Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 65%
| Brick Lane (2008) | "
A blandly earnest coming-of-age story." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| Antz (1998) | "
A Engaging and awe-inspiring animation once again elevates Shrek's world to fantastic heights, and the laughs are just as freewheeling as we have come to expect." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008) | "
Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show is a sweet and affecting tribute to the shrewd charms of the American road show." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Atonement (2007) | "
Atonement is so good it redeems our faith in intelligent drama." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 7, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Chronicle of an Escape (2007) | "
Chronicle of an Escape pretty much lives up to its title and little else." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 30, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| Redacted (2007) | "
Redacted is a provocative, multi-layered anti-war film whose power sneaks up on you." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 16, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 90%
| Michael Clayton (2007) | "
So bogged down in plot that it has little in the way of suspense." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 29, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 79%
| Sharkwater (2007) | "
Sharkwater is a rare advocacy film that arouses both awe and wonder." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 71%
| Lust, Caution (2007) | "
As it is, Lust, Caution is only part, movie." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 47%
| Rendition (2007) | "
Hood, who knows what kind of movies win awards, crafts his tale so that every little detail falls neatly into place." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 22, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 34%
| Rails & Ties (2007) | "
Rails & Ties is definitely a heart-tugger, but it earns its tears modestly." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 22, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) | "
Although not in the same league as his Serpico or Dog Day Afternoon, it's still a dark little noir about a botched heist with some crackerjack moments." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 22, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 82%
| Into the Wild (2007) | "
Although Into the Wild carries with it a tragic undercurrent, Penn illuminates the graceful aspects of Christopher's ultimate search for self to overall illuminating effect." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 21, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 72%
| In the Valley of Elah (2007) | "
Although more seamless and less contrived than writer/director/producer Paul Haggis' Academy Award winning Crash, the picture offers little more than an earnest civics lesson." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 14, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 54%
| Across the Universe (2007) | "
Across the Universe would make for a much stronger picture if Taymor had worked from a better dramatic script, one that fleshed out the characters and made them a distinguishing force out to make history, like the Beatles themselves." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 11, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 89%
| Eastern Promises (2007) | "
Offers mostly empty promises." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 11, 2007 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 77%
| Summercamp! (2007) | "
Summercamp is so haphazard it might as well be someone's digitally enhanced home movie." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 30, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 85%
| Paris, Je T'aime (2007) | "
If you've ever been to Paris, the picture's varied takes on the City of Lights is seeped in reverie. If you haven’t, Paris je t'aime serves as a enticing invitation." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 4, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 69%
| Everything's Gone Green (2007) | "
In trying to mock the yuppie subculture by poking fun at people who become obsessed with grass grow-ops and pyramid schemes, Fox shoehorns Coupland's generalizations into a lame character comedy." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 13, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Beyond the Gates (2007) | "
Director Michael Caton-Jones doesn't go for obvious pathos or simple outrage. He approaches the picture's theme with a documentary realism that, scene by scene, heightens the drama." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 18, 2007 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 43%
| The Brave One (2007) | "
Director Neil Jordan, usually a master at creating atmosphere, keeps us at a remote distance throughout." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 30, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 89%
| Venus (2006) | "
Watching the bittersweet exchanges between O'Toole and Vanessa Redgrave, as his former wife, call up memories of a generation of British actors whose graceful style is quickly becoming a distant memory." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 19, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 92%
| The Host (2007) | "
The Host evolves into that rare horror film that becomes inconsolably poignant." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 7, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| Seraphim Falls (2007) | "
Seraphim Falls is a sanctimoniously violent western about retribution and forgiveness with obvious Biblical overtones, references and names." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 7, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 91%
| The Italian (2007) | "
The picture captures with a piercing sympathy the ambiguous state of post-Glasnost Russia." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 6, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| Offside (2006) | "
Offside is rewarding because rather than telling us what to think about contemporary Iranian society, Panahi invites us to consider its many paradoxes and possibilities." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 29, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 71%
| Amazing Grace (2007) | "
A terrific subject becomes a tepid morality play." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 29, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 49%
| Candy (2006) | "
Candy is a terribly obvious road-to-ruin movie that's bound to produce cavities." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 17, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 33%
| A Little Trip to Heaven (2005) | "
The pacing makes you feel like you're trudging through the snow." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 4, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| Shut Up & Sing (2006) | "
While watching the Chicks balance career and family life, Kopple and Peck paint an intimate portrait of a group breaking free of being a brand." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 30, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 37%
| Death of a President (2006) | "
Rather than opening up his subject and illustrating how Bush's death might affect a broad range of opinion, the world's as well as the country’s, Range narrows everything down because it plays more comfortably to the pieties of a partisan audience." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 29, 2006 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 93%
| The Lives of Others (2006) | "
A fascinating look into the political and psychological underpinnings of communist control in the former German Democratic Republic." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 28, 2006 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 91%
| Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) | "
Borat is an equal opportunity offender that doesn't insult your intelligence." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 28, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Deliver Us From Evil (2006) | "
Former CBS and CNN producer Amy Berg delves with piercing intelligence into one of most shocking scandals that has rocked the Catholic Church in recent years." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 13, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 13%
| Haven (2006) | "
A simple and straightforward crime drama that's turned into a needlessly complicated film." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 15, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 34%
| Breaking and Entering (2007) | "
Like last year's Academy Award-winning Crash, Breaking and Entering is about random collisions between classes and cultures. It's also just as contrived." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 14, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 72%
| Stranger Than Fiction (2006) | "
Stranger Than Fiction makes for pretty tepid prose." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 13, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 52%
| Wah-Wah (2006) | "
Theatrical in the worst possible way. People are so busy shouting out abuse, or delivering it, that you wonder if the entire cast is somehow hard of hearing." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 12, 2006 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 85%
| Slither (2006) | "
Slither is as much fun as EC Comics on nitrous oxide." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 8, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 9%
| Stay Alive (2006) | "
Since the director and co-writer William Brent Bell does little to contrast the contrived and mechanical horror of the game with the mounting horror of the story, we can't invest much sympathy in the plight of the characters." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 1, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 35%
| Sorry, Haters (2006) | "
Besides its hollow assertions, Sorry, Haters barely makes any sense." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 3, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 78%
| House of Sand (2005) | "
In describing The House of Sand, one can't help but use obvious metaphors like 'dry' and 'arid,' as they're all too apt." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 22, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 62%
| Zizek! (2005) | "
To some, he may suggest the 'Elvis of cultural theory'; to others, though, he might be closer to Peter Finch of Network. In short: a cerebral blowhard." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 18, 2005 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 82%
| Walk the Line (2005) | "
Mangold cleverly frames the story with Cash's historic 1968 concert in Folsom Prison, but he does little to illuminate its significance to the Man in Black." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 18, 2005 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 19%
| Derailed (2005) | "
Derailed ends up so frantic that every dramatic curve ball it fires at the audience turns into a cliché heading straight down the heart of the plate." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 11, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (2005) | "
A loving and beautifully rendered portrait of one of America's largely unheralded artists." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 20, 2005 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 75%
| Gabrielle (2005) | "
Gabrielle reeks of the same snobbery it denounces in others." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 15, 2005 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 71%
| Bubble (2006) | "
It's clear that Soderbergh is attempting to depict the banality in blue-collar work, but he does it by making the people themselves banal." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 15, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 88%
| The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006) | "
Brilliantly illustrates how Johnston's innate musical genius was virtually inseparable from his illness." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 15, 2005 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Iberia (2005) | "
Both richly textured and exquisitely choreographed, Iberia is one of the most fully realized expressions of love for the art of movement." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 15, 2005 |
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