Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 50%
| It's Complicated (2009) | "
The romantic comedy about a divorced couple having an affair manages to be both light on its feet and heavy enough to deliver something of a message." — Washington Post Posted Dec 25, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 70%
| Sherlock Holmes (2009) | "
At times, Ritchie and company try so hard to make sure this isn't your father's Sherlock Holmes that it comes across as, well, cartoonish." — Washington Post Posted Dec 25, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 22%
| Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) | "
At one point, Cross's character takes a full-frontal hit in the groin from an errant toy motorcycle." — Washington Post Posted Dec 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| Flame & Citron (2008) | "
It's fast-paced, stylish and thrilling. But it also raises one tough question." — Washington Post Posted Dec 17, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 14%
| Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) | "
An exercise in foregone conclusions so dreary as to hardly qualify as comedy." — Washington Post Posted Dec 17, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 33%
| The Slammin' Salmon (2009) | "
Much of the film's humor hovers around crotch level. If jokes about mental illness, terminal disease and sex with orangutans sound funny to you, go for it." — Washington Post Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 83%
| We Live in Public (2009) | "
Josh Harris focuses the lens on himself. You probably have never heard of him. And when the film is over, you may wish you still hadn't." — Washington Post Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Me and Orson Welles (2009) | "
It's an open question as to who, outside theater geeks, will find this inside-baseball approach quite as fascinating as Linklater apparently does." — Washington Post Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 57%
| Brothers (2009) | "
Is it a movie you'll enjoy? Not enjoy, so much as appreciate. Or maybe recognize." — Washington Post Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 23%
| Planet 51 (2009) | "
Planet 51 is cute, but it's no Shrek." — Washington Post Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 73%
| William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (2010) | "
The film's point is clear. And for those looking for a straight answer, it's this: The bravest lawyer isn't the one who takes on the clients that allow him to feel good about himself. It's the one who takes on the clients that give us nightmares." — Washington Post Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 28%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
Despite melodrama that, at times, is enough to induce diabetes, there's enough wolf whistle in this sexy, scary romp to please anyone." — Washington Post Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 100%
| Rashomon (1950) | "
Film buffs should love it. But so should anyone who appreciates a good yarn or two (or three or four)." — Washington Post Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 60%
| Pirate Radio (2009) | "
What's not to like? It's Animal House on water, with Branagh playing Dean Wormer." — Washington Post Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 90%
| The Messenger (2009) | "
Together, under the assured direction of first-time feature filmmaker Oren Moverman, these three actors tell a story that is at once hard-hitting and bizarrely gentle." — Washington Post Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
It's a heartwarmer that doesn't have much of a heart itself." — Washington Post Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 18%
| The Fourth Kind (2009) | "
At a recent preview screening, the most common audience response to this nonsense was laughter, not gasps of horror." — Washington Post Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 88%
| Skin (2009) | "
What takes that story of heartbreak and makes it ultimately heartwarming is that Sandra's story, much like the history of apartheid itself, doesn't end there." — Washington Post Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 2/4
| Rotten 48%
| Astro Boy (2009) | "
While the film retains some of the DNA of the original TV series, it bears more similarity to such recent fare as Wall-E and Transformers." — Washington Post Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Amelia (2009) | "
Look, nobody's asking for a miniseries here, but at times the movie feels more like a History Channel documentary -- respectful to the point of reverential -- than a rip-snorting yarn." — Washington Post Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Treeless Mountain (2009) | "
Somewhere in between all the emptiness -- the film's laconic chapters are separated by repeated static shots of clouds and sky -- a beautiful little point is made." — Washington Post Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Séraphine (2008) | "
To look at the almost religious ecstasy on Moreau's face is to feel the artist's passion and be inspired by it." — Washington Post Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Z (1969) | "
Z, whose title is a stand-in for the Greek word zei ('he lives'), takes us back to where that fascination all began for Costa-Gavras and shows us that, for the rest of us, it hasn't ever really ended." — Washington Post Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | "
It's not utterly without charm. Only here, that charm feels less earned than manufactured, a product not of evolution -- or even intelligent design -- but of cynical, soulless opportunism." — Washington Post Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| $9.99 (2009) | "
A charming, poetic and at times surreal stop-motion animation co-written with Etgar Keret and based on the Israeli writer's short stories." — Washington Post Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| Cheri (2009) | "
The movie bogs down by going nowhere other than inside its characters, who are intensely passionate but of an era more curious than emotionally relevant." — Washington Post Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Under Our Skin (2009) | "
Under Our Skin has a major ax to grind, but if even half of what it alleges is true, it's more deeply terrifying than any slasher film you'll ever see." — Washington Post Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Year One (2009) | "
A lowbrow, only fitfully amusing comedy." — Washington Post Posted Jun 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| Enlighten Up! (2009) | "
As a movie, Enlighten Up! doesn't really go anywhere." — Washington Post Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Revanche (2009) | "
The uniformly crackerjack cast keeps things electric, yet always believable, even when behaving in ways that are shocking." — Washington Post Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Little Ashes (2009) | "
Beltran, for his part, makes a solidly believable Garcia Lorca. The problem is with the man with whom he's obsessed. In Pattinson's performance, we never see what Garcia Lorca sees in Dali." — Washington Post Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 45%
| Management (2009) | "
[Steve Zahn] is the single biggest reason why Management is a delightfully screwball romantic comedy and not a crazed-stalker film." — Washington Post Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Black Balloon (2008) | "
Thomas and Jackie's friendship, blossoming into a chaste romance, is the dramatic engine that powers The Black Balloon, but it's far from the most important relationship in the film." — Washington Post Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Earth (2009) | "
A gorgeously photographed storybook." — Washington Post Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| American Violet (2009) | "
What does it taste like? There's a slight aftertaste of force-feeding, to be sure. But mostly, thanks to excellent, nuanced performances by Beharie, Woodard, Nelson and Patton, it tastes like justice." — Washington Post Posted Apr 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| Hannah Montana The Movie (2009) | "
The movie looks and sounds like a real film, not an extended version of the TV show. The acting and the cinematography is bumped up a notch." — Washington Post Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Knowing (2009) | "
The narrative corner into which this movie, directed by Alex Proyas, paints itself is a simultaneously silly and morbidly depressing one." — Washington Post Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 59%
| Phoebe In Wonderland (2009) | "
Elle Fanning, and her audience, deserve better." — Washington Post Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| The Pink Panther 2 (2009) | "
Plays like a series of disconnected, hit-or-miss skits in a cut-rate Saturday Night Live." — Washington Post Posted Feb 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| There's Something About Mary (1998) | "
If the sight of a large chunk of a man's private parts caught in the teeth of a zipper is funny -- and I'm not saying it isn't -- then have I got a movie for you." — Washington Post Posted Feb 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| New in Town (2009) | "
There's nothing novel about this overly familiar farce." — Washington Post Posted Jan 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Timecrimes (2008) | "
It's not the first time a movie has played with the idea of a time traveler encountering an earlier version of himself, but the exceptionally gripping film takes the concept to a new level of devilish circularity." — Washington Post Posted Dec 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 27%
| Seven Pounds (2008) | "
It's one of the clearest portrayals of a character's doubt, and ultimate resolution, I've seen in a good long while." — Washington Post Posted Dec 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Punisher: War Zone (2008) | "
Anyone with a modicum of good sense -- or a weak stomach -- will take it as a warning to stay the heck away from this literally and figuratively deadly War Zone." — Washington Post Posted Dec 4, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Cadillac Records (2008) | "
It feels disappointingly bloated and too fast-paced by half." — Washington Post Posted Dec 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| I've Loved You So Long (2008) | "
[An] exquisitely rendered story of reconciliation and redemption, which has something of a thriller's structure but is really all about relationships." — Washington Post Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Twilight (2008) | "
Twilight works as both love story and vampire story, thanks mainly to the performances of its principals." — Washington Post Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Soul Men (2008) | "
Unfortunately, [it's] not good enough to make up for the unnecessary proliferation of Viagra humor, rectal-exam jokes and comedy at the expense of women." — Washington Post Posted Nov 7, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| RocknRolla (2008) | "
Style is what RocknRolla is all about. And it has it in spades, from the cockney Pulp Fiction dialogue to the music-video editing of the rambling narrative." — Washington Post Posted Oct 31, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| Noah's Arc - Jumping the Broom (2008) | "
It might be helpful to think of the series and its spinoff as a male version of The Golden Girls. A young, gay, African American male version of The Golden Girls." — Washington Post Posted Oct 23, 2008 |
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