Fresh B
| Fresh 78%
| 1408 (2007) | "
Based on a Stephen King story, 1408 takes the simplest plot and turns it into an enjoyably surreal, unnerving creepfest." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Jun 21, 2007 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 88%
| Red Road (2007) | "
A must for movie lovers who want to see how so much drama, mystery and emotion can be created from so little." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Jun 16, 2007 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 72%
| 28 Weeks Later (2007) | "
Bloodier and more action-filled than the original, Weeks nevertheless stays faithful to the grim, grimy tone director Danny Boyle established in his 2002 film with its haunting shots of a metropolis turned into a tomb." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted May 10, 2007 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 67%
| Disturbia (2007) | "
A lot of the movie works because LaBeouf is becoming a soulful, intelligent presence on-screen." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Apr 12, 2007 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 74%
| Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2007) | "
A deconstructionist horror comedy that owes a debt to Scream and the 1992 Belgian film Man Bites Dog, Mask nevertheless has enough pitch-perfect wit to lay claim to its own patch of postmodern, movie-loving snarkiness." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Mar 22, 2007 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 84%
| Old Joy (2006) | "
Old Joy may be built around a road trip, but it's also a movie about two roads -- and two souls -- diverging." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 70%
| Backstage (2006) | "
Backstage doesn't really tell us much about the world of rock musicians, or the mental workings of their scariest fans." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Mar 8, 2007 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 100%
| Premium (2007) | "
In gasoline terms, Premium isn't. But the romantic dramedy has some high-octane emotional moments, thanks to writer-director Pete Chatmon's wise dissection of the games one-time lovers play." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 50%
| Puccini for Beginners (2007) | "
The movie offers a charming view of a small-town Manhattan where strangers constantly give Allegra romantic advice. Though that device is a little too indebted to Woody Allen, at least Maggenti does Allen a lot better than Ed Burns." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Rotten C-
| Fresh 71%
| Inland Empire (2006) | "
With Inland Empire, the whole thing feels stuck in Lynch's noggin." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Feb 8, 2007 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 78%
| Charlotte's Web (2006) | "
Some pig, in a so-so but lovingly made movie." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Dec 14, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 64%
| Apocalypto (2006) | "
There's no denying Gibson's talent behind the camera. He knows what he's doing, and does it with tremendous skill and conviction." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Dec 7, 2006 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 61%
| 10 Items or Less (2006) | "
It's a shame that at the final checkout, the movie wants to choose paper, but instead goes for plastic." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Nov 30, 2006 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 57%
| Deja Vu (2006) | "
Déjà Vu gives you the feeling that you've seen parts of this movie before. Only, the parts were all from better films." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Nov 21, 2006 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 48%
| Harsh Times (2006) | "
The film is basically a two-hour countdown to a predictable explosion. You may enjoy the ride, but you won't remember a whole lot about it farther down the road." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Nov 9, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 75%
| The Prestige (2006) | "
The movie is a mind-tickler that makes the viewer actively engage with the story and try to penetrate its elegant sleight-of-hand." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Oct 19, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 65%
| Shortbus (2006) | "
Yes, Shortbus is all about hooking up, but in emotional as much as sexual ways. That's what makes the movie engaging, and sometimes even moving." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Oct 12, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 97%
| 49 Up (2006) | "
The films have taken on an autumnal shade as we revisit people who seem quietly aware that the years behind them are more than those ahead." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Oct 5, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 69%
| Heading South (2006) | "
Exploring female desire in a way films rarely do, Heading South is a film of sometimes subtle, sometimes blunt metaphors for the interaction of rich and pauperized countries." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Sep 23, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 78%
| House of Sand (2005) | "
Rigorously structured, but with the power to shake you to the heart." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Sep 7, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Rotten 54%
| The Protector (2006) | "
This guilty-pleasure adrenaline rush has one goal in mind: to be an airtight action machine that leaves you dizzy from the crunchety-crunch-crunch of Tony Jaa as he proves himself a contender with Jackie Chan and Jet Li." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Sep 7, 2006 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 86%
| Quinceanera (2006) | "
You realize that, while pretending to break ground, Quinceañera is ultimately stuck in familiar Hollywood formulas." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Aug 31, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 84%
| The Descent (2006) | "
Marshall understands that sometimes there's nothing quite as oddly exhilarating as the bleakest, no-way-out kind of horror." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Aug 3, 2006 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 20%
| Shadowboxer (2006) | "
One of the campiest, most lushly ludicrous movies to come out in a while." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Jul 27, 2006 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 39%
| Nacho Libre (2006) | "
Sometimes it looks like a movie that was more fun to make than it is to watch." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Jun 15, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 71%
| Clean (2006) | "
Assayas' tale of the difficult search for redemption is less a standard road-to-sobriety story than a chance to marvel, close-up, at Cheung." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted May 25, 2006 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 83%
| Somersault (2006) | "
Heavy on atmosphere but very light on plot." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted May 18, 2006 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 58%
| Kinky Boots (2006) | "
Oh, do come in, love -- welcome to the Twee Brit Comedy Factory." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted May 13, 2006 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 36%
| Art School Confidential (2006) | "
It's often as naive as it is knowing and can feel as unfocused and sketchy as a film one of Strathmore's students might make." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted May 11, 2006 |
Fresh C+
| Rotten 55%
| The Notorious Bettie Page (2006) | "
... the movie's worth a look simply for Mol's career-boosting performance." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted May 6, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 42%
| Don't Come Knocking (2006) | "
The kind of movie you stretch out in, wander around, and -- like the characters onscreen -- just let happen to you." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Apr 20, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 78%
| Brick (2006) | "
What sounds like a stunt, or a genre-mashup oddity like Bugsy Malone, proves to be a sharp, tongue-in-cheek exercise, balancing deadpan menace with well-timed comedy." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Apr 6, 2006 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 50%
| Summer Storm (2006) | "
While it has little in it that hasn't been covered by other coming-out movies, it's pleasant enough." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Mar 30, 2006 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 59%
| Find Me Guilty (2006) | "
A few good performances can't carry a sluggishly written and directed movie that you may want to rename Find Me an Exit." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Mar 16, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 78%
| CSA: The Confederate States of America (2006) | "
A mockumentary often as unnerving as it is amusing, CSA: The Confederate States of America kicks off with a simple premise: What if the South had won 'the War of Northern Aggression'?" — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Mar 2, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 92%
| Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006) | "
Block Party is an easygoing, loose-limbed, big-lunged celebration of, well, celebration." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Mar 2, 2006 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 23%
| Freedomland (2005) | "
A blunt, awkward, wannabe Important Movie, Freedomland bludgeons its good ideas into a pulp of overacting, overdirection and black-and-white characterizations in a story meant to be shaded in gray." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Feb 16, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 71%
| Loggerheads (2005) | "
Despite a meandering tone, Loggerheads is consistently watchable thanks to committed actors playing recognizable, decent folks just trying to do the right thing -- or rectify mistakes of the past." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Jan 12, 2006 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 48%
| The Dying Gaul (2005) | "
Like minimalist composer Steve Reich's prickly, tense music on the soundtrack, the movie itself is too often too intellectual, experimental and abstract." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Nov 23, 2005 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 89%
| Paradise Now (2005) | "
The movie is driven by the characters' passionate, despairing arguments about the fine line between victimization and violence. But Paradise Now also has, at times, an almost surreal visual flair." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Nov 10, 2005 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 41%
| Where The Truth Lies (2005) | "
It's less a whodunnit than a whocares." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Nov 3, 2005 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 90%
| Capote (2005) | "
Hoffman goes beyond impersonation to something close to possession." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Oct 29, 2005 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 87%
| A History of Violence (2005) | "
A model of clean, lean storytelling." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Oct 2, 2005 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 95%
| Elevator to the Gallows (1957) | "
The movie's most compelling element of all is Moreau, wandering the nighttime streets trying to find her lover. It's as if she's blown from one cafe to the next on a blended wind of passion, dread and the lonely trumpet wail." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Sep 22, 2005 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 52%
| Yes (2005) | "
The actors are so committed to Potter's vision, they persuade you to go along with them." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 84%
| 2046 (2005) | "
Think of it as a visual tone poem about longing and loss, a journey through a vale of luminously beautiful tears." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Sep 1, 2005 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 64%
| 5X2 (2005) | "
A cool, sometimes chilly dissection of one couple's relationship." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Aug 18, 2005 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 59%
| Last Days (2005) | "
Shot in long, single takes, the movie willfully tests your patience. You wish it would hurry up. Yet when it ends, it haunts you for a few days. (Well, me anyway.)" — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Aug 11, 2005 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 46%
| The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005) | "
Suffers from narrative shapelessness. It's hard to tell what message Miller is trying to convey." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Apr 1, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 56%
| 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) | "
Stiles nails her feminazi, bound-for-Sarah Lawrence shtick, but just as easily melts into giggles or pulls off a slapstick drunk scene." — Atlanta Journal-Constitution Posted Mar 6, 2005 |
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