|
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82%
|
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) |
"
I wonder if this new series can afford to be bolder in its design. "
—
House Next Door
Posted Jan 6, 2012
|
|
3/4
|
70%
|
Chelsea on the Rocks (2009) |
"
Chelsea on the Rocks is very lively, somewhat thrown together in that loose yet aggressively visceral Ferrara style."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 28, 2009
|
|
4/4
|
83%
|
Paradise (2009) |
"
It wouldn't be a stretch to compare Paradise to Alphaville, what with its imagining of the modern as otherworldly, or to imagine it as a capsule made by an outer-space explorer who visits Earth and finds layers of mystery in the mundane."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 23, 2009
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
Passing Strange (2009) |
"
A worthy public record of a show most people nationwide didn't get the chance to see."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 20, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
80%
|
It Might Get Loud (2009) |
"
Nearly two hours of yackety-yak is less expressive than one image of White's hand bleeding from the intensity of pressing his guitar strings during a mad improvisation."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 11, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
60%
|
A Perfect Getaway (2009) |
"
Unashamed of flaunting its B-movie conventions"
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 6, 2009
|
|
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77%
|
Bad Lieutenant (1992) |
"
One of the landmark independent films of the 1990s is given a first-rate, informative, and cleaned-up DVD. The film is a masterpiece, but not for the faint of heart."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 5, 2009
|
|
4/4
|
77%
|
Bad Lieutenant (1992) |
"
Ferrara was in the right place at the right time to make Bad Lieutenant."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 5, 2009
|
|
|
52%
|
Friday the 13th, Part VI - Jason Lives (1986) |
"
Better than the second and third entries in the Scream series, this sequel is one elaborate in-joke about itself, and if you like the series you might have affection for what it's trying to do."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
52%
|
Friday the 13th, Part VI - Jason Lives (1986) |
"
While there's a superficial been-there-done-that, why don't-we-just-mock-the-whole-thing quality to this entry in the series, it certainly livens up what has become by this point a stale franchise."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2009
|
|
|
17%
|
Friday the 13th, Part V - A New Beginning (1985) |
"
Jason kills again--or does he?"
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
17%
|
Friday the 13th, Part V - A New Beginning (1985) |
"
The tone is crude, raunchy, and leering, with kill scenes combined with more nudity than usual."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2009
|
|
|
24%
|
Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter (1984) |
"
Jason gets the proper sendoff."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
24%
|
Friday the 13th - The Final Chapter (1984) |
"
This one certainly felt as if it properly closed out the Friday the 13th series before it devolved into unadulterated camp."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2009
|
|
3.5/4
|
93%
|
Hearts & Minds (2009) |
"
Hearts and Minds is an essay told in a voice of thinly controlled moral outrage, which sometimes dribbles over into seething hate."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 19, 2009
|
|
|
——
|
Schloß Vogeloed, (The Haunted Castle) (1921) |
"
The Haunted Castle makes the viewer wait in a state of anticipation for something to resonate on screen--and it feels positively endless."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 16, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
——
|
Schloß Vogeloed, (The Haunted Castle) (1921) |
"
There's almost no expressionistic phantasmagoria here."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 16, 2009
|
|
|
95%
|
Hobson's Choice (1953) |
"
Hobson's Choice is a superb addition to the Lean canon, and a charming and surprising selection by Criterion."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 23, 2009
|
|
4/4
|
95%
|
Hobson's Choice (1953) |
"
Lean's splendid frames specifically work to show the high and low status of a social grid."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 23, 2009
|
|
|
——
|
Femme publique, La (1984) |
"
Mondo Video should be commended for their handsome presentation of one of Zulawski's most lush, explosively romantic films."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 18, 2009
|
|
4/4
|
——
|
Femme publique, La (1984) |
"
Though Kessling can be interpreted as a stand-in for Zulawski, Femme Publique is not his autobiography in the same way his previous film Possession was."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 18, 2009
|
|
|
88%
|
Faces (1968) |
"
People compare Cassavetes to jazz because his films are lively, vivid, and bursting with energy, and Criterion packs this two-disc set of Faces with extras bursting with vitality. Enthusiasts will be pleased."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 14, 2009
|
|
3/4
|
88%
|
Faces (1968) |
"
Cassavetes was interested in actors and their freak-show intensities, and their performances give his films a hyper-real quality."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 14, 2009
|
|
|
100%
|
Shadows (1959) |
"
Shadows feels like a Beatnik relic, which gives it tremendous value."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 14, 2009
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
Shadows (1959) |
"
The Beat generation espoused a rejection of mainstream American values, and John Cassavetes's Shadows feels like a relic from that movement."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 14, 2009
|
|
|
13%
|
Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982) |
"
So bad it's good, or so bad it's mind-numbing? You decide."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 4, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
13%
|
Friday the 13th Part 3 (1982) |
"
Shot in such a way to capitalize on the brief fad of Reagan-era 3D movies, there's less memorable POV shots from the killer and more images from the perspective of the victims."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 4, 2009
|
|
|
33%
|
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) |
"
Friday the 13th Part 2 is more existential than mumblecore art house cinema, paring life down to the basics: f****g and death."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 4, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
33%
|
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) |
"
Friday the 13th Part 2 never aspires to be termite art."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 4, 2009
|
|
|
59%
|
Friday the 13th (1980) |
"
Friday the 13th is the one that started them all, but that doesn't necessarily make it any good, does it?"
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 4, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
59%
|
Friday the 13th (1980) |
"
You really have to wonder what exactly made the Friday the 13th series so wildly successful."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 4, 2009
|
|
|
——
|
George Wallace (1997) |
"
One of the finest television films John Frankenheimer made during his final decade of filmmaking, George Wallace deserves a more substantial DVD treatment."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 23, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
14%
|
The Spirit (2008) |
"
Samuel L. Jackson has hit a rock bottom with The Spirit that's comparable only to Joan Crawford's appearance in Trog."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 20, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
27%
|
Seven Pounds (2008) |
"
Looking like he hasn't shaved in days, and wearing the same suit day after day, Smith is playing the Hollywood version of worn and weary."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 17, 2008
|
|
|
97%
|
Casablanca (1943) |
"
This handsomely packaged three-disc DVD box set is jam-packed with extras, meant to please fans and cinema history buffs alike."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 13, 2008
|
|
4/4
|
97%
|
Casablanca (1943) |
"
The movie has a peculiar magic to it, and it's in the richness of its details that mostly go unnoticed because of the film's pace."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 13, 2008
|
|
|
25%
|
Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1998) |
"
This one was made for the fans, and they'll delight in the latest surreal battle against the Tall Man."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 15, 2008
|
|
|
88%
|
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) |
"
Kiss of the Spider Woman's beautifully compelling story of compassion and love cannot be separated from the time the film was made."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 14, 2008
|
|
4/4
|
88%
|
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985) |
"
Argentine writer Manuel Puig's book Kiss of the Spider Woman has a theme that endures throughout all its various incarnations: that of human dignity and compassion surviving within a society that denies it."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 14, 2008
|
|
|
85%
|
Before the Rain (Pred dozhdot) (1994) |
"
If it's only as politically savvy as a college term paper, it's also as gritty as an old-school western."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 12, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
85%
|
Before the Rain (Pred dozhdot) (1994) |
"
What it loses in novelty and subtlety it makes up for in its earnest depiction of love and individual human decency in the face of societal cruelty."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 12, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
83%
|
Tropic Thunder (2008) |
"
Ben Stiller used to be unafraid of pointed mockery, but nowadays he pulls his punches."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 11, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
86%
|
Shine a Light (2008) |
"
Even an average performance by the Rolling Stones isn't boring."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 28, 2008
|
|
2/4
|
32%
|
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (The X Files 2) (2008) |
"
Because the show has been off the air for so many years now, audiences may wonder why these characters haven't moved on from their obsessively singular points of view."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 24, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
78%
|
Lou Reed's Berlin (2008) |
"
The movie experience gets in its own way."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 14, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2) (2008) |
"
Adolescent pulp fantasia meets sentimental married life in Guillermo Del Toro's follow-up to his 2004 working-class superhero movie."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 9, 2008
|
|
|
96%
|
Night of the Living Dead (1968) |
"
This shocker from 1968 is a time capsule of our fears from yesteryear."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 27, 2008
|
|
4/4
|
96%
|
Night of the Living Dead (1968) |
"
There's a brute force in Night of the Living Dead that catches one in the throat."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 27, 2008
|
|
|
89%
|
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) |
"
We learn that Indiana Jones was named after the family dog. Aren't you glad you tuned in for his latest adventure?"
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 21, 2008
|
87%
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