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 3.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| Big Man Japan (2009) | "
The most impressive special effect here is Mr. Matsumoto’s 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 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 20%
| Bob Funk (2009) | "
Looks like a comedy, acts like a comedy and sounds like a comedy, but it isn’t funny." — New York Times Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
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 |
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 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 |
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 |
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 1.5/5
| N/A | Blitzkrieg: Escape from Stalag 69 (2008) | "
Let’s go ahead and get this out of the way because I’m sure you’re dying to know: no, you shouldn’t see Blitzkrieg: Escape From Stalag 69." — New York Times Posted Aug 19, 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 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 |
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 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 |
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| Breaking and Entering (2007) | "
... nothing but hot air." — Village Voice Posted Jan 24, 2007 |
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 |
— | N/A | By the People (2006) | No article or quote available — New York Times Posted Sep 29, 2006 |
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 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 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 71%
| The Beales Of Grey Gardens (1976) | Catnip for the Beale cult, the film supplements but nowhere surpasses the funky charm and moldy glamour of the original. — New York Times Posted Aug 15, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 71%
| The Blood of My Brother: A Story of Death in Iraq (2006) | From the filmmaker Andrew Berends comes another documentary about the occupation of Iraq, but this time the story is told from the Iraqi point of view. — New York Times Posted Jun 29, 2006 |
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