Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 62%
| Carriers (2009) | "
Die-hard horror fans may find this a little on the tame side, while Pucci’s survival rules have a lot in common with Jesse Eisenberg’s in Zombieland. But it’s still a well-crafted gripper, with a nice line in gallows humour." — Total Film Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Rotten 3/5
| Fresh 77%
| The Informant! (2009) | You go in expecting a jaunty caper. What you get, disconcertingly, is a bleak, rather sad study of an unraveling mind. — Heat Magazine Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 39%
| 2012 (2009) | "
Had Emmerich whittled down his overstocked cast and downsized the soap opera, this really would have been a case of Apocalypse Wow. If you’ve an appetite for destruction, though, it’ll still send you home with a smile on your face." — Total Film Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 77%
| Harry Brown (2009) | "
The hero might be Brown, but Harry is black and white in its treatment of inner-city blight. When all the bullets are spent you’re left with the dubious aftertaste of exploitation, but Sir Michael’s charisma keeps you watching." — Total Film Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 53%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | Easily the funniest movie ever to feature a goat-slaying psychic. — Heat Magazine Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 94%
| An Education (2009) | "
It sounds like a creepy tale of a teenage schoolgirl seduced by a pervert. But it’s also one of this year’s most captivating British dramas, with a breakthrough turn from an actress we’ll be seeing a lot more of." — Total Film Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
A concert doc without the concert, this airbrushed vision of Jackson’s final months doesn’t really tally with the tragic reality. Still, it’s hard to take your eyes off the King of Pop as he struts his stuff one last time." — Total Film Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| Goodbye Solo (2009) | "
A beautifully understated story of an unconventional friendship." — Total Film Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 98%
| Up (2009) | "
A coming-of-old-age story that breaks the heart, tickles the funny bone and fires the imagination, Up is a captivating, exuberant delight. And did we mention it contains The Greatest Moment In Movie Animation? Oh." — Total Film Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 71%
| District 13: Ultimatum (2009) | "
An entertaining sequel with a political subtext that doesn't get in the way of the wall-to-wall action." — Channel 4 Film Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Toy Story (1995) | "
There’s no denying 3D adds extra texture to Pixar’s seminal 1995 buddy movie, emphasising Buzz and Woody’s toy’s-eye- view of the world." — Total Film Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 59%
| Creation (2009) | "
This worthy, timely portrait will no doubt figure prominently in next year’s awards season. Would that it had more of the revolutionary daring of Darwin’s writings." — Total Film Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 67%
| The Agent (2009) | "
Lesley Manning's film never shakes off its theatrical roots but still manages to be sharp, funny and engrossing." — Channel 4 Film Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 85%
| Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) | "
The simple plot is as overextended as a compulsive eater’s waistline – but any movie bold enough to warn popcorn-munching filmgoers about obesity has to be applauded. Hell, they might not even finish the bucket…" — Total Film Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 84%
| The September Issue (2009) | "
A frockumentary bound to end up on every fashionista’s must-see list." — Total Film Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 47%
| Dorian Gray (2010) | "
This polished affair is easy on the eye but cold to the touch. You end up wondering why it was made at all, beyond giving lazy schoolkids a pre-exam crib." — Total Film Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 83%
| Broken Embraces (2009) | Entertaining enough with visuals to die for, but definitely not as emotionally rewarding as some of this director's other recent pictures. — Heat Magazine Posted Aug 29, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| Mesrine: Part 2 - Public Enemy #1 (2009) | "
Tonally different to its predecessor but just as engrossing." — Total Film Posted Aug 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 15%
| I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) | "
Mean-spirited and coarse with a shallow girl at its hollow heart, Beth Cooper is Superbad without the super." — Channel 4 Film Posted Aug 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 38%
| The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) | "
You’d go mad unpicking the paradoxes in this convoluted brain scrambler. (If you thought Schwentke’s Flightplan was bonkers, try this one on for size.) Better to surrender to its implausibilities and revel in the lush, sudsy silliness of it all." — Total Film Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 88%
| Sin Nombre (2009) | "
It’s the scenes of immigrants heading north atop moving trains which resonate the most – a testament to Adriano Goldman’s brilliant, expansive cinematography." — Total Film Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 36%
| G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) | "
A silly, cheesy, ineptly executed blockbuster that's unlikely to spawn a series." — Channel 4 Film Posted Aug 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 79%
| Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2009) | "
What follows is episodic enough to make Instinct resemble a TV mini-series. But each fresh incident serves to embellish Mesrine’s reckless character and inch him from man to myth." — Total Film Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 25%
| Land of the Lost (2009) | "
It's not just the land that feels lost in Ferrell's lumbering latest. After Bewitched, you'd have thought he'd have learned to leave old TV shows well alone." — Channel 4 Film Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 25%
| Land of the Lost (2009) | Too rude for kids and too dumb for grown-ups, this laboured romp is a dino-snore. — Heat Magazine Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 24%
| G-Force (2009) | "
This Jerry Bruckheimer production is a surprisingly light-footed caper for cinema’s reigning king of bombast." — Total Film Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Skin (2009) | "
Only the conventional storytelling detracts from a film that serves both as poignant family saga and potent allegory." — Total Film Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 74%
| Just Another Love Story (2009) | "
The grim result might stretch credibility, but that doesn’t make it any less entertaining." — Total Film Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 88%
| Frozen River (2008) | "
Leo and Upham make an unlikely double act in a finely written, well-played film with a striking plot and setting. Hunt’s clearly a name to watch; Leo, meanwhile, can look forward to finally getting the recognition, and roles, she deserves." — Total Film Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 47%
| My Sister's Keeper (2009) | "
Full of clunky voiceovers, corny music and maudlin montages, this manipulative yarn plays with issues of medical morality and parental duty only to discard them in favour of a manipulative paean to valuing life and accepting death." — Total Film Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 38%
| Gigantic (2008) | "
Taking his cue from his leading man’s minimalist, self-effacing performance, director and co-writer Matt Aselton has fashioned a wry homage to eccentricity." — Total Film Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 77%
| The Hangover (2009) | "
Succeeding equally well as rowdy romp, what-happened mystery and man-crush comedy, /The Hangover/ is an unexpected winner." — Total Film Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 70%
| Last Chance Harvey (2008) | "
Hoffman’s undimmed star power papers over the script cracks in an otherwise polished vehicle for his and Thompson’s talents." — Total Film Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 75%
| Anything for Her (2008) | "
Methodically detailing every stage of his daring plan, director Fred Cavayé serves up a taut tale that tantalisingly leaves the question of his incarcerated heroine’s innocence dangling." — Total Film Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 23%
| Jonas Brothers - The Concert Experience (2009) | "
With their fresh-faced image, it’s hard not to snigger when they start spraying the audience with foam guns… Insert your own Freudian interpretation here." — Total Film Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 25%
| Fireflies in the Garden () | "
An impressive ensemble lends heft and humour to this sprawling potboiler. Watchable if never truly memorable, it’s a mid-range work for most involved that still affords the odd guilty pleasure." — Total Film Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 38%
| Awaydays (2009) | "
To its credit, Awaydays does not glamorise its hooligans the way The Football Factory and Green Street did." — Total Film Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 36%
| Angels & Demons (2009) | "
Atoning for The Da Vinci Code’s cardinal sin – thou shalt not bore – this superior sequel zips along at such a lick you can almost forget the story is utter bollocks. At this rate, The Lost Symbol should be a doozy." — Total Film Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 67%
| Synecdoche, New York (2008) | "
Awash with ideas, imagination and structural daring, Kaufman’s latest is an audacious experiment that repays multiple viewings." — Total Film Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| Coraline (2009) | Endlessly inventive and impeccably realised, it’s tough to find fault with this freaky, feisty fable. — Heat Magazine Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 44%
| Hannah Montana The Movie (2009) | "
With its kid-friendly mix of tunes and chaste romance, this is sure to leave its target demographic grinning widely." — Total Film Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 27%
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | "
As much as you’d love to hate it, this jaunty supernatural romcom remains a polished, amusing, surprisingly sweet diversion." — Total Film Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 96%
| Shifty (2008) | Moving, gripping and funny, this is a homegrown gem you can’t help taking to your heart. — Heat Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 39%
| Outlander (2009) | Outlandish would have been a better title for a film that's great fun and quite exciting before eventually outstaying its welcome. — Heat Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 96%
| From Russia with Love (1963) | "
It’s no surprise Connery cites this as his favourite Bond. Would that Quantum had had a fraction of its pace, grace and style." — Total Film Posted Apr 25, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| Tony Manero (2009) | "
Thanks to Castro’s creepy turn, this offbeat tale of a loon locked in his own disco inferno is strange enough to give anyone the heebie-Bee Gees. That said, some may find it hard to take an anti-hero without one redeeming feature." — Total Film Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 28%
| Fast & Furious (2009) | "
Slick action, hot hardware, shame about the screenplay… Still, it’s the best since the original TFATF, and fans of Diesel’s gravel-voiced swagger will get a kick seeing him reprise the role that put him on the map." — Total Film Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 72%
| Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | "
A snappy script and some neat 3D make for an above-average romp with plenty of in-jokes for cineastes and fan-boys alike." — Total Film Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 85%
| Tyson (2009) | "
The result is fascinating yet troubling." — thelondonpaper Posted Mar 28, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 33%
| Knowing (2009) | "
A ticking-clock thriller turned full-blown horror, Alex Proyas’s film isn’t the first to feature Cage wandering about bewilderedly. At least I Am Legend had a dog." — thelondonpaper Posted Mar 28, 2009 |
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