Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Big Fan (2009) | "
Dark and engrossing look at a sports fanatic." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Aug 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Art & Copy (2009) | "
Like a good ad, Art & Copy bounds along and never bores. That's a big credit to Pray's savvy compilation and of editor Phillip Owens' crisp cuts." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 31%
| The Answer Man (2009) | "
An unpretentious, subtle story of one man's redemption." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) | "
Story and style are all over the place, rendering it somewhat inaccessible. Admittedly, the whole film is in a bit of an aesthetic dither, which will confound many viewers." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Thorn in the Heart (2009) | "
"The Thorn in My Heart" should be intriguing to all who know the family, as well as to cineastes yonder at the arty film schools who will lap up its elliptical/self-reflexive style. Normal people will simply walk out on it." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) | "
An overwhelming, masterful dramatic competition entrant, this Lee Daniels film may have no bounds in the awards categories." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
With a keen affection for his own formative years, filmmaker Greg Mottola has crafted a funny and spunky amusement." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 27%
| The Other End of the Line (2008) | "
A charming old-fashioned romantic comedy transposed to today's global dating world." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Of Time and the City (2009) | "
A remembrance of things past, it's also a sobering realization for the filmmaker that past places only dimly still exist." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 33%
| The Guitar (2008) | "
A sobering and resonant tale." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| The Merry Gentleman (2009) | "
An edgy entertainment, the movie also remarkably has the feel-good warmth of an old-time Irish film." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| O'Horten (2009) | "
Succinct in its visualizations and crisp in its pacing, its deferential storytelling is in sync with its Odd subject." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Baghead (2008) | "
A funny, scary send-up of filmmakers." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 28, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Coneheads (1993) | "
Can you inflate a gimmick-driven comedy skit into a full-fledged feature film? Up to a point." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 16, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Bad Lieutenant (1992) | "
Members of the gutter-al elite will be the sole survivors." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Boyz N the Hood (1991) | "
A booming, heart slam of a film." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Chaplin (1992) | "
With this reverential biopic, director Richard Attenborough has cranked out a many-reel, talky talkie." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy (2008) | "
A raunchy between-the-sheets peak at modern-day black sexuality...should woo urban audiences to the theater." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | An American Soldier (The Recruiter) (2008) | "
A comprehensive, even-keeled depiction of today's recruiting process, An American Soldier brims with insight and drops us on the domestic front-lines of our military." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| Red (2008) | "
A well-made, neo-Western from Norwegian directors." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 28, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Pretty Bird (2008) | "
This slight-framed bird never soars and ultimately crashes under the weight of its excessive thematic ballast." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Death In Love (2009) | "
Pierces the senses." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| American Son (2008) | "
Stirringly told, American Son dramatizes a harsh social reality and tributes this nation's fighting force." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 24, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Hamlet 2 (2008) | "
An erratic, freewheeling satire of Middle American mores." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 11%
| The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2009) | "
It's the players that invigorate The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and keenly flesh-out its emotional dimensions." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| Phoebe In Wonderland (2009) | "
The mesmerizing performance of [Elle] Fanning as the gifted and troubled young Phoebe sparks the picture." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| The Wackness (2008) | "
Inspired a packed Sundance house to forget their Saturday-night pains and stand up and cheer." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 56%
| Randy and the Mob (2007) | "
Filmmaker-actor Ray McKinnon voices his Southern droll in this amusing, feel-good comedy." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 20, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 59%
| The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | "
A visually arresting but emotionally uninvolving dark comedy." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 6, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Devil Came On Horseback (2007) | "
[A] searing documentary on the genocide in Darfur." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 27, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Jurassic Park (1993) | "
The well-selected cast is winningly sympathetic and entertainingly idiosyncratic." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 5, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Delicatessen (1991) | "
With their detached, sardonic and decidedly sick slant, Jeunet and Caro have served up a burnt-to-a-crisp feast." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 5, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Band's Visit (2007) | "
Radiant and wise comedy of miscommunication." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 30%
| Young Yakuza (2007) | "
An intelligent, if non-illuminating, look at an organization." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Back To Normandy (2007) | "
Not so much an entertainment or even an illumination, but rather a personal cinematic scrapbook, which should be stamped 'return to sender.'" — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | One Hundred Nails (2007) | "
A talking-heads, philosophic tedium posing as a film." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | Yumurta (2007) | "
In pacing and vitality, this is almost as listless as its drab lead character." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 24, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | Calle Santa Fe (2007) | "
More a home movie than a documentary film." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 23, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| Go Go Tales () | "
Amazingly dunderheaded." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 23, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Boarding Gate (2007) | "
Chock full of elements that never spark beyond one-sheet dimension." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 19, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 80%
| The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008) | "
The imagery of the classic movie, where a spirited red balloon wafts unpredictably over Paris, never even attempts to reach a metaphorical height, nor does it even engage us compositionally." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 18, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| The Salon (2005) | "
This girl-talk comedy is a cut below its predecessors." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 8, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| Year of the Dog (2007) | "
Evinces an appealing sentimentality without being maudlin or only puppy-dog cute." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 21, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| Introducing The Dwights (2007) | "
Mired by director Cherie Nowlan's indelicate direction. Nowlan pumps the drama, as well as the comedy, to blaring pitch. Similarly, several attempts at cutesiness slog down into rank contrivance." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007) | "
A stirring and heart-wrenching statement of the horrible powers that mankind holds in its fist." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 31, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Trade (2007) | "
The film's horrific and important subject matter is distilled into a lackluster lump of generic buddy-movie/road-picture components." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 30, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 20%
| Chapter 27 (2008) | "
Chapter 27 is a smart attempt to distill the twisted psychology and motivation of Mark David Chapman, which we've all superficially gleaned through mass-media reports and intermittent updates on Chapman's incarceration." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 30, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| Joshua (2007) | "
A brilliant house-of-horror tale with Hitchcockean flair." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 27, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 74%
| Son of Rambow (2008) | "
Son of Rambow is pumped up with all the right kids' ingredients: slapstick, fantasy, alienation and severe adult authority figures. But screenwriter and director Garth Jennings has slammed them all together with little cohesion." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 26, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic (2008) | "
A masterful distillation of explosive elements: science, art, psychology and humanity." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 26, 2007 |
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