Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| Sherlock Holmes (2009) | "
The plot? Wish you hadn't asked." Posted Dec 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 32%
| Nine (2009) | "
The disappointments are many here, from a starry cast the film ill uses to flat musical numbers that never fully integrate into the dramatic story." Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Invictus (2009) | "
We applaud the final game but must leave the cheering to the on-screen fans." Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Everybody's Fine (2009) | "
A thoroughly fake movie with trite characters that is about, of all things, the need for truthfulness." Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 5%
| Old Dogs (2009) | "
Insipid, predictable, broad comedy mixed with Disney Family Values makes for one exasperating sit." Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Brothers (2009) | "
A remake of a Danish film has much to admire but never comes together with the impact of the original." Posted Nov 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Love Hurts (2009) | "
A flat-footed sitcom with unconvincing situations and comedy." Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 87%
| 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 24%
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | "
An implausible thriller with a few horror elements in the guise of social criticism." Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
An unoriginal and mostly unscary horror-comedy from, surprisingly, the pen of Diablo Cody." 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 29%
| 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 |
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| 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 74%
| 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 45%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Shrink (2009) | "
There really was a much better comedy here than melodrama." Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 91%
| Harmony and Me (2009) | "
As awkward as its title character." Posted Jul 2, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Love 'N Dancing (2009) | "
Seems more like a dance studio's infomercial than a romantic comedy." Posted May 8, 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| 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 19%
| Obsessed (2009) | "
Until Beyonce and Ali Larter duke it out at the climax, this is one dull film." Posted Apr 27, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 84%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Knowing (2009) | "
Hokum is best served straight, not as a New Age cocktail with too many ingredients." Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| Miss March (2009) | "
Forget March, this one misses by a mile." Posted Mar 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| 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 23%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Happy Tears (2009) | "
Happy Tears, is simply weird. The funny has gone missing." Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| 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 |
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 |
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