Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Directed By John Ford () | "
a fascinating tribute to Ford and his films" Posted Sep 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | The Human Condition (1959) | "
it is still powerful and uncompromising, but it is also strident, tortuous, and hateful" Posted Sep 26, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Homicide (1991) | "
a high wire neo-noir that bravely incorporates the urban thriller with the crazy twist of religious conversion and the saving/condemning of a divided soul." Posted Sep 17, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 31%
| Tickling Leo (2009) | "
less an integrated film project than a collection of actors' audition tapes, high energy exercises that look impressive individually but compiled together in a film are nothing short of ridiculous." Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| No Impact Man (2009) | "
in the end becomes a screwball comedy take on a well-intentioned environmentalist and his long-suffering wife: Scenes From a Green Marriage" Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 63%
| Husbands (1970) | "
Husbands is devoid of story but filled with a present-tense vitality and emotional honesty" Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 58%
| Art & Copy (2009) | "
We have finally reached the point where the only honest and inviolate form of media is the clear, crisp, and untainted craft of online film criticism." Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 91%
| Cloud 9 (2009) | "
Cloud 9 delivers a white hot blast of powerful emotions and makes us care about three characters in a direct and violent way" Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1967) | "
From now on, Godard's films will become film essays and then cine-tracts. 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her is the dividing line." Posted Jul 27, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) | "
an old man's movie shot with a young man's energy and gusto." Posted Jul 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Drunken Angel (1948) | "
the first film to touch on many of Kurosawa's themes unfettered" Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Bill Plympton's Dog Days: A Collection of Short Films 2004-2008 (2009) | "
a better time cannot be had." Posted Jul 15, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| N/A | Wagon Master (1950) | "
one of Ford's masterworks, a sublime, crisp, unpretentious western that doesn't wear its mythos on its sleeve" Posted Jul 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 92%
| Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009) | "
Kempner's achievement in Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg is to remind us all that there is an alternative cultural history that is buried, one that deserves to be uncovered and appreciated once again" Posted Jul 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| On Dangerous Ground (1951) | "
What succeeds in On Dangerous Ground is the raw emotionalism that bleeds out from the screen, unmatched in any of Ray's other films." Posted Jul 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 60%
| Lady in the Lake (1946) | "
completely misinterprets the joys of film noir" Posted Jun 28, 2009 |
Rotten 3/5
| N/A | Border Incident (1949) | "
a film of stylistic virtuosity saddled with a humdrum scenario, yet graced with a few subversive surprises." Posted Jun 21, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 84%
| The Windmill Movie (2009) | "
a heady combination of Synecdoche, New York, Annie Hall, Peeping Tom, and It's All True but all the more compelling because The Windmill Movie is all true." Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Goth Kill (2008) | "
there is nothing worse than a pre-planned cult film afraid of its own shadow" Posted Jun 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Séraphine (2008) | "
If the French town of Senlis really looks like Provost's beautiful and painterly world as he depicts it in Séraphine, no wonder Séraphine Louis went nuts." Posted Jun 4, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Son of Paleface (1952) | "
smashes it out of the ball park" Posted May 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Sanjuro (1962) | "
a textbook on widescreen composition." Posted May 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 79%
| Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight (2009) | "
The quantity and depth of Glaser's work is awesome" Posted May 21, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 47%
| M Butterfly (1993) | "
When John Lone parades around in mascara and speaks in an asexual monotone, the film audience discovers itself staring at John Lone's whiskers underneath his makeup" Posted May 17, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| El Dorado (1967) | "
a loose and extended mediation on Hawks's favorite themes of loyalty and professionalism." Posted May 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 45%
| Management (2009) | "
quickly abandons its singular unpretentiousness for three-ring goofiness" Posted May 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 97%
| Patton (1970) | "
intense, brazen, passionate" Posted May 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 71%
| Bart Got a Room (2009) | "
totally wacky, a rite-of-passage romp" Posted May 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 83%
| The Window (2008) | "
deals with the light and not the shadows, and with an airy leisure and humor that belies the melancholy and foretold destiny of a dying old man." Posted May 4, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| A Grin Without A Cat (2002) | "
massive, towering, and impassioned" Posted May 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 40%
| A Wink and a Smile (2009) | "
self-important" Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | East Side, West Side (1949) | "
nothing but burnished dreck" Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Rotten 3/5
| N/A | Sprawling From Grace () | "
straightforward" Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 66%
| Is Anybody There? (2009) | "
hackneyed drivel" Posted Apr 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Oblivion (2008) | "
a tone poem of emptiness." Posted Apr 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 94%
| Forever (2007) | "
meditative and measured" Posted Apr 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 79%
| An Unlikely Weapon (2009) | "
Adams, one of the great American photojournalists, is more than deserving of a documentary tribute. Unfortunately, for all its good intentions, An Unlikely Weapon is not that documentary" Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 98%
| Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) | "
a paean to artistic hope in the midst of almost complete and abject failure." Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | Four Men and a Prayer (1938) | "
In Four Men and a Prayer, director John Ford doesn't have one" Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 55%
| Lymelife (2009) | "
passionate and melancholy, captures the yearning and despair of growing up in the late '70s at the beginning of the end of the American Dream" Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Hidden Fortress (1958) | "
a masterpiece of composition, atmosphere, and subtext." Posted Apr 6, 2009 |
Rotten 3/5
| Rotten 50%
| The Yakuza (1975) | "
has one leg is still straddling the Think Fast Mr. Moto era." Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| N/A | The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969) | "
a meaningless and harmless bit of flatulence that caused barely a ripple of interest in 1969" Posted Mar 30, 2009 |
Rotten 3/5
| Fresh 78%
| The Sundowners (1960) | "
an enough enjoyable diversion" Posted Mar 24, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Home From the Hill (1960) | "
Minnelli pulls back the stinky underbelly of this Texan-hell family in all his scope splendor" Posted Mar 21, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 72%
| The Great Buck Howard (2009) | "
shot like it's an especially wacky episode of All My Children." Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 56%
| Macao (1952) | "
a load of atmosphere and malarkey in search of a coherent storyline" Posted Mar 18, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 80%
| Angel Face (1952) | "
Preminger transforms a second rate James M. Cain murder plot, re-orchestrating this textbook tale of passion and murder into a haunting and haunted refrain" Posted Mar 16, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 12%
| Lake City (2008) | "
It is phony, manipulative films like this that make people line up for Paul Blart: Mall Cop." Posted Feb 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| High and Low (1962) | "
The images populate the widescreen frame like a pressure cooker that is ready to blow up. And in High and Low, blow up they do." Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
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