Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 98%
| Up (2009) | "
The humour gets weirder as it goes on and it’s among the lightest of Pixar’s films, but the first 20 minutes offer the saddest, most poignant sequence seen in an animation film since Bambi’s mother died." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
A long, impressively clever sketch that gets hung up on being a sweet-and-sour romcom." — Independent on Sunday Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
— | N/A | Le père de mes enfants (2009) |
Click here to read article — Screen International Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
— | N/A | Irene (2009) |
Click here to read article — Screen International Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
— | N/A | Petition (2009) |
Click here to read article — Screen International Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 82%
| Broken Embraces (2009) | "
His films can be uncomfortably navel-gazing, and that’s the case in this somewhat maudlin contemplation of the woes of film-making and the life artistic." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Aug 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
Lively and literate, Inglourious Basterds feels fresher than any Tarantino film in a while. Even so, smart as his writing is, it wouldn’t kill him to see a blue pencil now and again." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
Some von Trier fans will welcome his return to the elaborate visual invention he abandoned with the founding of Dogme. But in the wider world, Antichrist will prove too loopy and coarse for art-house audiences." — Screen International Posted May 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Synecdoche, New York (2008) | "
Synecdoche, New York finally feels bitter, hollow and adolescent: like a gargantuan music video conceived for an emo band with a penchant for Pirandello." — Independent Posted May 17, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Don't Look Back (2009) | "
Don’t Look Back, an initially intriguing, ultimately incoherent mind-bender." — Screen International Posted May 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| A Prophet (2009) | "
A Prophet works both as hard-edged, painstaking detailed social realism and as a compelling genre entertainment." — Screen International Posted May 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| Che, Part Two (2008) | "
Soderbergh deserves all credit for attempting a very un-Hollywood project, an objective, forensic war film in the lineage of Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers, and as Benicio del Toro is convincing as the warrior in decline." — Uncut Magazine [UK] Posted Feb 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| It Might Get Loud (2009) | "
A rock-doc that celebrates the instrument without overly fretting (as it were) about the hardware." — Screen International Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) | "
Fincher treats Roth's script with a visual bravura and narrative gusto far beyond the usual capacities of the Hollywood mainstream. Benjamin Button is a poetic, virtuoso feat, as eloquent and rapturous as CGI-era cinema gets." — Independent Posted Feb 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) | "
A lighter register than most Leigh films, but the content is as psychologically and dramatically rich as ever." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Three Monkeys (2009) | "
It's best described as introspective melodrama, yet both visually and tonally, it's still quintessential Ceylan." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| I've Loved You So Long (2008) | "
A top-of-the-range family melodrama sparingly told and austerely framed, Claudel's tale of guilt, grief and redemption will have viewers thinking deep and weeping long." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| A Girl Cut in Two (2008) | "
It's cynical business as usual for Claude Chabrol, who offers plentiful style and psychological finesse, if few surprises, in his latest jaundiced and sophisticated entertainment." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Filth and Wisdom (2008) | "
While Filth And Wisdom may not quite inhabit the same Hall of Shame as Shanghai Surprise, Body of Evidence and (God save us) Swept Away, it's likely to be forgotten as quickly as most of them." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Full Battle Rattle (2008) | "
An entertaining, often very funny, but ultimately revealing and unsettling film about a US Army camp in the Mojave Desert where Iraq War conditions are simulated for training purposes." — Screen International Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 66%
| The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007) | "
As well as being an elegant, if studiedly small-scale landscape film, the film is also texturally rich." — Screen International Posted Sep 29, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| The Last Mistress (2008) | "
Breillat here shakes historical drama out of its petticoats, with a torrid but rigorously executed tale of bohemian amour fou." — Screen International Posted Sep 8, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| You, the Living (2009) | "
One of European cinema's most distinctive stylists, and darkest humourists, returns with another tragi-comic panorama of the human condition." — Screen International Posted May 31, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| The Man from London (2008) | "
The Man From London bears all the trademarks of Tarr's recent films: dense chiaroscuro, sparely deployed dialogue, a vividly evoked locale, and fluidly wandering camera movements drawn out over hypnotically extended takes." — Screen International Posted May 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Chop Shop (2007) | "
A flawlessly observed piece of street realism, and an unforgiving parable of American economic reality." — Screen International Posted May 23, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| Sunshine (2007) | "
Sunshine is dazzling, but not quite a blinder - your eyeballs may be singed, but don't expect any long-lasting effects on your cosmic consciousness." — Independent Posted Apr 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Days of Glory (2006) | A passionate, historically important film. — Sight and Sound Posted Mar 27, 2007 |
— | Fresh 83%
| Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2002) |
Click here to read article — Independent Posted Dec 6, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Nashville (1975) | "
Nashville effectively founded the school of American improv-ensemble cinema." — Independent Posted Mar 7, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 52%
| The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) |
Click here to read article — Independent Posted Mar 7, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Werckmeister Harmonies (2001) | "
Tarr's true achievement is to attain the condition of silence, and of bottomless, awesomely inscrutable nightmare." — Sight and Sound Posted Apr 1, 2003 |
— | Fresh 83%
| Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1999) |
Click here to read article — Sight and Sound Posted Dec 2, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Mystery Men (1999) | "
A desperately hit-and-miss affair." — Sight and Sound Posted Dec 2, 2002 |
— | Fresh 87%
| The Color of Paradise (1999) |
Click here to read article — Sight and Sound Posted Dec 2, 2002 |
— | Fresh 86%
| Ten (2003) |
Click here to read article — Independent Posted Oct 26, 2002 |
— | Fresh 87%
| Felicia's Journey (1999) |
Click here to read article — Sight and Sound Posted Mar 3, 2002 |
— | Fresh 64%
| Perfect Blue (1997) |
Click here to read article — Sight and Sound Posted Mar 3, 2002 |
— | Fresh 67%
| Sitcom (1998) |
Click here to read article — Sight and Sound Posted Mar 3, 2002 |
— | Fresh 78%
| Sweet and Lowdown (1999) |
Click here to read article — Sight and Sound Posted Mar 3, 2002 |
— | N/A | Of Freaks and Men (1998) |
Click here to read article — Sight and Sound Posted Oct 30, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| Blackboards (2002) | "
This film is so different from The Apple and so striking that it can only encourage us to see Samira Makhmalbaf as a very distinctive sensibility, working to develop her own film language with conspicuous success." — Sight and Sound Posted May 30, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Being John Malkovich (1999) | "
An incredibly rich and entertaining (not to say, laudably malevolent) film that far transcends its already way-out title premise." — Sight and Sound Posted Apr 17, 2001 |
— | Fresh 75%
| Primal Fear (1996) |
Click here to read article — Mail & Guardian Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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