Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| The Color of Pomegranates (1969) | "
A madly beautiful, often straight-up-bonkers meditation on the life of its eponymous Armenian-Azeri balladeer and poet." Posted Feb 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) | "
Shadows was a leap in the dark like none other in Soviet film history, and a slap in the face of the officially sanctioned and artistically vacuous school of Socialist Realism." Posted Feb 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Unconscious (2007) | "
Laboring in the wide shadow of Almodóvar and lacking much in the way of visual distinction, Unconscious compensates with its cast’s full-tilt commitment to rip-snorting farce." Posted Apr 12, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 56%
| Fuck (2006) | "
Profound and joyously silly at the same time, Steve Anderson’s documentary about our most potent secular blasphemy comes at the word and subject from every conceivable angle: Its awesome power to offend the listener and to empower its utterer." Posted Nov 9, 2006 |
Rotten
| N/A | Greg and Gentillon (2006) | "
Sending two faux-provincial innocents into real-life situations involving levelheaded, genially imperturbable Canadians offers only the mildest kind of comedy." Posted Oct 26, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Vajra Sky Over Tibet (2006) | "
A tonic for Buddhists, no doubt, it offers many pleasures to atheists as well." Posted Sep 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| Princesas (2006) | "
Aranoa's film is a small miracle of controlled empathy." Posted Aug 31, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| Queens (aka Reinas) (2006) | "
This enormously likable comedy is given an additional boost by the energetic presence of five of Spain’s favorite actresses (including sleek Marisa Paredes, flighty Mercedes Sanpietro and growlin’ Carmen Maura, an Almodóvar regular)." Posted Aug 24, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Sisters in Law (2006) | "
Inspirational stuff, and often hysterical to boot." Posted Jul 6, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 23%
| RV (2006) | "
In RV, the downwardly spiraling career trajectories of Robin Williams and director Barry Sonnenfeld intertwine like the ropes of a tangled parachute." Posted May 2, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Stoned (2006) | "
This half-forgotten ’60s controversy can’t sustain a whole movie, so director Steven Woolley and writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade pad things out." Posted Mar 23, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| Firewall (2006) | "
Had Loncraine done a better job of plundering his own oeuvre, Firewall might have acquired the mojo it so sorely lacks." Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| Wolf Creek (2005) | "
Consummately well-crafted, unapologetically vicious and leavened with moments of humor that merely intensify the horror." Posted Dec 22, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005) | "
Even more problematic is the script’s clumsy, sprawling architecture, Sheridan’s clubfooted sense of pacing and his grubby, indistinct visuals." Posted Nov 10, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Winter Soldier (1972) | "
A harrowing and often nauseating compendium of battle-zone confessions that was cast into obscurity almost immediately upon release in 1972." Posted Nov 3, 2005 |
Fresh
| Rotten 27%
| Elizabethtown (2005) | "
Crowe’s undeniable gifts -- his well-crafted individual scenes and his love for his characters -- are more evident here than his flaws." Posted Oct 13, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Into the Blue (2005) | "
Some narrative economy could have shaved 20 minutes off the film’s slackly paced two hours and brought us sooner to its memorably frenetic underwater climax -- a payoff that’s finally too little, too late to save the movie." Posted Sep 29, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Flightplan (2005) | "
The vanished child one really misses here is that adorably sparky, wised-up kid from Bugsy Malone and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Any More." Posted Sep 24, 2005 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 11%
| The Man (2005) | "
When a movie's comedic zenith is Levy farting in an elevator full of nuns, or nerdily intoning the salutations 'homie' and 'bitch,' you know it’s time to storm the box office to demand restitution." Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| The Perfect Crime (2005) | "
The colors are lurid, the camera prowls relentlessly, and the lead performers are exuberant." Posted Aug 25, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 6%
| Chaos (2005) | "
A prefatory title-card-cum-alibi suggests that the film’s extreme brutality is intended 'to educate and, perhaps, save lives,' but that’s little more than a nauseating rationalization." Posted Aug 18, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Must Love Dogs (2005) | "
At once over- and under-written, and peppered with tiresome coincidences and misunderstandings, Goldberg’s mechanical, joke-one, joke-two, joke-three approach to ensemble screenwriting soon betrays his TV-sitcom roots." Posted Jul 28, 2005 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Union Square (2003) | "
Without a well-delineated political or social framework, Union Square offers little that we didn't already know from, say, The Panic in Needle Park or Christiane F." Posted Jun 23, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Grand Theft Parsons (2004) | "
Irish director David Caffrey and English screenwriter Jeremy Drysdale have, respectively, zero sense of pace and a tin-eared grasp of period speech, and together fail either to let us care about their characters or to create any sense of a living era." Posted Jun 17, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 24%
| Stateside (2004) | "
[Anselmo's] sure-footed handling of emotional tone enables his endearing young leads to function in a sympathetic and coherent realm." Posted May 20, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Carandiru (2004) | "
One of the richest prison movies in years." Posted May 12, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Breakin' All the Rules (2004) | "
Yet another unfunny buppie sex comedy." Posted May 12, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 6%
| Envy (2004) | "
What's frustrating about the half-cocked comedy that follows is that it contains so many inspired moments and offers plenty of laughs, yet suffers from the lack of a unifying directorial intelligence." Posted Apr 29, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 26%
| Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004) | "
Relaxed, leisurely and unforced, exactly the way a pleasant round of golf ought to be." Posted Apr 29, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| Man on Fire (2004) | "
A movie of two unreconcilable halves." Posted Apr 22, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Shaolin Soccer (2002) | "
The movie has a rambunctious and likable energy that compensates for its unsteady, only intermittently amusing narrative." Posted Mar 31, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Hellboy (2004) | "
One of the sturdier superhero movies of the last couple of years, with monsters and effects and diabolical baddies to spare, a heart as big as a house and a love story that actually gets its hooks in you." Posted Mar 31, 2004 |
Fresh
| Rotten 46%
| Eurotrip (2004) | "
While Eurotrip scarcely amounts to a considered examination of transatlantic cultural differences, it sure comes through on the belly-laugh front." Posted Feb 26, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| 50 First Dates (2004) | "
The memory-loss device dimly recalls Groundhog Day, though the film's low laugh rate, occasional lachrymosity and flaccid pacing assuredly do not." Posted Feb 11, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Touching the Void (2004) | "
Breathtaking stuff that freezes the toes, harrows the soul and turns the viewer's seat into a foot-wide ledge over a yawning chasm." Posted Feb 5, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004) | "
Hysterically funny, historically aware, politically nuanced, culturally sophisticated and productively self-critical all at the same time -- and you'll need a second viewing just to catch all the jokes." Posted Feb 5, 2004 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| The Perfect Score (2004) | "
This undercooked high school heist movie is disfigured by flabby dialogue ... unfunny pratfalls and criminally slack pacing." Posted Jan 28, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Peter Pan (2003) | "
For the first time in ages, a film makes one grateful for special effects: Indeed, it feels as if this is the very story such innovations were invented to enhance. You do, you do, you DO believe in fairies!" Posted Dec 18, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003) | "
Rough-hewn, improvisatory and contentedly lo-fi, the resulting documentary should prove warmly encouraging to embattled progressives of all stripes, and incidentally offers the best political date-movie of the week." Posted Nov 20, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Tattoo (2002) | "
A nasty, intelligent and complex thriller." Posted Jul 9, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) | "
Norrington falls repeatedly into predictable fight sequences and apocalyptic explosions, drowning the few remnants of wit and subtlety under bombast and empty stylistics." Posted Jul 9, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| Legend of Suriyothai (2003) | "
Despite the exotic visuals, Western viewers may have trouble digesting a two-and-a- half-hour epic more in the tradition of Thucydides than De Mille." Posted Jun 18, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003) | "
At 82 minutes it feels longer than Lawrence of Arabia -- and a lot less funny." Posted Jun 12, 2003 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| La Ley De Herodes (2000) | "
A bracingly sarcastic political comedy ... possessed of a baleful satiric eye for hypocrisy and greed, a delicious anti-clerical bent, and pitch-perfect comic timing." Posted Jun 12, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 35%
| The In-Laws (2003) | "
Often extremely funny." Posted May 22, 2003 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| The Real Cancun (2003) | "
No matter how 'real' things appear, scenarios and story arcs are relentlessly imposed upon the partay-cipants so as to finesse a narrative as crudely overdetermined and howlingly predictable as any studio-manufactured fiction." Posted May 1, 2003 |
Fresh
| Rotten 31%
| Returning Mickey Stern (2005) | "
The always-watchable Bologna is the adhesive holding together this slight and gentle romantic comedy, lending it perhaps more conviction and authority than the material warrants." Posted Apr 25, 2003 |
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