Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| It's Complicated (2009) | "
The story's not entirely predictable. Yet it's anything but complicated." — Associated Press Posted Dec 21, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Nine (2009) | "
Calculated to be show-stoppers, the songs often end up as quaint throwbacks." — Associated Press Posted Dec 15, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| The Lovely Bones (2009) | "
Jackson crafts lovely but ineffectual dreamscapes of the afterlife that eviscerate much of the human side of the story." — Associated Press Posted Dec 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 6%
| Old Dogs (2009) | "
Old Dogs is no fun whatsoever, just a collection of stale kibble." — Associated Press Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
All three lovers are so joyless, it's hard to imagine why any of them would want to spend eternity together." — Associated Press Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Pirate Radio (2009) | "
There's more Partridge Family hugginess than sedition and subversion behind this rock 'n' roll story." — Associated Press Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 90%
| The Messenger (2009) | "
A story that strays about without finding its center." — Associated Press Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| The Box (2009) | "
What button, on whose box, did Kelly push to get the money to make this awful, preposterous thriller?" — Associated Press Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
In fits and starts, director Heslov captures a lot of the drolly incredulous spirit of the book. It's just too bad the dots don't connect better." — Associated Press Posted Nov 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 87%
| The House of the Devil (2009) | "
In the end, this homage to '80s horror is little more than a faithful flashback -- authentic in execution but about as scary as something you saw again and again way back when." — Associated Press Posted Oct 27, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | "
The movie's a chaotic, infuriating mess that will challenge the most-devoted of the Napoleon Dynamite faithful." — Associated Press Posted Oct 27, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Amelia (2009) | "
Swank and Nair play it safe to the point of benumbing this woman's life, leaving Earhart as remote and muted as she is in the black-and-white photos and news footage of the aviator included at the film's end." — Associated Press Posted Oct 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| 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 35%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| Fly Me To The Moon (2008) | "
Mildly educational and not all that entertaining." — Associated Press Posted Aug 15, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| 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 18%
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 37%
| 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 42%
| 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 31%
| 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 |
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 31%
| 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 64%
| 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 49%
| 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 |
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 51%
| 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 74%
| 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 |
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 |
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