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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       4/5      Public Enemies (2009)      "It might sound damning to say that the film resembles a bullet-riddled carcass just barely clinging to life, but it’s exactly this ephemeral sensation, which Mann sustains for the entire two hours plus, that distinguishes Public Enemies." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)      "It’s a big ol’ wallow in unpleasantness, a film that relies on simplistically patriarchal antagonists and vague, wet-willie cries for intervention." [movie review]      Time Out New York       5/5      10 Rillington Place (1971)      "As infamous serial murderer John Reginald Christie, Richard Attenborough is just exaggerated enough to remain credible." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      The Hurt Locker (2009)      "Director Kathryn Bigelow, doing her run-’n’-gun best, doesn’t mine traditional suspense so much as impart a queasy feeling of monotony." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Brighton Rock (1947)      "The future Lord Dickie’s sinister stylings are what linger, especially the vitriolic audio recording he makes for his betrothed, done as if damnation were the most casual of enterprises." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      $9.99 (2009)      "Animation is so often used for frivolous flights of fancy that it’s something of a shock to see it employed in the service of a tale that emphasizes human foible and mortality." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Sunshine Cleaning (2009)      "Best to take a page from Rose's métier and bleach this one fully out of sight and mind." [movie review]      Time Out Sydney       3/6      Sex Positive (2009)      "The film is founded on shaky, near-exploitative ground, something mirrored in the agitated handheld camerawork by Alex Bergman and in Berkowitz’s offhand comment about the good this film could do in encouraging safe sex." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/6      Le combat dans lile (1962)      "Ah, well. It sure looks purty." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/6      Tetro (2009)      "Much like Tetro and Bennie in the film’s final scene, Coppola has been swallowed whole by darkness and yet attained a necessary clarity that may otherwise have evaded him. It could be said, strangely enough, that the abyss was never so enlightening." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/6      24 City (2009)      "Jia is one of the guiding lights of the sixth generation of Chinese filmmakers, and 24 City is a potent exploration of his constant theme -- the tectonic shifts that occur as the old gives way to the new." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/6      Away We Go (2009)      "Away We Go in brief: the endless promise of profundity trampled by dime-store psychologizing." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/6      Munyurangabo (2009)      "Chekhov’s principle of drama is in full effect, but what’s remarkable about this film is how it slowly steers its way from portent to poetry." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/6      O'Horten (2009)      "A preciously deadpan comedy that never lays claim to its own distinct identity; it’s cinema as a mass-manufactured snow globe." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/6      Jerichow (2009)      "This is an expertly constructed thriller that never rises above the trappings of its genre." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/6      Angels & Demons (2009)      "How dark the con of Ron that he can so vividly simulate thought in what is truly an intellect-free enterprise." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/4      Audience Of One (2009)      "It's a product of a dangerous sort of tunnel vision that afflicts a number of documentarians these days." [movie review]      Slant Magazine       3/6      The Window (2008)      "This rather trite visualization is made all the more banal by comparison with the many ravishing images Sorin and cinematographer Julián Apezteguia capture in the movie proper." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/6      Adoration (2009)      "The time-jumping narrative and self-consciously somnambulant mood undermine the writer-director’s zeitgeist-inspired thesis." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/6      Battle for Terra (2009)      "Doe-eyed earnestness dulls every edge, and Eden-like naïveté reigns supreme." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/6      The Limits of Control (2009)      "Jim Jarmusch's latest - his best since Dead Man (1995) - practically begs for dissection and analysis, but it's better, perhaps, to read the film's many repeated symbols, sayings and actions as mood enhancers rather than intellect stimulators" [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/6      Easy Rider (1969)      "A film important to and influential in the flower-power late ’60s, Easy Rider now seems like a narcissistic hodgepodge of travelogue and passion play." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/6      Tyson (2009)      "The mostly first-person documentary Tyson isn’t a dud, exactly, but it does feel like a missed opportunity." [movie review]      Time Out New York       5/6      Viridiana (1961)      "For Luis Buñuel, impiety is a genetic trait and an essential facet of his art. That his work also lifts the spirit -- imparting a delirious sensation of the divine—is a most welcome incongruity, one exemplified by his prizewinning 1961 effort, Viridiana." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/6      Every Little Step (2009)      "There’s a terribly interesting story behind the creation of the musical phenom A Chorus Line, but don’t look to this confused and often self-congratulatory documentary to tell it." [movie review]      Time Out New York       5/6      Oblivion (2008)      "This astonishing documentary takes a contemplative look at Peru’s recent political history via members of the service and street classes who reside in the capital city of Lima." [movie review]      Time Out New York       5/6      Leon Morin, Priest (1961)      "It’s a giddy bit of blasphemy to see Jean-Paul Belmondo dressed in priest’s garb." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/6      The Country Teacher (2009)      "If great movies resulted purely from wizardly technical displays, then Czech writer-director Bohdan Sláma’s The Country Teacher would be a masterpiece to give Béla Tarr pause." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/6      Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)      "MvA is mostly a brainless parade of half-baked gags, punctuated by the occasional fourth-wall-breaking effect. Only those who desire a paddleball to the kisser or a face full of Mothra snot need apply." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/6      The Edge of Love (2009)      "It’s all declarative surface, and director John Maybury treats the proceedings like a Josef von Sternberg wet dream, at once elegant, campy and desiccated." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/6      Duplicity (2009)      "Duplicity does indeed bend and buckle under the weight of many a final-reel revelation, though it never entirely collapses." [movie review]      Time Out New York       1/6      Sunshine Cleaning (2009)      "Best to take a page from Rose’s métier and bleach this one fully out of sight and mind." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/6      Z (1969)      "This concession to cheap psychological realism still manages to stand out and stick in the craw." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/6      Fados (2009)      "Carlos Saura’s documentary on the Portuguese musical tradition of fado is an inviting and immersive experience, the third piece of a song-and-dance triptych that also includes Flamenco (1995) and Tango (1998)." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/6      Frontier of Dawn (2009)      "Garrel père reunites with Garrel fils for this frequently tedious rumination on rabid passion that still manages to linger in the mind." [movie review]      Time Out New York       5/6      Leave Her to Heaven (1945)      "A 'film noir in color' and a masterpiece of post-WWII American cinema." [movie review]      Time Out New York            The American Soldier (1970)      "As Billy Wilder turned a crumbling Berlin into a slapstick, satirical playground in One, Two, Three, so Fassbinder offers up The American Soldier's Munich as a monochrome city of sadness." [movie review]      The House Next Door            Le Vent de la Nuit (1999)      "'That' Garrel film at last." [movie review]      The House Next Door            Made in U.S.A. (1966)      "The foreground drama ends on a query, while the Gallic hills and highways stretch to eternity. FIN." [movie review]      The House Next Door            The New World (2005)      "If I think I'm mostly going to keep coming back to [the 172-minute] cut (and I do hope, someday soon, for a Mr. Arkadin-like 3-cuts comparative DVD set) it's because it feels most fully realized." [movie review]      The House Next Door            Doubt (2008)      "[The play is] a shallow work easily interpreted, and Shanley's own film version is no different in the low bar it aims for and ultimately attains." [movie review]      The House Next Door            Milk (2008)      "Bad art serves no one, but the reach for significance is often enough to proffer a pat-on-the-back and an affirmative nod, as if 'attempt' and 'achievement' were suddenly synonymous terms of action." [movie review]      UGO            Special (2008)      "Take[s] a page from the cartoonist Bill Watterson, who noted of the tiger protagonist in his great Calvin & Hobbes, 'The nature of [the character's] reality doesn't interest me, and each story goes out of its way to avoid resolving the issue.'" [movie review]      The House Next Door            Synecdoche, New York (2008)      "...though the headless chickens dance." [movie review]      UGO            Fear(s) of the Dark (2008)      "Casts a decidedly uneven spell." [movie review]      UGO            Burn After Reading (2008)      "It's surely old-hat by now to note the writer/directors' pervasive condescension and smugness, a criticism I don't think always holds true, especially when the Brothers more fully explore, e.g. The Man Who Wasn't There, their no less ubiquitous spi" [movie review]      UGO            Bottle Shock (2008)      "In light of all its swooping and swishing helicopter shots of the sun-dappled Napa Valley, [it] might as well have been photographed from the bridge of the Starship Enterprise." [movie review]      UGO            Baghead (2008)      "An extended navel gaze." [movie review]      UGO            Adam Resurrected (2008)      "Especially disappointing after Schrader's precise and undervalued character study The Walker, though by this point it should be clear that erraticism is a key facet of his artistry." [movie review]      UGO            Filth and Wisdom (2008)      "Leave it to the Material Girl to confound all knife-sharpened expectations, even in mediocrity." [movie review]      UGO

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