Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 10%
| I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) | "
The charmlessness of its central characters -- Rust's charisma-challenged Denis, Panettiere's Barbie-hard and vacuous Beth -- makes this putative farce all the more difficult to endure." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 97%
| The Hurt Locker (2009) | "
Like all the best war movies -- no matter what war, what era -- The Hurt Locker goes to the core of human nature." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 44%
| The Girl From Monaco (2009) | "
At best diverting, at worst an almost self-parodic compendium of French film cliches." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 88%
| Moon (2009) | "
In the end, Moon raises disturbing ethical questions about science and bioengineering, but it's the emotional questions the film poses -- about memory, about family, about identity -- that really resonate." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jul 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 66%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
Ultimately, the movie's a bust." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 25%
| Little Ashes (2009) | "
A bravely earnest and gauzy bit of biography." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 46%
| Whatever Works (2009) | "
Allen and David do stuff in Whatever Works that shouldn't work but does." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 44%
| My Sister's Keeper (2009) | "
My Sister's Keeper offers a couple of twists, one of them crucial and the other cruelly unnecessary and melodramatic." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 97%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
It's not a pretty picture. But Food, Inc. is an essential one." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jun 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 93%
| Pressure Cooker (2009) | "
A heart-grabbing, awe-inspiring work that needs no embellishment." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jun 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 67%
| The Merry Gentleman (2009) | "
A sly and surprisingly sublime little noir romance, which marks the directing debut of Michael Keaton." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jun 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 87%
| O'Horten (2009) | "
Not quite the absurdist gem that was Bent Hamer's 2004 release, Kitchen Stories, the Norwegian director's O'Horten is nonetheless a deadpan delight." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jun 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 50%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
As Ryder's motives begin to reveal themselves, The Taking of Pelham 123 loses its aura of post-9/11 dread, replaced by a muddled commentary on Wall Street greed in these days of raging financial crises." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jun 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| The Hangover (2009) | "
Phillips, with a script credited to Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (and with loads of loose-limbed interpretations from the cast), captures the amity among a group of grown men set loose without spouses, girlfriends, or sobriety to hinder them. (Or help.)" — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 28%
| Land of the Lost (2009) | "
Not exactly a hundred million dollars' worth of classic comedy." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 50%
| Easy Virtue (2009) | "
Full of forced jocularity and drawing-room hissy fits, with its cast parading around in vintage threads and antique cars, Easy Virtue is a close-to-insufferable souffle based on the 1925 Noel Coward play." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 95%
| Under the Sea 3D (2009) | "
The footage is spectacular, the colors electric, the life aquatic trippier than anything you'll see in even the most wildly imaginative animated fare." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 70%
| Rudo and Cursi (2009) | "
[Has] a mess of cultural issues to reckon with, and Rudo y Cursi deals with them while offering an engaging rags-to-riches sports fantasy." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 93%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
With the same twisted humor Raimi displayed in Evil Dead and Army of Darkness, his Drag Me to Hell is wickedly jolly and disturbingly frightening -- often at the same time." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 28, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 58%
| The Girlfriend Experience (2009) | "
Coldly voyeuristic, the film is a piece of cultural anthropology that doesn't even pretend to get into the soul of its characters." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 32%
| Terminator Salvation (2009) | "
Message to Hollywood: Stop with the time-travel stuff." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 44%
| Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) | "
A super-size rehash of the original." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 93%
| Summer Hours (2009) | "
Quietly and keenly observed." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 46%
| Management (2009) | "
A likably oddball romantic comedy about a traveling saleswoman and a motel night manager who won't leave her alone." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 33%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
For the impatient viewer, Jarmusch's pulpy, poetic exercise will probably feel hopelessly, unintentionally parodic, prompting disdain and derision. Consider yourself warned -- not everyone's going to go for this business. But I did." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 94%
| Goodbye Solo (2009) | "
A quietly soulful study of two very different men." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| Tyson (2009) | "
Deploying multiple split screens and a discreet but effective score, Tyson is hugely engrossing at the same time that it is not entirely credible." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
There's little of the seen-it-all, wise-guy acerbity that made his character in the X-Men trilogy stand apart from his fellow mutants. Here, he just glowers." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 67%
| Is Anybody There? (2009) | "
Caine moves through the less-than-surprising story line, shaking things up not with an actorly flamboyance but with a heartbreaking sense of quiet tragedy and regret." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 55%
| Lymelife (2009) | "
The cast is ferociously good, bringing an edgy unpredictability to familiar scenarios of infidelity, alienation, and betrayal." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 71%
| American Violet (2009) | "
A torn-from-the-headlines tale of institutional racism and injustice in the Lone Star State of not-so-long-ago, American Violet might not be subtle, but it's certainly powerful." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 74%
| Earth (1999) |
Click here to read article — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 76%
| Shall We Kiss? (2008) | "
Impossibly charming and impossibly French, Shall We Kiss? is a comic romance full of rueful musings about fidelity and true love." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 93%
| Sugar (2009) | "
Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's film is a modest but masterful triumph." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 85%
| Earth (2009) | "
A wide-screen wildlife documentary in which the cycles of birth and death, migrations and seasons, are captured in stunning -- absolutely stunning -- ways." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 90%
| Hunger (2008) | "
Hunger is daunting and powerful work." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| 12 (2007) | "
Full of passion and speechifying, 12 is unmistakably Russian in spirit and sensibility, but its themes are universal at their core." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 74%
| Tokyo! (2009) | "
Tokyo! is a must-see for the Gondry segment, and a strange, diverting pleasure for the rest." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 51%
| Observe and Report (2009) | "
As funny as it is sick (and it's plenty of both)." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 89%
| Sin Nombre (2009) | "
[Director] Fukunaga's startlingly impressive first feature is almost ruthless in its depiction of the brutality and degradation confronting the hidden hordes that cross rivers and hop trains trying to get to the United States." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| N/A | Mississippi Damned (2009) | "
Exceptionally fine performances elevate what could have been a pile-it-on melodrama into something deeper and more unsettling." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 59%
| Surveillance (2009) | "
For a time, Surveillance is sick, smart fun. But then things get weird: yes, there's a big surprise, but its playout is predictable, and nasty." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 88%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
Adventureland mixes the intimate, indie vibe of Daytrippers with the absurdist screwball streak of Superbad, to winning effect." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 35%
| Alien Trespass (2009) | "
At a certain point you find yourself thinking, why not watch the real It Came From Outer Space, instead of this mildly amusing replica?" — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 100%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
An engagingly breezy tale about a guy with a broken heart and the girl who broke it." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Mar 26, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 72%
| Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | "
An amalgam of the vintage sci-fier Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman and Pixar's Monsters Inc., Monsters vs. Aliens is a goofy computer-animated romp that works just fine in the traditional moviegoing format." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Mar 26, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 35%
| The Edge of Love (2009) | "
A stagy, arty, and uncompelling account of the Welsh writer and his menage-y relations with his boozy Irish wife and his young Welsh girlfriend." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 32%
| Knowing (2009) | "
A weird and gloomy existential thriller." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 73%
| The Great Buck Howard (2009) | "
Malkovich, mixing the magician shtick with a dogged resiliency, a dab of pathos, and more than a bit of mystery (did he really just hypnotize 300 people?), is simply a joy to watch." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 66%
| Duplicity (2009) | "
Aiming for a romantic-caper vibe, Duplicity zips from one elaborate piece of hugger-mugger to the next. But at a certain point, boredom sets in." — Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
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