|
5/5
|
100%
|
Destino () |
"
This is a taste of classic Disney, a crooning, twisting song sung to the eyes, a vacation from rational thoughts."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Feb 12, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
94%
|
To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) |
"
...To Kill A Mockingbird leaves you with a much-needed belief in hope, ignited anew by the eyes of children."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Apr 5, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
60%
|
Gerry (2003) |
"
Think of Gerry more as an experience rather than a movie, a virtual vacation from the tired crash-and-chase pulse of status-quo cinema."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 13, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
69%
|
Max (2002) |
"
Max pokes, provokes, takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve...as far as art is concerned, it's mission accomplished."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Feb 17, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
85%
|
The Haunting (1963) |
"
Without showing one ghost, Wise's camera works like a contorting black and white swallow."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Feb 6, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Shane (1953) |
"
...This isn't just a western; it's a masterwork in which every little detail seems to contribute to the intensity in the air."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Feb 6, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
92%
|
Hable con Ella (Talk to Her) (2002) |
"
Talk to Her is a sad falsetto ballad, holding onto hope like a dove cupped in two gentle hands in the midst of blood-splattered bullhorns and slow death."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 29, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
81%
|
The Hours (2002) |
"
Daldry slices scenes from the three women's lives and fuses them into one momentous thrust."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 23, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
95%
|
Beauty and The Beast (La Belle et la bête) (1946) |
"
Cocteau's poetic aesthetic...the matter-of-fact extravagance...an otherworldly ambience...[combine to] strike an uncomplicated chord within us, directly connected to the wondrous nightmares of childhood."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Dec 16, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
70%
|
White Oleander (2002) |
"
'Kosminsky has wrapped each scene with a soft-velvet camera eye that follows the young girl around like a dedicated diary...[with scenes] held in place by a continuous noxious undercurrent.'"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 16, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
97%
|
Spirited Away (2001) |
"
'Alice in Wonderland meets the East...taking full advantage of the complex powers of anime and its freedom to go wherever the mind can imagine.'"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 12, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Marty (1955) |
"
Marty is one of those straightforward, no-frills films that shoots directly to the dead-true point."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 4, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
The Producers (1968) |
"
'...a masterpiece...it goes beyond the laughs into the secrets inside all of our hearts.'"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 11, 2002
|
|
5/5
|
71%
|
Sex and Lucia (Lucía y el sexo) (2002) |
"
'[Sex and Lucia]is so seductive and profound, it's as if we're witnessing a Greek myth coil and flower...'"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 12, 2002
|
|
4.5/5
|
77%
|
Peter Pan (2003) |
"
No matter what your wrinkle-count...you may just find yourself saying, 'I do believe in well-made films for kids.'"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 12, 2004
|
|
4.5/5
|
86%
|
Tibet - Cry of the Snow Lion (2003) |
"
...this documentary took 10 years to make, and it shows in a comprehensive array of photographs and footage both gorgeous and appalling."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Dec 12, 2003
|
|
4.5/5
|
——
|
Guy Maddin Collection (2002) |
"
Guy Maddin has taken the rudimentary personality traits of early movies and pumped them up with operatic drama, homoeroticism, fetishes, bondage and necrophilia..."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 21, 2003
|
|
4.5/5
|
65%
|
Kaubôi Bibappu: Tengoku no Tobira (Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door) (2003) |
"
A postmodern animated epic, laced with film-noir savvy."
—
Orlando Weekly
Posted May 16, 2003
|
|
4.5/5
|
64%
|
The Shape Of Things (2002) |
"
It's hard to believe, but LaBute seems to be getting even more insidious...twisting an old tale with a new take and his no-bones-about-it allusions to the creation myth."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted May 15, 2003
|
|
4.5/5
|
85%
|
Blind Spot - Hitler's Secretary (2002) |
"
This is a straightforward, dead-ahead documentary...but nonetheless it builds to a poignant, extreme and terminal climax that shoots off the celluloid right into our guts, piercing our sense of history and humanity."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Apr 3, 2003
|
|
4.5/5
|
65%
|
Kaubôi Bibappu: Tengoku no Tobira (Cowboy Bebop the Movie: Knockin' on Heaven's Door) (2003) |
"
Director Shinichirô Watanabe drives us through a fantastic land, taking advantage of the anime medium with unearthly angles and delicate details in a postmodern, animated epic laced with film-noir savvy."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Apr 2, 2003
|
|
4.5/5
|
88%
|
Chicago (2002) |
"
Marshall depicts flashes of thought and lust for fame with spaghetti straps, sequins, rolled stockings, songs through lush lips, gyrating hips and clever segues, as the act of murder blurs into top-notch movie entertainment."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 1, 2003
|
|
4.5/5
|
79%
|
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) |
"
...a visual song of vulnerability, with a rhythm vaulting from discord to harmony and back again in vibrating organic-colored tones, as if the whole film were breathing on its own."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 30, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
72%
|
Girl With a Pearl Earring (2004) |
"
Girl with a Pearl Earring is a stolen glimpse around dark doorways into the intense, colorful birth of a great creation."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 23, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
"
The film's premise is simple, but every scene seethes with intensity and outrage as it displays this true account of textbook colonialism."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Dec 27, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
87%
|
Le Bossu (On Guard) (1997) |
"
In the spirit of Voltaire and Molière, On Guard volleys great wit and deadly gestures in a milieu of lush apparel, landscapes, captivating music and 18th-century lacy sleeves."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Dec 27, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
76%
|
Frida (2002) |
"
Frida has the heightened emotion and color of artist-bio classics...but not the consistency..taking great artistic risks that range anywhere from jaw-ajar triumphant to comic schlock."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Nov 18, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) |
"
'The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys manages to capture that impossible time when idealism clashes with reality and religion, wrapped inside a delicious nostalgia...'"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 4, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Murderous Maids (2002) |
"
'The film is stark, straightforward and deadly... an unnatural calm that's occasionally shaken by...blasts of rage, and later, violent jealousy.'"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 6, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
86%
|
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"
'[Winterbottom and Boyce]...have concocted a happy-go-volatile mixture of post-punk documentary sprinkled with post-insights and entertaining flashes of "maybe" truths.'"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Sep 3, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
The Good Girl (2002) |
"
'The Good Girl is like visiting a peculiar island...[with an] amusingly twisted script."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 17, 2002
|
|
|
75%
|
Cremaster 1 (1996) |
"
As with all of [Barney's] films, translating Cremaster 1into words is a disservice to the elevating intensity and intrigue communicated through sound and imagery."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 14, 2004
|
|
|
65%
|
Cremaster 3 (2003) |
"
Attempting to sum up the scope of Matthew Barney's epic in a few words is like trying to shove the history of existence through a scrotum-shaped pinhole."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 14, 2004
|
|
|
——
|
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977) |
"
A marvelous oddity the equivalent of a child's fanciful, monsters-in-the-closet imagination running wild and naked through Barry's uncensored libido."
—
Film Threat
Posted Nov 12, 2003
|
|
|
73%
|
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (À la folie... pas du tout) (2002) |
"
[Take] madness - mixed with inspiration from watching The Sixth Sense. Add a touch of Mulholland Drive and a bag of heart-shaped jujubees, and you'll just about have the flavor of He Loves Me."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Apr 14, 2003
|
|
3.5/5
|
76%
|
Bon Voyage (2004) |
"
If you've got a hankering for a bullet-flinging, romantic, film noir roller coaster, Bon Voyage is the ticket."
—
Orlando Weekly
Posted May 22, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
64%
|
Starsky & Hutch (2004) |
"
Phillips pushes for laughs more than the show did, but still manages a weird mix of comedy, serious crime fighting and irony inside the scariest fashion decade of all time."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 12, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
71%
|
Cold Mountain (2003) |
"
Cold Mountain is haunted by the earmarks of a TV mini-series... [but] left me in a dreamy state of mind..."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Dec 24, 2003
|
|
3.5/5
|
58%
|
Girls Will Be Girls (2003) |
"
...an explosion of bad taste swallowed, and occasionally spit back out, over and over again, culminating in fashionable she/he cat fights by the pool."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Dec 12, 2003
|
|
3.5/5
|
71%
|
Soft for Digging (2005) |
"
...leaves a gruesome aftertaste à la The Ring...[however] its strengths lie elsewhere."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jun 3, 2003
|
|
3.5/5
|
82%
|
Brigadoon (1954) |
"
Brigadoon[is]...a concocted Technicolor plaid-clad Garden of Eden with a "puppet show" residue."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Feb 6, 2003
|
|
3.5/5
|
75%
|
The Way Home (Jibeuro) (2002) |
"
The Way Home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all, a condition only the old are privy to, and...often misconstrued as weakness."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Jan 23, 2003
|
|
3.5/5
|
69%
|
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits (2002) |
"
Personal Velocity seems tailor-made for art-house audiences. It still cradles that short-story essence...but takes it to a place that stretches just beyond the page."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Dec 16, 2002
|
|
3.5/5
|
69%
|
The Grey Zone (2002) |
"
The Grey Zone gives voice to a story that needs to be heard in the sea of Holocaust movies...but the film suffers from its own difficulties."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Oct 26, 2002
|
|
3.5/5
|
88%
|
Late Marriage (2002) |
"
'...young, savvy cinematic sensibility framed by the limitations of a conservative, unrelenting culture.'"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 21, 2002
|
|
3.5/5
|
74%
|
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002) |
"
'Spy Kids 2 is still about family, but it's mostly about living up to the expectations of the imagination, and with a monstrous sense of humor.'"
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Aug 12, 2002
|
|
3.5/5
|
76%
|
My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) |
"
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is that rare animal known as 'a perfect family film,' because it's about family."
—
Orlando Weekly
Posted Jun 7, 2002
|
|
3/5
|
43%
|
Latter Days (2004) |
"
...Funny, tragic, occasionally cheesy, endearing and ultimately heartwarming, dealing with very serious Christian hypocrisy while holding onto a light, life-embracing tone."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Apr 8, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
46%
|
Eurotrip (2003) |
"
Eurotrip delivers a savvy potty jocularity, probably because some of that European culture rubbed off on the penis jokes."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Mar 12, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
48%
|
Porn Theatre (2003) |
"
If nothing else, your curiosity should be sadly satisfied."
—
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Posted Dec 31, 2003
|
68%
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