exemplary." — Salon.com Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 8%
| What Goes Up (2009) | "
Director and co-writer Jonathan Glatzer handles his talented cast well, and the movie is dark, droll and sentimental in roughly the correct proportions." — Salon.com Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Pontypool (2009) | "
If you're a devotee of the deranged mind of Canadian indie auteur Bruce McDonald, then I can just tell you that he's made a horror movie (kind of) and that Pontypool is it." — Salon.com Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Munyurangabo (2009) | "
It's raw and rough, but beautifully photographed and classically constructed, with an undercurrent of awful tension and a lyrical sensibility." — Salon.com Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| The Brothers Bloom (2009) | "
This is either going to sound to you like a high old time or a teeth-grinding exercise in forced frivolity, and that might sum up the appropriate range of responses to The Brothers Bloom." — Salon.com Posted May 21, 2009 |
— | Fresh 78%
| Brick (2006) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted May 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Oblivion (2008) | "
The point of Oblivion is to rescue some sense of the beauty and individuality of people who live in a place most of us only hear about when it suffers an earthquake or a military coup." — Salon.com Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| The Lemon Tree (2008) | "
This latest film from the terrific Israeli director Eran Riklis revolves around the amazing lead performance of Palestinian-French actress Hiam Abbass." — Salon.com Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Every Little Step (2009) | "
Like show-business culture itself, A Chorus Line traffics in both cloying sentimentality and Darwinian ruthlessness, qualities that James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo's highly addictive behind-the-scenes documentary Every Little Step captures in abundance." — Salon.com Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
— | Rotten 43%
| A Chorus Line (1985) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Lymelife (2009) | "
Lymelife offers charm and humor through its young central characters and pathos through its remarkable supporting cast, without pulling punches on its overall atmosphere of autumnal darkness and anomie." — Salon.com Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Song of Sparrows (2009) | "
A leisurely and lovely picture, well worth seeing." — Salon.com Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Forbidden Lie$ (2009) | "
Even as Broinowski exposes Khouri's shameful and pathological abuse of such genuine tragedies, the filmmaker may be giving her subject exactly what she wants." — Salon.com Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) | "
Supplies all the rocked-out comedy and Rocky-like redemption you could want." — Salon.com Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| The Country Teacher (2009) | "
It's a movie that demonstrates, if you'll pardon the sports metaphor, how deep the bench is in Eastern European film." — Salon.com Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Tulpan (2008) | "
What makes Tulpan remarkable are the extended unbroken scenes, both dramatic and comic." — Salon.com Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Sugar (2009) | "
With spring flowers busting out all over and Major League Baseball's opening day just around the corner comes the release of Sugar<, a moving, surprising and provocative baseball flick that rises immediately to No. 1 with a bullet on my personal list." — Salon.com Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Goodbye Solo (2009) | "
Most of the movie's subterranean emotion is found in the unsettled relationship between Solo and William, and in the extraordinary performances by the two leading men." — Salon.com Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| Skills Like This (2009) | "
Berger appears to be a potential breakout talent, turning a character who could be endlessly irritating into an oddly charming, self-effacing rogue." — Salon.com Posted Mar 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Hunger (2008) | "
A mesmerizing 96 minutes of cinema, one of the truly extraordinary filmmaking debuts of recent years." — Salon.com Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Carmen and Geoffrey (2009) | "
Laugh if you want to, but this movie is a joyful celebration of the possibilities of love, the possibilities of blackness, the possibilities of America, and the possibilities of the human spirit. It's a tremendous tonic for dark times." — Salon.com Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
— | Fresh 73%
| Eden (2008) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Life of Reilly (2007) | "
The Life of Reilly lets us know how much the world has changed." — Salon.com Posted Mar 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Watchmen (2009) | "
I think Snyder and his writers channel moments of the humanity and humor that's always present in Moore's work." — Salon.com Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
— | Fresh 90%
| Katyn (2007) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Examined Life (2009) | "
Taylor introduces a degree of playfulness and unpredictability that becomes the movie's M.O." — Salon.com Posted Feb 26, 2009 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Gomorra (2008) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Friday the 13th (2009) | "
This Friday the 13th is glossy, good-looking garbage, acted out by a cast of big-chested androids (male and female alike) and with the original series' rough edges smooved over." — Salon.com Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Gomorrah (2009) | "
An operatic film about organized crime, an ambitious work of social, physical and spiritual geography." — Salon.com Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Two Lovers (2009) | "
An intense emotional drama, beautifully photographed and profoundly ambiguous, suspended somewhere between realism and psychosexual allegory." — Salon.com Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Nerdcore Rising (2008) | "
Hilarious and delightful." — Salon.com Posted Feb 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Medicine for Melancholy (2009) | "
I'd describe it, in fact, as a film that doesn't quite work -- but the way it doesn't work is so distinctive and so interesting that it marks Jenkins as an exciting new face on the American indie scene." — Salon.com Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
— | Rotten 50%
| Notorious (2009) |
Click here to read article — Salon.com Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
Adventureland, is a total delight, with a winsome and terrifically textured cast who seem both like young-adult archetypes and recognizable human beings." — Salon.com Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| The Informers (2009) | "
People sometimes had ordinary, reasonably polite conversations, even in the '80s. Not absolutely all the talking was affectless mumbling, angry recriminations, drug deals or TV news about Ronald Reagan." — Salon.com Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Just Another Love Story (2009) | "
Beneath all the dazzling cinematography, propulsive score and overcommitted acting, I found this movie an affecting, mordant comedy about male midlife crisis in its most extreme form." — Salon.com Posted Jan 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Silent Light (2008) | "
Silent Light brings us intimately into the private world of this esoteric society without ever feeling like ethnography or gawkery; at the risk of cliché, this prodigiously atmospheric fable of love and faith feels both timeless and modern." — Salon.com Posted Jan 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) | "
If this is the best the human race can do, forget it." — Salon.com Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Wendy and Lucy (2008) | "
Reichardt seems to be challenging us to ask ourselves questions that the occluded, stricken, mysterious Wendy can't or won't ask. Questions like: How did we get here? And what do we do now?" — Salon.com Posted Dec 9, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Antarctica (2008) | "
Ambition and a roomful of good-looking guys isn't quite enough." — Salon.com Posted Dec 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Milk (2008) | "
I don't know that this is Penn's best performance, overall -- let's have that debate some other time -- but as far as the mannered, immersive impersonations of his later career go, Harvey Milk takes the cake." — Salon.com Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Betrayal (2008) | "
The filmmakers have created a shimmering, absorbing experience that's both specific and general, both concrete and abstract." — Salon.com Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008) | "
A ripping good yarn, like a Fitzgerald short story rewritten by John Updike, with an uproarious, impossible Hollywood ending." — Salon.com Posted Nov 20, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Slumdog Millionaire (2008) | "
The real star of the film is not a person but a city, the vertiginous, exciting, massively overcrowded 'maximum city' of Mumbai." — Salon.com Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| One Day You'll Understand (2008) | "
Nonetheless, this mesmerizing, flawed, almost Proustian meditation has more to do with the present than the past." — Salon.com Posted Nov 7, 2008 |
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