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 100%
| Day of Wrath (1943) | "
A stark, brooding treatment of adultery, incest, and murder, an elemental tragedy not so far from a James M. Cain triangle, albeit shot so as to deliberately evoke the Dutch masters." — Village Voice Posted Aug 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Dog Star Man (1964) | "
A multilayered, self-consciously Joycean, naturally psychedelic epic." — Village Voice Posted Apr 29, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| Dead Man's Bounty (2007) | "
A mock spaghetti western that manages to be both parody and homage, albeit less western than spaghetti." — Village Voice Posted Oct 16, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Delirious (2007) | "
Tom DiCillo's Delirious is a mild Midnight Cowboy, a minor King of Comedy, and mainly a vehicle for Steve Buscemi as a lower Manhattan–based paparazzo." — Village Voice Posted Aug 14, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Day Night Day Night (2007) | "
Terror is existential in this highly intelligent, somewhat sadistic, totally fascinating movie." — Village Voice Posted May 8, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| The Decomposition of the Soul (2007) | "
Tough-minded and even poetic." — Village Voice Posted Feb 6, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Death of a President (2006) | "
There's a far more subversive political mock-umentary coming next week. I invite President Bush, Senator Clinton, and all politicians to get down with Borat." — Village Voice Posted Oct 24, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 92%
| The Departed (2006) | "
Neither a debacle nor a bore, The Departed works but only up to a point, and never emotionally." — Village Voice Posted Oct 3, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| The Devil Wears Prada (2006) | "
At once coolly indifferent and fanatically detail-obsessed, coiffed off-white hair emphasizing a hawk's hooded gaze, Streep is the scariest, most nuanced, funniest movie villainess since Tilda Swinton's nazified White Witch." — Village Voice Posted Jun 29, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006) | "
The most remarkable new movie to open in New York this spring." — Village Voice Posted Apr 25, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Dirty Harry (1971) | "
No less than Siegel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers, it offers a fabulous, multifarious political metaphor. (And, as with Body Snatchers, Siegel's own liberal interpretation was trumped by a more forceful hard-right reading." — Village Voice Posted Apr 4, 2006 |
Fresh
| N/A | Death Rides a Horse (1968) | "
Petroni's direction is crude but effective." — Village Voice Posted Nov 22, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| The Dying Gaul (2005) | "
Entertaining if cornball, lacking the cold-eyed nastiness of something like Mike Nichols's Closer." — Village Voice Posted Nov 1, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 47%
| Don't Move (2005) | "
A movie of robust scenes." — Village Voice Posted Mar 8, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Downfall (2005) | "
Downfall may be grimly self-important and inescapably trivializing. But we should be grateful that German cinema is more inclined to normalize the nation's history than rewrite it." — Village Voice Posted Feb 15, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Days of Being Wild (1990) | "
Arguably this is the key movie in Wong's oeuvre, as startling in its context as Hiroshima Mon Amour and Breathless were in theirs." — Village Voice Posted Nov 16, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| A Dirty Shame (2004) | "
A nonstop raunchfest with a surreal premise and a provocative agenda." — Village Voice Posted Sep 21, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| De-Lovely (2004) | "
Spike Jones or 'Weird Al' Yankovic could scarcely have been more jarring than the gaggle of preening pop stars invited to camp on the classics." — Village Voice Posted Jun 29, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Dogville (2003) | "
For passion, originality, and sustained chutzpah, this austere allegory of failed Christian charity and Old Testament payback is von Trier's strongest movie -- a masterpiece, in fact." — Village Voice Posted Mar 23, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Divan (2004) | "
Warmhearted but unsentimental, touching but not mawkish, clever but never cute, Divan is almost miraculously modest." — Village Voice Posted Mar 16, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Distant (2004) | "
A movie of quiet revelations that is itself quite surprising." — Village Voice Posted Mar 9, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| The Dreamers (2004) | "
Bad, but unlike the similarly camped-up Little Buddha or Stealing Beauty, it's not exactly boring." — Village Voice Posted Feb 3, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2003) | "
Overtly erotic, willfully archaic, often inspired, uncannily affecting, and beautifully convulsive." — Village Voice Posted May 13, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| The Dancer Upstairs (2003) | "
Initially engrossing, The Dancer Upstairs slackens in its second half." — Village Voice Posted Apr 29, 2003 |
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
| Fresh 87%
| Decasia: The State of Decay (2002) | "
The film is a fierce dance of destruction. Its flame-like, roiling black-and-white inspires trembling and gratitude." — Village Voice Posted Mar 18, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Divine Intervention (2003) | "
A movie of long, expressive silences, Divine Intervention articulates things that have never been articulated, at least on the screen." — Village Voice Posted Jan 14, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Derrida (2002) | "
It's endearing to hear Madame D. refer to her husband as 'Jackie' -- and he does make for excellent company, not least as a self-conscious performer." — Village Voice Posted Oct 22, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| The Decay of Fiction (2006) | "
The fullest expression of [O'Neill's] career on the periphery of the dream-factory assembly line." — Village Voice Posted Oct 8, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) | "
The gentle comic treatment of adolescent sturm und drang should please fans of Chris Fuhrman's posthumously published cult novel." — Village Voice Posted Jun 11, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Dream of Light (1990) | "
More analytical than contemplative, never less than straightforward, Dream of Light makes no showy bid for the sublime." — Village Voice Posted Apr 18, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 42%
| Death to Smoochy (2002) | "
Death to Smoochy is often very funny, but what's even more remarkable is the integrity of DeVito's misanthropic vision." — Village Voice Posted Apr 2, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Domestic Violence (2002) | "
The most compelling Wiseman epic of recent years." — Village Voice Posted Jan 29, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| The Devil's Backbone (2001) | "
An expert, sunlit chiller audaciously predicated on an unquiet historical memory." — Village Voice Posted Nov 20, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Donnie Darko (2001) | "
A wondrous, moodily self-involved piece of work that employs X-Files magic realism to galvanize what might have been a routine tale of suburban teen angst." — Village Voice Posted Oct 23, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Djomeh (2001) | "
Among the most formally accomplished of new Iranian films." — Village Voice Posted Sep 4, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Downtown 81 (1981) | "
Doesn't dawdle and, despite some eye-rolling dialogue, is a generally amiable time-trip." — Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Divided We Fall (2001) | "
Inspires a longing to follow these vivid characters into the next horrific stage of the Czech century." — Village Voice Posted Jun 6, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| The Day I Became A Woman (2001) | "
The sense of cosmic simultaneity [is] the most effective aspect of the film." — Village Voice Posted Apr 4, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Decalogue Box Set (1988) | "
Powerfully evokes the last, dispirited days of Polish communism." — Village Voice Posted Feb 21, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Dancer in the Dark (1999) | "
The crazy thing is that, sarcastic as Dancer is, it actually works as an anti-capital- punishment tract." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Dial M for Murder (1954) | "
Was by far the most visually compelling of studio stereoscopic movies." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Dick (1999) | "
Makes particular aspects of the recent American past comprehensible to those too young to have lived them." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Dogma (1999) | "
Once the ball is put in play, the viewer must endure a flat second half, indulging torturously static explanations delivered by characters so garrulous they make those of Eric Rohmer seem as tight-lipped as Silent Bob." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Dr. Akagi (1998) | "
As lively, irreverent, and bizarrely cheerful as any of Imamura's previous low-life sagas." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 45%
| Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 80%
| Dry Cleaning (1997) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) | "
Boasts one of the best titles in movie history and a cast to match." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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