Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| The Sun (2005) | "
Though he successfully humanizes Hirohito, who is shown happily shedding his divinity, Sokurov doesn't entirely exonerate him." — Village Voice Posted Nov 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Suspiria (1977) | "
A movie that makes sense only to the eye (and even then . . .)." — Village Voice Posted Sep 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Summer Hours (2009) | "
Too chatty to be ascetic, Summer Hours is nevertheless almost Ozu-like in its evocation of a parent's death and the dissolving bond between the surviving children." — Village Voice Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| State of Play (2009) | "
An effectively involving journalism-cum-conspiracy yarn with a bang-bang opening and a frantic closer." — Village Voice Posted Apr 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Serbis (2009) | "
Serbis may be a raunch-fest, but it's also a mind-trip -- a raunch-fest with ideas." — Village Voice Posted Jan 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Secret of the Grain (2008) | "
French-Tunisian writer-director-actor Abdellatif Kechiche's The Secret of the Grain is a sprawling yet intimate tale set among the Arab working class of the Mediterranean port Sète." — Village Voice Posted Dec 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Song of the Scarlet Flower (1939) | "
Pivots midway with a change in the weather." — Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Shoot the Piano Player (1960) | "
Truffaut's form of self-reflection is ultimately a way of playing the audience." — Village Voice Posted Sep 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008) | "
The result is contrived, but compelling -- as is the movie's high-powered humanism." — Village Voice Posted May 14, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Speed Racer (2008) | "
Ideologically anti-corporate, previous Wachowski productions aspired to be something more than mind-less sensation; Speed Racer is thrilled to be less. It's the delusions minus the grandeur." — Village Voice Posted May 7, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 80%
| Standard Operating Procedure (2008) | "
Since The Thin Blue Line's remarkable intervention, Morris's work has grown more public and more problematic -- lofty yet snide, a form of know-it-all epistemological inquiry." — Village Voice Posted Apr 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Stalags (2008) | "
However artless its presentation, Stalags imparts material that's difficult to shake off and impossible to dismiss." — Village Voice Posted Apr 8, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) | "
By any standard, a long strange trip." — Village Voice Posted Apr 2, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| The Silence Before Bach (2008) | "
At once cerebral film essay and unsweetened ear candy, Pere Portabella's The Silence Before Bach is nearly as tough to categorize as its maker." — Village Voice Posted Jan 29, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Still Life (2008) | "
What's striking about Still Life is its micro-analytical curiosity: Judgment seems suspended -- like the bridge that magically lights up over the Yangtze or the unlikely tightrope walker glimpsed in the movie's last shot." — Village Voice Posted Jan 15, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) | "
As much as he's a filmmaker, Burton is also a graphic artist in the tradition of Charles Addams and Edward Gorey -- and here he's successfully incorporated Sweeney Todd into his own distinctively dank and spidery gothic world." — Village Voice Posted Dec 18, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 36%
| Southland Tales (2007) | "
In its willful, self-involved eccentricity, Southland Tales is really something else. Kelly's movie may not be entirely coherent, but that's because there's so much it wants to say." — Village Voice Posted Nov 6, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) | "
In this overwhelmingly beautiful movie, a sad, short, brutalized life is elevated to ecstatic myth." — Village Voice Posted Oct 30, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| September Dawn (2007) | "
September Dawn has the ham-fisted lyricism of political ads and pharmaceutical commercials." — Village Voice Posted Aug 21, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Syndromes and A Century (2007) | "
Are these parallel tales a Buddhist romance? An attempt to induce something like 3-D narrative depth? A consideration of repetitive human activity over the course of a lifetime? You might as well ask why the breeze is rustling the leaves." — Village Voice Posted Apr 17, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Sacco & Vanzetti (2007) | "
Only 81 minutes long, Sacco and Vanzetti is packed with information." — Village Voice Posted Mar 29, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 37%
| The Situation (2007) | "
Philip Haas's deftly paced, well-written, and brilliantly infuriating Iraq War thriller is not only the strongest of recent geopolitical hotspot flicks but one that has been designed for maximal agitation." — Village Voice Posted Jan 30, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| Shockproof (1949) | "
A cheap 79-minute time-waster that's all business ..." — Village Voice Posted Jan 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 27%
| Smokin' Aces (2007) | "
Self-important but not untalented, Smokin' Aces is tonally consistent from beginning to end, and, for all its bloody mayhem, kinetic nihilism, and jive minstrelsy, has a surprisingly light touch." — Village Voice Posted Jan 25, 2007 |
— | Fresh 86%
| Something Wild (1986) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 2, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | Something Wild (1961) | "
The movie's uneasy blend of symbolism and naturalism might have worked better onstage." — Village Voice Posted Dec 29, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| The Science of Sleep (2006) | "
Sweet, crazy, and tinged with sadness, Michel Gondry's new feature The Science of Sleep is a wondrous concoction." — Village Voice Posted Sep 19, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Superman Returns (2006) | "
The movie may not be a single-bound building-leaper but Bryan Singer reconfigures the daddy of all comic-book sagas into something knowing, witty, and even sensitive." — Village Voice Posted Jun 29, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Sisters in Law (2006) | "
It's an immersion in applied feminism in which each case not only has political implications but a positive denouement." — Village Voice Posted Apr 11, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Satantango (1994) | "
One of the great, largely unseeable movies of the last dozen years." — Village Voice Posted Jan 10, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Syriana (2005) | "
The movie may be too knowing for its own good, but it's not glib and it never goes cheesy." — Village Voice Posted Nov 22, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| The Syrian Bride (2005) | "
It exudes affection, for its characters and their culture as well as the unprepossessing beauty of the scrubby terrain that holds them in thrall." — Village Voice Posted Nov 15, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic (2005) | "
Sarah Silverman's cartoon bunny rabbit smile could make her the poster child for orthodontia, but it's her timing that's the real thing of beauty." — Village Voice Posted Nov 8, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Squid and the Whale (2005) | "
Tender, cruel, and very funny, Baumbach's fourth feature turns family history into a sort of urban myth." — Village Voice Posted Sep 27, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| Steamboy (2005) | "
It's a sensationally designed piece of work." — Village Voice Posted Aug 19, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Save The Green Planet! (2005) | "
Mad conspiracy rules in Korean writer-director Jang Jun-hwan's snazzy, playful, somewhat gory, often hilarious, and generally unpredictable first feature." — Village Voice Posted Apr 19, 2005 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Sin City (2005) | "
Rodriguez loves his material so much that he embalmed it." — Village Voice Posted Mar 29, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Sideways (2004) | "
This excellent adventure affords a hilarious and excruciating bout of bachelor bonding." — Village Voice Posted Oct 19, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Sex is Comedy (2004) | "
The director is an irrepressible fount of complaints, theories, and lofty pronouncements." — Village Voice Posted Oct 12, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Sunrise (1927) | "
Reckless, romantic, and extravagant." — Village Voice Posted Sep 7, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| Suspect Zero (2004) | "
Slips on the banana peel of exaggerated fear factor, falling facedown with the introduction of an über-creep serial killer (Ben Kingsley) grimly stalking some hapless prey." — Village Voice Posted Aug 31, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| She Hate Me (2004) | "
Ankle-chained to the ball of Jack's depression, She Hate Me lurches from cartoonish didacticism to glum slapstick." — Village Voice Posted Jul 27, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 94%
| Spider-Man 2 (2004) | "
The movie's first half is talky bordering on tiresome -- endlessly rehashing the same mix of frustrated puppy love, survivor guilt, and identity crisis." — Village Voice Posted Jun 29, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| The Stepford Wives (2004) | "
It has two speeds -- obvious and more so." — Village Voice Posted Jun 15, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Springtime in a Small Town (2004) | "
Tian gets superbly nuanced performances from an inexperienced cast and choreographs his ensemble scenes with considerable self-assurance." — Village Voice Posted May 18, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2004) | "
Understated and unforgettable; in its modest way, this movie is as horrific an exposure to evil as Lanzmann's Shoah." — Village Voice Posted May 18, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Superstar in a Housedress (2004) | "
A fabulously fond and entertaining tribute." — Village Voice Posted May 4, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| The Saddest Music in the World (2004) | "
Like everything in Maddin's oeuvre, The Saddest Music in the World is a contribution to the imaginary history of our times." — Village Voice Posted Apr 27, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 48%
| Secret Things (2003) | "
Brisseau effortlessly stages the sort of ooh-la-la orgy that so clearly eluded Stanley Kubrick in Eyes Wide Shut." — Village Voice Posted Feb 18, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Sun Ra - Space is the Place (1974) | "
There could have been more music, but this version of Space Is the Place is 20 minutes longer than the one issued in the early '90s on VHS and includes home movie footage of Sun Ra's 1972 Egyptian concert in the shadow of the pyramids." — Village Voice Posted Nov 4, 2003 |
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