Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 76%
| Bon Voyage (2004) | "
If you've got a hankering for a bullet-flinging, romantic, film noir roller coaster, Bon Voyage is the ticket." — Orlando Weekly Posted May 22, 2004 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 50%
| Ella Enchanted (2004) | "
Someone should tell O’Haver and the gaggle of writers it took to write this unenchanted mess that updated doesn’t have to mean washed-up and dumbed-down." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Apr 23, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 36%
| Games People Play: New York (2004) | "
If reality is made up of truth without deceit, there’s nothing real about Games, unless you count really bad and really awful." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Apr 23, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 45%
| Latter Days (2004) | "
...Funny, tragic, occasionally cheesy, endearing and ultimately heartwarming, dealing with very serious Christian hypocrisy while holding onto a light, life-embracing tone." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Apr 8, 2004 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 63%
| Acts of Worship (2001) | "
Rodriguez depicts addicts as a sea of agitated vultures haunting the streets...counteracted by character confrontations forced to move too quickly and predictable plot turns." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Apr 8, 2004 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 13%
| Welcome to Mooseport (2004) | "
Lord knows we need to laugh about politics, but when it comes to salving our Oval Office wounds, Welcome to Mooseport is like taking a baby aspirin for pneumonia..." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Mar 12, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 46%
| Eurotrip (2004) | "
Eurotrip delivers a savvy potty jocularity, probably because some of that European culture rubbed off on the penis jokes." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Mar 12, 2004 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 63%
| Starsky & Hutch (2004) | "
Phillips pushes for laughs more than the show did, but still manages a weird mix of comedy, serious crime fighting and irony inside the scariest fashion decade of all time." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Mar 12, 2004 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Destino (2003) | "
This is a taste of classic Disney, a crooning, twisting song sung to the eyes, a vacation from rational thoughts." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Feb 12, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 26%
| Along Came Polly (2004) | "
For all of you hungry-for-decent-comic-fare, Polly is a whole lotta ho-hum, a limping script with a few charming dimples." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Jan 23, 2004 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 72%
| Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) | "
Girl with a Pearl Earring is a stolen glimpse around dark doorways into the intense, colorful birth of a great creation." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Jan 23, 2004 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 19%
| Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) | "
...a stoner mystery that recycles tried and occasionally true gags specifically packaged for today’s teenage audiences, like the cheerleading squad I was sitting next to." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Jan 16, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Cremaster 1 (1995) | "
As with all of [Barney's] films, translating Cremaster 1into words is a disservice to the elevating intensity and intrigue communicated through sound and imagery." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Jan 14, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| Cremaster 3 (2002) | "
Attempting to sum up the scope of Matthew Barney’s epic in a few words is like trying to shove the history of existence through a scrotum-shaped pinhole." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Jan 14, 2004 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 75%
| Peter Pan (2003) | "
No matter what your wrinkle-count...you may just find yourself saying, 'I do believe in well-made films for kids.'" — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Jan 12, 2004 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 48%
| Porn Theater (2003) | "
If nothing else, your curiosity should be sadly satisfied." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Dec 31, 2003 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 23%
| Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) | "
Cheaper by the Dozen is yet another fast-food film, going through the motions of a plot with milk-and-cupcake dialogue that leaves you dry and crusty." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Dec 31, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 75%
| House of Sand and Fog (2003) | "
By the end, you feel as if you’ve been hit over the head with a bloody dead dove, with someone screaming, “Tragedy! Tragedy! Tragedy!” in your sore ear." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Dec 31, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 71%
| Cold Mountain (2003) | "
Cold Mountain is haunted by the earmarks of a TV mini-series... [but] left me in a dreamy state of mind..." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Dec 24, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 62%
| Girls Will Be Girls (2003) | "
...an explosion of bad taste swallowed, and occasionally spit back out, over and over again, culminating in fashionable she/he cat fights by the pool." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Dec 12, 2003 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (2003) | "
...this documentary took 10 years to make, and it shows in a comprehensive array of photographs and footage both gorgeous and appalling." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Dec 12, 2003 |
Fresh
| N/A | Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977) | "
A marvelous oddity the equivalent of a child's fanciful, monsters-in-the-closet imagination running wild and naked through Barry's uncensored libido." — Film Threat Posted Nov 12, 2003 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| N/A | The Guy Maddin Collection (1990) | "
Guy Maddin has taken the rudimentary personality traits of early movies and pumped them up with operatic drama, homoeroticism, fetishes, bondage and necrophilia..." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Oct 21, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 63%
| Soft for Digging (2001) | "
...leaves a gruesome aftertaste à la The Ring...[however] its strengths lie elsewhere." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Jun 3, 2003 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 69%
| Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2003) | "
A postmodern animated epic, laced with film-noir savvy." — Orlando Weekly Posted May 16, 2003 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 60%
| Te Amo: Made In Chile (2001) | "
Even annoying people have meaningful stories to tell, and there could just be a pretty potent reason behind all that senseless rebellion." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted May 15, 2003 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 65%
| The Shape of Things (2003) | "
It’s hard to believe, but LaBute seems to be getting even more insidious...twisting an old tale with a new take and his no-bones-about-it allusions to the creation myth." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted May 15, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2003) | "
[Take] madness — mixed with inspiration from watching The Sixth Sense. Add a touch of Mulholland Drive and a bag of heart-shaped jujubees, and you’ll just about have the flavor of He Loves Me." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Apr 14, 2003 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 97%
| To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) | "
...To Kill A Mockingbird leaves you with a much-needed belief in hope, ignited anew by the eyes of children." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Apr 5, 2003 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 85%
| Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2003) | "
This is a straightforward, dead-ahead documentary...but nonetheless it builds to a poignant, extreme and terminal climax that shoots off the celluloid right into our guts, piercing our sense of history and humanity." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Apr 3, 2003 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 69%
| Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2003) | "
Director Shinichirô Watanabe drives us through a fantastic land, taking advantage of the anime medium with unearthly angles and delicate details in a postmodern, animated epic laced with film-noir savvy." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Apr 2, 2003 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 60%
| Gerry (2003) | "
Think of Gerry more as an experience rather than a movie, a virtual vacation from the tired crash-and-chase pulse of status-quo cinema." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Mar 13, 2003 |
N/A | N/A | Two Towns of Jasper (2002) | "
A2’s Full Frame Documentary Festival covers war, race and baseball [with] five nonfictional windows into pain, gain, process and people...But the documentary that bites the hardest and deepest is The Two Towns of Jasper." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
INTERVIEW Posted Mar 4, 2003 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 8%
| Gods and Generals (2003) | "
A more appropriate title would be The Great Whitewashing of the Rebellion." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Mar 2, 2003 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 20%
| The Life of David Gale (2003) | "
Any dialectic concerning the ethical-moral issues of execution is overridden and undermined when the Hollywood murder-mystery formula takes the front seat." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Mar 2, 2003 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 44%
| Daredevil (2003) | "
In his saggy, dull-red leather gear, Ben Affleck hangs on the screen like a forlorn biker who’s lost his buddies in a bar brawl." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Feb 21, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 43%
| How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) | "
Hudson needs a little more time to hone her comedic skills before she can charm us through all the watery spots in the film's hot-laughs and cold-jokes script." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Feb 21, 2003 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 69%
| Max (2002) | "
Max pokes, provokes, takes expressionistic license and hits a nerve...as far as art is concerned, it's mission accomplished." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Feb 17, 2003 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Shane (1953) | "
...This isn’t just a western; it’s a masterwork in which every little detail seems to contribute to the intensity in the air." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Feb 6, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 22%
| Biker Boyz (2003) | "
It’ll leave you with a monster-rally headache and a craving for something salty." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Feb 6, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 80%
| Brigadoon (1954) | "
Brigadoon[is]...a concocted Technicolor plaid-clad Garden of Eden with a “puppet show” residue." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Feb 6, 2003 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 92%
| Talk to Her (2002) | "
Talk to Her is a sad falsetto ballad, holding onto hope like a dove cupped in two gentle hands in the midst of blood-splattered bullhorns and slow death." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Jan 29, 2003 |
N/A | Rotten 7%
| All the Queen's Men (2002) | "
When it comes to Reel Pride’s full-length features, you might just split a back seam during Stefan Ruzowitzky’s All the Queen’s Men, a fun-führer flick that embraces queer filmmaking in all senses of the word." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
MISCELLANEOUS Posted Jan 23, 2003 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 75%
| The Way Home (2002) | "
The Way Home is an ode to unconditional love and compassion garnered from years of seeing it all, a condition only the old are privy to, and...often misconstrued as weakness." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Jan 23, 2003 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 81%
| The Hours (2002) | "
Daldry slices scenes from the three women’s lives and fuses them into one momentous thrust." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Jan 23, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Narc (2002) | "
...Liotta is put in an impossible spot because his character’s deceptions ultimately undo him and the believability of the entire scenario. Too bad." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Jan 20, 2003 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Baraka (1994) | "
[It] begins like a National Geographic tour....a vacation from dialogue and narrative, traveling strictly on imagery... [but]Baraka gets old before the 93 minutes are up." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Jan 13, 2003 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 65%
| Evelyn (2002) | "
The film’s lack of personality permeates all its aspects — from the TV movie-esque, affected child acting to the dullest Irish pub scenes ever filmed." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Jan 1, 2003 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 87%
| Chicago (2002) | "
Marshall depicts flashes of thought and lust for fame with spaghetti straps, sequins, rolled stockings, songs through lush lips, gyrating hips and clever segues, as the act of murder blurs into top-notch movie entertainment." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Jan 1, 2003 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 87%
| Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) | "
The film’s premise is simple, but every scene seethes with intensity and outrage as it displays this true account of textbook colonialism." — Metro Times (Detroit, MI) Posted Dec 27, 2002 |
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