Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 64%
| 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 92%
| 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 15%
| 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
| N/A | 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 88%
| 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 62%
| Bronson () | "
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
| N/A | Endgame (2009) | "
There's nothing in Endgame that's less than proficient." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Brief Interviews with Hideous Men () | "
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 80%
| Black Dynamite (2009) | "
This movie will make you say "Oooooooooo!"" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | 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 100%
| 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 100%
| 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
| N/A | 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 43%
| 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 100%
| 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 88%
| 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 92%
| 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 73%
| 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 58%
| 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 88%
| 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 38%
| 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 30%
| 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 25%
| 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 81%
| 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 |
Fresh
| N/A | Recycle (2008) | "
Though Recycle fails to visually dramatize many of the issues it seeks to address, simply taking the viewer on a journey into a mundane reality that has been so sensationalized by the global press borders on something higher than a good film." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 24, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| There Will Be Blood (2007) | "
When a director who is not yet 40 creates a masterful work that extends his own vocabulary while enlarging our appreciation of earlier masters, the time has come to start comparing that filmmaker primarily against himself." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 26, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 85%
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) | "
Where previous Sweeneys have found room in the character for both anguish and exultation amidst all the faraway looks and obsessional glowering, Depp skirts along the edge of the emotional chasm without ever really diving in." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 12, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 30%
| Youth Without Youth (2007) | "
Youth Without Youth is a clear indication that Coppola is as far from a spent force as any world-class filmmaker can be." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 12, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 72%
| Kurt Cobain About a Son (2007) | "
About a Son is essential viewing for what remains of the Nirvana/Kurt Cobain cult, interesting but more problematic fare for everyone else." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 5, 2007 |
— | N/A | Justice (2006) |
Click here to read article — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 30, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 56%
| Zoo (2007) | "
Zoo is a documentary doomed to remain forever biased and incomplete until somebody figures out how to interview a horse." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 10, 2007 |
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