Splat 1/5 |
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) |
"...a passion play with a guy in drag (who could ask for anything more?)..." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Millions (2005) |
"...Millions pulls off the neat trick of affirming that money can't buy happiness, even as it has a ball pretending that it can." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4/5 |
Off the Map (2005) |
"...eloquently written but not overwritten, with a story that ultimately feels less like a literary construct and more like a spontaneous celebration of a few lived lives..." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4/5 |
Sin City (2005) |
"...might just be the most extravagantly brutal live-action cartoon ever made." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Splat 2/5 |
The Alamo (2004) |
"It wavers between traditional period adventure, cynical, revisionist history and meandering, multi-character mini-series. The action scenes aren't very good either." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bad Education (2004) |
"...Almodovar's meta-movie teases us with Big Ideas about those of us who love our fantasies so much that we turn them into our realities." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4/5 |
Before Sunset (2004) |
"For all the talk, there's always something unspoken bubbling away in the space between these two ex-lovers..." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Splat 1/5 |
The Brown Bunny (2004) |
"...M. Knight Shyamalan trapped in a pornorgraphic art flick." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Door in the Floor (2004) |
"...a film both fluid and hermetically sealed, inviting multiple interpretations and yet ultimately reluctant to give up its secrets." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Dreamers (2004) |
"The erotic parlor games in Bertolucci's film don't get quite get debauched or deep enough, and once they've run their course, the movie doesn't know what to do." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) |
"It's a strange trip, to be sure, sort of like what Fantastic Voyage might have been if some acid-gobbling metaphysicians had been at the helm." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4/5 |
Hero (2004) |
"...an astonishingly graceful ballet performed with swords, arrows and fists." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Splat 2/5 |
A Home at the End of the World (2004) |
"The naughty bits were eventually cut (so to speak) for being too "distracting," but the publicity surrounding the deletion may be the best thing the movie has going for it." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) |
"...a fascinating sort of connect-the-dots that allows us to essentially piece together our very own personalized portrait of this most curious of artists." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4/5 |
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) |
"KB2 is still basically a cartoon, albeit a more elaborately illustrated one..." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Splat 3/5 |
Ladykillers (2004) |
"...nowhere near the Coens' funniest or most distinctive or even most endearing work." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Mean Girls (2004) |
"...a lean, mean entertainment that manages to be both playful and subversive while exhibiting plenty of mainstream appeal." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Open Water (2004) |
"...Daniel and Susan just float around bitching at each other, so the movie frequently seems like a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in scuba gear." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Splat 2/5 |
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"The movie's biggest sin lies not in where it chooses to cast blame, but in its bungled attempt at manufacturing what I suppose you'd have to call an epiphany of excess." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Punisher (2004) |
"It's dark and gritty and even a little tawdry, pushing ... deep into Death Wish territory, which is exactly as it should be." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"...a little bit like what Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle might have been without the illusions of grandeur or pretentious aftertaste." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Splat 1/5 |
She Hate Me (2004) |
"...a movie that spews so much random, senseless, undigested matter that it seems more like projectile vomiting than filmmaking." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
City of God (2003) |
"We've seen this story before, more or less -- the blood, the budding psychopaths, the all-too-young victims of urban decay -- but never quite like this." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4/5 |
Dogville (2003) |
"...an experience that's both grueling and, in its way, glorious." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Splat 3/5 |
The Last Samurai (2003) |
"...doesn't seem particularly interested in the nuances and points of frisson that are bound to occur when East meets West." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4/5 |
My Architect: A Son's Journey (2003) |
"A film with all the passion, mystery, tears and joy of first-rate, fully fleshed fiction." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
The Son (2003) |
"...a work of enormous moral and spiritual depth, where sacrifice, forgiveness and redemption are revealed as the natural extensions of the movie's humdrum landscape." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Talk to Her (2002) |
"Almodovar continues to refine the form of melodrama ... without sacrificing one iota of emotional texture or resonance." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4/5 |
Kandahar (2001) |
"As with so much in the Islamic world, there are things here that are profoundly beautiful, as well as much that is profoundly scary." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 3/5 |
Ghost (1990) |
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Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Le Cercle Rouge (1970) |
"It's a languorous and uncompromising work that will drive some to distraction, but also a movie of dark, still beauty that will have others weeping tears of pure, noir joy." |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4/5 |
Les Cousins (1958) |
No article available. |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 5/5 |
Paths of Glory (1957) |
No article available. |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 5/5 |
El Bruto (1952) |
No article available. |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4/5 |
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) |
No article available. |
Lance Goldenberg |
Tomato 4/5 |
Marius (1931) |
No article available. |
Lance Goldenberg |
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