Fresh B
| Fresh 89%
| Trembling Before G-d (2001) | "
What's most fascinating about Trembling Before G-d is the way it shatters stereotypes not about homosexuality but about fundamentalism." Posted Jan 26, 2004 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 87%
| Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2004) | "
Complicated, moving, and entirely real." Posted Dec 2, 2003 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 63%
| Unknown Pleasures (2003) | "
When was the last time you saw a movie about an entire community facing an existential identity crisis?" Posted Dec 2, 2003 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 87%
| Under the Skin of the City (2003) | "
Spare, static, and brimming with everyday details about life in Tehran." Posted Dec 2, 2003 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 87%
| On Guard (1997) | "
Channeling the spirit of Dumas and Féval, de Broca has unleashed a spry, rousing, funny swashbuckler." Posted Dec 2, 2003 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 86%
| Lilya 4-Ever (2003) | "
Its ugliness is easily trumped by Moodysson's abiding compassion and artistic vision -- his strokes only get darker, bolder, and more divine as the film progresses." Posted Dec 2, 2003 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 89%
| Distant (2004) | "
Maintains a mood of melancholy and loneliness so unrelenting that it's borderline inhospitable." Posted Dec 2, 2003 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 100%
| Un Chien Andalou (1929) | "
This is Warhol and this is Lynch, but more richly suggestive than both put together." Posted Dec 2, 2003 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 93%
| Blood of a Poet (1930) | "
An illogical, artificial ode to the power of images." Posted Dec 2, 2003 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 73%
| Ali Zaoua (2000) | "
This lovely urban fable transcends realism, conjuring a waterfront Casablanca that reminded me of Roald Dahl at least as much as Buńuel." Posted Dec 2, 2003 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 98%
| Sweet Sixteen (2003) | "
What's great about Sweet Sixteen isn't its politics but the way everything feels simultaneously inevitable and spontaneous, especially in terms of the acting and mood." Posted Oct 6, 2003 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 91%
| Stevie (2003) | "
My severe reservations didn't prevent me from becoming completely absorbed by Stevie and its underlying implications regarding a filmmaker's motivations, methods, and responsibilities." Posted Sep 16, 2003 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 93%
| Spy Kids (2001) | "
It has a youthful exuberance missing from Rodriguez's work since El Mariachi." Posted May 21, 2003 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 89%
| Shrek (2001) | "
Swift, cocksure, and sometimes bracing, Shrek is like a child who threatens to leap from a soaring swing, but isn't quite audacious enough to follow through." Posted May 21, 2003 |
Fresh B
| N/A | The Cook and Other Treasures (1917) | "
Fascinates partially as a historical document but mostly because it provokes interesting questions about the bond between screen jesters and the American public." Posted May 14, 2003 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 92%
| The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002) | "
The brashly entertaining The Kid Stays in the Picture wants everyone to know and love the fabled Robert Evans -- and it just might work." Posted Sep 2, 2002 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 90%
| The Fast Runner (2002) | "
Its tempo might be challenging, but only in the best way -- since it produces a textured, full-bodied classic myth, the deceptive 'slowness' is, for me, its greatest thrill." Posted Aug 17, 2002 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 89%
| Kandahar (2001) | "
There are sequences of beauty but also legitimate terror." Posted Jul 29, 2002 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 84%
| The Son's Room (2002) | "
Devoid of sentiment, The Son's Room becomes a story about real misery, about the dreadful room a son's absence leaves in a parent's life." Posted Jun 3, 2002 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 81%
| Titanic (1997) | "
Despite the rather clunky script and histrionic acting, the film becomes some kind of alarmist masterpiece about an event of painful cultural humbling." Posted Oct 30, 2001 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 90%
| Iron Monkey (1993) | "
One of the most purely entertaining kung fu movies, particularly during the climactic showdown between fighters balanced on the tips of burning, toppling bamboo poles." Posted Oct 30, 2001 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 81%
| Shadow of the Vampire (2000) | "
Shadow of the Vampire is about dueling egos, and the great joke of this vampire movie is that the bully film director, not the undead bloodsucker, is the real monster." Posted Oct 24, 2001 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 77%
| Beloved (1998) | "
The first film to truly get the horror -- the harrowing human repugnance -- of slavery on the screen." Posted Oct 24, 2001 |
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