Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 90%
| The Little Mermaid (1989) | "
The long-awaited proof that Disney animation could, in fact, return almost the quality and beauty of its Golden Age." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Rotten 44%
| All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) | "
Don Bluth's second outright triumph; a film whose burial in the last 20 years is nothing short of a crime." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 42%
| Oliver and Company (1988) | "
Quite insipid and wretchedly unengaging." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten 6/10
| Fresh 71%
| The Land Before Time (1988) | "
What charmed me when I first saw it as a six-year-old in theaters now strikes me as rather middling, indifferent storytelling and character development." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 63%
| An American Tail (1986) | "
Its sappiness is unmissably sincere, and such aching, embarrassing sincerity is never an evil thing in a movie." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 30%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
Boring, but I'll say this about New Moon: it appears to have been made by people more familiar with the craft of cinema than Twilight was." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 80%
| The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective (1986) | "
If the film fails to click on all the emotional levels that Disney might have wanted, at least it's a brightly-paced bit of comedy and fun." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 23, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 100%
| Ninotchka (1939) | "
The masterpiece among Lubitsch's later films." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 23, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 60%
| The Black Cauldron (1985) | "
It may have cost five times the amount of any other Disney film in the preceding two decades, but by God that money ended up on screen." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 22, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 94%
| The Secret of NIMH (1982) | "
The award-winning book had a pretty crackerjack story to begin with, but in some respects, I think Bluth and his co-writers have bettered it." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 22, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Fresh 68%
| The Fox and the Hound (1981) | "
Cloying and cutesy, a helpless callback to a number of truly classic movies that it couldn't hope to equal, let alone better." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 21, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 84%
| The Rescuers (1977) | "
The one completely successful Disney feature produced between 1967 and the beginning of the company's renaissance in 1989." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 91%
| The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) | "
One of the most charming of all Disney features... like anyone else, when I see it I am swiftly and inexorably carried back to childhood, in accordance with the drippy clichés." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 38%
| 2012 (2009) | "
A more delightfully bad movie hasn't been seen in all of 2009." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Rotten 55%
| Robin Hood (1973) | "
Blatantly caters to a juvenile audience, without making even the slightest attempt to entertain the grown-ups unless it happens that they like Saturday morning cartoon-level hijinks." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Rotten 6/10
| Fresh 65%
| The Aristocats (1970) | "
Insofar as the film has any real ambition driving it, that ambition seems to be that the Disney brand name must be kept alive until somebody could figure out what to do with it." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Rotten 38%
| See You in the Morning (1989) | "
It might have been nice to actually have some kind of emotional response to it, in addition to just nodding and thinking, "ah yes, this seems to be properly observed."" — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 89%
| The Jungle Book (1967) | "
It's not merely disappointing but frankly soul-wracking that The Jungle Book isn't any better than it is." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 96%
| Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) | "
It competes only with It Happened One Night for the title of Capra's most entertaining film ever." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 73%
| The Sword in the Stone (1963) | "
It makes a good effort at being something like My First Arthur Story." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 15, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 67%
| Orphans (1987) | "
Great performances and characters feel a bit imprisoned by the walls of the film frame." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 91%
| Sleeping Beauty (1959) | "
One of the handful of Disney features that can be rightfully called perfect." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 91%
| Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) | "
Even when director Lee Daniels overplays his hand the worst, the film is always wholly worthy of discussion." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 87%
| Lady and the Tramp (1955) | "
Easily the most beautifully-animated piece to come out of the Disney Studios since the Golden Age ended." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| N/A | Dream Lover (1986) | "
[The filmmakers] wager everything on the audience finding mid-'80s dream research to be the height of compelling cinema." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 83%
| Peter Pan (1953) | "
Not an especially mature film, probably the most "kiddie movie" of all the 1950s Disney features." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 47%
| The Box (2009) | "
Impales itself on the smug awareness of how stuffed full of extraordinarily twisty ideas it is, without bothering to make sure that those ideas add up to anything halfway worthwhile." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 10, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 81%
| Alice in Wonderland (1951) | "
An emotionally chilly exercise... At the same time it is gorgeous indeed, one of the most singular movies in the Disney canon visually." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 10, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
The biggest surprise... is that it isn't absolutely dreadful. Perfectly pointless, maybe, but not dreadful." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 9, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 92%
| Cinderella (1950) | "
Great animation, but not quite as great as the pre-war standard; deeply problematic gender issues in a reed-thin story; some brilliant characters, a lot of fairly dull ones." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 9, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 100%
| Intermezzo (1939) | "
It is first and best an Ingrid Bergman delivery system, and you can never really have too much of that, wouldn't you agree?" — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 89%
| The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) | "
The most competently animated of all the package films, and for the Disney animators in their prime, mere competence was a surpassingly high mark." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 88%
| Melody Time (1948) | "
A film much more entertaining than you'd expect, even if only two of its seven sequences individually reach classic status." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten 6/10
| Fresh 67%
| Fun and Fancy Free (1947) | "
If it wasn't already obvious from glancing at the studio's other work from around the same period, this would be proof enough that the steam was starting to go out of Disney's art." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Fresh 81%
| Sophie's Choice (1982) | "
A suffocating 151 minutes long, with a healthy portion of that running time devoted to a hunk of Holocausploitation of the most crass and cynical variety. And that's the good part." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 5, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 67%
| Make Mine Music (1946) | "
One of the saddest little orphans in the whole of the Disney animated features canon... though the film hits more than it misses over the course of its ten sequences." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 78%
| Bronson (2009) | "
[Tom Hardy gives] one of the best performances of the year, maybe. It is certainly one of the most committed." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 87%
| The Three Caballeros (1945) | "
By far the strangest feature-length movie in the history of the Walt Disney Company, with virtually every new minute bringing something more insanely creative than the last." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 3, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Fresh 70%
| Saludos Amigos (1943) | "
Not a well-remembered bit of Disneyana, and I am not prepared to argue against the justice of that fact." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 2, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 49%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
It doesn't add up to more than an elaborate punking, and... I don't understand who it is that's being punked. Von Trier's detractors? His fans? Charlotte Gainsbourg?" — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 2, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 89%
| Bambi (1942) | "
Vies only with Pinocchio as the most technically accomplished work of animation to come from the studio's Golden Age... the last gasp of a maturity and gravity that would immediately disappear from Disney's features." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 2, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 91%
| Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) | "
While the the film is representative of the absolute worst of Universal horror... it is one of the very best Abbott and Costello vehicles." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Nov 1, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 97%
| Dumbo (1941) | "
One of the most emotionally potent of all animated movies; I might be inclined to say, of all movies, period." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 31, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 98%
| Fantasia (1940) | "
Ribboned with flaws both impossibly minor and embarrassingly large, but it surely must count as one of the most visually stunning American movies ever made." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 31, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Rotten 57%
| House of Dracula (1945) | "
At least the weirdness gives it a surprising, fresh edge that might as well pass for good by this point in the cycle." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 31, 2009 |
Rotten 3/10
| Fresh 60%
| House of Frankenstein (1944) | "
71 incomprehensible minutes of the very worst Universal had to offer." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 62%
| Son of Dracula (1943) | "
While it is quite silly and suffers from one of the worst casting decisions in the 33 year history of the classic Universal horror, Son of Dracula is actually halfway decent." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 29, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 100%
| Pinocchio (1940) | "
One of the crown jewels of American cinema, and arguably the most beautiful animated movie in history." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 29, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 30%
| Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) | "
Pretty much the end of Universal's horror line as a home for even the vaguest kind of serious filmmaking." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 29, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 94%
| An Education (2009) | "
A standard-issue coming-of-age story done well enough and without distinction." — Antagony & Ecstasy Posted Oct 28, 2009 |
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