— | N/A | Ai-Fak (2004) |
Click here to read article Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Sorority Row (2009) | "
An average slasher pic that meanders indecisively between gore and gags." Posted Sep 9, 2009 |
— | Fresh 60%
| The Overture (2005) |
Click here to read article Posted Jul 16, 2009 |
— | N/A | Midnight My Love (2005) |
Click here to read article Posted May 7, 2009 |
— | N/A | The Locals (2003) |
Click here to read article Posted Apr 16, 2009 |
— | Rotten 42%
| Shutter (2004) |
Click here to read article Posted Apr 15, 2009 |
— | N/A | Invisible Waves (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
— | Fresh 100%
| In My Father's Den (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
— | N/A | AFR (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
— | Rotten 57%
| Thunderstruck (2004) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 13%
| Dragonball: Evolution (2009) | "
Dragonball Evolution doesn't take itself too seriously, but avoids campiness." Posted Mar 26, 2009 |
— | Fresh 77%
| Music From the Inside Out (2004) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 26, 2009 |
— | N/A | Deck Dogz (2005) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 26, 2009 |
— | Fresh 86%
| 4:30 (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 26, 2009 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Wool 100% (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 26, 2009 |
— | N/A | Beyond the Years (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 5, 2009 |
— | N/A | Beyond Our Ken (2005) |
Click here to read article Posted Nov 4, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Chocolate (2009) | "
A less tasty martial-arts actioner featuring an autistic kickboxing queen energized by confectionery." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Tokyo Gore Police (2008) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Black Balloon (2008) | "
Collette acts as an anchor for the ensemble, but the young leads credibly hold their own onscreen." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 80%
| Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 76%
| Games of Love and Chance (2005) |
Click here to read article Posted Aug 7, 2008 |
— | Rotten 37%
| Milarepa (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Jul 24, 2008 |
— | N/A | The Heavenly Kings (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted Jul 22, 2008 |
— | Fresh 77%
| I Have Never Forgotten You (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Jun 26, 2008 |
— | N/A | Citizen Dog (2004) |
Click here to read article Posted Jun 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Cactus (2008) | "
Jasmine Yuen-Carrucan ("Kill Bill," "Mongol") leapfrogs into the director's chair with confidence; but her flawed, lightweight script betrays inexperience behind a keyboard." Posted May 6, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Global Haywire (2008) | "
Ambitious pic occasionally creaks under the weight of strained metaphors, but intelligent talking heads and engagingly shambolic cartoons conquer unwieldy narrative and sporadic glibness." Posted Apr 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| The Machine Girl (2007) | "
Shameless gore, gallows humor and guilty pleasures are the byproducts of a mechanical plot and impressive helming." Posted Feb 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Kabei: Our Mother (2009) | "
Shows the Shochiku journeyman's prowess in hitting the right buttons to move Japanese auds." Posted Feb 14, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Mermaid (2008) | "
Has abundant charm and digital trickery in the Amelie mold, but also a winning personality all its own." Posted Jan 30, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| Black Water (2007) | "
A lack of incisive action takes the teeth out of croc pic...offering too few scares and insufficient tension for audiences to take the bait." Posted Jan 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Gabriel (2007) | "
This derivative, low-budget HD effort will be hellish for anyone outside its targeted youth audience." Posted Nov 30, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| Midnight Eagle (2007) | "
The film's brisk pacing can't hide the fuzzy logic of the tenuously structured, convoluted script." Posted Oct 29, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | September (2007) | "
Script skillfully draws together its disparate elements and is powerful enough to transcend the film's considerable limitations." Posted Sep 17, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| December Boys (2007) | "
Visually well-mounted but narratively muddled." Posted Sep 13, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| The Duchess of Langeais (2008) | "
Slowly but expertly depicts the jousting courtship of an ill-fated love affair between a Parisian socialite and a Napoleonic war hero." Posted Jul 14, 2007 |
— | N/A | And Along Come Tourists (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Jun 13, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Romulus, My Father (2008) | "
Helming bow by Oz thesp Richard Roxburgh predictably leaves actors plenty of room, but the literary tone and episodic structure rob the pic of dramatic momentum." Posted Jun 11, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Mogari no Mori (2007) | "
Yarn about a young carer who follows an elderly patient into the forest, strives for the mythic, but ambition is undercut by its conveniently underarticulated affectations." Posted May 29, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Boarding Gate (2007) | "
Thrills and drama are left standing on the tarmac in Boarding Gate, a limp, sleazy inanity." Posted May 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | Et Toi, T'Es Sur Qui? (2007) | "
Pic has a John Hughes sensibility with a Euro sexual frankness that Ferris Bueller could only dream about." Posted May 24, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | Kuaile Gongchang (2007) | "
Making Herman Yau's recent dreadful Hong Kong film on a similar subject, Whispers and Moans look like a narrative masterpiece by comparison, this pic borders on the inept." Posted May 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Funuke domo, kanashimi no ai wo misero (2007) | "
Sibling rivalry is the source of violence and creativity in amusing Japanese dramedy Funuke." Posted May 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Import/Export (2009) | "
Miserable but masterful." Posted May 23, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | Ploy (2008) | "
Jealousy erupts quickly but steamy sex and dull narrative move at a glacial pace in Thai somnambulistic meller Ploy." Posted May 23, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| Young Yakuza (2007) | "
A wayward Japanese youth's apprenticeship with the Nipponese mafia provides an intriguing premise but little substance in French docu Young Yakuza." Posted May 20, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | Garage (2008) | "
Strained humor gives way to maudlin melodrama in dull Irish pic Garage." Posted May 20, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | Magnus (2007) | "
This astounding debut from 26-year-old helmer-scripter Kadri Kousaar is well-mounted and occasionally visually innovative." Posted May 20, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Memories of Tomorrow (2006) | "
An outstanding perf and a methodically constructed script about the early onset of Alzheimer's disease makes Japanese meller Memories of Tomorrow an emotionally gripping experience." Posted May 19, 2007 |
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