Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Butterfly (1982) | "
A most entertainingly sleazy melodrama." Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
— | Fresh 83%
| The Chess Players (1977) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | N/A | La Luna (1979) |
Click here to read article Posted Jul 16, 2008 |
— | N/A | Night and Fog in Japan (1960) |
Click here to read article Posted Jul 16, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Taking Off (1971) | "
Mr. Forman's specialty is tender farce played out in what are, essentially, very bleak circumstances." Posted Jun 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 82%
| Black Rain (1989) |
Click here to read article Posted Jun 3, 2008 |
— | N/A | Bless Their Little Hearts (1984) |
Click here to read article Posted May 6, 2008 |
— | Rotten 30%
| Flight of the Intruder (1991) |
Click here to read article Posted Apr 14, 2008 |
— | N/A | How to Commit Marriage (1969) |
Click here to read article Posted Apr 14, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Fast Break (1979) | "
As do some of our most popular standup comedians, Mr. Kaplan sort of floats over his material, always in charge of it, but never deeply involved. This is not a rebuke." Posted Mar 24, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 85%
| The Exorcist (1973) | "
The Exorcist is not an unintelligently put-together film, which makes one all the more impatient with it." Posted Mar 19, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 80%
| Semi-Tough (1977) | "
Semi-Tough pokes fun in rambling fashion, but it is vulgar in intelligent ways and almost always amusing in its perceptions of befuddled people who are perfectly healthy but often convinced they're not." Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 20%
| I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) | "
I'm not very fond of this sort of moviemaking, which tries to disarm conventional criticism by exploiting formlessness as meaningful itself, but I like Sjoman's sense of humor and sense of humanity, and his obvious affection for Lena." Posted Jan 22, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| N/A | Edith and Marcel (1983) | "
All-awful." Posted Jan 15, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 20%
| La Bonne Anne (1973) | "
It bubbles occasionally, but like low-calorie club soda." Posted Jan 15, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Robert Et Robert (1979) | "
They are good company." Posted Jan 15, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | Death Hunt (1981) | "
Nothing in Death Hunt makes a great deal of sense, though the scenery is rugged and the snowscapes beautiful." Posted Dec 26, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 0%
| Incredible Shrinking Woman (1980) | "
The film's major difficulty is the screenplay by Jane Wagner." Posted Dec 10, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Trafic (1971) | "
Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence." Posted Nov 14, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 50%
| Green Room (1978) | "
It is a most demanding, original work and one must meet it on its own terms, without expectations of casual pleasures." Posted Nov 13, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 17%
| The Arrangement (1969) | "
Kazan seems to have turned his search for identity into a callous soap opera, unworthy of a man of Kazan's true talent." Posted Nov 1, 2007 |
Rotten 0.5/5
| N/A | Best Defense (1984) | "
It really isn't easy to make a movie as mind-bendingly bad as Best Defense. It takes hard work, a very great deal of money and people so talented that it matters when they fail with such utter lack of distinction." Posted Oct 30, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Pratidwandi (1972) | "
The Adversary moves so quietly, with such seeming politeness to jaded film senses, that it takes a while to realize that for all its somberness it's a particularly moving comedy." Posted Oct 24, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 83%
| Oedipus Rex (1967) | "
It's not always necessary to understand Pasolini to be riveted by what he does." Posted Oct 23, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | Corruption (1968) | "
The contemporary setting works against the kind of tale that was even a bit silly in the pre-heart-transplant era." Posted Sep 29, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| 200 Motels (1971) | "
200 Motels has no particular focal point, being principally an anthology of poor jokes and spectacular audio-visual effects, a few of which might expand the mind, but all of which, taken together, are like an overdose of Novocain." Posted Sep 10, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 85%
| A Fistful of Dynamite (1971) | "
The idiosyncrasies are there, all right, but they have never seemed less interesting." Posted Sep 4, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 65%
| Prelude to a Kiss (1992) | "
This Prelude to a Kiss is not only without charm and wit, but it's also clumsily set forth: many people seeing it may wonder what, in heaven's name, is going on." Posted Aug 14, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 71%
| Face to Face (1976) | "
Mr. Bergman is more mysterious, more haunting, more contradictory than ever, though the style of the film has never been more precise, clear, levelheaded." Posted Jul 31, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Black Moon (1975) | "
There is an order to this film, but we must supply it, each according to his needs." Posted Jun 23, 2007 |
— | N/A | Max Havelaar (1976) |
Click here to read article Posted Jun 16, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | Up the Academy (1980) | "
Cheerfully and rudely haphazard." Posted May 30, 2007 |
— | N/A | Transes (1981) |
Click here to read article Posted May 12, 2007 |
— | N/A | Maidstone (1970) |
Click here to read article Posted Apr 7, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Slap Shot (1977) | "
Slap Shot has a kind of vitality to it that overwhelms most of the questions relating to consistency of character and point of view." Posted Mar 14, 2007 |
— | N/A | Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974) |
Click here to read article Posted Feb 3, 2007 |
— | N/A | The Outfit (1973) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 28, 2006 |
— | N/A | Deadfall (1968) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 14, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | The Family Game (1983) | "
The Family Game is not always easy to follow, but it's almost always funny and, from the opening shots until the last, it's a visual adventure." Posted Sep 30, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 20%
| I Love You, Alice B. Toklas (1968) | "
By the end of it I was feeling a certain amount of resentment at having been had, along with Alice B. Toklas, whose name, apparently, is to become an automatic laugh, like smog and girdle." Posted Sep 30, 2006 |
— | N/A | Vidas Secas (1963) |
Click here to read article Posted Sep 30, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | Prix De Beaute (1930) | "
Miss Brooks is a lovely, unusually idiosyncratic screen presence but the film is something of an effort to sit through." Posted Sep 30, 2006 |
— | N/A | The Children Are Watching Us (1943) |
Click here to read article Posted Sep 30, 2006 |
— | Fresh 100%
| The Puppetmaster (1993) |
Click here to read article Posted Sep 28, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 40%
| Lili Marleen (1981) | "
What is new for a Fassbinder work is that the film is far more entertaining to watch than it is interesting to speculate about. That means it's a disappointment." Posted Sep 18, 2006 |
— | N/A | The Quiet Duel (1949) |
Click here to read article Posted Sep 16, 2006 |
— | N/A | Japan Sinks (1973) |
Click here to read article Posted Sep 2, 2006 |
— | N/A | Le Couperet (2005) |
Click here to read article Posted Aug 19, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Fish Hawk (1979) | "
It's not quite a nature film, but it's not strong enough to be classified as an adventure. It's a benign, almost restful movie whose end effect may well be deep sleep." Posted Aug 19, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975) | "
Children, brought up on TV, should be dazzled by the slam-bang wit and the excellence of the animation techniques." Posted Aug 12, 2006 |
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