— | Rotten 43%
| From the Earth to the Moon (1958) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 96%
| Apollo 13 (1995) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Bewitched (2005) | "
What the hell is Will Ferrell doing to his career?" — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) | "
Lucas is a brilliant technician but a poor philosopher, and his lurchingly thought-out rendering of futuristic politics prevents the entire series from achieving the greatness to which it aspires." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
— | Rotten 41%
| Where The Truth Lies (2005) |
Click here to read article — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
— | Rotten 35%
| Imaginary Heroes (2004) |
Click here to read article — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
— | Fresh 83%
| Rize (2005) |
Click here to read article — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
— | Rotten 29%
| Be Cool (2005) |
Click here to read article — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
— | Fresh 82%
| Walk the Line (2005) |
Click here to read article — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
— | Fresh 97%
| Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) |
Click here to read article — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
— | Fresh 89%
| Kung Fu Hustle (2005) |
Click here to read article — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
— | Rotten 58%
| Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) |
Click here to read article — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| War of the Worlds (2005) | "
Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds is huge and scary, moving and funny—another capper to a career that seems like an unending succession of captivations." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
— | Fresh 88%
| Caché (2005) |
Click here to read article — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 45%
| Constantine (2005) | "
Reeves, meanwhile, has confidently entered his self-parodic period." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
— | Fresh 85%
| Gunner Palace (2005) |
Click here to read article — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
— | Rotten 43%
| Palindromes (2005) |
Click here to read article — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| Melinda and Melinda (2005) | "
Neither version of Melinda, despite Mitchell’s game try at making them distinctive beyond their different hairdos, is funny or tragic enough to fully engage us; there’s no opportunity for an audience to be moved." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
— | Fresh 80%
| The President's Last Bang (2005) |
Click here to read article — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 85%
| Batman Begins (2005) | "
A nonstarter." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| The Interpreter (2005) | "
Penn is terrific in his low-key doggedness." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Sin City (2005) | "
If Raymond Chandler and Daffy Duck could have produced a child, Sin City would be their baby." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Serenity (2005) | "
Go out and see Joss Whedon’s witty whizbang of an action movie, or we will kill a kitten." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| A History of Violence (2005) | "
A remarkably convincing examination of heroism, hero worship, and the seductive allure of villainy." — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
— | Fresh 83%
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
Click here to read article — New York Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Lady Vengeance (2005) | "
South Korean director Park Chan-wook's tremendous conclusion to his Vengeance trilogy is a modern classic." — New York Magazine Posted May 5, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Broken Flowers (2005) | "
Murray manages, almost impossibly, to come up with still another rich variation on his Depleted Man persona, and his performance is at once enormously generous and fiercely, concisely witty." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Paths of Glory (1957) | "
Paths of Glory is all about that greatest of all movie subjects: power." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Pride and Prejudice (2005) | "
Keira’s cat-smile suggests such supernal all-knowingness that, with Austen’s adapted dialogue (via Deborah Moggach) tripping off her tongue, she comes off as an eighteenth-century Maureen Dowd." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Syriana (2005) | "
As he did in Traffic, Gaghan intertwines his disparate subplots with impeccable pacing -- his screenplay is a model of how to arrange scenes so that each one ends leaving you wanting to know more." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Brokeback Mountain (2005) | "
Ang Lee conveys maddening delirium rendered in the way one man’s eyes gaze at another’s, and then look away, and the looking-away amounts to the murder of two souls as surely as if they’d drawn guns and hit each other in the heart." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Good Night. And, Good Luck (2005) | "
... it telescopes -- with no loss of accuracy -- Murrow's last few fifties hurrahs as the hardest diamond in Bill Paley's 'Tiffany network.'" — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) | "
The film is filled with positive messages ..." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| The Constant Gardener (2005) | "
... Ralph Fiennes gives one of the year’s subtlest, yet most exciting, screen performances ..." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Thumbsucker (2005) | "
Unlike so many movies in which a character changes in order to propel the plot forward, this one stops to follow up on the consequences of those changes." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Crash (2005) | "
It’s smart, therefore, that Haggis has written such novel, precisely observed, often unpleasant characters as the ones Bullock, Dillon, and Cheadle inhabit." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Howl's Moving Castle (2005) | "
There is giggling, belly-laughing, and gasping to be done watching Howl's Moving Castle." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| The Aristocrats (2005) | "
... The Aristocrats proves that sometimes you don’t have to be a great filmmaker to make a great documentary." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Paradise Now (2005) | "
... remarkable ..." — New York Magazine Posted Dec 9, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| Shopgirl (2005) | "
A slim, charming, romantic story, full of intentionally mild humor about strong themes -- passion, commitment, loneliness." — New York Magazine Posted Nov 18, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Tell Them Who You Are (2005) | "
[A] tremendously moving documentary." — New York Magazine Posted Oct 13, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Inside Deep Throat (2005) | "
[A] valuable document of a cultural shift." — New York Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Coach Carter (2005) | "
Saved by bursts of energy and inventiveness." — New York Magazine Posted Jul 5, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) | "
Fishburne even manages to make crass violence witty." — New York Magazine Posted Jul 5, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 82%
| Finding Neverland (2004) | "
If it didn’t have Johnny Depp as its star, Finding Neverland would barely pass muster as an average PBS Masterpiece Theatre entry." — New York Magazine Posted Feb 13, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Incredibles (2004) | "
The sleek beauty, crafty wit, family warmth, and impeccable slapstick suffusing The Incredibles immediately vaults it to a new, higher level of entertainment." — New York Magazine Posted Nov 3, 2004 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 61%
| Tuck Everlasting (2002) | "
Any movie that signals the menace of a potential lynching by zooming its camera through the loop of a gallows noose cannot claim subtlety, but director Jay Russell never lets the swirling emotions of Tuck become too drippy." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Oct 17, 2002 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 47%
| The Banger Sisters (2002) | "
Dolman's directorial debut betrays his stars." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Sep 19, 2002 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Season 1 (1997) |
Click here to read article — Entertainment Weekly Posted Dec 22, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| Molly (1999) | Bizarrely inept. — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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