Fresh
| Fresh 66%
| Police, Adjective (2009) | "
[A] remarkably self-effacing and highly intelligent comedy." — Village Voice Posted Dec 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Private Century (2009) | "
As Private Century builds to a devastating attack on Czech communism, this movie of memories argues that the greatest sin is memory's willful obliteration." — Village Voice Posted Mar 11, 2009 |
— | Fresh 78%
| The Panic in Needle Park (1971) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| The President's Analyst (1967) | "
Theodore Flicker's genial exercise in comic paranoia re-emerges, for no apparent reason, a reasonably fit and funny artifact from the age of grooviness." — Village Voice Posted Jun 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 56%
| Paraguayan Hammock (2008) | "
Paraguayan Hammock is like a piece of music that improves with familiarity." — Village Voice Posted May 14, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| The Pied Piper (1972) | "
A dark and smoky affair that, although set in Germany during the Black Death summer of 1349, suggests something brainstormed in a St. Marks Place head shop." — Village Voice Posted Nov 14, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| The Phantom of the Opera (1925) | "
A pinnacle of the Hollywood fantastic." — Village Voice Posted Sep 19, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Poison Friends (2007) | "
The movie is largely unclassifiable -- at once a psychological study, an exceedingly dry comedy, and a moral tale in which stories are purloined and frauds perpetrated." — Village Voice Posted Apr 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Pan's Labyrinth (2006) | "
Literally and figuratively marvelous, a rich, daring mix of fantasy and politics." — Village Voice Posted Dec 28, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Pandora's Box (1928) | "
There would never be another Lulu -- nor will there ever be." — Village Voice Posted Jun 13, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| The Proposition (2006) | "
The climactic Christmas Day dinner of dreadful retribution is a terrifying prospect, but for anyone with a yen for our great lost genre, it's also some sort of gift." — Village Voice Posted May 2, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 51%
| The Producers (2005) | "
There's no business like show business, and the musical Producers' considerable success showed the original movie to have been prophetic -- of itself." — Village Voice Posted Dec 13, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| The Power of Nightmares () | "
As partisan filmmaking it is often brilliant and sometimes hilarious." — Village Voice Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Paths of Glory (1957) | "
There's a near mathematical logic to the scenario and the cruelty is compounded by class." — Village Voice Posted Nov 29, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| Pulse (2005) | "
At least half an hour too long at 119 minutes, the movie allows almost everything to happen at least twice." — Village Voice Posted Nov 8, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Paradise Now (2005) | "
Paradise Now may not succeed in inspiring sympathy for these hapless terrorists, but it does compel an appreciation for the unbearable sense of humiliation that may fuel such acts." — Village Voice Posted Oct 26, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Passenger (1975) | "
Leisurely and old-fashioned as The Passenger may be, this tour de force ending is worth the wait." — Village Voice Posted Oct 26, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| Protocols of Zion (2005) | "
[An] absorbing essay." — Village Voice Posted Oct 18, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 80%
| The President's Last Bang (2005) | "
From mid-movie on, confusion escalates (along with one's incredulity) as the body count mounts." — Village Voice Posted Oct 10, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Pickpocket (1959) | "
Ultimately inexplicable, this concentrated, elliptical, economical movie is an experience that never loses its strangeness." — Village Voice Posted Oct 4, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| Palindromes (2005) | "
Is Solondz a moralist or a misanthrope, or both? Does he hold his characters or his audience in greater contempt?" — Village Voice Posted Apr 12, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| The Passion of the Christ (2004) | "
Less reverential than razzle-dazzlin', more an episode in the history of show business than a religious epiphany." — Village Voice Posted Feb 24, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Prisoner of Paradise (2004) | "
A fascinating and painful account of an entertainer trapped not only by his Jewishness but by his overwhelming need to make theater." — Village Voice Posted Dec 2, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Piccadilly (1929) | "
A visually eloquent and sometimes dazzling backstage melodrama." — Village Voice Posted Sep 30, 2003 |
— | Rotten 38%
| The Phantom of the Opera (1989) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Sep 25, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| People I Know (2003) | "
An expired shelf life is integral to the movie's downbeat charm." — Village Voice Posted Apr 22, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Phone Booth (2003) | "
Absurdly set in some pre-cell-phone, post-Amadou Diallo alternate universe and generously stocked with logical inconsistencies, Phone Booth is best appreciated as hilarious pulp metaphor." — Village Voice Posted Apr 1, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Platform (2000) | "
The play of the proscenium against the filmmaker's taste for unmediated reality is fascinating." — Village Voice Posted Mar 11, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| The Pianist (2002) | "
Exhibits an admirable economy -- at least for its first half." — Village Voice Posted Dec 25, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| Punch-Drunk Love (2002) | "
As elegantly crafted as it often is, Anderson's movie is essentially a one-trick pony that, hampered by an undeveloped script, ultimately pulls up lame." — Village Voice Posted Oct 1, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Peeping Tom (1960) | "
The original first-person horror film." — Village Voice Posted Sep 26, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Possession (2002) | "
Suffers from insufficient nastiness. Everyone, save the designated villains and professionally obnoxious Eckhart, is altogether too dear." — Village Voice Posted Aug 13, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Panic Room (2002) | "
As conventional as Fight Club was provocative." — Village Voice Posted Mar 26, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| The Piano Teacher (2002) | "
There's hardly another actress in movies who could inhabit this Viennese specimen without seeming ludicrous -- and there may not be another who would care to." — Village Voice Posted Mar 26, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Pepe Le Moko (1937) | "
One of the great international hits of classic French cinema." — Village Voice Posted Feb 26, 2002 |
— | N/A | Pizzicata (1996) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Oct 30, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Pearl Harbor (2001) | "
Hollow tubthumper." — Village Voice Posted May 25, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Pollock (2000) | "
The movie's best moments evoke the thrill of doing something new." — Village Voice Posted Feb 16, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Panic (2000) | "
Panic offers a more naturalistic analysis of male midlife crisis than the grotesquely overpraised American Beauty." — Village Voice Posted Feb 8, 2001 |
— | Rotten 53%
| Pecker (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| Pleasantville (1998) | "
Funny for about half an hour, Pleasantville thereafter becomes an increasingly lugubrious, ultimately exasperating mix of technological wonder and ideological idiocy." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 83%
| Praise (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Princess Mononoke (1997) | "
Princess Mononoke is a complex, superbly rendered, and wildly eccentric anime." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Psycho (1998) | "
The movie lacks the chutzpah to even be a travesty." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| The Patriot (2000) | "
A movie of cornball sentiment, humorously anachronistic dialogue, and expensive Colonial Williamsburg sets." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| The Perfect Storm (2000) | "
Opens with a squall of anticipatory clichés." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| The Prince of Egypt (1998) | "
Rather than Jerry Falwell, I'd have had the production vetted by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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