Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| American Violet (2009) | "
Based on the true story of a racist raid in rural Texas during the 2000 Presidential election, American Violet suffers from a routine script and flat direction." Posted Apr 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Under the Sea 3D (2009) | "
Exotic, eye-opening 3D underwater journey to an octopus' garden in the shade." Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008) | "
The special effectiveness of women is the theme of director Gini Reticker's film, but there is a remarkable lack of moralizing and grandstanding here." Posted Nov 7, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007) | "
A Chinese father visiting his Americanized daughter in Washington finds communication difficult, but the film offers rewards for the patient." Posted Oct 14, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 2%
| Disaster Movie (2008) | "
The "jokes" are limp and pathetic or stillborn, timing is ignored, performances are a not-so-giddy mug-fest. Audiences are left wondering when the freshman cast is going to learn the rudiments of performing." Posted Oct 13, 2008 |
Rotten B-
| Fresh 80%
| Fraude: Mexico 2006 (2008) | "
This heartfelt but one-sided look at the narrowly contested 2006 Mexican presidential election is technically sloppy but eerily reminiscent of the 2004 American presidential election." Posted Oct 13, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 34%
| Miracle at St. Anna (2008) | "
Brilliant homage to the Buffalo Soldiers during World War II may be Spike Lee's most powerful film." Posted Oct 8, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Retrieval (2006) | "
What gives Retrieval its unique drive and power is the exceedingly accomplished cast." Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 52%
| Stealing America: Vote By Vote (2008) | "
Stealing America: Vote by Vote does for American democracy what An Inconvenient Truth did for global warming." Posted Aug 1, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Quid Pro Quo (2008) | "
Brooks has no idea how to pace his irritatingly giddy script, and the film feels overlong at 82 minutes." Posted Jun 13, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| Beyond the Call (2008) | "
A frustrating and frequently monotonous account, a public-relations presentation that only occasionally reveals the hits (or misses) of their missions." Posted Apr 15, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 87%
| Liberty Kid (2007) | "
For all its good intentions, Liberty Kid ultimately disappoints." Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Quantum Hoops (2007) | "
An unpretentious but goodhearted tale of exceptional intellectuals surviving a state of perpetual frustration." Posted Nov 5, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) | "
Bier is skilled at exploring the inner lives of her characters, but the editing by Pernille Bech Christensen and Bruce Cannon is more precious than revealing." Posted Oct 18, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Gone Baby Gone (2007) | "
A thinking man's crime film, whose deeply etched characters and brilliant plotting have a near-Shakespearean power." Posted Oct 18, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 37%
| Reservation Road (2007) | "
All performances are first-rate, particularly those of Ruffalo and Phoenix." Posted Oct 18, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 26%
| The Final Season (2007) | "
Has nostalgic charms and heartfelt victories." Posted Oct 12, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Trade (2007) | "
In addition to one-dimensional characters, the plot is unconvincing, with contrivance heaped upon contrivance." Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Deep Water (2007) | "
In a sense, the subject of this film contributed a good deal of material to his cinematic biography, material that is gut-wrenchingly intimate and revelatory." Posted Aug 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | Egoïste: Lotti Latrous (2007) | "
[Anspichler's] reliance on mostly interior scenes, dark and haunting, projects a mood of constant horrors suffered in secret by the innocent." Posted Jun 4, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 12%
| The Salon (2005) | "
Talks its way to a tedious, predictable conclusion that offers more yawns than laughs." Posted May 14, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| Severance (2007) | "
If anyone involved in this sloppy, inexplicable slasher flick had a notion of what they were doing or why, they've kept it to themselves." Posted Apr 20, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| G.I. Jesus (2006) | "
Writer-director Carl Colpaert brushes past the most interesting aspect of his own film." Posted Apr 12, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| The Game of Their Lives (2005) | "
the narrative and dialogue club us over the head in an effort to make 21st-century viewers understand why the victory of America's team over England was of such monumental importance." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Saint Ralph (2005) | "
What writer-director Michael McGowan has pulled off is a bit of a miracle." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Alice et Martin (1998) | "
An excellent cast goes far to redeem >Alice and Martin." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Winter Solstice (2005) | "
Audiences may not get too excited about devastated people who conduct their social lives at the local Dairy Queen." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 26%
| Copying Beethoven (2006) | "
Holland's impeccable taste, along with Caroline Amies' superb production design, give this unlikely feminist polemic as much dignity and grace as any historical film could muster." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| Nightmare Man (2007) | "
The plot is derivative, the dialogue cumbersome and cliché-ridden." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Scoop (2006) | "
The plot fizzles even as the jokes sizzle." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 46%
| The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) | "
It is the harbinger of great films to come from an exceptional screenwriter and director." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| Fear X (2003) | "
What happens afterwards, in Refn and the late Hubert Selby, Jr.'s can't-resist-obscurity-and-ambiguity screenplay will disappoint most filmgoers." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Rain (2002) | "
First-time writer-director Christine Jeffs captures the destruction of a family with a blunt accuracy that never precludes a gift for the occasionally lyrical moment." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Nobody Knows (2005) | "
Those who can tolerate slower rhythms will appreciate Kore-eda's patient approach. And all will admire his handling of the children." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Crank (2006) | "
Ranks among the most mindless action films ever made, but scores as a helluva video game." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 51%
| The Sea (2003) | "
Though there are ugly events galore, there is not an ugly frame in this entire masterpiece of a soap opera by the sea." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| The Dogwalker (2006) | "
Modest but compelling tale of a victimized woman looking for a life free of pain and abuse." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Kontroll (2005) | "
Even though we spend the entire film underground, Hungary has never looked more buoyant." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) | "
A clever screenwriter and inspired director, July takes us places no other filmmaker has ever visited." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 32%
| Pretty Persuasion (2005) | "
The film is as disturbing as it is amusing, reveling in the hypocrisy of its hopelessly dysfunctional world." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Daddy's Little Girls (2007) | "
The action bogs down in a torrent of clichés." Posted Feb 20, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 19%
| The Hitcher (2007) | "
This is not a thinking-man's thriller, but it has the shock appeal of a severed head on a davenport." Posted Jan 22, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Off the Black (2006) | "
Although Nolte gives a thoroughly masterful performance, one great actor is never enough. Film, like baseball, is a team sport." Posted Dec 8, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 31%
| Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) | "
Kidman's performance is her best to date." Posted Dec 1, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| A Very Long Engagement (2004) | "
As ugly as the war sequences are, DP Bruno Delbonnel's lens is equally adept at capturing the life-affirming glory of France in all its lush beauty, while Aline Bonetto's production design is both remarkably original and historically authentic." Posted Dec 8, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Saw (2004) | "
The failure is in the execution, and as script, direction and even make-up are abysmal, it is very difficult to believe a moment of Saw." Posted Oct 30, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| I Am David (2004) | "
An unconvincing fairy tale that masquerades as an earnest plea for freedom." Posted Sep 18, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| Reconstruction (2004) | "
Offers not much more than a snazzy-looking but ultimately empty experiment." Posted Sep 14, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 22%
| Little Black Book (2004) | "
Both psychologically revealing and richly comic." Posted Aug 8, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Intimate Strangers (2004) | "
It is without doubt the ideal film for sophisticated audiences who desperately need cinematic relief from graphic sex scenes, car chases and carefully choreographed explosions." Posted Aug 8, 2004 |
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