Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 29%
| Dear John (2010) | "
Sometimes the leads pull off genuine tenderness, and other times their gauzily written caricatures can’t elevate such overwrought housewife bait, but chances are, given its literary pedigree, most viewers are preordained to love or loathe it." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 10, 2010 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Frozen (2010) | "
Green also can't maintain the suspension of disbelief necessary as we watch three charmlessly written characters bicker and attempt inane ideas." — Village Voice Posted Feb 2, 2010 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| Falling Awake (2009) | "
One-named Cuban-born director Agustin's unrewarding middlebrow drama flaunts its street cred dubiously." — Village Voice Posted Feb 2, 2010 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 15%
| The Tooth Fairy (2010) | "
CGI fairy dust, dippy tooth puns and a semi-amusing Billy Crystal cameo can’t disguise the fact that this sugary distraction is as hollow as a cavity." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 23, 2010 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 17%
| Pop Star on Ice (2010) | "
If you’re not already a member of the “Johnny’s Angels” fan club, you might wonder why other equally outrageous athletes weren’t bestowed with their own cinematic tributes." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 20, 2010 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| The Paranoids (2010) | "
Writer-director Gabriel Medina's chokingly offbeat debut is as aimless and confused as its prototypical slacker-comedy hero, who seems to have wandered into a glum dramedy with a hazy noirish aesthetic." — Village Voice Posted Jan 19, 2010 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Crazy on the Outside (2009) | "
We get charmless hack work from two sitcom writers, a phoned-in ensemble, and for Allen a vanity role that could certainly be called criminal." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 14, 2010 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 21%
| Leap Year (2010) | "
Will they fall in love? Will we ever care?" — Time Out New York Posted Jan 13, 2010 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Mine (2010) | "
Underreported and over-emotional, Geralyn Pezanoski's 81-minute doc exposé about dogs displaced during Hurricane Katrina moves slower than a basset hound to get to these and other thorny questions." — Village Voice Posted Jan 12, 2010 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Flooding With Love for the Kid (2009) | "
While the premise might seem like a superficial YouTube stunt, the storytelling is crafty, compelling (falling from a cliff while being chased by a helicopter?!?) and heartfelt enough to explode all sense of cheeky irony." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 30, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 81%
| The Chaser (2008) | "
South Korean first-timer Na Hong-jin offers nasty thrills, manic foot chases and some genuinely subversive riffs on the police procedural." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Vicious Kind (2009) | "
Inevitably, the film devolves into weepy catharsis, but with slick cinematography and colorfully cruel dialogue for Scott to chew up and spit at every member of this fine ensemble." — L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 14, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Sincerely Yours (2009) | "
Lee's film deals in fusty anti-globalization sentiments and mostly meanders -- aimlessly, impassively, and away from the rich Taiwanese canon." — Village Voice Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Transylmania (2009) | "
With stronger actors and real writers, this might’ve been a vintage comedy you could sink your...nope, not going there." — L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 20%
| The Strip (2009) | "
Somewhere on the streets of Chinatown, this is a black-market DVD optimistically renamed Klerks, though even Kevin Smith’s debut didn’t seem this amateurish." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 2, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 89%
| A Married Woman (1964) | "
... effortlessly and damningly dissect[s] the ugliness of beauty culture." — GreenCine Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 83%
| Nenette and Boni (1996) | "
It's a melodramatic premise on paper that, in the wrong hands, might have succumbed to the sensationalism of its mildly incestuous undertones." — GreenCine Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| N/A | Stingray Sam (2009) | "
From rockabilly freakouts to an acoustic lullaby, the soundtrack here is diverse, catchy and easily the film's most exuberantly charming quality." — GreenCine Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Fresh 94%
| Last Year at Marienbad (1961) | "
An incontestably iconic and beautiful curiosity that simply hasn't held up as the masterpiece it's gushed to be." — GreenCine Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Rotten 29%
| Lookin' to Get Out (1982) | "
As duplicitous as its rogue's gallery of lowlifes, the film situates the raw, loose stylings of '70s Hollywood ... in a glitzy, corny '80s vehicle." — GreenCine Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 89%
| Absurdistan (2008) | "
A simplistic, straightforward tale that's beautifully staged with the same wave of the magical-realism wand that powers Jeunet & Caro's Delicatessen." — GreenCine Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Rotten 22%
| Next Day Air (2009) | "
Updates the spirit of blaxploitation without feeling pressed to worship or satirize it." — GreenCine Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 89%
| O'Horten (2009) | "
If you can settle into [Baard Owe's] playful deadpan rhythms, a bittersweetly funny, existential mystery -- or call it a modest adventure, if that's not too oxymoronic -- awaits." — GreenCine Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 63%
| Hardware (1990) | "
Its psychedelic unease, heavy-metal textures, nihilistic humor, DIY artistry and ... frights are still gloriously entertaining after two decades of special-effects advancements." — GreenCine Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| N/A | High School Record (2005) | "
Naturalistic, semi-improvised series of awkward comic vignettes ... nails the liberating/frightening social moments of post-pubescence in all their riches of embarrassments." — GreenCine Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Rotten 22%
| Spread (2009) | "
Spread eventually reveals a gloomy raincloud of a moral meditation about unhealthy lifestyles and self-delusion." — GreenCine Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 87%
| Four Seasons Lodge (2009) | "
What’s most beautiful of all is that this document ensures that these people will indeed live on forever. Take that, Nazis!" — Time Out New York Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 58%
| The End of Poverty? (2009) | "
It’s heartbreaking, of course, but also crassly manipulative and blandly shot, too." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| The Hand of Fatima (2009) | "
All the slapdash animation, stock footage, fake Robert narration, and cred-boosting testimonials here (Yoko Ono, Donovan, Genesis P. Orridge) offer less insight than father Palmer's own book-turned-doc Deep Blues." — Village Voice Posted Nov 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Good Soldier (2009) | "
Potent and wisely straightforward." — Village Voice Posted Nov 10, 2009 |
N/A | Fresh 86%
| The House of the Devil (2009) | "
Noonan and I spoke about his dramatic workshops, being naturally creepy, why he never reads the whole script, and anecdotal remembrances of working with Michael Cimino." — GreenCine Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
N/A | Fresh 97%
| The Red Shoes (1948) | "
Martin Scorsese: Over the years, I began to realize it had more to do with wanting to create something artistically, and that drive." — GreenCine Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| Turning Green (2009) | "
Turning Green is, if nothing else, the world’s loneliest teen sex comedy." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 5, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 13%
| Labor Day (2009) | "
The film never finds drama, focus or any greater purpose other than some dubious horn-blowing about the SEIU being singularly responsible for electing President Obama." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 25%
| Looking for Palladin (2009) | "
We’ve seen enough movies to know Joshua will stop being a jerk after he learns the true meaning of Christmas, but it’s almost impossible to disparage such genuine warmth." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 28, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 17%
| How To Seduce Difficult Women (2009) | "
This shapeless series of unfunny vignettes (interspersed with pointless street interviews) deserves to be slapped hard." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 22%
| The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) | "
Duffy is still chasing his perfect slide-and-shoot, except now with more self-satisfied posturing, awkward pop-culture referencing, casual homophobia and racism, and the most vulgar co-opting of religious iconography this side of Dan Brown." — Village Voice Posted Oct 27, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) | "
The vampire trend continues, but the only authentic bloodsuckers in Cirque du Freak are its producers and studio execs." — Village Voice Posted Oct 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution (2009) | "
Food Beware doesn't even work as cinematic spinach since the nutritional value of its case is as light as a rice cake." — Village Voice Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| Trucker (2009) | "
There may as well be a road sign announcing Diane's transformation from reckless loner to diligent mother, but it's a smooth ride thanks to Monaghan, and an impressive ensemble." — Village Voice Posted Oct 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Peter and Vandy (2009) | "
DiPietro's screenplay is emotionally myopic. His sharpest written exchanges -- and there aren't many -- get buried under his inexplicable need to embrace the non-linear conceit." — Village Voice Posted Oct 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Where is Where? (2009) | "
Finnish visual artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila’s experimental narrative truly pushes forward the possibilities of split-screen cinema." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Paradise (2008) | "
Steadily maintaining momentum and a meditative mood without narration or editorialization is itself a feat, but more vitally, Paradise appreciates and shares the curious mysteries in the seemingly banal." — Village Voice Posted Sep 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Blind Date (2009) | "
It's overly faithful to the original and to Van Gogh's preferred three-camera setup." — Village Voice Posted Sep 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 73%
| Fuel (2009) | "
It’s a slickly enjoyable production (if unfocused and bloated), and his bullet-point tips are persuasive; but dude, there are better ways to humanize these issues than crying on camera." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 22%
| Sorority Row (2009) | "
It’s yet another ’80s slasher remake, so you know the drill...er, the tire iron pimped out with blades." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 84%
| Disgrace (2009) | "
A frustrating film full of overplayed men-as-dogs metaphors, it’s only watchable for Malkovich, who could probably read a social studies exam and still be commanding." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 16, 2009 |
— | N/A | Evangalion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2009) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Sep 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 32%
| The Burning Plain (2009) | "
The Burning Plain marks Arriaga's behind-the-camera debut, and his obviousness is staggering." — Village Voice Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Evangelion 1.01: You Are (Not) Alone (2009) | "
This is mighty perplexing nerd kibble, its highfalutin' philosophical and psychological banter way too outlandish to seriously engage. Yet as a visceral experience, it's entrancing." — Village Voice Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
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