Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Encounter Point (2006) | "
It isn't often that you see a film about Israelis and Palestinians that can be called hopeful, but Ronit Avni's assured, thoughtful and clear-eyed documentary certainly qualifies." Posted Nov 16, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 50%
| Jaan-E-Mann (2006) | "
Jaan-E-Mann (the title means 'beloved') has many of its genre's shortcomings, including a shaky hold on the line between farce and stupidity and a soapy, melodramatic denouement. But it also has personable stars." Posted Oct 19, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 29%
| El Cortez () | Lou Diamond Phillips's character in El Cortez is a Reno hotel desk clerk who suffers from black-and-white flashbacks. Posted Oct 5, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 38%
| Saving Shiloh (2006) | Saving Shiloh is touching, intelligent and admirably thoughtful. Posted May 11, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 13%
| Mistress Of Spices (2005) | "
Imagine Like Water for Chocolate without the passion. Such is the premise of Mistress of Spices, Paul Mayeda Berges's film-directing debut." Posted May 4, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 73%
| Nathalie (2003) | A woman (Fanny Ardant) hires a prostitute (Emmanuelle Béart) to seduce her unfaithful husband (Gérard Depardieu) in Anne Fontaine's seductive and intriguing film. Posted Apr 13, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 27%
| Madea's Family Reunion (2006) | This movie's trailers promise a slapstick comedy about an obese black woman who takes no guff and enjoys beating people up. It isn't exactly, and that's a disappointment. Posted Feb 27, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 9%
| When a Stranger Calls (2006) | The film is not quite suspense-free, but almost. When finding a dead body underwater isn't scary, something is very wrong. Posted Feb 18, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 6%
| Date Movie (2006) | Date Movie has a nascent sense of the absurd but doesn't know what to do with it. Posted Feb 18, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 6%
| Big Momma's House 2 (2006) | "
... inconsequential sequel for the undemanding moviegoer." Posted Jan 26, 2006 |
— | N/A | El Vacilón: The Movie (2005) |
Click here to read article Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 11%
| In The Mix (2005) | [A] one-dimensional romantic comedy that ... feels like an old-fashioned vehicle picture, the kind the big movie studios used to make in the 1930's and 40's just to bring in the fans of a particular actor or actress. Posted Nov 28, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 17%
| Oxygono (2005) | The Greek film Blackmail Boy has the feel of farce at times, but much of the time it just seems determined to shock. Posted Nov 17, 2005 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 73%
| Pulse (2005) | There are very few moments in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's fiercely original, thrillingly creepy horror movie that don't evoke a dreamlike dread of the truly unknown. Posted Nov 9, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) | Robert Greenwald's documentary makes a devastating case against the largest retailer on the planet. Posted Nov 4, 2005 |
— | Rotten 33%
| Carlito's Way: Rise To Power (2005) | No article or quote available Posted Oct 29, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 5%
| The Fog (2005) | Mildly scary here and there. Posted Oct 29, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 69%
| Protocols of Zion (2005) | "
There are laughs in Marc Levin's Protocols of Zion, which is quite an accomplishment for a film about the increasing anti-Semitism around the world." Posted Oct 20, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 78%
| Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family (2005) | A significant development turns Susan Kaplan's documentary into a thought-provoking story. Posted Oct 18, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005) | "
The illusion is impressive but incomplete, and therefore mildly disappointing. But I cannot deny having felt a little nervous when 'we' were standing too close to the edge at the Grand Canyon-like Hadley Rille. So clearly I am a liar." Posted Sep 23, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 10%
| Venom (2005) | "
Venom certainly can't be called a good movie, but within the horror genre it's perfectly palatable." Posted Sep 16, 2005 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 80%
| Salaam Namaste (2005) | Salaam Namaste must set some sort of record for genre pileup. Posted Sep 12, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 50%
| The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror (2004) | "
Most of this is old news. And the filmmakers never make a coherent case, at least not to the layperson. As a result, the film, which runs about 90 minutes, seems painfully long." Posted Jul 18, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 18%
| This Revolution (2006) | "
Stephen Marshall's admirable but unfocused new film is set in New York City during the 2004 Republican National Convention." Posted Jun 29, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 93%
| Up for Grabs (2005) | "
The film spends a little too much time on the fates of previous home run balls in general." Posted May 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 63%
| Le Grand Role (2005) | "
A touching Parisian love story about an actor and his dying wife." Posted May 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 50%
| Death Of A Dynasty (2005) | "
Watching Damon Dash's playful movie is like entering a room where a large, too noisy party is going on and never fully adjusting to the dark or the din." Posted Apr 28, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 29%
| Madison (2005) | Only moviegoers who care about nitrous-oxide injection systems or Madison itself are likely to appreciate it. Posted Apr 21, 2005 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 50%
| Dead And Breakfast (2004) | "
Matthew Leutwylers horror movie about six young people trapped in a creepy small town goes for parody and fails." Posted Apr 20, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 57%
| Perlasca (2005) | "
Giorgio Perlasca, who has been compared to Oskar Schindler, deserves better than this Italian television film." Posted Apr 14, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 60%
| Winning Girls Through Psychic Mind Control (2002) | "
The drummer in a struggling lounge act finds himself possessed by four wise entities in a comedy directed by Barry Alexander Brown." Posted Apr 14, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 81%
| Voices in Wartime (2005) | "
Rick King's stirring documentary Voices in Wartime is not, as you might guess from the title, a compilation of soldiers' battlefield letters to their families back home. This intense little film is about poetry." Posted Apr 7, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 80%
| In Satmar Custody (2003) | "
Nitzan Gilady's modest, disturbing documentary tells the story of a couple recruited by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect to move from Yemen to the United States." Posted Apr 6, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 61%
| Dust to Glory (2005) | "
A proudly rowdy down-home documentary about the 2003 run." Posted Apr 1, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Morning Raga (2005) | "
Although it is from India, it has few of the usual Bollywood musical excesses." Posted Mar 17, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 44%
| The Boys and Girl from County Clare (2005) | "
Everyone is likable in John Irvin's appealing if obvious little fable about two estranged brothers and their ceili, or traditional Irish, bands." Posted Mar 11, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 57%
| Sheriff (2005) | "
Sheriff may have a point to make about the impact of family, roots and religion on the changing face of rural America, but the film, while admirably restrained and competently made, is too polite to clarify that." Posted Mar 10, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 54%
| Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) | "
It has old-fashioned and heartwarming written all over it, in heavy black Magic Marker." Posted Feb 17, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 13%
| Bigger Than the Sky (2005) | "
Self-conscious comic drama." Posted Feb 17, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 80%
| Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005) | "
In Pooh's Heffalump Movie, which is adorable, he finally encounters the real thing. And it (the heffalump) is too cute for words." Posted Feb 10, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| The Letter - An American Town and the Somali Invasion (2003) | "
Ziad H. Hamzeh's documentary is important as a record of a disturbing incident that occured when 1,100 immigrants from Somalia settled in Maine." Posted Feb 9, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 13%
| Boogeyman (2005) | "
Only glimpses of the monster are seen in Stephen Kay's supernatural thriller. Unfortunately, the same is true of the movie's plot and character." Posted Feb 5, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 10%
| The Wedding Date (2005) | "
Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney star in a romantic comedy that struggles to capture the charm and ebullience of Four Weddings and a Funeral." Posted Feb 3, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 4%
| Fascination (2005) | "
Jacqueline Bisset looks lovely at 60, and that's the best thing about Klaus Menzel's laughably bad thriller." Posted Feb 1, 2005 |
— | N/A | Remembering the Cosmos Flower (1998) |
Click here to read article Posted Jan 15, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 0%
| Open My Heart (2003) | "
Giada Colagrande wrote, directed and stars in this atmospheric but baffling drama about a protective, possessive prostitute." Posted Dec 16, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 67%
| Santa Smokes (2004) | "
The story of Johnny (Mr. Schauder), a struggling young actor with problems all around." Posted Dec 15, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 33%
| Conspiracy of Silence (2004) | "
John Deery's modest drama is one big, obvious argument against the vow of celibacy for Roman Catholic priests, but it has heart." Posted Dec 2, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 59%
| Easy (2003) | "
[Weinstock] does an impressive job of capturing the brave messiness of single life, or at least of 20-something dating." Posted Nov 29, 2004 |
— | N/A | Veer-Zaara (2004) | No article or quote available Posted Nov 22, 2004 |
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