 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1996) |
|
"With added scope but little to justify its bloated heft, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie is the show's own Manos: The Hands of Fate."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/4 |
|
(1996) |
|
"In the theater, whenever Mike, Crow or Tom Servo flub a punchline or resort to a fart joke, you almost want to lean forward and shush them."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(2007) |
|
"Apatow's talent for accurately portraying his generation at their most self-absorbed doesn't quite go as far at justifying the script's patchy, haphazard conflicts at it does toward explaining the film's bloated running time."
[movie review] |
|
When Canses Were Classeled |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/4 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Another case study delving into the hubris and insult of trying too hard to feel someone else's pain."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1996) |
|
"An anorexic premise could've been a great and unusual disaster film if only Twister had taken the courage to keep everything pared down."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/4 |
|
(1996) |
|
"When it sticks to kinetically portraying the sheer oddness of the tornadic phenomenon, Twister is a breeze. When it tries to recreate Hawks, it falls gracelessly from the green sky."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1994) |
|
"Annie's "Tomorrow" never sounded so optimistic."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/4 |
|
(1994) |
|
"A loose remake of Female Trouble with Polyester's subversively accessible polish, Serial Mom is the strongest film of the post-midnight-movie chapter of John Waters's career."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/4 |
|
(2008) |
|
"Biller's film is to the films of Radley Metzger and Russ Meyer what Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven was to Douglas Sirk, only perhaps a little bit cannier and a lot less dryly academic about its postmodern tweaks."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1943/1945) |
|
"The menu buttons are shaped like sombreros. I trust I needn't say more."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1945) |
|
"The menu buttons are shaped like sombreros. I trust I needn't say more."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1943) |
|
"The menu buttons are shaped like sombreros. I trust I needn't say more."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1982) |
|
"The New York Ripper took all the fun out of New York City's photogenic death throes."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/4 |
|
(1982) |
|
"Sour and pointless."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/4 |
|
(2006) |
|
"Doesn't ever end up communicating anything other than its own capacity for sensitive understatement."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1980) |
|
"Zombie fans: run, don't walk! Well, maybe just move briskly. Don't break a sweat, but keep yourself hydrated. With water, not blood. Oh, and wear clothing that breathes."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
2.5/4 |
|
(1980) |
|
"Both the crypto-zombies of Nightmare City and the film itself are fast-paced sons of bitches without so much as a whisper of a thought inside their heads."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1961) |
|
"The neglected standing of Blast of Silence is the film's own best proof of its uniquely wallflowerish take on film noir tropes."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/4 |
|
(1961) |
|
"The tension doesn't so much revolve around the antihero's job, redemption, or ultimate fate but rather the disconnect between its mundane milieu and the grandiose flourishes they're meant to convey."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1987) |
|
"Check out Miss Miller riding down the freeway of Alzheimer's in her pink Cadillac."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/4 |
|
(1987) |
|
"Chipmunk Adventure is worth one toked-out viewing for Dody Goodman's gratingly senile Miss Miller and her description of the trio's daily breakfast menu."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1967) |
|
"If Bonnie and Clyde doesn't seem to carry the heft expected of a film of its standing, the pillowy lips of its two leads make up the difference."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/4 |
|
(1967) |
|
"Stylistically, Arthur Penn's crime epic doesn't do anything that hadn't already been seen in any number of runty, skuzzy teen epics, all of which firmly established the paragons of good (i.e. "The Law") as being the new antagonists."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1973) |
|
"Keep your eyes off the sparrow and on the road ahead."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/4 |
|
(1973) |
|
"Charles Bronson gets screwed over in Violent City. In fact, he gets screwed over so many times that the film loses track of its internal timeline."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(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."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/4 |
|
(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."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1974) |
|
"Despite some satisfyingly gut-busting moments, The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue retains a very British stiff upper lip."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/4 |
|
(1974) |
|
"This minor cult classic has its fans, to be sure, but it never really pays off."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1965) |
|
"The transfer on Criterion's new release of Pierrot le Fou is as tight as 25-year-old French ass wearing a new pantyless girdle."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/4 |
|
(1965) |
|
"It's one of Pierrot's unique charms that Godard doesn't regard Ferdinand and Marianne's situation with emphatic mockery or inordinate reverence."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
"I'm not going to lie: With these movies I expected the Lubitsch touch to at least cop a feel."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1982-1993) |
|
"With Criterion's continued unwillingness to stray outside of Godard's canonized 1960s output, you've got to give Lionsgate credit for putting a spotlight on his later, grumpier works."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1970) |
|
"The Aristocats is not jazz."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/4 |
|
(1970) |
|
"The Aristocats is one of the slightest of director Wolfgang Reitherman's contributions to the Disney animated feature canon, which is to say it's still among the studio's least suffocatingly ornate and ideologically risible films."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
"Today's episode of softcore melodrama has been brought to you by Pamprin, Love's Baby Soft, and Diet Slice."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/4 |
|
|
|
"Cecilia isn't that far removed from the world of the nighttime soap."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1986) |
|
"It's finally on DVD, so now fans of She's Gotta Have It can stop pleading, "Please, baby, please, baby, please, baby baby baby.""
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
3/4 |
|
(1986) |
|
"She's Gotta Have It's characters talk into the camera, but they do so in service of a Rashomon-tinged postmortem on how an artistic young woman couldn't make polyamory work in her favor."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
.5/4 |
|
(2007) |
|
"Rob Reiner's films have always aimed for a heartwarming effect and more frequently resulted in heartworm."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1980) |
|
"Come and play with us, Danny--in anamorphic widescreen--forever, and ever, and ever."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
4/4 |
|
(1980) |
|
"It's the experience more so than the actual content of The Shining that radiates cold, anti-humanly indifferent terror."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1980) |
|
"Flush it down the toilet."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/4 |
|
(1980) |
|
"Lewis Teague is only too willing to hand over the entire project to Sayles's hunger for allegorical subplots."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1983) |
|
"Underrated, but nowhere near as much as the book. I'd personally rather rescue Christine and 'Salem's Lot from the King adaptations of ill repute."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
2/4 |
|
(1983) |
|
"Directed by Lewis Teague with less cinematographic flair than even the TV miniseries for 'Salem's Lot, Cujo unfortunately demonstrates the difficulty in adapting King's shorter works."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1982) |
|
"Though its special features have apparently crossed over into the next spectral plane, the image of the 25th anniversary Poltergeist DVD will have you gazing into the light."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
3.5/4 |
|
(1982) |
|
"After a quarter-century, Poltergeist remains one of the most popular movies whose reputation rests almost exclusively on behind-the-scenes diversions."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
1.5/4 |
|
(2007) |
|
"Lagerfeld Confidential lives up to its title by keeping its central topic top secret."
[movie review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
(1967) |
|
"Fantasmoland for the rugrat set. It deserves to be rescued from the garbage heap where most other Disney movies ought to be dumped."
[dvd review] |
|
Slant Magazine |
|
|
