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 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (2008) | "
An eye-popper and brain-boggler, Razzle Dazzle is also, remarkably, a thing to stir the soul." — New York Times Posted Jun 27, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Blood Tea and Red String (2006) | Thirteen years in the making, Christiane Cegavskes stop-motion fairy tale is at once wondrously obsolete and perfectly au courant. — New York Times Posted Oct 4, 2006 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 75%
| Loren Cass (2009) | This sharp, gutsy indie is one of the years great discoveries. — New York Times Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
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 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 87%
| Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine (2008) | "
This uncommonly elegant and evocative portrait of Louise Bourgeois reveals much about the haunting and haunted master while leaving intact the thing you cannot explain." — New York Times Posted Jun 25, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Rotten 55%
| The Foot Fist Way (2008) | This sleeper hit in the making is sweet and sour in all the right proportions, the best thing of its kind since Napoleon Dynamite. — New York Times Posted May 30, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Heavy Metal In Baghdad (2008) | "
An intrepid, unlikely and altogether splendid feat of D.I.Y. reportage." — New York Times Posted May 23, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Rotten 56%
| Paraguayan Hammock (2008) | "
That Paraguayan Hammock happens to be one of the few features to emerge from Paraguay in recent decades in no way diminishes its rarity." — New York Times Posted May 14, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 90%
| Wonderful Town (2007) | It's no small feat to pull off as sweet and sensitive a romance as that between Na and Ton, and something rarer yet to suffuse such affections into a poem of wounded landscape. — New York Times Posted Jul 18, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 22%
| Next Day Air (2009) | With a script that snaps and characters that pop, Next Day Air nears neo-blaxploitation perfection. — New York Times Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | I Can See You (2009) | "
The filmmaker Graham Reznick arrives with a bang in his feature debut, the experimental horror film I Can See You." — New York Times Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 79%
| In a Dream (2009) | "
Bursting with vivid home movies and loving appreciations of Isaiahs artwork -- frenzied drawings and monumental mosaics in tile and mirror, many of which now beautify his Philadelphia neighborhood -- In a Dream abounds in visual pleasure." — New York Times Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 56%
| Enlighten Up! (2009) | "
Enlighten Up! explores its subject with a light touch and welcome sense of humor." — New York Times Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Sleepwalking Land (2009) | "
With Sleepwalking Land, the filmmaker Teresa Prata creates an affecting portrait of life during wartime." — New York Times Posted Jan 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 60%
| BLAST! (2008) | "
Directed by Paul Devlin, this absorbing documentary flirts with metaphysics...but mostly it keeps an amused eye on the effort of these driven brainiacs to set aloft an extremely sophisticated and fragile recording device." — New York Times Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
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 4/5
| N/A | 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 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 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 |
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 |
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 4/5
| Fresh 76%
| Bustin' Down the Door (2008) | Happily, the filmmaker, Jeremy Gosch, puts his wide-eyed narrative together with an easy touch. With its amazing wall-to-wall footage of oceanic derring-do Bustin' Down the Door plays like visual air-conditioning. — New York Times Posted Jul 25, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| All In This Tea (2008) | "
All in This Tea is a delicious documentary about a beverage." — New York Times Posted Jun 27, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Take Out (2008) | "
The seasons freshest, most sympathetic movie about making your way in modern-day Manhattan with a little help from your friends." — New York Times Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 49%
| Mother of Tears (2008) | ...Silly, awkward, vulgar, outlandish, hysterical, inventive, revolting, flamboyant, titillating, ridiculous, mischievous, uproarious, cheap, priceless, tasteless and sublime. — New York Times Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008) | "
Directed by Erik Nelson, Dreams With Sharp Teeth recalls the career of Harlan Ellison, a runty young geek who evolved into a world-famous artist." — New York Times Posted Jun 4, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films (2008) | "
A welcome entry in the constituency-cinema canon, Hollywood Chinese surveys a century’s worth of Chinese-American actors and filmmakers, visionaries and dragon ladies, kung fu excellence and Fu Manchu insult, Oscar winners and cliché mongers." — New York Times Posted May 2, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 81%
| Quantum Hoops (2007) | "
Wry, good-natured picture." — New York Times Posted May 16, 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 4/5
| Fresh 88%
| The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2006) | The newcomer Nathan Lopez delights as the flamboyantly gay Maxi, the youngest son in a family of thieves who falls in love with handsome police officer. — New York Times Posted Sep 21, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 61%
| Jackass: Number Two (2006) | Debased, infantile and reckless in the extreme, this compendium of body bravado and malfunction makes for some of the most fearless, liberated and cathartic comedy in modern movies. — New York Times Posted Sep 21, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 74%
| Fearless (2006) | Jet Li says goodbye (supposedly) to the martial arts genre with this decent blend of old-school chopsocky and new school superproduction. — New York Times Posted Sep 21, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 91%
| Pusher 3 (2006) | Life and death on the mean streets of Copenhagen they evidently exist are rendered with pungent detail and excellent discipline in this tough trio of underworld thrillers. — New York Times Posted Aug 17, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 21%
| The Oh in Ohio (2006) | A feel good movie about feeling good, this fresh and very funny sex comedy stars Parker Posey as a woman in search of an orgasm. — New York Times Posted Jul 13, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 80%
| District B13 (2006) | Gorgeously choreographed gymnastics of pain elevate District B13 over the impossible missions and last stands of the season. — New York Times Posted Jun 1, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 31%
| Stick It (2006) | A spry teenage comedy that gets everything right, Stick It takes the usual batch of underdogs, dirt bags, mean girls and bimbos and sends them somersaulting through happy clichs and unexpected invention. — New York Times Posted Apr 28, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| That Man: Peter Berlin (2005) | One of the enduring icons of gay male eroticism, the phenomenon known as Peter Berlin, is explored, explained, ogled and interviewed in this minor classic of demimonde hagiography. — New York Times Posted Jan 12, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Dias de Santiago (2005) | "
Dias de Santiago zeros in on the disconnect between one man's sense of entitlement and the unforgiving realities of life in contemporary Lima." — New York Times Posted Dec 7, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| The Ister (2004) | This uncompromisingly highbrow video essay voyages from the mouth of the Danube to the source, pausing en route for head-spinning detours into thickets of philosophy. — New York Times Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| Big Man Japan (2009) | "
The most impressive special effect here is Mr. Matsumotos hilariously restrained performance, a tour de force of comedic concision in a movie bloated by increasingly surreal developments." — New York Times Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 79%
| An Unlikely Weapon (2009) | "
The strongest material in An Unlikely Weapon contemplates the import of that shot, and of photojournalism itself, on the events of its time." — New York Times Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 50%
| The Feature (2009) | "
Michel Auder has been making videos longer than almost anyone, and that alone makes the work of this underappreciated artist and filmmaker worth attending to." — New York Times Posted Mar 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Pageant (2008) | "
This classicism is not without its charm, and its touching, in a goofy sort of way, to see how seriously everyone takes it." — New York Times Posted Feb 2, 2009 |
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 |
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 |
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 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| We Are Together (2008) | Youve seen this sort of thing before, but the film, directed by Paul Taylor, happens to be especially well photographed, and the youngsters more winning than most. — New York Times Posted Jul 7, 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 |
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