Fresh B
| Rotten 16%
| Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) | "
Mr. Perry's irrepressible energy and rapid-fire wit bring Robin Williams to mind." Posted Feb 24, 2005 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 60%
| Voices Of Iraq (2006) | "
An extraordinary, up-to-the-minute tapestry that ranges all over this country of 25 million people and carries the force of revelation." Posted Oct 28, 2004 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 51%
| Woman, Thou Art Loosed (2004) | "
For the Rev. Jakes, Jesus is the way out. But on film, that message comes across with more subtlety and tenderness than the grind of the touring gospel musical can muster." Posted Sep 30, 2004 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 82%
| Broadway: The Golden Age (2004) | "
Manages to immerse us in the moment, Broadway from the late '40s to the mid-'60s, even if we weren't there." Posted Jun 24, 2004 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 18%
| Confusion of Genders (2003) | "
We wander through Alain's life just as he does, never satisfied, and perhaps marveling at how dull bisexual promiscuity actually seems to be." Posted Oct 16, 2003 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 62%
| Camp (2003) | "
Its earnest acting and brimming-over love for musicals are infectious, and most of its shopworn narrative devices play as tribute rather than trite." Posted Aug 15, 2003 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 67%
| Sade (2002) | "
Sade is Quills without the hyperbole and melodrama." Posted Mar 6, 2003 |
Fresh C+
| Rotten 18%
| Love in the Time of Money (2002) | "
The overall fabric is hypnotic, and Mr. Mattei fosters moments of spontaneous intimacy." Posted Dec 5, 2002 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 0%
| Mr. Smith Gets a Hustler (2002) | "
Though it pretends to expose the life of male hustlers, it's exploitive without being insightful." Posted Oct 31, 2002 |
Fresh C+
| Rotten 51%
| Paid in Full (2002) | "
Performances are strong, especially that of Mr. Wood." Posted Oct 24, 2002 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 75%
| ivans xtc. (2002) | "
A triumph, relentless and beautiful in its downbeat darkness." Posted Oct 17, 2002 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 51%
| The Man from Elysian Fields (2002) | "
The actors are appealing, but Elysian Fields is idiotic and absurdly sentimental." Posted Oct 17, 2002 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 18%
| Just a Kiss (2002) | "
Overembellished to distraction." Posted Oct 17, 2002 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 84%
| Notorious C.H.O. The Movie (2002) | "
Preserves some indelible new routines." Posted Sep 12, 2002 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 61%
| Les Destinees (2002) | "
The movie is relentlessly gorgeous, and brims over with color, light and movement like a room-filling Monet canvas." Posted Sep 12, 2002 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 50%
| The Chateau (2002) | "
Has the gritty look of a Dogma film, which shows what the movement's influence has been reduced to: a trendy look, not a set of principles for honest, no-frills filmmaking." Posted Aug 29, 2002 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 72%
| Happy Times (2002) | "
The performances are winning all around. And the comic, slice-of-life feel is charming, but takes a hike as the film progresses." Posted Aug 22, 2002 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 69%
| Dahmer (2002) | "
Renner's performance as Dahmer is unforgettable, deeply absorbing." Posted Aug 8, 2002 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 75%
| Arthur Dong: Family Fundamentals () | "
The film is almost eerily calm and refuses to take sides. But that lets its insights penetrate all the deeper." Posted Jul 25, 2002 |
Fresh B+
| Rotten 39%
| Sex With Strangers (2002) | "
It's both degrading and strangely liberating to see people working so hard at leading lives of sexy intrigue, only to be revealed by the dispassionate Gantz brothers as ordinary, pasty lumpen." Posted Jun 6, 2002 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 30%
| Very Annie Mary (2001) | "
The movie would seem less of a trifle if Ms. Sugarman followed through on her defiance of the saccharine." Posted May 9, 2002 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 34%
| Crush (2002) | "
A guilty pleasure." Posted Apr 18, 2002 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 68%
| Chop Suey (2001) | "
It's as amusing, varied and instantly forgettable as an issue of Vanity Fair or Vogue, minus the fragrance samples." Posted Apr 4, 2002 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 77%
| The Turandot Project (2001) | Turandot emerges triumphant, but by the time it does, Mr. Zhang looks considerably older. Posted Feb 14, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| In July (2000) | "
Sometimes forced, but nearly as charming as it tries to be, which is very." Posted Jan 10, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Intimacy (2001) | "
It's when the actors are working at a deeper, wordless level that Intimacy really distinguishes itself." Posted Dec 13, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 69%
| The Adventures of Felix (2001) | "
We realize early on that nothing much is going to happen ... and it's hard to stay fully engaged with a film that, frontal nudity notwithstanding, plays it so safe." Posted Dec 6, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) | "
Brimming over with unforgettable gags and baroquely nonsensical insults." Posted Sep 6, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Coyote Ugly (2000) | "
Everything about Coyote Ugly is taken from the cliché catalog." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| Down to You (2000) | "
There's little chemistry between co-stars Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| Drowning Mona (2000) | "
Too bland to be repulsive." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Rotten 32%
| Price of Glory (2000) | "
Among boxing movies, Raging Bull remains the all-time champ at breaking the mold. But Price of Glory fills it well." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Red Planet (2000) | "
Red Planet is cluttered with too many threats and too many implausible solutions." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Rotten 45%
| The Cell (2000) | "
Often- spectacular visuals that recall the work of the creepily eccentric British animation team the Brothers Quay." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| The Ladies Man (2000) | "
The Ladies Man joins the crop of terrible movies based on Saturday Night Live skits, and offers serious competition for a title as the worst." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Rotten 8%
| Turn It Up (2000) | "
In his first acting job, Ja Rule reveals a magnetic presence, smoldering with rage and eroticism." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Whipped (2000) | "
This is an adolescents' view of the grown-up world, created as if by someone who loves to talk about sex, but doesn't quite understand how it actually works." Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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