Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| $9.99 (2009) | "
Etgar Keret is sometimes described as Israel's Woody Allen, but this hugely popular humorist is more fanciful and morbid in his evocation of cultural schlemielery." — Village Voice Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| 10 on Ten (2005) | "
Less illuminating than pedantic, as well as tediously self-absorbed." — Village Voice Posted Feb 24, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| 10 Rillington Place (1971) | "
More highly regarded these days than when it was released in 1971, Richard Fleischer's 10 Rillington Place is a grimly efficient treatment of a once-notorious case." — Village Voice Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| 12:08 East of Bucharest (2007) | "
A casually bleak and neatly structured ensemble comedy -- at once deadpan and bemused." — Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2007 |
N/A | N/A | 1990's Decade-in-Review (1990-1999) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
N/A | N/A | 1999 Year-in-Review (1999) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
N/A | N/A | 2001 Year-in-Review (2001) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 11, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| 21 Grams (2003) | "
Watts, who has the most difficult scenes, is splendidly mercurial; what's surprising is that those professional storm clouds Penn and Del Toro are here as powerfully restrained as she is electrifying." — Village Voice Posted Nov 18, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| 24 City (2009) | "
This subversively old-fashioned hymn to industrial production is filled with offbeat, vaguely absurd details." — Village Voice Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| 25th Hour (2002) | "
Held together in the vise of a powerful script." — Village Voice Posted Dec 17, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| 3:10 to Yuma (2007) | "
Mangold's remake of 3:10 to Yuma isn't as startling a resurrection job as his Johnny Cash biopic, but it does send a saddlebag full of western tropes skittering into the 21st century." — Village Voice Posted Sep 4, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| 4 (2006) | "
Although Khrzhanovsky has several tricks up his sleeve, 4's most provocative quality is its ironic surplus of beauty." — Village Voice Posted Apr 4, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) | "
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is a movie one watches in a state of mounting dread. Romanian writer-director Cristian Mungiu's brilliantly discomfiting second feature is one long premonition of disaster." — Village Voice Posted Jan 22, 2008 |
— | Rotten 13%
| 54 (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| 8 1/2 (1963) | "
The ensuing decades have brought forth a deluge of bogus masterpieces, and Fellini's, by comparison, holds up rather well." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| 8 Mile (2002) | "
A canny, and largely successful, attempt to broaden the star's appeal." — Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| A Christmas Tale (2008) | "
Deft, playful, fluid, haunting, and filled with the joy of filmmaking." — Village Voice Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| A Civil Action (1998) | "
A slick, shameless job that takes way too long to make its point (namely, we need the EPA)." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| A Decade Under the Influence (2003) | "
It's so reverentially heavy-handed in evoking the era that it can't help playing like Forrest Gump without Tom Hanks." — Village Voice Posted Apr 22, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| A Dirty Shame (2004) | "
A nonstop raunchfest with a surreal premise and a provocative agenda." — Village Voice Posted Sep 21, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| A Face in the Crowd (1957) | "
A Face in the Crowd has never ceased to be relevant." — Village Voice Posted Feb 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| A Fistful of Dynamite (1971) | "
The new print is good, and the 20 restored minutes are choice." — Village Voice Posted Nov 18, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| A Girl Cut in Two (2008) | "
A Girl Cut in Two is a spry piece of work. Chabrol uses this sinister clown show as a means to puncture the media world's hot-air balloons -- as well as to highlight the hypocrisies of his favorite target, the haute bourgeoisie." — Village Voice Posted Aug 13, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| A Grin Without A Cat (2002) | "
More impressionistic than analytical, A Grin Without a Cat is a grand immersion." — Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| A Hard Day's Night (1964) | "
No previous rocksploitation film had ever done so splendid a job of selling its performers." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| A History of Violence (2005) | "
Cronenberg's movie manages to have its cake and eat it -- impersonating an action flick in its staccato mayhem while questioning these violent attractions every step of the way." — Village Voice Posted May 24, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| A Hole in My Heart (2005) | "
Antic, if not funny." — Village Voice Posted Apr 5, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| A Mighty Heart (2007) | "
There's hardly a moment when Jolie is on-screen that you can't sense the presence of make-up artists and hair stylists hovering anxiously just off frame." — Village Voice Posted Jun 20, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| A Scanner Darkly (2006) | "
This straightforward version of Dick's anguished vision of drug-addled addiction makes Naked Lunch seem positively romantic." — Village Voice Posted Jul 5, 2006 |
— | Fresh 90%
| A Simple Plan (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| A Tout de Suite (2005) | "
It's the story of a sleeping beauty roused." — Village Voice Posted Apr 26, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| A Town Called Panic (2009) | "
A Town Called Panic, which has more strident colors and less synopsizable action than a year's worth of comic-book adventures, embodies a sensibility that might be termed "extreme quirk."" — Village Voice Posted Dec 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007) | "
That Williams's personality never comes into focus has the effect of making his 15 minutes of fame all the more sad and ghostly." — Village Voice Posted Dec 11, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) | "
A seething psychological bonanza." — Village Voice Posted Jun 26, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| ABC Africa (2002) | "
Fulfilling his mandate to make useful publicity, Kiarostami unavoidably expressed himself." — Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| About Schmidt (2002) | "
An impressively bleak comedy with intimations of social satire." — Village Voice Posted Dec 10, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| Ace in the Hole (1951) | "
By no means a great -- or even a particularly good -- movie, but its sustained nastiness shows a stunning disregard for box-office niceties." — Village Voice Posted Sep 3, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Adaptation (2002) | "
Adaptation's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary." — Village Voice Posted Dec 3, 2002 |
— | Fresh 81%
| After Life (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Afterschool (2009) | "
Afterschool, the almost frighteningly accomplished first feature made by Antonio Campos when he was 24, is high school as horror show." — Village Voice Posted Sep 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973) | "
Aguirre, Wrath of God is not just a great movie but an essential one." — Village Voice Posted Oct 17, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Alexandra (2008) | "
Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity." — Village Voice Posted Mar 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Ali (2001) | "
Filled with vivid cameos and set to an infectious soul beat that effectively covers the underlying hum of calculated precision." — Village Voice Posted Dec 25, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Aliens of the Deep (2005) | "
Often thrilling." — Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| All About My Mother (1999) | "
All About My Mother is the achieved synthesis of the whole Almodovariety show, a new genre -- part farce, part weepie, low camp and high melodrama, caustic yet heartwarming, humanist and programmatically gender-blurring." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| All or Nothing (2002) | "
Leigh uses a somber cello-rich score to infuse this quotidian suffering with a mystical edge and high-culture gloss -- and yet, thanks to the generally enthusiastic performing, the movie borders on farce." — Village Voice Posted Oct 22, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| All the Real Girls (2003) | "
This earnest love story is borderline insufferable, and yet there are moments that, in their bold incoherence, have a startling emotional truth." — Village Voice Posted Feb 11, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Almost Famous (2000) | "
Panoramic yet cozy, enthusiastically glib, Almost Famous suggests a universe of interlocking sitcoms." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 69%
| Alone With Her (2007) | "
As the voyeur manages to enter the Amy Show, Nicholas uses this ontological shift as the basis for a 'real' movie of his own, effectively liquidating the original premise." — Village Voice Posted Jan 9, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 90%
| Amelie (2001) | "
Initially disarming, this simpering dolly grows increasingly wearisome." — Village Voice Posted Oct 30, 2001 |
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