Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 63%
| The Girlfriend Experience (2009) | "
Naturalistic performances and stylish, semi-documentary-style cinematography and editing (both courtesy of the director) make for an engrossing, insightful study of internal and interpersonal conflict." — Time Out Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 72%
| Che, Part One (2008) | "
It's not a Hollywood-style movie - it demands patience and proper attention - but it's a great movie, and rewards magnificently." — Time Out Sydney Posted Sep 29, 2009 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Liverpool (2009) |
Click here to read article — Time Out Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 49%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
It does at least come across as a portrait of an era that's affectionate, authentic and pleasingly adult in its tone and concerns." — Time Out Sydney Posted Aug 26, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 73%
| Rudo and Cursi (2009) | "
He’s helped by charismatic, pleasingly ambivalent performances by all involved, and while a later penalty sequence is needlessly prolonged, it doesn’t diminish the film’s cumulative effect. Serious fun." — Time Out Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4/6
| Rotten 49%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
Undoubtedly one of Ang Lee's lighter films, 'Taking Woodstock' is also one of his better ones, and a welcome return to form." — Time Out Posted May 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 80%
| Vengeance (2009) | "
If indeed there is anything surprising about this cliché-packed genre fare, it’s the degree to which To and his screenwriter Wai Ka-Fai are prepared to indulge their flair for the ludicrous." — Time Out Posted May 18, 2009 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 43%
| Spring Fever (2009) | "
We’re supposed to feel some kind of infinite sadness about our existential loneliness and vulnerability; but what I felt, despite a scattering of strong scenes, was a growing impatience both with the characters and the trite message." — Time Out Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 80%
| Gran Torino (2008) | "
The comedy-drama on release is actually a rather wise, insightful exploration of family and friendship, violence and vengeance." — Time Out Posted Feb 19, 2009 |
Fresh 5/6
| Fresh 72%
| Che, Part One (2008) | "
It’s not a Hollywood-style movie – it demands patience and proper attention – but it’s a great movie, and rewards magnificently." — Time Out Posted Jan 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Class (2008) | "
Cantet’s Palme d’Or winner is a marvel, its authenticity deriving both from the superb performances of its non-professional cast and from a screenplay co-written by Bégaudeau." — Time Out Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| A Christmas Tale (2008) | "
A sprawling, consistently engaging but slightly over-extended ensemble piece notable for a lively if sometimes annoyingly arbitrary use of flamboyant stylistic devices." — Time Out Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Too Late Blues (1961) | "
One of the more impressive Hollywood movies to be set in the hip, flip jazz world." — Time Out Posted Jul 15, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | El Mar (2000) | "
Too portentous, overheated, flashy, derivative and implausible for its own good." — Time Out Posted May 12, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 75%
| The Last Mistress (2008) | "
Swiftly and deftly immersing us in the fashions – not just the clothes and decor, but also the changing sexual and social ethics – of the 1830s, Breillat’s meticulous, eloquent script and direction succeed in relating a consistently engrossing story." — Time Out Posted Apr 11, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| Dollars (1972) | "
The comedy sits uneasily with the admittedly efficient action scenes, although at least here we have none of the usual Brooks sermonising to dilute the brew." — Time Out Posted Apr 8, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 92%
| Hamlet (1948) | "
Despite winning several Oscars, Olivier's (condensed) version of Shakespeare's masterpiece makes for frustrating viewing." — Time Out Posted Feb 20, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Semi-Tough (1977) | "
A delightful, gentle satire on the American ideal of winning, which also takes broad but often hilarious swipes at fashionable health fads." — Time Out Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Fresh 5/6
| Fresh 94%
| No Country for Old Men (2007) | "
A masterly tale of the good, the deranged and the doomed that inflects the raw violence of the west with a wry acknowledgement of the demise of codes of honour, this is frighteningly intelligent and imaginative." — Time Out Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Fresh 5/6
| Fresh 88%
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) | "
Superior fare, packed with insight and suspense." — Time Out Posted Jan 11, 2008 |
Fresh 5/6
| Fresh 67%
| The Duchess of Langeais (2008) | "
The whole thing is compelling from start to finish; ‘cruel ironies’ doesn’t even begin to describe it." — Time Out Posted Dec 28, 2007 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 38%
| Les Chansons d'Amour (2007) | "
The songs are poor, the faddishness (folk parading books passim, à la Godard) and Garrel’s performance are irritating, and only Chiara Mastroianni as a grieving sister brings any real sense of conviction to her role." — Time Out Posted Dec 13, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Whirlpool (1949) | "
It's a fine example of the way Preminger, on occasion, managed to deflect routine melodrama into something more personal and profound." — Time Out Posted Oct 23, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) | "
With Cooper as the crusading officer, one is never in any doubt as to the correctness and sincerity of his views (Mitchell was posthumously rehabilitated in 1947), while Steiger puts in one of his inimitably flashy performances as the prosecuting attorney" — Posted Oct 23, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | Hot Blood (1989) | "
An oddity, then, but one distinguished by Ray's characteristic refusal to patronise or glamorise his characters." — Time Out Posted Oct 23, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Strike (1924) | "
Eisenstein's first feature also remains his most watchable." — Time Out Posted Oct 15, 2007 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 88%
| Back To Normandy (2007) | "
Viewers should be won over by the director’s warm humanity, puckish sense of humour and rich appetite for contingent associations." — Time Out Posted Oct 6, 2007 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 78%
| Sparkle (2007) | "
Most effective when the deceits perpetrated not just by Sam but by several others begin to take their wretched toll, and a real sense of pain intrudes." — Time Out Posted Aug 17, 2007 |
— | Rotten 43%
| Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) |
Click here to read article — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| Addams Family Values (1993) | "
As sequels go, this is passable..." — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 68%
| Love Is The Devil (1998) |
Click here to read article — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 67%
| Kira's Reason: A Love Story (2003) |
Click here to read article — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 71%
| 301/302 (1996) |
Click here to read article — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) | "
Richter's comic genre hybrid comes complete with its own mythology, and team of established superheroes, and is curiously appealing." — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 81%
| Emmanuel's Gift (2005) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 87%
| Broken Flowers (2005) | "
The ending is sublime, a set piece that almost makes up for the overwhelming slightness of it all." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 94%
| Alexander Nevsky (1938) |
Click here to read article — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Rotten 0%
| Krakatoa, East of Java (1969) |
Click here to read article — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Rotten 44%
| Brooklyn Lobster (2006) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | N/A | Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made (1995) |
Click here to read article — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 86%
| Ace in the Hole (1951) |
Click here to read article — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 91%
| After Innocence (2005) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 77%
| Munich (2005) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 86%
| Steam: The Turkish Bath (1997) |
Click here to read article — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Rotten 20%
| Doom (2005) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Rotten 46%
| Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) |
Click here to read article — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Rotten 57%
| The Addams Family (1991) |
Click here to read article — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Alien (1979) | "
The limited strengths of its staple sci-fi horrors always derived from either the offhand organic/ Freudian resonances of its design or the purely (brilliantly) manipulative editing and pacing of its above-average shock quota." — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Nosferatu (1922) | "
Murnau's classic vampire movie, though not his best film, remains one of the most poetic of all horror films." — Time Out Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
— | Fresh 91%
| Ballets Russes (2005) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
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