Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Bruno (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 46%
| 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 85%
| 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 94%
| 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 45%
| Antichrist (2009) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted May 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | 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 84%
| Tony Manero (2009) | "
Tony Manero has a purposefully murky look and a frantic feel." — Village Voice Posted May 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| 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 33%
| 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
| Rotten 58%
| 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 15%
| 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 83%
| 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 85%
| 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 51%
| 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 96%
| 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 74%
| 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 85%
| 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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Katyn (2007) | "
While never less than fascinating, Katyn alternates between scenes of tremendous power and sequences most kindly described as dutiful. It's as if the artist is never certain whether he is making this movie for himself, his father, or the entire nation." — Village Voice Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Gomorra (2008) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Feb 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 84%
| Two Lovers (2009) | "
The performers are attractive if unconvincing. The auteur's worldview is unappealing yet authentically his." — Village Voice Posted Feb 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Gomorrah (2009) | "
Detailing daily life inside a criminal state, it's a new sort of gangster film for America to ponder." — Village Voice Posted Feb 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Manhattan (1979) | "
Manhattan is not just Woody Allen's dream movie. Wistful as it is witty, it's his dream of the movies." — Village Voice Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
— | Fresh 80%
| The Panic in Needle Park (1971) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Serbis (2009) | "
Serbis may be a raunch-fest, but it's also a mind-trip -- a raunch-fest with ideas." — Village Voice Posted Jan 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Of Time and the City (2009) | "
No nostalgic 'Penny Lane' or 'Strawberry Fields' here. The filmmaker prefers an angrier form of sentimentality." — Village Voice Posted Jan 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Mock Up on Mu (2009) | "
Baldwin's narrative is not easy to follow—the tone is simultaneously hysterical and uninflected—but, as with any religion or conspiracy theory, his method is characterized by a logic beyond logic." — Village Voice Posted Jan 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Made in U.S.A. (1966) | "
Jean-Luc Godard's Made in U.S.A. is not the celluloid holy grail, but it's close enough." — Village Voice Posted Jan 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Silent Light (2008) | "
Distinguished by its formal rigor and deadpan audacity." — Village Voice Posted Jan 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Secret of the Grain (2008) | "
French-Tunisian writer-director-actor Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain is a sprawling yet intimate tale set among the Arab working class of the Mediterranean port Sète." — Village Voice Posted Dec 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Nothing But the Truth (2008) | "
Lurie isn't Larry Cohen, let alone Sam Fuller, but give him points for working the same tradition of engagé tabloid filmmaking." — Village Voice Posted Dec 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Wrestler (2008) | "
Present in every scene, if not each shot, Rourke gives a tremendously physical performance that The Wrestler essentially exists to document." — Village Voice Posted Dec 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| In the City of Sylvia (2008) | "
Pure pleasure and pure cinema." — Village Voice Posted Dec 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Wendy and Lucy (2008) | "
Modest but cosmic." — Village Voice Posted Dec 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Dust (2008) | "
Dust—the movie—is characterized by its clean cinematography, uncluttered compositions, and unceasing dialectic." — Village Voice Posted Dec 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Frost/Nixon (2008) | "
Frost/Nixon's main attraction is neither its topicality nor its historical value, but Langella's re-creation of his Tony-winning performance." — Village Voice Posted Dec 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Milk (2008) | "
Milk is so immediate that it's impossible to separate the movie's moment from this one." — Village Voice Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
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