Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 8%
| Old Dogs (2009) | "
Only the irrepressible Luis Guzmán, stuck in a walk-on bit as the stereotypical mooching Hispanic, is able to milk this cash cow and exit with his dignity intact." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 23%
| Oh My God (2009) | "
The musings of celebrities like Seal and Ringo Starr are given prominence over those of religious leaders and scholars, while a relentless Moby-esque soundtrack subsumes each insight into a sonic miasma of theism." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 83%
| Endgame (2009) | "
William Hurt and Chiwetel Ejiofor, impressive at opposite ends of the table as a government mouthpiece and a philosophy professor, provide all the fireworks the story needs." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 87%
| Skin (2009) | "
Unable to probe the complex relationships engendered by a biracial society, Skin simply becomes an example of colorless, by-the-numbers apartheid cinema." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 28, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 69%
| (Untitled) (2009) | "
(Untitled)’s onslaught of self-indulgent bohos and art-vs.-commerce clichés are as ersatz as their objects of scorn." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 21, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| N/A | Min Ye (2009) | "
But more than probing the societal norms that undermine his salacious couple's bid at happiness, Cisse is also out to dissect the sordid relationship between storytelling and reality." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 88%
| Unmade Beds (2009) | "
The conventions of contemporary youth culture and cinema could both use a change of sheets." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| The English Surgeon (2009) | "
While the film leaves this bundle of post-Soviet contradictions packed up, its vérité depiction of the surgeon’s life surpasses the likes of ER." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 26%
| Shrink (2009) | "
Never mind the crazy cast; this weary retread of trendy multicharacter melodramas is what’s really unhinged." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 75%
| The Vanished Empire (2009) | "
The moralistic finale feels tacked on to the vivid celebration of Commie teen lust." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 81%
| Lake Tahoe (2009) | "
Inspired by a childhood accident that befell director Fernando Eimbcke soon after his father’s death, this low-key character study is a beguiling paradox of Mexican suburban splendor masking personal grief." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 8, 2009 |
Rotten 1/6
| Rotten 15%
| I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) | "
This nightmare scenario is to high-school valedictorians what this wreck of a movie is to comedy screenwriters." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| Tony Manero (2009) | "
[Director] Larrain deftly employs a Dardennes-style in-the-moment handheld lensing, managing a high-wire act in which audience disgust is outpaced by breathless anticipation." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 80%
| Unmistaken Child (2009) | "
The documentary stands as a visually candid and picturesque peek into one of the world’s most mysterious practices." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 19%
| Downloading Nancy (2008) | "
For all the bad behavior on display, the emotional stakes remain hazily defined." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 88%
| Laila's Birthday (2009) | "
Masharawi’s film is a vivid passenger-seat tour of a society perpetually crashing into madness." — Time Out New York Posted May 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 100%
| Anaglyph Tom (Tom with the Puffy Cheeks) (2009) | "
Jacobs’s mastery of 3-D is intermittent, but when it works, the new textures bestowed upon Edison’s long-dead cast are moving." — Time Out New York Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 80%
| Serbis (2009) | "
To my knowledge, Serbis is the first film to equate third-world life in the late capitalist era to squatting in a rundown porn palace." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 13, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 90%
| 24 City (2009) | "
Simultaneously more and less than meets the eye." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 9, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| Night and Day (2009) | "
Following his most even-handed exploration of male-female sexual conflict in Woman on the Beach, Hong Sang-soo hurtles full-bore into the subjectivity of the horny man with Night and Day." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 4, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 74%
| A Jihad for Love (2007) | "
Perhaps carving enough space for the previously unheard voices of Muslim gays to speak is enough to ask of this socially groundbreaking work." — Slant Magazine Posted May 20, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 80%
| Blind Mountain (2008) | "
With Blind Mountain, 6th Generation Chinese maverick Li Yang continues his scorched-earth treatment of 5th Generation heroic peasant stereotypes launched by his debut feature Blind Shaft." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 12, 2008 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 43%
| The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything - A Veggietales Movie (2008) | "
Pirates is a film whose insipid, generic plainness is its worse offense." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 10, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 92%
| Alexandra (2008) | "
Disappointingly uncharacteristic of Sokurov, the humanist moments that pass between them lean toward token sentiment, and the moments that pass between Alexandra and the grandson she traveled so far to see feel inconsequential." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 5, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 44%
| Redacted (2007) | "
Brian De Palma's paradoxical take on the occupation of Iraq is as blatant as an open sore yet swathed in layers of formalist irony." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 4, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| N/A | Useless (2007) | "
Useless is a shape-shifting work that overturns expectations at every turn and leaves behind an open-ended consideration of value -- of clothing, of human labor, of human life." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 24, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 92%
| Secret Sunshine () | "
Lee has a rare gift for depicting how the minor dissonance of everyday interactions eventually explodes into public displays of rage and despair." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 24, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 63%
| The Man from London (2008) | "
Tarr seems to be working in a pan-European purgatory through which his elaborate camera movements are more clinical than communitarian." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 24, 2007 |
— | Fresh 100%
| The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) |
Click here to read article — Senses of Cinema Posted May 20, 2006 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 88%
| Caché (2005) | "
Caché is about how the way we look at people -- a spouse, a child, a homeless person, a security guard -- reflects our own humanity, exactly the sort of thing the best works of cinematic art aspire to reveal." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 4, 2006 |
— | Fresh 85%
| Southern Comfort (1981) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Nov 1, 2004 |
— | Fresh 94%
| Before Sunset (2004) |
Click here to read article — Senses of Cinema Posted Nov 1, 2004 |
— | N/A | Stagefright (1987) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Apr 23, 2004 |
— | N/A | The Black Adder (1983) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Dec 4, 2003 |
— | Rotten 38%
| Flashback (1990) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Nov 12, 2003 |
— | Fresh 83%
| The Rocking Horse Winner (1949) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Nov 5, 2003 |
— | N/A | Stan Lee's Mutants, Monsters and Marvels (2002) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Sep 30, 2003 |
— | Fresh 60%
| Once a Thief (1991) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Jun 24, 2003 |
— | Fresh 76%
| Comedian (2002) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Jun 4, 2003 |
— | N/A | Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin (1978) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted May 28, 2003 |
— | Fresh 88%
| Roger Dodger (2002) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted May 19, 2003 |
— | N/A | Double Bang (2002) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted May 5, 2003 |
— | Rotten 37%
| Full Frontal (2002) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Mar 26, 2003 |
— | Rotten 20%
| Knockaround Guys (2002) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Mar 12, 2003 |
— | Rotten 38%
| Wisegirls (2002) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Feb 24, 2003 |
— | Fresh 79%
| Tommy (1975) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Feb 12, 2003 |
— | Rotten 50%
| Elvis: His Best Friend Remembers (2002) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Feb 10, 2003 |
— | Rotten 54%
| Blood Work (2002) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Jan 16, 2003 |
— | Fresh 70%
| Scream and Scream Again (1969) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Jan 10, 2003 |
— | Rotten 57%
| The Oblong Box (1969) |
Click here to read article — DVD Verdict Posted Jan 10, 2003 |
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