Rotten C+
| N/A | Inugami (2001) |
Click here to read article — AboutFilm.com Posted Aug 3, 2005 |
Rotten C-
| N/A | Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine in Daehakroh (2000) |
Click here to read article — AboutFilm.com Posted Jan 6, 2004 |
Fresh A-
| N/A | War and Peace (2003) | "
Superbly demonstrates the gulf between the people's will and the greed of those in power." — AboutFilm.com Posted Sep 21, 2003 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 100%
| De La Calle (2003) | "
A bleak and realistic movie... it's a shame the story is so trite." — AboutFilm.com Posted Sep 21, 2003 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 94%
| The Pinochet Case (2002) | "
The Pinochet Case would make a good double-bill with Long Night's Journey Into Day, a documentary about the public trials of Apartheid criminals in South Africa. Both films deal with forgiveness, and contend that victims can only forgive when asked." — AboutFilm.com Posted Sep 21, 2003 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 80%
| Distance (2001) | "
It's a purposely unsatisfying and ambiguous film, more intent on showing than telling." — AboutFilm.com Posted Sep 21, 2003 |
Rotten C-
| Fresh 79%
| Pistol Opera (2001) | "
From scene-to-scene it makes little sense." — AboutFilm.com Posted Sep 21, 2003 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 95%
| Infernal Affairs (2003) | "
See it before it gets remade." — AboutFilm.com Posted May 1, 2003 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 90%
| Blissfully Yours (2004) | "
Besides the flaking skin, the veggie lotion and the puppetry of the penis, not a whole lot happens in this movie." — AboutFilm.com Posted May 1, 2003 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 74%
| 8 Mile (2002) | "
It's telling that the title of the film is a geographic location, for Curtis Hanson and Scott Silver invest great care in placing this story in a specific environment." — AboutFilm.com Posted Dec 27, 2002 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 78%
| Antwone Fisher (2002) | "
Good intentions, mediocre movie." — AboutFilm.com Posted Dec 27, 2002 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 71%
| Dark Water (2002) | "
Little incidents pile up, and eventually what was strange becomes terrifying." — AboutFilm.com Posted Nov 21, 2002 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 72%
| Intacto (2002) | "
...a detour into weirdsville." — AboutFilm.com Posted Oct 20, 2002 |
Rotten F
| Rotten 14%
| The Young Unknowns (2003) | "
Deserves to remain unreleased." — AboutFilm.com Posted Oct 12, 2002 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 87%
| Hybrid () | "
The budding connection between filmmaker/grandson and subject/grandfather is ample reward for an occasionally sluggish viewing experience." — AboutFilm.com Posted Sep 14, 2002 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 100%
| Tribute (2001) | "
Hopefully, this film will find distribution!" — AboutFilm.com Posted Jun 6, 2002 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 97%
| Spirited Away (2002) | "
Absolutely teems with creativity." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jun 6, 2002 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 66%
| Me Without You (2002) | "
It drags on well past its climax, and covers too large a time period to settle into a groove." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jun 6, 2002 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 71%
| The Lady and the Duke (2002) | "
Normally, Rohmer's talky films fascinate me, but when he moves his setting to the past, and relies on a historical text, he loses the richness of characterization that makes his films so memorable." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jun 6, 2002 |
Rotten C
| N/A | The Barracks (1999) | "
There's only so much nuttiness and tribulation that I can take, and Barracks taxed my capacity for both within its first half hour." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jun 3, 2002 |
Fresh B
| N/A | Closed Doors (1999) | "
Badr goes from wide-eyed and wet-eared to wild-eyed and dogmatic with unerring conviction." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jun 3, 2002 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 82%
| Derrida (2002) | "
Asks what truth can be discerned from non-firsthand experience, and specifically questions cinema's capability for recording truth." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jun 3, 2002 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 100%
| My Voyage to Italy (2001) | "
You walk out of this movie having seen not just one great film, but many." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jun 2, 2002 |
Fresh A+
| Fresh 86%
| Rushmore (1998) | "
Recreates the contrary feelings of adolescence: teetering invincibility, boundless optimism and ambition dogged by defeat, and the swoon of discovering yourself in unguarded moments." — AboutFilm.com Posted May 27, 2002 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 80%
| Fight Club (1999) | "
The greatness of the film lies in its ability to tantalizingly stoke our rage and disillusionment before delivering nihilism to its proper resting place." — AboutFilm.com Posted May 27, 2002 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 94%
| Hell House (2002) | "
It's left to the audience to decide whether the church's activities are commendable or insidious." — AboutFilm.com Posted May 14, 2002 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 72%
| Happy Times (2002) | "
A film about ordinary people taking extraordinary measures to find happiness in a cruel (and capitalist) world, Happy Times is disappointing. Zhang Yimou is one of China's premier directors, but his last two movies show signs of slipping." — AboutFilm.com Posted May 13, 2002 |
Fresh B
| N/A | Failan (2001) | "
Unlike Letter from an Unknown Woman, Failan is not deliriously lyrical. It's convincing primarily due to the strength of Choi Min-Sik's performance as Kang-jae." — AboutFilm.com Posted Apr 21, 2002 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 87%
| Decasia: The State of Decay (2002) | "
There is simply not enough of interest onscreen to sustain its seventy-minute running time." — AboutFilm.com Posted Apr 21, 2002 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 58%
| Fulltime Killer (2002) | "
To some eyes this will seem like a recycling of clichés, an assassin's greatest hits. To others, it will remind them that Hong Kong action cinema is still alive and kicking." — AboutFilm.com Posted Apr 21, 2002 |
Rotten D
| Fresh 63%
| A Chronicle of Corpses (2001) | "
It has a patina of European art-house intellectual rigor, but its substance is clichéd." — AboutFilm.com Posted Apr 21, 2002 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 79%
| The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) | "
Aside from the film's emotional transparency, The Royal Tenenbaums works very well." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jan 8, 2002 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 82%
| Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) | "
A coolly expressive joke with scant insight" — AboutFilm.com Posted Dec 29, 2001 |
Rotten D
| N/A | Farewell, Home Sweet Home (1999) | "
A seemingly endless wallow in Bunuelesque class comedy, neither funny nor profound." — AboutFilm.com Posted Nov 13, 2001 |
Fresh B+
| N/A | Aprile (1998) | "
There's a curious duality going on here as both the film and the events depicted in the film reveal an extremely self-indulgent man who believes everyone else should be as interested in himself as he is." — AboutFilm.com Posted Nov 13, 2001 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 80%
| The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) | "
Negation is a theme in the film; characters are defined by what they didn't do, effort is revealed to be useless, and introspection and investigation fruitless tasks." — AboutFilm.com Posted Nov 4, 2001 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 91%
| Close-Up (1990) | "
Forget being John Malkovich, try being Mohsen Makhmalbaf." — AboutFilm.com Posted Oct 8, 2001 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 92%
| Traffic (2000) | "
What Traffic achieves, and what makes it a great, landmark film is that it acknowledges our culpability and how at odds we are with the avowed intent to eradicate drugs." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jun 11, 2001 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 86%
| The Legend of Rita (2001) | "
heavily fraught with politics, not all of which translate across national boundaries." — AboutFilm.com Posted Apr 20, 2001 |
Rotten B-
| Fresh 71%
| Limbo (1999) | "
its message is forced out like a grapefruit through a keyhole." — AboutFilm.com Posted Feb 14, 2001 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 81%
| After Life (1998) | "
Like our most cherished memories, After Life is warm and intimate." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 97%
| All About My Mother (1999) | "
...bold and lively filmmaking, which plumbs jewels from cinema’s past and builds on them to resonate in new directions." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 89%
| American Beauty (1999) | "
A toothsome black comedy of mordant wit and surprising depth" — AboutFilm.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| American Beauty (1999) | "
American Beauty is a toothsome black comedy of mordant wit and surprising depth." — MovieThing.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten C-
| Fresh 66%
| American Psycho (2000) | "
The film never connects to its underlying sadness because it's off in the vapors cavorting in a mocking tone that severs any authentic emotional attachment to its characters." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 52%
| Angela's Ashes (1999) | "
After the two and a half hour slog through every indignity and pain that poverty can lay upon a person, one wonders what the point was." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 48%
| Any Given Sunday (1999) | "
As a sensorial evocation of football, Any Given Sunday acutely captures the bestial working conditions both on and off the field. It fails, however, to tell a compelling or believable story or to provide three-dimensional characters." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 90%
| Barton Fink (1991) | "
The hermetic and insular world of the self-tortured artist is externalized through Barton's environment." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 78%
| Beau Travail (1999) | "
You will likely not see a more beautiful film this year than Beau Travail. It's also likely you will not see a more enigmatic and confounding film." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 38%
| Black and White (1999) | "
Toback creates an atomic cocktail of unpredictability. Every other scene is great or horrible." — AboutFilm.com Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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