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1/5
|
15%
|
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) |
"
...a passion play with a guy in drag (who could ask for anything more?)..."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Apr 20, 2005
|
|
1/5
|
43%
|
The Brown Bunny (2004) |
"
...M. Knight Shyamalan trapped in a pornorgraphic art flick."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Oct 15, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
19%
|
She Hate Me (2004) |
"
...a movie that spews so much random, senseless, undigested matter that it seems more like projectile vomiting than filmmaking."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Sep 2, 2004
|
|
|
38%
|
Ocean of Pearls (2008) |
"
Rest assured that all is resolved with a minimum of muss, fuss and imagination."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Dec 17, 2009
|
|
|
38%
|
The Perfect Sleep (2008) |
"
An ungainly fusion of dutiful homage and snarky send-up."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Mar 12, 2009
|
|
|
38%
|
Flashbacks of a Fool (2008) |
"
Craig's shaken-but-not-stirred charisma makes the most of an underwritten part, but the movie nearly flat-lines when the actor's not onscreen, which is often."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Oct 16, 2008
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|
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——
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The Pink Conspiracy (2008) |
"
The Pink Conspiracy's solitary gag posits female bonding as a process so deeply malevolent it might give the most embittered misogynist pause."
—
L.A. Weekly
Posted Sep 18, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
48%
|
A Home at the End of the World (2004) |
"
The naughty bits were eventually cut (so to speak) for being too "distracting," but the publicity surrounding the deletion may be the best thing the movie has going for it."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Sep 2, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
30%
|
The Alamo (2004) |
"
It wavers between traditional period adventure, cynical, revisionist history and meandering, multi-character mini-series. The action scenes aren't very good either."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Apr 9, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
49%
|
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"
The movie's biggest sin lies not in where it chooses to cast blame, but in its bungled attempt at manufacturing what I suppose you'd have to call an epiphany of excess."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Mar 3, 2004
|
|
2.5/5
|
72%
|
Open Water (2004) |
"
...Daniel and Susan just float around bitching at each other, so the movie frequently seems like a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in scuba gear."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Aug 30, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"
...doesn't seem particularly interested in the nuances and points of frisson that are bound to occur when East meets West."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Apr 7, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
55%
|
The Ladykillers (2004) |
"
...nowhere near the Coens' funniest or most distinctive or even most endearing work."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Apr 7, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
82%
|
Ghost (1990) |
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Mar 3, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
87%
|
Millions (2005) |
"
...Millions pulls off the neat trick of affirming that money can't buy happiness, even as it has a ball pretending that it can."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Apr 20, 2005
|
|
3.5/5
|
67%
|
The Door in the Floor (2004) |
"
...a film both fluid and hermetically sealed, inviting multiple interpretations and yet ultimately reluctant to give up its secrets."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Aug 30, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
83%
|
Mean Girls (2004) |
"
...a lean, mean entertainment that manages to be both playful and subversive while exhibiting plenty of mainstream appeal."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted May 10, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
29%
|
The Punisher (2004) |
"
It's dark and gritty and even a little tawdry, pushing ... deep into Death Wish territory, which is exactly as it should be."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Apr 16, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
93%
|
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004) |
"
It's a strange trip, to be sure, sort of like what Fantastic Voyage might have been if some acid-gobbling metaphysicians had been at the helm."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Mar 19, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
60%
|
The Dreamers (2004) |
"
The erotic parlor games in Bertolucci's film don't get quite get debauched or deep enough, and once they've run their course, the movie doesn't know what to do."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Mar 12, 2004
|
|
|
100%
|
Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) (1982) |
"
A sprawling, ornately constructed entertainment."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 3, 2008
|
|
|
90%
|
Amarcord (2009) |
"
What positions the film among Fellini's greatest are its punctuation points of mysterious beauty."
—
Village Voice
Posted Dec 3, 2008
|
|
|
50%
|
We are Wizards (2008) |
"
Ignore the scattershot approach, however, and there's considerable pleasure to be had in spending time with these bizarre enthusiasts and watching the creative ways they find to express their obsessions."
—
Village Voice
Posted Nov 12, 2008
|
|
4/5
|
88%
|
Bad Education (La Mala educación) (2004) |
"
...Almodovar's meta-movie teases us with Big Ideas about those of us who love our fantasies so much that we turn them into our realities."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Apr 20, 2005
|
|
4/5
|
70%
|
Off the Map (2003) |
"
...eloquently written but not overwritten, with a story that ultimately feels less like a literary construct and more like a spontaneous celebration of a few lived lives..."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Apr 20, 2005
|
|
4/5
|
78%
|
Sin City (2005) |
"
...might just be the most extravagantly brutal live-action cartoon ever made."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Apr 7, 2005
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Before Sunset (2004) |
"
For all the talk, there's always something unspoken bubbling away in the space between these two ex-lovers..."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Aug 30, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Hero (2004) |
"
...an astonishingly graceful ballet performed with swords, arrows and fists."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Aug 30, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
70%
|
Dogville (2003) |
"
...an experience that's both grueling and, in its way, glorious."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted May 10, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
Kandahar (2001) |
"
As with so much in the Islamic world, there are things here that are profoundly beautiful, as well as much that is profoundly scary."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted May 10, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
84%
|
Kill Bill, Volume 2 (2004) |
"
KB2 is still basically a cartoon, albeit a more elaborately illustrated one..."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Apr 16, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
Les Cousins (1959) |
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Mar 3, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
94%
|
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) |
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Mar 3, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
Marius (1931) |
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Mar 3, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
93%
|
My Architect: A Son's Journey (2004) |
"
A film with all the passion, mystery, tears and joy of first-rate, fully fleshed fiction."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Mar 2, 2004
|
|
4.5/5
|
70%
|
In the Realms of the Unreal - The Mystery of Henry Darger (2005) |
"
...a fascinating sort of connect-the-dots that allows us to essentially piece together our very own personalized portrait of this most curious of artists."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Apr 20, 2005
|
|
4.5/5
|
78%
|
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"
...a little bit like what Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle might have been without the illusions of grandeur or pretentious aftertaste."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Aug 30, 2004
|
|
4.5/5
|
92%
|
Talk to Her (2002) |
"
Almodovar continues to refine the form of melodrama ... without sacrificing one iota of emotional texture or resonance."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted May 10, 2004
|
|
4.5/5
|
90%
|
Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2003) |
"
We've seen this story before, more or less -- the blood, the budding psychopaths, the all-too-young victims of urban decay -- but never quite like this."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted May 10, 2004
|
|
4.5/5
|
88%
|
The Son (2003) |
"
...a work of enormous moral and spiritual depth, where sacrifice, forgiveness and redemption are revealed as the natural extensions of the movie's humdrum landscape."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Apr 7, 2004
|
|
4.5/5
|
95%
|
Le Cercle Rouge (1970) |
"
It's a languorous and uncompromising work that will drive some to distraction, but also a movie of dark, still beauty that will have others weeping tears of pure, noir joy."
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Mar 19, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
93%
|
Paths of Glory (1957) |
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Mar 5, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
El Bruto (The Brute) (1953) |
—
Weekly Planet (Tampa, FL)
Posted Mar 5, 2004
|
77%
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