Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| The End of Poverty? (2009) | "
Powerful and upsetting." — Salon.com Posted Dec 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Act of God (2009) | "
An undeniably provocative head-trip, laced with the most spectacular lightning-storm footage I've ever seen." — Salon.com Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
It offers more proof, if we need any, that von Trier is one of the most accomplished cinema artists of our time, and also perhaps the most deeply trapped in his own head." — Salon.com Posted Oct 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Afterschool (2009) | "
It's both a supremely controlled exercise in form and tone and an intriguing exploration of the ways new technology intersects with age-old questions of dominance, control and individuality, particularly in the school setting." — Salon.com Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| The Damned United (2009) | "
Those who give it a whirl will discover a delightfully comic and sympathetic portrayal of British life in the hardscrabble, ciggies-and-lager '70s." — Salon.com Posted Oct 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Bronson (2009) | "
Bronson is an explosive, theatrical, fourth-wall-busting project that will strike some viewers (like me) as prodigious and others as unbearably pretentious." — Salon.com Posted Oct 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| An Education (2009) | "
An Education captures the very limited possibilities for female liberation in early-'60s London -- with massive social change on the distant horizon, but not here yet -- in exquisite detail." — Salon.com Posted Oct 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
I enjoyed it, in a momentary-diversion sort of way, without really being sure it was worth doing." — Salon.com Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| American Casino (2009) | "
This film stands as an intimate, terrifying document that renders an incomprehensible slice of recent history in human terms." — Salon.com Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| At the Edge of the World (2009) | "
The summer season's most surprising and thought-provoking documentary." — Salon.com Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 18%
| Spread (2009) | "
Mackenzie is a consummate stylist, one of British cinema's emerging 21st-century talents, who has displayed a remarkable ability to make interesting movies that get in their own way and never reach wide audiences." — Salon.com Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
It's a grimy, consistently surprising and fundamentally human-centric science-fiction yarn, reminiscent of the dystopian, semi-realistic 1970s tradition." — Salon.com Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Beeswax (2009) | "
This warm, graceful and fundamentally optimistic movie snuck up on me, in the best possible way." — Salon.com Posted Aug 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Thirst (2009) | "
Thirst is a brilliant and gruesome work of cinematic invention as well as a passionate and painful human love story." — Salon.com Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| The Cove (2009) | "
The effectiveness of The Cove also comes from its explosive cinematic craft, its surprising good humor and its pure excitement." — Salon.com Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| A Woman in Berlin (2008) | "
However and wherever you see it, A Woman in Berlin is a distinctive achievement, a World War II movie unlike any other and one of the few films ever to address a topic that makes almost everyone want to look away: What happens to women in wartime." — Salon.com Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| 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 86%
| 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 81%
| 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 68%
| 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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| 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 11%
| 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 94%
| 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 63%
| 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
| 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 91%
| 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 |
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 82%
| 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 97%
| 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 95%
| 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
| 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
| Fresh 91%
| Katyn (2007) | "
A richly absorbing and intensely painful drama with a tremendous, mostly female cast." — Salon.com Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| 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
| 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 83%
| 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 |
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| 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 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 |
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