— | Fresh 100%
| California Company Town (2009) | No article or quote available — New York Times Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Anaglyph Tom (Tom with the Puffy Cheeks) (2009) | "
Even the least of Mr. Jacobs’s efforts illuminate a rare imagination." — New York Times Posted May 15, 2009 |
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 100%
| We Are Together (2008) | You’ve 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 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Take Out (2008) | "
The season’s 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
| 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 clichĂ© mongers." — New York Times Posted May 2, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Opera Jawa (2006) | "
A radiant folk fantasia, at once sophisticated and elemental, freewheeling and composed." — Village Voice Posted Jan 15, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| LOL (2006) | The inability to connect in a hyper-wired world is old news given fresh voice in this tragicomic indie about the way we live. — New York Times Posted Aug 22, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Fanaa (2006) | Fanaa mines this conceit with an operatic extravagance -- and a body count -- that the Korean pulpmeister Park Chan Wook would envy. — New York Times Posted Jun 24, 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
| Fresh 100%
| Los Muertos (2004) | "
See Los Muertos with virgin eyes; this cool-headed enigma is best approached cold, ignorant of everything but the title." — Village Voice Posted Apr 3, 2007 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Mistress (1992) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) | "
Artificial in the extreme, it may nevertheless be Greenaway's most naturalistic and easygoing film." — Village Voice Posted Jul 5, 2007 |
— | Fresh 97%
| Strangers on a Train (1951) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 96%
| Herb & Dorothy (2009) | "
The Vogels [Herb and Dorothy], sitting in their same old apartment, overflowing as ever, make for charming company." — New York Times Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Chop Shop (2007) | "
As signaled by the transparent naming of his characters, Bahrani inflects his drama with documentary, grabbing sights and sounds directly from the street in a dexterous update of neorealist strategies." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Feb 27, 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
| Fresh 95%
| Diva (1981) | "
Half a century later, a glut of über-groovy meta-thrillers has blunted the novelty of Diva, but its gamboling flair is still a kick." — Village Voice Posted Oct 31, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| My Kid Could Paint That (2007) | "
What began as a human-interest story for filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev led down stranger paths than the Duchampian conundrums of modern art." — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Oct 2, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Mala Noche (1985) | "
Underseen but not exactly neglected, Mala Noche isn't in the same league as the recent smash IFC revival of Killer of Sheep. But this small, sensitive, wondrously likable debut occupies a nearby nook in the DIY pantheon." — Village Voice Posted May 29, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) | "
[Ultimatum] flips the standard conspiracy thriller on its head. Greengrass gets there so deftly it's enough to make yours spin." — Village Voice Posted Jul 31, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 93%
| This Is England (2007) | "
Isolated excellence and larger lack of nerve—all dots, no connection—grows frustrating as England turns from the personal to the political, from character study to social studies." — Village Voice Posted Jul 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) | "
Raoul Coutard's Techniscope cinematography contemplates an espresso, filling the screen in monumental close-up with a rotating vortex of bubbles and foam." — Village Voice Posted Nov 14, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Inside (2007) | "
I leave you to discover, through covered eyes, the gut-splattering delirium to come." — Village Voice Posted Feb 12, 2008 |
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
| Fresh 91%
| Cool School: How L.A. Learned to Love Modern Art (2008) | "
All told, and well told, this is essential history." — Village Voice Posted Mar 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Iraq in Fragments (2006) | "
When the war is long gone, this deft construction will persist in relevance, if not for what it says about the mess we once made, then as a model of canny cinematic construction." — Village Voice Posted Nov 7, 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 |
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 90%
| Transsiberian (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 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
| Fresh 90%
| Strange Culture (2007) | "
Slipping in and out of character, variously embodying, studying, and commenting on their counterparts, the actors manage both dramatic reenactment and its deconstruction with aplomb." — Village Voice Posted Oct 2, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 90%
| Sisters in Law (2006) | Grassroots feminism thrives in a Cameroon village thanks to the pair of warm-hearted, tough-minded women of law profiled in this excellent verité documentary. — New York Times Posted Apr 11, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Eraserhead (1976) | "
What a masterpiece of texture, a feat of artisanal attention, an ingenious assemblage of damp, dust, rock, wood, hair, flesh, metal, ooze." — Village Voice Posted Jan 17, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Waitress (2007) | "
Mildly quirky and zealously cute." — Village Voice Posted May 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Zodiac (2007) | "
This relentlessly swift film super-charges every minute with a maximum of minutiae. Dizzyingly dense, intricate in the extreme, Zodiac is the most information-packed procedural since JFK." — Village Voice Posted Feb 27, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Ice People (2009) | "
The film's hesitation, lack of rhetorical inflation and commitment to humble observation generate a tough poetry. Ice People sticks in the mind." — New York Times Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead (2009) | "
As for the filmmaker, Mr. Schillinger remains neutral to a fault. His documentary, while compelling, can also be frustrating." — New York Times Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2007) | "
A slapdash piece of work totally indebted to second-hand rhetorical strategies (the '50s educational film, glib Bush-bashing) and threadbare indignation." — Village Voice Posted Mar 6, 2007 |
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
| Fresh 88%
| Mutual Appreciation (2006) | "
You might think of Mutual Appreciation as an emo cover of Godard's Masculine/Feminine: a meditation on the crisscrossed subjectivities of boys and girls, their mutual comprehension or lack thereof." — Slate Posted Jan 6, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Rocky Road to Dublin (1968) | This 1968 survey of Irish life remains noteworthy for its historical perspective, sardonic tone, lively structure and finely etched black and white cinematography. — New York Times Posted Aug 16, 2006 |
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
| Fresh 87%
| Liberty Kid (2007) | "
Produced by indie stalwart Larry Fessenden, the sophomore feature from writer-director Ilya Chaiken stages an uncommonly acute, deftly played drama of the New York working class." — Village Voice Posted Jan 8, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 86%
| Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love (2009) | The director, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, is in thrall to her subject, and dewy-eyed accounts of pop stars, even those with as compelling a biography as Mr. N'Dour, tend to wear out their welcome. — New York Times Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Following Sean (2006) | Ralph Arlyck's ruminative essay film picks up the trail of Sean Farrell, the former child of San Francisco hippies and the subject of his 1969 short film Sean. — New York Times Posted May 2, 2006 |
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
| 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 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 |
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