Fresh 6/10
| Rotten 30%
| Bubble Boy (2001) | "
The film is only sporadically funny, and it's frequently in poor taste, but it's got energy to spare, and Gyllenhaal's performance gives it a soul." — All Movie Guide Posted Dec 11, 2007 |
Fresh 7/10
| N/A | Spin (1995) | "
[The] film's real service is in explicating how the media's inability to inform audiences and reflect the political spectrum of our culture is a systemic problem." — All Movie Guide Posted Oct 31, 2007 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 79%
| Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator (2003) | "
A near-perfect time capsule of a specific moment in our culture, and a telling analysis of instant celebrity and the fickleness of youth culture." — All Movie Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 5/10
| N/A | The Education of Sonny Carson (1974) | "
There's such a wealth of genuine anger and sadness underlying the film that it transcends [its] flaws." — All Movie Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 5/10
| Fresh 90%
| Pups (1999) | "
If Stevie didn't seem like such a real and basically ordinary teen, the film wouldn't be so compelling." — All Movie Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 97%
| American Experience - Daughter from Danang (2002) | "
A moving and troubling documentary." — All Movie Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 5/10
| Fresh 89%
| The Loveless (1983) | "
A strange, but compelling amalgam of art film and homage to the American International Pictures biker flicks of the 1960s." — All Movie Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 5/10
| Fresh 87%
| The Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003) | "
A film that critiques our obsession with celebrity while simultaneously exploiting it." — All Movie Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 78%
| My Best Fiend (1999) | "
A thoughtful and clever examination by the director of his longstanding friendship and creative partnership with the late Klaus Kinski." — All Movie Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 6/10
| N/A | Sunshine Hotel (2001) | "
Dominic has made a film of heart and intelligence about those subsisting on the margins of society." — All Movie Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 5/10
| Fresh 86%
| Cinemania (2003) | "
Cinemania might have been a more edifying experience if it really delved into the roots of this obsession." — All Movie Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 6/10
| N/A | The Kill-Off (1990) | "
An ugly, low budget noir that...somehow manages to capture the spirit of Jim Thompson's writing." — All Movie Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 100%
| Laws of Gravity (1992) | "
...A sustained level of tension that few street dramas can match." — All Movie Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 95%
| The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) | "
A fast-paced documentary that entertains as it informs." — All Movie Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 100%
| Burden of Dreams (1982) | "
A fascinating portrait of a filmmaker pushed to the outer edge of sanity..." — All Movie Guide Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 6/10
| N/A | Masters of Horror - Stuart Gordon: Dreams in the Witch House (2005) | "
...Gordon again demonstrates his unique talent for mixing quirky, uneasy laughs with genuine horror." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 67%
| Isolation (2005) | "
Fans of good old-fashioned creature features should be very pleased..." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Rotten 3/10
| N/A | Kinetta (2005) | "
...doesn't add up to much, aside from an enervating moviegoing experience." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 5/10
| Fresh 73%
| Cavite (2006) | "
...there's...a certain unseemliness to the endeavor that is difficult to dismiss." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 100%
| Keuk Jang Jeon (2005) | "
...richly inventive and consistently fascinating filmmaking..." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 79%
| Le Petit Lieutenant (2006) | "
...an exemplary genre piece, melding a down-and-dirty 1970s vibe with a very modern perspective on the globalized nature of contemporary Paris." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 5/10
| Rotten 55%
| I'm Reed Fish (2007) | "
...demonstrates a lot of talent, but it's another case of a neophyte filmmaker not recognizing where his true strengths lie" — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 66%
| Brothers of the Head (2006) | "
...despite outlandish subject matter that might lend itself to something more lurid or camp, it treats its characters and their story with refreshing restraint and seriousness." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 84%
| Old Joy (2006) | "
...the landscape it maps is as much spiritual as it is physical, and the personal story it tells is inescapably political..." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 7/10
| Rotten 51%
| Color Me Kubrick (2007) | "
put forth with...an unapologetic sense of depraved fun..." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 7/10
| Rotten 40%
| Duelist (2005) | "
...its most salient feature is its spectacular visuals." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 6/10
| N/A | Ek Hasina Thi (2004) | "
Ek Hasina Thi is not quite the revelation that its champions would like to think it is, but for the most part, it hits its marks." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 5/10
| Fresh 100%
| Welcome to Dongmakgol (2005) | "
...offers some valuable insight into Korean culture." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 93%
| The Squid and the Whale (2005) | "
...Baumbach's most emotionally potent and visually coherent film to date." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 89%
| Paradise Now (2005) | "
A tragedy regardless of its conclusion, Paradise Now is an important and powerful effort to explicate the inexplicable." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 6/10
| N/A | Spider Forest (2004) | "
...a twisted journey that lingers in the memory." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Rotten 4/10
| Fresh 67%
| Ab-Normal Beauty (2004) | "
...the film...devolves...into...standard slasher movie fare." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 87%
| The Motel (2006) | "
...specific and detailed enough to separate itself from the pack." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 80%
| The Aristocrats (2005) | "
...the brilliant Sarah Silverman transcends the mean-spirited nature of the joke..." — All Movie Guide Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 7/10
| N/A | Princess Raccoon (2005) | "
For those prepared to engage the movie's playfulness, it's a unique treat." — All Movie Guide Posted Sep 13, 2005 |
Fresh 5/10
| N/A | Demi-Tarif (2003) | "
...a uniquely unmediated look into the world of childhood." — All Movie Guide Posted Sep 13, 2005 |
Fresh 6/10
| N/A | Public Enemy (2002) | "
Despite its amusing outrageousness and well-choreographed mayhem, the film never transcends the genre the way Dirty Harry did." — All Movie Guide Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 43%
| Palindromes (2005) | "
Aviva...in all her permutations, may as well be a bug under the director's microscope." — All Movie Guide Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 97%
| Maria Full of Grace (2004) | "
the filmmaker's eye and ear for authentic detail and believable characterization...make the film an unusually tough and gritty slice of underworld life." — All Movie Guide Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh 5/10
| Fresh 92%
| Hotel Rwanda (2004) | "
...disappointingly conventional [but] an important film nevertheless..." — All Movie Guide Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 77%
| The Holy Girl (2005) | "
...at once humane, encompassing every shade of gray, and bracingly cold-eyed in its assessment of human endeavor." — All Movie Guide Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 94%
| Girlhood (2003) | "
Girlhood thoughtfully questions not just the system itself, but our unfair assumptions about the young people caught within it." — All Movie Guide Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 81%
| Divine Intervention (2003) | "
A mordantly amusing black comedy about life among the Arab citizens of Israel." — All Movie Guide Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 89%
| Distant (2004) | "
The tale has a deceptive, emotional complexity that builds to a surprisingly heartrending impact." — All Movie Guide Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 87%
| Crimson Gold (2004) | "
The film's sociopolitical themes are all the more powerful for being subtly expressed through a starkly realistic tale." — All Movie Guide Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 90%
| Blissfully Yours (2004) | "
Weerasethakul films the lost couple with such aching tenderness that the effect is not titillating, but profoundly moving." — All Movie Guide Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 88%
| Memories of Murder (2003) | "
...merits mention alongside Silence of the Lambs and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer...offers an incisive analysis of the culture that produced the crime." — All Movie Guide Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 60%
| Kamikaze Girls (2005) | "
...a super-stylized, fast-paced romp. Sharp-wittedly reflexive, culturally specific, and unabashedly fun..." — All Movie Guide Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh 6/10
| N/A | My Brother Nikhil (2005) | "
...when the entire production is clearly infused with such goodwill, it does add to its emotional impact." — Twitch Posted Aug 5, 2005 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 98%
| Kekexeli: Mountain Patrol (2006) | "
[It's] austere, unsentimental, morally complex, and grimly realistic..." — Twitch Posted Aug 5, 2005 |
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