Fresh B+
| Fresh 67%
| The Merry Gentleman (2009) | "
Michael Keaton the actor should work with Michael Keaton the director more." — Detroit News Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 11%
| I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) | "
A sweet effort that touches all the bases that have been touched so many times before." — Detroit News Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 70%
| Bruno (2009) | "
Outrageous, unnerving, brave, topical, revealing, appalling and consistently hilarious, Brüno manages to be both cutting-edge cultural commentary and post-modern comic genius." — Detroit News Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 46%
| Whatever Works (2009) | "
The result is a witty, well-played work without an adequate center. If you can get past that, Whatever Works does." — Detroit News Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 44%
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | "
Nobody seems to be working too hard in Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs." — Detroit News Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 66%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
More interesting than involving, Public Enemies focuses on history at the expense of the characters that lived that history. It's all story without emotional impact." — Detroit News Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 97%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
If you are what you eat, we are mostly genetically modified, poorly regulated, unhealthy meat byproducts generating profits for a few gargantuan corporations." — Detroit News Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 51%
| Cheri (2009) | "
There just isn't enough beneath the surface in Cheri to justify all the talent on hand." — Detroit News Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 77%
| Big Man Japan (2009) | "
Somewhere there is a stranger film than Big Man Japan, but it would be hard to find." — Detroit News Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 56%
| The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009) | "
The film comes perilously close to reveling in the horror while revealing it. And dramatically, this is distressingly simple-minded fare: ugliness leads to ugliness." — Detroit News Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 44%
| My Sister's Keeper (2009) | "
A surprisingly lovely movie about an absolutely awful subject, My Sister's Keeper features what also may be the year's first performance worthy of Oscar mention." — Detroit News Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 19%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
A great grinding garbage disposal of a movie, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen isn't so much a narrative film as a cacophonous series of explosions intermittently interrupted by needless dialogue." — Detroit News Posted Jun 23, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 46%
| The Proposal (2009) | "
A straight-ahead romantic comedy that relies on the considerable charms of its stars, The Proposal feels so comfortable and familiar you might feel like you've seen it before." — Detroit News Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 87%
| O'Horten (2009) | "
Pointedly strange and whimsical, O'Horten mixes the surreal with the mundane in its depiction of the retirement and eventual rebirth of a train engineer." — Detroit News Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 17%
| Year One (2009) | "
Year One is a good short skit drawn out far, far too long, another big, dumb offering to the summer movie gods that is unlikely to appease or please anyone." — Detroit News Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 66%
| Away We Go (2009) | "
It's hardly painful, but it's not exactly thrilling, either." — Detroit News Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 46%
| Management (2009) | "
Management has two things going for it: Steve Zahn and Jennifer Aniston. Luckily, those are two very good things." — Detroit News Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 50%
| Easy Virtue (2009) | "
These are good actors telling a good story, so the virtue is indeed easy to grasp, and a fine time should be had by all." — Detroit News Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 50%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 is a near-perfect summer entertainment thriller that shows good story, good director and good actors trump gaudy special effects any day." — Detroit News Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 28%
| Land of the Lost (2009) | "
When it comes to movies, there's good stupid and there's just plain stupid. Land of the Lost is just plain stupid, and that's not good." — Detroit News Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 78%
| The Hangover (2009) | "
Superbly cast, well-written and so silly it makes your teeth ache." — Detroit News Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 11%
| My Life in Ruins (2009) | "
Fans of fluff comedies filled with soft smiles and knowing glances will likely welcome the return of Nia Vardalos in My Life in Ruins." — Detroit News Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh A+
| Fresh 97%
| Up (2009) | "
There are not words enough to express how good Up is." — Detroit News Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 93%
| Summer Hours (2009) | "
A sweet pearl of a French film, Summer Hours may work as a perfect antidote for those seeking refuge from the summer blockbuster season." — Detroit News Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 44%
| Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) | "
Battle of the Smithsonian is packed with odd characters, eccentric arguments and ornate special effects, and while it's never transcendently funny enough to be seriously impressive, it is chock full of family-friendly giggles." — Detroit News Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Rotten 32%
| Terminator Salvation (2009) | "
It is a fast, gritty-yet-slick, bombastic modern action film filled with tortured souls. It's not exactly a gas -- how much post-apocalypse fun can be had? -- but it is often electrifying and always entertaining." — Detroit News Posted May 20, 2009 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 71%
| American Violet (2009) | "
A well-played if too-familiar story of oppression and injustice." — Detroit News Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 92%
| The Lemon Tree (2008) | "
This is a film about a problem, not a solution, and it's effectively upsetting." — Detroit News Posted May 15, 2009 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 86%
| Tyson (2009) | "
Something of a cliché." — Detroit News Posted May 15, 2009 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 37%
| Angels & Demons (2009) | "
[It's] not anti-Catholic. It is, however, anti-exciting, anti-sense and anti-involving." — Detroit News Posted May 15, 2009 |
— | Fresh 93%
| Sugar (2009) | "
This is a film that finds certain purity in disillusionment and freedom in failure. Which may not be sweet, but it is tasty." — Detroit News Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 67%
| Is Anybody There? (2009) | "
The result is a film that's funny, sad and oddly brave." — Detroit News Posted May 8, 2009 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 18%
| Next Day Air (2009) | "
First-time feature director Benny Boom and writer Blair Cobbs get a lot of help from their cast, and the banter is often akin to a thug Three Stooges routine. But blood and predictability sour things in the end." — Detroit News Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
A film that should appeal to longtime Trekkies, sci-fi neophytes and pretty much anybody who likes a good action flick." — Detroit News Posted May 7, 2009 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 55%
| Lymelife (2009) | "
The dysfunctional suburban family drama has become so ubiquitous that the genre has lost all impact." — Detroit News Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
How do you make mutants dull?" — Detroit News Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 28%
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | "
Please, ladies, don't go see this movie. (Chances are most men would rather put out their eyes than go see a film with such a title.)" — Detroit News Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 98%
| Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) | "
A study in the cost of pursuing a dream that's probably the wrong dream, Anvil! The Story of Anvil looks for the high notes but doesn't -- or can't -- shy away from the lows." — Detroit News Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Rotten F
| Rotten 15%
| The Informers (2009) | "
The Informers is such a wretched piece of garbage that there's a certain amount of guilt attached to even writing about it." — Detroit News Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 41%
| Fighting (2009) | "
Disarmingly entertaining." — Detroit News Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 55%
| The Soloist (2009) | "
The Soloist foregoes easy solutions, and even more importantly, it foregoes any easy sense of friendship." — Detroit News Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 89%
| Sin Nombre (2009) | "
Brutal, wrenching and filled with desperation and meanness, Sin Nombre signals a major new talent in writer-director Cary Fukunaga, who never flinches while telling a story so grim and sad it moves beyond tears to numbness." — Detroit News Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 85%
| Earth (2009) | "
This is a film that doesn't know when to shut up and gaze in wonder." — Detroit News Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Rotten B
| Fresh 85%
| State of Play (2009) | "
State of Play makes you wonder where we'll be in a decade; more importantly, it makes you wonder where we are now." — Detroit News Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 56%
| 17 Again (2009) | "
It could be better, it could be worse." — Detroit News Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 76%
| Shall We Kiss? (2008) | "
Equal parts ridiculous and romantic, Shall We Kiss is an airy French puff pastry of a film, delicate and sweet, if lacking in any heavy nutritional content." — Detroit News Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 46%
| Hannah Montana The Movie (2009) | "
Mawkish but energized." — Detroit News Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 51%
| Observe and Report (2009) | "
Writer-director Jody Hill is obviously trying to accomplish something here. But just what is none too clear." — Detroit News Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 28%
| Fast & Furious (2009) | "
This franchise is out of gas." — Detroit News Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 92%
| Revanche (2009) | "
Revanche, a recent Austrian entry in the foreign film Oscar race, is both shocking in its starkness and subtle in its low seethe of dangerous intent." — Detroit News Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
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