Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| In Search Of Beethoven (2009) | The film stretches on too long... But the music soothes away a lot of complaints. Posted Sep 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 62%
| Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) | Mr. Perry has his moviemaking machine running smoothly, which is to say somewhat predictably. Posted Sep 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Rashevski's Tango (2003) | "
In the end, though, Mr. Garbarski makes no judgments, which leaves this film feeling sweet but light." Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 84%
| Captain Abu Raed (2008) | Mr. Matalqa seems more interested in a wistful atmosphere than in complexity. Mr. Sawalha, a veteran television and film actor, has no trouble creating that. Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 90%
| Gotta Dance (2009) | Dori Berinstein’s enjoyable documentary is about a 60-and-older hip-hop dance team. Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Heart of Stone (2009) | "
Two things keep Heart of Stone from being like every other documentary about a dedicated principal who tries to turn a failed urban high school around." Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Being Jewish in France (2009) | "
Yves Jeuland’s documentary Being Jewish in France is more than three hours long, and its emotional peak comes relatively early." Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Flower in the Pocket (2009) | "
Liew Seng Tat's film is providing a delicious, quirky example of what the camera can do just by being an unhurried observer." Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 47%
| Battle for Terra (2009) | The movie's messages are delivered with a heavy hand, but some of the scenes are eye-popping, especially -- sorry, peace-loving Terrians -- the battle sequences. Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 31%
| A Touch of Spice (2006) | "
The food metaphors pile up like layers of an overstuffed sandwich in A Touch of Spice." Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 71%
| Luck by Chance (2009) | "
Luck by Chance is an appealing tale of two would-be actors looking for movie stardom." Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 60%
| War Child (2008) | War Child, a documentary about the hip-hop artist Emmanuel Jal, is a bit ragged and repetitive, but certainly this young man’s life is amazing proof that one person really can make a difference. Posted Nov 14, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 40%
| Fireproof (2008) | "
This is a decent attempt to combine faith and storytelling that will certainly register with its target audience." Posted Sep 29, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 68%
| CSNY Déjà Vu (2008) | CSNY Déjà Vu has some delicious moments, but you never quite shake the feeling that it's documenting a tempest in a teapot. Posted Jul 25, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 37%
| Space Chimps (2008) | Journalism is all about having the courage to write the truth even if it will get you mocked by your relatives and co-workers, so here goes: Space Chimps is hilarious. Posted Jul 18, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 30%
| Young Yakuza (2007) | "
Jean-Pierre Limosin’s Young Yakuza looks at Japan’s version of the Mafia." Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | The Other Half (2008) | Ying Liang’s slyly subversive second feature takes awhile to coalesce, but once it does, it becomes an intriguing exercise in juxtaposition. Posted Mar 19, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Poor Boy's Game (2007) | Poor Boy’s Game is a movie built around a boxing match, but its most powerful scenes involve no jabs or hooks. Posted Mar 13, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 42%
| A Bloody Aria (2006) | It may seem an odd thing to say about a film in which a baseball bat as an instrument of assault and rape is a recurring theme, but what makes A Bloody Aria a darkly delightful surprise is its restraint. Posted Jan 11, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 13%
| Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) | "
It may not be classic sci-fi like the original Alien, which it has in its DNA, but it's a perfectly respectable next step in the series." Posted Dec 28, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 70%
| Right at Your Door (2007) | The acting’s pretty good, and the cinematography keeps things lively. Posted Sep 1, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| Shadow Company (2007) | There isn’t as much exposé as you might expect in Shadow Company, but there’s considerably more thoughtfulness. Posted Jul 6, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Steel City (2006) | Mostly Mr. Jun's script is sharp, and Laurie Metcalf, James McDaniel, America Ferrera and Raymond J. Barry in supporting roles help keep the tale mesmerizing, in a small-scale sort of way. Posted May 25, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Taste of Tea (2004) | "
A description someone gives of a song involved in one of the film's many detours neatly summarizes the movie itself: 'It's more cool than weird, and it stays in your head.'" Posted Feb 23, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Verdict on Auschwitz: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965 (2007) | "
Relying heavily on audiotapes from the trial, this documentary conveys the horrors of the Holocaust in a way even the best Hollywood movies can't." Posted Jan 12, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Kiki Smith: Squatting the Palace (2007) | "
Ms. Smith’s vision is sketched on a napkin, and her approach to executing it is something like an act of surrender." Posted Jan 10, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World (2007) | Ms. Martin was full of ideas, and she dispenses them engagingly. Posted Jan 10, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 50%
| Reminiscing in Tempo (2006) | This documentary about Duke Ellington is too meandering to be of much use to the uninitiated, but Ellington fans will be grateful for the vintage film clips. Posted Dec 14, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 85%
| This Filthy World (2006) | Mr. Waters, who has been honing this material for years, is as comfortable and effortless as any monologist you're likely to see. Posted Nov 23, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 10%
| Let's Go to Prison (2006) | Let's Go to Prison is a sly, very funny comedy that stays admirably deadpan every time you think its about to veer into gross-out territory. Posted Nov 20, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Deeper Than Y (2006) | ... has just enough winning moments in it to let viewers forgive that it's little more than a glorified home video. Posted Nov 2, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 43%
| The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (2005) | "
In his semi-remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the director David Lee Fisher has accomplished something rather startling: he has out-disoriented the original." Posted Oct 24, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 78%
| Hair High (2006) | In the gleefully outrageous animated feature Hair High, director Bill Plympton walks the border between ridiculously gross and outright offensive. Posted Oct 18, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Ritchie Boys (2006) | This documentary, named for a military boot camp in Maryland, tells of a group of Jewish immigrants who fled Germany for the United States in the years of the Nazi buildup. Posted Oct 12, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 75%
| Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna (2006) | For something so silly and so long, however, the film is surprisingly engaging, thanks largely to its very watchable actors; it’s easy to see why they are international stars in the world of Hindi films. Posted Aug 26, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Two Sons of Francisco (2006) | "
Two Sons of Francisco tells the real-life story of the rise of Zezé di Camargo and Luciano, a leading Brazilian country music duo." Posted Jul 12, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 75%
| Mendy - A Question of Faith (2006) | At its core, Adam Vardy's Mendy: A Question of Faith espouses an inanely simplistic worldview ... but it does so with a surprising amount of respect. Posted May 11, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| Suite Habana (2006) | ... its most compelling images linger ... Posted Apr 28, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 82%
| Mirage (2006) | "
It's a grim look at the life of one boy in a country that, at least in Mr. Ristovski's view, seems to have nothing but grimness to offer." Posted Mar 16, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 40%
| Don't Trip...He Ain't Through with Me Yet (2006) | "
Can Christian comedy be outrageous? Yes, as Steve Harvey shows in the best parts of Don't Trip ... He Ain't Through With Me Yet." Posted Mar 16, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 27%
| The Shaggy Dog (2006) | "
Tim Allen is a prosecutor who is going, as it were, to the dogs in this revisiting of the old Disney film, which is far livelier than its namesake." Posted Mar 9, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 52%
| Aquamarine (2006) | "
In this sweet comedy for the crowd that has outgrown The Little Mermaid, two likable pals try to help a mermaid find love and learn how to use her feet properly." Posted Mar 2, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 50%
| Headspace (2005) | A small horror film with all the necessary gore and beasties and gratuitous nudity that this not-very-demanding genre demands. Posted Feb 15, 2006 |
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