— | Rotten 54%
| The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Jul 16, 2009 |
— | Fresh 76%
| Shall We Kiss? (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
— | Rotten 25%
| Bedtime Stories (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Dec 25, 2008 |
— | Rotten 28%
| The World Unseen (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Nov 13, 2008 |
— | Rotten 55%
| Madagascar (2005) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Nov 8, 2008 |
— | Fresh 65%
| Brick Lane (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 9%
| Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 72%
| Wanted (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 96%
| Moving Midway (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 88%
| Ballast (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 74%
| A Girl Cut in Two (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 28%
| Filth and Wisdom (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 93%
| Tell No One (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 74%
| Elegy (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 50%
| Battle in Seattle (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 83%
| Beauty in Trouble (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 80%
| I Served the King of England (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Little Children (2006) | "
Little Children is intentionally very literary, with narration that sometimes substitutes for dialogue and a symmetrical structure." — Orlando Weekly Posted Jan 4, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| Half Nelson (2006) | "
The performances are utterly natural, seemingly as offhand as Andrij Parekh's hand-held cinematography." — Orlando Weekly Posted Sep 14, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| The Lost City (2006) | "
For a film rooted in the director's own experience, The Lost City is surprisingly unilluminating." — Orlando Weekly Posted Jun 1, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 99%
| Twilight Samurai (2004) | "
Viewers who stick around will be rewarded with a complex, moving domestic drama -- and a couple of duels." — Washington Post Posted Jun 4, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| Love Object (2004) | "
The sort of clumsy undertaking that trips up everyone and everything in it." — Washington Post Posted May 28, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| The Return (2004) | "
Poetic yet efficient, The Return constructs a powerful mood without indulging in brooding, overlong scenes." — Washington Post Posted May 21, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| The Isle (2002) | "
Spring, Summer fans should only have their appreciation of that film expanded by seeing this rougher take on similar themes." — Washington Post Posted May 21, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Word Wars (2004) | "
An entertaining but somewhat creepy look at the world of competitive Scrabble." — Washington Post Posted May 14, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Divan (2004) | "
A charming and astute first-person documentary." — Washington Post Posted May 14, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Noi (2004) | "
Kari may eventually go far, but for now he's one of the less interesting inhabitants of international art cinema's disaffected-youth ghetto." — Washington Post Posted Apr 30, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Close Your Eyes (2004) | "
On their way to confront ancient evil, Strother and Losey keep tripping over timeworn cliches." — Washington Post Posted Apr 23, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 92%
| Broken Wings (2004) | "
Well-made, if rather predictable, new-age melodrama." — Washington Post Posted Apr 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| The Whole Ten Yards (2004) | "
Will go anywhere for a gag." — Washington Post Posted Apr 9, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Yves Saint Laurent: Empire Collection (2002) | "
This austere non-narrative should fascinate fashion buffs and fans of rigorous cinematic formalism, but leave everyone else fidgeting restlessly in their mass-market jeans and T-shirts." — Washington Post Posted Apr 9, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2004) | "
Provides some wry chuckles, but much of it is as dark as a Glasgow winter." — Washington Post Posted Apr 9, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| The Girl Next Door (2004) | "
Nothing in this film makes any sense, and Stuart Blumberg, David T. Wagner and Brent Goldberg's script merely gets more preposterous as it elaborates on its implausible premise." — Washington Post Posted Apr 9, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Red Trousers (2003) | "
Rather than the That's Entertainment of jumps, falls and back flips, actor-director Robin Shou's tribute to his former profession is half-baked and a little self-serving." — Washington Post Posted Apr 2, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| The Five Obstructions (2004) | "
Hardly conventional entertainment, but seeing what happens next provides much of the fun in this far-from-academic exercise." — Washington Post Posted Mar 26, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Ladykillers (2004) | "
Should give just about everyone who sees it a few laughs. But it will appeal most strongly to viewers who think Tom Hanks, who plays a thief and a potential murderer, can do no wrong." — Washington Post Posted Mar 26, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Good Bye, Lenin! (2004) | "
Beneath the family saga and easy digs at the tackiness of Western consumer culture, Becker presents a serious critique of authoritarianism and propaganda." — Washington Post Posted Mar 19, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| The Reckoning (2004) | "
Carries too heavy a burden to succeed as the trifle it really is." — Washington Post Posted Mar 12, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Havana Nights (2004) | "
A routine Hollywood high school morality play." — Washington Post Posted Feb 27, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Robot Stories (2004) | "
Slight and unsurprising." — Washington Post Posted Feb 20, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| Miracle (2004) | "
The movie effectively simulates the game's whirl, and should grab all but the most finicky hockey fans. But for moviegoers who think if you've seen one sports flick, you've seen 'em all -- well, you've definitely seen this one." — Washington Post Posted Feb 6, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| Hebrew Hammer (2003) | "
Desperation is the project's principal quality." — Washington Post Posted Jan 30, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Secret Things (2003) | "
For its first half, Secret Things is a tolerably silly lark ... Yet as Christophe's role expands -- and the soundtrack's classical flourishes become more strident -- the film's plausibility plummets." — Washington Post Posted Jan 30, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 52%
| Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004) | "
It's hard to care whether it's Tad or Pete who wins Rosalee's heart, and Luketic's direction is merely functional. Yet the film is not a chore, mostly because its leading lady makes the not-quite-plausible Rosalee consistently appealing company." — Washington Post Posted Jan 23, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| My Architect: A Son's Journey (2003) | "
This impeccably structured documentary is a fine introduction to Kahn's work and a consistently entertaining real-life mystery." — Washington Post Posted Jan 9, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| The Big Animal (2006) | "
Gently charming." — Washington Post Posted Jan 9, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| Juha (1998) | "
For true Kaurismakian austerity, the film to see is the singular Juha, which dispenses with dialogue altogether." — Washington Post Posted May 30, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Drifting Clouds (1998) | "
In addition to achieving a paradoxical balance of mirth and melancholy, Drifting Clouds is a dark, mostly interior movie with a color scheme as big as all outdoors." — Washington Post Posted May 23, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 22%
| Bulletproof Monk (2003) | "
One of those motley movies that borrows from just about everywhere." — Washington Post Posted Apr 18, 2003 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 50%
| Kiss of the Dragon (2001) | "
Kiss of the Dragon does have a sense of its own absurdity, but that doesn't prevent it from cloaking the inherently comic kung-fu genre in a seriousness so solemn that it could be French." — Washington Post Posted Jul 6, 2001 |
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