Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 45%
| Everybody's Fine (2009) | "
Everybody should see Everybody's Fine. But one piece of advice: Phone home first." — Washington Post Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 90%
| Up in the Air (2009) | "
Up in the Air is a timeless movie that's utterly of its time -- a movie of humor, heart and mind." — Washington Post Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 92%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
Adds yet another wry, carefully composed bibelot to the cabinet of curios that defines the Anderson oeuvre." — Washington Post Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 71%
| The Road (2009) | "
The Road possesses undeniable sweep and a grim kind of grandeur, but it ultimately plays like a zombie movie with literary pretensions." — Washington Post Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 85%
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) | "
Like a jumpy, coke-fueled Pied Piper, Cage takes viewers to the very precipice of depraved self-abasement, while preserving just enough self-conscious humor to keep from tumbling in." — Washington Post Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 71%
| The Blind Side (2009) | "
While it's possible to be enormously entertained and moved by The Blind Side, it's also possible to harbor a twinge of misgiving." — Washington Post Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 91%
| Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) | "
Surely qualifies as the most painful, poetic and improbably beautiful film of the year." — Washington Post Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 53%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
The sense of emotional detachment keeps things feeling smooth and low-key, but, as is clear in the film's last few scenes, the playful tone shades into the simply trivial, which in the setting doesn't quite play." — Washington Post Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 83%
| A Woman in Berlin (2008) | "
A clear-eyed portrait of a highly charged chapter in Germany's history, a history that once again proves rewarding fodder for an alert artistic imagination." — Washington Post Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 94%
| An Education (2009) | "
A beguiling little film that, with deceptive restraint and forthrightness, opens up worlds of roiling, contradictory emotions." — Washington Post Posted Nov 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Good Hair (2009) | "
Good Hair, directed by longtime Rock collaborator Jeff Stilson, is such a rollicking, thoroughly entertaining ride that it's easy to take for granted just how easy Rock makes it look." — Washington Post Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Coco Before Chanel (2009) | "
This refreshing alternative to the usual potted biopic provides an absorbing look at a singular, steely determination as it was forged and annealed, long before it made itself known to the world." — Washington Post Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love (2009) | "
By far the most powerful element is N'Dour's lone voice, a thing of high, pure beauty that feels at once ancient and new. When he sings, an otherwise earnestly conventional film becomes a vehicle of incantatory power." — Washington Post Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| A Serious Man (2009) | "
Mostly, A Serious Man succeeds because it engages questions worth asking. What is integrity? Does our atavistic need for stories illuminate the meaning of life or further obfuscate it? What does it mean to be good and how are we to achieve it?" — Washington Post Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| The Horse Boy (2009) | "
The Horse Boy is a lovely, amazing, wonderfully provocative film." — Washington Post Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
[Jonze has] achieved with the cinematic medium what Sendak did with words and pictures: He's grasped something true and terrifying about love at its most unconditional and voracious." — Washington Post Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
Soderbergh is a good listener, too, always alert to the myriad ways his characters reveal, conceal and finally betray themselves in thought, word and deed." — Washington Post Posted Sep 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| World's Greatest Dad (2009) | "
As a filmmaker seeking to master the art of satire without cynicism, Bobcat Goldthwait might be one sick puppy -- but he's also the sweetest one we've got." — Washington Post Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 6%
| All About Steve (2009) | "
If Bullock in her comfort zone is a thing of real, if modest pleasure, watching as she contorts herself into a role that's all wrong for her is singularly excruciating." — Washington Post Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 49%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
If you stick with this wistful, fitfully funny little trip, you will be rewarded with a movie that makes up in warmth, humanism and self-effacing modesty what it lacks in crackerjack pacing and epic pop-historical grandeur." — Washington Post Posted Aug 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Cold Souls (2009) | "
These pitch-perfect moments, as well as Giamatti's performance as an artist driven to a personal and creative brink, make Cold Souls, if not always coherent, at least compelling." — Washington Post Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 45%
| Shorts (2009) | "
If parents feel like they've seen much of Shorts before, its celebration of mayhem and restless, thrill-seeking vibe will absorb young viewers, especially as the boredom of late summer begins to set in." — Washington Post Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
For all its visual bravura and occasional bursts of antic inspiration, it feels trivial, the work of a kid who can't stop grabbing his favorite shiny plaything." — Washington Post Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Soul Power (2009) | "
Soul Power turns out to be an unusually resonant time capsule, one that weaves together theatrics, musicianship, cosmopolitanism and sharp political critique in a vibrant look-back that's at once celebratory and wistful." — Washington Post Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) | "
The audience will no doubt laugh on cue as The Goods hits its marks with dutiful predictability, but they shouldn't be surprised if they come to feel like they've been had." — Washington Post Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Paper Heart (2009) | "
Unlike the sublime (500) Days of Summer, which also had to do with young romance, ambivalence and rethinking the notion of happy endings, Paper Heart never transcends its twee, hyper-self-aware niche." — Washington Post Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
Streep and Tucci enjoy a terrific, infectious onscreen chemistry as soul mates for whom food and entertaining were part of one long, sensuous continuum." — Washington Post Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
It's that rare mainstream Hollywood movie that feels genuinely spontaneous, unafraid to keep the audience just a little bit confounded and off-balance." — Washington Post Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Orphan (2009) | "
Surely writers David Leslie Johnson and Alex Mace deserve their own circle of hell for thinking up the story, which moves with breathtaking cynicism from disturbing to grotesque to perverse to ludicrous." — Washington Post Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Afghan Star (2009) | "
In its vivid, suspenseful depiction of a high-stakes competition for prize money and the honor of being named Afghanistan's top singer, Afghan Star goes much deeper." — Washington Post Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Hurt Locker (2009) | "
The Hurt Locker is about Iraq in the same way that Paths of Glory was about World War I or Full Metal Jacket was about Vietnam -- which is to say, utterly and not at all. The Hurt Locker is a great movie, period." — Washington Post Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 67%
| Bruno (2009) | "
Brüno is no Borat." — Washington Post Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Whatever Works (2009) | "
This toxic, contemptuous, unforgivably unfunny bagatelle finds Allen at his most misanthropically one-note." — Washington Post Posted Jul 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 47%
| My Sister's Keeper (2009) | "
An adaptation that, although departing dramatically from such key elements as the book's ending, will please fans." — Washington Post Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
This absorbing film looks terrific and does a superb job of making its case that our current food ways are drastically out of whack." — Washington Post Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| The Proposal (2009) | "
Just looking at the poster for The Proposal, a by-the-numbers romantic comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, tells you exactly how it's all gonna go down." — Washington Post Posted Jun 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 66%
| Away We Go (2009) | "
Feels like a welcome respite from the false happily-ever-afters of most mainstream movies." — Washington Post Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Up (2009) | "
Pixar has done it again, in every best way possible." — Washington Post Posted May 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Goodbye Solo (2009) | "
Bahrani's new movie, Goodbye Solo, offers further proof that he is one of the best reasons to keep going to the movies." — Washington Post Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
A movie that, against all odds, has miraculously resurrected a wheezing but beloved franchise." — Washington Post Posted May 7, 2009 |
— | Fresh 94%
| Medium Cool (1969) |
Click here to read article — Washington Post Posted May 7, 2009 |
— | Rotten 19%
| Meet Dave (2008) |
Click here to read article — Washington Post Posted May 7, 2009 |
— | Fresh 74%
| Sunshine (2007) |
Click here to read article — Washington Post Posted May 7, 2009 |
— | Rotten 56%
| The Big Tease (1999) |
Click here to read article — Washington Post Posted May 7, 2009 |
— | N/A | The Exiles (1990) |
Click here to read article — Washington Post Posted May 7, 2009 |
— | N/A | Blood (2004) |
Click here to read article — Washington Post Posted May 7, 2009 |
— | Fresh 80%
| Kiss Me Kate (1953) |
Click here to read article — Washington Post Posted May 7, 2009 |
— | Fresh 92%
| Of Time and the City (2009) |
Click here to read article — Washington Post Posted May 7, 2009 |
— | Rotten 56%
| Days of Glory (1944) |
Click here to read article — Washington Post Posted May 7, 2009 |
— | Fresh 74%
| Idiocracy (2006) |
Click here to read article — Washington Post Posted May 7, 2009 |
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