Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 75%
| Sherlock Holmes (2009) | "
Brisk and brainy reworking of the legendary detective’s mythos makes the delightful Robert Downey Jr. into a rumpled, complicated and alternately swashbuckling and pratfalling Holmes for our time." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) | "
It simply should not be missed." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 20%
| The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) | "
Personally, I loved it." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Crude (2009) | "
A good cause does not necessarily a fully satisfying movie make." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Passing Strange (2010) | "
Tender, sexy , funny, moving and profound, Passing Strange bears comparison not just to the great works of the American musical theatre but to literary landmarks like James Baldwin’s Another Country and (especially) Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 74%
| Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) | "
The lasting damage from such traumas and the way it metastasizes down the decades is the true topic under discussion here, and that makes Five Minutes of Heaven more complicated and troubling than many of its type." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 93%
| Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2009) | "
A fun and energized documentary about a neglected era of exploitation cinema, but it suffers from a couple of pretty critical sins of omission." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 66%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
Frequently taut but ultimately unsatisfying." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 66%
| Dead Snow (2009) | "
Trust me, either this isn’t your kind of movie at all or you’ve seen everything here done better and with fewer metaphoric quotation marks hovering over it." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 94%
| Revanche (2009) | "
Goetz Spielmann's overpraised Austrian Oscar submission Revanche is a slight film masquerading as a significant one, and a work whose style and substance are irreconcilably at odds with each other." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 11, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 14%
| The Informers (2009) | "
Though name actors and the involvement of a cult author may eventually get The Informers attention, there’s nobody who loves the ’80s enough to knowingly pay good money to suffer through all 98 minutes of this." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 98%
| Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) | "
In addition to being an offbeat family drama, Anvil! is also a love story between two men—a pair of Canadian kids who dreamed a dream and then stayed true to it with more fidelity than most rockers devote to their actual marriages." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| Sugar (2009) | "
In a world where too many filmmakers are content to bunt their way onto second base, Sugar swings for the fences, and knocks one out of the park." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 17, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 78%
| It Might Get Loud (2009) | "
It Might Get Loud doesn't really offer enough comparative analysis to lead to a fully educated guess about why such passionate players are so awkward and reserved with each other when given a chance to measure their skills against the best." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 89%
| Absurdistan (2008) | "
Full of whimsy but almost devoid of charm." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 86%
| Tyson (2009) | "
Toback's rare close-up view of some of the inherent contradictions in American hero worship makes Tyson a worthwhile coda to the mirage of athletic greatness Tyson's career represents." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 78%
| Bronson (2009) | "
If it's to be remembered for anything, it will be as the Romper Stomper to a next generation's Russell Crowe." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 83%
| Endgame (2009) | "
There's nothing in Endgame that's less than proficient." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 43%
| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009) | "
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men is a noble failure of a film that's worth a lot more than many of the safer if more achieved works premiering beside it at Sundance 2009." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Black Dynamite (2009) | "
This movie will make you say "Oooooooooo!"" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 87%
| Big Fan (2009) | "
Roll over Quentin Tarantino and tell Robert Rodriguez the news. With Big Fan, Robert Seigel proves that the existential poetics of popular culture have a new laureate." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 22, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
Given its focus on the zeitgeist topic of romantic uncertainty and the true wit of its construction...don't be surprised if this Summer provides at least a somewhat hot season at the box office." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | When You're Strange (2009) | "
The mystery of Jim Morrison's early death has at last been solved: he died so he wouldn’t have to watch Tom DiCillo's tedious, reductive and factually erratic version of the story of his life." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 60%
| Paper Heart (2009) | "
If it flukes a wide release and finds an audience it could mark the beginnings of a sensibility revolution in American humor." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 84%
| The September Issue (2009) | "
A far better watch than it probably has any right to be. The audience that dreams of being supermodels or wants to see powerful women at the center of their own universe is a vast one, and in the right hands this movie could do measurable business." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 20, 2009 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 50%
| Spring Breakdown (2008) | "
A very bad genre exercise starring some very good comedic actresses who really should change agencies soon." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 75%
| Humpday (2009) | "
Shelton’s ability to get terrific performances out of an unknown cast borders on the astonishing." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 50%
| Taking Chance (2009) | "
Does this really tell us much that isn’t patently obvious to anybody with a brain and a heart?" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Moon (2009) | "
If there's still an audience for old-school, ideas-driven allegorical science fiction, it will undoubtedly find much to cheer for and perhaps a bit to laugh at in first-time director Duncan Jones' ambitious if slightly uneven debut Moon." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 48%
| Donkey Punch (2009) | "
A repulsive "thriller" that starts out using the syntax of a '70s porn movie and ends up as a sort of '80s slasher flick, only without the slasher." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 10, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Frost/Nixon (2008) | "
Where other Nixon movies have focused on high drama and constitutional crisis, this one finds the most compelling truths in anecdotal detail -- an approach Morgan has raised to the level of high art." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 18, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 78%
| Doubt (2008) | "
A terrific and troubling drama of ideas bristling with nuance and grief. Instantly a leading contender for some of the year's biggest acting prizes." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 10, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 35%
| Otto; Or, Up with Dead People (2008) | "
When the viscera and seminal fluids are cleared away, there is something less flagrant but more durable resembling a beating heart inside this bloody stump of a movie -- a coded message to do with loneliness and loss." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 31, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 72%
| Sunshine Cleaning (2009) | "
Closer to a piece of genetic engineering than it is to satisfying filmmaking, director Christine Jeffs’ effort in labored quirkiness and insincere emotionalism struggles hard to be simultaneously edgy and sentimental, succeeding at neither." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 54%
| What Just Happened (2008) | "
What Just Happened? is wry rather than cutting, a feast of clever humor from a couple of insiders who see the foolishness that surrounds them but like it on the inside anyhow." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 28, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 15%
| Saw V (2008) | "
It ain't scary, folks." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 27, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 54%
| Choke (2008) | "
Choke's virtues far outweigh its flaws. Gregg has achieved something unique -- part Wes Anderson, part Mel Brooks -- and a rare American comedy that is simultaneously brainy and unafraid to be in touch with the human body." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 17, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 59%
| Phoebe In Wonderland (2009) | "
Phoebe may not be schizophrenic, but any movie that simultaneously wants to trouble and reassure, to keep it real and then traffic in wish fulfillment, certainly is." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 63%
| Hamlet 2 (2008) | "
In Hamlet 2, the saccharine is a small if measurable price to pay for Coogan's unbelievably adept performance as Dana -- a sustained tour de force of comic acting comparable to the late, great Peter Sellers at his absolute best." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Tropic Thunder (2008) | "
Any movie comedy that mounts such a full-frontal assault on so many fetish objects of contemporary showbiz sanctimony has earned the very wide audience Tropic Thunder will undoubtedly reach." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 28, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 71%
| American Teen (2008) | "
Burstein or an apologist would probably say that in the YouTube era, overt and even manipulative mediation is a fact of teen life, and that her movie is a reflection of that reality. If so...YouTube is better at being YouTube than American Teen is." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) | "
Zenovich has made a feature worthy of its eccentric and reckless central figure at his most cynical and embittered." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 11, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 60%
| The Fall (2008) | "
A paean to the art of storytelling as it existed before mass-produced visual media replaced the spoken word as the primary creative medium." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 9, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Iron Man (2008) | "
Kudos to Iron Man for finding novel twists on an exhausted genre." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 30, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 37%
| Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) | "
A nearly note-perfect anthem for virtually everything about American policy it seeks to critique." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 29%
| Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008) | "
Meet the Browns is a typically affectionate, revealing and somewhat sprawling family comedy." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Step Up 2 the Streets (2008) | "
Step Up 2 has only a few points of correlation with its predecessor. It’s also probably the single most racist movie that will be released by any major American studio in the first 10 years of the twenty-first century." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 80%
| In Bruges (2008) | "
A shaggy, not-all-that-good-but-good-enough gangster comedy...violent, intermittently amusing and very 1992." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 1, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Raisin in the Sun (2008) | "
A Raisin in the Sun is a perfectly serviceable television adaptation of the recent Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansbury’s classic 1959 play, but why it got a press screening at the Sundance Film Festival is difficult to say." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 24, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Reversion (2008) | "
Mia Trachinger’s thought-provoking lo-fi science fiction movie/rumination on mortality, memory and destiny, does what any low-budget independent film ought to do, which is to assure the viewer that its maker is capable of great things." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 24, 2008 |
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