Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 75%
| Tokyo! (2009) | "
For the new omnibus feature Tokyo!, Bong Joon-ho, Leos Carax and Michel Gondry were invited to make a film in the Japanese capital." New York Times Posted Mar 4, 2009 |
| Fresh 90%
| Transsiberian (2008) |
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Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 35%
| Tru Loved (2008) | Does the world need yet another peppy gay self-esteem indie like Tru Loved? Probably not, though the writer and director Stewart Wade pulls this one off with heart. New York Times Posted Oct 17, 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 19%
| The Clone Wars (2008) | Star Wars: The Clone Wars comes as something of a surprise: it isn’t the most painful movie of the year! New York Times Posted Aug 19, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 44%
| Take (2008) | "
If there is anything the cinema needed less than another angst-ridden, cross-cutting tragedy about crime, fate, memory and redemption, it�s the kind shot in an ugly monochromatic palette like Take." New York Times Posted Jul 18, 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
| Fresh 67%
| The Duchess of Langeais (2008) | "
The Duchess of Langeais contemplates an especially crazy case of l'amour fou." Village Voice Posted Feb 20, 2008 |
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 81%
| Talk to Me (2007) | "
Talk To Me lacks every kind of specificity (historical, psychological, socio-cultural) but redeems itself through the dedication of its Cheadlicious lead." Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Transformers (2007) | "
Transformers twiddles its big, fat, stupid robotic thumbs for the better part of two hours before jabbing them into your eye socket and finger-f***ing your brain in the last 20 minutes. Yes!" Village Voice Posted Jul 3, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Fifth Empire (2007) | "
Any hope that the great Portuguese master is in one of his more accessible moods is quickly dashed as the film grows progressively darker, talkative, and stubborn in the extreme." Village Voice Posted May 30, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| TMNT (2007) | "
Unlikely to achieve BFF status with the MMORPG set, this CGI feature is light on the LOL factor, heavy on the ADD action scenes, and, like, TOOIFM (Totally Out Of Its Freakin' Mind)." Village Voice Posted Mar 20, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Tears of the Black Tiger (2000) | "
Nothing is too crazed, corny or freakishly florid for Tears of the Black Tiger. Together with cinematographer Nattawut Kittikhun, Sasanatieng dyed his images through digital postproduction, pushing colors to impossible hues of eccentric radiance." Village Voice Posted Jan 9, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Turistas (2006) | "
Though Turistas eventually bogs down in an underlit mess, it more or less scratches the neo-exploitation itch." Village Voice Posted Nov 28, 2006 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Troubles We've Seen: A History of Journalism in Wartime (1994) | "
As penetrating as it is far-ranging." Village Voice Posted Nov 20, 2006 |
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 |
Rotten 0.5/5
| Rotten 13%
| The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) | This prequel to a remake of the 1974 horror movie begs the question: how many chainsaw massacres can one state possibly contain? New York Times Posted Oct 5, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 43%
| Two Drifters (2006) | Neither sentimental nor cruel, yet touching and trenchant, the movie sustains a profound ambivalence right up to the final shot. New York Times Posted Aug 19, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Toro Negro (2005) | A disturbed young matador stabs animals, beats his wife and drinks himself to the edge of oblivion in this harrowing, deeply suspect documentary. New York Times Posted Mar 30, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 32%
| Tamara (2006) | A low-budget horror film with even lower ambitions, Tamara is a movie of few innovations but one genuine, if unintentional, surprise. New York Times Posted Feb 2, 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 |
Rotten 1/5
| N/A | Trapped by the Mormons (2005) | This would-be cult curiosity remakes a notorious 1922 'Mormonsploitation' flick about a mesmeric vampire recruiter for the Latter Day Saints and his dim-witted victim. New York Times Posted Dec 15, 2005 |