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1/5
|
8%
|
Doogal (2006) |
"
In Doogal, setting the world right again involves a badly paced quest for three diamonds, assorted jokes that don't land, and a daringly incoherent climactic confrontation."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 27, 2006
|
|
1/5
|
19%
|
Doom (2005) |
"
In this formulaic, claustrophobic shoot'em-up, based on a video game, soldiers quell a mutant uprising on Mars."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 20, 2005
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|
—
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91%
|
The Rising (Mangal Pandey) (2005) |
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 15, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
38%
|
A Tale of Two Pizzas (2003) |
"
Amid all the discussion of crust and sauce and the proper consistency of each, A Tale of Two Pizzas lays on the cheese way too thick."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 6, 2005
|
|
4.5/5
|
91%
|
The Aggressives (2004) |
"
A novel, accomplished documentary about a subset of New York City lesbians."
—
New York Times
Posted Oct 6, 2005
|
|
2.5/5
|
72%
|
The War Within (Over the Mountains) (2005) |
"
The War Within succeeds only as a thriller with some wartime overtones, rather than as a character study that thrills."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 30, 2005
|
|
4.5/5
|
76%
|
Little Manhattan (2005) |
"
This small-scale, perfectly acted family film listens in on all the doubts and desires of an 11-year-old as he confronts new feelings about a girl he has known practically all his life."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 30, 2005
|
|
3/5
|
65%
|
Dorian Blues (2005) |
"
Dorian Blues fits tidily into a genre of first-time films in which the main gay character comes of age and out of the closet."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 23, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
23%
|
Cry Wolf (2005) |
"
In this adolescent horror flick, the first-time screenwriters Jeff Wadlow and Beau Bauman prove more adept at staging mind games than creating chills for the audience."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 19, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
83%
|
One Bright Shining Moment: The Forgotten Summer of George McGovern (2005) |
"
A wan but well-researched apotheosis of the former senator from South Dakota."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 16, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
0%
|
Human Error (2005) |
"
None of the three principal actors are unskilled, and they somehow don't lose on-screen energy, even as it's sapped from the audience."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 16, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
45%
|
The Thing About My Folks (2005) |
"
The Thing About My Folks is Paul Reiser's return to playing Paul Reiser."
—
New York Times
Posted Sep 16, 2005
|
|
4/5
|
89%
|
William Eggleston in the Real World (2005) |
"
In this sublimely bleak documentary, the photographer William Eggleston allows the video camera to follow him on a shoot in Mayfield, Ky."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 31, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
71%
|
King of the Corner (2005) |
"
Mr. Riegert has assembled a capable cast with too little to do or say in this dry, crumbly, barely nourishing tale of intergenerational woe."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 27, 2005
|
|
3/5
|
88%
|
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) |
"
The spiky documentary in their honor keeps alive the echoes of their slapdash, Smithsonian-worthy sound."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 25, 2005
|
|
.5/5
|
9%
|
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) |
"
In his 1999 debut, Deuce Bigalow emerged as a shameless beach bum, driving a clunker in a land of Porsche Cayennes, cleaning the scum from the fish tanks of the rich and famous."
—
New York Times
Posted Aug 12, 2005
|
|
—
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83%
|
You Think You Really Know Me: The Gary Wilson Story (2008) |
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 25, 2005
|
|
1.5/5
|
13%
|
Slutty Summer (2004) |
"
The film is a labor of love for Casper Andreas, who wrote, directed and starred in this first feature. For the actors he has chosen, it's a labor of lust, with copious necking and grappling required. For the audience, it's just a labor."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 13, 2005
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
Bustin' Bonaparte (The Story of an African Farm) (2005) |
"
As a film geared toward children, Bustin' Bonaparte meets its main requirements: it adapts a classic novel in gleaming cinematic form, and it ridicules the foibles of ruthless adults."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 3, 2005
|
|
1.5/5
|
39%
|
Milwaukee Minnesota (2003) |
"
Allan Mindel is too taken with a Midwestern strain of weirdos who flounder in ramshackle houses, no-tell hotels and depressing juke joints."
—
New York Times
Posted Jun 3, 2005
|
|
2.5/5
|
91%
|
A League of Ordinary Gentlemen (2005) |
"
This affectionate though unconvincing documentary struggles to present professional bowling as a simpler, nobler pastime from a simpler, nobler time."
—
New York Times
Posted May 26, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
——
|
Tale of a Naughty Girl () |
"
This coming-of-age drama set in a Bengali brothel meanders around its emotional terrain at a leisurely pace, with little promise of new ideas."
—
New York Times
Posted May 9, 2005
|
|
1.5/5
|
0%
|
A Man's Gotta Do () |
"
In this seasick, heartsick romp, a suburban Australian family struggles with love, loyalty and a fear that the patriarch is making his mortal enemies disappear."
—
New York Times
Posted May 9, 2005
|
|
3/5
|
63%
|
Fighting Tommy Riley (2005) |
"
In Fighting Tommy Riley, another boxing drama is asking audiences to gird themselves for more emotional gut punches."
—
New York Times
Posted May 6, 2005
|
|
3.5/5
|
83%
|
Wild Safari: A South African Adventure (2005) |
"
This cinematic safari's simple pleasures are best experienced with the littlest ticket-holders."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 28, 2005
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Raging Dove () |
"
This bruising but illuminating documentary considers how nationalism flattened one young, sure-footed boxer."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 13, 2005
|
|
2.5/5
|
57%
|
David Hockney: The Color of Music (2005) |
"
In a documentary that celebrates flourish, the artist David Hockney lets a filmmaker record how he assembles elaborate opera sets."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 6, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
63%
|
Mail Order Wife (2005) |
"
Strange, often silly mockumentary."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 2, 2005
|
|
2.5/5
|
25%
|
Girl Play (2004) |
"
Mainly a simple pair of soliloquies about lesbians struggling as life partners, with some scenes of farce and dread in the mix."
—
New York Times
Posted Apr 1, 2005
|
|
1/5
|
43%
|
Nowhere Man (2005) |
"
This deliberately repugnant thriller is told from one distraught man's perspective, as he copes with the emasculating impact of love."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 24, 2005
|
|
3.5/5
|
50%
|
Naked Fame (2005) |
"
This spare, enjoyable documentary suggests that today's pornography performers enjoy better life options than those revisited in Inside Deep Throat."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 24, 2005
|
|
1/5
|
80%
|
16 Years of Alcohol (2003) |
"
This Scottish memoir of inebriation and sobriety leans heavily on the hurt of booze and rarely on the high."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 17, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
20%
|
Hollywood Buddha () |
"
[A] self-important tale of woe."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 17, 2005
|
|
3/5
|
59%
|
Steamboy (2005) |
"
In this mind-bending, elaborate anime, the industrial era is reimagined as a time of steam-powered aggression."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 17, 2005
|
|
3/5
|
20%
|
The Pacifier (2005) |
"
Disney's new family flick is chipper and occasionally clever as it sends up the high-tech know-how required by 21st-century parents."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 3, 2005
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
The Red Orchestra (2005) |
"
A labor-of-love documentary, honors average citizens who dared to undermine Hitler and then received cruel sentences for their valor."
—
New York Times
Posted Mar 3, 2005
|
|
3/5
|
33%
|
Sexual Dependency (2003) |
"
Rodrigo Bellott's frenzied but clever first film juggles race, class, jingoism, homophobia, sexual attraction and rape."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 24, 2005
|
|
2.5/5
|
44%
|
Nabbeun namja (Bad Guy) (2001) |
"
Mostly distressing and occasionally compelling, as Sun-hwa, the young student, becomes ensnared in a prostitution ring."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 17, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
21%
|
Uncle Nino (2003) |
"
Aggressive heartwarmer, which turns out to be much more of a heartburner."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 14, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
50%
|
WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception (2004) |
"
A former ABC producer at 20/20, Mr. Schechter revels in his autonomy and crams too many points in too many minutes."
—
New York Times
Posted Feb 3, 2005
|
|
2/5
|
64%
|
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land (2005) |
"
Presents a condensed argument in favor of prosecuting Israeli leaders in the court of American public opinion."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 27, 2005
|
|
—
|
100%
|
Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (2002) |
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 15, 2005
|
|
—
|
45%
|
Particles of Truth (2003) |
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 15, 2005
|
|
1/5
|
36%
|
Murder-Set-Pieces (2004) |
"
The director Nick Palumbo is determined to shock through a fictional German-born serial killer, who makes his mission clear with every thrust of knife blade and pelvis."
—
New York Times
Posted Jan 6, 2005
|
|
1/5
|
4%
|
Darkness (2004) |
"
Offers no inventive takes on its characters, shows no fearsome new way of presenting a haunted house and elicits not one palpitation from audiences paying for a few good jolts."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 27, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
76%
|
Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine (2004) |
"
This deflating documentary gives up its quest for answers too easily."
—
New York Times
Posted Dec 6, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
43%
|
Bob, Verushka & the Pursuit of Happiness () |
"
Happiness involves a warm gun in a cross-cultural clunker."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 23, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
89%
|
Jandek on Corwood (2004) |
"
The eerie documentary Jandek on Corwood lays out all the evidence that this musician is a genius, at least in keeping his fame fresh through a minimum of publicity."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 18, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
79%
|
Daughter from Danang (2004) |
"
The rapper Jay-Z performs his own movie-length swan song set to thumping rhythms in Madison Square Garden."
—
New York Times
Posted Nov 4, 2004
|
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