Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 78%
| The Hangover (2009) | "
The Hangover, like the condition for which it's named, has some spirited moments, but more often it stumbles and slurs, regurgitating earlier pleasures and praying for the fog to lift." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Enter the Void (2009) | "
Not clever enough to be truly pretentious, Noe's tiresomely gimmicky film about a low-level Tokyo drug dealer who enjoys one long, last trip after dying proves to be the ne plus ultra of nothing much." — Variety Posted May 23, 2009 |
— | Fresh 89%
| Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind (2008) |
Click here to read article — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
— | Rotten 30%
| Martian Child (2007) |
Click here to read article — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Lymelife (2009) | "
Startling performances, searing dialogue and an archaeologist's sense of late '70s period detail power the violently funny Lymelife." — Variety Posted Apr 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 4%
| Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) | "
Neither the best nor the worst of movies derived from videogames, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li at least gives action fans plenty to ogle besides the titular heroine (Kristin Kreuk)." — Variety Posted Mar 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Amreeka (2009) | "
A culture-clash dramedy whose background in Middle-East conflict is leavened with vibrant energy, balanced politics and droll humor by first-time feature director Cherien Dabis." — Variety Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Friday the 13th (2009) | "
To say the new film is better shot and cut than those barebones gorefests of the Reagan era is to say nothing much, as even series fans would agree." — Variety Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Reporter (2009) | "
An intelligent, moving docu[mentary]." — Variety Posted Jan 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Black Dynamite (2009) | "
This film will delight both discriminating fans of the blaxploitation tradition and ordinary lovers of goofy, in-ya-face thrills." — Variety Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Dark Streets (2008) | "
Feebly mixing film noir and the old-time nightclub musical, Dark Streets could do with illumination in more ways than one." — Variety Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| JCVD (2008) | "
Incalculably superior in tone, attitude, intent, and intellect to bulk of bodybuilder vehicles, shrewdly produced pic limits limber star's acrobatics to first and last scenes without great detriment to whole." — Variety Posted Nov 3, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 3%
| The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008) | "
This softcore thriller runs strictly by the numbers." — Variety Posted Oct 31, 2008 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Bad Biology (2008) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| W. (2008) | "
Stone's meticulous reenactment of the public and private Bush seizes control of the grand narrative from the president and his expert magicians." — minnpost.com Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 22%
| The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008) | "
Few ticketbuyers will take joy in The Pleasure of Being Robbed, Joshua Safdie's pranksterish New York indie portrait of a deeply unsympathetic young distaff hustler." — Variety Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Lost Song (2008) | "
The fragile nuclear family comes under harrowing inspection by writer-director Rodrigue Jean in Lost Song." — Variety Posted Sep 24, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 6%
| College (2008) | "
Hardly superbad, but sorta OK." — Variety Posted Aug 29, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Mirrors (2008) | "
Mirrors reflects little beyond Splat Pack auteur Alexandre Aja's desire to push his genre into less punishing and more profitable territory." — Variety Posted Aug 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| The Midnight Meat Train (2008) | "
Before flying off the rails in the final curve, The Midnight Meat Train rolls quite smoothly as a mid-'80s-style psycho-killer thriller a la The Hitcher." — Variety Posted Aug 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project (2007) | "
Like Scorsese's Casino, in which Rickles had a small role, Mr. Warmth tips its hat to a demolished way of life--Vegas power having transferred from the Mob to the even scarier thugs of corporations." — minnpost.com Posted Jun 28, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Bottle Shock (2008) | "
Bottle Shock isn't a ripe grape so much as pure American corn." — indieWIRE Posted Jun 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | GasHole (2008) | "
Some of the pic's points register as obvious and infuriating at once; hardest-hitting are the passages that point to oil execs' use of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina to post record profits." — Variety Posted Jun 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Jolene (2008) | "
Though stretched to a two-hour run time, Doctorow's socially critical tale is reduced to queasy spectacle." — Variety Posted Jun 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| The Life Before Her Eyes (2008) | "
Not a film entirely devoid of virtue, though it comes closer to that mark than any movie I've seen this year--closer than any movie I'd care to see in any year." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 47%
| My Blueberry Nights (2008) | "
Three years after 2046, Wong Kar-wai is not in love any more %u2014 and I for one am happy for him." — Boston Phoenix Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008) | "
Even in his most commercial effort, Hou [Hsiao-hsien] has set himself an impressively daunting artistic challenge." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Blast Of Silence (1961) | "
Nothing short of a revelation." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Jan 22, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 36%
| Southland Tales (2007) | "
Richard Kelly’s wildly ambitious and widely loathed Southland Tales now seems among the most believable works of film futurism ever made in this country." — Boston Phoenix Posted Nov 19, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 52%
| The Kingdom (2007) | "
One could say [director Peter Berg] shoots first and asks questions later, if at all." — Chicago Sun-Times Posted Oct 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | American Boy (1978) | "
It's not just in the hot tub that Scorsese wishes to separate himself from this guy." — Village Voice Posted Sep 13, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| The Bothersome Man (2007) | "
Director Jens Lien mostly favors the clean and bland, succumbing to much of the same pod-person impassivity that the movie purports to critique." — Village Voice Posted Aug 21, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Devil Came On Horseback (2007) | "
Devil ponders the optimism/pessimism = apathy/x equation as honestly and studiously as any doc I've ever seen." — Village Voice Posted Jul 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| No End in Sight (2007) | "
Masterfully edited and cumulatively walloping." — Village Voice Posted Jul 24, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 81%
| Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007) | "
The real intrigue has to do with whether McClane -- 'a Timex watch in a digital age,' per the lead baddie (Timothy Olyphant) -- can log in to 2007." — Village Voice Posted Jun 27, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Helvetica (2007) | "
Funny to think that the font movie would have the potential to restore one's faith in art and its myriad meanings, but it does." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Jun 20, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) | "
You don't have to be an '80s kid to see The King of Kong as a metaphor for life itself." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Jun 20, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Fido (2007) | "
You think they're dead, these zombie-film parodies, but, one after another, they keep lumbering back." — Village Voice Posted Jun 13, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| No Country for Old Men (2007) | "
No Country for Old Men represents the Coen brothers' strongest filmmaking in the nine years since The Big Lebowski." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Jun 2, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Crazy Love (2007) | "
That there's enough 'plot' in this bona fide melodrama to fill a dozen docs is conducive to the movie's near-total evasion of outside perspective." — Village Voice Posted May 29, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Paprika (2007) | "
Could [director Satoshi] Kon's fanciful cure for the blockbuster blues have come along at a better time?" — Village Voice Posted May 23, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| Bug (2007) | "
Bug is genuinely freaky-deaky, not to mention more inventively unsettling than anything [director] Friedkin has mustered in the quarter-century since twisting little Linda Blair into a satanic spewer of pea soup and F-bombs." — Village Voice Posted May 22, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Heart of the World (2000) | "
Further propelled by a suitably frantic Soviet orchestral score, the insane rush of scratched, jumpy images compels you to keep your eyes as wide as possible for the entire six minutes -- even though you couldn't dream of absorbing it all." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted May 8, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| American Cannibal - The Documentary (2006) | "
Too bad [this] mock-doc equivalent of The Producers isn’t funnier." — L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 26, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| Year of the Dog (2007) | "
Shannon's richly minimal performance—a series of reactions, most ranging from deadpan to perturbed -- derives pathos from the familiarly elemental: happy, sad, bitter." — Village Voice Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Firehouse Dog (2007) | "
This latest entry in the doggy-acrobat subgenre of canine comedies has but one joke, and it comes early: In the Idol age, celebrity culture has gone to the dogs -- literally." — L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 5, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Whole New Thing (2007) | "
Neither is it funny -- or poignant or insightful or remotely worth one's time except as a reminder that Canadian indies can be every bit as feeble as American ones." — Village Voice Posted Apr 3, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| After The Wedding (2007) | "
For a filmmaker who's so attracted to psychological discomfort, Bier has a disarming affinity with the pleasure principle. In this she's further blessed to have cast the riveting Mikkelsen, who here displays the self-conscious jitter of the young Pacino." — Village Voice Posted Mar 27, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Air Guitar Nation (2007) | "
Nary a dull lick in the entire 80 minutes." — Village Voice Posted Mar 20, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| The Last Mimzy (2007) | "
Mimzy, whose charmingly retro FX date to around 1985, won't post Peter Jackson figures at the box office, but you can't say that Shaye doesn't have the magic touch." — Village Voice Posted Mar 20, 2007 |
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