Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) | "
A jerky start of exposition and backstory gives way to vigorous storytelling in the latest chapter of Harry Potter." Posted Jul 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 70%
| Bruno (2009) | "
We all knew Borat. Borat was a friend of ours. Bruno, you're no Borat." Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 66%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
A missed opportunity to make gangster picture with flesh-and-blood characters." Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 51%
| Cheri (2009) | "
A smart and lushly romantic film adaptation of a Colette story of a doomed love." Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| My Sister's Keeper (2009) | "
If you're going to make a weepy, there's no reason you can't make it with intelligence and insight as the makers of My Sister's Keeper have done." Posted Jun 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
A riveting if distressing look at the essentially unregulated American food supply." Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| Imagine That (2009) | "
Eddie Murphy and young Yara Shahidi make a strong comic pair in this amusing family film." Posted Jun 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Land of the Lost (2009) | "
Lame sketch comedy, an uninspired performance from Will Ferrell and an overall failure of the imagination turn Brad Silberling's Land of the Lost into a lethargic meander through a wilderness of misfiring gags." Posted Jun 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Broken Embraces (2009) | "
While the movie as a whole is thoroughly engrossing and all the movie references and subplots involving the cinema world undoubtedly enrich his story, this is a pretty minor film from the filmmaker." Posted May 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Irene (2009) | "
Irene's absence is palpable. She's everywhere in these settings -- and she is nowhere. The impression she makes is fleeting, perhaps even ghostly." Posted May 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Vengeance (2009) | "
Rational behavior takes a backseat to genre requirements, though few if any will care when the killers stalk each other with such a tongue-in-cheek sense of destiny and deliver deadpan dialogue that makes fun of their own absurdity." Posted May 17, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
It's a low-wattage film about a high-wattage event. Which is somewhat disappointing, though you do get a thoughtful, playful, often amusing film about what happened backstage at one of the '60s' great happenings." Posted May 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Tetro (2009) | "
Returning to his origins as a theater and film student, Francis Ford Coppola deploys striking visuals, music, dance and classic drama to spin a tale of familial conflicts and brothers reunited." Posted May 14, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Love 'N Dancing (2009) | "
Seems more like a dance studio's infomercial than a romantic comedy." Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 46%
| Battle for Terra (2009) | "
A lovingly crafted 3-D animated sci-fi film that cleverly reverses War of the Worlds." Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
A keen disappointment as action and effects take over from a poorly conceived story." Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| The Girlfriend Experience (2009) | "
The effect is impressionistic and provocative, with the emphasis falling differently on scenes because of our knowledge or lack thereof. It also serves to view the "girlfriend experience" as a kind of performance art." Posted Apr 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | "
As written by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore and directed by Mark Waters, the movie clumps through one witless if not wince-evoking sequence after another without the relief of laughter." Posted Apr 27, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Obsessed (2009) | "
Until Beyonce and Ali Larter duke it out at the climax, this is one dull film." Posted Apr 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| The Soloist (2009) | "
This film version takes a somewhat romanticized view of both journalism and skid row yet is nevertheless a compassionate and compelling look at mental illness." Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 41%
| Fighting (2009) | "
Director Dito Montiel's jump from indie to studio film is mostly a successful one." Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Every Little Step (2009) | "
A must-see for fans of the original stage musical A Chorus Line." Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 56%
| 17 Again (2009) | "
Despite occasional misfires, this Zac Efron comedy earns its laughs and delivers its life lessons." Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 85%
| State of Play (2009) | "
There is nothing we haven't seen here before in terms of chases, intrigue and betrayals, so for all its A-list cast and production values, the film comes off as routine." Posted Apr 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 28%
| Fast & Furious (2009) | "
All four films feature terrific stunts. But Fast & Furious is the first film since the original to be smart about how far to stretch logic without sacrificing the desired macho swagger and revved-up emotions." Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | "
As with any good cartoon, the animators mix visual stunts with rimshot-worthy one-liners and verbal gags." Posted Mar 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 32%
| Knowing (2009) | "
Hokum is best served straight, not as a New Age cocktail with too many ingredients." Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 66%
| Duplicity (2009) | "
The movie is fun, with plenty of intrigue and suspense that will have audiences clutching at their arm rests." Posted Mar 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| Miss March (2009) | "
Forget March, this one misses by a mile." Posted Mar 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| Race to Witch Mountain (2009) | "
Action and sci-fi thrills blend nicely with comedy in one of Disney's best action movies this side of Jerry Bruckheimer." Posted Mar 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| An American Affair (2009) | "
Gretchen Mol, lounging semi-nude as she smokes near an open Georgetown window, would spark any young man's curiosity and recklessness. But the assassination story line is absurd." Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Watchmen (2009) | "
The real disappointment is that the film does not transport an audience to another world, as 300 did. Nor does the third-rate Chandler-esque narration by Rorschach help." Posted Feb 26, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 22%
| Jonas Brothers - The Concert Experience (2009) | "
This tepid concert film does the Jonas Brothers no favors, not that the band's tweener fans will notice." Posted Feb 25, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail (2009) | "
Its comedy is from the do-anything-for-a-laugh school, without even the polish of the Three Stooges, and the melodrama evolves from rote characters and cliched situations." Posted Feb 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Katyn (2007) | "
Some sequences sear the mind." Posted Feb 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | My One and Only (2009) | "
Peter's lightning-fast script and Loncraine's steady direction steer this road picture to the sunny side of the street." Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Happy Tears (2009) | "
Happy Tears, is simply weird. The funny has gone missing." Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| He's Just Not That Into You (2009) | "
There's not much here for men, or for that matter, women who understand that the complexity of human relationships doesn't reduce to catchphrases." Posted Feb 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Coraline (2009) | "
The 3-D effects aren't overdone but are used intelligently to make this world come brilliantly to life." Posted Feb 2, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) | "
Like the movie's sad-sack hero, this comedy never comes close to achieving its real potential." Posted Jan 14, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Hotel for Dogs (2009) | "
The dogs in Hotel For Dogs perform breathtaking stunts, touching love scenes, heart-breaking soliloquies with their eyes and clever, clever tricks. The human actors get upstaged at every turn." Posted Jan 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Notorious (2009) | "
It has terrific performances, a powerful soundtrack and eye-catching visuals." Posted Jan 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 35%
| Not Easily Broken (2009) | "
[It] has the saving grace of a lively sense of humor that certainly helps the spiritual medicine go down." Posted Jan 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Bride Wars (2009) | "
Bride Wars never gets off its high-concept stool long enough to explore what makes weddings so exciting and nerve-racking and treacherous. It flounders instead in juvenilia and bitchiness." Posted Jan 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 12%
| The Unborn (2009) | "
Laughable horror flick made from an unstable solution of Jewish mysticism, Nazi evil and an otherworldly demon." Posted Jan 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 69%
| Revolutionary Road (2008) | "
[A] didactic, emotionally overblown critique of the soulless suburbs." Posted Dec 24, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| $9.99 (2009) | "
There is something undeniable hypnotic and bewitching about Tatia Rosenthal's $9.99, which if nothing else is a candidate for the most unusual film of 2008." Posted Dec 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| Inkheart (2009) | "
Whatever made the German novel Inkheart by Cornelia Funke so popular that it got translated into 37 languages is nowhere in evidence in its film version." Posted Dec 22, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 23%
| Bedtime Stories (2008) | "
In a modern-day fairy tale about hopes, aspirations and family, Sandler displays a winning form under the light and mischievous direction of Bringing Down the House's Adam Shankman." Posted Dec 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Marley & Me (2008) | "
Seldom does a studio release feature so little drama -- and not much comedy either, other than when the dog clowns around." Posted Dec 22, 2008 |
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