Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) | "
Instead of plumbing the depths of spiritual degradation, Herzog's movie is -- largely due to Cage's performance -- almost fun." — Village Voice Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 78%
| Bronson (2009) | "
The kernel of an idea -- brutish antihero as irrepressible life force -- is trampled into dust by the showy Sturm und Drang of Refn's filmmaking." — Village Voice Posted Oct 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
England 1818 seems like a Fragonard garden, the pastoral height of civilization. Conversation is witty; summer feels eternal." — Village Voice Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) | "
The movie has an undeniable sweep, increasing in intensity once the principals are arrested in June 1972." — Village Voice Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Beeswax (2009) | "
Bujalski has always been good at making closeness feel exotic, and awkwardness seem natural." — Village Voice Posted Aug 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Bruno (2009) | "
Outrage is entertainment!" — Village Voice Posted Jul 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Beaches of Agnes (2009) | "
In a sense, Varda has done for herself what she did for Demy -- creating a work, as charming as it is touching, that serves to explicate and enrich an entire oeuvre." — Village Voice Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Being Jewish in France (2009) | "
More impressionistic than analytical." — Village Voice Posted May 13, 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 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 |
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Boarding Gate (2007) | "
There's basically only one reason to see Olivier Assayas's self-consciously hypermodern, meta-sleazy, English-French-Chinese-language globo-thriller Boarding Gate, and her name is Asia Argento." — Village Voice Posted Mar 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Blind Mountain (2008) | "
Easily fits the paradigm parodied by Funny Games. The difference: This movie actually has a political point." — Village Voice Posted Mar 11, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Be Kind Rewind (2008) | "
A fragile, somewhat precious celebration of DIY filmmaking and cult-film consumption." — Village Voice Posted Feb 20, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) | "
Three years after being presented a Lifetime Achievement Oscar, the 83-year-old director comes forth with a violent family melodrama that is his strongest movie in at least two decades." — Village Voice Posted Oct 23, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Black Book (2007) | "
The movie whips along, unafraid of narrative excess or hairpin plot turns." — Village Voice Posted Apr 3, 2007 |
— | Rotten 27%
| Backstage (2000) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Nov 22, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) | "
Indeed, the man who invented Borat is a masterful improviser, brilliant comedian, courageous political satirist, and genuinely experimental film artist. Borat makes you laugh but Baron Cohen forces you to think." — Village Voice Posted Oct 31, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| The Black Dahlia (2006) | "
There are moments when The Black Dahlia projects a spectral world, but its ghosts in broad daylight are elusive at best." — Village Voice Posted Sep 15, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Brokeback Mountain (2005) | "
All is tasteful, and far more convincing than the movie's representation of passion is its only-the-lonely evocation of a punishing social order." — Village Voice Posted Dec 5, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Broken Flowers (2005) | "
The master of the un-reaction shot and the non–double take carries an entire movie." — Village Voice Posted May 24, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| The Big Red One (1980) | "
The Big Red One isn't even Fuller's greatest war film. Of those, I'd rank it fourth -- but that's not half bad." — Village Voice Posted Nov 9, 2004 |
— | N/A | Brakhage (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Oct 20, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Bush's Brain (2004) | "
Some believe that the evil genius behind our unelected maximum leader is Dick Cheney. The filmmakers argue that it's 'co-president' Rove (installed, we learn, in Hillary Clinton's old office)." — Village Voice Posted Aug 24, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| The Brown Bunny (2004) | "
The Brown Bunny is not simply an exercise. It's genuinely elemental, embarrassingly sincere." — Village Voice Posted Aug 24, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi/Sonatine (2004) | "
A reasonably good Kurosawa pastiche." — Village Voice Posted Jul 20, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Before Sunset (2004) | "
All one could wish for in a sequel -- it enriches, glosses, and completes the original." — Village Voice Posted Jun 29, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Blissfully Yours (2004) | "
Unlikely to make Weerasethakul a household name -- but it confirms his status as a giant of fourth-world cinema." — Village Voice Posted Jun 8, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Baadasssss! (2004) | "
The son bears witness to his father's struggle and turns it into heroic legend." — Village Voice Posted May 25, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| The Blonds (2004) | "
Unpretentiously poetic and casually stylish, yet perversely precise." — Village Voice Posted Apr 6, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Broken Wings (2004) | "
This poignant, acutely observed movie is eloquent and suggestive in dramatizing a particular trauma in the context of an ordinary Haifa family." — Village Voice Posted Mar 9, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Blind Shaft (2004) | "
Harsh and compelling, Li Yang's Blind Shaft has the focused intensity of a vintage B movie." — Village Voice Posted Jan 27, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Big Fish (2003) | "
The ideas keep percolating, but in the absence of any particular tension, the movie has its longueurs." — Village Voice Posted Dec 9, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Bus 174 (2003) | "
Tense, engrossing, and superbly structured, Bus 174 is not just unforgettable drama but a skillfully developed argument." — Village Voice Posted Oct 8, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Balseros (2002) | "
Offers a fascinating perspective on the U.S. -- a paradise at once cold and abundant where, for all the emphasis on family values, the individual reigns supreme." — Village Voice Posted Jul 22, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Buffalo Soldiers (2003) | "
This jaunty mish-M*A*S*H has a seductive, nonchalant glitter and an unshakably mocking attitude." — Village Voice Posted Jul 22, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Blood Simple (1984) | "
From first shot to last, the Coens seldom miss an opportunity to suggest that theirs is a movie made by evolutionarily advanced life-forms touring a primitive planet." — Village Voice Posted Apr 8, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2003) | "
Which is more fascinating -- the personification of evil or the humble creature who innocently served him?" — Village Voice Posted Jan 21, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 74%
| Blackboards (2002) | "
Both shrill and soporific, and because everything is repeated five or six times, it can seem tiresomely simpleminded." — Village Voice Posted Dec 3, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Bowling for Columbine (2002) | "
The movie can be devastating and is often hilarious." — Village Voice Posted Oct 8, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Bloody Sunday (2002) | "
A startlingly immediate re-creation of the January 1972 Derry massacre." — Village Voice Posted Oct 1, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Biggie and Tupac (2002) | "
A first-person whodunit in which the filmmaker casts himself as a seedy gumshoe poking around a hallucinatory world in which poverty, crime, and drugs mix with fantastic wealth and grandiose scenarios lifted from The Godfather and Scarface." — Village Voice Posted Sep 24, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 54%
| Blood Work (2002) | "
A bracingly no-nonsense, highly professional policier -- as proudly old-fashioned as its curmudgeon hero." — Village Voice Posted Aug 6, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| The Bourne Identity (2002) | "
Liman takes a giant step toward hackdom with his banal big-budget adaptation of Robert Ludlum's 1980 espionage thriller." — Village Voice Posted Jun 18, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| The Believer (2002) | "
Fuller would surely have called this gutsy and at times exhilarating movie a great yarn." — Village Voice Posted May 14, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Back Against the Wall (2002) | "
The strongest Fotopoulos I've seen." — Village Voice Posted Mar 12, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| Black Hawk Down (2001) | "
A studied composition in flying debris, fleeing crowds, and detached limbs." — Village Voice Posted Dec 25, 2001 |
— | Fresh 94%
| Blood Simple: Director's Cut (2000) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Oct 30, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Brother (2001) | "
The movie's second half ... is tedious and uninspired." — Village Voice Posted Jul 18, 2001 |
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