Tomato 3/4 |
$9.99 (2009) |
"These narratives are little more than pleasantly off-kilter sketches with confounding resolutions, but director Tatia Rosenthal and writer Etgar Keret artfully present them as an interconnected, crosscut network of neighborhood activity." |
Joseph Jon Lanthier |
Tomato 3/4 |
'Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris (2007) |
"Raymond De Felitta makes amends for 2005's intolerable The Thing About My Folks with this involving inquiry into the career of the late jazz crooner Jackie Paris." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1/4 |
(Untitled) (2009) |
"Parker reduces the art world to the insipid backbiting and conniving of malign thugs that enthusiastically bat around grandiose, self-serving endorsements" |
Simon Abrams |
Splat 1.5/4 |
10 Items or Less (2006) |
"10 Items or Less is a hybrid of Nacho Libre and Spanglish directed by Moonlight Mile's Brad Silberling, and yes, it's as unbearably cloying and uplifting as that description sounds." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
10,000 B.C. (2008) |
"Roland Emmerich is partial to cutting-edge special effects and stone-age storytelling, meaning that 10,000 B.C., a dim-witted CG extravaganza set in prehistoric times, is something like his ideal project." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
101 Dalmatians (1961) |
"So long as Disney's never made any bones about finding the whole female race either bland or evil, I have no trouble embracing the studio's biggest bitch of them all." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
101 Dalmatians (1961) |
"Cruella De Vil is so much a tour de force that she single-handedly snatches the movie away from any retroactive comparisons to post-classical Disney features whose sloppiness is the is their only saving grace." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat |
10:30 P.M. Summer (1966) |
"10:30 P.M. is still too early for Dassin's turgid melodrama." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 1.5/4 |
10:30 P.M. Summer (1966) |
"A typically gaudy souvenir from Jules Dassin's pretentious, post-HUAC Euro-wanderings." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 1.5/4 |
10th & Wolf (2006) |
"A listless Godfather-meets-Donnie Brasco tale of undercover surveillance, blood allegiances, and wrenching betrayal.
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Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The 11th Hour (2007) |
"May be a kindred spirit to An Inconvenient Truth, but in terms of style, tone, and scope, this Leonardo DiCaprio-produced and narrated documentary on climate change is a wholly different beast." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
12 (2007) |
"Nikita Mikhalkov's 12 reconfigures Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men for contemporary Russia, adopting the basic premise of the legendary source material while thoroughly grounding it in his homeland's current condition." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
12 and Holding (2006) |
"Based on the contrivance-heavy screenplay and Cuesta's Six Feet Under-tutelaged direction, you'd think the filmmakers just got off the boat from Eden and found themselves in the cities of the plain." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 1.5/4 |
12 Rounds (2009) |
"Renny Harlin's 12 Rounds attempts to put the final nail into the coffin of the static shot." |
Rob Humanick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
12:08 East of Bucharest (2007) |
"A deadpan comedy that evolves into a wry, politicized examination of truth." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"If you are buying this DVD for the actual movie and not for Pat Benatar’s “Love is a Battlefield” music video then there’s no hope for you." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"In 13 Going on 30, women are allowed happiness, but only if they choose the right man." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
13 Tzameti (2006) |
"Aspires to the heights of a Jean-Pierre Melville or Fritz Lang but proves to be more along the mediocre lines of an M. Night Shyamalan." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
1408 (2007) |
"1408's mixture of supernatural hullabaloo and spiritual awakening is sturdily propped up by Cusack, whose performance is equal parts caustic cynicism and empathetic turmoil." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"The film kicks and lurches like a dying jalopy, undermining the otherwise lean efficiency with which Donner steers his metropolitan odyssey." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1/4 |
17 Again (2009) |
"When 17 Again isn't pilfering from its betters, it's engaging in the most Pavlovian button-pushing." |
Ryan Stewart |
Tomato 3/4 |
2 Days In Paris (2007) |
"Makes one wonder if Delpy isn't unconsciously working through some residual, latent anger at Before Sunset co-star Ethan Hawke." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"This unabashedly meaningless affair wholeheartedly subscribes to the more-is-better recipe for cinematic second installments." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
20 Centimeters (2005) |
"The film's story may be slight but Salazar's sparkling tribute to an alternative lifestyle and unconventional female beauty is liberating." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
"My God, it's full of stars: a fitting DVD package for the greatest film ever made." |
Rob Humanick |
Tomato 4/4 |
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
"Central to the profundity of the film is the notion that few things are more meaningful than a child's first steps, the emotive impact of this scenario manifest in every one of the film's dizzying set pieces, albeit multiplied to epic proportions." |
Rob Humanick |
Tomato |
2002 Year-in-Review (2002) |
"Gangs of New York is Marty's show, the culmination of a career and the decisive statement from one of the greatest filmmakers of all time." |
Chuck Rudolph |
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Tomato |
2009 Academy-Award Nominated Short Films (2009) |
"Manon on the Asphalt is a whimsical evocation of a woman's life flashing before her eyes, but On the Line is the real standout here." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 0/4 |
2012 (2009) |
"Roland Emmerich provides the next entry in the "Apocalyptically Disastrous" subgenre of mega-blockbuster cinema, following up Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen with an equally soulless depiction of life at the end of the world." |
Simon Abrams |
Splat 2/4 |
2046 (2005) |
"Like In the Mood for Love, 2046 is gorgeous through and through, intoxicating even, but not necessarily in a good way." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
21 (2008) |
"21, in which Kevin Spacey lecherously sizes up a line of female strippers at a Vegas casino, now serves as the greatest testament to the man's talent as an actor." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
21 (2008) |
"21 is a mini-Ocean's Eleven about, and for, people who are the age of its title." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2.5/4 |
21 Grams (2003) |
"The film's images are whorishly cluttered with religious iconography and spiritual rhetoric but González Iñárritu hardly allows these codes to mirror a collective humanity’s existential bewilderment." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
21 Up (1977) |
"Seven Up scene-stealer Neil Hughes becomes the series' tragic figure in 21 Up." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat |
227 - The Complete First Season (1985) |
"There’s no place like home, except who wants to come home to this?" |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
24 City (2009) |
"Simultaneously more and less than meets the eye." |
Kevin Lee |
Tomato |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"Winterbottom’s film didn’t exactly win him any new fans at Cannes last summer, but on DVD 24 Hour Party People is a cult favorite in-the-making." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"A light and playful look at the Manchester music scene which spans from the punk explosion to the dawn of acid house." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat |
25th Hour (2002) |
"The various elements of 25th Hour are invariably provocative, but the husk of the story isn’t up to the challenge." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato |
25th Hour (2002) |
"Not your average Spike Lee joint but still a sensitive evocation of one man’s moral crisis set amidst a city’s even bigger one." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
27 Dresses (2008) |
"Its supposed feminism never gets past advocating a woman's right to literally chase after her dreamboat to ensure the attainment of her own perfect moment at the altar." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"A solid audio transfer and a nifty collection of supplemental materials (including three alternative endings) highlight this DVD edition of Danny Boyle’s solid genre spooker." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"Horror fans take note: Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later is the real deal." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
28 Up (1984) |
"The 14 subjects of the “Up” series came together as a group only twice, and by the end of 28 Up, three have dropped out of the project." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"28 Weeks Later rolls in like a poisonous dust cloud of nihilism." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
3 Extremes (2005) |
"This high profile anthology of shorts by Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, and Takashi Miike is related by their chilling structuralist rigor." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
3 Needles (2006) |
"Each of these stories is a hissy fit of heinous proportions, one progressively worse than the other: all end on a sickeningly satisfied note of irony, tied together with hectoring narration that suggests a yuletide story." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 4/4 |
3 Women (1977) |
"3 Women is a daring piece of cinema that glides along the edge of weirdness and somehow manages not to fall off." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
3 Women (1977) |
"Apparently, Robert “Hot Lips” Altman was ready to be reborn as Maya Deren.
Eric Henderson
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