Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Dog Star Man (1964) | "
Dog Star Man is a work of realism into which abstraction intrudes." — PopMatters Posted Apr 29, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| The Naked City (1948) | "
What The Naked City does is paint an indelible vision of both the New York City that never sleeps and of the human life and industry that teems within it" — Filmcritic.com Posted Mar 9, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Hot Summer (1967) | "
I do recommend this almost charming picture to those with an interest, sociological or otherwise, in the slippery boundaries of "hip." It's just too goofy." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Feb 18, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | Apaches (1973) | "
The fun I had was largely a matter of gauging what the filmmakers had, in the course of earnest imitation, gotten wrong." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Feb 18, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | The Sons Of Great Bear (1966) | "
the fun I had was largely a matter of gauging what the filmmakers had, in the course of earnest imitation, gotten wrong." — Filmcritic.com Posted Feb 18, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Eolomea (1972) | "
Director Hermann Zschoche ... manages some formal narrative sophistication that, while not up to Tarkovsky's high par, nonetheless resonates with great success amid what's given" — Filmcritic.com Posted Feb 18, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 90%
| Clean, Shaven (1995) | "
Kerrigan, in the film's denouement, might have succeeded in defying our expectations to the extent that, as in The Sixth Sense, his victory renders what came before it superfluous." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Feb 7, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 68%
| Snakes on a Plane (2006) | "
With entertainment this cardboard and weightless, isn't a response like disappointment disproportionately complex?" — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Jan 30, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 70%
| World Trade Center (2006) | "
I began to feel as if Stone were singling out the 'decent' people of America and making this story theirs alone." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Jan 19, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 54%
| Marie Antoinette (2006) | "
Coppola's disconnected her character from history to achieve this glittering surface and there's nothing else to which a viewer can hang on." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Jan 19, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 95%
| The Honeymoon Killers (1970) | "
A pulp classic ranking near the top of its particular post-Hays Code, pre-MPAA moment." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Jan 19, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Hands Over The City (1963) | "
a bracingly muckraking piece of filmmaking" — Filmcritic.com Posted Nov 7, 2006 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Harlan County, USA (1976) | "
At its least it's an impassioned indictment of those who would exploit the powerless and at best a call to arms." — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 14, 2006 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Playtime (1967) | "
One of cinema's truly unique visions... animated with a new kind of screen life." — Filmcritic.com Posted Oct 4, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 83%
| The Lower Depths (1935) | "
The Lower Depths both gains and loses by its proximity to Renoir’s later masterpieces: It’s not one of them them, but the same guy made it." — Filmcritic.com Posted Aug 30, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | The Gift (2003) | "
By comparison with the new Louise Hogarth documentary The Gift, the shenanigans of the best fictional horror films seem like child's play." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jun 28, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 23%
| In My Country (2005) | "
A familiar, superficial lesson." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Apr 22, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| Munich (2005) | "
It would require unimaginable insensitivity to build an escapist adventure on those 11 graves. Spielberg understands this, but his approach to the material, while not exactly insensitive, lacks judgment all the same." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Mar 18, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 58%
| Night Watch (2005) | "
Its inconsistencies are puzzlingly obvious and they undermine much of the film's illusion." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Mar 18, 2006 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Caché (2005) | "
stays with you long after the lights have come up in the theater -- how many recent movies can you say that about? -- and its horror and brilliance grow deeper with passing time." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Mar 18, 2006 |
Rotten 0.5/5
| Rotten 23%
| Pink Panther (2006) | "
Animals, I imagine, have dreams with better narrative integrity." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Mar 9, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 40%
| Running Scared (2006) | "
Where Running Scared is concerned I'm a victim who has decided, maybe unwisely, not to press charges." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Mar 9, 2006 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 94%
| Weekend (1967) | "
Visionary, insane, and barbarously funny; don't miss the chance to accept the challenge Weekend is still dying to make." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Rotten 0/5
| Fresh 85%
| As Good as It Gets (1997) | "
An inflated TV show by a sitcom creator." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| The Shawshank Redemption (1994) | "
Why are these men in jail?" — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Rotten 0/5
| Fresh 90%
| Barton Fink (1991) | "
The worst of the Coens' genre-ransacking; mean and self-congratulatory." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 91%
| A Clockwork Orange (1971) | "
Ice cold, indecent, and way too obvious to be in any way deep." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 2%
| Battlefield Earth (2000) | "
Place it next to The Omega Code and The Omega Code shines." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Rotten 0/5
| Fresh 65%
| Crash (1996) | "
Wildly unwatchable, as if someone had made Andy Warhol's Frankenstein without being in on the joke." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Rotten 0/5
| Fresh 60%
| Disclosure (1994) | "
Worse than merely 'pertinent'." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Brokeback Mountain (2005) | "
There is very little in the cold, clear air of Brokeback Mountain that isn't first rate [although] its argument may, for many of us, already seem strangely under- and overdone." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Feb 9, 2006 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 97%
| Solaris (1972) | "
It's unique: a sci-fi feature wherein most of the exploration is done within the human soul, a kind of obverse of what we usually expect from the genre." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Oct 10, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 37%
| The Brothers Grimm (2005) | "
I wish the plot were pared down, that the magic used more sparingly. But new movies offer us so little, it seems daffy to complain that this one gives us too much." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Oct 10, 2005 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Rotten 59%
| Oliver Twist (2005) | "
It's not Dickens and it's not David Lean, either. This perverse retelling of a classic could only be the work of one filmmaker that I can think of. It's my boy Polanski." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Oct 10, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | The Lower Depths (1957) | "
For the first hour and fifteen minutes of the movie, we make only limited excursions out of the tenement, and it begins to feel as though we’ve moved in ourselves. Kurosawa may have intended this, but it doesn’t make for very satisfying viewing." — Filmcritic.com Posted Sep 10, 2005 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | First Spaceship on Venus (1959) | "
Among DEFA’s minor treasures, and with a Dr. Strangelove character as Henry Gibson might have played him." — Filmcritic.com Posted Aug 7, 2005 |
Rotten 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| The Phantom of Liberty (1974) | "
as illusory as a dream about a mailman and as real as the letter you find in your hand" — Filmcritic.com Posted Aug 7, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 97%
| The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) | "
There are masterpieces scattered among Buñuel’s French films like confetti, but here one of cinema’s most brilliant directors made the most brilliant film of his career." — Filmcritic.com Posted Aug 4, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) | "
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has all the warmth of A Clockwork Orange." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Jul 29, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 40%
| The Island (2005) | "
Bay's enormous success has placed him beyond strictures of moderation. The Island is a full hour too long, and, watching it, you can smell the budget and watch it burn." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Jul 29, 2005 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Crazed Fruit (1956) | "
Captures a mood convincingly -- and, in cinematic terms, appropriately -- and it plugged into a cultural zeitgeist that bore it up and away." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jul 25, 2005 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 73%
| War of the Worlds (2005) | "
The narrative miscalculation is extraordinary and ruinous to the extent that I can't conjure an example of a similarly enjoyable movie being beheaded so efficiently." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Jul 17, 2005 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| La Ciénaga (2001) | "
the most remarkable debut in recent experience" — Filmcritic.com Posted Jul 2, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 90%
| Eraserhead (1976) | "
Eraserhead is a work of rare genius and real bravery; it’s a comic nightmare we all have at once and whose meanings lay just out of reach." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jul 1, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 41%
| High Tension (2005) | "
Questions of 'entertainment' value aside, High Tension boasts an improbability so humbling that a rational person quakes before it." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Jun 23, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 31%
| The Longest Yard (2005) | "
I was never bored, but I wasn't necessarily entertained either. Mine was a sociological interest. What's going on?" — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Jun 23, 2005 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Un Chien Andalou (1929) | "
It was released in 1929, but it still has the power to make audiences cringe today and it may remain the most notorious 16 minutes of film ever made." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jun 18, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 98%
| La Dolce Vita (1960) | "
My heart wants to tell you that it's a great film, but my head fights it. I can settle it by saying that it's important, and that its joys outnumber its missteps." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Jun 12, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 64%
| Wild at Heart (1990) | "
Wild at Heart feels belabored, and it lacks the resonance and power with which the best, most unfiltered passages of Lynch’s work vibrate." — Filmcritic.com Posted Jun 12, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Million Dollar Baby (2004) | "
On the surface it all seems very reasonable, but it exhibits an innate jingoism and its "feminism" is too thoughtless to be believed. An ungainly, smug film." — F5 (Wichita, KS) Posted Jun 12, 2005 |
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