Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009) | "
Herzog has gone beyond Good and Evil to reinvent himself as a candidate for the wiggiest director of comedy in America today." — Village Voice Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Me and Orson Welles (2009) | "
Deft, affectionate, and unexpectedly enjoyable." — Village Voice Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
What's mildly exasperating is that there is an actual quest involved: The Men Who Stare at Goats goes out to the desert in search of its tone—and never finds it." — Village Voice Posted Nov 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| Moon (2009) | "
Impressively pulled together on a modest budget, Moon has a strong lead and a valid philosophical premise but, despite Bell's fissured psyche, the drama is inert. Ground control to Major Tom: Moon orbits an idea, but it doesn't go anywhere." — Village Voice Posted Jun 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Manhattan (1979) | "
Manhattan is not just Woody Allen's dream movie. Wistful as it is witty, it's his dream of the movies." — Village Voice Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Mock Up on Mu (2009) | "
Baldwin's narrative is not easy to follow—the tone is simultaneously hysterical and uninflected—but, as with any religion or conspiracy theory, his method is characterized by a logic beyond logic." — Village Voice Posted Jan 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Made in U.S.A. (1966) | "
Jean-Luc Godard's Made in U.S.A. is not the celluloid holy grail, but it's close enough." — Village Voice Posted Jan 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Milk (2008) | "
Milk is so immediate that it's impossible to separate the movie's moment from this one." — Village Voice Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Me and My Brother (1969) | "
The weightiest item in his [Director Robert Frank's] oeuvre." — Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Mary (2008) | "
Tightly framed and tightly wound, Mary is a claustrophobic, incandescent, nutty 83 minutes with everyone in the cast teetering on the ledge of madness." — Village Voice Posted Oct 15, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Momma's Man (2008) | "
Much comic pathos arises from the realization that Mikey has no perspective on his parents. They are as mysterious in their idiosyncrasies as anyone's." — Village Voice Posted Aug 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| My Winnipeg (2008) | "
My Winnipeg is Maddin's best filmmaking since the not-dissimilar confessional bargain-basement phantasmagoria, Cowards Bend the Knee. The editing is dense; the action is fluid." — Village Voice Posted Jun 11, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Monika (1952) | "
Bergman's tale of heedless teenage love is a sort of neorealist Rebel Without a Cause -- except that sex is acknowledged and the outlaw is a girl." — Village Voice Posted Nov 13, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| A Mighty Heart (2007) | "
There's hardly a moment when Jolie is on-screen that you can't sense the presence of make-up artists and hair stylists hovering anxiously just off frame." — Village Voice Posted Jun 20, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Mafioso (1962) | "
Alberto Lattuada's tricky-to-parse Mafioso dates from 1962 but, with its abrupt tonal shifts and disturbing existential premise, this nearly forgotten dark comedy could be the most modern (or at least modernist) movie in town." — Village Voice Posted Jan 16, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| The Magic Gloves (2006) | "
The Magic Gloves is a city symphony in which the metropolis seems an illusory maze and the melody is based on a refrain of recurring riffs." — Village Voice Posted Nov 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 54%
| Marie Antoinette (2006) | "
A graceful, charming, and sometimes witty confection -- at least for its first hour." — Village Voice Posted Oct 10, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Mutual Appreciation (2006) | "
Bujalski's most avant-garde device is simply cutting from scene to scene, letting the temporal ellipses fall where they might." — Village Voice Posted Aug 29, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Munich (2005) | "
Spielberg surrenders to his own despair and lashes out . . . at the audience." — Village Voice Posted Dec 20, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Mouchette (1966) | "
Like any genius, Bresson made rules in order to break them." — Village Voice Posted Oct 4, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 51%
| Manderlay (2006) | "
The filmmaker uses Dogville's formal devices to lesser effect and his boredom is contagious." — Village Voice Posted May 24, 2005 |
Fresh
| N/A | Match Girl (1966) | "
A nearly forgotten example of avant-indie filmmaking and a particular sort of New York fairy tale." — Village Voice Posted Apr 5, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Mondovino (2005) | "
Has an arbitrary, patchwork feel." — Village Voice Posted Mar 29, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| Melinda and Melinda (2005) | "
Neither comedy nor tragedy, the movie is closest to genteel soap opera." — Village Voice Posted Mar 15, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Masculin Feminin (1966) | "
Directed by anyone else, Masculine Feminine -- one of three movies that Godard made in his peak year, 1966 -- would be a masterpiece. For the young JLG it's business as usual." — Village Voice Posted Feb 8, 2005 |
Fresh
| N/A | Macunaima (1969) | "
A funny, freewheeling melange of primitive myth and Busby Berkeley." — Village Voice Posted Oct 12, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 99%
| Moolaade (2004) | "
Moolaade isn't just positive; it's positively feel-good." — Village Voice Posted Oct 7, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| The Manchurian Candidate (2004) | "
Following a dozen years of docs, light comedy, and p.c. weepies, Candidate represents Demme's best dramatic filmmaking since The Silence of the Lambs." — Village Voice Posted Aug 3, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 87%
| Macbeth (1971) | "
The film's bear-baiting, barnyard pageantry is less convincing than its clammy locations." — Village Voice Posted May 4, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) | "
It's a hearty burlesque." — Village Voice Posted Apr 27, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) | "
A pretty sensational movie." — Village Voice Posted Feb 18, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Millennium Mambo (2003) | "
Sensationally shot by Mark Li Ping-bin." — Village Voice Posted Dec 30, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Modern Times (1936) | "
Remains Chaplin's most sustained burlesque of authority." — Village Voice Posted Dec 23, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) | "
Crowe delivers a star performance in his trademark incarnation as the thoughtful roughneck." — Village Voice Posted Nov 11, 2003 |
— | Fresh 100%
| The Man Who Laughs (1928) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Nov 6, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 37%
| The Matrix Revolutions (2003) | "
No less than the rankest demagogue, The Matrix Revolutions insists on the primacy of faith over knowledge. Once it locks and loads, however, the triumphant visuals short-circuit anything resembling abstract thought." — Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Mystic River (2003) | "
Eastwood's 24th directorial feature is his most ambitious in a decade." — Village Voice Posted Sep 30, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Matchstick Men (2003) | "
Artful distraction is the key to a successful con, and Cage does more than that for Matchstick Men, dazzling the viewer with a veritable ob-com sonata based on a plethora of tics, hitches, stutters, twitches, and obscure rituals." — Village Voice Posted Sep 9, 2003 |
— | N/A | Moloch (2004) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Aug 5, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Magdalene Sisters (2003) | "
Proposes itself as a corrective. Soon after, there's a scene powerful enough to induce a revolutionary conversion." — Village Voice Posted Jul 29, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Madame Sata (2003) | "
There's no denying the incendiary power of Ramos's performance -- he's present in nearly every scene." — Village Voice Posted Jul 8, 2003 |
— | Fresh 100%
| My Terrorist (2003) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jun 24, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| The Matrix Reloaded (2003) | "
The refreshing draft of effervescent movie magic leaves a sludgy sediment of metaphysics. The latter may be less than brain-buzzing; the former is something else, thanks largely to genius fight choreographer Yuen Wo Ping." — Village Voice Posted May 13, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Marooned in Iraq (2003) | "
This lusty, heartfelt movie has a near Brueghelian visual energy and a humanist passion as contagious as its music." — Village Voice Posted Apr 22, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Man Without a Past (2003) | "
This may not be Kaurismäki's masterpiece, but it is a movie of sustained stylistic integrity -- and it has the power to make you laugh." — Village Voice Posted Apr 1, 2003 |
Rotten
| Fresh 69%
| Max (2002) | "
Although Max is a kitschy and often risible historical fantasy ... this Hungarian-Canadian-British co-production, directed by Meyjes from his own script, is not devoid of ideas." — Village Voice Posted Dec 25, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Morvern Callar (2002) | "
The rapport between the Oscar nominee [Morton] and the neophyte [McDermott] seems felt." — Village Voice Posted Dec 10, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Massoud, The Afghan (2002) | "
It's not the least of Afghan tragedies that this noble warlord would be consigned to the dustbin of history." — Village Voice Posted Dec 3, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Mother India (1957) | "
An outrageous masala of apparently discordant elements." — Village Voice Posted Aug 20, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Merci Pour le Chocolat (2002) | "
A light confection with a tasty Isabelle Huppert performance at its center." — Village Voice Posted Jul 30, 2002 |
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