Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 56%
| Weirdsville (2007) | "
Moyle is as deft a craftsman as ever, utilizing the widescreen frame to create a number of elegant, vibrantly colorful images that give the film a bright, bubbly energy in spite of the violence at its core." Posted Oct 5, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 72%
| The Price of Sugar (2007) | "
Uplifting and enraging in equal measures, Bill Haney's The Price of Sugar is a powerful issue-driven documentary that also happens to have one of the most compelling heroes of any movie this year." Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 71%
| Lust, Caution (2007) | "
The movie has more power than a conventional adventure film because it has more to say." Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 11%
| Pathfinder (2007) | "
Pathfinder is simultaneously action-packed and a total bore, a strange movie that never seems to move even though it consists of almost nothing but violence." Posted Sep 22, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 77%
| The Last Winter (2007) | "
In the end, the scariest thing about The Last Winter is how few of its ideas seem truly fantastic or implausible." Posted Sep 21, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 25%
| Dragon Wars (2007) | "
It's admittedly pretty dumb, but in the end its fierce commitment to its own goofy ideas is oddly admirable." Posted Sep 15, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 13%
| Mr. Woodcock (2007) | "
It's a two-minute trailer unsuccessfully stretched into an 87-minute feature film." Posted Sep 14, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 73%
| I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2007) | "
Idiosyncratic and personal, it's a comedy that could only have come from the distinctive mind of its very talented creator." Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 35%
| Self-Medicated (2007) | "
Monty Lapica's Self-Medicated is a powerful, personal piece of independent filmmaking" Posted Aug 31, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 26%
| Halloween (2007) | "
Rob Zombie's remake of John Carpenter's Halloween is neither the blasphemous affront hardcore fans have feared nor the flat-out masterpiece one might have hoped for from one of modern horror's most distinctive talents." Posted Aug 31, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 48%
| Hatchet (2007) | "
Like its villain, its brute strength makes up for its relative lack of brains." Posted Aug 25, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 33%
| The Hottest State (2006) | "
Heartbreak has been portrayed on film many times, in many ways, but Hawke and his actors find a whole new language for it." Posted Aug 24, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 70%
| Right at Your Door (2007) | "
Crosses our real-life national nightmares with a cleverly constructed thriller to create a movie that is smart, impeccably acted, and extremely unsettling." Posted Aug 24, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 41%
| Dedication (2007) | "
A weird hybrid of hipster art-house film and chick flick in which the warring intentions and attitudes cancel each other out." Posted Aug 24, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 14%
| Skinwalkers (2007) | "
One of the year's more pleasant surprises." Posted Aug 17, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 22%
| 7 Días (2007) | "
There's virtually no story in the movie, at least none that isn't utterly, completely predictable." Posted Aug 17, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 53%
| David & Layla (2008) | "
The effect is not a rich film with a wide range of tones as the director may have intended, but a schizophrenic mess that ends up working as neither social message movie nor entertainment." Posted Aug 3, 2007 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 38%
| Hot Rod (2007) | "
So lazy and so void of even the most rudimentary sense of storytelling that it showers the viewer with contempt...I've never felt as abused by a filmmaker as I did in Hot Rod." Posted Aug 3, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 7%
| Captivity (2007) | "
This isn't filmmaking it's shock treatment." Posted Jul 21, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 91%
| Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007) | "
It's the best kind of documentary, in that if you're a thinking person it is nearly impossible to watch the movie without having your point of view challenged and questioned." Posted Jul 20, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 72%
| Tekkon Kinkreet (2007) | "
Since the movie more or less abandons all pretense of naturalism somewhere around its midpoint, in the end the expressionistic frenzy of light, movement, and color that takes over is enough to make it worth seeing." Posted Jul 13, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2007) | "
Like its title character, The Real Dirt on Farmer John is a simple, effective movie with a lot on its mind." Posted Jul 6, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 64%
| Noriko's Dinner Table (2007) | "
The film is riveting at every moment even when the audience is a little unclear on how those moments connect." Posted Jul 3, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| Rescue Dawn (2007) | "
Made up of moments that represent cinema at its best -- moments of pure sensation of the type that can't be expressed with the same degree of immediacy in any other art form." Posted Jul 3, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 81%
| Ghosts of Cite Soleil (2007) | "
Consistently riveting thanks to the sense of sheer terror that infuses its best moments." Posted Jun 29, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 78%
| 1408 (2007) | "
Scary, smart, and moving, it's a terrific summer entertainment for grown-ups." Posted Jun 22, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 71%
| Black Sheep (2007) | "
Delivers exactly what it promises: it's a stylish, thoroughly entertaining summer monster movie." Posted Jun 22, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| N/A | Prison Of The Psychotic Damned (2007) | "
Williams's dialogue writing is often rather witty -- he's fully aware of some of the more ridiculous conventions of the genre, and he gives the characters exchanges in which they justify the plot contrivances in inventive, plausible ways." Posted Jun 8, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Rotten 44%
| Hostel: Part II (2007) | "
Hostel: Part II has something that most bigger-budgeted and more heavily promoted sequels don't: the ambition to not only repeat the experience of its predecessor, but to expand and improve upon it." Posted Jun 8, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 100%
| The Trials of Darryl Hunt (2007) | "
The uplift here is honestly earned, because it is so beautifully contrasted with harrowing venality and willful ignorance." Posted Jun 1, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 62%
| Day Watch (2007) | "
Night Watch was a deliriously stylish and endlessly inventive rollercoaster ride; Day Watch adds emotional resonance to the mix to create an epic that's got more energy and depth than all three Lord of the Rings movies combined." Posted Jun 1, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 98%
| Ten Canoes (2007) | "
One of the most surprising things about the movie is how much fun it is. The story Minygululu tells has components as exciting as any American action movie, and the relationships are as compelling as the best melodrama." Posted May 25, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 71%
| Golden Door (2007) | "
Beautifully made but simple-minded Oscar bait, a film guaranteed to offend no one and to attract a large contingent fans who will love it for the nobility of its intentions and the earnestness of its performances." Posted May 25, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 41%
| The Wendell Baker Story (2007) | "
That they've assembled a first-rate cast made up of veteran character actors and contemporary comedy stars to pursue this agenda makes The Wendell Baker Story all the more effective." Posted May 19, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 35%
| The Last Time (2006) | "
It alternates between bleak cynicism and a genuinely romantic sensibility, and this unusual combination makes the movie a great vehicle for Keaton and Valletta, and a compelling drama for the audience." Posted May 18, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Rotten 38%
| Hollywood Dreams (2007) | "
Like John Cassavetes and Martin Scorsese, Jaglom knows how to push a scene into realms of such emotional nakedness that the viewer starts to feel like a voyeur looking in on relationships that are none of his or her business." Posted May 18, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 26%
| Blind Dating (2007) | "
The fact that Blind Dating provides a relationship between two characters whom the audience desperately wants to see wind up together is ultimately all that matters." Posted May 11, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 56%
| Civic Duty (2007) | "
A provocative, unsettling tale about a powerful nation on the defensive." Posted May 4, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 68%
| The Treatment (2007) | "
An accessible piece of entertainment that you don't need to shut your brain off to enjoy." Posted May 4, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 51%
| The Flying Scotsman (2007) | "
Compressing Obree's story into an hour and a half makes it seem less astonishing than it actually is -- the triumphs seem too easily won, and the problems too quickly resolved." Posted May 4, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 58%
| The Hip Hop Project (2007) | "
the bottom line is that Kazi and his cohorts would be even better served by a film that was more than only intermittently involving, and The Hip Hop Project is not that film." Posted Apr 27, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| N/A | Totally Baked: A Pot-U-Mentary (2007) | "
Educational, but it's also an enjoyably goofy comedy that will appeal to fans of Mad TV and Saturday Night Live." Posted Apr 20, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 55%
| Vacancy (2007) | "
It wants to be Hostel for nice, respectable folks, an objective that ultimately seems to be rather pointless in spite of the obvious talent behind and in front of the camera." Posted Apr 20, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 70%
| Day Night Day Night (2007) | "
Essential viewing." Posted Apr 14, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 49%
| Lonely Hearts (2007) | "
Their amorality isn't presented in a conventional manner; it's depicted in an unremarkable, matter-of-fact style that makes it all the more realistic -- and all the more unsettling." Posted Apr 13, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 82%
| Grindhouse (2007) | "
An instant cult classic." Posted Apr 6, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 9%
| The Reaping (2007) | "
The creators of The Reaping don't believe in their own pro-spirituality message, which they're willing to betray in the film's final minutes for the sake of one cheap, totally gimmicky scare." Posted Apr 5, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 75%
| Black Book (2007) | "
An unadulterated modern-day classic." Posted Apr 4, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 33%
| TMNT (2007) | "
A real downer of a comic book movie." Posted Mar 31, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 27%
| Tortilla Heaven (2007) | "
If Tortilla Heaven is supposed to be a more serious exploration of faith and greed it's a total failure, given that it doesn't address a single question it raises with any depth." Posted Mar 23, 2007 |
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