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 |