Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
Wild Things isn't overlong, but it is underwhelming." — Village Voice Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Wild River (1960) | "
Sympathetic to both sides, the movie pits tradition against progress, rugged individualism against the greater good." — Village Voice Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Whatever Works (2009) | "
Whatever Works illustrates, even as it names, Allen's artistic limitations." — Village Voice Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Watchmen (2009) | "
Its failure is one of imagination -- although faithfully approximating Dave Gibbons's original drawings, the filmmakers are unable to teleport themselves to the level of the original concept." — Village Voice Posted Mar 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | What Makes Sammy Run? (1959) | "
The adaptation pulls a few punches regarding ethnicity and union-organizing, but as primetime network fare, it's surprisingly "mature."" — Village Voice Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Wrestler (2008) | "
Present in every scene, if not each shot, Rourke gives a tremendously physical performance that The Wrestler essentially exists to document." — Village Voice Posted Dec 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Wendy and Lucy (2008) | "
Modest but cosmic." — Village Voice Posted Dec 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Way You Wanted Me (1944) | "
[Director Tuevo] Tulio, however, is in no way detached: He opts for unrelenting intensity and, since the ending is known from the onset, the systematic obliteration of false hope." — Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
— | Rotten 54%
| Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 37%
| Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) | "
A cynic might view Spurlock's seven-month exploration of civilization's cradle as a form of conjugal competition." — Village Voice Posted Apr 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Woman on the Beach (2006) | "
[An] immaculately constructed movie." — Village Voice Posted Jan 8, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007) | "
That Williams's personality never comes into focus has the effect of making his 15 minutes of fame all the more sad and ghostly." — Village Voice Posted Dec 11, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| The Walker (2007) | "
This is a serious movie and, gliding around the center of power, a stylish one. But, like its protagonist, The Walker is unable to close the deal." — Village Voice Posted Dec 4, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007) | "
A well-wrought indie written and directed by Goran Dukic." — Village Voice Posted Oct 16, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| The Wendell Baker Story (2007) | "
Low-key to comatose, Wendell Baker might have been improved were it shot in 16mm black and white." — Village Voice Posted May 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| World Trade Center (2006) | "
The surprising thing about this commission job, directed from Andrea Berloff's script, is not its factuality but its restraint." — Village Voice Posted Aug 8, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 35%
| Wassup Rockers (2006) | "
Larry Clark's latest finds the grizzled shock-meister in a thoughtful mode and a mellow mood." — Village Voice Posted Jun 20, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Why We Fight (2006) | "
Jarecki's film forcefully argues that the much abused word freedom cannot paper over the conflicts between capitalism and democracy." — Village Voice Posted Jan 17, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 82%
| Walk the Line (2005) | "
It doesn't leave you with much to think about, except maybe the empty vibrato of effective ventriloquism." — Village Voice Posted Nov 15, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| Where The Truth Lies (2005) | "
In this relatively big-budget production, the director's main anxiety seems to be wrapping up the mystery and selling the project." — Village Voice Posted Oct 7, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Witchfinder General (1968) | "
It remains contemporary, and even frightening, in its evocation of cynical Puritanism and mass deception." — Village Voice Posted May 31, 2005 |
Fresh
| N/A | Welcome Danger (1929) | "
A present for fans of the bespectacled slapstick star." — Village Voice Posted May 10, 2005 |
Fresh
| N/A | Westfront 1918 (1930) | "
The always protean Pabst made a brilliant adjustment to sound." — Village Voice Posted May 10, 2005 |
Fresh
| N/A | The White Reindeer (1952) | "
Perhaps the world's only example of Sami gothic cinema." — Village Voice Posted Mar 22, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| With God on Our Side (2004) | "
Convincingly maintains that the evangelical movement reached its political apotheosis in the person of born-again prodigal son George W. Bush." — Village Voice Posted Jan 18, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| When Will I Be Loved (2004) | "
More wacky than wack." — Village Voice Posted Sep 7, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) | "
Spellbinding stuff -- in part because of its vivid characterizations." — Village Voice Posted Aug 10, 2004 |
Rotten
| Fresh 87%
| Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2004) | "
Less morbid than an eccentric mixture of the mawkish and primal." — Village Voice Posted Mar 9, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Welcome to Mooseport (2004) | "
Means to satirize the TV-fueled carnivalesque nature of American electoral politics but only demonstrates the TV-fueled debasement of American commercial comedy." — Village Voice Posted Feb 24, 2004 |
— | N/A | War and Peace (2003) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jun 25, 2003 |
Fresh
| N/A | War and Peace (2003) | "
Patwardhan's film gives doomsday a human face." — Village Voice Posted Jun 24, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| The Weather Underground (2003) | "
Sam Green and Bill Siegel's often gripping documentary manages to evoke the particular quality and extent of the madness that possessed many Americans during the course of the longest foreign war in the nation's history." — Village Voice Posted Jun 3, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 32%
| The Weight of Water (2002) | "
Lovingly detailed but unaccountably clumsy, obviously ambitious, and unfortunately chintzy." — Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2002 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Windtalkers (2002) | "
At once chintzy and grandiose, awash in battlefield sentimentality and platoon clichés." — Village Voice Posted Jun 11, 2002 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Wendigo (2002) | "
The engagingly primitive animated special effects contribute to a mood that's sustained through the surprisingly somber conclusion." — Village Voice Posted Feb 12, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| What Time Is It There? (2002) | "
Tsai Ming-liang's witty, wistful new film, What Time Is It There?, is a temporal inquiry that shoulders its philosophical burden lightly." — Village Voice Posted Jan 8, 2002 |
— | Fresh 88%
| Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald (1997) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Nov 13, 2001 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| Waking Life (2001) | "
Doesn't leave you in a dream, specifically the dream of Linklater's previous films, so much as it traps you in an endless bull session." — Village Voice Posted Oct 16, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Werckmeister Harmonies (2001) | "
A totally sustained immersion in the magisterially bleak, voluptuously monochromatic, undeniably beautiful universe of muddy villages and cell-like rooms." — Village Voice Posted Oct 15, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| With a Friend Like Harry (2001) | "
Reasonably nifty." — Village Voice Posted Apr 18, 2001 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| The Way of the Gun (2000) | "
Stillborn." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 95%
| The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| The Wisdom of Crocodiles (1998) | "
Inoffensively glib and innocuously arty." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | Fresh 73%
| Water Drops on Burning Rocks (2000) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
— | N/A | Winstanley (1975) |
Click here to read article — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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