Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 96%
| The Beaches of Agnes (2009) | "
As insistently wry as it is haunting." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Last Year at Marienbad (1961) | "
Just lay back. This is going to happen." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 94%
| Last Year at Marienbad (1961) | "
The recurring attitude throughout most interpretations of Marienbad is that of sheer interpretation fatigue." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Do the Right Thing (1989) | "
As Mister Señor Love Daddy commands, "WAKE UP" to this absolutely essential home video." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 98%
| Do the Right Thing (1989) | "
Like Rear Window to Alfred Hitchcock, like Nashville to Robert Altman, like Playtime to Jacques Tati, Lee's Do the Right Thing is an undiluted representation of its creator's artistic command." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | "
Still no sign of the holy grail pie-fight sequence, but the Blu-ray edition of Dr. Strangelove still preserves the film's purity of essence." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 100%
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | "
Dr. Strangelove's status as the movie that confirmed both Stanley Kubrick's reputation and the arrival of beat-sick irreverence can no longer be retracted." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Seventh Seal (1957) | "
Bergman's most popular and studied film may not be his greatest artistic achievement, but Criterion's Blu-ray confirms its cinematic grandeur." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 15, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 93%
| The Seventh Seal (1957) | "
Swedish cinema titan Ingmar Bergman's mopey/earthy 1957 breakthrough The Seventh Seal may have done more than any other film to popularize and demonize the notion of world cinema as the boutique of the cultural intelligentsia." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Fargo (1996) | "
Fargo is the Coens' most ice-cold satire, but also features its warmest character." — Slant Magazine Posted May 21, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 94%
| Fargo (1996) | "
Do you have to be a Minnesotan to really get Fargo?" — Slant Magazine Posted May 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Saturday Night Fever (1977) | "
In a just world, this movie would've been soundtracked with Donna Summer's "Could It Be Magic" and Diana Ross's "Love Hangover." So, in other words, the soundtrack to Looking for Mr. Goodbar." — Slant Magazine Posted May 10, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 94%
| Saturday Night Fever (1977) | "
Saturday Night Fever's heart is actually in the right place. It's ears, though? That's another story." — Slant Magazine Posted May 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Booby Hatch (1976) | "
The Booby Hatch makes me glad I didn't take John Russo's Making Movies too much too heart." — Slant Magazine Posted May 6, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| N/A | The Booby Hatch (1976) | "
Russo and Streiner use their sex comedy to espouse the retrograde notion that the only fulfilling sexual position is one-man-one-woman missionary." — Slant Magazine Posted May 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) | "
The picture quality is a step up, but Paramount's production team clearly took the day off when it came time to bring Ferris Bueller to Blu-Ray." — Slant Magazine Posted May 6, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 81%
| Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) | "
One has to marvel at just how perfectly Hughes nails his frustratingly entitled mise-en-scène, which he unquestionably does in the film's mesmerizing detour inside an art museum." — Slant Magazine Posted May 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| A Grin Without A Cat (2002) | "
For a film that's almost strictly for the political and artistic converts, A Grin Without a Cat is a surprisingly forthright examination of how the left dropped the ball." — Slant Magazine Posted May 5, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 90%
| A Grin Without A Cat (2002) | "
A masterpiece among masterpieces, the two-part, three-hour A Grin Without a Cat is Chris Marker's most ambitious, clear-headed string of cinematic clauses and ideological couplets, and also his most impenetrable." — Slant Magazine Posted May 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| A Jihad for Love (2007) | "
If A Jihad for Love demonstrates the mountainous struggle Muslim homosexuals face daily, the bonus footage on the DVD reiterates that they're far from alone in having much work still to do." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| In the Realm of the Senses (1976) | "
I believe the children are the future, teach them well and let them lead the way. Or, conversely, you could violently yank a four-year-old boy's winkie and make him grow up begging to be choked unto orgasm. Your call." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 84%
| In the Realm of the Senses (1976) | "
To paraphrase a crack from Pauline Kael: light the incense, perverts." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Wages of Fear (1952) | "
A white-knuckled introduction to the concept of action-movie existentialism, The Wages of Fear makes for a pummeling black-and-white Blu-Ray." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 100%
| The Wages of Fear (1952) | "
Now seems much less like Salt of the Earth-as-a-potboiler and a lot more like the spiritual godfather to every testosterone-fuelled thrill ride since." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Hellraiser Box Set () | "
Overproduced and guaranteed to disappoint all but those who have never bought a Hellraiser DVD to date, the Lament Configuration Box Set will likely only tear your wallet apart." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 64%
| Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 (1988) | "
It's probably a stretch to surmise that, just as the first film's subtext dealt with health fears, the sequel mines its dread from the horror of malpractice." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 62%
| Hellraiser (1987) | "
Barker's vision cribs equally from the mythos of vampires and zombies, but Hellraiser's overriding ridiculousness (and nagging budgetary shortcomings) can't disguise the fact that the movie is at least unwittingly a product of the AIDS crisis." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| No Country for Old Men (2007) | "
Hardly worth a double-dip, but No Country's ambient horror will pin you to the floor and slice into your neck with a taut handcuff chain." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 77%
| An Unlikely Weapon (2009) | "
Serves as a fairly surface-oriented hagiography of a self-conscious rock star photographer." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The 400 Blows (1959) | "
Criterion's Blu-Ray presentation of The 400 Blows isn't perfection, but it suggests there's a whole new world of black-and-white cinematography to be discovered in high-definition." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 100%
| The 400 Blows (1959) | "
The 400 Blows, one of the initiating sparks of the French New Wave, ultimately boils down to the film's trendsetting coda, perhaps the most exclamatory question mark in movies." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 52%
| American Swing (2009) | "
And what of New York's disco-era gays? They're written out of the story here just as decisively as they were written out of Levenson's version of utopia." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Dodes 'Ka-Den (1970) | "
Keep a copy of this DVD handy for when we're all living on the edge of sanity in a pile of trash down by the river." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| N/A | Dodes 'Ka-Den (1970) | "
Dodes'ka-den's forgotten souls enact their tribulations only in brief, impressionistic strokes, as apt to lapse into candy-coated reverie as they are to stare down the demons of fiscal and moral poverty." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Pinocchio (1940) | "
One of the only Disney animated features with real gravitas, Pinocchio's reputation grows longer with each passing generation." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 100%
| Pinocchio (1940) | "
Nope, no perverted subtext here." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 10, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 33%
| Sherman's Way (2009) | "
Not since Larry David's Sour Grapes has a movie kicked off by so thoroughly painting its protagonists as deeply unlikable souls." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Splendor in the Grass (1961) | "
Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty fight the good fight, but she should've just gone down faster than the NYSE did in October 1929." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 92%
| Splendor in the Grass (1961) | "
Splendor in the Grass is a prestigious, top-of-the-line, sensitively-handled melodramatic literalization of the axiom "If you touch yourself too much, you'll go crazy."" — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Back to the Future Part III (1990) | "
Doc Brown's threatened time paradox is no match for the final installment's dreary life lessons." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 25, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 71%
| Back to the Future Part III (1990) | "
It ain't only the DeLorean that's out of gas." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Back to the Future Part II (1989) | "
For anyone who ever wanted to see Michael J. Fox playing Tracey Ullman, there's Back to the Future Part II." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 25, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 63%
| Back to the Future Part II (1989) | "
The one thing the film got right was the crushed effect the media's growing omnipresence has had on human existence." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Back to the Future (1985) | "
Back to the Future defies the laws of physics (and its own cracked view of the past). It's one of the rare big-budget entertainments that's improved with time." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 96%
| Back to the Future (1985) | "
Probably the most carefully-scripted blockbuster in Hollywood history." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 35%
| Otto; Or, Up with Dead People (2008) | "
Even more surprisingly poignant and intelligent upon repeat viewings, Otto is attractively rough around the edges." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Being There (1979) | "
A kinder, gentler annihilation of the nation." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 5, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 95%
| Being There (1979) | "
Ground Zero for the cult of Sellers." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 5, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| Oliver and Company (1988) | "
Billy Joel sang it best: "Why should I care?"" — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 2, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 39%
| Oliver and Company (1988) | "
I guess I can cut the Mouse House a little slack when it comes to paint-by-numbers mediocrities like Oliver & Company." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 2, 2009 |
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