— | Fresh 95%
| Obscene: A Portrait Of Barney Rosset And Grove Press (2008) |
Click here to read article — Cinematical Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 74%
| Elegy (2008) | "
A slow, uninteresting depiction of a selfish fool who possibly too-late realizes that he's grown old before he's actually grown up." — Cinematical Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Boy A (2008) | "
Even though the film is a narrative disappointment, it is possibly of interest for Garfield's performance." — Cinematical Posted Jul 23, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 77%
| Lou Reed's Berlin (2008) | "
Once again a concert documentary allows those of us unable to have witnessed a monumental event to see it seemingly exactly as it took place." — Cinematical Posted Jul 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 61%
| Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) | "
I was full of constant wonder, as if I was a kid again." — Cinematical Posted Jul 11, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 70%
| Full Battle Rattle (2008) | "
On one level, Full Battle Rattle is enjoyable for the theatrics ... On a second level ... is appreciable for what it says about the U.S. military's involvement in Iraq." — Cinematical Posted Jul 11, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) | "
An exhaustive and riveting narrative" — Cinematical Posted Jul 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 31%
| Diminished Capacity (2008) | "
The problem with this film ... is that it features too many other sad sack characters who ... contribute to an excess of sad-sackness." — Cinematical Posted Jul 3, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 40%
| Zombie Strippers (2008) | "
Dumb and silly and a heck of a good time. Particularly if you're anything but sober. And if you're just looking for a grindhouse sort of guilty pleasure to pass the time." — Cinematical Posted Apr 16, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 63%
| Love Songs (2008) | "
Would actually have worked, and been better off, in my opinion, if it didn't feature any of its 14 songs at all." — Cinematical Posted Mar 19, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 53%
| The Promotion (2008) | "
Such an insightfully hilarious and beautifully bittersweet movie about the American and human spirits that I wish Steven Conrad had always been directing his scripts." — SpoutBlog Posted Mar 14, 2008 |
N/A | Rotten 54%
| Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) | "
SXSW 2008: Playing the Harold & Kumar Race Card" — SpoutBlog Posted Mar 14, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 51%
| Then She Found Me (2008) | "
Then She Found Me is a smart, mature film that allows a certain freedom for the way its characters act, react, talk to each other and merely be." — SpoutBlog Posted Mar 14, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 51%
| Then She Found Me (2008) | "
Then She Found Me is a smart, mature film that allows a certain freedom for the way its characters act, react, talk to each other and merely be." — SpoutBlog Posted Mar 14, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 35%
| 21 (2008) | "
Comes off as an extremely interesting, though likely unintended concept: a gangster/crime film for nerds." — SpoutBlog Posted Mar 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 54%
| Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) | "
It's mostly a one kind of joke movie, which is almost worse than a one-joke movie." — SpoutBlog Posted Mar 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 48%
| Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008) | "
The true stand-out is lesser-known Dylan Moran, who supports as Pegg's character's best friend." — SpoutBlog Posted Mar 6, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 16%
| Jumper (2008) | "
Jumper never recognizes the philosophy it clearly supports. After all, it's simply a hollow piece of Hollywood entertainment." — SpoutBlog Posted Feb 29, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 75%
| City of Men (2008) | "
Similar to City of God, though on a slightly lesser scale, City of Men presents a plot that is equally tragic and exciting." — Cinematical Posted Feb 29, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 79%
| Chicago 10 (2008) | "
A riveting work that's hilarious, accessible and, sure, timeless in some ways. But still maybe a bit useless, too." — Cinematical Posted Feb 28, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 94%
| The Counterfeiters (2008) | "
The Counterfeiters is not quite a great film. It is, however, close enough to being great that it's appropriately flawed, like a near-perfect forgery." — Cinematical Posted Feb 21, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 13%
| The Air I Breathe (2007) | "
None of the four morality plays ... are necessarily original in plot, nor is the film itself particularly innovative in its structure ... it just seems flat and useless." — Cinematical Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 92%
| U2 3D (2008) | "
U2 3D must be seen, not necessarily because it's a great film, but because it's an important film, and you can say you saw it when." — Cinematical Posted Jan 20, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) | "
What's most tragic, in terms of this story being presented cinematically, is that Dilawar is very much like the traditional wrong-man film character." — Cinematical Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 87%
| The Ground Truth (2006) | "
"The success of The Ground Truth lies in the courageously open and honest interviewees, but it works because of Rob Hall's editing, which not only compiles for us a perfectly evidential collection of footage but does so at a pace that doesn't dilly-dally" — Cinematical Posted Jan 17, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 84%
| Protagonist (2007) | "
Suffers for the same reasons that a lot of 'issue' documentaries are problematic -- it is way too heavy-handed, only in style and concept rather than preachiness." — Cinematical Posted Nov 30, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Life of Reilly (2007) | "
I love this movie.
I don't say those four words often, so I had to put them first. And isolate them ... a postmortem revelation as much as a perfect swansong." — Cinematical Posted Nov 17, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 68%
| Darfur Now (2007) | "
Almost conclusively portrays the Darfur problem as no longer a problem. But even if so, Darfur Now is not really a film about the Darfur problem, anyway." — Cinematical Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Shaun of the Dead (2004) | "
I think the movie is one of the most hilarious I've ever seen ... But the symbolism and depth of the movie make me appreciate it as a masterpiece." — Cinematical Posted Oct 27, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 87%
| Control (2007) | "
At least Control does right by the doting wife, typically given the shaft in these movies as simply victim and toss-away, here played as heartbreakingly courageous by two-time Oscar nominee Samantha Morton (third times the charm?)." — Cinematical Posted Oct 11, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 77%
| The Last Winter (2007) | "
It features a supernatural threat, but it doesn't need one, because the film works so brilliantly as simply a psychological mood piece." — Cinematical Posted Sep 20, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 72%
| Russian Dolls (2006) | "
Anyone who loved L'Auberge Espagnole should at least like its sequel as something of a guilty fling." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| Close to Home (2007) | "
Close to Home is no buddy-cop, action-comedy ... it leaves out the action and the comedy so all that is left is a predictable narrative with no entertainment appeal." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 90%
| Blessed by Fire (2007) | "
For an event rarely thought about outside of its involved countries, the film is a remarkable achievement." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 52%
| Down in the Valley (2006) | "
Jacobson examines the life and death of the western and its incompatibility with the youth of today ... a fascinating, yet slightly off-balance, mix of tribute and scrutiny." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | Mee-Shee: The Water Giant (2005) | "
On the plus-side, kids aren't going to care enough about the quality of effects to enjoy Mee-Shee any less." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 48%
| Driving Lessons (2006) | "
They say that truth is stranger than fiction, but as we see in most autobiographical coming-of-age films, adolescent truth is just as boring as adolescent fiction." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Gravedancers (2006) | "
The Gravedancers is good, stupid entertainment that knows its ghosts and has a lot of fun introducing them to you." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| Lunacy (2006) | "
Wickedly funny and astonishingly conceived, the film is a nonstop cavalcade of shocks, surprises and enchantments. I loved every minute of it." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Men at Work (2006) | "
Although steeped in allegory, political or otherwise, the film is perfectly enjoyable, and quite hilarious, in its literal sense." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh 2/5
| Rotten 26%
| The Lost City (2006) | "
Garcia obviously has more ambition than skill." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Akeelah and the Bee (2006) | "
The best thing ... is that, unlike the majority of sports films, the film doesn't suggest that spelling has some kind of transcendental importance." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Day Break (2005) | "
Maintains its intrigue amidst an existential style that normally results in slow and drearily dull cinema." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 56%
| Beyond the Call (2008) | "
An extremely inspiring film that is also hilarious, exciting and heartwrenching." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| The Blood of My Brother: A Story of Death in Iraq (2006) | "
The action is so consciously real that at one point when a bullet could be seen coming towards one side of the camera I flinched to the other side of my seat." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 59%
| Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) | "
A humorous, but more importantly illustrative, documentary about the weight of the media -- especially the comedic media -- on the last presidential election." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 53%
| Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story (2006) | "
There isn't the same labored yet quotable wit ... that you'll find in some of the scripted satires, but part of the fun of improvisation is its spontaneous lack of polish." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 58%
| The Hip Hop Project (2007) | "
[A] powerful and, if we're lucky, influential documentary." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | The Big Bad Swim (2006) | "
Regardless of all the times I've desired more fresh ideas in a movie, The Big Bad Swim reminded me that sometimes characters don't require novelty as long as they feel genuine." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| New York Doll (2005) | "
A tribute to and stroking of its subject ... And by canonizing Kane, displaying this hulking angel with such innocence, the film is soulless." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
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