Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Breaking Point (2009) | "
Overplotted and underwhelming." Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| The Princess and the Frog (2009) | "
This long-anticipated throwback to a venerable house style never comes within kissing distance of the studio's former glory." Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Brothers (2009) | "
Plays like a more polished but less effective twin to the 2005 Danish original." Posted Nov 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Oh My God (2009) | "
Compacts nearly three years' worth of globe-trotting interviews into an often visually vibrant but rhetorically muddled package." Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Fall (2009) | "
An unconvincing if not exactly unwatchable tale of two polar-opposite brothers." Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| Hannah Free (2009) | "
Decent production values can't fend off the feeling that the pic should have been consigned, if not to the stage, then to the smallscreen." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Amelia (2009) | "
To say that Amelia never gets off the ground would be an understatement; it barely makes it out of the hangar." Posted Oct 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | "
It winds up feeling overwritten yet underexplained, foregoing plausible revelations in favor of gusty debate about the ethical challenges of practicing and upholding the law." Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Good Hair (2010) | "
Good Hair is a raucous and rigorous inquiry into the subject of African-American hair -- the stigmas, the secrets, the shocking price of maintenance -- that gets at universal but rarely discussed truths about black femininity." Posted Oct 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
While it never tops the explosive hilarity of its first 20 minutes, The Invention of Lying is a smartly written, nicely layered comedy." Posted Sep 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| The Boys Are Back (2009) | "
The pain of divorce and the tragedy of a parent's death supply the raw emotional materials of The Boys Are Back, making it all the more impressive that director Scott Hicks steers clear of the maudlin and the manipulative..." Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
While not exactly lifeless, Jennifer's Body sure could be fresher." Posted Sep 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
The pic's attempts at comic portraiture feel sketchy at best, more or less assigning each character a single, belabored trait." Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) | "
Fairly irresistible nonsense." Posted Aug 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 45%
| Shorts (2009) | "
More zippy, diverting fun from Robert Rodriguez's family filmmaking factory." Posted Aug 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Cold Souls (2009) | "
An amusing slice of existential whimsy with an Eastern European bent." Posted Aug 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Earth Days (2009) | "
A quietly majestic survey of the hard-won successes and instructive failures of the American environmental movement." Posted Aug 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
This grossly engrossing speculative fiction bears Jackson's blood-splattered fingerprints but also heralds first-time feature director Neill Blomkamp as a nimble talent to watch." Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| The Cove (2009) | "
Casting a very wide net, this powerful polemic is simultaneously a love letter to a beloved species, an eye-opening primer on worldwide dolphin captivity, a playful paranoid thriller and a work of deep-seated (if sometimes hot-headed) moral outrage." Posted Jul 29, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
This middling melange of Child biopic and contempo dramedy feels overstuffed and predigested." Posted Jul 25, 2009 |
— | Rotten 50%
| Life is Hot in Cracktown (2009) |
Click here to read article Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 47%
| My Sister's Keeper (2009) | "
Unsubtle, uneven and undeniably effective." Posted Jun 22, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Dim Sum Funeral (2009) | "
So jaw-droppingly misguided in its blend of mawkish sentiment and comic relief that it almost elicits one's grudging admiration." Posted Jun 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Le père de mes enfants (2009) | "
Marked by moments of remarkable stillness amid its emotional tumult, the film's classy, perceptive treatment of potentially maudlin material merits wider arthouse attention than it's likely to receive." Posted May 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Thorn in the Heart (2009) | "
Inevitably smaller-scaled than his mind-bendingly creative features, this moving but far from revelatory portrait of a beloved family figure registers as too slight and personal for significant theatrical play." Posted May 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Vengeance (2009) | "
Johnnie To and Johnny Hallyday have a bloody good time in "Vengeance," a smoothly executed revenge thriller that finds one of Hong Kong's genre masters in assured action-movie form." Posted May 17, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 22%
| Next Day Air (2009) | "
An altogether bumbling excuse for an action-comedy." Posted May 7, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
This brawny but none-too-brainy prequel sustains interest mainly -- if only fitfully -- as a nonstop slice-and-dice vehicle for Hugh Jackman." Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| 17 Again (2009) | "
An energetic but earthbound comic fantasy that borrows a few moves, if little inspiration, from Big and It's a Wonderful Life." Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004) | "
By turns pointless and pointlessly mean-spirited." Posted Mar 31, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| The Cross (2009) | "
This wannabe-inspirational docu shares its hero's devotion to preaching the gospel. But the film's emotional manipulations come at the expense of a more complex, illuminating look at the man himself." Posted Mar 30, 2009 |
— | N/A | Forbidden Warrior (2004) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
— | N/A | Mi Mejor Enemigo (2005) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
— | N/A | The Other Side (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Watchmen (2009) | "
The movie is ultimately undone by its own reverence; there’s simply no room for these characters and stories to breathe of their own accord, and even the most fastidiously replicated scenes can feel glib and truncated." Posted Feb 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Coraline (2009) | "
Eerily inhabiting the netherworld where a young girl’s wildest dreams become her cruelest nightmares, Coraline is a dark delight." Posted Feb 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Unmade Beds (2009) | "
Has a lively, romantic spirit that recalls the playfulness and spontaneity of the French New Wave." Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Adam (2009) | "
Emotionally potent performances, gently offbeat humor and writer-helmer Max Mayer's assured touch guide this tender New York love story to a quietly hopeful conclusion." Posted Jan 22, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 92%
| Mary and Max (2009) | "
Clearly a labor of love, but one destined perhaps to be loved by a very select few." Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| The Spirit (2008) | "
Pushing well past the point of self-parody, Miller has done Will Eisner's pioneering comicstrip no favors by drenching it in the same self-consciously neo-noir monochrome put to much more compelling use in Sin City." Posted Dec 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| The Tale of Despereaux (2008) | "
This graphically well-rendered kidpic is less crass and mouthy than many recent feature-length toons, but also more sluggish and ungainly as it tries to approximate DiCamillo's singularly delicate tone." Posted Dec 15, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| Inkheart (2009) | "
A brisk, overstuffed adaptation of Cornelia Funke's international bestseller." Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Twilight (2008) | "
A disappointingly anemic tale of forbidden love that should satiate the pre-converted but will bewilder and underwhelm viewers who haven't devoured Stephenie Meyer's bestselling juvie chick-lit franchise." Posted Nov 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Passengers (2008) | "
This middlebrow tone poem aims for ambiguity but often veers into soporific, suspending answers (and often, viewer interest) en route to an ending that explains all." Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
— | Fresh 87%
| Johnny Mad Dog (2008) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Three Monkeys (2009) | "
A powerfully bleak family drama that leaves its characters' offenses largely offscreen but lingers with agonizing, drawn-out deliberation on the consequences." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Class (2008) | "
Talky in the best sense, the film exhilarates with its lively, authentic classroom banter while its emotional undercurrents build steadily but almost imperceptibly over a swift 129 minutes." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | Rotten 10%
| The Wedding Date (2005) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
— | N/A | Bachelor Party Vegas (2005) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Tokyo! (2009) | "
An uneven but enjoyable trio of films that take affectionate (and sometimes literal) aim at the Japanese capital." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
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