Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Flyboys (2006) | "
Among these combatants, you won't find much All Quiet on the Western Front–style despair, and the paths of glory are unsullied by doubt or disillusionment." — Village Voice Posted Sep 19, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| The Illusionist (2006) | "
These resolutely old-fashioned elements might not work at all in a less well-crafted movie. But this entertaining tale of wizardry and lost love vaporizes even our most serious doubts." — Village Voice Posted Aug 15, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| Step Up (2006) | "
Fletcher ably blends ballet and hip-hop, but the filming itself is often clumsy, and Tatum's relentless African American impersonation quickly wears out its welcome." — Village Voice Posted Aug 15, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| The Blood of My Brother: A Story of Death in Iraq (2006) | "
[The filmmakers'] access is far broader than any TV network’s, and in the end, they transcended the body counts and bland abstractions that characterize most Western reporting on the war." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 27, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Scoop (2006) | "
It not only lacks the verve and energy of Allen's best New York–based work, it feels culturally adrift, like some bewildered tourist trying to read a city map held upside down." — Village Voice Posted Jul 25, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 48%
| Beowulf & Grendel (2005) | "
Thus does Beowulf collide with postmodern punk sensibility." — Village Voice Posted Jul 5, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006) | "
This intermittently fascinating documentary chronicles the rise and fall of the Cosmos--which is also the rise and fall of U.S. soccer." — Village Voice Posted Jul 5, 2006 |
— | Rotten 55%
| The King (2006) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Jul 1, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Waist Deep (2006) | "
For its ever shifting attitudes toward men, women, and murder, Waist Deep is one of the sloppiest movies ever to reach the screen." — Village Voice Posted Jun 27, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 18%
| RevoLOUtion (2006) | "
Be aware that RevoLOUtion is a remarkably well-made 75-minute inspiromercial." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 9, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Goal! (2006) | "
Aside from a flirtation with the hot-button immigration issue, this inspirational movie about an underdog soccer player from tough East Los Angeles is pretty standard stuff." — L.A. Weekly Posted May 11, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Russian Dolls (2006) | "
Those who loved the original Auberge will likely be eager to book rooms once again." — Village Voice Posted May 9, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| Silent Hill (2006) | "
Stuffed with cheap effects and devoid of tension, this French-Japanese-U.S. co-production contributes exactly zilch to the rich film history of those three nations." — Village Voice Posted May 2, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Water (2006) | "
This work of gorgeous fury, about the virtual imprisonment of millions of Hindu widows in the years before independence, transforms Mehta's feminist rage into an eloquent testament to the hunger for freedom." — Village Voice Posted Apr 25, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| The Sentinel (2006) | "
[The film] has more holes than Bush's war plan and employs less fluent English." — Village Voice Posted Apr 25, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Sir! No Sir! (2006) | "
As it is, this one is compelling enough, a potent mix of outrage, residual anger, and sorrow that speaks not just to the legacy of our misadventures in Vietnam, but to the entire uncertain future of a nation at war." — Village Voice Posted Apr 18, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| Monster-in-Law (2005) | "
Billed as a comedy, this low-wattage sitcom is both ill-tempered and mean-spirited -- not least when it's cracking anti-gay jokes and making snide suggestions about incest." — Dallas Observer Posted May 13, 2005 |
— | Rotten 39%
| Kingdom of Heaven (2005) |
Click here to read article — Dallas Observer Posted May 13, 2005 |
— | Rotten 50%
| We're No Angels (1989) |
Click here to read article — Dallas Observer Posted May 6, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Dot the I (2005) | "
If you find dense, self-conscious mystification decorated with all kinds of fashionable postmodern gimmicks more than a bit annoying, best to look elsewhere." — Dallas Observer Posted Apr 23, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Dust to Glory (2005) | "
94 minutes' worth of mind-numbing repetition, complete with a musical score seemingly lifted from reality TV." — Dallas Observer Posted Apr 9, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| You I Love (2005) | "
The whole thing has a dour resolve that undermines its attempts at humor." — Dallas Observer Posted Mar 25, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Downfall (2005) | "
Downfall doesn't provide much new material, but it should prove valuable for generations as a historical document, despite its several odd stances." — Dallas Observer Posted Mar 13, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Imaginary Heroes (2004) | "
Whatever kudos go to Harris for the length of his reach tend to be overshadowed by inexperience and enslavement to genre." — Dallas Observer Posted Feb 25, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Million Dollar Baby (2004) | "
It's difficult not to admire Eastwood's dogged (and likely painful) pursuit of real life and authentic emotion." — Dallas Observer Posted Jan 15, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Coach Carter (2005) | "
Not even Jackson's thundering dynamism lifts the drama from mediocrity." — Dallas Observer Posted Jan 14, 2005 |
— | Fresh 69%
| Closer (2004) |
Click here to read article — Dallas Observer Posted Dec 11, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| After the Sunset (2004) | "
The witless inanity of After the Sunset is so numbing that the sole reason for any living creature to sit through it is to marvel at the speed and variety of actress Salma Hayek's costume changes." — Dallas Observer Posted Nov 12, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 69%
| Criminal (2004) | "
It instantly earns a place alongside Jim McBride's pointless American take on Godard's Breathless on Hollywood's long, long shelf of misguided remakes." — Dallas Observer Posted Sep 10, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Without A Paddle (2004) | "
Summer movies don't get much sillier or more empty-headed than Without a Paddle." — Dallas Observer Posted Aug 20, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| Collateral (2004) | "
Cruise has almost nothing going for him this time around in the way of props, and even less than usual in the way of character." — Dallas Observer Posted Aug 6, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Riding Giants (2004) | "
If you are willing to accept Peralta's rather blinkered notion of American history you will probably embrace Riding Giants with the passion of a true believer. If not, you might see it as another engaging sermon delivered by a slightly crazed missionary." — Dallas Observer Posted Aug 6, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| The Terminal (2004) | "
Thanks to Spielberg's vivid storytelling and Hanks' matchless gift for bringing the common man to life, this is a relentlessly charming movie." — Dallas Observer Posted Jun 17, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Troy (2004) | "
Classicists won't learn much about Greek culture, or even pick up a decent recipe for moussaka, but as all-out, big-budget action movies that are set 3,200 years in the past go, this one will do just fine." — Dallas Observer Posted May 14, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2004) | "
This vivid examination of brotherly love and its consequences never stints on the complexities of the heart or the fascinating ambiguities of life." — Dallas Observer Posted Apr 23, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Broken Wings (2004) | "
This is a movie with four children at hand, but its views of ambiguity and human complexity are distinctly grown-up." — Dallas Observer Posted Apr 16, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Connie and Carla (2004) | "
A penny-dreadful imitation of one of Hollywood's most inimitable comedies." — Dallas Observer Posted Apr 16, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Kitchen Stories (2004) | "
If you're in the mood for a quiet, beautifully acted little drama, liberally spiked with comedy, about the universal desires of the human heart, this may be the obscure gem you're looking for." — Dallas Observer Posted Mar 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Hidalgo (2004) | "
Director Joe Johnston ... screenwriter John Fusco ... and God knows who else have packed it with clumsy endorsements of America's current adventures in the Middle East." — Dallas Observer Posted Mar 6, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Against the Ropes (2003) | "
Ryan's mannered toughness looks like play-acting, and she never quite convinces us she's seen the inside of a fight gym, much less that she's worthy to be Rocky in a miniskirt." — Dallas Observer Posted Feb 20, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Touching the Void (2004) | "
Moral quandaries and the insouciance of youth aside, Void has to be the most dangerous-looking, thrill-packed mountaineering movie ever made." — Dallas Observer Posted Feb 14, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Bus 174 (2003) | "
Whatever your political stripe happens to be, or your views on the responsibilities of government, this is provocative stuff." — Dallas Observer Posted Feb 7, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| The Big Bounce (2004) | "
Elmore Leonard gets another check, but he deserves better, even 35 years after the fact." — Dallas Observer Posted Jan 31, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| House of Sand and Fog (2003) | "
This is not pleasant stuff, but it's important, and thoroughly heart-wrenching." — Dallas Observer Posted Dec 25, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Cold Mountain (2003) | "
It's grand-scale moviemaking you can feel in your heart and in your gut -- at once stirringly romantic and ruthlessly counter-romantic, just like the ambitious Charles Frazier best seller from which it was adapted." — Dallas Observer Posted Dec 25, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| The Cooler (2003) | "
The film might work just fine were it not for that huge lump of sunny, school-play redemption it asks us to swallow." — Dallas Observer Posted Dec 19, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| The Barbarian Invasions (2003) | "
Arcand loyalists are bound to miss Rémy, but at least he goes out in style. Even the antagonists will have to admit that." — Dallas Observer Posted Dec 19, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| The Last Samurai (2003) | "
For 144 endless minutes, director Edward Zwick reduces to big-budget American schlock the ancient warrior codes and thrilling battle sequences that Akira Kurosawa and other Japanese filmmakers brought so vividly to the screen." — Dallas Observer Posted Dec 5, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Autumn Spring (2003) | "
Without resorting to schmaltz or sticky pathos, director Vladimir Michalek fashions an allegory about aging, friendship and love that equals the best American movies on those tricky subjects, from Cocoon to On Golden Pond." — Dallas Observer Posted Nov 15, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Shattered Glass (2003) | "
A deeply unsettling tale." — Dallas Observer Posted Nov 14, 2003 |
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