Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 87%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
An irresistible feel-good movie about love gone bad. And that really isn't bad at all." Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 82%
| The Country Teacher (2009) | "
The film is graced with lovely performances by Pavel Liska as the teacher, Zuzana Bydzovska as Marie and Ladislav Sedivy as the boy." Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 81%
| Sex Positive (2009) | "
Wein tackles an incredibly complex array of issues surrounding HIV, focusing largely on Berkowitz, once a nice young Jewish kid at Rutgers who found a lucrative career as an S&M hustler before becoming an activist and co-author." Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 68%
| Were the World Mine (2008) |
Click here to read article Posted Jun 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 91%
| Every Little Step (2009) | "
The film is as much about the creation of the original show back in 1975 and the genius of the late Michael Bennett, who masterminded it, as it is about the newer version." Posted May 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 11%
| The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2009) | "
The charm and drily pointed cultural observations that made Chabon's 1988 debut so auspicious are largely missing in action throughout this earnest but unconvincing film." Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| N/A | Marie and Bruce (2004) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 59%
| Eleven Minutes (2009) | "
For general audiences, it could use a bit of, ahem, tailoring - taking in here and there." Posted Feb 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 35%
| Tru Loved (2008) | "
The world is not quite as nicely rainbow-hued as the film wishes it were at the end, but, if nothing else, Tru Loved makes us hope all the more that it can be one day." Posted Oct 31, 2008 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 72%
| Mister Foe (2008) | "
Bell was a decent kid actor and a terrific dancer in Billy Elliot, but he's grown into a really first-rate actor." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 46%
| Breakfast with Scot (2008) | "
What elevates way above the merely adequate script by Sean Reycraft based on the novel by Michael Downing and Lynd's competent direction is young Noah Bernett as Scot. This kid is so great, he could give kid actors a good name again." Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 13%
| The Women (2008) | "
Even those who never saw Cukor's movie will feel something is missing in English's version. Yes, some of what's missing is humor and snappy dialogue, but that could be forgiven, if only some of the characters were more believable." Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 63%
| No Regret (2006) | "
Even a melodrama can be made credible in the hands of a skilled director, as Leesong Hee-Il reminds us in No Regret." Posted Aug 29, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 43%
| What We Do Is Secret (2008) | "
Some of the supporting performances, like those of Phillips and Gonzalez, are very strong, but it's West who lifts the entire film to a whole other level." Posted Aug 29, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 43%
| Hats Off (2008) | "
It's obviously not all because of her drive and determination, but we come away from Johnstone's film believing attitude may play a role in the theater of at least one woman's life." Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 74%
| A Jihad for Love (2007) | "
Often fascinating and provocative, although, as a film, it feels a bit long and somewhat repetitive." Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 39%
| The Rocker (2008) | "
You want to like almost everyone in this film, but they're all undone by a weak script that really wasn't worth more than a Gilmore Girls subplot after all." Posted Aug 20, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| Before I Forget (2008) | "
Before I Forget is a film one can admire, but it is not 'likable,' per se, nor does its director wish it to be." Posted Aug 1, 2008 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 79%
| XXY (2008) | "
Lucía Puenzo's XXY is as finely crafted as a great work of literature." Posted Aug 1, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 64%
| Brideshead Revisited (2008) | "
A very noble movie, which makes it interesting at times, but not often enough." Posted Jul 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 89%
| Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) | "
With a subject like Roman Polanski, you don't really need to do much to capture audience interest. But maybe that's the reason Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired doesn't live up to its promise." Posted Jul 25, 2008 |
Rotten 1/4
| N/A | Kuaile Gongchang (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Jul 22, 2008 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 94%
| Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007) | "
Santi and Mascara are right to call their film A Love Story, because this is the portrait of a marriage as full and enviable as the greatest unions in literature." Posted Jul 18, 2008 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 82%
| All In This Tea (2008) | "
The film is both delightful and informative at every turn." Posted Jun 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 63%
| Love Songs (2008) | "
As dark as these themes seem, in Honoré's capable hands, they become almost frothy and the perfect elements for a surprisingly joyous musical." Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 39%
| Bonneville (2006) | "
When you've got three of the nation's best actresses in leading roles, it doesn't matter if your script is only adequate and the audience really has to squint here and there to believe what's happening on the screen." Posted Apr 11, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 56%
| Shelter (2008) | "
Shelter rises very high indeed, thanks to a superb performance by Trevor Wright in the lead role, a strong supporting cast, very good cinematography and, most of all, emotional authenticity." Posted Mar 28, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| Planet B-Boy (2008) | "
The film overflows with displays of explosive dancing and does a superb job showing the form's incredible complexity and technical diversity." Posted Mar 28, 2008 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 75%
| Paranoid Park (2008) | "
For some of the way, it seems like a kind of skateboard whodunit. Soon enough, we understand it's much more than that. And by then, we know we're in for a ride to remember." Posted Mar 14, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 94%
| The Counterfeiters (2008) | "
The moral conundrum at the heart of Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky's The Counterfeiters is worthy of Kafka or Dostoevsky." Posted Feb 29, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 54%
| Charlie Bartlett (2007) | "
Those waiting for the arrival of the next Juno may want to skip Charlie Bartlett, a relentlessly earnest teen film about a 17-year-old misfit who's been tossed out of one prep school after another for bad behavior." Posted Feb 22, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 79%
| The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) | "
The film is graced with a mostly superb cast, superior special effects, a sparkling musical score by James Horner and a fantasy-filled plot with a bit of moralizing, but, fortunately, only a bit." Posted Feb 14, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 84%
| The Witnesses (2008) | "
Some may think the metaphoric possibilities of an incurable illness that can be transmitted through sexual contact have been all but exhausted. Director André Téchiné almost proves otherwise in The Witnesses, a kind of film opera without music." Posted Feb 1, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 90%
| Alice's House (2007) | "
Teixeira elicits extraordinary performances from his entire cast." Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 67%
| How She Move (2008) | "
How She Move isn't a great film or even a terribly well-made film, but it has its moments and, of course, it has the ending it's promised all along." Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 51%
| Steep (2007) | "
In the end, you will believe the film's talking heads, but, more than likely, what they say may still make little logical sense to you." Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 22%
| P.S. I Love You (2007) | "
This is a movie that will leave you stunned and stupefied from beginning to end, if you don't head for the exits first." Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 22%
| Outlaw (2007) | "
Give me a bit of the old ultraviolence any day. Just make me care about it." Posted Dec 14, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 93%
| Juno (2007) | "
Juno isn't a film made in the bell jar of unlikely reality that is, far too often, Hollywood: It's a film whose attention to real-life detail is so fine, audiences will be hopelessly and happily lost in its story from the first frame." Posted Dec 14, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 16%
| The Perfect Holiday (2007) | "
Despite the flabby direction and uninspired plot, The Perfect Holiday almost works because Chestnut and Union are an attractive couple and you want them to get together." Posted Dec 12, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 50%
| Man in the Chair (2007) | "
For its first 45 minutes or so, and intermittently thereafter, Michael Schroeder's Man in the Chair feels, annoyingly, like a film school project." Posted Dec 7, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 29%
| Undoing (2007) | "
The film is too short because the characters just aren't sufficiently developed, but even at a scant 90 minutes, it feels way too long." Posted Nov 30, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 31%
| Midnight Eagle (2007) | "
Often gripping and ultimately poignant" Posted Nov 24, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 100%
| Life of Reilly (2007) | "
Written by Reilly and Paul Linke, the film is both revealing and evasive. You want to know more about his personal life than you ever find out." Posted Nov 16, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 78%
| The Monastery: Mr. Vig & the Nun (2006) | "
The truths of [the subject's] life, no matter how unbelievable they may seem at times, make him almost heroic and the film almost perfect." Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 35%
| Finishing the Game (2007) | "
A very funny, equal-opportunity broadside that targets Asian stereotyping, and not just by non-Asians." Posted Oct 19, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 98%
| For the Bible Tells Me So (2007) | "
For the Bible Tells Me So doesn't follow the formula. That's just one of the reasons it works well as a film and a lesson about, as one open-minded preacher puts it, what the Bible "reads" about what it supposedly "says" about homosexuality." Posted Oct 12, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 80%
| Vanaja (2007) | "
Bhukya delivers an entrancing and natural performance, deftly balancing both the wide-eyed childishness of a young girl with the dawning awareness of life's darker possibilities." Posted Oct 5, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 77%
| The Last Winter (2007) | "
The film isn't very interesting because it isn't well made." Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 68%
| Ira & Abby (2007) | "
Ira & Abby is a comedy of errors that makes very few along the way." Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
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