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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       3/5      From Paris With Love (2010)      "John Travolta breaks the braggadocio meter in the latest tightly wound actioner from Taken’s Pierre Morel." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Promised Lands (1974)      "Sontag’s true talent was for the printed word; behind the camera, her limitations come more harshly to light." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      District 13: Ultimatum (2010)      "It’s fortunate ... that Besson, the sole credited writer, and director Patrick Alessandrin take their sweet time getting to the plot." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/6      44 Inch Chest (2010)      "The cast to die for is almost entirely wasted in this machismo-marinated slab of Brit-crime nastiness." [movie review]      Time Out New York       5/5      Word is Out - Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977)      "This landmark American documentary is bracing in light of the foggy discourse, both pro and con, that accompanies a good many films with queer subject matter." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Edge of Darkness (2010)      "There’s more emphasis on bloodlust than grief -- a shame considering the mini’s most powerful moments explored Craven’s deeply conflicted agony." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      North Face (2010)      "Cleverly playing on the genre’s propagandistic ties to the Third Reich, the film reflects the tragic arc of National Socialism in each ominous crevasse and in every grandiloquent gesture." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Extraordinary Measures (2010)      "Sadly, “Get out of my lab!” is not the new “Get off my plane!”" [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Legion (2010)      "Often resembles a prime John Carpenter thriller -- call it Assault on Manger 13 -- until an overcaffeinated angel-fu climax significantly lowers the intelligence quotient." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      The Book of Eli (2010)      "Thank the pallid green heavens for Flashdance’s Jennifer Beals, positively ravishing as a sightless kept woman who acts as the story’s oracle." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Fish Tank (2010)      "Arnold deviates into a generic retribution plot that acts as a creaky catalyst to push Mia out into the world at large. The affected realism thus reveals itself to be a hoi polloi–patronizing crock." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Youth in Revolt (2010)      "It's a kick to see Cera cut loose from his patented befuddled-nerd routine, even if the film's caricatured performances and fish-in-a-barrel scorn are sure to be monotonous for some." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Sweetgrass (2009)      "As subcultural anthropology, it's unassailable. Yet the often ugly-looking DV aesthetic dilutes the cumulative effect." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Wonderful World (2010)      "Credit Broderick and the cast for putting across the fey Indiewood bullcrap with committed, nearly convincing effort." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Avatar (2009)      "The much-hyped sci-fi actioner Avatar is the perfect showcase for Cameron’s strengths...and his flaws." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Nine (2009)      "Every musical number is edited so haphazardly that any and all expressiveness is lost in a discontinuous swirl of blinding spotlights, bright colors and perspective-obliterating whip-pans." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)      "It’s a film teeming with visual invention (often to the point of exhaustion), yet the big-budget pageantry is always counterbalanced by Gilliam’s deeply felt and thematically potent sympathy for the downtrodden artistes of the world." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      Ricky (2009)      "It would be risible if Ozon’s hand didn’t remain so steady and confident throughout, all the way up to a complicatedly upbeat conclusion that recreates the Christian Annunciation with the straightest of faces." [movie review]      Time Out New York       1/5      A Single Man (2009)      "Christopher Isherwood’s seminal queer novel deserves a film adaptation that captures both its sense of place and its activist spirit. Cowriter-director Tom Ford settles for the glossy ephemera of a Vanity Fair cover spread." [movie review]      Time Out New York       5/5      My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? (2009)      "It’s likely that only Herzog would dare to, and succeed at, resolving this singular cinematic object by contemplating the fate of an abandoned basketball." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Armored (2009)      "What distinguishes this robbery-gone-wrong flick is the authentically blue-collar vibe, as well as its stellar ensemble cast and terrific direction from Vacancy’s Nimrod Antal." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Up in the Air (2009)      "Reitman, who also cowrote the screenplay, feels the constant need to “deepen” his characters, granting them wants and motivations -- especially during the moralistic third act -- that are totally alien to how they’re initially portrayed." [movie review]      Time Out New York       1/5      Everybody's Fine (2009)      "There’s some small pleasure in watching one of the great screen performers play such a recognizably fragile type, though De Niro and writer-director Kirk Jones shamelessly milk the situation for sentiment." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      Small Change (1976)      "One longs for a less mawkish hand whenever this film slips into didacticism, the prime offender being Stévenin’s climactic speech to his class." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Home (2009)      "The performers manage to overcome Meier’s schematic framework—too “modern-day fairy tale” for its own good—though the director clearly knows which collaborators and elements to enlist for game-raising purposes." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)      "Cage is not quite Aguirre or Fitzcarraldo in the Big Easy. But his performance hits all the right mythopoetic beats, rising above the thin script and late-night-cable aesthetic." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)      "At last, Anderson has made a film that is nothing but a succession of autumn-gold shoebox dioramas." [movie review]      Time Out New York       1/5      Uncertainty (2009)      "Bobby and Kate are puppets on strings, both pulled roundabout through McGehee-Siegel’s phony proving ground toward a howler of a final exchange." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (2010)      "The film slowly loses the sobering toughness of its initial inquiry, and finally comes off as bloodline-biased hagiography." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)      "Given the months-long hype, what’s most bewildering about Sundance sensation Precious is its overall shrug-worthiness." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009)      "Wiseman’s films are as much living organisms as they are subjective portraits." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)      "The biggest surprise of Carol is that this frustrating auteur, so often in thrall to his digital palette, here uses it to freshly illuminate a time-honored text." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      The House of the Devil (2009)      "When the Karo syrup finally hits the fan, the film loses its footing some, but only because no concrete explanations could possibly do justice to West’s expert buildup." [movie review]      Time Out New York       1/5      The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)      "Duffy orchestrates the resulting carnage like an inebriate spinning fourth-rate Peckinpah tales." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Amelia (2009)      "Told in final-flight flashback (naturally) with cumulus cloud scene wipes (of course!), Earhart’s life is reduced to a series of solemnized wide-screen tableaux populated by locale-specific extras acting as starstruck filler." [movie review]      Time Out New York       5/5      Night and Day (2009)      "Which of the protagonist’s interactions are real and which are artist’s fancy? Hong never lets on, preferring to set character and audience adrift within his motion-picture Rorschach test." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Where the Wild Things Are (2009)      "There’s an incessant disconnect between what we hear and what we see; the true soulfulness of Sendak’s parable never emerges." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Black Dynamite (2009)      "As the theme song declares, this cat is dy-no-mite!" [movie review]      Time Out New York       1/5      Couples Retreat (2009)      "It’s too easy to say that Peter Billingsley shot his eye out with this inept comic trifle, but…well, he shot his eye out." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Adela (2009)      "Alix knows how to frame a shot to emphasize his character’s ever-shifting emotional states, but there’s something missing, an elemental sense of space that would better complement the heroine’s figure-in-a-landscape distress." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Good Hair (2009)      "It doesn’t matter if Rock is in a Harlem barbershop or an Indian hair-weave factory -- there’s always a punch line or a snooty eye-roll to be had." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      An Education (2009)      "Lone Scherfig directs it all as if it were a breezy lark, so a third-act tonal shift makes for an incongruous, excessively moralistic fit with everything that’s preceded." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Visual Acoustics: The Modernisms of Julius Shulman (2009)      "Visual Acoustics goes out of its way to remain as kindly and pleasing as Shulman himself." [movie review]      Time Out New York       1/5      Pandorum (2009)      "As the credit “Produced by Paul W.S. Anderson” attests, this is hackwork of the highest order, lacking in all poetry and barely comprehensible aurally or visually." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      Chelsea on the Rocks (2009)      "It makes sense that, within his own act of remembrance, Ferrara would include a hotel tenant’s home-movie footage of the September 11 attacks. The underlying message, in both cases, is the same: Never forget." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Fame (2009)      "There are enough hoary soap-operatic plottings for a thousand Gossip Girls (emotionally distant parents, almost-rapes, suicide attempts), yet Tancharoen individualizes each crisis so that no one character comes off as a mock-universal surrogate." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      Surrogates (2009)      "Surrogates is an A-list blockbuster that would fit, damn proudly, on the lower half of a double bill." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      The Boys Are Back (2009)      "Owen brings insight and honesty to this otherwise by-the-numbers adaptation of Simon Carr’s memoir, which director Scott Hicks bathes in shimmering golden tones as if the characters lived at the end of the rainbow." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Whiteout (2009)      "Kate Beckinsale is about as convincing a U.S. Marshal as Joan Crawford is a loving mother." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Bright Star (2009)      "Writer-director Jane Campion approaches the tale with an artiste’s respectful solemnity, but it too often comes off like Twilight transplanted across oceans and centuries." [movie review]      Time Out New York

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