Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) | "
Donen's manipulation of spinning torsos and piston-pumping knees across Cinemascope sprawls is inventive everywhere" — CinePassion Posted Jan 3, 2010 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| Blacula (1972) | "
Vibrant funking-up of Hammer bloodsuckers" — CinePassion Posted Jan 1, 2010 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Battle of Chile (2009) | "
A monument to cine-activist commitment as well as a political thriller that would have had Costa-Gravas and Oliver Stone furiously taking notes, this epic documentary finally makes its triumphant DVD debut." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 29, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| N/A | The Battle of Chile (2009) | "
A present-tense record of nation-splitting turmoil, Patricio Guzmán's monumental documentary The Battle of Chile remains a landmark of activist cinema." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 29, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 78%
| The Knack...And How to Get It (1965) | "
Lester's kooky-fey take on British alienation makes the Carry On movies look like Losey's The Servant" — CinePassion Posted Dec 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Clash of the Titans (1981) | "
A poignant eulogy to Harryhausen's handcrafted illusionism in a decade of increasingly synthetic effects" — CinePassion Posted Dec 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Strange Cargo (1940) | "
Despite the pious pitfalls it sets for itself, it's a strikingly open film" — CinePassion Posted Dec 24, 2009 |
N/A | Fresh 65%
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) | "
From producers' scissors to on-set disasters, Terry Gilliam collects troubled productions the way some people collect stamps." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 65%
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) | "
Crammed with shifting CGI canvases and frenetic revues right out of Monty Python, Imaginarium is a galumphing bacchanal of illusionist clutter that's frequently unwieldy but rarely less than deeply felt." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 22, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Viva Maria (1965) | "
Suggests David Lean on a steady diet of chiclets" — CinePassion Posted Dec 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Five Graves to Cairo (1943) | "
Wilder and Charles Brackett keep the suspense consistently wry and barbed" — CinePassion Posted Dec 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Fantastic Planet (1973) | "
A patchwork of cutouts from Soviet tech and science magazines pinned into druggy tableaux, with a genuine sense of placid terror to give teeth to its planar allegories" — CinePassion Posted Dec 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Easy Virtue (1927) | "
An overlooked film despite the abundance of invention" — CinePassion Posted Dec 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Good Sam (1948) | "
McCarey understands it as a translucent joke and gives it a spacious treatment" — CinePassion Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | The James Dean Story (1957) | "
The movie gropes for pat answers, but Altman already feels the value of human mysteries" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Death in the Garden (1956) | "
The film is less about eroding beliefs than acknowledging the fragility of their certainty" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Dead and Buried (1981) | "
Director Gary Sherman stills the camera only long enough to compose deep-focus Gothic" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) | "
Robert Wise looks at the Atomic Age and wonders: 'What would Jesus do?'" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) | "
The premise lends itself to the inspired pandemonium of a Max Ernst" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| The Day of the Triffids (1963) | "
Botanical dread" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Daughters of Darkness (1971) | "
Makes decadence drolly enchanted" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Dark Passage (1947) | "
Delmer Daves' paramount noir dreamscape" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Dark Habits (1984) | "
Possibly the first work to hint at the tender sadness of [Almodóvar's]later phase" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | These Are The Damned (1963) | "
'The age of senseless violence,' by Joseph Losey" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Daisy Miller (1974) | "
A slender recital, yet more affecting than the entire Merchant-Ivory canon" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| The Box (2009) | "
The most disturbing thing here is the yellow, oval-patterned 1970s wallpaper" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
The razzle-dazzle is just about seamless, but warmth is sacrificed along the way" — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
The most watered-down episode of M*A*S*H* looks like a Joseph Heller classic by comparison" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
Heartfelt, never less than pretty, and occasionally effulgent" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
Kristen Stewart does herself no favors by following her performance in Adventureland with this mope-a-palooza retread" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 92%
| Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) | "
Sledgehammer hogwash of the shrillest kind" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| 2012 (2009) | "
Emmerich deals in crayon-kit characterizations and shots of famous monuments crumbling into dust" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| The Road (2009) | "
Filmed as if dictated by Jehovah but ultimately boasting only a fraction of the artistic value of, say, Terminator: Salvation" — CinePassion Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 38%
| My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009) | "
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is more controlled in its absurdism than Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, but it is easily the lesser work." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Macbeth (1971) | "
Polanski's worldview of brutish power-plays couldn't be more at home in Shakespeare's medieval times" — CinePassion Posted Dec 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Flying Down to Rio (1933) | "
A quintessential piece of Thirties musical kookiness right out of Man Ray" — CinePassion Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Easy Rider (1969) | "
Despite it all, it's a valuable document of hepcat actors taking snapshots of America circa 1969" — CinePassion Posted Dec 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 89%
| Up in the Air (2009) | "
Nobody gets offended, nothing gets questioned, the crowd goes home properly cheered." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Thin Man (1934) | "
A style of pure ebullience" — CinePassion Posted Nov 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Sleeper (1973) | "
Allen's investigation of a "cosmic screwing" registers Kubrickian sci-fi" — CinePassion Posted Nov 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| The Honeymoon Killers (1970) | "
Kastle is a born filmmaker with an uncanny feeling for the startling close-up and the excruciating long-take" — CinePassion Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Oedipus Rex (1967) | "
Fervid chanting and handheld tracking shots inform Pasolini's jangling, fabulously blunt pageant, filled to the brim with mysterious splendor" — CinePassion Posted Nov 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Ivan's Childhood (1962) | "
The plot is straight out of the grayish, state-approved, thesis-tidy Ballad of a Soldier bin, but the landscapes and visions are Andrei Tarkovsky's and nobody else's" — CinePassion Posted Nov 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Vixen (1968) | "
A furiously inspired anthology of lusty American fixations" — CinePassion Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Cyclist (1989) | "
Makhmalbaf builds the race towards a crowd-pleasing climax, but the film's concluding freeze-frame entraps rather than cheerleads his underdog" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) | "
Further developments of Hammer Studios as a spook-house Ealing" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Cross of Iron (1977) | "
War is hell, but for Peckinpah it's also the sadist's Olympian joke" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Crimes of the Future (1970) | "
A great analytical joke by David Cronenberg, who has already the impeccable deadpan style to tell it" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Crime and Punishment (1935) | "
Dostoyevskian? No, no -- Sternbergian!" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Cria Cuervos (1977) | "
Rejection of "childhood innocence"" — CinePassion Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
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