Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) | "
Sirk is a past master of handling the most dubious writing and acting and still somehow making it conform to his overall vision." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | La Bandera (1935) | "
Was Julien Duvivier an auteur (like his countryman Jean Renoir), a skilled craftsman (like Michael Curtiz) or a pure hack (like, say, Ray Enright)?" — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Chelsea Girls (1966) | "
The dueling image visual feast is endlessly stimulating, even if you don't take the requisite drugs beforehand." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 75%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
There's almost no conflict in either of the stories presented in Julie & Julia, and though this is preferable to contrived conflict, it still leaves us with a rather overlong, lovey-dovey picture." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Repulsion (1965) | "
It's hard to know how to take Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) at this point, and not just because of the inescapable echoes and resonances it sets off relating to his own grotesque, tragic life." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Aug 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| The Beaches of Agnes (2009) | "
Varda turns the camera on herself and her own life, even though she convincingly posits that she's much more interested in other people." — House Next Door Posted Jul 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 54%
| Cheri (2009) | "
Cheri strikes a jarring note right from the start." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Interlude (1957) | "
During the last twenty minutes of Interlude, Sirk goes in for the kill" — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 83%
| Two Lovers (2009) | "
The buried themes in James Gray's fourth film, Two Lovers, slowly emerge from its accumulation of quotidian, seemingly small details." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Griffith Masterworks 2 (1914) | "
There's some filler here, but the restored Abraham Lincoln is impressive, and everyone should have a copy of Way Down East." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Jan 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Revolutionary Road (2008) | "
Revolutionary Road is not a great film, per se; a great film needs the stamp of a great director. But it is a great film of this great book." — House Next Door Posted Dec 15, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 77%
| Doubt (2008) | "
Doubt doesn't work fully on screen as it did on stage, but it's worth seeing for Streep's grace notes." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 7, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 66%
| The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007) | "
Eric Rohmer has said that The Romance of Astrea and Celadon is probably his swan song, and he's not pulling any punches here." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Anita O'Day - The Life Of A Jazz Singer (2008) | "
The great jazz singer Anita O'Day operated in some far-out be-bop realm of her own." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Furies (1950) | "
At its core, The Furies is a passionate stand off between a father and a daughter, played by a rip-snorting Walter Huston (in his last role on screen) and a primal Barbara Stanwyck." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Breathless (1959) | "
We can't really look at Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless with fresh eyes, any more than we can see Citizen Kane or Sunrise for the first time." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| The Duchess of Langeais (2008) | "
Balibar's sly mouth tightens with mean glee as she plays all the Duchesses' games, and Depardieu's brooding, battered face ceaselessly signals the General's suppressed, sexualized violence." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| The Witnesses (2008) | "
Téchiné films Johan Libéreau, who plays Manu, the fresh-faced young boy coming of age in The Witnesses, with the sort of discretion that gives mystery and dignity to human beauty." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 85%
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) | "
Filming a major Broadway musical has always been trouble for moviemakers; none of them seem to work." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) | "
Sawdust and Tinsel is Bergman's first film where the idea of humiliation, specifically sexual humiliation, becomes crucial to his conception." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Lili (1953) | "
This MGM movie is studio-system filmmaking at its most protective, and it's designed entirely to showcase Leslie Caron" — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| A Prairie Home Companion (2006) | "
It is obviously the film of a master and certainly feels like a swan song." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Window (1949) | "
The Window (1949) is the kind of movie probably best experienced as a child of 11 or 12, plagued by insomnia, moved to turn on late night television." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| Forty Shades of Blue (2005) | "
Forty Shades of Blue is wonderfully unconventional, truthful and touching." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Autumn Sonata (1978) | "
Ingmar says, "No." Ingrid says, "Yes." They're both right and both wrong, but it is Ingrid, in her last feature film performance, whose "Yes" carries more conviction and authority." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Cria Cuervos (1977) | "
A seamless story about memory and fantasy blurring together, Cría cuervos is unquestionably Carlos Saura's greatest film." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Inland Empire (2006) | "
David Lynch's Inland Empire, which runs 172 minutes, keeps collapsing in on itself." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| Rescue Dawn (2007) | "
Most critics have approached Werner Herzog's latest film Rescue Dawn with qualifying kid gloves, as if it would be impolite to question a late work from such a grand old man of the seventies German New Wave." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Away From Her (2007) | "
Sometimes extreme physical beauty grows more complex, more satisfying with age; it's rare, but it happens." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| For Your Consideration (2006) | "
For Your Consideration might indeed be a bridge too far for the Guest troupe, but seeing it makes you want to liberate his inventive women for other projects" — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007) | "
There are many reasons to see Chris & Don, but the best one I can think of is the chance to see Isherwood and his best friend W.H. Auden, probably the greatest poet of the twentieth century, jumping around together like middle-aged schoolboys in beguiling" — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 93%
| Milk (2008) | "
A paint-by numbers biopic of the tireless activist that wastes the efforts of some fine actors." — House Next Door Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 54%
| Australia (2008) | "
An unwieldy stab at an old-fashioned movie epic, Baz Luhrmann's Australia is corny, implausible, well intentioned and even somewhat enjoyable in its own way, at least for a while." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 23, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Factory Girl (2007) | "
In Factory Girl, a jumbled account of the short life and photogenic hard times of the first Andy Warhol superstar, Edie Sedgwick, Sienna Miller makes Sedgwick into an archetypal over-confident blond with a mannered young Kathleen Turner croak." — House Next Door Posted Nov 6, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| La Ronde (1950) | "
A somewhat disappointing package of a truly lovely film." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 100%
| La Ronde (1950) | "
Each vignette conforms to a tight, outgrowing pattern, so that they each have equal weight, even if Danielle Darrieux's first segment is the one that lingers in the mind." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 13%
| The Women (2008) | "
The original version of The Women, shrill and campy as it can be, is miles ahead of this remake when it comes to issues of class and social maneuvering." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 7, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 64%
| Brideshead Revisited (2008) | "
This new Brideshead takes a step in the right direction, but it's time some radical writer or filmmaker dared to leave out the dim Julia charade and let Charles and Sebastian play out their Isherwood/Auden Oxford love match to its full." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 21, 2008 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 53%
| Mamma Mia! (2008) | "
This film version of Mamma Mia! is such a full-scale disaster in every way that it's hard to know what has held theatergoers' attention for so long." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 13, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| The Pied Piper (1972) | "
Only for Jacques Demy completists, and the stray Donovan devotee." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Jun 7, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 43%
| The Pied Piper (1972) | "
Jacques Demy's version of The Pied Piper is as distanced and uncertain as his masterpiece The Young Girls of Rochefort is ecstatically sure of itself." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Fire Within (1963) | "
A heartfelt but unsuccessful film that could have been much better with a more variegated point of view." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted May 5, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 90%
| The Fire Within (1963) | "
To be frank, Fire Within devastated me when I saw it in college, but the unrelieved ennui that struck me as scrupulously honest and brave then looks one-note and aimless to me now." — Slant Magazine Posted May 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Lovers (1958) | "
Jeanne Moreau at her "If it feels good, do it" best." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted May 5, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 100%
| The Lovers (1958) | "
This film is nowhere close to Ophuls's landmark, but it did inaugurate Moreau's extraordinary run of '60s art films in high style." — Slant Magazine Posted May 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Nanny (1965) | "
Ultimately disappointing, but Davis gives Mary Poppins a run for her money." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Mar 31, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 90%
| The Nanny (1965) | "
A rather quiet, cautious thriller that gives Davis more room for characterization than most of her later films." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 31, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Virgin Queen (1955) | "
Standard costume fare enlivened by Bette Davis's fuming and growling." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Mar 31, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| N/A | The Virgin Queen (1955) | "
Henry Koster's direction is competent, for him, but Franz Waxman's music is no substitute for Erick Wolfgang Korngold's classic score for Elizabeth and Essex." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 31, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Daisy Kenyon (1947) | "
A great Preminger movie and a solid DVD overall." — Slant Magazine
DVD REVIEW Posted Mar 11, 2008 |
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