Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Ran (1985) | "
For aficionados of the war movie, the western, and the period action epic, Ran is necessary viewing." — Village Voice Posted Jul 1, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| The New World (2005) | "
A work of great intelligence, ambition and radiant beauty." — Sight and Sound Posted Sep 28, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| An Inconvenient Truth (2006) | "
An eco-horror movie that is anything but escapist entertainment..." — Sight and Sound Posted Sep 28, 2006 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| In the Mood for Love (2001) | "
Cheung and Leung give the most subtle performances of their careers here." — Sight and Sound Posted Dec 2, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| The Trial (1963) | "
The Trial is splendid to look at and teeming with ideas about the individual, society, and of course, film itself." — Village Voice Posted Oct 30, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Yana's Friends () | "
Kaplun's smart, scrappy romantic comedy Yana's Friends displays an insouciance rarely found in Israeli film." — Village Voice Posted Oct 9, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 p.m. (2001) | "
A spare, formally ingenious, journalistically acute piece of filmmaking." — Village Voice Posted Oct 9, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Training Day (2001) | "
Propulsive, elegantly written police thriller." — Village Voice Posted Oct 2, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| La Ciénaga (2001) | "
A debut feature that's assured in every aspect." — Village Voice Posted Oct 2, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Fighter (2001) | "
Thanks to Lustig, the film has a generosity and antic humor." — Village Voice Posted Aug 21, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Animal Factory (2000) | "
It's the relationship between Willem Dafoe, as Earl, the hard-time veteran, and Edward Furlong, as Ron, the new boy he takes under his wing, that makes the film so compelling." — Village Voice Posted Aug 17, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| La Buche (2000) | "
Thompson keeps her focus (and ours) on the actors, most of whom have never been as luminous as they are here." — Village Voice Posted Aug 15, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Band of Outsiders (1964) | "
Along with Raoul Coutard's radiant cinematography, what makes the film extraordinary is Karina." — Village Voice Posted Aug 14, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| The Others (2001) | "
This is one scary movie, not because we see ghosts or monsters, but because Kidman makes us feel her fear as our own." — Village Voice Posted Aug 7, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Jump Tomorrow (2001) | "
Becomes increasingly charming as it goes along." — Village Voice Posted Jul 3, 2001 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| The Fast and the Furious (2001) | "
Even those who've never heard of 'rice rockets' (Japanese imports souped up with computerized hydraulics and customized engines) might be charmed by the film's blend of kineticism, car-culture rituals, and hilariously flat-footed dialogue." — Village Voice Posted Jun 26, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Sexy Beast (2001) | "
What distinguishes Sexy Beast from the recent rash of British gangster films is Glazer's investment in character and performance." — Village Voice Posted Jun 12, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Startup.com (2001) | "
The editing is seamless, the drama builds throughout, and the arc of the central character is as shapely as in a Hollywood fiction." — Village Voice Posted May 8, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Eureka (2001) | "
It makes one believe that intimate human connections are possible, that empathy is worth struggling for." — Village Voice Posted May 2, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Under the Sand (2001) | "
Rampling has never been as beautiful, not to mention as emotionally naked, nuanced, and affecting as she is here." — Village Voice Posted May 2, 2001 |
Fresh
| Rotten 37%
| Beautiful Creatures (2001) | "
Weisz exhibits a hitherto undisclosed gift for physical comedy." — Village Voice Posted Apr 4, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Too Much Sleep (2001) | "
So good it made me wish I had kept that workhorse phrase 'remarkably assured debut feature' just for it." — Village Voice Posted Mar 6, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Series 7: The Contenders (2001) | "
A dead-on shot to the heart of reality TV." — Village Voice Posted Mar 1, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Southern Comfort (2001) | "
An affecting tribute to a remarkable life." — Village Voice Posted Feb 21, 2001 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| 42 Up (1998) | "
A bit slower and heavier, but its connection of past and present yields more subtle character twists and contradictions than ever before." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| A Bug's Life (1998) | "
The little kids’ version of Antz: sweeter, funnier, simpler to follow." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| An Ideal Husband (1999) | "
[The] film is hardly memorable, but it's amusing enough for two hours, and it never panders or cloys." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Boiler Room (2000) | "
Although the plotting gets a bit predictable toward the end, the script is intelligent and boldly written throughout." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Don't Look Now (1974) | "
Roeg maps Sutherland's disintegrating psyche onto the city of Venice, with its labyrinthian alleys, murky canals, and crumbling facades." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Erin Brockovich (2000) | "
[Soderbergh's] knack for getting career-defining turns from actors is intact." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| High Fidelity (2000) | "
A Woody Allen film for youngish white males who fetishize rock music and its many memorabilia and have commitment problems when flesh-and-blood women." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Last Night (1998) | "
Bare-bones filmmaking, Last Night is nothing special to look at, but it has a witty, trenchant script, lots of complicated characters, and a few actors who turn human frailty into something nearly sublime." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Love and Basketball (2000) | "
The most passionate, clear-sighted movie ever made about women in sports." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Outside Providence (1999) | "
Outside Providence doesn't wear out the small welcome it's won." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Raging Bull (1980) | "
The most obvious basis for the film's claim to greatness lies in Scorsese's devastating critique of the very codes of masculinity that shaped him as a filmmaker, and in Robert De Niro's performance, through which that critique is made flesh." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Sweet and Lowdown (1999) | "
Great material." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| The Best Man (1999) | "
The dialogue is fast, funny, and based in character." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Dreamlife of Angels (1999) | "
It's so graceful and intelligent and complicated in its depiction of human interaction that it takes the notion of a remarkably assured directorial debut to a new level." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| The Hurricane (1999) | "
Denzel Washington delivers a mesmerizing, volatile performance." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| The Matrix (1999) | A lot of the fighting and shoot-out scenes are positively balletic and great fun to watch. — Girls on Film Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Tic Code (2000) | "
A sympathetic but conventional disease-of-the-week movie." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) | "
Deneuve and Dorléac are stylish, smart, and spirited, and their awkwardness as dancers makes them even more winning." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Wonder Boys (2000) | "
Cinematographer Dante Spinotti, who here proves that dark, dreary weather and comedy are not incompatible." — Village Voice Posted Jan 1, 2000 |
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