Fresh 5/5
| Rotten 54%
| Martyrs (2008) | "
You will either despise what you've experienced or support Pascal Laugier in creating a masterpiece that transcends the genre and leaves the viewer drained and breathless." — Dread Central Posted Sep 5, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 45%
| Happy Here and Now (2002) | "
Almereyda is tripped up by this grab at cosmic profundity, and lands in a sticky puddle of pretension." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Garden State (2004) | "
While Braff's script may suffer from long-windedness, his direction -- of both cast and camera -- is so confident that this debut could well mark the start of a major career." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| DIG! (2004) | "
Newcombe is clearly as troubled as he is talented, maybe more." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 79%
| The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) | "
Wes Anderson simply has a unique way of looking at the world, and through him the ridiculous is made sublime. He has a hell of a distinctive style for someone his age. It would appear he might even be some kind of goddamn genius himself." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Far From Heaven (2002) | "
Moore is simply...wonderful." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 85%
| Pieces of April (2003) | "
A film to savor and to be thankful for." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 87%
| Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004) | "
A riveting account of this demented and scarcely believable American story." — Film Threat Posted Nov 9, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 84%
| Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) | "
Everything you've heard: sad and funny, revealing and compelling, entertaining, devastating." — Film Threat Posted Jul 3, 2004 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 42%
| I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004) | "
It's dark, it's intelligent -- it's also humorless and a bit pretentious." — Film Threat Posted Jun 22, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 87%
| Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004) | "
The result will stand as one of the most intense, in-depth, warts-and-all rockumentaries ever made -- VH1's Behind the Music cranked up to 11 and beyond." — Film Threat Posted May 18, 2004 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Tom Dowd and the Language of Music (2004) | "
Music fans of every stripe should kill to see this film, one of the very best music documentaries in recent years. Then, get thee to a record store." — Film Threat Posted Apr 17, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| Paranoia 1.0 (2004) | "
A sci-fi thriller of uncommon creepiness, One Point 0 makes inventive use of a low budget, and clever story and a terrific cast." — Film Threat Posted Feb 18, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| DIG! (2004) | "
Tells the fascinating, horrifying and hilarious tale of two '60s obsessed young American bands, the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre." — Film Threat Posted Jan 28, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Garden State (2004) | "
While Braff's script may suffer from long-windedness, his direction - of both cast and camera - is so confident that this debut could well mark the start of a major career." — Film Threat Posted Jan 20, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 61%
| Go Further (2004) | "
Generates laughs while teaching valuable lessons about how we can all, in small but significant ways, make the choice to 'leave a light footprint' on our imperiled planet Earth." — Film Threat Posted Nov 20, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 57%
| Prey for Rock & Roll (2003) | "
Gershon and her cohorts make it all swing." — Film Threat Posted Jul 16, 2003 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 85%
| Pieces of April (2003) | "
This is everything an indie film could hope to be." — Film Threat Posted May 7, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 58%
| Fulltime Killer (2002) | "
Is anyone else out there getting tired of the whole slo-mo, double-pistoled, ballistic-pyrotechnic Hong Kong action aesthetic?" — Film Threat Posted Mar 23, 2003 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| The Station Agent (2003) | "
It is about treasuring life -- sometimes even cheating death -- and it manages to warm hearts in its own uncompromising way, rarely cheating and never belittling." — Film Threat Posted Feb 26, 2003 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 91%
| The Weather Underground (2003) | "
Green and Siegel have crafted a breathtaking portrait of one chapter of the '60s story that hasn't been done to death." — Film Threat Posted Feb 19, 2003 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 55%
| Irreversible (2003) | "
No 'star rating' has been applied above because conventional indications of 'good' or 'bad' simply do not apply to this film." — Film Threat Posted Feb 3, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 71%
| All the Real Girls (2003) | "
Rather than tying together into a satisfying whole, the fragments seem to fly off in any number of directions, and a sweet, simple tale of young love dissolves into a mishmash." — Film Threat Posted Jan 21, 2003 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 15%
| Smokers Only (2002) | "
Humorless, self-conscious art drivel, made without a glimmer of intelligence or invention." — Film Threat Posted Jan 8, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 72%
| Intacto (2002) | "
A genuine mind-bender." — Film Threat Posted Dec 16, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| Quitting (2002) | "
Quitting offers piercing domestic drama with spikes of sly humor." — Film Threat Posted Dec 16, 2002 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 68%
| May (2003) | "
Shivery and seductive, May is a delicious little creepathon." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 38%
| On_Line (2002) | "
The raw sexuality sometimes clangs loudly against the glib comedy, but by the end On_Line makes you love it." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Rotten 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| Black Hawk Down (2001) | "
While the film succeeds as a visceral testament to all the servicemen who fought in Mogadishu, particularly the nineteen who lost their lives, Black Hawk Down is more punishing than anything else." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 61%
| Session 9 (2001) | "
It's never cheap, but it's also never quite as scary as it thinks it is; the buildups invariably lead to letdowns." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 57%
| Birthday Girl (2002) | "
It still manages to slide by, but barely, and only on the strength of its two leads." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 85%
| 24 Hour Party People (2002) | "
This is Cult Movie Central -- and there's no livelier tour guide than Michael Winterbottom." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 73%
| Gangster No. 1 (2002) | "
It certainly feels unique, and sets itself apart from most American gangster films in its stark refusal to paint the lead gangster as likable or indeed anything other than the vicious socio-psychopath he is." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 65%
| My Wife is an Actress (2002) | "
Never less than clever and often digs down into some uncomfortable realities about the strange lives of that odd species known as 'movie people.'" — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 38%
| 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) | "
A reasonably intelligent adult comedy." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 75%
| Frida (2002) | "
Favors us with plenty of color, a feast of eye candy. As food for the soul, however... there are always her paintings." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 92%
| Ghost World (2001) | "
When it's all said and done, this pćan to the losers, misfits, outcasts and obsessives of the world proves to be nothing less than haunting." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 44%
| XX/XY (2003) | "
We grow to genuinely care about the people of XX/XY, and their romantic troubles are portrayed with a refreshing, open honesty." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 81%
| How to Draw A Bunny (2002) | "
This enthralling documentary ... is at once playful and haunting, an in-depth portrait of an iconoclastic artist who was fundamentally unknowable even to his closest friends." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 41%
| The Majestic (2001) | "
Capra has been embalmed and larded with prefab sentimental glaze, a synthetic 21st century Hollywood idea of what Capra the director stood for." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 66%
| Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) | "
At least it's better than Return of the Jedi. If that sounds like faint praise... then line up and find out for yourself." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 71%
| Sex and Lucia (2002) | "
The most wondrous love story in years, it is a great film." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002) | "
As a study of how the current corporate idiocy impacts one man’s art, it's priceless." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 94%
| In the Bedroom (2001) | "
Certainly worth looking into, but it feels a little too repressed for its own good." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| The Quiet American (2002) | "
As a piece of acting, The Quiet American represents a fitting capper to Caine's illustrious career." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 46%
| Hollywood Ending (2002) | "
It's getting difficult to watch this old dog trying so hard to pull off the same old tricks; Allen is becoming a caricature of himself, a cartoon, before our very eyes." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 79%
| The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) | "
Highly and intelligently amusing stuff, 'arty' in the best, most playful sense of the word." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 92%
| The Laramie Project (2002) | "
It's a compelling and horrifying story, and The Laramie Project is worthwhile for reminding us that this sort of thing does, in fact, still happen in America." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| Bloody Sunday (2002) | "
A gripping experience, and often downright sickening." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| Amelie (2001) | "
In all, Tautou is the most adorable Frenchwoman to grace movie screens since we first laid eyes on La Binoche in The Unbearable Lightness of Being." — Film Threat Posted Dec 8, 2002 |
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