Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
A Christmas Carol is, in its essence, a product reel, a showy, exuberant demonstration of the glories of motion capture, computer animation and 3D technology. On that level, it's a wow. On any emotional level, it's as cold as Marley's Ghost." Posted Nov 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
Looks like the world has missed one helluva concert." Posted Oct 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| The House of the Devil (2009) | "
A horror film with no punch." Posted Oct 26, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) | "
A vampire movie in sore need of a transfusion." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| The Stepfather (2009) | "
This remake turns a fondly remembered horror/thriller into a mild and tedious suspense film." Posted Oct 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | "
An implausible thriller with a few horror elements in the guise of social criticism." Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
A reverential but uninvolving adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic illustrated book for children." Posted Oct 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 12%
| Couples Retreat (2009) | "
This intermittently funny tale of four couples undergoing relationship therapy struggles hard for its occasional laughs." Posted Oct 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Surrogates (2009) | "
Just as the dystopian world the movie portrays is arid and specious, the movie itself is a mechanical sci-fi'er absent of logic or emotions." Posted Sep 24, 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
An unoriginal and mostly unscary horror-comedy from, surprisingly, the pen of Diablo Cody." Posted Sep 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| The Damned United (2009) | "
A sports rivalry poisons everyone in this British soccer movie based, loosely, on a true story." Posted Sep 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
A comedy about corporate fraud, malfeasance and a mental disorder that never quite succeeds as a comedy." Posted Sep 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| Gamer (2009) | "
Crass, nonstop action triumphs over narrative and character in this movie-length simulation of a video game." Posted Sep 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 6%
| All About Steve (2009) | "
A total misfire from the first scene to the last." Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| The Final Destination (2009) | "
Death comes in 3D but everything else is tedious." Posted Sep 1, 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| Post Grad (2009) | "
A homogenized piffle about the "ordeal" of a middle-class college grad momentarily without a job." Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
Not for a single moment does anyone in this film make a good decision. Consequently, you quickly catch on and easily anticipate the bad decisions before they happen." Posted Aug 19, 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| 9 (2009) | "
It certainly is a valuable introduction to an exciting new talent, but by expanding the film's length, characters and otherworldly environment things are strangely diminished." Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) | "
It is very good at stating the obvious but fails to bring new insight to this age-old morality tale." Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) | "
Bana and McAdams make you feel the pain and the ultimate acceptance of their dilemma but never convey the magic that allows the couple to persevere through such a grand but trying love." Posted Aug 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Shorts (2009) | "
The CG slapstick soon grows wearying and even predictable." Posted Aug 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| A Perfect Getaway (2009) | "
A gimmicky, tricked-out tale that is all too self-aware. But the film does keep you guessing and probably guessing wrong." Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 28%
| Aliens in the Attic (2009) | "
Writers Mark Burton and Adam F. Goldberg pretty much let their imaginations go wild." Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Shrink (2009) | "
There really was a much better comedy here than melodrama." Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Humpday (2009) | "
Shelton never follows up on the film's satirical possibilities." Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Orphan (2009) | "
A pretty interesting movie about the crack-up of an American family lies right under the filmmakers' noses, but in their rush to deliver shock and gore they miss every opportunity to make a smart movie." Posted Jul 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 91%
| Harmony and Me (2009) | "
As awkward as its title character." Posted Jul 2, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Brüno (2009) | "
We all knew Borat. Borat was a friend of ours. Bruno, you're no Borat." Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
A missed opportunity to make gangster picture with flesh-and-blood characters." Posted Jun 30, 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 48%
| 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 38%
| 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 26%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
The film is by no means terrible but those things we think of as being Tarantino-esque, the long
stretches of wickedly funny dialogue, the humor in the violence and outsized
characters strutting across the screen, are largely missing." Posted May 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| 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 |
IGN RSS Feeds