Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| The Headless Woman (2009) | "
As dense and fluid as Martel's movie is, the viewer -- like the protagonist -- is compelled to live in the moment. And a rich moment it is." — Village Voice Posted Aug 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Hunger (2008) | "
I've seen Hunger three times, and with each screening, the spectacle of violence, suffering, and pain becomes more awful and more awe-inspiring." — Village Voice Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008) | "
Rafferty's no-frills annotated replay is the best football movie I've ever seen: A particular day in history becomes a moment out of time." — Village Voice Posted Nov 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) | "
At the very least, the spectacle of Poppy's devotion and desire, not to mention her all-around sunny disposish, left this viewer feeling unaccountably happy -- at least for the moment." — Village Voice Posted Oct 8, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Hamlet 2 (2008) | "
Coogan will do anything for a laugh, and given how little he has to work with, he must." — Village Voice Posted Aug 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) | "
Unfortunately, nothing in Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo is funnier than its title." — Village Voice Posted Apr 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) | "
It’s impossible to predict how the Mumblecorps will mature but, given their immersion in the moment, I suspect that the films they’ve made will age very well." — Village Voice Posted Aug 21, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| The Host (2007) | "
The Host, Bong Joon-ho's giddy creature feature, has an anarchic mess factor worthy of a pile of old Mad magazines." — Village Voice Posted Mar 6, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Hollywoodland (2006) | "
Like its protagonist, Hollywoodland has an easy, sleazy appeal -- a languid descent into the mystery's murky depths." — Village Voice Posted Sep 5, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| Heading South (2006) | "
An intelligent movie, not so much salacious as affecting but ultimately less analytical than overwrought..." — Village Voice Posted Jul 5, 2006 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Humiliated (2000) | "
... more powerful than the movie it documents ..." — Village Voice Posted Jan 25, 2006 |
Fresh
| N/A | He Ran All the Way (1951) | "
Less than a classic but more than a curio, John Garfield's last vehicle marks the disintegration of Hollywood's old left." — Village Voice Posted Nov 29, 2005 |
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Holy Girl (2005) | "
Working against the grain of this potentially lurid story, Martel again builds her dryly comic drama from an accumulation of recurring riffs and seemingly unrelated micro-incidents." — Village Voice Posted Apr 26, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| A Hole in My Heart (2005) | "
Antic, if not funny." — Village Voice Posted Apr 5, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 90%
| Head-On (2005) | "
In an odd spin on the immigration story, rootless Cahit and Sibel are ultimately too complex for the fiction that holds them." — Village Voice Posted Jan 18, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Hitler's Hit Parade (2005) | "
The flow of images has a terrible inexorability. Watching this movie is like watching people pirouette gaily off a cliff." — Village Voice Posted Jan 4, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Hero (2004) | "
The action is wittily aestheticized, with swordplay variously compared to music, calligraphy, and theater." — Village Voice Posted Aug 24, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 96%
| Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004) | "
Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller's fond portrait, less documentary than infomercial, is unrelentingly and in the end self-defeatingly positive -- albeit effective in showcasing Zinn's charismatic personality." — Village Voice Posted Jul 20, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| The Hunting of the President (2004) | "
Overwrought and often hysterical, filled with distracting montages and portentous drumbeats, the documentary feels as cheesy as its subject -- or its smiling villain, Witchfinder-General Kenneth Starr." — Village Voice Posted Jun 8, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Hellboy (2004) | "
To his credit, del Toro does not flinch from the ridiculous. But he is equally sensitive to Hellboy's pulp poetry." — Village Voice Posted Apr 6, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| Hebrew Hammer (2003) | "
The result is explicit, if less than hilarious." — Village Voice Posted Dec 16, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Hukkle (2002) | "
Deranging a venerable Hungarian tradition of 'village sociology,' Palfi employs a bizarrely associative montage to fashion a portrait of a traditional peasant community -- just a midsummer Sunday on Mars." — Village Voice Posted Nov 25, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| The Human Stain (2003) | "
The nerviest prestige picture of the season is fatally undone by a Clintonian mixture of misplaced care and bizarre expediency." — Village Voice Posted Oct 28, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| The Hired Hand (1971) | "
A touching and absurd example of the hippie western." — Village Voice Posted Oct 14, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| Home Room (2002) | "
Badly acted and, running well over two hours, often mind-numbingly ponderous." — Village Voice Posted Sep 2, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| The Holy Land (2003) | "
Scarcely the first Jewish text predicated on the worldly corruption of an unworldly devout, but its evocation of Israel's warring underworlds gives it additional force." — Village Voice Posted Jul 8, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003) | "
An unfunny comedy and somewhat murky exposé." — Village Voice Posted Jun 24, 2003 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Human Weapon (2003) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jun 24, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| Hollywood Homicide (2003) | "
The surplus of character humor seems all the more desperate in view of the essentially humorless stars." — Village Voice Posted Jun 17, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| Head of State (2003) | "
It's pretty much a toothless dog." — Village Voice Posted Apr 1, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Hell House (2002) | "
Lookin' for sin, American-style? Try Hell House, which documents the cautionary Christian spook-a-rama of the same name." — Village Voice Posted Nov 12, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| How to Draw A Bunny (2002) | "
One of the pleasures in Walter's documentary ... is the parade of veteran painters, confounded dealers, and miscellaneous bohos who expound upon the subject's mysterious personality without ever explaining him." — Village Voice Posted Oct 8, 2002 |
— | Fresh 73%
| Heaven (2002) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Oct 1, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| Human Nature (2002) | "
An overemphatic, would-be wacky, ultimately tedious sex farce." — Village Voice Posted Apr 9, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 78%
| Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) | "
Solid but uninspired, Harry lacks brio." — Village Voice Posted Nov 13, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Haiku Tunnel (2001) | "
It's unpretentiously low-tech and humorously offbeat." — Village Voice Posted Sep 11, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) | "
Perhaps 20 minutes too long and subject to torpor." — Village Voice Posted Aug 17, 2001 |
— | Fresh 80%
| The Hole (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Feb 21, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| Hannibal (2001) | "
Not nearly as sardonic as it means to be, Hannibal seems inanely pleased with itself." — Village Voice Posted Feb 7, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| The House of Mirth (2000) | "
It's no fetishized lost world, but one that is fiercely, uncomfortably present." — Village Voice Posted Dec 21, 2000 |
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| Hamlet (2000) | "
But the joke only goes so far, and even at a relatively svelte 112 minutes Hamlet comes apart in its final third." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 84%
| Happiness (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 61%
| Hideous Kinky (1999) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Rotten 27%
| Hollow Man (2000) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Holy Smoke! (1999) | "
Filled with flashy sight gags, overwrought performances, and madly overlapping dialogue." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | N/A | Homo Sapiens 1900 (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 68%
| Humanité (1999) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 61%
| Hurlyburly (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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