Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 70%
| The Road (2009) | "
Emotionally affecting enough to please fans and the uninitiated alike, even if it falls short of its source material's profound beauty." — Hollywood.com Posted Nov 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| Elegy (2008) | "
In the early scenes of the two lovers discovering each other's bodies and personal quirks, Coixet coaxes work from Kingsley and Cruz that is remarkably intimate." — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
N/A | Fresh 64%
| Brideshead Revisited (2008) | "
There are other factors that boost Emma Thompson's Oscar chances besides her brilliance." — FilmStew.com Posted Jul 29, 2008 |
— | Fresh 77%
| Crazy Love (2007) |
Click here to read article — Metromix.com Posted Jun 24, 2008 |
— | Fresh 75%
| Black Book (2007) |
Click here to read article — Metromix.com Posted Jun 24, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| The Fall (2008) | "
The best movie of the year so far by a wide mile." — FilmStew.com Posted May 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Redbelt (2008) | "
The journey has its charms, but the destination calls to mind Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?"" — FilmStew.com Posted May 2, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Stop-Loss (2008) | "
Much of Stop-Loss' first act feels like the cast of Hee-Haw auditioning for a Best Years of Our Lives remake." — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 31, 2008 |
N/A | Fresh 64%
| Stop-Loss (2008) | "
Actor Interview - Says Ryan Phillipe: "Whatever my personal feelings about a war, I couldn't impose [them] on my child."" — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 28, 2008 |
N/A | Rotten 23%
| Mad Money (2008) | "
One could imagine the film's makers, surely knowledgeable of Holmes' ailing career, asking: how could any viewer loathe a character so groovy?" — FilmStew.com Posted Jan 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Charlie Wilson's War (2007) | "
A mildly engaging holiday season diversion that will evaporate from many viewers’ memories at a speed so rapid it may put Santa’s sleigh to shame." — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 36%
| Southland Tales (2007) | "
Reminiscent of the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut, with its mix of sci-fi mythology, absurdist humor and political outrage." — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 14, 2007 |
N/A | Fresh 77%
| I'm Not There (2007) | "
Actor Interview - Says Richard Gere: "Everything in my life is a tribute to my wife. Everything. It doesn’t work without her. Nothing does."" — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Trade (2007) | "
Treats sex slavery with roughly the same amount of tact and complexity with which the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Hard Target treated homelessness." — FilmStew.com Posted Oct 2, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 29%
| Next (2007) | "
Next spurs unintended laughs." — Metromix.com Posted Sep 29, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) | "
In its nakedly revealed tremors of fear and insecurity, Affleck's tour de force is reminiscent of the similarly raw work of the late, great John Cazale." — FilmStew.com Posted Sep 20, 2007 |
N/A | Rotten 20%
| Rush Hour 3 (2007) | "
Actor Interview - Says $25 million man Chris Tucker: "I said, ‘Man, I’m gonna get drunk!’ They don’t do that in America. They think you won’t show back up!”" — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 10, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| Rush Hour 3 (2007) | "
Roman Polanski has a confounding two-scene cameo as a customs official who gives Carter and Lee a full cavity search. (Har har.)" — FilmStew.com Posted Aug 10, 2007 |
N/A | Rotten 57%
| Interview (2007) | "
Filmmaker Interview - A DVD Extra led star-director Steve Buscemi to his entirely appropriate leading lady Sienna Miller." — FilmStew.com Posted Jul 16, 2007 |
N/A | Fresh 78%
| You Kill Me (2007) | "
Filmmaker Interview - Says writer-director John Dahl: "I like to kind of streamline the story to the point where it’s just the basic elements."" — FilmStew.com Posted Jun 22, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| La Vie En Rose (2007) | "
Doesn’t quite keep up with the grand showmanship and emotional complexity of the performance at its center, but has a few impressive tricks up its sleeve." — Metromix.com Posted Jun 15, 2007 |
N/A | Rotten 44%
| Angel-A (2007) | "
Filmmaker Interview - Says director Luc Besson: "“I’m pretty naked in this one... Because I was so naked, I think it had to be in French and in Paris."" — FilmStew.com Posted May 30, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Once (2007) | "
You leave the theatre feeling like you’re walking on air. And isn’t that all you can ask of any musical?" — Metromix.com Posted May 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| Angel-A (2007) | "
Luc Besson's characteristic flair for visual expression here manifests itself in the most subdued way imaginable." — FilmStew.com Posted May 22, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Paris, Je T'aime (2007) | "
Alexander Payne strikes the same balance of snarky humor and sneaky empathy that has made his body of work so distinct in contemporary American cinema." — FilmStew.com Posted May 22, 2007 |
N/A | Rotten 23%
| Home of the Brave (2006) | "
Filmmaker Interviews - Admits writer-producer-director Winkler: "I said, ‘I’m not making a film where I could have a rapper come in with the whole entourage...'"" — FilmStew.com Posted May 9, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 29%
| Lucky You (2007) | "
All but the most die-hard Texas Hold 'Em fans will be fighting the urge to snooze." — Metromix.com Posted May 3, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| In the Land of Women (2007) | "
Only slightly less clumsy overall than Against the Ropes, but at least it plays to co-star Meg Ryan’s ability to suggest volumes of repressed emotion." — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 24, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Fracture (2007) | "
The smart conclusion contains a pair of twists that are actually plausible (rare these days), and, all in all, Fracture is supremely solid stuff." — Metromix.com Posted Apr 20, 2007 |
N/A | Fresh 71%
| Fracture (2007) | "
Celebrity Interview - Says Ryan Gosling: "There's a lot of erosion that takes place in Hollywood... It’s fun to do an extreme version of things you’re afraid of becoming."" — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 19, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Disturbia (2007) | "
Like those gleeful, inner-child-pleasing pulp-horror rides that Steven Spielberg and Joe Dante perfected a couple decades ago." — Metromix.com Posted Apr 13, 2007 |
N/A | Fresh 67%
| Disturbia (2007) | "
Actor Interview - Says Disturbia star Shia LaBeouf: "You can be a personality, or you can be an actor. You can’t do both.”" — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 12, 2007 |
N/A | Fresh 85%
| The Hoax (2007) | "
Filmmaker Interviews - Says director Lasse Hallström: "To work with Richard Gere was really the most pleasurable time I’ve had with a male lead."" — FilmStew.com Posted Apr 6, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| The Lookout (2007) | "
Gary is the kind of guy who can actually score with the pick-up line, ‘Damn! And I thought I was good-looking!’" — Metromix.com Posted Mar 30, 2007 |
N/A | Fresh 87%
| The Lookout (2007) | "
Filmmaker Interview - Says writer-director Scott Frank: "I had a decent personal life. I was really comfortable. And I thought, what a great way to ***** that all up."" — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 28, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| The Last Mimzy (2007) | "
Roger Waters' song is ultimately the work of a sell-out desperately trying to sound like a profound hippie prophet. As it happens, so is The Last Mimzy." — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 26, 2007 |
N/A | Rotten 53%
| The Last Mimzy (2007) | "
Filmmaker Interviews - Screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin's reaction to the news that New Line exec Bob Shaye was going to direct? "I thought, ‘Anybody but Bob.'"" — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 22, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| Avenue Montaigne (2007) | "
Not a fully great film, but damn near close; witty, charming, and ultimately rather touching." — FilmStew.com Posted Mar 3, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| The Number 23 (2007) | "
The titular novel is written by an anonymous scribe who goes by the moniker Topsy Kretts (Get it? Like “Top Secrets”? Yeah, I didn’t laugh either.)" — FilmStew.com Posted Feb 23, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 22%
| Catch and Release (2007) | "
If it was Brad Pitt carrying the coffee and Halle Berry saying she’s not serious about him to a buddy, this movie would make over $100 million." — FilmStew.com Posted Jan 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Children of Men (2006) | "
A sublime visionary achievement that not only outdoes Cuarón’s previous high-water mark, Y Tu Mamá También, but also manages to rank with other dystopian masterworks." — FilmStew.com Posted Jan 3, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Notes on a Scandal (2006) | "
In making the leap this holiday season from a Dame to a Broad, Judi Dench has chosen to apply her inestimable talents to a tried and true fork in the thespian road." — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 28, 2006 |
N/A | Rotten 46%
| The Last Kiss (2006) | "
Filmmaker Interviews - Says Tony Goldwyn of his leading man: "He’s that rare kind of movie star, like Tom Hanks or Dustin Hoffman, where you go, ‘I know him! He’s my buddy!'"" — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 26, 2006 |
N/A | Fresh 61%
| Jackass: Number Two (2006) | "
Filmmaker Interviews - A funny thing happened when Tremaine was working on Wildboyz with Jackass veterans Stephen “Steve-O” Glover and Chris Pontius." — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 26, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Rocky Balboa (2006) | "
While Stallone is appropriately fiery in key scenes, it’s his way with the character’s tossed-off pearls of wisdom and one-liners that makes him especially endearing." — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 20, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Home of the Brave (2006) | "
The idea of a Very Important Drama featuring rapper 50 Cent and vapid TV starlet Jessica Biel in major roles seems more like a gag straight out of Get Shorty." — Metromix.com Posted Dec 15, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 46%
| The Holiday (2006) | "
There’s good news for Jude Law fans. With The Holiday, the actor has taken a sad career song and started to make it better." — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 8, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| Candy (2006) | "
Ledger’s first film since the one-two punch of Brokeback and Casanova reinforces the almost always accurate admonition “Just say no to drug addiction films.”" — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 7, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Apocalypto (2006) | "
On screen, Gibson was a Lethal purveyor of hot dogging lunacy. Behind the camera, he has now subverted that Riggs energy more masterfully than ever before." — FilmStew.com Posted Dec 7, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| The History Boys (2006) | "
The closest mirror image of Republican Mark Foley is Mr. Hector, an unconventional educator with a fondness for groping his students’ while giving them motorcycle rides." — FilmStew.com Posted Nov 22, 2006 |
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