Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
What's mildly exasperating is that there is an actual quest involved: The Men Who Stare at Goats goes out to the desert in search of its tone—and never finds it." — Village Voice Posted Nov 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Rembrandt's J'accuse (2009) | "
Peering beneath the painted surface and searching in the shadows, tracking that which was cut from the canvas and mapping the network of glances that remain, the filmmaker uncovers a foul, lurid, corrupt, and perversely compelling conspiracy." — Village Voice Posted Oct 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 70%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
Wild Things isn't overlong, but it is underwhelming." — Village Voice Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Wild River (1960) | "
Sympathetic to both sides, the movie pits tradition against progress, rugged individualism against the greater good." — Village Voice Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Yes Men Fix the World (2009) | "
The anti-globalist performance guys who call themselves the Yes Men are masters of forging corporate rhetoric and media protocols." — Village Voice Posted Oct 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Bronson (2009) | "
The kernel of an idea -- brutish antihero as irrepressible life force -- is trampled into dust by the showy Sturm und Drang of Refn's filmmaking." — Village Voice Posted Oct 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Afterschool (2009) | "
Afterschool, the almost frighteningly accomplished first feature made by Antonio Campos when he was 24, is high school as horror show." — Village Voice Posted Sep 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
England 1818 seems like a Fragonard garden, the pastoral height of civilization. Conversation is witty; summer feels eternal." — Village Voice Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Fat City (1972) | "
The movie is crafty work and very much a show. In one way or another, right down to the percussively abrupt open ending, it's all about being hammered." — Village Voice Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Liverpool (2009) | "
Liverpool opens with a big blast of neo surf, and coasts on that energy for the movie's 84 minutes, ending with a shot of corresponding impact." — Village Voice Posted Sep 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Suspiria (1977) | "
A movie that makes sense only to the eye (and even then . . .)." — Village Voice Posted Sep 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
Here for Labor Day -- a comedy about the hilarity and heartbreak of running a small business." — Village Voice Posted Sep 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) | "
The movie has an undeniable sweep, increasing in intensity once the principals are arrested in June 1972." — Village Voice Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment -- rich in fantasy and blithely amoral." — Village Voice Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
— | Fresh 75%
| I'm Gonna Explode (2009) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Aug 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| The Headless Woman (2009) | "
As dense and fluid as Martel's movie is, the viewer -- like the protagonist -- is compelled to live in the moment. And a rich moment it is." — Village Voice Posted Aug 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| I'm Gonna Explode (2009) | "
I'm Gonna Explode dramatizes even as it demonstrates the maxim that you can't go home again." — Village Voice Posted Aug 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Beeswax (2009) | "
Bujalski has always been good at making closeness feel exotic, and awkwardness seem natural." — Village Voice Posted Aug 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| In a Lonely Place (1950) | "
The grayest, most morally ambiguous of film noirs -- and arguably the most self-reflexive." — Village Voice Posted Jul 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Brüno (2009) | "
Outrage is entertainment!" — Village Voice Posted Jul 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| The Beaches of Agnes (2009) | "
In a sense, Varda has done for herself what she did for Demy -- creating a work, as charming as it is touching, that serves to explicate and enrich an entire oeuvre." — Village Voice Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| 10 Rillington Place (1971) | "
More highly regarded these days than when it was released in 1971, Richard Fleischer's 10 Rillington Place is a grimly efficient treatment of a once-notorious case." — Village Voice Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| $9.99 (2009) | "
Etgar Keret is sometimes described as Israel's Woody Allen, but this hugely popular humorist is more fanciful and morbid in his evocation of cultural schlemielery." — Village Voice Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Whatever Works (2009) | "
Whatever Works illustrates, even as it names, Allen's artistic limitations." — Village Voice Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| Moon (2009) | "
Impressively pulled together on a modest budget, Moon has a strong lead and a valid philosophical premise but, despite Bell's fissured psyche, the drama is inert. Ground control to Major Tom: Moon orbits an idea, but it doesn't go anywhere." — Village Voice Posted Jun 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Unmistaken Child (2009) | "
The movie is a drama of faith, a Tibetan monk's search for the reincarnation of his beloved master Lama Konchog." — Village Voice Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| 24 City (2009) | "
This subversively old-fashioned hymn to industrial production is filled with offbeat, vaguely absurd details." — Village Voice Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
Antichrist, which, above all, wants to make pain visceral, is less successful at projecting authentic experience -- the shock tactics are ultimately numbing." — Village Voice Posted May 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Being Jewish in France (2009) | "
More impressionistic than analytical." — Village Voice Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Summer Hours (2009) | "
Too chatty to be ascetic, Summer Hours is nevertheless almost Ozu-like in its evocation of a parent's death and the dissolving bond between the surviving children." — Village Voice Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Tony Manero (2009) | "
Tony Manero has a purposefully murky look and a frantic feel." — Village Voice Posted May 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Rudo and Cursi (2009) | "
Energetic fun." — Village Voice Posted May 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Audience Of One (2009) | "
Ridiculous as it is, Audience of One is more chilling than funny." — Village Voice Posted May 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
The Limits of Control is a shaggy dog story, but it’s leaner and less precious (and more beautiful) than the past few Jarmusch films." — Village Voice Posted Apr 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| The Girlfriend Experience (2009) | "
Grey isn’t the first porn actress to go straight, but she may be the first to allegorize her own situation -- projecting an on-screen self-confidence that’s indistinguishable from pathos." — Village Voice Posted Apr 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| The Informers (2009) | "
There's plenty of incident, but not much plot. As befits a tale of absolute self-absorption and unconscious revelation, The Informers often seems to be telling on itself." — Village Voice Posted Apr 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Treeless Mountain (2009) | "
Skillfully unsentimental -- because of, but also despite, the presence of two irresistible, unself-conscious performers in virtually every scene." — Village Voice Posted Apr 22, 2009 |
— | N/A | Oblivion (1994) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Apr 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Oblivion (2008) | "
The result is a tender, poetically aimless movie by someone who no longer dwells among these stoic people, but feels like she might be the only one who remembers them." — Village Voice Posted Apr 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| State of Play (2009) | "
An effectively involving journalism-cum-conspiracy yarn with a bang-bang opening and a frantic closer." — Village Voice Posted Apr 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Observe and Report (2009) | "
Ronnie the Mall Cop is as an iconic expression of irate proletarian populism and brainless role-playing as Joe the Plumber or Rush the Limbaugh -- identify or ignore at your peril." — Village Voice Posted Apr 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Tulpan (2008) | "
Dvortsevoy could be the most artistically driven documentary filmmaker since Werner Herzog." — Village Voice Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Hunger (2008) | "
I've seen Hunger three times, and with each screening, the spectacle of violence, suffering, and pain becomes more awful and more awe-inspiring." — Village Voice Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| The Feature (2009) | "
Auder's life is more interesting than his art." — Village Voice Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Private Century (2009) | "
As Private Century builds to a devastating attack on Czech communism, this movie of memories argues that the greatest sin is memory's willful obliteration." — Village Voice Posted Mar 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Tokyo! (2009) | "
Mutants abound as each episode trips the light fantastic." — Village Voice Posted Mar 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Watchmen (2009) | "
Its failure is one of imagination -- although faithfully approximating Dave Gibbons's original drawings, the filmmakers are unable to teleport themselves to the level of the original concept." — Village Voice Posted Mar 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Birdsong (2009) | "
Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra is an artist whose work inspires more thinking than philosophizing." — Village Voice Posted Feb 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Examined Life (2009) | "
The viewer basks in the intelligence on-screen and, occasionally, soaks up the rays." — Village Voice Posted Feb 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | What Makes Sammy Run? (1959) | "
The adaptation pulls a few punches regarding ethnicity and union-organizing, but as primetime network fare, it's surprisingly "mature."" — Village Voice Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
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