Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) | "
Hope's tale of identical cousins, treachery, and adventure touches something in the cultural consciousness in the same manner as Shakespeare's plays." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| The Naked City (1948) | "
... a seminal work that's not to be missed." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The War Tapes (2006) | "
A moving, very personal document, one that's as revealing as it is disturbing." — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 76%
| Catch a Fire (2006) | "
A scathing examination of how oppression and torture breed terrorism." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) | "
Cohen uses his characters to point out our sacred cows, whatever they may be, and then shoot them with a well-placed dart." — DVDJournal.com Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 31%
| Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) | "
Shainberg manages the tricky task of showing us how the decidedly strange Arbus [saw] the world." — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Volver (2006) | "
... teeters delicately on the edge of black comedy while still warming the heart." — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Notes on a Scandal (2006) | "
A thriller for those who might not otherwise be drawn to one, with performances that will knock your socks off" — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Lives of Others (2006) | "
... delivers on several levels, offering multitextured characters who make no facile decisions, and re-creating the paranoia of Cold War-era Germany with an assured hand." — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 60%
| 300 (2007) | "
... an epic action film that literally rewrites the way such stories can be told, using all the latest cinematic tricks and gadgetry to pull the audience smack into the middle of battles that are as exquisite in their presentation as they are horrifying i" — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| The Namesake (2007) | "
Whatever your background, the yearning of Nair's characters for a place in the world where they truly belong is a feeling that strikes deep in the heart." — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Grindhouse (2007) | "
Tarantino and fellow sleaze merchant Robert Rodriguez (Sin City) attempt to recreate the experience of watching a double bill of craptastic 70's low-budget movies [but] they fail in one important respect -- both their films are just too damn good." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 6, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 64%
| Apocalypto (2006) | "
The film is drenched with Gibson's unique brand of crazy ... coming off as a sort of a fantasy in which Jesus, after suffering the more brutal lashings at the hands of the Centurians, is able to escape into the jungle and turn into Rambo." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Dec 8, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Old Joy (2006) | "
... a beautiful, melancholy film that illustrates the inevitable losses that accompany adulthood." — Portland Tribune Posted Aug 25, 2006 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 68%
| Snakes on a Plane (2006) | "
There is much screaming and hissing and biting and ... oh, it's marvelously stupid. And exciting. And just plain fun." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Aug 18, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| The Devil Wears Prada (2006) | "
The Devil Wears Prada is like that perfect couture sundress -- feather light, amusing and just the sort of thing for a warm summer evening." — Portland Tribune Posted Aug 15, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 33%
| Scoop (1987) | "
... a delightful return to Allen's sillier territory." — Portland Tribune Posted Aug 15, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| World Trade Center (2006) | "
... a thoughtful, sensitive and ultimately despairing film that avoids both nut job proselytizing and sugarcoated sentimentality." — Portland Tribune Posted Aug 15, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 33%
| The Break-Up (2006) | "
An intelligent comedy that shines a truthful light on the fools we make of ourselves during a relationship's last, dying gasps." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Jun 2, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 24%
| The Da Vinci Code (2006) | "
It's a Ron Howard film. Meaning, just good enough to not suck." — eFilmCritic.com Posted May 21, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Hard Candy (2005) | "
A masculine nightmare run amok"" — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 28, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 70%
| Friends With Money (2006) | "
As for the social awkwardness that comes with the unspoken divide between America's classes, Holofcener has made an intriguing, funny and very watchable thesis on the subject." — eFilmCritic.com Posted Apr 17, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Sky High (2005) | "
... this Spy Kids-meets-The Incredibles mash-up is funny, smart and consistently entertaining." — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Brokeback Mountain (2005) | "
... a beautiful tragedy about the anguish of unfulfilled love. It's an absolute triumph, in every way." — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005) | "
As lovely as it is, "Balzac" is also frustratingly episodic and, ultimately, not really about a lot." — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| The Weather Man (2005) | "
... a beautifully photographed, tragic and sincere film about a man who discovers that life is hard, and that he may never become the man he wishes he was." — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) | "
... a ripping good yarn with just the right amount of delicious cheese." — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Red Eye (2005) | "
Craven serves up a number of delightful twists and distractions to keep things consistently entertaining ... a snappy, diverting little popcorn-muncher." — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| George A. Romero's Land of the Dead (2005) | "
This is Romero's best zombie film yet %u2014 perhaps the best ever made, period." — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Madagascar (2005) | "
The animation is predictably spectacular, the pace (once you get through the first sluggish 15 minutes) is brisk enough to maintain adult interest, and kids will love it." — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Little Caesar (1930) | "
... an iconographic mob film, the prototype for thousands of movies of its type to come." — DVDJournal.com Posted Jan 28, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Kinsey (2004) | "
... creates a dialogue about not just the diversity of human sexuality but the dangers of embracing deliberate ignorance." — Portland Tribune Posted Dec 1, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Incredibles (2004) | "
... an exciting, funny, smart and delightful adventure made with the usual eye-popping Pixar brilliance." — Portland Tribune Posted Nov 5, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Team America: World Police (2004) | "
Team America nails every hackneyed close-up, loving explosion and sappy revelatory scene of the films that it mimics." — Portland Tribune Posted Oct 19, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 31%
| The Forgotten (2004) | "
... repeatedly promises to offer some sort of wicked twist à la M. Night Shyamalan ... but never delivers anything other than exactly what you think is going to happen" — Portland Tribune Posted Sep 24, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Wimbledon (2004) | "
... a surprisingly winning, if overwhelmingly trivial, film." — Portland Tribune Posted Sep 22, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Hero (2004) | "
If they got into a rumble in the courtyard of a mountaintop dojo, Hero would kick the butt of Crounching Tiger." — Portland Tribune Posted Aug 27, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 26%
| Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) | "
... a G-rated, girl-centric fairy tale of a movie, sweet enough for the ’tweens but smart and goofy enough that parents won’t mind sitting through it, too." — Portland Tribune Posted Aug 13, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| The Corporation (2004) | "
... offers a wealth of information about the megalithic entities that — to the almost certain detriment of humanity — have come to dictate how we eat, shop, live and think." — Portland Tribune Posted Aug 6, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| The Bourne Supremacy (2004) | "
... essentially, a movie about a man taking public transportation." — Portland Tribune Posted Jul 23, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| I, Robot (2004) | "
... a solidly entertaining Smith vehicle." — Portland Tribune Posted Jul 16, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Napoleon Dynamite (2004) | "
A strangely charming, thoroughly original movie ..." — Portland Tribune Posted Jul 2, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) | "
... [an] enlightening, heart-wrenching and, yes, viciously slanted broadside.
" — Portland Tribune Posted Jun 25, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 26%
| The Stepford Wives (2004) | "
An inoffensive, often amusing comedy — despite flying rather spectacularly off the rails in a weak, logic-less ending that was obviously re-shot and tacked on ...
" — Portland Tribune Posted Jun 11, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| The Return (2004) | "
... fascinates with the questions it raises and the believable internal voyage of the central characters" — Portland Tribune Posted Jun 4, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 45%
| The Day After Tomorrow (2004) | "
... campy, cliché-ridden and thoroughly enjoyable, all the way to its utterly preposterous ending. Irwin Allen would be proud." — Portland Tribune Posted May 28, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Shrek 2 (2004) | "
... better than the original in many ways, eschewing the rather hypocritical tone of the first film." — Portland Tribune Posted May 21, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Mean Girls (2004) | "
A little acidic and surprisingly funny, Mean Girls will speak to anyone who ever took shrapnel on the battlefield of high school." — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 30, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Hellboy (2004) | "
... turns the conventions of the sci-fi/comic book "origin story" inside out with caustic glee." — Portland Tribune Posted Apr 2, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Dawn of the Dead (2004) | "
It’s definitely one of the wittiest, scariest and goriest horror films in the last decade, offering adrenaline-pounding, edge-of-the-seat fun.
" — Portland Tribune Posted Mar 19, 2004 |
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