Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Red Cliff (2009) | "
The drama tends to be pitched over the top %u2026 Before, Woo could pull off such extremes because he did it in an operatic fashion of gonzo emotion, but here it often comes off as inadvertently hokey." — culturevulture.net Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Tokyo! (2009) | "
Tokyo!, in lineage with (the yes, middling) New York Stories, however actually manages the exceedingly rare accomplishment of getting all three of its episodes right." — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| My Winnipeg (2008) | "
... no one else out there makes movies like this, and it has enough highlights that Guy Maddin fans should still seek it out." — culturevulture.net Posted Jun 9, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Love Songs (2008) | "
... writer-director Christophe Honoré ... fashions a 14-song musical about love and loss." — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 27, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| The Duchess of Langeais (2008) | "
Rivette tells the story at a length any other filmmaker would have halved." — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 2, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 66%
| The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007) | "
Les Amours d’Astrée et de Céladon" — culturevulture.net Posted Oct 17, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) | "
This year’s Palme d’Or winner, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, makes it’s U.S. debut at the New York Film Festival" — culturevulture.net Posted Oct 17, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Secret Sunshine () | "
Can a movie traumatize you in a good way?" — culturevulture.net Posted Oct 17, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) | "
Devil possesses a dramatic power akin to watching a big train wreck, but it’s an elaborate Rube Goldberg device with no real heart at its center." — culturevulture.net Posted Oct 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Out 1, Noli Me Tangere (1971) | "
What one can say after the experience is that there is nothing else quite like it in all of cinema." — culturevulture.net Posted Aug 11, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Paris, Je T'aime (2007) | "
While too fleeting in grace to be a great movie, Paris Je T'aime does however reward the hope offered with this prestigious cast and crew." — culturevulture.net Posted Apr 23, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Exterminating Angels (2007) | "
If the movie was meant to render sympathy to Brisseau, it only reinforces how monstrously repugnant he is. The audacity to suggest his complete innocence makes the whole thing seem like black comedy, only the core sentiment is not funny." — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 12, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) | "
Agree or disagree, this is a work so bold and provocative and distinctive that it demands to be seen." — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 12, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) | "
Every stone, every piece of fabric, every pushed-up bosom is fetishized to ludicrous extremes. Zhang apparently wants to dazzle the eyes with the visuals, but Curse is one of the gaudiest looking movies ever made." — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 12, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 82%
| Exiled (2007) | "
Exiled is compromised by the feeling one gets that Johnnie To has been watching too many westerns." — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 12, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| The Host (2007) | "
Boon shows that he has the film grammar of a Spielberg in how well he conveys his story cinematically... Boon will go places that Spielberg won't though." — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 12, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Inland Empire (2006) | "
It feels Lynchian to the point of self-parody." — culturevulture.net Posted Oct 28, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 96%
| Triad Election (2007) | "
Triad Election lacks the emotional punch or aesthetic dazzle to take it up a notch." — culturevulture.net Posted Oct 16, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| Azumi (2006) | "
It's a B-movie through and through and its indulgences come from loving the genre too much, not bracketing it with postmodern quotation marks." — culturevulture.net Posted Jul 27, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Russian Dolls (2006) | "
'Russian Dolls' is not an intellectually cohesive movie, but it's so much exuberant fun, it doesn't matter" — culturevulture.net Posted May 9, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| 13 Tzameti (2006) | "
Shot in black and white, '13' maintains a strong disconsolate tone, one in which the world feels barren and uncaring." — culturevulture.net Posted Apr 10, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| Battle in Heaven (2006) | "
Will one day make its mark in the film canon as the singular film experience it is" — culturevulture.net Posted Feb 17, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| King Kong (2005) | "
Every scene in the new 'King Kong' strains to be the biggest, most pulverizing, in-your-face spectacle that you've ever experienced." — culturevulture.net Posted Dec 18, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Three Times (2006) | "
Hou captures that new couple exuberance in a way few films have, and the climatic moment here is as magical as they come." — culturevulture.net Posted Oct 4, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 51%
| Manderlay (2006) | "
[Von Trier] has imbued the material with enough dramatic power and relevance that despite its many flaws, it is still essential viewing." — culturevulture.net Posted Oct 2, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| Lady Vengeance (2005) | "
The flashiest, funniest, and most baroque of the “Vengeance Trilogy.” It is also the most simpleminded and, despite that, eventually the most muddled." — culturevulture.net Posted Sep 30, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| L'Enfant (2006) | "
Does not present any convincing evidence that Bruno is either so dense or so uncaring as to be remotely capable of selling his son on a whim" — culturevulture.net Posted Sep 23, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| The Devil's Rejects (2005) | "
The movie’s violence is used to explore the ties of family, both by blood and by bonds of personal history." — culturevulture.net Posted Jul 28, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Memories of Murder (2003) | "
A great opening and...a visceral, heartbreaking ending" — culturevulture.net Posted Jul 21, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 92%
| My Summer of Love (2005) | "
Pavlikovsky ends up falsifying everything his style was working so effectively to create, and only because he ultimately chose content over style." — culturevulture.net Posted Jun 28, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Kung Fu Hustle (2005) | "
Chow's best all-around achievement, meshing a coherent story, character arcs..., and technical depth." — culturevulture.net Posted Apr 16, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Torremolinos 73 (2005) | "
Berger straddles the cartoonish and the naturalistic with mixed results." — culturevulture.net Posted Apr 15, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Oldboy (2005) | "
Works best as a thrilling ride, a genre piece, not as a movie to gain insight into the human experience" — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 24, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2005) | "
The only reason to see it is for the action. In that arena, on a scale from 1 to 10, it’s a 20.
" — culturevulture.net Posted Feb 17, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| House of Flying Daggers (2004) | "
It’s hard to take it as anything but unintended camp." — culturevulture.net Posted Dec 2, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| Bad Education (2004) | "
An hour in, everything in the movie is upended in a way that is not so much difficult to swallow as simply out of left field." — culturevulture.net Posted Nov 23, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Incredibles (2004) | "
Provides all the wonder and excitement to be wrought from the superhero genre while making fun of itself in gut-busting ways.
" — culturevulture.net Posted Nov 16, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Sideways (2004) | "
Payne has an eye for making the mundane remarkable through specificity of details" — culturevulture.net Posted Oct 20, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| The Day After Tomorrow (2004) | "
The plot contrivances on display are so silly that the theme is hard to take seriously on any rational level." — culturevulture.net Posted May 30, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Troy (2004) | "
Despite the spectacle of war with which Warner Brothers hopes to entice audiences, Troy is essentially an anti-war film." — culturevulture.net Posted May 17, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Coffee and Cigarettes (2004) | "
Has a student film quality in its conception and realization" — culturevulture.net Posted May 13, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Hellboy (2004) | "
Deadpan humor combines with inventive action and real character development" — culturevulture.net Posted Apr 4, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Control Room (2004) | "
Shows how propaganda works on both sides and how the truth is often somewhere in between.
" — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 31, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring (2004) | "
An accomplished, contemplative work rooted in the philosophy of Buddhism.
" — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 25, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Strong Shoulders (2004) | "
Isn't so much about athletics as about ... discovering a pursuit in life that makes it worth living." — culturevulture.net Posted Mar 22, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 96%
| Osama (2003) | "
Focuses more on the relentless hardships and suffering than on the characters experiencing them." — culturevulture.net Posted Jan 30, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 48%
| Secret Things (2003) | "
The initial objective with which Brisseau aligns the audience is replaced with a stark ambivalence that tremendously complicates the movie." — culturevulture.net Posted Jan 28, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 82%
| Monster (2003) | "
Jenkins’ writing lacks grace...takes a pointer to the chalkboard over the tragic fate of her victims." — culturevulture.net Posted Jan 10, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Millennium Mambo (2003) | "
Hou’s versatility with the camera has never been better utilized." — culturevulture.net Posted Dec 30, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Blue Gate Crossing (2003) | "
Yee shows inventive skill at telling the story visually." — culturevulture.net Posted Dec 21, 2003 |
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