Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
Mike Judge doesn't sugarcoat his characters as anything more than slightly contemptible fratboys, a quality that makes his brand of comedy alternately liberating and frustrating." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 84%
| The September Issue (2009) | "
For the past year or so, Wintour's been on the media warpath to win back her image, and Cutler seems happy to oblige." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 56%
| Casi Divas (2009) | "
Full of enthusiasm but short on wit or self-awareness, Casi Divas is pretty weak as satire." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 43%
| Fragments (2009) | "
Less a movie than a sociology thesis." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 59%
| Eleven Minutes (2009) | "
A movie for Project Runway obsessives only." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 14, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 14%
| The Love Guru (2008) | "
Under a new name and equally aggressive ethnic branding, Austin Powers is alive again." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 19, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 98%
| Surfwise (2008) | "
Surfwise tries to separate itself from the fray of political documentaries by not taking itself too seriously." — Slant Magazine Posted May 9, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 90%
| Refusenik (2008) | "
Using title cards, interviews, and endless archival footage, Bialis is able to tie a very specific history to the course of 20th century upheaval." — Slant Magazine Posted May 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Red Balloon (1955) | "
Since Janus's barebones release of The Red Ballon comes with the 34-minute film and nothing more, highbrow parents might have to find other ways to entertain their kids for the day. Like, you know, Dora the Explorer." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 26, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 100%
| The Red Balloon (1955) | "
The story of a boy and his toy, The Red Balloon is widely praised for its narrative and visual "purity," but not enough is said about the movie's delightful manipulation." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 26, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 87%
| Jellyfish (2008) | "
Jellyfish exists in a no man's land, adrift in vague, waterlogged abstractions on which the filmmakers can hang their characters' collective baggage." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 25, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 89%
| Fighting for Life (2008) | "
Though it superficially deals with how military doctors work during a long and unpopular war, Terry Sanders's film more closely disentangles a specialized establishment in its own right." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 7, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 58%
| Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008) | "
As far as fable imports go, Bab'Aziz is a step up from the Disney-grade moralism of Milarepa, but it's even less memorable." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 8, 2008 |
Rotten .5/4
| Fresh 60%
| Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness (2007) | "
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness is a movie every bit as cumbersome and trying as its title." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 2, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 87%
| Liberty Kid (2007) | "
Unanswered questions about Derrick's kids and Spanish-speaking mother abound, and their all-too-infrequent interactions point to a hard-knuckled realism about post-9/11 New York that begs to be seen." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 10, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 88%
| Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004) | "
The most dispassionate account of the Holocaust in the last 20 years." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 22, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 25%
| Flakes (2007) | "
One look at Aaron Stanford's chain-smoking, long-haired musician in a Hanes t-shirt and you know Flakes wants so badly to be hip." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 17, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 64%
| Naked Boys Singing (2007) | "
Naked Boys Singing! is the biggest waste of d**k since Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 12, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| N/A | My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures (2007) | "
True to its title, My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures sees the world through its subject's childlike eyes." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 23, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 65%
| The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) | "
The Jane Austen Book Club is pitched as The First Wives Club for coffeehouse intellectuals." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 16, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 37%
| Milarepa (2007) | "
Myths are more popular in the movies than ever, but unlike the Christian extravaganza of The Chronicles of Narnia, Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint won't be showing up on your kid's Netflix list." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 1, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 59%
| Dans Paris (2007) | "
Honoré's rambunctious filmmaking process is born truly in the moment." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 10, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 93%
| The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) | "
Greengrass's latest plops on the screen with lots of hi-fi energy but, strangely, very little feeling." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 31, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 93%
| Blame it on Fidel (2006) | "
Gavras uses Anna's precocious reason to tackle a generation's idealism head-on." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 27, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 47%
| Laura Smiles (2007) | "
Laura Smiles teaches us that you can't escape misery, least of all in Jersey." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 27, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 59%
| Resurrecting the Champ (2007) | "
Rescurrecting the Champ is a snooze." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 25, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 72%
| Tekkon Kinkreet (2007) | "
The movie is a collection of disparate anime parts that never really comes together." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 5, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 35%
| Drama/Mex (2007) | "
At its heart, Drama/Mex is a story of people struggling to fulfill their roles, and the camera's forceful gaze is their confessional box." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 28, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 41%
| Snake Eyes (1998) | "
Snake Eyes is about multiple perceptions of one major event, their relationship to each other and to the audience." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 23, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 24%
| Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) | "
De Palma's characterizations may not have the subtle tongue-in-cheek wit of Tom Wolfe, but his version of the story is both more comic and angrier for it." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 10, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Pretty in Pink (1986) | "
From Molly Ringwald's pretty-in-pink mouth to the political banter of Jon Stewart's Daily Show, Jon Hughes's frustrated sarcasm branded a generation.
" — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 9, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 79%
| Pretty in Pink (1986) | "
John Hughes was born in 1950 but connected deeply with the next generation's cultural brooding." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 9, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Romancing the Stone (1984) | "
His name is Jack T. Colton. What's the "T" stand for? "Trustworthy."" — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 1, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 85%
| Romancing the Stone (1984) | "
The message is clear: Love and protection comes with a white face and a big, black gun. His name is Michael Douglas." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 1, 2006 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 89%
| Blow Out (1981) | "
Blow Out is not known as one of Brian De Palma's horror movies, but of all his films, it's the one that feels most like a nightmare." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 26, 2006 |
Rotten .5/4
| Rotten 4%
| Material Girls (2006) | "
You might remember it from May when it starred Lindsay Lohan and was called Just My Luck." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 19, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 80%
| Hamilton (2006) | "
Porterfield finds the rhythms of everyday life well enough, but he rarely grasps the key moments that make them art." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 11, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 75%
| The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover (2006) | "
Tough-as-nails and with a heavy British accent, director Paul Yule sometimes resembles a more famous BBC documentarian: Nick Broomfield." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 26, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| N/A | Queer Duck: The Movie (2006) | "
Reiss takes advantage of the contemporary rift between '70s-born freewheeling gay lifestyle and modern gay domesticity." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 16, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| N/A | Queer Duck: The Movie (2006) | "
"If you're a sissy, or just a big prissy, don't get pissy, missy. It's Gay Day at Happy Land!"" — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 16, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 40%
| The Color of Olives (2006) | "
Munich this is not." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 10, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Delicatessen (1991) | "
With Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro shoot for a Terry Gilliam-esque grotesque beauty and only hit grime.
" — Slant Magazine Posted May 21, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 86%
| Delicatessen (1991) | "
Delicatessen uses its aggressive stylization and capricious visual contraptions as a form of imprisonment." — Slant Magazine Posted May 21, 2006 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 13%
| Just My Luck (2006) | "
The shallowness of female pop culture that Holofcener courageously tears down is just the thing Just My Luck successfully re-perpetuate." — Slant Magazine Posted May 17, 2006 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 24%
| Phat Girlz (2006) | "
God bless her soul, Mo'Nique even stays believable as the story requires her to finally fall apart and hit a new self-hating low." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 10, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 6%
| Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector (2006) | "
Shoddy screenwriting devices simply pass the time for Whitney to sling hillbilly-isms at admirers of his stand-up comedy." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 24, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 27%
| Madea's Family Reunion (2006) | "
"Trapped in the closet" fittingly describes Tyler Perry's lurid melodrama, in which characters repeatedly stumble onto others' dark secrets during living room chats." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 26, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 6%
| Date Movie (2006) | "
The whole thing unravels like a long night of Trivial Pursuit." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 20, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 16%
| Grandma's Boy (2006) | "
Goossen misuses recognizable names for dubious cameos and pushes eccentric side characters to uncomfortable parody." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 8, 2006 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 39%
| The Ringer (2005) | "
Do yourself a favor and rent a very campy Radio instead." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 26, 2005 |
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