Rotten 3/5
| N/A | "L'Origine de la tendresse" and Other Tales (2008) | "
A compendium of six short films by French filmmakers, any one of which might prove diverting in the right place at the right time but all of which, cumulatively, don’t much make for a knockout night at the cinema." — New York Times Posted May 30, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| 10 Items or Less (2006) | "
10 Items or Less adds up to zilch." — Village Voice Posted Nov 28, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 28%
| 12 Rounds (2009) | "
Renny Harlins 12 Rounds satisfies, on the most primitive level, the expectations for a second-rate action flick." — New York Times Posted Mar 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| 28 Weeks Later (2007) | "
Happy times! And superior horror. 28 Months Later can't come too soon." — Village Voice Posted May 8, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| 300 (2007) | "
Frankly, it's the slavish, frame-by-frame devotion to Miller's source material that's the problem. That explains both the risible screenplay and why the movie, for all its liberation from the real world, never takes full-winged flight." — Village Voice Posted Mar 6, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| A Good Year (2006) | "
A Good Year offers little return on your own $10 investment beyond the spectacle of Scott misplacing his talents." — Village Voice Posted Nov 7, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 74%
| A Jihad for Love (2007) | "
A Jihad for Love is a dispatch from the outer limits of marginalization: a documentary on devout Muslims struggling with their homosexuality." — New York Times Posted May 21, 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 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 40%
| A Wink and a Smile (2009) | "
Just as burlesque loses most of its oomph when put on video -- no art is more dependent on the intimacy of live performance -- self-esteem trips are less compelling to hear about than to experience firsthand." — New York Times Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| A Zed and Two Noughts (1985) | "
An enjoyably decadent, ridiculously convoluted thingamajig." — Village Voice Posted Jul 5, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 36%
| Accepted (2006) | A clever slacker and his oddball crew invent a phony college in this passable example of that oxymoronic genre, the Hollywood comedy about sticking it to the man. — New York Times Posted Aug 17, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Ace in the Hole (1951) | "
A lurid pulp indictment of exploitation, opportunism, doctored intelligence, torture for profit, insatiable greed, and shady journalism." — Village Voice Posted Jan 9, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| Al Otro Lado (2006) | This infectious documentary by Natalia Almanda sings clear and strong when it sticks to translating the culture of corrido music for gringos. — New York Times Posted Mar 1, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 33%
| Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) | James Bond returns in Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker, disguised as a 14-year-old boy involved in a mission so outrageously top secret that even the producers of the movie deny his true identity. — New York Times Posted Oct 12, 2006 |
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
| 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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Allegro (2005) | "
Writer-director Christoffer Boe takes himself very, very seriously. Me, not so much." — Village Voice Posted May 8, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 27%
| America: Freedom To Fascism (2006) | "
The mess we're in never looked so messy." — New York Times Posted Jul 28, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 13%
| 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 1.5/5
| Rotten 12%
| An American Haunting (2006) | Things go bump in the night in this 19th-century ghost story, but it's the bump of emptying seats, as audiences flee in boredom, that will haunt you for days. — New York Times Posted May 4, 2006 |
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
| Fresh 100%
| Anaglyph Tom (Tom with the Puffy Cheeks) (2009) | "
Even the least of Mr. Jacobss efforts illuminate a rare imagination." — New York Times Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Animals and More Animals (1994) | The renovation of the Museum of Natural History in Paris is the subject for this beguiling documentary by Nicolas Philibert. — New York Times Posted Jun 7, 2006 |
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 |
Fresh
| N/A | Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006) | "
More than a mash note to this nonpareil maestro, Apparition circles around the mystery of music and subjectivity and touches down on a head-spinning array of topics." — Village Voice Posted Feb 26, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 78%
| As Tears Go By (1988) | Unpersuasive as drama, Tears is the first and last Wong movie touched by any feel of the obligatory. — New York Times Posted May 2, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Audience Of One (2009) | Audience of One follows the descent of a scrappy indie production into a full-blown fiasco and megalomaniacal folly. — New York Times Posted May 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 68%
| Aurora Borealis (2006) | "
Set in dead-of-winter Minneapolis, a ready-made metaphor for (groan, shiver) the chill in Duncan's heart, the movie tells how life warms up when he goes to work at a nursing home." — New York Times Posted Sep 15, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Automatons (2006) | "
Robot radness achieved!" — Village Voice Posted Dec 12, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 24%
| Automne (2004) | Autumn is a nearly perfect satire of the pretentious French thriller. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't know it. — New York Times Posted Jun 24, 2006 |
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
| Fresh 80%
| Ballerina (2008) | "
If only a glimpse, the privilege compensates: one wants more from Ballerina because the world it reveals -- elegant and harsh, glamorous and grinding, classical and obsolete -- proves so rich in exquisite contradictions." — New York Times Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Balls of Fury (2007) | "
[Question:] Balls of Fury is a movie about: a. A former table-tennis prodigy enlisted by the FBI to infiltrate the underground Ping-Pong tournament of a legendary Chinese criminal. b. Suppository jokes. c. Nothing worth discussing." — Village Voice Posted Aug 28, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Bamako (2006) | "
Bamako puts nothing less than economic injustice on trial, arguing the guilt of the World Bank, the IMF, and the entire apparatus of First World economic domination for the crime of African oppression." — Village Voice Posted Feb 13, 2007 |
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 |
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 1.5/5
| Rotten 33%
| Between Love and Goodbye (2009) | "
Between Love & Goodbye tells of the ill-fated romance between a pair of East Village transplants with 2 percent body fat, zero personality and even less chemistry." — New York Times Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
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 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
| Fresh 65%
| Black Snake Moan (2007) | "
A hardcore exploitation flick that also happens to be the most impassioned spiritual parable in recent memory." — Film Comment Magazine Posted Feb 23, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Black White + Gray: A Portrait Of Sam Wagstaff And Robert Mapplethorpe (2007) | "
A modest chronicle of an audacious life." — Village Voice Posted Oct 16, 2007 |
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 |
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
| Fresh 62%
| Blood Diamond (2006) | "
The only indignation stirred up by Blood Diamond won't be among those who worry about where their jewelry came from, but with audiences incensed by facile politics and bad storytelling." — Village Voice Posted Dec 5, 2006 |
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 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Blue Planet (1981) | "
I take no pleasure in dumping on a 25-year-old pseudo-experimental nature documentary, but neither did I find much to like in Blue Planet." — New York Times Posted Jun 13, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 20%
| Bob Funk (2009) | "
Looks like a comedy, acts like a comedy and sounds like a comedy, but it isnt funny." — New York Times Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| Breaking and Entering (2007) | "
... nothing but hot air." — Village Voice Posted Jan 24, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 43%
| Broken Sky (2006) | Boy meets boy like youve never seen in Julián Hernándezs sex-drenched, extravagantly minimalist epic. — New York Times Posted Sep 28, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 29%
| Burning Annie (2004) | "
Ordynans's exceptionally canny script nails how thoroughly pop culture has colonized our sentiments, and the necessity of those little emotional revolutions required to overthrow its reign." — Village Voice Posted Feb 6, 2007 |
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