|
.5/4
|
21%
|
Next Day Air (2009) |
"
An incessantly talky, inert crime film that's like a hip-hop poseur, all swagger and mouth but with no real taste for the grittiness of thug life."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 8, 2009
|
|
0/0
|
24%
|
Serious Moonlight (2009) |
"
Hopefully Serious Moonlight will not become Meg Ryan's Trog: an embarrassing, final starring role in an otherwise respectable movie star career that has sputtered to a halt in recent years."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 30, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
25%
|
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"
An illogical, campy joke of a movie that suffers hugely in comparison to F. Gary Gray's earlier ****-the-injustice-system thriller The Negotiator."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
80%
|
Bandslam (2009) |
"
I Can't Go On, I'll Go On is the name of the bubblegum rock group at the center of Bandslam, as well as a useful mantra for any moviegoer struggling to make it all the way through this depressingly phony approximation of a teen tragicomedy."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 11, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
39%
|
Imagine That (2009) |
"
In its minimalism that borders on self-parody, Imagine That is reminiscent of M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 11, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
55%
|
17 Again (2009) |
"
When 17 Again isn't pilfering from its betters, it's engaging in the most Pavlovian button-pushing."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 17, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
31%
|
While She Was Out (2008) |
"
A half-assed re-filming of First Blood."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 12, 2009
|
|
|
65%
|
Brick Lane (2008) |
"
A depressing, static drama that will have heads lolling backwards and eyes drooping wherever it plays."
—
Cinematical
Posted Sep 22, 2007
|
|
|
89%
|
Eastern Promises (2007) |
"
This is a film with a lot of big emotions, but not a lot of big moments."
—
Cinematical
Posted Sep 22, 2007
|
|
|
72%
|
Love Comes Lately (2008) |
"
One of the most ill-conceived films to come down the pike in a long, long time."
—
Cinematical
Posted Sep 20, 2007
|
|
|
52%
|
Margot at the Wedding (2007) |
"
A film torpedoed by its own self-indulgence."
—
Cinematical
Posted Sep 12, 2007
|
|
|
43%
|
The Brave One (2007) |
"
Those going into this film expecting some kind of corollary to Foster's other film about random violence, The Accused, will be disappointed for the simple reason that that was a serious film, and this is not."
—
Cinematical
Posted Sep 7, 2007
|
|
1.5/4
|
58%
|
Edge of Darkness (2010) |
"
A shot that defiantly fixes on Mel Gibson's balding pate from behind is the only evidence of the volatile actor-director's famous penchant for cinematic self-flagellation here."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 25, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
36%
|
Los Paranoicos (The Paranoids) (2008) |
"
A frustratingly underdeveloped Argentinian dramedy about the perils of emotional retreat."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 22, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
37%
|
Nine (2009) |
"
Marshall overlooks the potentially unsavory dimensions of a reputed scaliwag director's sex life in favor of a succession of bloodlessly PG-13 encounters heavy on implication."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 16, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
84%
|
Whip It (2009) |
"
There's a lot of underlying potential here, but there seems to have been no one around to whip it into shape."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 29, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
39%
|
Surrogates (2009) |
"
Mostow demonstrates an uncharacteristic lack of subtlety throughout that suggests a diminishment of skills for the man who helmed the crackerjack kidnap thriller Breakdown."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
29%
|
Shrink (2009) |
"
Though it never rains frogs in Shrink, the influence of Magnolia on this sprawling portrait of West L.A.'s rich-and-miserable couldn't be more pronounced."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 23, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
78%
|
Anonyma - Eine Frau in Berlin (A Woman in Berlin) (2009) |
"
As quickly as possible, the initial, brutal encounters are concluded and the film is hurried along to its second, plot-heavy incarnation as a healing-and-reconciliation drama."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 15, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
29%
|
Deadgirl (2008) |
"
The appeal of Deadgirl depends exclusively on the intriguing image at its center."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 7, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
96%
|
Les Plages d'Agnès (The Beaches of Agnes) (2008) |
"
The Girl from Monaco is a frustratingly suspense-free affair"
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 6, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
48%
|
La Fille de Monaco (The Girl from Monaco) (2009) |
"
The Girl from Monaco is a frustratingly suspense-free affair."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 1, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
48%
|
My Sister's Keeper (2009) |
"
My Sister's Keeper suffers from sheer sloppiness of script that results in scenes of comedic frivolity coming off as screechingly forced."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 25, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
33%
|
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"
Like the human skulls crushed under sleek metal feet in those feverish sequences, the Terminator film series is finished."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 21, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
56%
|
The Soloist (2009) |
"
An emotionally tone deaf and, typical of the director, gimmick-laden and aggressively polished adaptation."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 23, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
44%
|
Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009) |
"
It's all in good fun, even if it isn't actually much fun."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 11, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
59%
|
The International (2009) |
"
The International isn't pitching itself at Jack Ryan territory, but weirdly, at The Da Vinci Code."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 13, 2009
|
|
1.5/4
|
30%
|
Underworld: The Rise of the Lycans (2009) |
"
Hiistorical events referenced in the first two installments of the Underworld franchise are brought to life in this passionless, idea-deprived prequel"
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 24, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
26%
|
Ninja Assassin (2009) |
"
Ninja Assassin has little opportunity to fill its action-free beats with dread or tension."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 27, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
81%
|
Disgrace (2008) |
"
It's not Coetzee's assertion that the white minority South Africans must go a ways toward assimilating into African life to remain relevant that invites deep scrutiny, but the narrow vision presented here of Africanization as something akin to wilding."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 17, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
49%
|
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"
Taking Woodstock fails to immerse us in the visceral feeling of being there."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 27, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
34%
|
G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (2009) |
"
Sommers seems to be operating under what he perceives as a pact between himself and his 11-year-old fanbase, to simply provide them with as much awesome **** as he's allowed to shovel at the screen."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 6, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
45%
|
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Ice Age 3) (2009) |
"
This third entry in the animated kiddie series appears to be more, um, fair and balanced."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 6, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
17%
|
Downloading Nancy (2008) |
"
An emotionally sterile and self-serious terminal disease drama without a moment of levity to be found from first frame to last."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 1, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
64%
|
Duplicity (2009) |
"
A romance aiming at a tone of jazz-riff larkishness but somewhat undermined in that pursuit by the washboard-stiffness of its main characters."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2009
|
|
2/4
|
42%
|
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) |
"
He's Just Not That Into You can't help but approximate its unsatisfying elevation of chit-chat into a primary mode of rom-com narrative communication, a bad omen for the genre going forward."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 5, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
70%
|
Sherlock Holmes (2009) |
"
Pop culture's most enduring sleuth gets a welcome, modernized makeover in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 24, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
43%
|
Jennifer's Body (2009) |
"
Represents a cornucopia of ideas, both comedy and horror, and the determination of the filmmakers to simply play the odds of getting more elements right than wrong instead of pursuing a purer vision makes it a mixed viewing experience."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 16, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
93%
|
Drag Me to Hell (2009) |
"
A giddy procession of intermittently successful jump scares and make-you-vomit sight gags strung together by a story so elemental it could be rendered in mural form on a funhouse wall."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 25, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
92%
|
Etz Limon (Lemon Tree) (2009) |
"
Riklis is ultimately unable to center his attention on any one of its multiple fissures and reflexively allows Lemon Tree to rest on its aura of subliminal female solidarity."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 14, 2009
|
|
2.5/4
|
52%
|
Leatherheads (2008) |
"
Leatherheads isn't poorly made, but it's easy, hang-back material from a director who's already proven himself up for a challenge, and that's hard to accept."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2008
|
|
2.5/4
|
26%
|
Drillbit Taylor (2008) |
"
Drillbit Taylor presents nothing blindingly new for fans of Apatow- or Sandler-style humor and when watching it, one can hear the faint rustling of old scripts being yanked from drawers for a timely cash-in."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Mar 21, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
The Messenger (2009) |
"
These largely self-contained vignettes are harrowing, the source of a font of raw emotional release that could never be otherwise captured except through a presumably invasive documentary process."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 11, 2009
|
|
3/4
|
94%
|
An Education (2009) |
"
The emotional maturity of a sheltered teen in post-war austerity Britain is thoroughly tested in An Education."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 6, 2009
|
|
3/4
|
87%
|
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008) |
"
Impressively compact in its storytelling and visually sumptuous despite a budget of pocket-change proportions."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 21, 2009
|
|
3/4
|
90%
|
Séraphine (2009) |
"
In consistently erring of the side of subtlety, Moreau's performance also proves a perfect tonal match for Provost's subtle, meticulous, and frequently beautiful compositions."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 1, 2009
|
|
|
69%
|
Alone with Her (2007) |
"
What sets the film a notch above standard genre fare is its ability to ask bigger questions about a stalker like Doug."
—
Cinematical
Posted Oct 28, 2008
|
|
3/4
|
92%
|
Caramel (2008) |
"
The penetrating musical score, with its memorable shadings of emotional danger, the snappy and confident pacing and the emergence of 33-year-old Labaki as an international talent to watch all combine to make the film satisfying confection."
—
Premiere Magazine
Posted Feb 1, 2008
|
|
|
12%
|
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (AVP 2) (2007) |
"
I can't recommend it as a good movie on its own merits, stocked as it is with cardboard cutout characters and a barely coherent plot, but it's miles more interesting than the last Alien vs. Predator film"
—
Cinematical
Posted Jan 2, 2008
|
|
|
48%
|
Towelhead (2007) |
"
The long-awaited directorial debut of Alan Ball does not disappoint."
—
Cinematical
Posted Sep 18, 2007
|
63%
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