Rotten
| Fresh 81%
| Avatar (2009) | "
The muscular, coming-atcha visuals trump the movie's camp dialogue and corny conception, but only up to a point." — Village Voice Posted Dec 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
Antichrist, which, above all, wants to make pain visceral, is less successful at projecting authentic experience -- the shock tactics are ultimately numbing." — Village Voice Posted May 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Audience Of One (2009) | "
Ridiculous as it is, Audience of One is more chilling than funny." — Village Voice Posted May 5, 2009 |
— | Fresh 67%
| Analyze This (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| As Tears Go By (1988) | "
Ostensibly a conventional tale of triad loyalty, As Tears Go By announced the presence of a genuine Hong Kong new wave -- as well as an ambitious cineaste." — Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Alexandra (2008) | "
Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity." — Village Voice Posted Mar 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| American Gangster (2007) | "
Ambitious as American Gangster is, it's well suited to Denzel Washington's particular star quality." — Village Voice Posted Oct 30, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) | "
A psychological chamber drama in which the wide-open spaces are geographic as well as mental." — Village Voice Posted Sep 18, 2007 |
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 64%
| Apocalypto (2006) | "
Apocalypto is unburdened by nationalist or religious piety -- it's pure, amoral sensationalism." — Village Voice Posted Dec 5, 2006 |
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 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
| Rotten 36%
| Art School Confidential (2006) | "
Art School Confidential is replete with humorous detail -- in that respect, the student art projects are particularly fine -- but it's the attitude that rules." — Village Voice Posted May 2, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Army of Shadows (1969) | "
Emerges from the mists of time in a new 35mm restoration as a career-capping epic tragedy." — Village Voice Posted Apr 25, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| American Dreamz (2006) | "
American Dreamz should really have been funnier. But it's not boring." — Village Voice Posted Apr 18, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Ask the Dust (2005) | "
Fueled by shame and prejudice, the doomed relationship of these two proud self-haters is more drunken knife fight than transcendent love affair." — Village Voice Posted Mar 8, 2006 |
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 83%
| Aliens of the Deep (2005) | "
Often thrilling." — Village Voice Posted Jan 31, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) | "
A surprisingly credible action flick -- even with Ethan Hawke in the role of a neurotic hipster police sergeant." — Village Voice Posted Jan 18, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 22%
| Appleseed (2004) | "
For all the movie's impressive figure and facial modeling, as well as the superfluid humanoid motion, any depth is purely an illusion." — Village Voice Posted Jan 11, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 26%
| Anatomy of Hell (2004) | "
In her latest feature, sexual provocatrix Catherine Breillat turns a philosophical speculum on gender relations to perverse (and perversely elegant) effect." — Village Voice Posted Oct 12, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| The Agronomist (2004) | "
This affecting eulogy underscores not only Demme's own tribute to Dominique but also the film's homage to radio." — Village Voice Posted Apr 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| The Alamo (2004) | "
It's dull, talky, and sometimes maudlin." — Village Voice Posted Apr 13, 2004 |
— | Fresh 80%
| Avalon (1991) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 6, 2004 |
Fresh
| N/A | Avalon (2003) | "
Among other things, Avalon may be the first movie that uses contemporary Poland as a special effect." — Village Voice Posted Dec 30, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) | "
The supreme masterpiece by one of the greatest of 20th-century filmmakers." — Village Voice Posted Oct 14, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| American Splendor (2003) | "
A jazzy and humane synthesis of the comic books that Cleveland writer Harvey Pekar has for 25 years fashioned from the dross of his daily life." — Village Voice Posted Aug 13, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2003) | "
A pleasant vacation for the cast, no doubt -- but not the audience." — Village Voice Posted Jul 29, 2003 |
— | Rotten 56%
| Asylum (1972) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted May 4, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| Anger Management (2003) | "
The free-associational lurch of the enigmatic Nicholson 12-step program is set to a familiar backbeat of juvenile gross-out and homosexual panic; what's truly illogical is the blithe conflation of anger management and assertiveness training." — Village Voice Posted Apr 15, 2003 |
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Amen (2003) | "
Costa-Gavras provides a post-war postscript to make clear that honesty is punished; cynicism survives." — Village Voice Posted Jan 21, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| About Schmidt (2002) | "
An impressively bleak comedy with intimations of social satire." — Village Voice Posted Dec 10, 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
| Fresh 97%
| American Experience - Daughter from Danang (2002) | "
Whatever heartwarming scene the impressively discreet filmmakers may have expected to record with their mini DV, they show a remarkable ability to document both sides of this emotional car-wreck." — Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2002 |
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 72%
| Auto Focus (2002) | "
This sexaholic Lost Weekend is way too punitive -- the celebrity version of Looking For Mr. Goodbar." — Village Voice Posted Oct 15, 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 78%
| ABC Africa (2002) | "
Fulfilling his mandate to make useful publicity, Kiarostami unavoidably expressed himself." — Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2002 |
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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 90%
| Amelie (2001) | "
Initially disarming, this simpering dolly grows increasingly wearisome." — Village Voice Posted Oct 30, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) | "
Remains what it always was -- a phantasmagorical trip through the spookhouse followed by a descent so precipitous you can't believe it's really happening." — Village Voice Posted Aug 1, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 32%
| America's Sweethearts (2001) | "
A lackluster screwball comedy and dubious Julia Roberts vehicle." — Village Voice Posted Jul 24, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) | "
A seething psychological bonanza." — Village Voice Posted Jun 26, 2001 |
— | Fresh 79%
| The Apple (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Apr 3, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 92%
| Amores Perros (2001) | "
Punishingly overlong." — Village Voice Posted Mar 27, 2001 |
— | Fresh 81%
| After Life (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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 88%
| Almost Famous (2000) | "
Panoramic yet cozy, enthusiastically glib, Almost Famous suggests a universe of interlocking sitcoms." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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