Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| The Young Victoria (2009) | "
This Victoria is layered and real, and in turn elevates the film from just another yawn-inducing costume drama." — Washington City Paper Posted Dec 22, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 83%
| Avatar (2009) | "
Adjectives such as "beautiful" and "breathtaking" have been thrown at Avatar, and they're apt. But I'll throw in a third B: Boring." — Washington City Paper Posted Dec 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Me and Orson Welles (2009) | "
McKay embodies the famed director so seamlessly it's enough to recommend this otherwise inoffensively lackluster film." — Washington City Paper Posted Dec 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| Invictus (2009) | "
Subtract the involvement of a historic figure and it's just another sports flick." — Washington City Paper Posted Dec 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Up in the Air (2009) | "
An assured and layered film that's neither drama nor comedy." — Washington City Paper Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| The Road (2009) | "
Mortensen and Smit-McPhee may deliver intense, often gut-wrenching performances, but their journey is too mysterious and soaked in one-note misery to keep you rapt." — Washington City Paper Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
Maybe it's not surprising that it took a fox to help burrow Wes Anderson's head out of his own ass." — Washington City Paper Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (2010) | "
Fails to demystify the man bearing the film's title." — Washington City Paper Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 85%
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) | "
This time, it's not Nicolas Cage's fault: Werner Herzog has lost his mind." — Washington City Paper Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
Being cast as Edward, the Hawtest Vampire of Them All, has, ironically, done Robert Pattinson no favors." — Washington City Paper Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Messenger (2009) | "
A universally relatable drama instead of just another story about Iraq." — Washington City Paper Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| (Untitled) (2009) | "
A very funny and on-the-nose takedown of artsy pretension." — Washington City Paper Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 18%
| The Fourth Kind (2009) | "
Has out-Blair Witch'd The Blair Witch Project." — Washington City Paper Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
By the time the tour was gelling, the Weird One had left the building." — Washington City Paper Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| The Maid (2009) | "
Saavedra is excellent as the embittered title character. As a result, you spend much of the film wanting to punch her in the face." — Washington City Paper Posted Nov 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| An Education (2009) | "
The witty script and excellent performances never sink the film to a black-and-white portrait of a conniving man tricking an innocent girl." — Washington City Paper Posted Nov 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| The Damned United (2009) | "
A film whose likability lies almost completely on the shoulders of Sheen's Clough." — Washington City Paper Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
Pretentious, explicit, and, at times, unequivocally ridiculous." — Washington City Paper Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | "
A ridiculous, white-collar Saw." — Washington City Paper Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
There's too much good here not to forgive the bad." — Washington City Paper Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Paranormal Activity (2009) | "
Holy [bleep]." — Washington City Paper Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Whip It (2009) | "
Honest, touching, and a little sad. Whip It starts off as a tale about letting loose but ends up as one about letting go." — Washington City Paper Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
Zombieland is fun -- no matter how many been-there monsters and done-that misfits are involved." — Washington City Paper Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Somers Town (2009) | "
Nothing much happens, but its workaday plot lines are universally relatable -- the key to keeping this slight film engaging." — Washington City Paper Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 84%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
One man's woe is the audience's tedium." — Washington City Paper Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
The more [Damon] babbles, the more interesting the story gets." — Washington City Paper Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
If the supernaturally good-looking Fox hadn't been cast as the titular succubus, the film might be a bit less compelling than its present good-but-not-great incarnation." — Washington City Paper Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Beaches of Agnes (2009) | "
The flights of fancy settle down toward the film's end and Varda increasingly comes across as a very smart and rather charming citizen of the real world, as opposed to an artist too out-there to be relatable." — Washington City Paper Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| The September Issue (2009) | "
Cutler's access to both Vogue's often frenetic production process as well as to its elusive editor-in-chief trumps the tsks over financial indulgences the film may elicit." — Washington City Paper Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 70%
| My One and Only (2009) | "
A generic road-trip/coming-of-age/up-by-your-bootstraps hybrid." — Washington City Paper Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
It's no Office Space, but it's amiable enough." — Washington City Paper Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Lorna's Silence (2009) | "
The Dardennes are adroit at dangling the carrot, withholding just enough of the story's particulars to keep you curious without testing your patience." — Washington City Paper Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Play the Game (2009) | "
The scene in which Alzheimer's is played as a dating dealbreaker is as stunningly tasteless as Fienberg's zooming-in on Joe's face when he receives his first blowjob." — Washington City Paper Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Cold Souls (2009) | "
More ridiculous than thought-provoking." — Washington City Paper Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
It's not quite on par with the genre-busting Pulp Fiction, but Tarantino's seventh film is just as assuredly paced and remarkably more mature." — Washington City Paper Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| The End of the Line (2009) | "
Informative and alarming, if a little dry in its singular message and barrage of statistics." — Washington City Paper Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
There are no quick, confusing edits to obscure fights or what the aliens look like...most remarkable, though, is how their behavior and mannerisms evoke our own." — Washington City Paper Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
Ephron has crafted a movie that is bursting with butter and sweets yet ends up completely bland." — Washington City Paper Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Paper Heart (2009) | "
A maddeningly meta blend of documentary and fiction that begs you to admire how precious it is." — Washington City Paper Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Welcome to Hollywood (1998) | "
You'll gasp and you'll laugh...and will probably be adding some Ozploitation to your Netflix queue." — Washington City Paper Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
A true departure for Apatow that works a bit better if you know as much going in." — Washington City Paper Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Shrink (2009) | "
Third act brings lazy storytelling, both too clean and too cute. It'd have the pre-redemption Dr. Carter running for his stash." — Washington City Paper Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| Humpday (2009) | "
There's more overanalysis here than in a week's worth of The View." — Washington City Paper Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| In the Loop (2009) | "
Well-orchestrated chaos...but its whiplash, joke-a-second pace may eventually have you tuning out instead of gasping for breath." — Washington City Paper Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
Its strengths negate the preciousness." — Washington City Paper Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) | "
Trades some of Rowling's more delicate charms and foreboding for screen-ready guffaws and black/white conflict. But it's still one of summer's smarter movies." — Washington City Paper Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Moon (2009) | "
A boost to the usually disappointed sci-fi genre; Jones is a director to watch." — Washington City Paper Posted Jul 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Hurt Locker (2009) | "
Even if you think you've had your fill of Iraq stories, this is one of the worthiest -- ironically because the particularity of the conflict is little more than a footnote." — Washington City Paper Posted Jul 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) | "
Ever wish for a cinematic slushie of Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and the cheesiest vampire movie ever made? Welcome to Blood: The Last Vampire." — Washington City Paper Posted Jul 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| The Girl From Monaco (2009) | "
The film's love triangle and subsequent tonal 180 is a head-scratcher that renders it neither a comedy nor drama. What it feels like instead is a trifle -- and not one compelling enough to recommend." — Washington City Paper Posted Jul 2, 2009 |
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