Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Weather Girl (2009) | "
[A] humdrum but marketable comedy, starring a handful of humdrum but marketable faces from the small screen." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) | "
Unexciting, incoherent, lamely acted, and carelessly written." — Village Voice Posted Jul 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Lake Tahoe (2009) | "
Coming down from the Saturday sugar rush of his 2006 comedy Duck Season, Mexican auteur Fernando Eimbcke's lovely, Yucatán-set dramedy drifts by on a similar deadpan wave of static vignettes and lingering pauses that must be 10 months pregnant." — Village Voice Posted Jul 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Lion's Den (2009) | "
Once the film devolves into a drag-down fight for custody with Julia's mother, only Gusman's nuance saves us from a script that seems geared more toward screeching overacting." — Village Voice Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Local Color (2009) | "
How is it that a film about the love of art can make art seem so detestable?" — Village Voice Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| The End of the Line (2009) | "
The End of the Line is a free-form splash of jaw-dropping graphs, impressively accredited talking heads, and sumptuously shot portraits of natural beauty and decay, overdramatically scored to symphonic and other intense musical attacks." — Village Voice Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| The Narrows (2009) | "
Serviceably enjoyable, like cold pizza but little more." — Village Voice Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Herb & Dorothy (2009) | "
Former journalist Megumi Sasaki's warmhearted celebration of these adorable do-gooders cements their significance to the art world and introduces them to the rest of us." — Village Voice Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Dance Flick (2009) | "
Yes, it's rated PG-13, except it's also inappropriate for anyone over 13." — Village Voice Posted May 27, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Offshore (2009) | "
Michigan-based filmmaker Diane Cheklich's insipid, cheapjack dramedy -- about a flagging company's decision to outsource -- isn't potent enough to even be called a lukewarm-button movie." — Village Voice Posted May 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight (2009) | "
It's a pleasant, largely anecdotal portrait." — Village Voice Posted May 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| The Big Shot-Caller (2009) | "
You have to wonder about a debut this self-involved: What's left for the second film?" — Village Voice Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | World's Greatest Dad (2009) | "
Sleeping Dogs Lie -- a/k/a "the dog blowjob rom-com" -- planted the seed (OK, wrong choice of words) that Goldthwait wrings tender humanity from disturbing premises, but his scandalously entertaining new satire proves a darker, funnier success." — Village Voice Posted May 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Somers Town (2009) | "
Thomas Turgoose reunites with writer-director Shane Meadows in this shaggy, endlessly charming dramedy set in working-class London, wistfully shot in black-and-white... Witty and warmhearted, it's a feel-good movie that never seems forced." — Village Voice Posted May 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Humpday (2009) | "
Hilariously perceptive." — Village Voice Posted May 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| Tetro (2009) | "
Francis Ford Coppola returns to form with his richest, most enrapturing film since Apocalypse Now. The black-and-white cinematography alone is as intoxicating as a bottle of the director's finest red." — Village Voice Posted May 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Objectified (2009) | "
A slickly entertaining and thorough enough curiosity about the form, function, context, inspiration, and evolution of industrial design." — Village Voice Posted May 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| The Window (2008) | "
As his staff prepares for his son's arrival and the piano tuner fills the hacienda with splintered notes, the limited stimulus sparks Antonio's memories, his final hours playing out like delicate, melancholic poetry." — Village Voice Posted May 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Home (2008) | "
Using cinema as self-therapy might be a selfish way to treat audiences, but Harden and Scheel's chemistry makes the mother-daughter dynamic universal." — Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Home (2009) | "
Using cinema as self-therapy might be a selfish way to treat audiences, but Harden and Scheel's chemistry makes the mother-daughter dynamic universal." — Village Voice Posted Apr 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Jazz in the Diamond District (2009) | "
Talk about false advertising: There is no bebop or a single blue note in first-time director Lindsey Christian's crushingly slipshod D.C. drama." — Village Voice Posted Apr 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Throw Down Your Heart (2009) | "
All the jams are fabulously stirring but not sappy, especially when Fleck duels with a Gambian man on a three-string akonting (forefather to the banjo), but there's nothing more to the film." — Village Voice Posted Apr 22, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| Mutant Chronicles (2009) | "
I dearly hope John Malkovich got paid handsomely for his two days of embarrassment on-set." — Village Voice Posted Apr 22, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Sleep Dealer (2009) | "
From the imperialist villains and their humanitarian abuses to the laborers dying on their feet, what's so clever about tricking out this worn-out tale of woe into a genre flick?" — Village Voice Posted Apr 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 13%
| Dragonball: Evolution (2009) | "
Evolution is far more entertaining than it deserves to be, unless you're a 10-year-old boy, in which case it's only the greatest movie ever made." — Village Voice Posted Apr 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| In a Dream (2009) | "
Where most documentarians would rest on the laurels of a great subject and riveting present-tense drama, director Jeremiah Zagar has observed too much of his father's creative logic to cheat us with artless hagiography." — Village Voice Posted Apr 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| The Pope's Toilet (2007) | "
The Pope's Toilet entertains, even while it illustrates how the impoverished can adjust their religious ideals out of desperation." — Village Voice Posted Apr 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Bart Got a Room () | "
With 19 producers, one wonders how many rich Floridians invested in what might be the year's most unambitious comedy." — Village Voice Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| Spinning into Butter (2009) | "
Every line of dialogue sounds contrived, right up to the phony-baloney twist ending." — Village Voice Posted Mar 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| The Cake Eaters (2009) | "
As we fade out with Easy and sons bonding over steak and beers, our cockles are warmed -- the movie forgotten." — Village Voice Posted Mar 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Explicit Ills (2008) | "
The film is confidently polished and thankfully more sweet-tempered than preachy, given that every narrative thread has an underlying theme of social injustice." — Village Voice Posted Mar 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Reunion (2009) | "
Not so much a Big Chill knockoff as a poor man's Whit Stillman comedy." — Village Voice Posted Mar 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| Eleven Minutes (2009) | "
Charming and unexpectedly perceptive." — Village Voice Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Fired Up (2009) | "
Not content to be just another dumb high school flick, it's actually teaching young, virginal viewers to treat women like stupid, submissive slut-cattle for the rest of their lives." — Village Voice Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
— | Fresh 71%
| Luck by Chance (2009) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Feb 11, 2009 |
— | Rotten 22%
| Push (2009) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Feb 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| The Caller (2009) | "
We're left to wonder why we're watching Gould scramble for clues to a mystery we've been given the solution to." — Village Voice Posted Feb 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Shadows (2008) | "
If not for the hypnotic atmosphere, lush cinematography, and frequent, if random, softcore humping, we'd have seen these ghosts before." — Village Voice Posted Jan 27, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| Dog Eat Dog (2009) | "
With a background in television and music videos, director Carlos Moreno's feature debut is mighty shallow. Its bloodshed carries little weight; the sporadic humor is cheap and casually racist." — Village Voice Posted Jan 22, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 70%
| Last Chance Harvey (2008) | "
Besides being old pros who could elevate such schmaltz in their sleep, Hoffman and Thompson have a genuinely sweet chemistry, which is the exact and only reason to seek this one out." — Village Voice Posted Dec 23, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Rome & Jewel (2008) | "
The song-and-verse gimmick wears thin, as does the film's naive, black-or-white take on black and white." — Village Voice Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Big Man Japan (2009) | "
I hurt myself laughing at this amazingly inventive mockumentary, and because it's so good, I refuse to give away much more than an insistent recommendation." — Village Voice Posted Nov 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Special (2008) | "
Rappaport's befuddled sincerity has never registered so poignantly, but given its singular premise, for the film to waste an easy opportunity to satirize vigilante do-goodery and pharmaceutical dependence is, well, villainous." — Village Voice Posted Nov 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | War Child (2008) | "
An uplifting journey weighed down by dry, humdrum convention (attack of the talking heads!); this is social-studies homework, not nourishment for the soul." — Village Voice Posted Nov 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Otto; Or, Up with Dead People (2008) | "
Campy but not comical, reactionary but not very clever, LaBruce's film is best saved for those tickled by the sight of homo-zombie orgies or the hardcore penetration of an open wound." — Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| My Name is Bruce (2008) | "
The only things missing from this unfunny Campbell love fest are a passable script, Sam Raimi's inventiveness, and a level of sophistication beyond nose-picking." — Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Gods and Gays: Bridging the Gap (2008) | "
With so much political controversy in the air, this is a missed opportunity of Religulous proportions." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Fear(s) of the Dark (2008) | "
Though multi-director projects are patchy by definition, Fear(s) of the Dark hits with an all-star batting average." — Village Voice Posted Oct 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| War, Inc. (2008) | "
War, Inc. squanders some top-tier talent (Marisa Tomei, Sir Ben Kingsley) as well as our patience." — Village Voice Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | La Leon (2008) | "
The evocative milieu and stunning cinematography both underscore Otheguy's atmosphere of isolation, but his lack of momentum, character development, and deepening of themes make us feel mighty alone, too. Maybe that's the point." — Village Voice Posted Oct 9, 2008 |
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