Fresh
| N/A | Private Century (2009) | "
As Private Century builds to a devastating attack on Czech communism, this movie of memories argues that the greatest sin is memory's willful obliteration." — Village Voice Posted Mar 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Tokyo! (2009) | "
Mutants abound as each episode trips the light fantastic." — Village Voice Posted Mar 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Watchmen (2009) | "
Its failure is one of imagination -- although faithfully approximating Dave Gibbons's original drawings, the filmmakers are unable to teleport themselves to the level of the original concept." — Village Voice Posted Mar 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Birdsong (2009) | "
Catalan filmmaker Albert Serra is an artist whose work inspires more thinking than philosophizing." — Village Voice Posted Feb 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Examined Life (2009) | "
The viewer basks in the intelligence on-screen and, occasionally, soaks up the rays." — Village Voice Posted Feb 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | What Makes Sammy Run? (1959) | "
The adaptation pulls a few punches regarding ethnicity and union-organizing, but as primetime network fare, it's surprisingly "mature."" — Village Voice Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Katyn (2007) | "
While never less than fascinating, Katyn alternates between scenes of tremendous power and sequences most kindly described as dutiful. It's as if the artist is never certain whether he is making this movie for himself, his father, or the entire nation." — Village Voice Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
— | Fresh 96%
| Gomorra (2008) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Feb 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| Two Lovers (2009) | "
The performers are attractive if unconvincing. The auteur's worldview is unappealing yet authentically his." — Village Voice Posted Feb 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Gomorrah (2009) | "
Detailing daily life inside a criminal state, it's a new sort of gangster film for America to ponder." — Village Voice Posted Feb 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Manhattan (1979) | "
Manhattan is not just Woody Allen's dream movie. Wistful as it is witty, it's his dream of the movies." — Village Voice Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
— | Fresh 78%
| The Panic in Needle Park (1971) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Serbis (2009) | "
Serbis may be a raunch-fest, but it's also a mind-trip -- a raunch-fest with ideas." — Village Voice Posted Jan 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Of Time and the City (2009) | "
No nostalgic 'Penny Lane' or 'Strawberry Fields' here. The filmmaker prefers an angrier form of sentimentality." — Village Voice Posted Jan 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Mock Up on Mu (2009) | "
Baldwin's narrative is not easy to follow—the tone is simultaneously hysterical and uninflected—but, as with any religion or conspiracy theory, his method is characterized by a logic beyond logic." — Village Voice Posted Jan 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Made in U.S.A. (1966) | "
Jean-Luc Godard's Made in U.S.A. is not the celluloid holy grail, but it's close enough." — Village Voice Posted Jan 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Secret of the Grain (2008) | "
French-Tunisian writer-director-actor Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain is a sprawling yet intimate tale set among the Arab working class of the Mediterranean port Sète." — Village Voice Posted Dec 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Nothing But the Truth (2008) | "
Lurie isn't Larry Cohen, let alone Sam Fuller, but give him points for working the same tradition of engagé tabloid filmmaking." — Village Voice Posted Dec 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Wrestler (2008) | "
Present in every scene, if not each shot, Rourke gives a tremendously physical performance that The Wrestler essentially exists to document." — Village Voice Posted Dec 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| In the City of Sylvia (2008) | "
Pure pleasure and pure cinema." — Village Voice Posted Dec 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Wendy and Lucy (2008) | "
Modest but cosmic." — Village Voice Posted Dec 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Dust (2008) | "
Dust—the movie—is characterized by its clean cinematography, uncluttered compositions, and unceasing dialectic." — Village Voice Posted Dec 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Frost/Nixon (2008) | "
Frost/Nixon's main attraction is neither its topicality nor its historical value, but Langella's re-creation of his Tony-winning performance." — Village Voice Posted Dec 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Milk (2008) | "
Milk is so immediate that it's impossible to separate the movie's moment from this one." — Village Voice Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Betrayal (2008) | "
It's as if the filmmaker has opened a window onto a parallel world traveling beside our own." — Village Voice Posted Nov 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008) | "
Rafferty's no-frills annotated replay is the best football movie I've ever seen: A particular day in history becomes a moment out of time." — Village Voice Posted Nov 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| A Christmas Tale (2008) | "
Deft, playful, fluid, haunting, and filled with the joy of filmmaking." — Village Voice Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Candy Mountain (1987) | "
In a way, this shaggy-dog hipster road film is Frank's ultimate work -- evoking the end of the road and even the end of Endsville—but he has persevered." — Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Conversations in Vermont (1971) | "
[Director Robert Frank] came into his own as a filmmaker with the first-person Conversations in Vermont (1969), which concerns his ambivalent confrontation with his adolescent children." — Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Me and My Brother (1969) | "
The weightiest item in his [Director Robert Frank's] oeuvre." — Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) | "
So embarrassing that, for the first time, I wanted to avert my eyes from the screen, although that might have also been because Repo! appears to have been shot with a cell phone." — Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| JCVD (2008) | "
No one will ever mistake these backstage shenanigans for Irma Vep. But as a self-regarding expression of masculine angst, it's a Damme sight more fun than Synecdoche." — Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Cross of Love (1946) | "
The tale of Riita's burden builds to a fantastic crescendo, an amalgam of guilt, subterfuge, and extreme performance." — Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Way You Wanted Me (1944) | "
[Director Tuevo] Tulio, however, is in no way detached: He opts for unrelenting intensity and, since the ending is known from the onset, the systematic obliteration of false hope." — Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | In the Fields of Dreams (1940) | "
The default Tulio opening montage (sylvan stream, blooming lilies, grazing farm animals, summer!) is subsumed by images of surging waters and the master's onrushing team of horses." — Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Song of the Scarlet Flower (1939) | "
Pivots midway with a change in the weather." — Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2008) | "
He's set apart not only as the piece's sole subject but because he's hyper-alert, continually responding to invisible forces, raptly focused on events beyond the frame." — Village Voice Posted Oct 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Changeling (2008) | "
Image trumps performance." — Village Voice Posted Oct 22, 2008 |
— | Fresh 67%
| Analyze This (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 54%
| Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 13%
| 54 (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Mary (2008) | "
Tightly framed and tightly wound, Mary is a claustrophobic, incandescent, nutty 83 minutes with everyone in the cast teetering on the ledge of madness." — Village Voice Posted Oct 15, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) | "
At the very least, the spectacle of Poppy's devotion and desire, not to mention her all-around sunny disposish, left this viewer feeling unaccountably happy -- at least for the moment." — Village Voice Posted Oct 8, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 70%
| Religulous (2008) | "
Religulous doesn't really go anywhere. It's ultimately a celebration of the old-time religion we call entertainment." — Village Voice Posted Oct 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| Virtual JFK (2008) | "
The question: Can an individual leader take a nation to, or keep it from, war? The conclusion: Individual temperament matters, and John F. Kennedy's example proves it." — Village Voice Posted Sep 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Battle in Seattle (2008) | "
Townsend smothers any sense of global immediacy by covering the action with a frayed patchwork of melodramatic coincidences," — Village Voice Posted Sep 17, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Burn After Reading (2008) | "
A characteristically supercilious and crisply shot clown show filled with cartoon perfs and predicated on extravagant stupidity." — Village Voice Posted Sep 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Shoot the Piano Player (1960) | "
Truffaut's form of self-reflection is ultimately a way of playing the audience." — Village Voice Posted Sep 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The 39 Steps (1935) | "
In Hitchcock's hands, however, this well-known espionage adventure provided the basis for a new sort of thriller and a new sort of comedy." — Village Voice Posted Sep 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Vampyr (1931) | "
Vampyr is Dreyer's most radical film -- maybe one of my dozen favorite movies by any director." — Village Voice Posted Aug 28, 2008 |
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