Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Soul Power (2009) | "
Watching Soul Power is like flipping through Polaroids of that era. The color is a little washed out and everyone looks amazingly young." Posted Sep 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 95%
| In the Loop (2009) | "
In the Loop is nonstop, go-go-go verbal action that makes Wag the Dog seem like a mind-numbing cricket match." Posted Sep 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| Throw Down Your Heart (2009) | "
It's a journey long on affecting songs and musical passages, and short on scholarship -- and that works just fine for Fleck's intentions." Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 70%
| Last Chance Harvey (2008) | "
Writer-director Joel Hopkins should thank his lucky stars that Hoffman and Thompson are on board. Some of the story and dialogue are hokey, but the actors overcome those obstacles." Posted Jan 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 61%
| The Duchess (2008) | "
It's a beautiful period piece that will send you to a bookstore for a better account of the dirt and vice at its core." Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 74%
| Elegy (2008) | "
This is Kingsley's show from start to finish, as he wraps himself in Kepesh's mantle of singularity." Posted Sep 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| Outsourced (2007) | "
Sending jobs overseas, a hot-button issue for some Americans, gets gentle, good-natured treatment in Outsourced." Posted Sep 5, 2008 |
— | Rotten 33%
| The Favor (1994) |
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Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 39%
| The Favor (2008) | "
Nothing extraordinary happens, and [director] Aradjis relies on Wood and Donowho to carry the slight thread of a film." Posted May 16, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 83%
| The Year My Parents Went On Vacation (2008) | "
... a sharply drawn coming-of-age comedy-drama..." Posted May 15, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 74%
| Praying with Lior (2007) | "
A messy brew, sometimes manipulative, with no real conclusions, as Lior, though highly functional, cannot explain his deep sense of religion and those around him are too supportive to question." Posted May 1, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 69%
| The First Saturday in May (2008) | "
The filmmakers emphasize the disparate personalities of the trainers, who can taste victory with every stride of the beautiful animals with whom they work, groom and feed." Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 39%
| Bonneville (2006) | "
The characters, situations and resolutions all are predictable and fit like a warm, stretched-out sweater with holes in the elbows." Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 80%
| Daughters of Wisdom (2007) | "
Some individual moments hit home, but the cumulative effect doesn't add up to anything more than a peek at Tibetan culture." Posted Apr 11, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 100%
| I for India (2007) | "
It's a tale that many immigrant families around the world could tell, but probably without as much documentation." Posted Apr 4, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 79%
| The Memory Thief (2008) | "
The Memory Thief, the first narrative feature by Gil Kofman, grants intimate entrance into a needy person's life -- a life bent around the facts of the darkest hours of the 20th century." Posted Mar 28, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 79%
| The Bank Job (2008) | "
It's a routine treatment of a heist too outrageous to be believed, even if it is based on a true story." Posted Mar 7, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 65%
| Be Kind Rewind (2008) | "
Loopy, goofy and endearing." Posted Feb 22, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (2007) | "
A subtle, slow-moving presentation of hope and responsibility that will test your patience if you are not a fan of elliptical, dreamlike narratives like those in Tsai's films." Posted Nov 29, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 98%
| For the Bible Tells Me So (2007) | "
The movie's serious, wide-ranging look at a divisive subject is not guaranteed to settle disputes, only to prompt discussion." Posted Nov 29, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 37%
| Reservation Road (2007) | "
The bulk of the movie rings false." Posted Nov 1, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 93%
| This Is England (2007) | "
This Is England grabs you by the scruff of the neck and yanks you into the Thatcher 1980s with brute force." Posted Sep 27, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 85%
| 2 Days In Paris (2007) | "
All in all, Delpy has a good time mocking national identities and gender issues, but she doesn't make a case for Marion and Jack to stay together. If she doesn't care about them as a couple, why should we?" Posted Sep 14, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 64%
| Vitus (2007) | "
If you suspend your disbelief, you will be rewarded with fine performances and a feel-good message that isn't cloying or sentimental." Posted Aug 2, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 96%
| Mafioso (1962) | "
A gentle Italian comedy from 1962 that takes a sobering, chilling turn that would make Michael Corleone proud." Posted Jul 12, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 82%
| Paprika (2007) | "
The standard stuff of B-movies comes to life under Kon's playful imagination." Posted Jun 21, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 89%
| Into Great Silence (2007) | "
[Director] Gröning creates a trance-like rhythm of visual and aural patterns, ranging from the repetition of duties and behaviors to biblical quotations." Posted Jun 21, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 82%
| Days of Glory (2006) | "
Stands apart for its passion and patriotism in the face of hostility. The spirit of liberté, égalité and fraternité runs high for everyone, even those who have never set foot in France." Posted Mar 23, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 91%
| The Italian (2007) | "
This is a difficult, disturbing story, with harsh, desperate conditions delicately balanced by one boy's undeniable sense of hope." Posted Mar 16, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 40%
| Road (2006) | "
Writer-director Leslie McCleave offers no explanation beyond juxtaposing sour lake beds and radioactive vats with the tension between the former lovers. The environment, with upstate New York standing in for Ontario, rarely looks this distasteful." Posted Mar 16, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 84%
| Sweet Land (2006) | "
Sweet Land is a lovely, lovely small story about discrimination, assimilation and acceptance in the plains." Posted Jan 19, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 74%
| The Painted Veil (2006) | "
Many story elements are predictable, and they rely on superior acting to make up for other shortcomings." Posted Jan 5, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 88%
| Cave of the Yellow Dog (2006) | "
Yellow Dog is engaging, if familiar, viewing." Posted Dec 8, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 94%
| Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006) | "
Nelson gives plenty of time to the intelligent, articulate members who provide riveting details about those days nearly 30 years ago and their reflections now, but he doesn't provide historical context for the events." Posted Nov 24, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 31%
| Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) | "
For those who don't know Arbus' work, there's little to glean from this portrait." Posted Nov 24, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 73%
| Conversation(s) with Other Women (2006) | "
You spend more time watching the technique than the interplay between Carter and Eckhart." Posted Nov 16, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 85%
| La Moustache (2005) | "
A mind-bending treat adapted by director Emmanuel Carrère from his novel." Posted Nov 10, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 88%
| Mutual Appreciation (2006) | "
The attraction here is the naturalistic, dead-on dialogue delivered by articulate, interesting characters who live realistically lower-class lives in underfurnished apartments financed by dead-end jobs." Posted Nov 3, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 56%
| Keeping Mum (2006) | "
One of those frothy films photographed in the quaint English countryside that yearns to be a word-of-mouth hit, but is too thin and predictable when it should be rich in nuance and off-kilter." Posted Nov 3, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 63%
| Changing Times (2006) | "
A spare but rich film from French master technician André Téchiné." Posted Oct 12, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 80%
| Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (2006) | "
It's a story of emotional and physical distance, one expertly rendered by Chinese director Zhang Yimou." Posted Oct 5, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 93%
| The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006) | "
Mr. Lazarescu's ordeal will stick with you." Posted Sep 29, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 46%
| Edmond (2006) | "
Even William H. Macy's raw, spare performance cannot save Edmond from distastefulness almost beyond imagination." Posted Sep 8, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 86%
| Three Times (2006) | "
Carefully crafted and bereft of dialogue, Three Times sets the bar high with its opening salvo but can't sustain the momentum." Posted Sep 1, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 72%
| Russian Dolls (2006) | "
With its crackling dialogue and attractive, fully rounded characters, Russian Dolls puts American movies on similar subjects to shame." Posted Aug 18, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 55%
| The King (2006) | "
Both Hurt and Bernal drift through their performances, leaving the audience as unfulfilled as an empty collection plate." Posted Jul 28, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 74%
| 12 and Holding (2006) | "
From the parents to the children, the cast is uniformly excellent. Weizenbaum and Renner deserve special mention for handling a potentially unsettling relationship with care." Posted Jul 7, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 95%
| Wordplay (2006) | "
Enticing, delightful and any word for 'highly entertaining' that will fit in a bunch of little boxes on a page." Posted Jun 30, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 87%
| The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2006) | "
The interaction between the self-absorbed, oblivious hairdressers and their quiet, stubborn, traditional students runs from the hilarious to the heartbreaking." Posted Jun 2, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 97%
| Iron Island (2006) | "
The graceful film by Mohammad Rasoulof balances the residents' humdrum daily lives with magical, dreamlike moments that provide hope where hope often has no place." Posted May 26, 2006 |
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