Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 15%
| Dark Streets (2008) | Dark Streets has atmosphere coming out its ears, but not much going on between them. — New York Times Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Herbert (2008) | "
This is, rather incredibly, Mr. Mukhopadhyay's first film, and it exhibits the passionate, more-is-more abandon of an artist bursting with welcome (if exhausting) enthusiasm onto the scene." — New York Times Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 82%
| In the City of Sylvia (2008) | If nothing else, Mr. Guerin has neatly captured the sweet, erotic alienation of being a single man at his leisure in a foreign town, dazzled by the passing procession of local beauties. — New York Times Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 38%
| Let Them Chirp Awhile (2008) | This sort of thing was indulgent enough the first time around; transplanted to the mumblecore milieu, it's intolerable. — New York Times Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 55%
| Special (2008) | Ultimately it adds little to our understanding of the curious return of the superhero as our paradigmatic pop archetype. — New York Times Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 50%
| The Beautiful Truth (2008) | The Beautiful Truth is a documentary about contemporary health hazards and alternative treatments. — New York Times Posted Nov 14, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Dinner With the President: A Nation's Journey (2008) | "
In Dinner With the President the filmmakers go in search of nothing less than the meaning of democracy in Pakistan." — New York Times Posted Nov 13, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 34%
| Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) | "
Darren Lynn Bousman, the director of several Saw sequels, has devised an excruciating new torture with Repo! The Genetic Opera." — New York Times Posted Nov 7, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 35%
| Otto; Or, Up with Dead People (2008) | "
One of the more disciplined entries in the LaBruce oeuvre, Otto is sexy and silly in just the right proportions, a cult item with a real heart." — New York Times Posted Nov 7, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback (2008) | "
Monks: The Transatlantic Feedback, an ambitious but unfocused documentary, bids to immortalize this short-lived if influential group." — New York Times Posted Oct 31, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 67%
| First Basket (2008) | The First Basket, a functional (if narrowly interesting) history lesson by the filmmaker David Vyorst, recollects the rich history of Jewish participation in basketball. — New York Times Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 15%
| Saw V (2008) | "
The latest and least of the Saw films is just plain boring and even a little tame -- albeit by the standards of a genre that helped bring the phrase "torture porn" into the lexicon." — New York Times Posted Oct 27, 2008 |
Fresh 2/5
| Rotten 17%
| The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror (2008) | "
An indecisive mix of tepid camp and gory gross-out, "The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror" doesn't go far enough in either direction." — New York Times Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 61%
| Universe of Keith Haring (2008) | "
Keith Haring was not a great artist. He might not even have been a very good one. But he was the right person in the right place at the right time." — New York Times Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
— | Fresh 81%
| Hellboy (2004) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Mistress (1992) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 63%
| The X-Files: Fight the Future (1998) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 90%
| Transsiberian (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 11%
| Hell Ride (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 85%
| Azur and Asmar - The Princes' Quest (2006) | Despite a stiffness of movement that suggests an upscale take on the cutout animation of “South Park,” the movie has a terrific flair for arabesque patterning, a gemlike luminosity of surface and a handsome, classical cast of mind. — New York Times Posted Oct 17, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 20%
| The Elephant King (2008) | "
There is in fact an elephant in The Elephant King, but his keepers are far from royal." — New York Times Posted Oct 17, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 35%
| Tru Loved (2008) | Does the world need yet another peppy gay self-esteem indie like Tru Loved? Probably not, though the writer and director Stewart Wade pulls this one off with heart. — New York Times Posted Oct 17, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 83%
| Nights and Weekends (2008) | Night and Weekends simultaneously plays like a critique of the mumblecore ethos and an especially obnoxious example of its whimsical tics and insouciant solipsism. — New York Times Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 12%
| An American Carol (2008) | Cheap shots and mean spirits abound, as do celebrity cameos. But its the laziness of the writing that most offends. — New York Times Posted Oct 6, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 41%
| Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008) | "
Beverly Hills Chihuahua approaches but never quite achieves a truly spectacular level of absurdity." — New York Times Posted Oct 3, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| N/A | Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (2008) | "
A tender, fascinating documentary by Matt Wolf, will delight the cult and instantly convert new members." — New York Times Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 63%
| The Man from London (2008) | "
The Man From London, directed by Bela Tarr, is an outrageously stylized, conceptually demanding film." — New York Times Posted Sep 22, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 60%
| All of Us (2008) | "
This powerful, conceptually sure film is relevant beyond the concerns of the moment as both a model of documentary method and compassionate social filmmaking." — New York Times Posted Sep 19, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007) | A Thousand Years of Good Prayers is a gentle, pleasantly unrushed piece of moviemaking. — New York Times Posted Sep 19, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema (2008) | "
Unavoidably, an insidery affair. But even those who have never talked mise-en-scene...will be intrigued by this affectionate look at a legendary cinephile and prime mover of the movies." — New York Times Posted Sep 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Secrecy (2008) | "
If the movie follows no single thread of inquiry, nor sustains any argument or research in depth, it nevertheless explores some chilling corridors of the clandestine." — New York Times Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 60%
| Loins of Punjab Presents (2008) | "
Joins show-time antics to sociocultural commentary without reducing its characters, colorful as they are, to cartoons." — New York Times Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 29%
| The Little Red Truck (2008) | If it sounds like the cutest thing in the history of cuteness, that's because it is. — New York Times Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 9%
| Bangkok Dangerous (2008) | Directed by the Pang brothers (Danny and Oxide), Bangkok Dangerous is a halfhearted remake of their 1999 picture of the same name. — New York Times Posted Sep 8, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 66%
| Ping Pong Playa (2007) | There's a deeper, touching acknowledgment of braggadocio as persona, how the commodified dissent of hip-hop lends itself to masking insecurities. — New York Times Posted Sep 5, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 66%
| Save Me (2007) | Never quite shaking off its aura of second-rate made-for-TV movie, this gay conversion melodrama has a lot of heart but little nerve and no surprise. — New York Times Posted Sep 5, 2008 |
Rotten .5/5
| Rotten 2%
| Disaster Movie (2008) | "
Disaster Movie, the latest disposable parody of disposable Hollywood movies, has a shelf life of about five minutes, tops." — New York Times Posted Sep 2, 2008 |
Rotten .5/5
| Rotten 20%
| Another Gay Sequel (2008) | This wretched gaysploitation number is, in fact, the worst gay sequel ever. — New York Times Posted Aug 29, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 39%
| The House Bunny (2008) | "
Puts a cheerful spin on its many cliches. This particular wheel hasn't been reinvented, but at least it gets a nice fresh coat of bubblegum-pink paint and a star to pilot it with aplomb." — New York Times Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 50%
| The Sensation of Sight (2008) | "
The really oppressive thing here is the filmmaking itself." — New York Times Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Rotten 43%
| Death Race (2008) | No fancy talk here, just solid, monosyllabic obscenities; no flights of digital fancy, just souped-up monster cars flipping end over end in a napalm blaze and crashing in a crunch of flaming metal ouch. — New York Times Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 40%
| The Longshots (2008) | What makes this one different? Absolutely nothing. (Sure, it's based on a true story, but I mean come on, whatever.) — New York Times Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 67%
| One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story (2008) | Directed by Thomas G. Miller, One Bad Cat brings fresh light to the artist Albert Wagner. — New York Times Posted Aug 19, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| N/A | Blitzkrieg: Escape from Stalag 69 (2008) | "
Lets go ahead and get this out of the way because Im sure youre dying to know: no, you shouldnt see Blitzkrieg: Escape From Stalag 69." — New York Times Posted Aug 19, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 17%
| Fly Me To The Moon (2008) | Fly Me to the Moon bills itself as the first animated feature created expressly for 3-D. Too bad it wasnt created expressly for, you know, pleasure or art. — New York Times Posted Aug 19, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 19%
| The Clone Wars (2008) | Star Wars: The Clone Wars comes as something of a surprise: it isnt the most painful movie of the year! — New York Times Posted Aug 19, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | The Forgotten Woman (2008) | "
Mr. Mehta's picture is a documentary, and while it ought to be included on every future copy of the Water DVD, his free-form portrait of real widows has more than enough visual beauty, graceful compassion and understated anger to stand on its own." — New York Times Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| Passing Poston (2008) | "
While Poston bears witness to a historical disgrace, it also resonates with more current conflicts." — New York Times Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 64%
| Beautiful Losers (2008) | Though [Director] Mr. Rose can't be blamed for waxing nostalgic, he can't much expect us to care about so fawning and self-serving a document. — New York Times Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 52%
| Stealing America: Vote By Vote (2008) | "
Stealing America: Vote by Vote might have been this year's most alarming and patriotic documentary if it weren't so shoddy and dull." — New York Times Posted Aug 1, 2008 |
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