Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 44%
| My Sister's Keeper (2009) | "
This medical-ethics drama is like a sustained assault on the tear ducts." — Independent Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 70%
| Rudo and Cursi (2009) | "
This tale of two brothers seems to be a comic satire on ambition, but the laughs are desperately hard to come by." — Independent Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 20%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
Fourteen-year-old boys will get their money's worth. This boring, preposterous nonsense is stretched to an agonising two-and-a-half hours." — Independent Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 40%
| Doghouse (2009) | "
If Shaun of the Dead is the gold standard of British zombie comedy, and Lesbian Vampire Killers is a tin-plated knock-off, then Doghouse must be ... Ratners." — Independent Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 18%
| Obsessed (2009) | "
Bunny boilers ahoy. This lame and laughable stalker-thriller makes Fatal Attraction look thoughtful." — Independent Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 28%
| 12 Rounds (2009) | "
Cena has neither the ease nor the appeal of Dwayne Johnson – the one true Rock – and the film's steroidal pastiche of 1990s thrillers (Speed and Die Hard with a Vengeance) is faintly embarrassing." — Independent Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 44%
| Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) | "
It's still strictly insufferable." — Independent Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 37%
| Angels & Demons (2009) | "
Angels and Demons proves every bit as swollen and portentous as The Da Vinci Code. It is, however, nine minutes shorter than that film, so there's something to be grateful for." — Independent Posted May 15, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 31%
| The Uninvited (2009) | "
Yikes, or rather, yawn. Hokum factor – 10." — Independent Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 28%
| Fast & Furious (2009) | "
"Ride or die, remember?" Er, not really, no. More like "Yawn and forget", as Nabokov once recommended. Only 13-year-old boys and Jeremy Clarkson could possibly enjoy this." — Independent Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 13%
| Dragonball: Evolution (2009) | "
A rather tame live-action sci-fi flick." — Independent Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 55%
| The Boat That Rocked (2009) | "
For a man who loves the raucous, ebullient pop of the 1960s, Curtis's own output has been terribly, terminally square. This latest is a new low: The Film That Sucked." — Independent Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 32%
| Knowing (2009) | "
The CGI is unconvincing, the big shock-and-awe finale is a throwback to the days of Deep Impact, and underneath it all is the nervous American insistence that there is life beyond the stars." — Independent Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 18%
| New in Town (2009) | "
We have to munch through a load of Capra-corn as she switches from corporate hatchet-woman to champion of local business. "You know, you're not so bad when you're unconscious," says Connick Jr of her. We could probably say the same of the scriptwriter." — Independent Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 63%
| Franklyn (2009) | "
Allow that director Gerald McMorrow's feature debut shows ambition in fusing psychodrama, fantasy and metropolitan romance. Sadly, coherence and comprehensibility have been left for dead." — Independent Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 22%
| Push (2009) | "
Sci-fi hokum to give you a headache." — Independent Posted Feb 20, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 23%
| Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) | "
This sickening ode to consumerist greed comes just in time for the recession." — Independent Posted Feb 20, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 13%
| The Pink Panther 2 (2009) | "
This revisiting of Peter Sellers' Inspector Clouseau catapults Martin so far beyond the pale of authentic comedy that there can be no hope of return." — Independent Posted Feb 19, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 43%
| He's Just Not That Into You (2009) | "
A message to women: this movie is undermining and traducing your sex." — Independent Posted Feb 10, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 31%
| The Broken (2009) | "
This unbelievably ponderous British chiller keeps priming us for some shocking revelations – oodles of "scary" incidental music, ominous shots of the London skyline – and signally fails to deliver them." — Independent Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 80%
| The Baader-Meinhof Complex (2009) | "
His approach has simply been to cram everything he knows about the Baader Meinhof years into a running time of two and a half hours. It is really the most unhelpful and unenlightening film on the subject you could possibly imagine." — Independent Posted Nov 14, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 50%
| Easy Virtue (2009) | "
Altogether a shambles, and perhaps uniquely in the Coward canon, it features not a single laugh." — Independent Posted Nov 7, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 57%
| Taken (2009) | "
The only puzzle of this toxically stupid Europhobe thriller is that its director (Pierre Morel) and producer (Luc Besson) are both French." — Independent Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 33%
| Wild Child (2009) | "
On balance, gouging one's eyeballs with a chopstick would be more fun than watching this crummy tween comedy about a Californian princess." — Independent Posted Aug 15, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 0%
| The Accidental Husband (2009) | "
A plot of insufferable silliness contrives to keep the lovers on tenterhooks and the audience in a permanent cringe, none of it helped by Thurman's thoroughly phony performance." — Independent Posted Feb 29, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 33%
| Good (2008) | "
Mortensen isn't bad, though he looks merely absent-minded rather than anguished." — Independent Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 74%
| Genova (2008) | "
I suspect the director was aiming for a sun-blessed version of Don't Look Now, but his ghost story conjures neither suspense nor intrigue." — Independent Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 9%
| Reverb (2008) | "
Its influences, from The Conversation to The Shining, are worn like cheap tattoos, while its jittery editing and blurred photography fail to hide the yawning emptiness at its centre." — Independent Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 16%
| The Secret of Moonacre (2008) | "
A sluggish narrative is further hampered by "comic" turns (Juliet Stevenson, as a gurning governess) and some frankly shameless knockoffs." — Independent Posted Feb 10, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 85%
| JCVD (2008) | "
Our chastened hero steers a confusing course between self-parody and self-justification. "Van Damme needs just one thing ..." runs the tag line, "... to be himself". But does anyone still care?" — Independent Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 21%
| Faintheart (2008) | "
A British underdog comedy of no great distinction." — Independent Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 27%
| Seven Pounds (2008) | "
Soppy romance and excruciating piety cling to the film like bindweed, summoning the ghost of sobfest Pay It Forward, with the divine parallels of self-sacrifice taken to extremes of righteous absurdity." — Independent Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 57%
| The Secret Life of Bees (2008) | "
This ghastly ode to female companionship apparently derives from a bestselling novel, but it feels more like something stitched together from other sorority movies." — Independent Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 61%
| The Express (2008) | "
The screenplay is stewed in such pieties, served up as warm and homely as apple pie – only there's no taste to it." — Independent Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 51%
| Body of Lies (2008) | "
But it's something of a penance to sit through, a token handwringing over American dirty tricks that's just another opportunity for Scott and co to blow stuff up." — Independent Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 41%
| Blindness (2008) | "
It's prurient, sentimental, and baffling to boot." — Independent Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 35%
| Igor (2008) | "
This dark-toned animation borrows its style from Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride without adding much of its own to the macabre mayhem." — Independent Posted Oct 17, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 27%
| Eagle Eye (2008) | "
Portentous nonsense, and loud with it." — Independent Posted Oct 17, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 39%
| The House Bunny (2008) | "
One could be forgiven for thinking that the American college system is merely one big popularity contest. Certainly, no one does anything outrageous like read a book." — Independent Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 75%
| Gunnin' for That #1 Spot (2008) | "
Unlike the 1994 basketball doc Hoop Dreams, which investigated collateral issues of education, race and money, this merely sets a twitchy hip-hop soundtrack to an unenlightening parade of eager sporting wannabes." — Independent Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 42%
| Death Race (2008) | "
Fast cars, machine guns, explosions, babes in hotpants – it's everything a 12-year-old boy could want in a movie." — Independent Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 13%
| The Women (2008) | "
It's so flat and unfunny it makes Sex and the City sound like Billy Wilder." — Independent Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 2%
| Disaster Movie (2008) | "
I wish to God they would find something else to do." — Independent Posted Sep 5, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 66%
| Ben X (2008) | "
This "issue" movie from Belgian director Nic Balthazar throws a dramatic feint so improbable one can almost see a cartoon question mark floating above the audience's heads." — Independent Posted Aug 29, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 7%
| Babylon A.D. (2008) | "
Kassovitz creates a grungy dystopia, but the action has the crazed, over-edited ruckus of a death-metal video and the top "international" cast is notable only for being miscast." — Independent Posted Aug 29, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 12%
| College Road Trip (2008) | "
Oh no, it's a Martin Lawrence family comedy, and it's sponsored by Disney. What kind of a sadist put those two together? Come back, Ice Cube, all is forgiven. Actually, please don't." — Independent Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 19%
| The Clone Wars (2008) | "
The only thing that would make me punch the air is the sight of the syntax-mangling Yoda being comprehensively squashed. Alas, we have not heard the last from the old gonk." — Independent Posted Aug 15, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 14%
| The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) | "
This reawakens but doesn't reinvigorate a franchise that was already curling at the edges seven years ago, with The Mummy Returns." — Independent Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 67%
| Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008) | "
The title is horrible, and I'm afraid I didn't find the movie attached to it much better." — Independent Posted Jul 25, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 39%
| Hancock (2008) | "
Director Peter Berg mounts a special-effects extravaganza that's very boring indeed, and doesn't quite deafen us to the inadequacies of the script, while Smith pretends to be a grumpy git but, naturally, winds up begging us to love him." — Independent Posted Jun 30, 2008 |
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