|
5/5
|
——
|
Wire - The Complete First Season (2004) |
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Dec 30, 2006
|
|
4.5/5
|
97%
|
GoodFellas (1990) |
"
A multi-generational tale of bad money, it is the defining American movie of the 1990s; Scorsese hasn't made a film half as good since its 1990 release."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 4, 2006
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) |
"
a spirited tribute"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 19, 2006
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
Obchod na Korze (The Shop On Main Street) (A Shop on the High Street) (1966) |
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 11, 2006
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
The Ruling Class (1972) |
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 11, 2006
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Viskningar och Rop (Cries and Whispers) (1972) |
"
the hushed, interior tone fails to generate much drama, and the tension never explodes"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Nov 26, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
Maestro (2005) |
"
Ramos is the most exasperating sort of scenester - the guy who keeps telling you how great something is but lacks the skills and inclination to tell you exactly why"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 28, 2005
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Sans Toit ni Loi (Vagabond) (Without Roof or Rule) (1985) |
"
shows how there's an inherent brutality to living without rules... without ever devolving into melodrama or didacticism"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 11, 2005
|
|
3.5/5
|
100%
|
Twist of Faith (2004) |
"
makes a convincing case that suffering in silence would have been much worse"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 23, 2005
|
|
3/5
|
81%
|
Carnival of Souls (1962) |
"
For a flick with a non-existent budget (well, $30,000) and relative amateurs in front of the camera, everybody's lines are practically howler-free."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 1, 2005
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) |
"
best appreciated as a sort of adult version of teenage hygiene films from the '40s and '50s"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted May 30, 2005
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Höstsonaten (Autumn Sonata) (1978) |
"
Though Ingrid and Ingmar Bergman aren't related, their pairing on a movie set was a long-anticipated event"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted May 23, 2005
|
|
1.5/5
|
46%
|
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974) |
"
nothing new to anybody who's caught five minutes of an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted May 19, 2005
|
|
4.5/5
|
94%
|
Peeping Tom (1960) |
"
there's a constantly gorgeous surface - a handsome hero, lots of bright Technicolor - and a constant moral rot at play underneath"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted May 19, 2005
|
|
2.5/5
|
89%
|
Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme (2000) |
"
there's too little evidence that freestyling in itself deserves even the short 75 minutes allotted for this film"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted May 6, 2005
|
|
4.5/5
|
97%
|
GoodFellas (1990) |
—
MovieWeb
Posted Oct 31, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
97%
|
Repo Man (1984) |
"
wherever you see young snotbags and anti-authoritarian pranking today on film and TV, you can bet somebody working on the script was cribbing from Repo Man"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 28, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Jandek on Corwood (2004) |
"
inherently fascinating"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 18, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
81%
|
The Untouchables (1987) |
"
a magnificent movie about political clout -- a worthy subject that Hollywood's rarely bothered to tackle and usually gets wrong"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 19, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Strangers on a Train (1951) |
"
Two men, a problem, and a crime is an old theme, but the list of works that exploit it perfectly is a short one. Strangers on a Train belongs on it."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 26, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
85%
|
Dyskoloi apohairetismoi: O babas mou (Hard Goodbyes: My Father) (2003) |
"
fuses to concede to clichés of precocious kids and eccentric adults"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 10, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
——
|
King of Bluegrass - The Life and Times of Jimmy Martin (2004) |
"
a man who's driven by a decades-old perceived slight isn't necessarily a likeable person, but he's an appealing documentary subject"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 1, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
87%
|
Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (2003) |
"
Anybody whoâ(TM)s willing to bring their own ideas about sex, love, and bloodletting to the film will likely find themselves sucked into Maddinâ(TM)s growing cult."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted May 18, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
45%
|
Heaven's Gate (1980) |
"
It is sensitive and it is condescending. It has enormous ambition and winds up with nothing to say. Eventually, it's just sadly exhausting."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 18, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Field of Dreams (1989) |
"
Say what you want about Kevin Costner, but you can't say he never played Jesus Christ."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 15, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
60%
|
No Turning Back (2001) |
"
It bolts out of the blocks tugging a crate full of bricks, two wrecking balls, and a cruise-ship anchor."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 13, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
91%
|
The Deer Hunter (1978) |
"
a hollow movie that only play-acted at meaning; the sucker was us."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 4, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
Pennies From Heaven (1981) |
"
Dark as night but perfectly lit, a little sad but with a song in its heart."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 26, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
98%
|
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) (2004) |
"
the perfect blend of playfulness, beauty, and pathos that every musical strives for"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 7, 2004
|
|
1.5/5
|
29%
|
Myra Breckinridge (1970) |
"
The film and its purported message are just like the monster between Welch's legs: A big fat fake."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Mar 3, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
The Great Escape (1963) |
"
anybody who thinks that Michael Bay is a bullying thug of a filmmaker who likes pushing people's emotions around can come here to see where he got it from"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 26, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
88%
|
The Commitments (1991) |
"
If it's light on meaning, it's strong at presenting the visceral pleasures of music, which can be extremely difficult to do"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Feb 22, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) |
"
The true magic is in the "Trolley Song" sequence, one of American musical film's finest moments"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 14, 2004
|
|
4.5/5
|
91%
|
Straw Dogs (1971) |
"
plays out with ferocious brilliance"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 21, 2003
|
|
4/5
|
85%
|
The Secret Lives of Dentists (2003) |
"
A caustic, witty study of love and sex"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 31, 2003
|
|
2/5
|
62%
|
Camp (2003) |
"
When Bert drunkenly berates the batch for harboring hopeless dreams and wasting their time on performing, it's supposed to underscore how angry and damaged Bert is; instead, you're pondering whether the man has a point."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 24, 2003
|
|
3.5/5
|
82%
|
Step Into Liquid (2003) |
"
utter freedom, drawn in enough shades of blue to fill a king-sized Crayola box."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 19, 2003
|
|
3.5/5
|
44%
|
Garage Days (2003) |
"
joyous, diverting, and often childish"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 16, 2003
|
|
3/5
|
28%
|
Love the Hard Way (2003) |
"
Blame the script, which fails to fill out exactly how conflicted these characters are."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jun 11, 2003
|
|
2.5/5
|
61%
|
Valentin (2004) |
"
For all of its prettiness, there's nothing going on here that matters much."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted May 22, 2003
|
|
2/5
|
77%
|
A Decade Under the Influence (2003) |
"
When Coppola bellyaches you want to ask, Hey buddy, who forced the studios to give up on radical filmmakers by going insanely overbudget and past schedule with Apocalypse Now?"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted May 22, 2003
|
|
4/5
|
92%
|
L' Homme du Train (The Man on the Train) (2003) |
"
Might not be the manliest way to make a buddy movie, but it makes for a great movie about being a man."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted May 14, 2003
|
|
3/5
|
78%
|
Owning Mahowny (2003) |
"
It's clear halfway through Owning Mahowny that nobody with a need so consuming - and suits so ill-fitting - is going to come within 50 miles of redemption."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted May 1, 2003
|
|
4.5/5
|
95%
|
Le Cercle Rouge (1970) |
"
More than anything else, Le Cercle Rouge reminds us that when it comes to these sort of roles, it's the criminal that matters, not the crime."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 25, 2003
|
|
1/5
|
34%
|
The Real Cancun (2003) |
"
Six, if you must know. That's how many pairs of breasts get bared in The Real Cancun."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 23, 2003
|
|
3/5
|
57%
|
The Death of Klinghoffer (2003) |
"
Woolcock mostly makes the film work visually -- she's excellent at the pointed close-up and frenzied camera movements."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 18, 2003
|
|
2/5
|
79%
|
Hush (2002) |
"
What might've been an exhilarating exploration of an odd love triangle becomes a sprawl of uncoordinated vectors."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Apr 13, 2003
|
|
—
|
100%
|
The Decline of Western Civilization Part III (1998) |
—
Salon.com
Posted Mar 27, 2001
|
|
3.5/5
|
88%
|
Henry Fool (1998) |
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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