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 Endsvillebut 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 | 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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Changeling (2008) | "
Image trumps performance." — Village Voice Posted Oct 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| Chicago 10 (2008) | "
However authentically chaotic, Chicago 10 is insufficiently frenzied. For all its shock value, the trial was not the only game in town." — Village Voice Posted Feb 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Come and See (1985) | "
Come and See, the last and most notable film made by the former Soviet director Elem Klimov, is another fusion of popular and vanguard styles, albeit put to more civic-minded use." — Village Voice Posted Oct 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| La Chinoise (1967) | "
Not just a period film, La Chinoise...is a chunk of the period." — Village Voice Posted Oct 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Case of the Grinning Cat (2006) | "
Approaching 85, cine-essayist Chris Marker remains as lively, engaged, and provocative as ever -- and no less fond of indirection." — Village Voice Posted Dec 19, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Children of Men (2006) | "
It's a measure of Cuarón's directorial chops that Children of Men functions equally well as fantasy and thriller." — Village Voice Posted Dec 19, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Commune (2006) | "
Celebrating the desire to immerse oneself in a collective, world-changing enterprise, Commune is unavoidably nostalgic." — Village Voice Posted Oct 31, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Climates (2006) | "
A terrific movie in the Antonioni tradition, Climates confirms 47-year-old Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan as one of the world's most accomplished filmmakers." — Village Voice Posted Oct 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| CSA: The Confederate States of America (2006) | "
Willmott, who has written numerous documentaries and is a professor of film studies at the University of Kansas, maps an initially plausible trajectory." — Village Voice Posted Feb 14, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Capote (2005) | "
Capote is a cool and polished hall of mirrors reflecting the ways in which Truman Capote came to write (and be written by) In Cold Blood." — Village Voice Posted Jan 5, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) | "
It may be as close to adult-friendly kid fare as Hollywood will ever get -- although that has more to do with narrative than family values. (Having read both Tolkien and Lewis aloud at bedtime, I can attest to the latter's superiority as a storyteller.)" — Village Voice Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Classe Tous Risques (1960) | "
The new titles are flavorsome, and the restoration is up to Rialto's previous high standards -- shades of gray with the pale glow of an overcast autumn sky." — Village Voice Posted Nov 15, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Cafe Lumiere (2004) | "
Although pegged as an author of contemplative mood pieces, Hou's originality as a filmmaker has much to do with both his handling of historical material and his daringly counterintuitive narrative structures." — Village Voice Posted May 31, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Cinevardaphoto (2005) | "
A work of great charm and bold aesthetic impurity." — Village Voice Posted Feb 16, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Cowards Bend the Knee (2004) | "
What's truly extraordinary about this movie -- which strikes me on two viewings as Maddin's masterpiece -- is that it not only plays like a dream but feels like one." — Village Voice Posted Aug 10, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| Code 46 (2004) | "
A noirish romance, bathed in new age trance music and trippy golden light, Code 46 feels like Blade Runner on meds." — Village Voice Posted Aug 3, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| The Corporation (2004) | "
A leisurely, never boring, grimly amusing, and not entirely hopeless disquisition on the contemporary world's 'dominant institution.'" — Village Voice Posted Jun 22, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Control Room (2004) | "
This absorbing, significant, and shamelessly entertaining movie not only goes through the looking glass but, no less significantly, turns the mirror back on us." — Village Voice Posted May 18, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2004) | "
A serious, often illuminating, and unavoidably entertaining account of the creature Downey calls 'the most endearing superhero you might ever want to watch.'" — Village Voice Posted Feb 10, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Crimson Gold (2004) | "
A deceptively modest undertaking that brilliantly combines unpretentious humanism and impeccable formal values." — Village Voice Posted Jan 13, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Cold Mountain (2003) | "
[Law's] actorly determination matches Kidman's -- there's more chemistry in their tintypes than their interactions -- although the script decrees that these cool operators make a sweet pair of sweeties." — Village Voice Posted Dec 23, 2003 |
— | N/A | Cremaster 4 (1995) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Oct 7, 2003 |
— | N/A | Cremaster 5 (1997) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Oct 7, 2003 |
— | Fresh 67%
| Cremaster 1 (1995) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Sep 5, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 42%
| Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) | "
A loud and frequently funny clown show." — Village Voice Posted Jul 2, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| Cremaster 2 (1999) | "
The narcotized self-satisfaction of [Cremaster 1] is, however, preferable to the narrative Cremaster 2 (1999), which, twice as long." — Village Voice Posted Apr 12, 2003 |
— | N/A | Close, Closed, Closure (2003) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 14, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 96%
| Catch Me If You Can (2002) | "
Sporting a stingy-brimmed hat and erratic Boston accent, Hanks gives a ludicrous performance." — Village Voice Posted Dec 25, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002) | "
Carrera's filmmaking is more workmanlike than stylish, but Padre Amaro is richly character driven and, for all its insolent, grotesque humor, straightforwardly humanist in its psychology." — Village Voice Posted Nov 12, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Corpus Callosum (2002) | "
A bonanza of wacky sight gags, outlandish color schemes, and corny visual puns that can be appreciated equally as an abstract Frank Tashlin comedy and as a playful recapitulation of the artist's career." — Village Voice Posted Aug 27, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| The Cockettes (2002) | "
Fond, funny documentary." — Village Voice Posted Jun 25, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| The Cat's Meow (2002) | "
A better-than-competent period evocation that allows the director to flaunt his knowledge (and perhaps vent some of his own bitterness) regarding Hollywood." — Village Voice Posted Apr 9, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Collateral Damage (2002) | "
This is the sort of burly action flick where one coincidence pummels another, narrative necessity is a drunken roundhouse, and whatever passes for logic is a factor of the last plot device left standing." — Village Voice Posted Feb 12, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Cure (2001) | "
Cure sticks with you -- it's a movie about the power of suggestion that casts a troubling spell on the viewer as well." — Village Voice Posted Aug 1, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Chopper (2001) | "
With his metal teeth and deformed satyr-like ears, Chopper is a spectacular lowlife clown." — Village Voice Posted Apr 10, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Circle (2001) | "
A dark, sustained, and wrenching film." — Village Voice Posted Apr 10, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Company Man (2001) | "
Almost bracingly unfunny." — Village Voice Posted Mar 6, 2001 |
— | Fresh 83%
| The City (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Feb 21, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Cast Away (2000) | "
Although Cast Away is very much Hanks's extreme everyman solo, his inanimate Man Friday deserves recognition as one of the year's best supporting actors." — Village Voice Posted Dec 21, 2000 |
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
| Rotten 51%
| Cecil B. Demented (2000) | "
Barely coherent mishmash." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 39%
| Celebrity (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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