— | Fresh 91%
| There Will Be Blood (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) | "
For people who take their movies seriously, a quick course in Romanian might now be necessary -- and so is a trip to the theater to see 4 Months." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008) | "
As if playing a serenely refined game, Hou transforms constraint into freedom -- which feels more to the point than any plotbound interpretation." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Fresh 92%
| Shakespeare Behind Bars (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Zodiac (2007) | "
Zodiac is, as everyone says, an unusually complex and ambitious true-crime story, and (more important) a deeply engaging study of three obsessed men." Posted Oct 18, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| 12:08 East of Bucharest (2007) | "
You will laugh till the streetlights blink on again in the damp Romanian twilight." Posted Oct 6, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Knocked Up (2007) | "
I chuckled some; I smiled a lot." Posted Sep 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| 3:10 to Yuma (2007) | "
The studiousness, or maybe affectation, that has informed Mangold's visual style has now been applied to the reproduction of classic Western moviemaking." Posted Sep 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun (2006) | "
A sly, quiet documentary." Posted Sep 1, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Simpsons Movie (2007) | "
Is The Simpsons Movie funny? ...Yes -- but not as funny as it is wide." Posted Aug 18, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) | "
The Bourne Ultimatum gives you the satisfaction of seeing conventions fulfilled, then exceeded." Posted Aug 18, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 81%
| Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007) | "
God must love summer movies, since He designed my nervous system so the frontal lobes could be left idle while the core delights in bursts of pulsing orange fireballs set against an otherwise gun-metal palette. But we must evolve!" Posted Jul 21, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Paprika (2007) | "
Paprika stays in your mind as pure freedom and pure exhilaration." Posted Jul 17, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Czech Dream (2007) | "
Some of this is hilarious, and some appalling." Posted Jun 30, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Sicko (2007) | "
What will you see in Sicko? Heartbroken, worried, angry, feisty, funny and valiant people. They're irrefutable." Posted Jun 30, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| A Mighty Heart (2007) | "
About a search and not a discovery; about the value of an individual life and the reality of multitudes." Posted Jun 30, 2007 |
— | Fresh 95%
| U-Carmen (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Jun 9, 2007 |
— | Fresh 88%
| Poison Friends (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Jun 2, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Spider-Man 3 (2007) | "
Don't even expect coherence." Posted May 19, 2007 |
— | Fresh 90%
| The Bridesmaid (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted May 5, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Offside (2006) | "
You will probably have a ball with Offside, as you get to know the characters, marvel at their get-ups, share in their boisterous defiance and at last watch them join the celebration." Posted Mar 31, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Killer of Sheep (1977) | "
Killer of Sheep is one of those rare films that's so substantial, you feel you could walk around it, test its weight, observe how firmly and forthrightly it meets the ground." Posted Mar 31, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| The Host (2007) | "
The Host is many things, some of them icky. Above all, though, it is the story of how these slapstick figures rise painfully to the level of competence, and beyond." Posted Mar 18, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007) | "
The grain of the title puts me in mind of everything that nourishes you in the film: its frankness, probity, care and intelligence, offered not just in crumbs but as a whole loaf. I wish this could be our daily bread." Posted Mar 18, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| The Namesake (2007) | "
There are weddings, parties and a funeral in the movie. Nair knows exactly what to do with these. As a director, she has the instincts of a great hostess -- which I mean as high praise." Posted Mar 18, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (2007) | "
Recognizing that Zbanic had flattered only her characters and not me, I decided this young filmmaker might be allowed room to grow, despite her awards." Posted Feb 17, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Lives of Others (2006) | "
I like melodramas. I also like the way this one downplays the dashing, conventional hero in favor of zipped-up Wiesler, who has understood (rather late, I think) that his bosses have no principles, only power." Posted Feb 17, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Letters From Iwo Jima (2006) | "
What emerges most powerfully, though, is an intimate sense of sorrow, and of decency. If there is any chance that popular American cinema will continue to be an art form, then I bet Eastwood's Iwo Jima films will stand as a monumental achievement." Posted Jan 13, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Pan's Labyrinth (2006) | "
The magic that many films promise actually works in Pan's Labyrinth." Posted Jan 13, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 32%
| The Good German (2006) | "
You may notice that Soderbergh, for all his intelligence, hasn't gotten beneath the surface of his stock figures, into the lived experience that might underlie them." Posted Dec 30, 2006 |
— | Rotten 51%
| Fast Food Nation (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted Dec 30, 2006 |
— | Fresh 62%
| The History Boys (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted Dec 30, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Inland Empire (2006) | "
Though certain of his fans may stare mistakenly at his narrative threads, hoping for a pattern to emerge, wiser moviegoers know that Lynch just wants to pull the rug out from under them. Then he slips it back under their feet so he can pull it again." Posted Dec 30, 2006 |
— | Rotten 31%
| Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted Dec 30, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Blood Diamond (2006) | "
How do the stars of Blood Diamond make so many improbable escapes from hails of bullets? You'd think the movie ought to be called Near-Death Experience." Posted Dec 30, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Flags of Our Fathers (2006) | "
Flags of Our Fathers happens to be very good: intelligent, compelling, lovingly made and strikingly appropriate to our present moment in history." Posted Nov 25, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| For Your Consideration (2006) | "
The goings-on in For Your Consideration are as uproariously funny as in any of Guest's films to date; and thanks to O'Hara's genius, they're a little heartbreaking, too." Posted Nov 25, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) | "
Jentsch keep[s] up a subtle, restrained performance while the movie Nazis around her are screaming themselves red in the face. She succeeds beyond all expectation." Posted Nov 25, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) | "
Borat is the movie of the year, the picture that makes all other films irrelevant." Posted Nov 25, 2006 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Our Daily Bread (1934) |
Click here to read article Posted Nov 25, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Duck Season (2006) | "
Lovingly cast, suavely directed and always pitched perfectly, whatever its tone, Duck Season is the kind of small, quiet, thoughtful movie that ought to be as abundant as Sunday afternoons." Posted Nov 11, 2006 |
— | Fresh 80%
| The President's Last Bang (2005) |
Click here to read article Posted Nov 11, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Climates (2006) | "
[The Film's] most powerful forces are confused, unstoppable desires." Posted Nov 11, 2006 |
— | Rotten 50%
| Blossoms of Fire (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted Nov 11, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| The Da Vinci Code (2006) | "
They make fun of you for watching their movies, and still they get paid!" Posted Nov 11, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) | "
It is spendthrift in budget yet cautious in style, steadfast in holding to Lewis's imagination yet timorous about using any of its own." Posted Nov 11, 2006 |
— | N/A | Toro Negro (2005) |
Click here to read article Posted Nov 11, 2006 |
— | Rotten 35%
| Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) |
Click here to read article Posted Nov 11, 2006 |
— | Fresh 97%
| Iron Island (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted Nov 11, 2006 |
— | Fresh 63%
| Excellent Cadavers (1999) |
Click here to read article Posted Nov 11, 2006 |
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