Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
Antichrist is a kind of exorcism for von Trier, an exorcism that involves no less than the destruction of the genitals of both sexes." Posted Oct 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
If John Keats is the catalyst who inspired Miss Campion to make this film, and us to go see it, it is Fanny Brawne, the bright star of the film's title, who makes it worthwhile." Posted Oct 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) | "
... an exhaustive account of how a gang of self-appointed urban guerrillas traumatized Germany during the decade following the global paroxysms of 1968." Posted Sep 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | La Belle Personne (2008) | "
Mr. Honoré rejuvenates the age-old love triangle story on the surface, but underneath, it's still the same heavy-handed morality at play." Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
Meryl Streep's performance brings Julia Child to vivid life ... As Nora Ephron herself has said: "She plays all of us better than we play ourselves."" Posted Sep 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Séraphine (2008) | "
We are ... made privy to the very reverie, that state of almost beatific hypnosis, where artists find sanctuary and are compelled to create." Posted Jul 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Julia (2008) | "
I recommend going to see it, but don't blame me when you feel like you've downed a fifth of vodka afterwards." Posted Jul 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Whatever Works (2009) | "
I am a huge Woody Allen fan, but I had a hard time with Whatever Works." Posted Jun 27, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| The Proposal (2009) | "
Sandra Bullock is the paragon of a romantic comedy heroine ... So why does she find herself the star power behind so many romcom stinkers?" Posted Jun 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 66%
| Away We Go (2009) | "
With Away We Go, Mendes has fallen through the rabbit hole and discovered connubial bliss." Posted Jun 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Summer Hours (2009) | "
Assayas has made a masterpiece with the restrained strokes of a contemplative and intelligent artist." Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| Adoration (2009) | "
Adoration's ending may feel a little too artificial, a little too idealistic, but there is still something lovely about where these people end up." Posted May 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| O'Horten (2009) | "
I like a wry, deadpan social comedy as much as the next person, but I need a little more than O'Horten's minimalist palette to get me going." Posted May 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Valentino: the Last Emperor (2009) | "
In this time of economic distress, watching the twilight of Valentino's enormous success, and the extravagant lifestyle it funded, doesn't feel like it's worth a lot of tears." Posted Apr 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Hunger (2008) | "
Hunger is an intense movie-going experience, one that will leave you both drained and uplifted." Posted Apr 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Ballerina (2008) | "
... in its simplistic, by-the-book delivery, Ballerina does give an inkling of the blood and sweat hidden underneath the ethereal beauty of classical dance." Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Delirious (2007) | "
Steve Buscemi and Michael Pitt are easily the best odd couple the movies have seen since Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon." Posted Mar 15, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| Phoebe In Wonderland (2009) | "
Elle Fanning, the ten-year-old sister of Dakota, can act like nobody's business, and it is her remarkable ability that carries an otherwise artistic mess of a movie." Posted Mar 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Of Time and the City (2009) | "
... a filmic ode to Liverpool that is both elegiac and cantankerous in the way of all old men looking back." Posted Feb 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Class (2008) | "
At the heart of The Class is an exciting rapport between a teacher and his students, one in which language and ideas are constantly being tossed about and questioned." Posted Feb 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Wendy and Lucy (2008) | "
For all its arthouse starkness, it packs a wallop. Michelle Williams' performance is incandescent." Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| Che (2008) | "
... a revelation, an enlightening analysis of a man whose devotion to a political movement defined his life." Posted Jan 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) | "
... a melancholic reminder of the transience of life, and the mutability of this mortal flesh." Posted Dec 30, 2008 |
N/A | Fresh 86%
| A Christmas Tale (2008) | "
Arnaud Desplechin and the Cinema of Enchantment" Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
N/A | Fresh 67%
| Synecdoche, New York (2008) | "
Being Charlie Kaufman" Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
N/A | Fresh 67%
| Synecdoche, New York (2008) | "
Being Charlie Kaufman" Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Synecdoche, New York (2008) | "
If you want a film that is big and true and tough, go see Synecdoche. And then go see it again, because it's so rich with ideas that you can't possibly get them all the first time around." Posted Nov 7, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| I've Loved You So Long (2008) | "
... a powerful performance by Kristin Scott Thomas ... a performance of great honesty and craftsmanship." Posted Oct 31, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Two Lives...Plus One (2008) | "
... a very funny and often quite poignant story of a middle-aged woman who decides to change her life, much to her family's surprise and chagrin." Posted Oct 17, 2008 |
N/A | Fresh 74%
| A Girl Cut in Two (2008) | "
The Brilliant Career of Ludivine Sagnier" Posted Sep 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| A Girl Cut in Two (2008) | "
... a deeply cynical film that makes no pretense about the status of women in society." Posted Sep 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Grocer's Son (2008) | "
Despite its rather well worn premise of a prodigal son returning to his family home, this charming French film actually feels quite fresh and original." Posted Sep 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Persepolis (2007) | "
You will laugh, you will be moved to tears, and you may even come away thinking the human race might actually survive without killing each other off, because there are stories like [this] to remind us that, deep down, we’re all pretty much the same." Posted Sep 8, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 74%
| Elegy (2008) | "
... another Hollywood-delivered message declaring the ultimate rightness of romantic love between a 65-year-old man and a woman who is decades younger." Posted Sep 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Trumbo (2008) | "
... a beautifully directed and passionate homage to the dignity of one man against the indignity of the times." Posted Aug 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 93%
| Tell No One (2008) | "
It feels like an American movie, dubbed in French ... Or perhaps, better put, it feels like a bunch of French people trying to act like Americans." Posted Jul 26, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Encounters At the End of the World (2007) | "
This is Werner Herzog at his best -- a cynic with a big heart, and a nasty wit." Posted Jul 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Savage Grace (2008) | "
[Savage Grace] is like a Vanity Fair article; it's eye candy, with ... a creepy dysfunctional family drama thrown in to give it added value." Posted Jul 3, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Sex and the City - The Movie (2008) | "
Somewhere along the line, the movie version of Sex and the City got too much Botox injected into the script, and all the life was ironed out of it." Posted Jun 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Alexandra (2008) | "
... at times humorous, at times touching, and unfortunately, at times tedious and distancing." Posted Jun 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Indestructible (2008) | "
... a stirring narrative, a movie of epic dramatic force that holds its own with the best of any major work of cinema." Posted Jun 1, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| No End in Sight (2007) | "
No End is Sight is the product of a calmly systematic desire for knowledge, and as such, does not offer solutions, only profound insight." Posted May 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| 51 Birch Street (2006) | "
If it is the objective of a work of art to hold up a mirror to our own lives, then 51 Birch Street, in all its makeshift craftsmanship, is a great work of art." Posted May 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008) | "
Those who find Rumi's wisdom as unknowable as desert sand constantly reshaped by the wind that blows it, will have the same reaction to Bab'Aziz." Posted Apr 17, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Planet B-Boy (2008) | "
After watching this movie, I felt like every nerve ending in my body was shooting sparks. No wonder these boys dedicate their lives to this dance. It's electrifying." Posted Mar 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Diva (1981) | "
Jean-Jacques Beniex's bold experiment is worth a place of importance in cinematic history." Posted Mar 22, 2008 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 75%
| Paranoid Park (2008) | "
There are certain times in a filmmaker's career when everything comes together in a kind of perfect storm ... For Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park is that film." Posted Mar 20, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| The Witnesses (2008) | "
Andre Techine is a master at taking life experiences and stripping them of sentimentality, leaving us with only the bare-bones honesty of relationships and desire." Posted Mar 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| In Bruges (2008) | "
As a black comedy, In Bruges is a work of comic genius." Posted Mar 2, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Caramel (2008) | "
Caramel is a warm, funny and compassionate movie that examines five women who are at very different stages in their lives, each one with a particular problem to work out." Posted Mar 2, 2008 |
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