Rotten C+
| Rotten 29%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
Yes, this is a very relative and qualified compliment, and yes, the snarksters will still find plenty to pick at, but this time around, even a complete demographic outsider like myself could at least vaguely comprehend the series' basic appeal." Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 83%
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) | "
Six films in, it almost feels like it's booting up a new-and-improved, darker, earthier, more grown-up and visually sophisticated trilogy." Posted Jul 14, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
Revenge of the Fallen almost feels like it's signaling an end-game for blockbuster movies: all sensation, no content, catastrophic expense." Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 64%
| The Brothers Bloom (2009) | "
Johnson doesn't just make it work: His confident direction takes what could have been self-consciously precious and makes it hugely entertaining and a little moving." Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 25%
| Friday the 13th (2009) | "
Go rent the one where Jason takes Manhattan, or something." Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 70%
| Last Chance Harvey (2008) | "
Hoffman just kills whenever Harvey owns up to his mediocrity and tiny failures. He and Thompson give this underwhelming story a genuinely human core." Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 61%
| Valkyrie (2008) | "
The film is a minor Christmas miracle: It succeeds on its own terms, despite the gossip hounds' best blood-sniffing efforts, and dares to be an entertainment rather than a statement." Posted Dec 24, 2008 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 27%
| Seven Pounds (2008) | "
The movie gets just enough right that the things it doesn't get right (beyond its overdependence on a not-so-surprising story puzzle) smack you cold in the face." Posted Dec 19, 2008 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 15%
| Dark Streets (2008) | "
The script is just all kinds of terrible." Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 85%
| JCVD (2008) | "
Giving the performance of his life, largely in French, Van Damme delivers a soulful self-analysis." Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 88%
| Bolt (2008) | "
While Bolt isn't as funny, memorable or inspired as the animation classic from which it pilfers, it's still beautifully animated, cleanly told, professionally voiced and makes you smile without insulting your intelligence." Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 29%
| Morning Light (2008) | "
The camera can only film the on-deck action from so many angles before it gets repetitive. The musical score is pabulum. Race technology and tactics are barely explored, and you never get a sense of the larger field of competitors." Posted Oct 17, 2008 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 58%
| The Secret Life of Bees (2008) | "
Ultimately, if you think about it too hard, Bees is a movie in which a bunch of powerful African American women get their lives upended and in some cases destroyed so a little white girl can feel better about herself." Posted Oct 17, 2008 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 62%
| The Express (2008) | "
Maybe the real Ernie Davis really was this perfect, but the movie plays as if the filmmakers didn't want to offend his family." Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 89%
| Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) | "
What makes Wanted and Desired riveting is that Zenovich balances this immorality play by interviewing nearly everyone involved and mixes it with perfectly culled archival footage." Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 13%
| The Women (2008) | "
English seems to confuse empowerment with narcissism." Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 61%
| Traitor (2008) | "
Unfortunately, the movie stumbles a fair bit." Posted Aug 27, 2008 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 71%
| American Teen (2008) | "
Its subjects blandly keep your attention in almost the exact same way that reality-show contestants keep your attention." Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 40%
| Hancock (2008) | "
Part of Smith and Berg's subvert-your-expectations game plan involves a major midfilm shocker, one that takes the movie to larger mythological places unrelated to Hancock's self-improvement quest." Posted Jul 1, 2008 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 75%
| Gunnin' for That #1 Spot (2008) | "
Gunnin' for That #1 Spot is a basketball documentary where the climactic game looks like a Hong Kong wire-fu epic." Posted Jun 27, 2008 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 87%
| Mongol (2008) | "
Bodrov has simply created an overwhelmingly awesome Khan who could believably conquer the overwhelmingly awesome landscape over the course of two more films." Posted Jun 20, 2008 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 14%
| The Love Guru (2008) | "
The comedian really climbs out on this particular limb -- a limb so far from the tree, it might have given Peter Sellers pause." Posted Jun 20, 2008 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 53%
| The Promotion (2008) | "
[Director] Conrad seems to have used whatever clout he got from The Pursuit of Happyness to fund something personal and sincere -- a story that's ultimately about victories of character and suppressing your worst impulses." Posted Jun 13, 2008 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 73%
| Stuck (2007) | "
Unfortunately, the film loses its merciless rage toward the end, devolving into a stock and broadly comic thriller about unpleasant people you never quite get to know." Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 36%
| You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008) | "
You Don't Mess With the Zohan might actually be the stupidest movie with good intentions that I've ever seen." Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Rotten C-
| Fresh 63%
| Bra Boys (2008) | "
Thanks to the documentarian also making his family the film's subject, Bra Boys feels more than a little like a violence-glorifying infomercial." Posted May 30, 2008 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 44%
| The Strangers (2008) | "
Imagine Funny Games stripped of all its social commentary, dark humor and information about its killers, and you're starting to get the idea. It's so spare, it's almost abstract." Posted May 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) | "
The movie's pretty good, occasionally very good. But I also kind of hope they don't make another one." Posted May 21, 2008 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 63%
| Baby Mama (2008) | "
It's not horrible, but it's droopy, and it left me craving 30 Rock, with its vastly superior skewering of the privileged and self-involved. Fey should stick to writing her own material." Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 84%
| Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) | "
On a basic-premise level, Forgetting Sarah Marshall sounds like any number of rom-coms. But Segel and director Nicholas Stoller go to the trouble of making the little details funny and filthy, and they have fun messing with the formula." Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 49%
| Nim's Island (2008) | "
Nim's Island never finds its focus, and there's never a real sense of danger." Posted Apr 4, 2008 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 26%
| Drillbit Taylor (2008) | "
Do yourself a favor. Rent My Bodyguard instead." Posted Mar 21, 2008 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 78%
| Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008) | "
The computer-animated Horton is largely funny and faithful to the spirit of the Dr. Seuss book." Posted Mar 14, 2008 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 79%
| The Bank Job (2008) | "
In a marketplace that tends toward cranked-up action thrills, it's just nice to watch a level-headed crime movie aimed at actual grown-ups." Posted Mar 7, 2008 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 41%
| The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) | "
A mild disaster." Posted Feb 29, 2008 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 54%
| The Signal (2007) | "
The film suffers slightly from diminishing returns -- its first third is by far its scariest -- but it's still a bold, artful take on a popular horror idea." Posted Feb 22, 2008 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 92%
| Caramel (2008) | "
Caramel finds a big-hearted, Mira Nair-ish groove. The characters are gorgeous. And [director] Labaki gets terrific performances out of a largely nonprofessional cast." Posted Feb 15, 2008 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 72%
| Definitely, Maybe (2008) | "
The movie offers very real pleasures. Reynolds has terrific chemistry with everyone, and watching him romance three of Hollywood's more intelligent, beguiling comediennes is a pleasure." Posted Feb 15, 2008 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 59%
| Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008) | "
It's almost like you're watching a 100-minute trailer for a much better six-hour miniseries." Posted Feb 8, 2008 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 14%
| Untraceable (2008) | "
Untraceable is also relentlessly grim and dull, and runs afoul of all the pitfalls you find in movies in which people rely on computers to do their detecting." Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Mad Money (2008) | "
Actually, one cast member doesn't even bother to phone it in: The once-charming Katie Holmes is stunningly horrible as a granola-head diabetic who lives in a trailer." Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 40%
| 27 Dresses (2008) | "
27 Dresses is stunningly dull. And Heigl, freed from the challenges of a Judd Apatow script, does little to distinguish herself from dozens of other actresses forgotten at the cineplex." Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 38%
| August Rush (2007) | "
The filmmakers are so deadly earnest about the power of music and love and all that stuff, you just twiddle your thumbs waiting for the inevitable." Posted Nov 21, 2007 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 72%
| Stephen King's The Mist (2007) | "
It's more than a thrilling horror exercise -- it's a master class in this sort of filmmaking, nailing the fundamentals at nearly every turn." Posted Nov 21, 2007 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 31%
| Music Within (2007) | "
It gives me no pleasure to report that the [Richard] Pimentel biopic Music Within plays like a well-intentioned TV movie." Posted Nov 9, 2007 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 36%
| Sleuth (2007) | "
While [writer] Pinter contributes some venom-spitting new dialogue, he also deviates wildly from the original story in the third act -- which would be fine, if the deviations weren't less compelling and more abrupt than Shaffer's original ideas." Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 49%
| 30 Days of Night (2007) | "
30 Days of Night is a high-concept movie idea that's so good, I'm surprised we haven't seen it." Posted Oct 19, 2007 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 13%
| The Seeker (2007) | "
The shameless Potter/Tolkien recycling is the least of this movie's problems." Posted Oct 5, 2007 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 28%
| Trade (2007) | "
There's really no nice way to put this: Trade wants to be the Traffic of sex slavery, and it fails at that task in ways that are alternately dreary, pretentious and vaguely sleazy." Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 38%
| Sydney White (2007) | "
Sydney is forgettable teenybopper flotsam -- but it's better than the usual teenybopper flotsam." Posted Sep 21, 2007 |
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