Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Bra Boys (2008) | "
You know going in that this is going to be a fairly one-sided portrait. But it's also fairly thorough with its archival footage, historical and sociological perspective." — Newsday Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 20%
| Righteous Kill (2008) | "
They seem comfortable enough in each other's company on-screen to make you wish there were more scenes that allowed them to just kick back and riff. It'd be a lot more enjoyable than watching the movie strain for clarity -- or cleverness." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 50%
| Sex and the City - The Movie (2008) | "
A lot different from, say, watching several SATC episodes on DVD in succession as if gobbling fudge brownies. That may be OK for the living room, but in a multiplex, you just want things to move along already." — Newsday Posted May 30, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 51%
| Then She Found Me (2008) | "
Gaunt, grim and wound as tight as a ukulele's string, April Epner (Helen Hunt), the elementary schoolteacher undergoing the mother of all midlife crises in Then She Found Me, is a stern challenge to an audience's collective sympathy." — Newsday Posted Apr 24, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 46%
| The Ruins (2008) | "
The usual gore-and-gristle fare, but this one serves it up with a tad more suggestiveness and smarts." — Newsday Posted Apr 7, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 48%
| Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008) | "
Snarkiness and sentiment are in constant battle for supremacy throughout Run Fat Boy Run with no chance of a comfortable draw." — Newsday Posted Mar 27, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 71%
| The Hammer (2008) | "
It's no classic, but, unlike recent attempts at sports comedy (we're looking at you, Semi-Pro), The Hammer comes through by not seeming to try too hard." — Newsday Posted Mar 20, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 70%
| Irina Palm (2008) | "
It could have been a delicately witty comedy of manners." — Newsday Posted Mar 20, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 26%
| Drillbit Taylor (2008) | "
The Apatow vibe may still carry some righteous mojo. But Drillbit Taylor proves that even the smoothest-running hit machine can stand a tuneup every few miles." — Newsday Posted Mar 20, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008) | "
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! is the first feature-length Seuss movie adaptation to adequately evoke the warmhearted eccentricity of Theodore Geisel's classic children's books." — Newsday Posted Mar 13, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 79%
| The Bank Job (2008) | "
The Bank Job is fun to watch while both the heist and its often bloody consequences unravel in front of you." — Newsday Posted Mar 6, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 57%
| Married Life (2008) | "
[The] four principal actors are such worthy vehicles for sustaining the throbbing pace and shifting moods of this chamber piece that it's difficult to single anyone out." — Newsday Posted Mar 6, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 13%
| College Road Trip (2008) | "
College Road Trip is the kind of movie that its audiences will use once for blowing off steam and then toss aside as if it were shrink-wrap." — Newsday Posted Mar 6, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 75%
| City of Men (2008) | "
Despite its contrivances and flashiness, City of Men somehow wins you over with its steady, underlying flow of intimacy and compassion." — Newsday Posted Feb 28, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 79%
| Chicago 10 (2008) | "
If presentation of the tumultuous events before, during and after the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago will suffice for a feature-length film, then it's hard to imagine a more ferocious or inventive depiction than Chicago 10." — Newsday Posted Feb 28, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 50%
| Penelope (2008) | "
If only Penelope knew what it truly wished to be and how to go about it." — Newsday Posted Feb 28, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 21%
| Semi-Pro (2008) | "
You keep watching Semi-Pro and waiting for its potentially hilarious setup to deliver the goods. And after a while, you realize that the laughter comes only in anticipation of a payoff that never quite arrives." — Newsday Posted Feb 28, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 94%
| The Counterfeiters (2008) | "
[Director] Ruzowitzky wisely knows he doesn't have to be overly emphatic in orchestrating the tension of both the moral conundrum and the always uncertain fate of the inmates." — Newsday Posted Feb 21, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 65%
| Be Kind Rewind (2008) | "
Even though its thin conceit strains and stumbles into being, Gondry's movie somehow ingratiates itself to the dauntless dreamer that lives within each of us." — Newsday Posted Feb 21, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 79%
| The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) | "
As movie fantasies go, The Spiderwick Chronicles has a modest, almost ramshackle aggressiveness that, against all odds, manages to enchant, if not exactly transport." — Newsday Posted Feb 13, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 65%
| Ezra (2008) | "
Since the movie, however infuriating, is a plea for mercy, the audience is compelled to forgive Ezra its often jittery and confusing overlaps." — Newsday Posted Feb 13, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 59%
| Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008) | "
A tad overlong, but as vanity projects go, this is warm, openhearted stuff." — Newsday Posted Feb 7, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 10%
| Fool's Gold (2008) | "
An 'as-if' romantic adventure reunites How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days lovebirds Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson in a sun-soaked treasure hunt that squanders everybody's time, including yours." — Newsday Posted Feb 7, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 24%
| Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) | "
Even when the movie's overplayed or undercooked, its roughhousing energy grows on you." — Newsday Posted Feb 7, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 15%
| Over Her Dead Body (2008) | "
Even the worst movies are capable of bending the laws of time. Still, there's something really special about the way Over Her Dead Body makes its 93 minutes seem more like nine hours." — Newsday Posted Jan 31, 2008 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 2%
| Meet the Spartans (2008) | "
What's the point of making a parody that's dumber than the stuff it parodies?" — Newsday Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 13%
| The Air I Breathe (2007) | "
With any luck, The Air I Breathe should be the last gasp of the faux-Altmanesque school of serendipitous storytelling." — Newsday Posted Jan 24, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 37%
| Rambo (2008) | "
The battle sequences are so muddled in execution that we can't tell who's killing whom. Which may have been the point, but knowing Stallone -- and Rambo -- one doubts that very much." — Newsday Posted Jan 24, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 82%
| Teeth (2008) | "
The gratuitous and often overly garish mayhem is made more palatable by the assured comedic turn by Weixler." — Newsday Posted Jan 17, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 43%
| The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything - A Veggietales Movie (2008) | "
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything has just enough unassuming cleverness to keep you from checking your watch while the little people in your company get wrapped up in the color and clamor." — Newsday Posted Jan 10, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 38%
| The Killing of John Lennon (2008) | "
The only revelations in The Killing of John Lennon are those we could have picked up ourselves, assuming we cared enough to do so." — Newsday Posted Jan 3, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| The Orphanage (2007) | "
Plot details only hint at the subtle metaphors lurking in Sergio G. Sánchez's script and the gut-wrenching jolts elegantly orchestrated by first-time director Juan Antonio Bayona." — Newsday Posted Jan 2, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 74%
| Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) | "
[An] erratic, but enjoyable goof from the Judd Apatow hit-making machine." — Newsday Posted Dec 20, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 22%
| P.S. I Love You (2007) | "
A mostly overheated farrago of sentiment, self-help and romantic cliche." — Newsday Posted Dec 20, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 79%
| The Great Debaters (2007) | "
Now that it's possible to get stories about thoughtful African-Americans on the big screen, is it too much to ask that the stories be more thoughtful as well?" — Newsday Posted Dec 20, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 96%
| Persepolis (2007) | "
Persepolis provides an achingly intimate view of how one young girl's hopes and fantasies come under siege by events beyond her control." — Newsday Posted Dec 20, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 98%
| Nanking (2007) | "
Nanking submits yet another reminder, if any more were needed, of how wickedness in the 20th century achieved dimensions previously considered unimaginable -- or unbearable." — Newsday Posted Dec 13, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 30%
| Youth Without Youth (2007) | "
There's just enough greatness scattered in Youth Without Youth to make you wonder why there can't be more." — Newsday Posted Dec 13, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 27%
| Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) | "
The sight of enhanced Alvin and the Chipmunks in the movie of the same name is far less squirm-inducing than one might have feared." — Newsday Posted Dec 13, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 54%
| This Christmas (2007) | "
Writer-director Preston A. Whitmore II serves up an overstuffed but satisfying Yuletide comedy-drama with a fine cast." — Newsday Posted Nov 20, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 92%
| Enchanted (2007) | "
A shimmering pastiche of missed opportunities." — Newsday Posted Nov 20, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 71%
| Beowulf (2007) | "
The fight sequences -- on land, in mid-air or underwater -- fulfill your most ardent expectations for 3-D thrills." — Newsday Posted Nov 15, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 52%
| Margot at the Wedding (2007) | "
Along with its genteel rage and sour whimsy, the ultimate grace of Margot at the Wedding is to make its onlookers feel that, no matter how dysfunctional their families are, there are those who have it much worse." — Newsday Posted Nov 15, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 85%
| War Dance (2007) | "
There isn't enough uplift, gratuitous or otherwise, in the world to make you forget the graphic testimony of children compelled by rebel forces either to watch atrocities or commit them." — Newsday Posted Nov 8, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 21%
| Fred Claus (2007) | "
This movie takes a good thing and runs it deep into the ground, leaving behind a frothy trail of sentimentality." — Newsday Posted Nov 8, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 27%
| Lions for Lambs (2007) | "
What we have here isn't a drama so much as a dramatized position paper in three parts." — Newsday Posted Nov 8, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 31%
| Martian Child (2007) | "
Cusack and Coleman make this whimsical trip worthwhile." — Newsday Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 64%
| Dan in Real Life (2007) | "
Dan in Real Life navigates its machinations with such laid-back assurance that it earns your attention, your respect and, ultimately, your heart." — Newsday Posted Oct 25, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 23%
| Slipstream (2007) | "
Say this much for Anthony Hopkins' project: If he's going to indulge himself as a writer-director-star, it's probably better that he goes completely off the wall." — Newsday Posted Oct 25, 2007 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 9%
| The Comebacks (2007) | "
Keep your head down, your expectations low and, maybe, good things will happen. We repeat: Maybe." — Newsday Posted Oct 19, 2007 |
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