Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
The biggest letdown of its esteemed creator’s career." — Film Threat Posted Sep 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 83%
| Two Lovers (2009) | "
This is a gentle, understated character-driven piece that has more in common with European romantic dramas than those made in this country as a rule." — Film Threat Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Must Read After My Death (2009) | "
It’s mesmerizing." — Film Threat Posted Feb 26, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 64%
| The Unknown Woman (2006) | "
It’s the toast of the continent and once you’ve watched it, the reason why it is will be anything but a mystery." — Film Threat Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 74%
| Elegy (2008) | "
Its tone and style, unfortunately, have little to do with the novella it adapts." — Film Threat Posted Oct 16, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 44%
| The Strangers (2008) | "
[A] taut, minimalist white knuckler." — Film Threat Posted Jun 3, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 57%
| Married Life (2008) | "
One of the dullest, most thoroughly pointless motion pictures ever made." — Film Threat Posted May 27, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 55%
| Flawless (2007) | "
This is a first rate caper piece elevated by Caine’s effortlessly elegant portrayal." — Film Threat Posted Apr 15, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 75%
| Paranoid Park (2008) | "
The disaffected kids who shuffle through its universe have nothing to say, nothing to tell us. I’m not sure the movie has a whole lot more." — Film Threat Posted Apr 8, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 96%
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) | "
It may not have been remembered at Oscar time but it’s cinema you won’t soon forget." — Film Threat Posted Mar 18, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 96%
| Persepolis (2007) | "
The movie’s visual style is nothing short of exquisite." — Film Threat Posted Feb 19, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) | "
There may be very little that is nice about the people in this ferocious family film from Lumet but it’s awfully nice to see him pull it off this late in the game." — Film Threat Posted Jan 1, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 81%
| Charlie Wilson's War (2007) | "
It’s a marvel of snappy dialogue and precision timing." — Film Threat Posted Dec 25, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 64%
| Dan in Real Life (2007) | "
The latest from Hedges is in places touching and funny but rarely in the course of its 95 minutes does it look anything remotely like real life." — Film Threat Posted Oct 30, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 94%
| No End in Sight (2007) | "
The most important film of the year thus far and, more significantly, the most comprehensive, clear-eyed account of the Iraq debacle and the arrogance behind it that we have." — Film Threat Posted Oct 16, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 70%
| Day Night Day Night (2007) | "
For 94 mesmerizing, narratively minimalist minutes Russian born filmmaker Julia Loktev pushes post 9-11 buttons. The result is a masterfully crafted exercise in dread unlike anything you’re likely to have seen before." — Film Threat Posted Jul 17, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 78%
| You Kill Me (2007) | "
It’s a small wonder. When was the last time you saw this much talent lent to the story of a man who discovers what it means to really live only after learning he doesn’t need any help from the hard stuff to kill?" — Film Threat Posted Jul 10, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 69%
| Year of the Dog (2007) | "
This is one of the most confounding films I’ve ever seen." — Film Threat Posted May 22, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 85%
| The Hoax (2007) | "
Full speed ahead fun, a rollicking caper romp that hearkens back to a quainter, pre-Ken Lay age when bigtime fraud could actually entail writing books as opposed to merely cooking them." — Film Threat Posted Apr 17, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 81%
| Friday Night Lights (2004) | "
The script spends at least as much time exploring the psychologies of the young players and the problems they face at home as it does rallying the audience behind their efforts on the field." — Film Threat Posted Apr 14, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 18%
| I Think I Love My Wife (2007) | "
If you’re looking for Rock’s trademark smart-ass wit, you’ll want to look somewhere else." — Film Threat Posted Mar 20, 2007 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 5%
| Because I Said So (2007) | "
I've been giving it a great deal of thought and come to the conclusion that the squandering of Diane Keaton's screen legacy is without parallel in the annals of cinema." — Film Threat Posted Feb 17, 2007 |
Rotten 3/5
| Fresh 91%
| Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) | "
Eastwood is motivated by such noble sentiment, you want him to pull this off. You root for him to craft something out of all this bloody history and wasted humanity that towers and soars but the picture neither towers nor soars." — Film Threat Posted Jan 30, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 75%
| Gabrielle (2005) | "
A shocking, brilliantly original rumination on the subject of marital rot." — Film Threat Posted Sep 26, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 70%
| Invincible (2006) | "
You're likely to find this a touching, stirring story even if it has been given the Hollywood treatment." — Film Threat Posted Sep 5, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 55%
| Ladykillers (2004) | "
The picture ranks with the brothers' best mid level output." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 59%
| Die Another Day (2002) | "
How anyone else could sit through its 2 1/2 hours and not drop at least a dozen IQ points is beyond my comprehension. Particularly now that I've seen it." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 60%
| Wimbledon (2004) | "
You aren't likely to see a film with more warmth and good humor anytime soon, or one that does more to give feel good filmmaking a good name." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 82%
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) | "
May just be the most quintessential Steven Spielberg movie Steven Spielberg never made." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 83%
| Matchstick Men (2003) | "
Something less than the sum of its parts, Matchstick Men is a decent film that should have been a considerably better one." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| Lost in Translation (2003) | "
Like so many things made in Japan, Sofia Coppola's new film is smaller and less costly than its standard American counterpart while at the same time superior in most important respects." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 94%
| The Triplets of Belleville (2003) | "
There are high-powered opiates that don't pack the psychedelic kick of this cartoon." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Freaky Friday (2003) | "
A one trick pony." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Rotten 3/5
| Rotten 19%
| Derailed (2005) | "
It's difficult to imagine why any of the talented people involved in this instantly forgettable affair would have been tempted to bother." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 17%
| Cursed (2005) | "
Until this past Friday, the worst werewolf film ever made was, hairy hands down, Mike Nichols' Wolf. Cursed now assumes that dubious distinction and someone is going to have to try very hard to wrestle it away." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 74%
| Wedding Crashers (2005) | "
This is a major blast of fast-talking, loopily plotted, politically incorrect film fun." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Collateral (2004) | "
Mann's taxi driver saga may not quite reach the level of art but, anyway you cut it, it's anything but standard fare." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 81%
| The Hours (2002) | "
Life may or may not be everything it's cracked up to be. This movie most definitely is." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Rotten 3/5
| Fresh 93%
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) | "
The reality is that Hollywood is such an idea poor place Kaufman tends to get more credit than he deserves for work which only occasionally rises above the level of mind games and showy sleight of hand." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 94%
| Dirty Pretty Things (2003) | "
Offers a frills-free meditation on the many faces of oppression." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 65%
| The Last Samurai (2003) | "
It's Zwick who fails to take care of business here." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 58%
| The Interpreter (2005) | "
Not a great movie but a nice time and a welcome break from the season's nonstop torrent of interchangeable horror films and Ashton Kutcher comedies." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 60%
| Old School (2003) | "
Grade A goofball fun." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 48%
| XXX (2002) | "
Not since the days when Joel Silver ruled Hollywood and musclebound subliterates vied for supremacy on the big screen has the industry spawned a phenomenon as garish and confounding as Vin Diesel." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 15%
| White Chicks (2004) | "
Think Mean Girls rewritten by Joe Piscopo." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 68%
| Red Dragon (2002) | "
Who would've guessed the guy who gave us Money Talks, Rush Hour and The Family Man had what it takes to realize a thriller as smartly effective as this?" — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 65%
| Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) | "
Word is Ferrell got the idea for the film one night while watching a documentary on the male dominated world of 70s television news. His fans should thank their lucky stars the comedian happened to catch it." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) | "
What we're treated to is less a story than a series of vignettes." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 75%
| Intolerable Cruelty (2003) | "
Destined to rank among the Coens' least memorable achievements." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 9%
| White Noise (2005) | "
A dopey, totally disposable grade B thriller." — Film Threat Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
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