Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Howards End (1992) | "
Not my cup of tea. I don't even like tea." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 90%
| Howards End (1992) | "
Say "Merchant-Ivory" to most cinephiles and watch their eyelids sag." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
Given just how much material Kenny Ortega and his editors plowed through to whittle together a two-hour scrapbook and they still could only just barely come up with the presentable material here isn't exactly a vindication." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) | "
Sure it's technically essential, but kids won't notice the stunning video presentation of Disney's Blu-ray release, and adults are referred to R.S. Gwynn's "Snow White and the Seven Deadly Sins."" — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 98%
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) | "
It is Snow White's afterbirth that merits both canonization and destruction." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| M*A*S*H (1970) | "
M*A*S*H is no Nashville. Hell, it may not even be O.C. & Stiggs. But for better or worse, it stands testament to the fact that at least one segment of the counterculture had no place for women." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 89%
| M*A*S*H (1970) | "
A good dint lower than its reputation, more so if you look at it not as one of the seminal 1970s films but instead as the first chapter from the finest filmmaking career spent examining the American mystique." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Gaumont Treasures (1913) | "
Whether you view them aesthetically or archaeologically, the films in Gaumont Treasures show a significant portion of cinema's formation." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 31, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) | "
Own Jeanne Dielman if you must. Just don't fall asleep on her bed." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Kagemusha (1980) | "
Kurosawa's autumnal return to form is a tad too calculated to stand shoulder with Rashomon (or Ran), but Criterion's Blu-ray at least presents its pageantry in the best possible light." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 84%
| Kagemusha (1980) | "
Kagemusha, much like the similarly overblown but handsomely mounted Lawrence of Arabia, is an epic with a cipher in its point position." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Playtime (1967) | "
Jacques Tati's glorious film folly inches that much closer to the 70mm ideal in Criterion's new Blu-ray." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 100%
| Playtime (1967) | "
Sure, Tati's script may have been small, but there's such depth of content in each setup." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Ghostbusters (1984) | "
Ghostbusters, whaddya want?!" — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 93%
| Ghostbusters (1984) | "
The movie's tongue-in-cheek (and pre-subprime) satire of surging capitalist hubris is scarcely mitigated by the necessary fairy-tale ending." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 97%
| The Beaches of Agnes (2009) | "
As insistently wry as it is haunting." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 28, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 80%
| DJ Spooky's Rebirth of a Nation (2009) | "
Birth of a Nation itself is a set of cinematic training wheels." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Last Year at Marienbad (1961) | "
Just lay back. This is going to happen." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 94%
| Last Year at Marienbad (1961) | "
The recurring attitude throughout most interpretations of Marienbad is that of sheer interpretation fatigue." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Do the Right Thing (1989) | "
As Mister Señor Love Daddy commands, "WAKE UP" to this absolutely essential home video." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 98%
| Do the Right Thing (1989) | "
Like Rear Window to Alfred Hitchcock, like Nashville to Robert Altman, like Playtime to Jacques Tati, Lee's Do the Right Thing is an undiluted representation of its creator's artistic command." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | "
Still no sign of the holy grail pie-fight sequence, but the Blu-ray edition of Dr. Strangelove still preserves the film's purity of essence." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 100%
| Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) | "
Dr. Strangelove's status as the movie that confirmed both Stanley Kubrick's reputation and the arrival of beat-sick irreverence can no longer be retracted." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Seventh Seal (1957) | "
Bergman's most popular and studied film may not be his greatest artistic achievement, but Criterion's Blu-ray confirms its cinematic grandeur." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 15, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 93%
| The Seventh Seal (1957) | "
Swedish cinema titan Ingmar Bergman's mopey/earthy 1957 breakthrough The Seventh Seal may have done more than any other film to popularize and demonize the notion of world cinema as the boutique of the cultural intelligentsia." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Fargo (1996) | "
Fargo is the Coens' most ice-cold satire, but also features its warmest character." — Slant Magazine Posted May 21, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 94%
| Fargo (1996) | "
Do you have to be a Minnesotan to really get Fargo?" — Slant Magazine Posted May 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Saturday Night Fever (1977) | "
In a just world, this movie would've been soundtracked with Donna Summer's "Could It Be Magic" and Diana Ross's "Love Hangover." So, in other words, the soundtrack to Looking for Mr. Goodbar." — Slant Magazine Posted May 10, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 89%
| Saturday Night Fever (1977) | "
Saturday Night Fever's heart is actually in the right place. It's ears, though? That's another story." — Slant Magazine Posted May 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Booby Hatch (1976) | "
The Booby Hatch makes me glad I didn't take John Russo's Making Movies too much too heart." — Slant Magazine Posted May 6, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| N/A | The Booby Hatch (1976) | "
Russo and Streiner use their sex comedy to espouse the retrograde notion that the only fulfilling sexual position is one-man-one-woman missionary." — Slant Magazine Posted May 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) | "
The picture quality is a step up, but Paramount's production team clearly took the day off when it came time to bring Ferris Bueller to Blu-Ray." — Slant Magazine Posted May 6, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 80%
| Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) | "
One has to marvel at just how perfectly Hughes nails his frustratingly entitled mise-en-scène, which he unquestionably does in the film's mesmerizing detour inside an art museum." — Slant Magazine Posted May 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| A Grin Without A Cat (2002) | "
For a film that's almost strictly for the political and artistic converts, A Grin Without a Cat is a surprisingly forthright examination of how the left dropped the ball." — Slant Magazine Posted May 5, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 91%
| A Grin Without A Cat (2002) | "
A masterpiece among masterpieces, the two-part, three-hour A Grin Without a Cat is Chris Marker's most ambitious, clear-headed string of cinematic clauses and ideological couplets, and also his most impenetrable." — Slant Magazine Posted May 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| A Jihad for Love (2007) | "
If A Jihad for Love demonstrates the mountainous struggle Muslim homosexuals face daily, the bonus footage on the DVD reiterates that they're far from alone in having much work still to do." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| In the Realm of the Senses (1976) | "
I believe the children are the future, teach them well and let them lead the way. Or, conversely, you could violently yank a four-year-old boy's winkie and make him grow up begging to be choked unto orgasm. Your call." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 82%
| In the Realm of the Senses (1976) | "
To paraphrase a crack from Pauline Kael: light the incense, perverts." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Wages of Fear (1952) | "
A white-knuckled introduction to the concept of action-movie existentialism, The Wages of Fear makes for a pummeling black-and-white Blu-Ray." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 100%
| The Wages of Fear (1952) | "
Now seems much less like Salt of the Earth-as-a-potboiler and a lot more like the spiritual godfather to every testosterone-fuelled thrill ride since." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Hellraiser Box Set () | "
Overproduced and guaranteed to disappoint all but those who have never bought a Hellraiser DVD to date, the Lament Configuration Box Set will likely only tear your wallet apart." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 50%
| Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 (1988) | "
It's probably a stretch to surmise that, just as the first film's subtext dealt with health fears, the sequel mines its dread from the horror of malpractice." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 62%
| Hellraiser (1987) | "
Barker's vision cribs equally from the mythos of vampires and zombies, but Hellraiser's overriding ridiculousness (and nagging budgetary shortcomings) can't disguise the fact that the movie is at least unwittingly a product of the AIDS crisis." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| No Country for Old Men (2007) | "
Hardly worth a double-dip, but No Country's ambient horror will pin you to the floor and slice into your neck with a taut handcuff chain." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 79%
| An Unlikely Weapon (2009) | "
Serves as a fairly surface-oriented hagiography of a self-conscious rock star photographer." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The 400 Blows (1959) | "
Criterion's Blu-Ray presentation of The 400 Blows isn't perfection, but it suggests there's a whole new world of black-and-white cinematography to be discovered in high-definition." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 100%
| The 400 Blows (1959) | "
The 400 Blows, one of the initiating sparks of the French New Wave, ultimately boils down to the film's trendsetting coda, perhaps the most exclamatory question mark in movies." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 52%
| American Swing (2009) | "
And what of New York's disco-era gays? They're written out of the story here just as decisively as they were written out of Levenson's version of utopia." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| Dodes 'Ka-Den (1970) | "
Keep a copy of this DVD handy for when we're all living on the edge of sanity in a pile of trash down by the river." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 40%
| Dodes 'Ka-Den (1970) | "
Dodes'ka-den's forgotten souls enact their tribulations only in brief, impressionistic strokes, as apt to lapse into candy-coated reverie as they are to stare down the demons of fiscal and moral poverty." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
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