Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Whatever Works (2009) | "
The movie was emblematic of his output of late -- slight plots, slighter characters, lackadaisical storytelling that recycles enough of the neuroses-fueled charm of his earlier films to keep the Woody Allen machine in business." — Associated Press Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
Sadly, Wolverine's journey is one long run-the-gauntlet scenario, with people pounding on him from all sides until he emerges at the other end as the lone-wolf amnesiac bound for membership in the X-Men gang." — Associated Press Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| The Pink Panther 2 (2009) | "
There are chuckles, maybe even a belly laugh or two if you're in a charitable mood. But the movie's mostly a waste of time and talent." — Associated Press Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 70%
| Last Chance Harvey (2008) | "
Almost inevitably, Hoffman and Thompson are charming. Even they can't turn Hopkins' thin story into a credible tale, though." — Associated Press Posted Dec 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| Yes Man (2008) | "
Deschanel and Carrey make for indifferent romantic partners. Both are pleasant enough, but no one's going to look at the two together and think, what a great couple they make." — Associated Press Posted Dec 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) | "
While Robert Wise's science-fiction classic The Day the Earth Stood Still" was a simple story of deep ideas, the remake is an overblown, puny-minded tale featuring extraterrestrials too stupid or lazy to do a background check on the species they condemn." — Associated Press Posted Dec 10, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) | "
With so many characters to cram in and not much for many of them to do, Escape 2 Africa ends up a choppy, episodic affair." — Associated Press Posted Nov 7, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Changeling (2008) | "
It all just seems like window-dressing for Jolie's best-actress clip at the Oscars." — Associated Press Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| Rachel Getting Married (2008) | "
No doubt it was fun assembling so many close associates, but like Kym, Demme doesn't know when enough is enough for those who aren't part of the family circle." — Associated Press Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| The Lucky Ones (2008) | "
[A] far-fetched take on Iraq War homecomings." — Associated Press Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Igor (2008) | "
A potentially original premise and an eager voice cast led by John Cusack and Molly Shannon are left to decay amid a clunky story vaguely reminiscent of Monsters, Inc. and images often resembling visuals rejected from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride." — Associated Press Posted Sep 17, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| RocknRolla (2008) | "
While Ritchie stumbled with his last two flicks, RocknRolla has the kind of manic energy that made audiences fall for the rogues of his earlier films." — Associated Press Posted Sep 5, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| Fly Me To The Moon (2008) | "
Mildly educational and not all that entertaining." — Associated Press Posted Aug 15, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 19%
| The Clone Wars (2008) | "
Reasonably fun if generally forgettable." — Associated Press Posted Aug 11, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 61%
| Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) | "
With crisp images and depth that makes you feel you could reach out and stick your hand into the middle of the action, the movie projected in digital 3-D form actually makes that theme-park ride kind of fun." — Associated Press Posted Jul 11, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| Hancock (2008) | "
The filmmakers cannot resist embracing the conventions they were tweaking. Hancock turns from a moody, darkly funny character piece trimmed out with a bit of engaging action and veers into a poor impersonation of a standard superhero movie." — Associated Press Posted Jun 30, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| The Love Guru (2008) | "
Myers wants us all to love him, wants us all to be in on his jokes. But love and laughs are earned, not given just because you mug for the camera behind a wild wig and beard." — Associated Press Posted Jun 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| The Happening (2008) | "
The shock value wears off quickly and writer-director Shyamalan strands us in a boring cautionary tale with an infantile eco-message about humanity needing to live in harmony with nature -- or else." — Associated Press Posted Jun 13, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) | "
They're such lovable goofs that you can't help wishing their quest for White Castle fast food and their flight from Gitmo could live up to the sort of sharp satire these two bright boys deserve." — Associated Press Posted Apr 23, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 5%
| 88 Minutes (2008) | "
A stronger word than preposterous is needed to describe the, well, preposterous lengths director Jon Avnet and company go to engorge this movie with idiotic action, incomprehensible twists and loads of other nonsense." — Associated Press Posted Apr 16, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| Leatherheads (2008) | "
The film leaves you longing for a few Hail Mary end-zone passes, while the filmmakers stick to a story that tries to pound it out with a safe, tedious ground game." — Associated Press Posted Apr 3, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Operation Inchon () | "
The film leaves you longing for a few Hail Mary end-zone passes, while the filmmakers stick to a story that tries to pound it out with a safe, tedious ground game." — Associated Press Posted Apr 2, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| 21 (2008) | "
Lack of originality is where 21 really deals a losing hand." — Associated Press Posted Mar 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Barbershop (2002) | "
Barbershop is a cozy place to hang out for a while, even if you don't need a little off the sides." — Associated Press Posted Mar 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 78%
| Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008) | "
Horton may hear a Who, but the rest of us may hear a lot of hoopla, and it's not all the charming sort you expect from a benign Seussian world." — Associated Press Posted Mar 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Penelope (2008) | "
No offense intended, but a pig snout is very becoming on Christina Ricci." — Associated Press Posted Feb 27, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Vantage Point (2008) | "
The assassination thriller Vantage Point might have been a triumph of form over content, technique over substance, if only there were anything worthy about its form or technique." — Associated Press Posted Feb 20, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) | "
The Spiderwick Chronicles may not be in the same fantasy league as the tales of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis and J.K. Rowling. Yet the family flick based on the books of Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black is an all-around class act." — Associated Press Posted Feb 13, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) | "
Truth be told, everyone and everything about Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins is pretty unlikable." — Associated Press Posted Feb 8, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Over Her Dead Body (2008) | "
Everything about the movie is as clunky and unimaginative as the title." — Associated Press Posted Jan 29, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| Rambo (2008) | "
The movie might satisfy bloodthirsty action fans, but for most people, this is one Stallone do-over we could have done without." — Associated Press Posted Jan 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| The Bucket List (2007) | "
Nicholson and Freeman are so lovably companionable, they almost make you forget the glaring contrivances screenwriter Justin Zackham concocts." — Associated Press Posted Jan 9, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 32%
| National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) | "
As with the first movie, Book of Secrets leaps around like a choppy travel documentary." — Associated Press Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Grace is Gone (2007) | "
It's stirring, even gut-wrenching, on the strength of John Cusack's terrifically restrained performance as a husband in denial over the death of his wife in Iraq." — Associated Press Posted Dec 5, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| Southland Tales (2007) | "
With boundless ambition far exceeding his ability to tell a coherent story, Kelly manages only an artistic apocalypse." — Associated Press Posted Nov 14, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Lions for Lambs (2007) | "
Much of the movie plays like a civics lesson." — Associated Press Posted Nov 7, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| Martian Child (2007) | "
Cusack and Coleman are on screen together most of the movie, and the fact that they don’t completely overstay their welcome amid the maudlin action says a lot for the restraint they bring to the characters." — Associated Press Posted Oct 31, 2007 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 65%
| Dan in Real Life (2007) | "
A surprisingly plain, sappy, even insipid comedy, considering the filmmaker behind it." — Associated Press Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| 30 Days of Night (2007) | "
You can only see so many snarling hissy fits by vampires with perpetually bloody chins before they start looking less like monsters and more like ill-tempered circus clowns whose makeup is running." — Associated Press Posted Oct 17, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| We Own The Night (2007) | "
Like The Yards, We Own the Night is broody to the point of anesthesia and operatic to the verge of bombast. And like its predecessor, the new film takes itself far too seriously." — Associated Press Posted Oct 9, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| The Heartbreak Kid (2007) | "
Peter and Bobby Farrelly's take on the 1972 Neil Simon-Elaine May original is not nearly as funny as you'd like for a movie that reunites them with There's Something About Mary star Ben Stiller in another gross-out romance." — Associated Press Posted Oct 4, 2007 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 76%
| Nine Lives (2005) | "
The stories are sketches, often without resolution, and while individual segments succeed admirably, taken together the portraits are a fitful match." — Associated Press Posted Oct 1, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| The Game Plan (2007) | "
It's certainly a goodhearted story, and the movie does offer a little plot twist that deviates from the usual formula. After that, though, The Game Plan quickly reverts to the established playbook for safe, sappy family fare." — Associated Press Posted Sep 26, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) | "
While Mr. Bean's Holiday is hardly a memorable vacation, Atkinson proves an agreeably silly tour guide." — Associated Press Posted Aug 20, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Sunshine (2007) | "
The early intensity of Sunshine wanes in the third act. The film becomes a ferocious jumble, and rather than a supernova finish, it winks out amid stale New Age notions of the continuity of life and connectedness of all things." — Associated Press Posted Jul 17, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Transformers (2007) | "
The action sequences are so turgid it's sometimes hard to tell which 'bot is doing what, but with Bay steadily hurling fireworks you won't really pause much to think about that, or about how truly inane the story is." — Associated Press Posted Jul 11, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) | "
Familiarity is not quite breeding contempt for Harry and his friends and enemies. But it's starting to breed indifference." — Associated Press Posted Jul 9, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007) | "
For a pure summer power trip, it's a decent throwback to the pure-brawn heyday of Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger, an agreeable respite from today's cartoonlike ballets of computer-generated action." — Associated Press Posted Jun 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| 1408 (2007) | "
1408 generally survives and thrives on the strength of John Cusack's passionate performance as a skeptic of the supernatural who learns that spooks may be real, plus a spirited supporting role by Samuel L. Jackson and some effective chills." — Associated Press Posted Jun 19, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) | "
Amid all the vapid dialogue and visual fireworks, the performances seem like afterthoughts, particularly those of Gruffudd and Alba." — Associated Press Posted Jun 13, 2007 |
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