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New York Sun is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Christopher Orr, Martin Tsai.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Shortcomings (2023) Martin Tsai Indeed, someone like Ben dispels the "model minority" myth. Those in favor of perpetuating it can't have that.
Posted Jul 28, 2023  Edit critic review
The Miracle Club (2023) Martin Tsai The film seems like just the thing Viewers Like You would devour.
Posted Jul 10, 2023  Edit critic review
The Lesson (2023) Martin Tsai “The Lesson” is a neat little chamber piece that will have you looking forward to what the many talents involved might do next.
Posted Jul 04, 2023  Edit critic review
Past Lives (2023) Martin Tsai The film affords viewers who’ve ever spent years chasing dreams the chance to pause and ponder – perhaps in the absence of a visitor from the past – whether we’ve meaningfully changed who we are or we’ve only successfully crafted façades.
Posted Jun 01, 2023  Edit critic review
Fool's Paradise (2023) Martin Tsai “Fool’s Paradise” itself appears to be something along the lines of Mr. Hulot goes to Hollywood.
Posted May 13, 2023  Edit critic review
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) Martin Tsai With her novel now a likely candidate to be engulfed by the wave of school book bans sweeping the nation, the adaptation renders verbatim and without compromise her sage message to insecure and impressionable young girls.
Posted Apr 29, 2023  Edit critic review
Polite Society (2023) Martin Tsai While it ultimately doesn’t go for broke quite the way “Everything Everywhere” does, “Polite Society” is worthy of the comparison.
Posted Apr 27, 2023  Edit critic review
Silent Light (2007) Martin Tsai The pretension rears its ugly head from the get-go, opening with a seven-minute silent sequence illustrating the break of dawn.
Posted Apr 22, 2023  Edit critic review
The Man From London (2007) Martin Tsai Tarr makes it easy for viewers to get lost in his beautifully bleak world and lose track of time, but the subject of guilt that so dominates this film seems relatively minor compared with the director’s usual preoccupation with the eclipse of humanity.
Posted Apr 22, 2023  Edit critic review
All of Us (2008) Martin Tsai The film is a stark eye-opener, and can prompt a frank and all-too-needed discussion on an awkward topic that happens to be a matter of life and death.
Posted Apr 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Das Fraulein (2006) Martin Tsai It is a minor work, but a beautiful sight to behold nonetheless.
Posted Apr 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Greetings From the Shore (2007) Martin Tsai As “Greetings” becomes increasingly reductive, predictable, and detached from reality, one begins to wish it will end before it self-destructs entirely.
Posted Apr 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Flow: For Love of Water (2008) Martin Tsai It taps into a conflict on the most surface level without actually tracking the causes and effects over time, as a serious documentary should.
Posted Apr 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Young People F...ing (2007) Martin Tsai Canada’s filmmaking talents (or lack thereof) have been joylessly cranking out comedies of this ilk for years, but too few of them are at once humorous and provocative like Mr. Gero’s film.
Posted Apr 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Traitor (2008) Martin Tsai “Traitor” plays it safe and, unfortunately, sells its audience short as a thinking man’s thriller.
Posted Apr 22, 2023  Edit critic review
One Bad Cat: The Reverend Albert Wagner Story (2008) Martin Tsai Interviews with the subject would seem to complete a documentary like this one, but “One Bad Cat” might have been better off without them.
Posted Apr 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Red 71 (2008) Martin Tsai “Red 71” is barely more than an hour long, and yet there’s so much dead air that it often feels three times that length.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Late Bloomer (2004) Martin Tsai While its digital video aesthetic probably has consigned the film to the festival circuit, it will reward moviegoers who find it and give it a chance.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Back to Normandy (2007) Martin Tsai Mr. Philibert’s new film isn’t nearly as haunting as some of his previous efforts. But one thing is sure: He is a wonderfully humanist filmmaker.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Felon (2008) Martin Tsai “Felon” would have been noteworthy had we not seen it all before.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Eight Miles High! (2007) Martin Tsai Reminiscent of the Edie Sedgwick biopic “Factory Girl,” “Eight Miles High” is noteworthy only for its ability to name-drop.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Days and Clouds (2007) Martin Tsai Mr. Soldini, who made the 2001 sleeper hit “Bread and Tulips,” has thoughtfully fashioned a human interest story out of current events by creating wholly believable characters and scenarios.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Diminished Capacity (2008) Martin Tsai “Diminished Capacity” seems like a literal inside-baseball joke that only die-hard Cubs fans will get.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Hair Extension (2014) Martin Tsai The heartless parent comes off as more disturbing than whatever supernatural or psychopathic forces are also at work.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Quid Pro Quo (2008) Martin Tsai Messrs. Ballard and Palahniuk employed such subcultures in their novels as metaphors to satirize consumerism and modernity. But in “Quid Pro Quo,” the cult of the wannabe disabled doesn’t stand for anything else.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
The Wedding Director (2006) Martin Tsai Mr. Bellocchio is using the nuptial context to satirize the dirty business of make-believe, as Robert Altman did with Hollywood and “The Player.”
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
"L'Origine de la tendresse" and Other Tales (2008) Martin Tsai The result is a mixed bag, but a couple of entries make the event well worth the time and price of admission.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Yella (2007) Martin Tsai The film serves as an allegory about former East Germans yearning to attain capitalist success, only to find disillusionment in an economic climate of mergers and layoffs.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
XXY (2007) Martin Tsai It’s difficult to buy a message of empowerment when it’s at the expense of someone else’s dignity.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Irina Palm (2007) Martin Tsai At times, it feels as though Mr. Garbarski needs to lighten up, given that the screenplay is just too full of gaping holes — logistic and otherwise — for anyone to take his film that seriously.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Sleepwalking (2008) Martin Tsai It’s a good thing the film is set in Northern California rather than North Carolina, because the only remaining cliché would be for the characters to deliver their lines with a thick Southern drawl.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Frownland (2007) Martin Tsai “Frownland” gradually induces a queasy feeling as we realize that Keith’s personality quirks may actually be manifestations of a chemical imbalance, or perhaps even mental disability.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005) Martin Tsai Imagine a two-and-a-half-hour episode of “Saturday Night Live” or “MADtv,” directed by Michel Gondry. No, make that Matthew Barney. No, make that David Cronenberg.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Beyond Belief (2007) Martin Tsai It’s almost a relief to know that this film isn’t just an infomercial for grief, or some one-sided, isn’t-that-uplifting claptrap.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) Martin Tsai The film is marginally enjoyable in that sort of sleazy Jerry Springer fashion, but the filmmakers aren’t making a compelling case here for why their artistic license is necessarily more amusing or insightful than history itself.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
It's a Free World (2007) Martin Tsai It is also fiercely uncompromising, as one would expect of Mr. Loach, fully penetrating the plight of migrant workers in Britain, where other recent films, such as “Dirty Pretty Things” and “Once,” merely treated it as window dressing.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
London to Brighton (2006) Martin Tsai Mr. Williams demonstrates tremendous promise as a genre flick director and as the heir apparent to the British national cinema.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Alice's House (2007) Martin Tsai If its plot synopsis reads more like a litany of character descriptions, that’s because “Alice’s House” offers little else.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Strength and Honor (2008) Martin Tsai It’s as if novice writer-director Mark Mahon aspires to be the next Jim Sheridan, but winds up a poor man’s Terry George.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Revolver (2005) Martin Tsai Mr. Ritchie dilutes his snazzy action set pieces with metaphysical symbolism and aphorisms from “Julius Caesar,” “The Fundamentals of Chess,” “The Book of Suicide,” and other mismatched texts to convey some big ideas about the ego.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) Martin Tsai Mr. Schnabel’s film is groundbreaking in its rendering of that interior life.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Be My Oswald (2006) Martin Tsai “Be My Oswald” is a deadpan satire that unexpectedly unfolds like a chamber piece — think the Branagh-Pinter “Sleuth,” only with more fun and suspense.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Park (2006) Martin Tsai The film’s spontaneity and zaniness are mostly enjoyable, but it fails in its attempt to tie up all the loose ends.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 (2007) Martin Tsai This documentary, which purports to celebrate handcraftsmanship, is the work of a filmmaking novice with an extensive background in graphic design, and that is no small irony.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Rails & Ties (2007) Martin Tsai Unfortunately, here you get a Lifetime original movie with a bigger budget.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
DarkBlueAlmostBlack (2006) Martin Tsai Those who have Almodóvarian preconceptions about Spain are in for a surprise.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
King Corn (2007) Martin Tsai Clearly inspired by the likes of Ross McElwee and Morgan Spurlock, director Aaron Woolf artificially staged a scenario that serves as the launching pad for the film.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Outsourced (2006) Martin Tsai While it doesn’t have the kind of cultural sensitivity you’d find in a Mira Nair film, “Outsourced” is at the very least not condescending to foreign culture.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Hatchet (2006) Martin Tsai If you’ve never witnessed bare breasts or blood spraying from severed limbs, you are in for quite a ride.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Quiet City (2007) Martin Tsai While Mr. Katz observantly captures the spontaneity of middleclass kids bantering and knocking about Brooklyn, he doesn’t offer any analysis or profundity along the way.
Posted Apr 21, 2023  Edit critic review
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