Fresh 82/100
| Rotten 50%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
By turns provocative, repulsive and downright elemental, it churns with such a surfeit of unresolved energy that it's likely to leave viewers dazed and confused by the end of its assault." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Sep 5, 2009 |
Rotten 39/100
| Fresh 94%
| The Damned United (2009) | "
It devolves into a morass of bitterness, losing even the rooting interest in the underdog that makes the formulaic structure of most sports films forgivable." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Sep 5, 2009 |
Rotten 34/100
| Fresh 85%
| World's Greatest Dad (2009) | "
Goldthwait's movie tries so desperately to be edgy that it's hard not to laugh at it." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Sep 5, 2009 |
Fresh 71/100
| N/A | House That Screamed (1999) | "
Taken as a whole, the sinister and accomplished The House That Screamed is something of a classic of European horror." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Sep 5, 2009 |
Fresh 70/100
| N/A | Men on the Mountain (1942) | "
By exhibiting a great deal of sympathy and a considerable amount of cinematic skill, Szots relays the mores and customs of the people he observes." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Sep 5, 2009 |
Fresh 82/100
| N/A | Naked Childhood (1968) | "
It conceives of characters not in the terms of the typical cinematic narrative, but rather as spontaneous beings, seemingly unpredictable even to themselves." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 63/100
| N/A | Hausu () | "
All the more awesome for being so totally inexplicable, Hausu may not be ultimately be classifiable as a "good" movie, but it's certainly one that must be seen to be believed." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 83/100
| Fresh 100%
| Black God, White Devil (1964) | "
It almost immediately launches into a nightmarish journey of violence and hopelessness, confronting us with an abstract yet uncomfortable vision of human struggle." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Aug 9, 2009 |
Fresh 80/100
| Fresh 100%
| Gentleman Jim (1942) | "
Walsh trusts his viewers to value ability and wit over humility and pathos, resulting in one of the most roundly entertaining of all sports films." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Aug 9, 2009 |
Fresh 74/100
| Fresh 80%
| The Small Back Room (1949) | "
The Small Back Room is too good to be regarded as the curio that most currently see it as." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Aug 9, 2009 |
Fresh 53/100
| N/A | The Wedding Night (1935) | "
While there is a mild confusion about whether ingénue Sten is mean to be a new Lombard or a new Garbo, the mixture serves the script's needs." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh 88/100
| Fresh 100%
| Late Spring (1949) | "
An early indicator of Ozu's late-career greatness, his remarkably subtle family drama Late Spring finds him at his expressive peak." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Aug 4, 2009 |
Fresh 80/100
| Rotten 54%
| Martyrs (2008) | "
Perhaps more than any other horror film, Martyrs demonstrates the range of the genre's capabilities to find ways to excite, provoke, and disturb us." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh 64/100
| Rotten 58%
| Mammoth (2009) | "
It's an easy movie to snipe at, but its quest for authenticity, even in its most affluent characters, is honorable." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 92/100
| Fresh 100%
| Vampyr (1931) | "
Vampyr might not be much of a vampire movie, but it's one hell of a horror movie. It creates a sense of unease that few films can compete with, casting viewers into a realm where meanings are elusive and terror lies in every shadow." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Fresh 79/100
| Fresh 89%
| A Married Woman (1964) | "
...one of Godard's most approachable, conventionally plotted movies. It merges the director's interest in social constructs with a curiosity about individual emotions often obscured in his work." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 22, 2009 |
Fresh 63/100
| Rotten 47%
| Ong Bak 2 (2009) | "
An effort that handily trumps the first in every respect, Ong-Bak 2 further cements Tony Jaa's status as one of the era's key action stars." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 20, 2009 |
Fresh 78/100
| Fresh 88%
| Le Jour Se Leve (1939) | "
Set convincingly on the streets and in the tenements, every frame here feels lived in." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 19, 2009 |
Rotten 44/100
| Fresh 86%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
Every moment of this sub-Annie Hall routine confounds not only audience expectation of a balanced feminine perspective but the very notion of romance itself." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 19, 2009 |
Fresh 54/100
| N/A | The Devil's Daughter (1939) | "
In its best moments The Devil's Daughter achieves an authenticity that cannot be denied." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 15, 2009 |
Fresh 59/10
| N/A | Alien Prey (1977) | "
Starting out as a seemingly predictable creature feature, Prey soon twists expectations, morphing to become a most unlikely chamber drama." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 15, 2009 |
Fresh 72/100
| N/A | A l'aventure (2009) | "
The tenderness that À L'aventure discovers as it stares into the void might be its most radical gesture of all." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 14, 2009 |
Fresh 62/100
| Fresh 100%
| Paris Is Burning (1990) | "
Livingston is smart enough to realize that her subjects are best equipped to explain themselves." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 50/100
| Fresh 74%
| The Young Victoria (2009) | "
[It] seems rather quaint, resulting in a movie that is well-meaning, and certainly well-mounted, but somewhat devoid of real excitement." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 9, 2009 |
Fresh 60/100
| N/A | Header (2006) | "
In its bravado and its commitment to its own perversity, it throws down a gauntlet at the rest of the genre. Make no mistake, when it comes to sheer shock value, it will be tough for other horror films to trump Header." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 8, 2009 |
Fresh 95/100
| Fresh 90%
| Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) | "
One of the silent era's best and most exciting epics, the hyper-modern Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler has scarcely aged a day in nearly ninety years." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 7, 2009 |
Fresh 65/100
| Fresh 86%
| Mum & Dad (2008) | "
There's not much to Mum & Dad, besides what needs to be there to achieve grisly effectiveness. What is most disturbing about it is the way that it captures and distorts the very dynamics that exist in any family." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 6, 2009 |
Rotten 47/100
| Fresh 66%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
Public Enemies traffics in the accumulation of detail at the expense of a big picture." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jul 6, 2009 |
Rotten 33/100
| Rotten 20%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
One can't tell if it's inspired in its attempts to find something that will draw us in or just colossally sloppy." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Fresh 72/100
| Fresh 73%
| Personal Best (1982) | "
Endowed with remarkable performances, superb photography, and a clear vision of what matters to its characters, Personal Best is an underappreciated gem in a genre full of filler." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jun 27, 2009 |
Rotten 25/100
| Fresh 66%
| Away We Go (2009) | "
It explains that the world is broken and dares you to agree that it's honest. It promises engagement, but delivers only retrenchment." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh 66/100
| Fresh 93%
| Summer Hours (2009) | "
Summer Hours is undeniably in touch with the way we live, eminently respectable, and a tad forced." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh 57/100
| Fresh 94%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
[It] broadens the appeal of its cult property, turning what was once strictly nerd fodder into a shaggy dog action movie." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Rotten 39/100
| Fresh 81%
| Departures (2009) | "
Such modestly crafted moral tales sometimes manage win the audience over, but here the tone wavers too much for sincerity to be felt." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh 54/100
| Fresh 90%
| The Nanny (1965) | "
<>The Nanny is not especially ambitious, so one must settle for the small pleasures and chills that it offers." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh 62/100
| Fresh 81%
| Lake Tahoe (2009) | "
Lake Tahoe confirms Embicke as a promising young talent, but simultaneously raises some worries that he's only able to offer a small, singular form of pleasure." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Rotten 27/100
| Fresh 78%
| Bronson (2009) | "
A determinedly ugly movie, as brutish in its delivery as its subject is brutish in character, Bronson fails to offer meaningful insight into the life of a singularly idiotic individual." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jun 18, 2009 |
Rotten 48/100
| Fresh 89%
| Moon (2009) | "
Jones is a methodical filmmaker, and he conveys his plot without mucking it up too terribly, but he's also dull." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jun 15, 2009 |
Fresh 55/100
| Fresh 68%
| Tetro (2009) | "
For viewers who are willing to accept the sheer adolescence of Coppola's thematic obsessions and stylistic approach, Tetro shows plenty of questionably placed inspiration." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jun 14, 2009 |
Fresh 53/100
| Rotten 39%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
Jim Jarmusch takes no prisoners, especially from his audience, in his quest for art house glory." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jun 13, 2009 |
Fresh 66/100
| Rotten 43%
| The Proposal (2009) | "
It is about as pleasing a star-driven comedy as one could reasonably expect to open in wide release during the dog days of summer." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Jun 13, 2009 |
Fresh 63/100
| N/A | The Girl on the Train (2009) | "
What results is an irreducible and complex portrait of the drama that is modern life. Téchiné, much to his credit, has transformed here a thoughtless action into something that is capable of making the mind reel with implication." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Mar 11, 2009 |
Fresh 66/100
| Fresh 100%
| Bad Biology (2008) | "
At once tragically wounded and gloriously shameless, Bad Biology is a must-see for a certain, self-selecting breed of filmgoer." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Mar 11, 2009 |
Rotten 40/100
| Rotten 35%
| Otto; Or, Up with Dead People (2008) | "
Concessions to the audience's expectations certainly make Otto a more palatable viewing experience, but they also make it seem less dangerous." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Feb 15, 2009 |
Fresh 63/100
| Fresh 100%
| A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) | "
Rarely has the dream factory lavished such skill on such destitution and such insistence that people are not really that changeable in nature." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Feb 15, 2009 |
Fresh 84/100
| Fresh 72%
| Julia (2008) | "
Julia is at once a marvel of screen acting, an unthinkably black comedy, and one of the few truly nail-biting suspense films to emerge this decade." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Feb 15, 2009 |
Fresh 70/100
| Fresh 83%
| The Sisters of the Gion (1936) | "
It is a brief movie, which is impressive considering how much of Japanese culture its critique assults, but it must be conceded that it loses a little of its potential richness as a result." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Feb 15, 2009 |
Fresh 82/100
| Fresh 100%
| Osaka Elegy (1936) | "
By the end of Osaka Elegy, Ayoko's situation warrants nothing less than a universal call for empathy." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Feb 15, 2009 |
Fresh 82/100
| Fresh 100%
| Osaka Elegy (1936) | "
By the end of Osaka Elegy, Ayoko's situation warrants nothing less than a universal call for empathy." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Feb 15, 2009 |
Fresh 82/100
| Fresh 100%
| Osaka Elegy (1936) | "
By the end of Osaka Elegy, Ayoko's situation warrants nothing less than a universal call for empathy." — MovieMartyr.com Posted Feb 15, 2009 |
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