Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 40%
| The Lovely Bones (2009) | "
The strangest thing about Jackson's approach is how chaste it is. The whole film is just a bit too tasteful to achieve real catharsis." — Kinetofilm Posted Dec 17, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| Invictus (2009) | "
INVICTUS works better than it deserves to as an old fashioned,predictable entertainment. In another filmmaker's hands the Capra-corn would be just too much." — Kinetofilm Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 36%
| Angels & Demons (2009) | "
It appears that Ron Howard knew that he had to change the way everything was done in the previous film, and sending Tom Hanks to the barber was a very good start." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Paranormal Activity (2009) | "
Expect less and you will appreciate it more. The film isn't unique or even very well made. Peli only seems able to come up with HALF of a good idea throughout the film." — Kinetofilm Posted Nov 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 95%
| Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) | "
What distinguishes this film from others in the genre is the undercurrent of melancholy between the laughs." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Nov 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
While it has the energy and the endless cinematic invention of his early work, the film's command of economical storytelling is something that once eluded Raimi." — Kinetofilm Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 63%
| The Girlfriend Experience (2009) | "
The film is only marginally about sex; it's real subject is business. One can argue cynically that all human relationships are a form of transaction." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Oct 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Trick Baby (1973) | "
This wasn't the standard "pimp and ho show" but rather a smart, character based crime flick about two hustlers just trying to survive in the City of Brotherly Love." — Kinetofilm Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 18%
| The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) | "
The movie works hard for your money and should theoretically be scarier than the cut rate television production. But it's not. Not by a mile." — Kinetofilm Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
Packed with claw-shredding action and adventure, the film more or less delivers what it promises. The problem lies with what it promises." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Sep 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| N/A | The Baron of Arizona (1950) | "
The craziest true story I've never heard of that turned out to be pretty damn true. Even with Fuller shouting his own melodramatic version of the truth at the top of his lungs" — Kinetofilm Posted Aug 29, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
This is a FILM with blood in its veins, a heart in its body and a red hot engine in its chassis. It is alive with ideas and a geniune belief in the power of FILM to express them." — Kinetofilm Posted Aug 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 12%
| The Unborn (2009) | "
There is a senseless scare every 5-7 minutes. Now, after one or two you start to get the giggles but after the third or fourth false scare you begin to Laugh Out Loud." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Jul 15, 2009 |
Fresh 2/5
| Fresh 66%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
There are powerful images that sear into your brain upon contact with your eyes but PUBLIC ENEMIES clearly wants to alienate the audience as much as it engages them." — Kinetofilm Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| N/A | Hide () | "
For two thirds of the film, Hide plays as David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino-lite and not those filmmakers as they are today but as they were in, say, 1994." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Killing Ariel (2008) | "
I don't know how many times I've asked myself, "How come they're aren't more films about the Incubus?" Well, here's one for you." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Jun 21, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 0%
| S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale (2009) | "
The entire project seems to sweat from the exertion of its writer Nathan Atkins and director Chris Fisher to do something-anything-to make the film worthwhile." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Jun 20, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
Somehow pulling off the trick of appealing to the wider mass audience with one foot in Star WARS, the most startling thing about this new TREK is how it avoids being AWFUL." — Kinetofilm Posted May 10, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 94%
| No Country for Old Men (2007) | "
What starts off as the best Charles Bronson movie not to star Charles Bronson ends up as a literary adaptation of a novel that thinks it means something or other." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Quantum of Solace (2008) | "
No one wants to watch Bond chase after Osama Bin Laden and switch off his dialysis machine with a bad one liner. On second thought, maybe that would be great?" — Kinetofilm Posted Mar 29, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Rachel Getting Married (2008) | "
This isn't the kind of melodrama where a happy facade is slowly torn away-the tensions are there from the start and no one has illusions that things are nice and rosy." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
Fresh 2/4
| N/A | True Blood - The Complete First Season () | "
Pity the poor vampire. Walking the earth for eternity and forced to drink blood to survive, he can't even be taken seriously as a monster these days. Except as a metaphor." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 60%
| Quarantine (2008) | "
Real no frills filmmaking. Anything that gets in the way of the main idea is stripped to the bone. This includes certain niceties like character, humor, and even story." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Feb 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Taken (2009) | "
This is not a movie about moral dilemmas-it's about a father who will rip out your eyeballs if you don't give him his daughter back." — Kinetofilm Posted Feb 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 50%
| Taking Chance (2009) | "
Lazy filmmaking that fails to engage anyone who doesn't have a personal connection to the story. It's so well-meaning that it ultimately means nothing much at all." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 15, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Mirrors (2008) | "
In SUSPIRIA, Udo Kier says that "Bad luck isn't caused by broken mirrors, but by broken minds"-Well after making this silly movie, director Alexandre Aja might think otherwise" — Kinetofilm Posted Feb 9, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 20%
| Righteous Kill (2008) | "
Pacino. DeNiro. Armed and dangerous. In a cop drama. In NYC. Together. Written by the writer of Inside Man. Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, what could've gone so wrong?" — CinemaBlend.com Posted Jan 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| Che (2008) | "
Formally, it demonstrates the power of the aspect ratio in deciding our relationship to the story. Dramatically, the film is at once fascinating and completely annoying" — Beyond Hollywood Posted Dec 22, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| Tropic Thunder (2008) | "
Tropic Thunder focuses its satire on this Hollywoodization of war, as it depicts the production of a Vietnam genre film that's less "Platoon" than "Platoon Leader" with Michael Dudikoff." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Dec 6, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 18%
| The Happening (2008) | "
While not as laughable as the narcissistic Lady in the Water ,it fails just as miserably as narrative and even more miserably with its flat characters and tone deaf dialogue." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Oct 12, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 12%
| Deception (2008) | "
This film would make a perfect commercial thriller for James Spader and Rob Lowe were it still 1994." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Sep 28, 2008 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 67%
| Un Flic (1971) | "
Everything that has come to be known as "Melville" exists in some form throughout the film's 98 minutes. The flaws present are those of the greatest auteurs' autumnal works." — PopMatters Posted Sep 23, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 68%
| Redbelt (2008) | "
It's not the characteristically sharp Mamet dialogue that makes Ejiofor effective so much as what he does between the lines: Moments of powerful contemplation and silence." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Sep 3, 2008 |
Fresh 7/10
| N/A | City of Vice (2007) | "
Imagine a sort of CSI:18th Century London spliced with a History Channel documentary and you might end up with something like BBC4's unique program "City of Vice"." — PopMatters Posted Aug 12, 2008 |
Fresh 2/5
| Fresh 60%
| Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2008) | "
While a marked improvement over the utter lameness of Troopers 2, Marauder tries too hard to telegraph its satirical tone..." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Alien Nation Ultimate Movie Collection (1995) | "
While not exactly a masterpiece, the TV Alien Nation was a significant improvement over the shallow original." — PopMatters Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Rotten 5/10
| Fresh 76%
| Joyeux Noël (2006) | "
Nominated for the 2005 Best Foreign Film Academy Award, "Noel" is the kind of sentimental tripe the Academy loves to honor in order to justify their own sentimental tripe." — PopMatters Posted Aug 7, 2008 |
Fresh 6/10
| N/A | They Filmed the War in Color - Victory in Europe/The Pacific War (2002) | "
There is a visceral thrill in these images proving Truffaut's point that an actual anti-war film can never be made since the very nature of warfare makes war exciting." — PopMatters Posted Aug 7, 2008 |
Fresh 8/10
| N/A | Greatest American Hero - Deluxe Collector's (1981) | "
Returning to a show you watched during childhood can be a disappointing experience. But GAM holds up very well and is actually wittier than I understood it to be at the time." — PopMatters Posted Aug 7, 2008 |
Fresh 8/10
| N/A | Inside the Actors Studio - Dave Chappelle (2006) | "
Whatever your feelings towards Chappelle, this interview goes beyond the boundaries of the performing arts into a dialogue that is funny, insightful, and even touching." — PopMatters Posted Aug 7, 2008 |
Rotten 2/10
| N/A | Roy Shaw - Brute Force (2006) | "
The real shame is that Roy's story is riveting stuff and would've made a great honest documentary or at least an amazing '70s crime picture with Oliver Reed as Shaw." — PopMatters Posted Aug 7, 2008 |
Fresh 6/10
| Rotten 55%
| Feast (2006) | "
Feast is too knowing and in its own way, too high profile to be born as cult cinema. But it's a reasonable facsimile and as such deserves a look from the genre connoisseur." — PopMatters Posted Aug 7, 2008 |
Fresh 6/10
| N/A | Dean Martin Double Feature - How To Save A Marriage (And Ruin Your Life)/Who Was That Lady (1960) | "
These are far from Martin's best work, but they serve as documents to his likability." — PopMatters Posted Aug 7, 2008 |
Fresh 5/10
| Fresh 100%
| Puzzlehead (2006) | "
A gothic tale with roots deep in Shelly's Frankenstein. Bai takes the part that most adaptations toss out, the moral education of the monster, and puts it front and center." — PopMatters Posted Aug 7, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 49%
| My Blueberry Nights (2008) | "
It's not Kar-Wai's best work, but cast Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung in the leads, toss in subtitles and some of the same dissenters may be calling it his latest masterpiece." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Jul 6, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 54%
| The Signal (2007) | "
The film is both an impressive "calling card" work for the filmmakers and a failure as an actual film." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Jun 15, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 46%
| Cassandra's Dream (2008) | "
There is an effortless artistry in this film that may have deceived many. It looks like a trifle but it packs a punch." — CinemaBlend.com Posted Jun 2, 2008 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 38%
| Dead Man's Bounty (2007) | "
In attempting to create a shock effect of the new within the old, the baby is tossed out with the bathwater. The core pleasures of genre still have to be respected." — PopMatters Posted May 29, 2008 |
Fresh 4/4
| N/A | Extras - The Complete Second Season () | "
The cleverest conceit of the show is that celebrity doesn't really change a person so much as fan the flames that were burning from the start." — Slant Magazine Posted May 22, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 84%
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) | "
Where the brilliant "Raiders" was an adventure film aimed at the child at heart, "Temple of Doom" is really designed for the kiddie market itself." — CinemaBlend.com Posted May 21, 2008 |
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