Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
The emotions at the core of each scene are sincere, and invariably true to the source." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Beaver Trilogy (2001) | "
A work of considerable ingenuity" — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Make-Out with Violence (2009) | "
The entire film possesses a certain longing, the sort that manifests itself and begins to grow at the moment of High School graduation, when some of the most formative circumstances of youth are remembered only as ephemeral moments." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Con Air (1997) | "
Resolutely not boring." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Medicine for Melancholy (2009) | "
The film is more ambient than my description will convey, and it doesn’t feel scripted or directed in as much as it feels naturally funny and relaxed." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Beautiful Losers (2008) | "
That said, all art deserves biography, and great art deserves recognition." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Rock 'N' Roll Nightmare (1987) | "
a cheap, incompetently rendered film, but it is not a deceptive one" — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 46%
| Mister Lonely (2008) | "
To purists and lovers of abstraction, challenge, and all things fringe, it may feel like a loss of authenticity. But to the larger mainstream audience, it simply makes art more accessible." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted May 6, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Nights and Weekends (2008) | "
It’s at times bold, intimate, unfunny, and discomforting, but it is never anything less than sincere." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 15, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Explicit Ills (2008) | "
Explicit Ills is a filmic tapestry, and it is a cohesive, fluid one." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 8, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Baghead (2008) | "
Its horror isn't anticipated because there's nothing about these people that justifies harm; they're just people, not pawns. But this, as with perception of what sort of film this is, isn't ultimately certain." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Order of Myths (2008) | "
Revolutionary advances have been made in racial equality, but in Mobile segregation - the most interpretable symptom of racism - has its last stronghold in Mardi Gras." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Trafic (1971) | "
It’s familiar, and nonetheless spirited and inventive." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 14, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Near Dark (1987) | "
As much as it is a horror film and western, it is equally and perhaps more pronouncedly a romance." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 30, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 20%
| Boxing Helena (1993) | "
It is curious that Lynch, having taken so many visual cues from her father, has an inadequate grasp of this compassion. The paralyzing obsession that permeates many of her father’s works, on the other hand, she comprehends well." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 30, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| The Man from London (2008) | "
The Man from London, however comprehensible and demystified, is housed in a world of nonetheless pure, enveloping ambiance -- and it is by this measure that its merits are clearest." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 23, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Into the Wild (2007) | "
A wholly and unexpectedly decent enterprise." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 16, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| The Ten (2007) | "
The Ten has a meticulous rhythm and consistency, with aspects of early commandments informing the latter." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 17, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Helvetica (2007) | "
Appropriately, once the final credits roll, you’re likely to sit through them with an enhanced understanding of the typeface they’re in." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jun 16, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Knocked Up (2007) | "
Because its central character is a meticulously architected dude, Knocked Up is a contrived male fantasy." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted May 28, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 56%
| Zoo (2007) | "
It is a relaxing film to watch, austere and comforting in such a way that Zoo's aural components will become unexpectedly, uncommonly troubling." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 3, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) | "
Hannah Takes the Stairs decidedly lacks narrative and closure, but it works very well at moderating an environment of casual, if mundane, affairs." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 27, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) | "
[The subjects] may be a curious sort of renown, but by the end you are enraptured in their struggle to declare and maintain it." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 20, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| Idiocracy (2006) | "
Idiocracy’s utter lack of promotion is now something of a minor legend, and it remains perplexing given the film’s obvious charms." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jan 16, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Bring It On (2000) | "
The conclusion may be fairly obvious, but it’s largely irrelevant in comparison to how uniquely Bring it On characterizes its teens." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Aug 1, 2006 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 71%
| Possession (1981) | "
Horror being a profitable genre in the early 1980s, Possession was made to pronounce an aesthetic more visceral than cerebral, in turn more superficial than it was initially conceived to impart." — Slant Magazine Posted May 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| King Kong (1933) | "
Film is an agent of imagination, and King Kong demonstrates this with remarkable technical proficiency and innovation..." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh
| N/A | The 70s Dimension (2005) | "
What purpose there is in evaluating advertisements for their propensity as art favors how they exhibit the symptoms of inflation, capitalism, and ephemeral material trends better than any other contemporary recorded media." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 18, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| The Rapture (1991) | "
The Rapture is not ostensibly a horror film, but I found it deeply frightening, and it is so on a purely conceptual level." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 25, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Evil Dead (1979) | "
With a flurry of dismembered body parts, the film spells its intentions in scaring with complete, relentless excess." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Oct 8, 2005 |
Fresh
| N/A | Errol Morris' First Person: The Complete Series 3 Pack (2000) | "
First Person is lessened by comparisons to Morris' early films, but still better than anything I watch regularly on television." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Sep 14, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Primer (2004) | "
One of the best science fiction films I have seen, and certainly as one of the genre's best in recent years." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted May 24, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Divorce, Italian Style (1962) | "
It is the most subversive jab at Mastrioanni’s chauvinist characters possible, circumstantial metaphysics in which the lecher is targeted by the very film he inhabits." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Apr 29, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Thunderball (1965) | "
It loosely maintains the series’ early wit, which may be solely attributed, perhaps, to ease with which Sean Connery inhabits the role of Bond." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 22, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Dr. No (1963) | "
It is noteworthy that a single film contains such a wealth of icons." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Mar 22, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003) | "
Even though its components may be familiar, it is made with precision and sophistication and is, by default, better than any original American horror film of the past few years." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Feb 22, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Donnie Darko (2001) | "
A faithfully rendered head trip." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Feb 15, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| M (1931) | "
M is the most dynamic profile of a serial killer in film." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jan 15, 2005 |
Fresh
| N/A | Necromania (1971) | "
Like a naked body seen in fluorescent lighting, Necromania’s blemishes are amplified by its cheap, unimaginative resources." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Jan 11, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Burden of Dreams (1982) | "
It’s Fitzcarraldo with affirmed and not sublime biography; in essence, the same film without the pretense of fiction." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Dec 21, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| La Dolce Vita (1960) | "
The girl’s gaze of hope directs towards the viewer in the film’s staggering and ambiguous final shot." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Dec 7, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Macbeth (1971) | "
With its apparent fixation on murder and cruelty, it is difficult to overlook a number of the unsettling autobiographical details in the film." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 1, 2004 |
Fresh
| N/A | Tanner '88 () | "
The ultimate trump of Tanner ’88 is its realism." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 1, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Secret Honor (1985) | "
[Hall's] performance transcends the political baggage of the film itself." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 1, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| Society (1989) | "
Although Society is at first blemished by its dated humor and contrived teenage self-discovery, we find everything is in service to a truly sensational ending." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 1, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| THX 1138 (1971) | "
Lucas’ bleak debut is a film markedly dissimilar from his more famous trilogy." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 1, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Slacker (1991) | "
Slacker is populated by new-age beatniks with neither fashion nor poetry, populating a culture that’s distinguished by its lack of culture." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Nov 1, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| I Vitelloni (1953) | "
This dilemma between the desire not to mature and the infallibility of age is best summated in Nino Rota’s score. It highlights the film’s beautiful final shots and lends the final exit an air of playful hope." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Sep 21, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| No End (1985) | "
A dated although nonetheless remarkable work of propaganda." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Sep 14, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Motorpsycho (1965) | "
The scenario is keenly similar to that of the director's seminal Faster Pussycat!, only with the sex and preferred transportation of the main characters supplanted." — Not Coming to a Theater Near You Posted Sep 7, 2004 |
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