Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 18%
| Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) | "
Suffers from abusive close-ups, repetitive fight sequences and uninspired demon design." — New York Times Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 90%
| Lake Tahoe (2009) | "
So different from the usual fare that it might have arrived from another galaxy." — New York Times Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 33%
| The Last International Playboy (2009) | "
“He’s having an existential crisis,” explains Sophie. Too bad it’s not a very cinematic one." — New York Times Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 38%
| The Art of Being Straight (2009) | "
Smart without being smart-alecky, Mr. Rosen’s writing avoids the aggressive cleverness and gummy politics of many similarly themed movies, focusing instead on realistic dialogue and low-key interaction." — New York Times Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Autumn Ball (2009) | "
Emboldened by alcohol and steeped in despair, the characters in Sugisball lunge for love but would settle for understanding." — New York Times Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
At a time when horror is defined by limp Japanese retreads or punishing exercises in pure sadism, Drag Me to Hell has a tonic playfulness that's unabashedly retro, an indulgent return to Mr. Raimi's goofy, gooey roots." — New York Times Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 33%
| Offshore (2009) | "
Hampered by a script that veers from infantile to ugly and a director who doesn't know when to say "cut."" — New York Times Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Kabei: Our Mother (2009) | "
Enriched by Mutsuo Naganuma’s velvety photography, the director’s restrained emotional grammar is surprisingly affecting." — New York Times Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 20%
| Ghosts of the Heartland (2009) | "
Might have been more effective with a little more honey and a lot less vinegar." — New York Times Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Revue (2009) | "
Revue melds disparate images of Soviet life during the 1950s and ’60s into a luminous time capsule of patriotic fervor and political fealty." — New York Times Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 78%
| The Garden (2009) | "
This intricate and compelling documentary paints a saddening portrait of American politics." — New York Times Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 67%
| Nursery University (2009) | "
If you thrill to the sight of a preschool teacher bringing an investment banker to his knees, then Nursery University is for you." — New York Times Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 62%
| Crank High Voltage (2009) | "
Crank: High Voltage, starring Jason Statham as a man with a machine instead of a heart, is boorish, bigoted and borderline pornographic." — New York Times Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 29%
| The Golden Boys (2009) | "
The Golden Boys is an object lesson in how to squander a seasoned cast, a charming premise and a breathtaking location." — New York Times Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| The Pope's Toilet (2007) | "
The Pope’s Toilet cloaks religious critique in the scrappy tempo of irremediable poverty and irrepressible enterprise." — New York Times Posted Apr 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 71%
| Bart Got a Room () | "
A teenage comedy with an old-fogy scent." — New York Times Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 35%
| Alien Trespass (2009) | "
A charmingly sentimental but ultimately pointless homage to the sci-fi classics of yesteryear." — New York Times Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| Forbidden Lie$ (2009) | Cool-headed, lighthearted and outrageously entertaining, Forbidden Lie$ is documentary-as-striptease. — New York Times Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 70%
| The Escapist (2009) | "
Shapes a standard prison-break drama into a metaphysical study of freedom and reparation." — New York Times Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 36%
| The Perfect Sleep (2009) | "
Easy on the eyes but brutal on the ears, The Perfect Sleep fuses Shakespearean tragedy and noir iconography into a strange, lovely, leaden ball of confusion." — New York Times Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 50%
| The Education of Charlie Banks (2009) | "
Thanks to sincere performances (most notably from Mr. Ritter and Eva Amurri as Charlie’s upper-crust crush) and clever writing (by Peter Elkoff), the movie never becomes maudlin." — New York Times Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 18%
| The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) | "
Gives you the creeps, the giggles and the groans in almost equal measure." — New York Times Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Rotten .5/5
| Rotten 0%
| Steam (2009) | "
So cheesy and so poorly acted that it should never have seen the light of day." — New York Times Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 58%
| Skills Like This (2009) | "
Skills Like This gazes indulgently on 20-something aimlessness and the comfort of assigned roles. In Mr. Miranda’s hands sloth can be more appealing than you might think." — New York Times Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 33%
| We Pedal Uphill (2009) | "
The performances are across-the-board solid (most of the cast is theater-based)." — New York Times Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 42%
| The Last House on the Left (2009) | "
I suspect the movie's sound designers deserve some kind of an award: thanks to them, the damage one can inflict with small appliances and a giant grudge is all too clear." — New York Times Posted Mar 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 33%
| Sherman's Way (2009) | "
Like an annoying new puppy, Sherman's Way just wants to run around in circles and lick your face. After a while, though, you kind of fall in love with it." — New York Times Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 4%
| Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009) | "
Daddies and daughters lend a wistful emotional core to Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, an otherwise generic martial-arts movie with video-game credentials." — New York Times Posted Mar 2, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 18%
| The Trouble with Romance (2009) | "
An airless, fragmented feature that's been kicking around since 2007." — New York Times Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 22%
| Push (2009) | As far as I can tell, the only ability in short supply is acting. — New York Times Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 78%
| Life. Support. Music. (2009) | "
If you can get past the excruciating title, Life. Support. Music. is a blessedly nimble journey from loss to reclamation." — New York Times Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 71%
| Our City Dreams (2009) | "
Our City Dreams is a lyrical documentary about the intersection of location and imagination." — New York Times Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 65%
| Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (2009) | Roberta Grossman’s Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh documents courage, but steers clear of character. — New York Times Posted Jan 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 38%
| The Toe Tactic (2008) | Depending on your tolerance for relentless whimsy and unflagging eccentricity, The Toe Tactic will make you gurgle with delight or groan with exasperation. — New York Times Posted Jan 28, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 17%
| The Lodger (2009) | "
The Lodger is a spooky story ruined by lumpen dialogue, cloddish performances and a director and writer (David Ondaatje) oblivious to both." — New York Times Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | The Photograph (2009) | "
In The Photograph, an unlikely friendship eases an old man’s death and a young woman’s life." — New York Times Posted Jan 21, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 59%
| My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) | "
A strange synergy of old and new, My Bloody Valentine 3D blends cutting-edge technology and old-school prosthetics to produce something both familiar and alien: gore you can believe in." — New York Times Posted Jan 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 76%
| Cargo 200 (2008) | Art house meets grind house in Cargo 200, Alexey Balabanov’s morbidly compelling thriller set in the Soviet Union. — New York Times Posted Jan 2, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 23%
| Bedtime Stories (2008) | In Bedtime Stories the pain of this artistic limbo is written all over Adam Sandler's character, a resentful hotel handyman named Skeeter. — New York Times Posted Dec 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 87%
| Timecrimes (2008) | "
Proof positive that a naked hottie and whiz-bang pacing can disguise gaping narrative cracks, Timecrimes makes sci-fi lemonade out of low-budget lemons." — New York Times Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 45%
| Antarctica (2008) | "
While the director ogles his cast and busies himself with hackneyed visual metaphors, Antarctica wallows in casual lust and bored disaffection." — New York Times Posted Nov 28, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 13%
| I Can't Think Straight (2008) | Plugging the same two actresses into different Sapphic scenarios may be a valid filmmaking strategy but it can be an extremely boring one. — New York Times Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 29%
| House of the Sleeping Beauties (2007) | Not even the august presence of Maximilian Schell can dispel the odor of fusty smut that clings to House of the Sleeping Beauties. — New York Times Posted Nov 14, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 73%
| Eden (2008) | Eden is a picture so modest and minor-key that the emotional bruise it leaves may take days to develop. — New York Times Posted Nov 14, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 28%
| The World Unseen (2008) | "
Never begins to tap the talent at its disposal." — New York Times Posted Nov 7, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 3%
| The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008) | "
God and Satan duke it out for the soul of a young girl in The Haunting of Molly Hartley, an unexpectedly cynical addition to the teen-scream genre." — New York Times Posted Nov 3, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 80%
| The Matador (2008) | Stripping away centuries of civilization, The Matador confronts something primal in human nature, daring us to do the same. — New York Times Posted Oct 31, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 81%
| Saving Marriage (2008) | "
Saving Marriage is an in-the-trenches, defiantly partisan and exuberantly big-hearted movie." — New York Times Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 66%
| Ben X (2008) | There's not a moment of warmth or ease in Ben X, Nic Balthazar's punishingly cacophonous debut. — New York Times Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 72%
| Fear(s) of the Dark (2008) | Fear(s) of the Dark is an animated anthology that tells its stories with an inventiveness that’s seldom scary but never less than mesmerizing. — New York Times Posted Oct 22, 2008 |
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