Fresh 5/6
| Fresh 86%
| Treeless Mountain (2009) | "
[An] affecting, semiautobiographical story of two sisters from Seoul who are abandoned by their parents at a brutally tender age." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/6
| Rotten 36%
| The Perfect Sleep (2009) | "
Alter’s film is a rare pleasure." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 25, 2009 |
Rotten 3/6
| Rotten 7%
| Reunion (2009) | "
As well versed in these characters and their milieu as Hruska may be, their dilemmas seem guessed-at rather than lived." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 33%
| Sherman's Way (2009) | "
A victim of its own bad timing, Craig M. Saavedra’s buddy-comedy-cum-road-trip-flick might’ve had a chance back before the world started going to hell." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 88%
| Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead (2009) | "
Blecker’s climactic nighttime encounter with garden-variety execution advocates offers a resolution-by-proxy of the duo’s bizarre waltz, as well as a powerful home truth." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 26, 2009 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 93%
| Must Read After My Death (2009) | "
A fascinating chronicle of a 1960s nuclear family coming apart at the seams, abetted by psychotherapeutic fads, institutionalized sexism and the looming countercultural A-bomb." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
Rotten 2/6
| Fresh 78%
| The Panic in Needle Park (1971) | "
The movie’s well-fed, camera-loving cast and general air of self-satisfied slumming reveal Panic for what it is: the kind of drug movie a pair of Malibu intellectuals and a fashion photographer would cook up." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/6
| Rotten 38%
| The Toe Tactic (2008) | "
The Toe Tactic doesn’t amount to much more than its playful title implies, and it’s as edgeless as can be, but there’s a quiet power to its observations on the complicated schematics of human grief." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 29, 2009 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 84%
| Cherry Blossoms (2009) | "
All but remaking the 1953 art-house classic Tokyo Story in its first third, Cherry Blossoms fortunately sidesteps rank mimicry in favor of wry homage and something more." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 66%
| What Doesn't Kill You (2008) | "
Its modesty and understated detail lend moral weight to the mooks’ deeds, and make the burgeoning self-awareness and -- you guessed it -- redemption of one of them actually feel earned." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 10, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 36%
| Adam Resurrected (2008) | "
The director’s absent conviction fails to make the film’s absurdities tragic, and instead comes close to rendering its tragedies absurd." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 10, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 55%
| Special (2008) | "
Special is an inexplicable downer that favors pathos over satire." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 20, 2008 |
Fresh 3/6
| Rotten 58%
| The Dukes (2008) | "
Unforced camaraderie and some effective slapstick save this low-aspiration vehicle from its budgetary shortcomings." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 29%
| House of the Sleeping Beauties (2007) | "
A meandering, self-indulgent rumination on old age, death and unfulfillable desire, German actor-director Vadim Glowna’s adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata’s surreal, ironic short story gets everything but the surrealism and irony right." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 94%
| Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) | "
An agile, dizzyingly thorough tear-wringer that’s equal parts memorial, crime drama and legal-reform tract, Dear Zachary handily trumps Capturing the Friedmans as the most searingly personal doc of the past half decade." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Fresh 5/6
| Fresh 63%
| One Day You'll Understand (2008) | "
[A] counterintuitive, diligently understated exploration of the legacy of anti-Semitism in a mixed-religion, middle-class French family." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 91%
| Stranded (2008) | "
What makes Stranded reverberate are the piercing ironies that surface -- from one interviewee’s casual snacking as he discusses his ordeal, to the ritualistic, eateth-my-flesh, drinketh-my-blood connotations of the team’s moniker: the Old Christians." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 22, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 50%
| Battle in Seattle (2008) | "
The intent may be to provide distance between topic and teller, but the result is more wishy-washy than neutrally clarifying." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 17, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Fresh 66%
| Ping Pong Playa (2007) | "
The setup has been trotted out a million times before, and the movie’s novel SoCal Chinese-American milieu only partially excuses the familiarity." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 4, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Fresh 67%
| One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story (2008) | "
Confessions like "God and art saved the Reverend Albert" beg for more interrogation than director Thomas G. Miller seems to have in him." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 14, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Fresh 75%
| A Man Named Pearl (2008) | "
Overlong by half and upbeat to a fault." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 16, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 84%
| Kabluey (2008) | "
Pulls off what may be the best evocation of contemporary alienation in a movie so far this year." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 2, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 9%
| Red Roses and Petrol (2008) | "
As bland and effortless to consume as a Fig Newton (sickly sweet goo included), this rote entry in the dysfunctional-family-gathers-at-a-funeral genre makes no demands on its viewers beyond a limp appeal to the tear ducts." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 82%
| All In This Tea (2008) | "
Despite its omissions, the movie is as quietly gaga as its human protagonist and as gently stimulating as its agricultural one." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 75%
| The Last Mistress (2008) | "
It captures the absurd dimensions of romance with immediacy and unexpected compassion." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 26, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 90%
| Operation Filmmaker (2008) | "
A blunt, bitterly ironic snapshot of cultural misinterpretation and personal hubris, Nina Davenport’s Operation Filmmaker slyly plumbs the motivations of indie Hollywood do-goodism for uncomfortable parallels to blinkered neocon nation-building." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 5, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 48%
| Before the Rains (2008) | "
No amount of lingering shots of nature’s rich pageant can make up for its lack of human involvement." — Time Out New York Posted May 8, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 90%
| Refusenik (2008) | "
Visually and intellectually brisk, the movie is as lively as its subjects’ gumption is humbling." — Time Out New York Posted May 8, 2008 |
Fresh 5/6
| Fresh 88%
| The Unforeseen (2007) | "
Plainspoken yet urgent, it makes the wrist-slashingly depressing topic of real-estate development somehow transcendent." — Time Out New York Posted May 2, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 100%
| Hollywood Chinese: The Chinese in American Feature Films (2008) | "
Just in time for China’s (sometimes warranted) resurgence in the press as global bogeyman, Arthur Dong’s survey of Chinese-Americans’ prickly relationship with Hollywood is a fascinating exploration of the intricacies of cultural assimilation." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 30, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 14%
| First Sunday (2008) | "
Grafting moral uplift on to a slapstick caper with mixed results, this nevertheless captures some of the giddy eccentricity of the Ealing comedies it haphazardly resembles." — Time Out Posted Mar 28, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 86%
| My Brother Is An Only Child (2006) | "
Despite its charged historical backdrop, [director] Luchetti keeps My Brother light and snappy without sacrificing narrative tension." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 27, 2008 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 79%
| The Bank Job (2008) | "
Donaldson builds enough tension and draws enough humor from the situation to cover such lapses." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 6, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 75%
| City of Men (2008) | "
By accentuating the humor and humanity of people stuck in desperate circumstances instead of fetishizing the violence that surrounds them, City of Men serves as a belated corrective to its predecessor." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 28, 2008 |
Fresh 3/6
| Rotten 54%
| Charlie Bartlett (2007) | "
What more could one ask of a nostalgia trip?" — Time Out New York Posted Feb 21, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Fresh 60%
| Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness (2007) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Jan 31, 2008 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 98%
| Nanking (2007) | "
Thankfully, the clarity of the impressions the actors vocalize withstands the gimmickry." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 31, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Rotten 14%
| Untraceable (2008) | "
An effective, surprisingly controlled psychological thriller. All that’s required to fully enjoy it is a cast-iron stomach for gore and a pitch-black view of human nature." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 24, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 84%
| Primo Levi's Journey (2007) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 28%
| Trade (2007) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Fresh 76%
| Meeting Resistance (2007) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Dec 13, 2007 |
Rotten 2/6
| Fresh 60%
| What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) | "
All the film seems capable of proving is that performance art makes a dubious vehicle for social change, and sustaining a joke past its breaking point is no less stultifying in the service of good." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 29, 2007 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 65%
| Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007) | "
Goran Dukic's Shaggy yet assured Wristcutters manages to draw humor and warmth from [its] premise, while finding pathos in what could’ve been a vapid, high-concept lark." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 18, 2007 |
Rotten 3/6
| Rotten 16%
| The Condemned (2007) | "
The Condemned sprays its fury wide: media manipulators, political opportunists and technology-pacified couch potatoes are among the collaterally damaged. Paying audiences don’t get off so easy either." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 22, 2007 |
Rotten 3/6
| Rotten 46%
| Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007) | "
Its running time painfully accentuates the premise’s thinness." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 22, 2007 |
Rotten 3/6
| Fresh 74%
| Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2007) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Sep 22, 2007 |
Rotten 1/6
| Fresh 82%
| Into the Wild (2007) | "
Penn’s entitled to his reading of McCandless’s story, of course, but envisioning it as a Stations of the Cross with a backpack is bizarre and disrespectful." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 20, 2007 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 64%
| King of California (2007) | "
Weirdly captivating." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 13, 2007 |
Fresh 3/6
| Rotten 17%
| Illegal Tender (2007) | "
It’s hard to shake the impression that this movie has the sort of penny-pinching authenticity Quentin Tarantino’s been trying for his entire career." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 30, 2007 |
Rotten 3/6
| Fresh 88%
| Quiet City (2007) | "
Proof positive that life’s mundanities are even more tedious projected onto a movie screen." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 30, 2007 |
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