Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) | "
Dazzlingly well made and perhaps deliberately less fanciful than the previous entries, this one is played in a mode closer to palpable life-or-death drama than any of the others and is quite effective as such." — Variety Posted Jul 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Bruno (2009) | "
There is also a pronounced nasty streak to the innumerable provocations staged by the title character that curdles the laughs and wears out the flamboyant Austrian fashionista's welcome within the picture's brief 82-minute running time." — Variety Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 66%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
Overall impact is muted. Oddly, too, the film is somewhat shortchanged by its great star, Johnny Depp, who disappointingly has chosen to play Dillinger as self-consciously cool rather than earthy and gregarious." — Variety Posted Jun 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Speed (1994) | "
Athough it hits any number of gaping credibility potholes on its careening journey around Los Angeles, Speed delivers the goods as a non-stop actioner that scarcely pauses to take a breath." — Variety Posted Jun 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is an efficiently reworked version of a tense, ticking-clock suspense story." — Variety Posted Jun 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 42%
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) | "
The helmer has made a pretty good thing out of a very bad situation in "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"." — Variety Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The White Ribbon (2009) | "
Immaculately crafted in beautiful black-and-white and entirely absorbing through its longish running time." — Variety Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
By turns surprising, nutty, windy, audacious and a bit caught up in its own cleverness, the picture is a completely distinctive piece of American pop art with a strong Euro flavor that's new for the director." — Variety Posted May 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| Agora (2009) | "
The mother of all secular humanists fights a losing battle against freshly minted religious zealots in “Agora,” a visually imposing, high-minded epic." — Variety Posted May 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
Lars von Trier cuts a big fat art-film fart with "Antichrist." As if deliberately courting critical abuse, the Danish bad boy densely packs this theological-psychological horror opus with grotesque, self-consciously provocative images." — Variety Posted May 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
A sort of let's-put-on-a-show summer-camp lark for director Ang Lee after the dramatic rigors of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Lust, Caution," the picture serves up intermittent pleasures but is too raggedy and laid-back for its own good." — Variety Posted May 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
Breaking through any period piece mustiness with piercing insight into the emotions and behavior of her characters." — Variety Posted May 15, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Tetro (2009) | "
The angst-ridden treatment of Oedipal issues makes the picture play out like a passably talented imitation of O'Neill, Williams, Miller and Inge, and thus it feels like the pale product of an over-tilled field." — Variety Posted May 14, 2009 |
— | N/A | Vigo (1998) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted May 6, 2009 |
— | Rotten 26%
| Anna Karenina (1997) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted May 1, 2009 |
— | Fresh 85%
| Caught (1996) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | "
A second-rate sex farce...mostly clunky and vaguely unsavory." — Variety Posted Apr 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
Blasting onto the screen at warp speed and remaining there for two hours, the new and improved Star Trek will transport fans to sci-fi nirvana." — Variety Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
— | Fresh 63%
| Chaplin (1992) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Up (2009) | "
[Up] could easily have been cloying, but instead proves disarming in its deep reserves of narrative imagination and surprise, as well as its poignant thematic balance of dreams deferred and dreams fulfilled." — Variety Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
It just feels tired and recycled -- the referencing of Rimbaud and Blake, the flagrant hipsterism that here falsifies rather than refreshes...the above-it-all attitude toward connecting on a human level." — Variety Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Tyson (2009) | "
Although straightforward in format, the film capitalizes on an obviously intense connection between filmmaker and subject with psychological acuity and emotional power." — Variety Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
— | Rotten 36%
| Boesman & Lena (2000) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
— | N/A | Gamera - Guardian of the Universe (1995) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
— | N/A | Too Tired To Die (1998) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| The Soloist (2009) | "
Neither rarefied art film nor widely accessible inspirational drama, The Soloist falls between the cracks both creatively and commercially." — Variety Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| X2: X-Men United (2003) | "
Bigger and more ambitious in every respect, from its action and visceral qualities to its themes." — Variety Posted Apr 15, 2009 |
— | Rotten 54%
| Velvet Goldmine (1998) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 15, 2009 |
— | Rotten 15%
| Surviving Eden (2006) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| State of Play (2009) | "
This efficient, admirably coherent thriller about reporters digging down to where politics and murder meet in Washington, D.C., has a wistful air about it as regards the fourth estate at a time when the profession is dangling by a thread." — Variety Posted Apr 14, 2009 |
— | Fresh 83%
| Love & a .45 (1994) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 8, 2009 |
— | Fresh 78%
| CSA: The Confederate States of America (2006) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 8, 2009 |
— | N/A | Silvia Prieto (1999) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 8, 2009 |
— | Rotten 50%
| How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
— | N/A | Delinquent (1997) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
— | Fresh 74%
| Secretary (2002) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Fast & Furious (2009) | "
By far the weakest entry of the four." — Variety Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
— | Fresh 63%
| House of Cards (1992) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
— | N/A | Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
— | Fresh 93%
| Fast, Cheap, & Out of Control (1997) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 31, 2009 |
— | Fresh 83%
| Hands On a Hard Body (1998) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 31, 2009 |
— | Fresh 75%
| Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
— | Rotten 45%
| Planet of the Apes (2001) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
— | Fresh 66%
| CQ (2002) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
— | Rotten 20%
| Daylight (1996) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
— | Rotten 13%
| Driven (2001) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
— | Fresh 100%
| A Certain Kind of Death (2005) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
— | Rotten 38%
| Pumpkin (2002) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
— | Fresh 84%
| Citizen Ruth (1996) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
— | Fresh 87%
| Mother (1996) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
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