— | Fresh 97%
| Strangers on a Train (1951) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Rotten .5/5
| Rotten 0%
| Super Capers (2009) | "
Intended as a campy riff on comic-book antics, Super Capers is instead a monumental negative achievement: a super catastrophe." — New York Times Posted Mar 20, 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 |
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 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 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 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 68%
| 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 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 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 50%
| 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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Snow Angels (2008) | "
Green keeps mum until the end, charging his tale with an effective (if manipulative) aura of suspense." — Village Voice Posted Mar 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | State Legislature (2008) | "
An impeccably constructed illustration in depth, ceaselessly alert and cumulatively profound." — Village Voice Posted Feb 20, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| Smiley Face (2007) | "
Dylan Haggerty has written an eleventh-hour candidate for the funniest movie of 2007, that Gregg Araki has directed his finest film since 1997's Nowhere, and that Faris, flawless, rocks their inspired idiot odyssey in a virtuoso comedic turn." — Village Voice Posted Dec 28, 2007 |
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
| Fresh 74%
| Sunshine (2007) | "
Funny thing is, Sunshine works despite feeling both over-familiar and over-ambitious." — Village Voice Posted Jul 17, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Spider-Man 3 (2007) | "
A certain twee anachronism has always been part of the Spider-Man tradition -- ditto dexterous, old-fashioned fun. But this summer's first obligatory blockbuster is all thumbs." — Village Voice Posted May 1, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 50%
| Suicide Killers (2007) | Pierre Rehov's haphazard inquiry into suicide bombing spends much of its brief running time replacing analysis with a litany of bummers. — New York Times Posted Aug 25, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 50%
| Shock to the System (2006) | This is a sly, refreshingly grown-up gay entertainment, though rather less satisfying as a thriller. — New York Times Posted Aug 4, 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 clichés and unexpected invention. — New York Times Posted Apr 28, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 30%
| Silent Hill (2006) | Structured around a series of blackouts and gross-outs, Silent Hill is one long free fall through icky surrealism and underlighted nightmares. — New York Times Posted Apr 25, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| Stolen (2006) | "
Rebecca Dreyfus's middling documentary recounts the efforts to retrieve masterpieces stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston." — New York Times Posted Apr 21, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 37%
| Scary Movie 4 (2006) | Driven by gags and cultural feedback, Scary Movie 4 is an exercise in lowbrow postmodernism, a movie-movie contraption more nuts than Charlie Kaufman's gnarliest fever dream. — New York Times Posted Apr 13, 2006 |
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 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 50%
| Summer Storm (2006) | "
Summer Storm is another of those soft-core, simple-minded stories about a geeky young gay man (Robert Stadlober as Tobi) struggling with his sexuality over the course of a long, hot, sexed-up summer." — New York Times Posted Mar 23, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 20%
| Shadow: Dead Riot (2005) | "
Written by Michael Gingold and directed by Derek Wan, this berserk little B-movie is obviously the greatest zombie flick ever set in an experimental women's prison." — New York Times Posted Mar 22, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 44%
| She's The Man (2006) | "
The ensuing complications -- romantic, social, sporty -- are modeled on Twelfth Night, although the tone of the movie (hysterical peppiness) and style of acting (emphatic grotesquerie) are more suited to campy Off Broadway musicals." — New York Times Posted Mar 16, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 40%
| Seamless (2005) | "
Given the material, Seamless can't be faulted a certain star-struck superficiality. With a hip-hugging running time of 75 minutes, however, neither should it feel padded." — New York Times Posted Nov 28, 2005 |
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