Rotten
| Fresh 70%
| American Casino (2009) | "
This authoritative, far-reaching documentary by veteran investigative journalists Leslie and Andrew Cockburn comes off as curiously bloodless." — Village Voice Posted Sep 1, 2009 |
— | Fresh 67%
| Violent Cop (1989) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
— | N/A | Falling in Love Again (1981) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
— | Rotten 49%
| Candy (2006) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
— | Fresh 100%
| The Big Clock (1948) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
— | Fresh 84%
| Meet the Parents (2000) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
— | Fresh 90%
| Animation Show - Volume 1 (2003) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Canary (2009) | "
Micro in budget, macro in ambition, accomplishment, and scope, Adams's slyly withholding film prompts multiple viewings -- and deserves them." — Village Voice Posted Aug 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Thirst (2009) | "
Park's voluptuous style fits a genre that is all appetite -- or should be." — Village Voice Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
Scott's redo comes up short in almost every regard against the '74 model." — Village Voice Posted Jun 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| The Hangover (2009) | "
An unusually palatable entry in a rancid genre." — Village Voice Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| New World Order (2009) | "
Neither a call to alarm nor a laugh-at-the-loonies yukfest, the doc charts a temperate middle course through its subjects' heated rhetoric." — Village Voice Posted May 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Knowing (2009) | "
[A] lugubrious thriller." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Hearts and Minds (1975) | "
Not only the definitive American documentary about the war in Vietnam but a landmark political action." — Village Voice Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) | "
Proving that there's no statute of limitations on lousy ideas, director Andrzej Bartkowiak�s attempted franchise expansion returns to the Capcom motherlode that produced the worst movie in the entire Jean-Claude Van Damme filmography." — Village Voice Posted Mar 5, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Friday the 13th (2009) | "
For one ticket price, you get three shoddy Friday the 13th movies packed into one, which might constitute entertainment value if any one of them constituted entertainment." — Village Voice Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Chocolate (2009) | "
The world may not have needed a Thai-language martial-arts hybrid of Kill Bill and Rain Man, but by God, it's got one now." — Village Voice Posted Feb 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Marley & Me (2008) | "
Marley & Me proves how lifeless Lady and the Tramp would have been if told from the p.o.v. of Jim Dear and Darling." — Village Voice Posted Dec 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (2008) | "
The doc's biggest revelation may be the extent of his stardom, even as he began to explore bawdy Jacques Brel chansons and psychedelic dada crooning." — Village Voice Posted Dec 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Timecrimes (2008) | "
Even though Vigalondo's obvious direction lingers over every carefully arranged tile in the toppling-domino plot, there's still some sinister amusement in watching them stack and fall." — Village Voice Posted Dec 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| Transporter 3 (2008) | "
Here's all fans need to know: Yes, Statham strips to the waist multiple times; yes, two dozen hopelessly outnumbered kung fu goons take on our lone hero one by one; and yes, he manages to outpace his Audi by bicycling through a congested sweatshop." — Village Voice Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| I Can't Think Straight (2008) | "
Every image seems to have been Scotchgarded." — Village Voice Posted Nov 20, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Just Buried (2008) | "
More twee than any movie about serial murder has a right to be." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| Quarantine (2008) | "
Even those who despise remakes will have to admit that director John Erick Dowdle’s furious retread is scary as hell." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| Elite Squad (2008) | "
[José Padilha] recariously pitches the squad's brute force as less a necessary evil than the outgrowth of an existing evil -- a no-win situation that mocks liberal ideals and warps conservative pragmatism into domestic terrorism." — Village Voice Posted Sep 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 2%
| Disaster Movie (2008) | "
Rushed into production with no better drape for its threadbare gags than Cloverfield, this carpet-fouling mongrel of a movie no more deserves release than do anthrax spores." — Village Voice Posted Sep 2, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| Sukiyaki Western Django (2008) | "
The widescreen framing and saturated color make this one of Miike's most visually impressive features." — Village Voice Posted Aug 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Trouble the Water (2008) | "
The resilience of the movie's subjects -- survivors of street crime and drugs and HIV -- irradiates Trouble the Water like sunshine." — Village Voice Posted Aug 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story (2008) | "
Miller neither defends or apologizes: His remarkably candid footage (extending all the way to Wagner's deathbed and beyond) and interviews leave the man's sincerity (and his collectors') as open to scrutiny as his art." — Village Voice Posted Aug 13, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Anita O'Day - The Life Of A Jazz Singer (2008) | "
The directors prefer to secure O'Day's due as, in the words of critic Will Friedwald, the only white jazz singer who belongs in the company of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday." — Village Voice Posted Aug 13, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Man On Wire (2008) | "
Part caper movie, part real-life superhero saga, and entirely engrossing." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Jul 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Mad Detective (2008) | "
Even if you lose track of who's shooting whom and why during the abstract climactic face-off, the clever last shot shows you're not alone." — Village Voice Posted Jul 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Kabluey (2008) | "
The Austin-shot movie catches the nation's mood of economic anxiety and workplace exploitation more pungently than anything else in theaters." — Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Exiles (1961) | "
This 50-year-old film about a Los Angeles neighborhood on the skids and its barely tethered dwellers stands as the freshest movie in theaters." — Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Wanted (2008) | "
Bekmambetov’s movie evaporates pretty quickly after it’s consumed." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Jul 2, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) | "
While the evidence of his spotty post-1970s work is hard to refute, Gonzo proves what a vapid, overvalued commodity edginess is, championing Thompson's best work for brass-tacks insight more than brass-balled outrage." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Jul 1, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| Mother of Tears (2008) | "
A once-great director's near-worst work passes through its funhouse plumbing and emerges from the crapper as intentional mischief: self-sabotage explained away as mad genius." — Village Voice Posted Jun 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Heavy Metal In Baghdad (2008) | "
The movie reclaims metal's appeal to the powerless as well as its threat--when you can get shot for wearing a Slipknot T-shirt (talk about "Death, be not proud")... raising those devil horns isn't an empty act of aggression." — Village Voice Posted May 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| A Jihad for Love (2007) | "
The movie leaves open a provocative question: If you pick and choose which tenets of a religion apply to you, is it still a religion?" — Village Voice Posted May 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 46%
| Mister Lonely (2008) | "
Movies tell the same stories over and over, but I know of only one that evokes mourned innocence in just a three-minute slow-motion shot of a Michael Jackson impersonator and a stuffed monkey aboard a clown bike." — L.A. Weekly Posted May 8, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Frontier(s) (2008) | "
It’s as relentless as it is hateful, hammily directed and derivative of the dreariest slop in contemporary American horror cinema." — Village Voice Posted May 8, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| Son of Rambow (2008) | "
Son of Rambow evokes the rush of discovery that turns budding cinephiles into lifers -- that delight in finding a film that seems to express or coalesce some inchoate yearning, including a yen to share." — Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 46%
| Mister Lonely (2008) | "
Movies tell the same stories over and over, but I know of only one that evokes mourned innocence in just a three-minute shot of a clown bike." — Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Savage Grace (2008) | "
A lip-smacking episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Depraved, designed more for train-wreck gawkery than psychological illumination." — Village Voice Posted Apr 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Constantine's Sword (2008) | "
[A] searching, intellectually lively documentary." — Village Voice Posted Apr 16, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Anamorph (2008) | "
Director/co-writer H.S. Miller just lays on the chilly blues and a wet-blanket mood of arty anguish, leaving cinematographer Fred Murphy and production designer Jackson De Govia to trump up trompe l'oeils of carefully posed carrion." — Village Voice Posted Apr 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Never Forever (2008) | "
Floridly plotted but acutely detailed." — Village Voice Posted Apr 8, 2008 |
— | Fresh 93%
| Shotgun Stories (2007) | "
[Star Michael Shannon is] one of the most formidable unsung actors working today in American movies." — Village Voice Posted Apr 2, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| Backseat (2008) | "
Bruce Van Dusen's 2005 comedy plots a meandering course due north without locating a word of truth." — Village Voice Posted Mar 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 48%
| Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008) | "
Pegg has staked out a peculiar slant on genre material that ventures beyond irony toward rehabilitation -- and nobody plays blithe humiliation with more style." — Village Voice Posted Mar 25, 2008 |
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