Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| It's Complicated (2009) | "
This is a comfort zone for such viewers even if the characters are no more real than the models in Vanity Fair ads." Posted Dec 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| The Young Victoria (2009) | "
Exquisitely produced but dramatically erratic." Posted Dec 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Me and Orson Welles (2009) | "
Christian McKay's impersonation of young Orson Welles is sensational in this enjoyable, though slight, historical fiction about a teen who spends a memorable week with the legendary wonder." Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Avatar (2009) | "
The screen is alive with more action and the soundtrack pops with more robust music than any dozen sci-fi shoot-'em-ups you care to mention." Posted Dec 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Crazy Heart (2009) | "
Jeff Bridges is terrific but the movie only ordinary." Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| The Lovely Bones (2009) | "
The film certainly plays well enough as a melodrama-cum-revenge thriller." Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| The Princess and the Frog (2009) | "
This is the best Disney animated film in years." Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 23%
| Planet 51 (2009) | "
A playful throwback to the days when cartoons were mostly aimed at children." Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
Looks like the world has missed one helluva concert." Posted Oct 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| A Serious Man (2009) | "
A seriously funny film about an angst-ridden Jewish professor seeking the answers to life's questions and getting a metaphysical pie in the face." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| More Than a Game (2009) | "
A superb, slam-dunk documentary about young boys achieving personal and team goals on the basketball court." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| The Boys Are Back (2009) | "
Never does anything feel forced or contrived. Life, as this memoir reminds, can offer plenty of drama that need not abide by fictional formulas or genre conventions." Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| The Damned United (2009) | "
A sports rivalry poisons everyone in this British soccer movie based, loosely, on a true story." Posted Sep 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| In the Loop (2009) | "
Painfully funny satire of British and American bureaucrats in the days leading up to the Iraq War." Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| X Games 3D: The Movie (2009) | "
3D adds a little something extra to this movie-length advertisement for X Games." Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 29%
| Aliens in the Attic (2009) | "
Writers Mark Burton and Adam F. Goldberg pretty much let their imaginations go wild." Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Mesrine: Part 2 - Public Enemy #1 (2009) | "
Director Jean-Francois Richet shows a career in crime with pulse-pounding moments of pure cinema, then lets you decide what to make of this homicidal sociopath." Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
A genuinely original science fiction film that grabs you immediately, not letting go until the final shot." Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Adam (2009) | "
A sensitive but not sentimental story about a romance involving a mentally challenged young man never makes a misstep." Posted Jul 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
Julie & Julia is a mixed blessing. You enjoy vicariously many dishes, sample the good life in France and get treated to another Streep marvel." Posted Jul 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
A more mature but still funny Judd Apatow comedy whose move into serious human relation issues nearly scuttles the third act." Posted Jul 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
The writing is often clever and the overall production playful and intelligent." Posted Jul 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| 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 |
Fresh
| Rotten 54%
| Cheri (2009) | "
A smart and lushly romantic film adaptation of a Colette story of a doomed love." Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 47%
| 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 96%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
A riveting if distressing look at the essentially unregulated American food supply." Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| Imagine That (2009) | "
Eddie Murphy and young Yara Shahidi make a strong comic pair in this amusing family film." Posted Jun 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| 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
| Fresh 80%
| 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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| 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 |
Fresh
| Rotten 47%
| Battle for Terra (2009) | "
A lovingly crafted 3-D animated sci-fi film that cleverly reverses War of the Worlds." Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| 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 |
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 91%
| Every Little Step (2009) | "
A must-see for fans of the original stage musical A Chorus Line." Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| 17 Again (2009) | "
Despite occasional misfires, this Zac Efron comedy earns its laughs and delivers its life lessons." Posted Apr 17, 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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| 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 |
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Katyn (2007) | "
Some sequences sear the mind." Posted Feb 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| 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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| 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 |
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| $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 |
Fresh
| Rotten 25%
| 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 |
Fresh
| Rotten 27%
| Seven Pounds (2008) | "
Spiritual redemption is not a typical Hollywood theme, but this Will Smith movie shows it can be done." Posted Dec 17, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Valkyrie (2008) | "
A coolly efficient, entertaining and straightforward tale about the last of 15 known assassination attempts against Adolf Hitler." Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
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