Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 97%
| The Hurt Locker (2009) | "
Psychologically acute and thrillingly dramatic, The Hurt Locker blows every other Iraq war movie off the screen." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 71%
| Bruno (2009) | "
I don't know how many more times Baron Cohen can go undercover, but it looks as if he'll never run out of bigotry, idiocy and hypocrisy to spoof." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 46%
| Whatever Works (2009) | "
Whatever Works isn't topnotch Woody Allen, but it's still immensely funny." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| Moon (2009) | "
Directed with a sure hand by Duncan Jones, Moon is the anti-Transformers, a science fiction tale that owes as much to fiction as to science." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 66%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
It fits neatly on the shelf with Bonnie and Clyde and The Godfather." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 44%
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | "
Let us thank the producers of Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs for remembering that adults sit beside the youngest viewers." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 51%
| Cheri (2009) | "
Chéri is a sad, intelligent film about coming of age late in life, looking in the mirror and wondering, "What happened?"" — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 56%
| The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009) | "
A riveting account of oppression, injustice and defiance." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 44%
| My Sister's Keeper (2009) | "
Uneven but deeply moving." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 97%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
Food, Inc. tackles a vast problem, but sends us home with glimmers of hope." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 25, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 19%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
I've just spent 2 1/2 hours watching a movie and another hour thinking about what I saw and I have no earthly idea what Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is about." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 50%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
Set in a nightmare New York City, the subway hostage thriller batters our nerves like a tom-tom." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 66%
| Away We Go (2009) | "
By my count, two episodes succeed and half a dozen fall flat. Your mileage may vary." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 73%
| Departures (2009) | "
One of the most shameless examples of emotional manipulation I've seen -- and one of the most effective." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 93%
| Summer Hours (2009) | "
While the ideas are worth considering, director Olivier Assayas moves the story at an escargot's pace, and the characters are gossamer thin." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 92%
| Revanche (2009) | "
This cool, tense Austrian thriller follows a Ukrainian hooker and her petty criminal boyfriend as they try to escape their dead-end lives." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 28%
| Land of the Lost (2009) | "
This isn't the Land of the Lost you remember from childhood, but get on its antisocial wavelength and it's fitfully laugh-out-loud funny." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 70%
| Rudo and Cursi (2009) | "
Carlos Cuaron, Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Y Tu Mama También, makes his directorial debut with this easygoing sports movie/family drama/musical comedy/crime story." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 93%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
The characters are solid, the shocks are grab-your-heart-medicine scary, the story glides from twist to twist with diabolical grace. And it's damned funny." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 28, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 97%
| Up (2009) | "
From the title onward, Up is a stratospheric success. It's guaranteed to lift your spirits, and not with a pushy DreamWorks-style gag reel of celebrity voices and committee-processed one-liners." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 28, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 85%
| Three Monkeys (2009) | "
The pace is deliberate, sometimes slow, but the whirlpool pull of this tragic psychological thriller is irresistible." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 58%
| The Girlfriend Experience (2009) | "
Nobody listens in this film; everyone's just waiting for their turn to talk. At the end of the movie, everyone is alone and you have the feeling they'll stay that way." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 38%
| Gigantic (2008) | "
The characters are richly layered and well acted. John Goodman is a standout as Deschanel's dad, a rich blowhard with a sweet candy center." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 92%
| Every Little Step (2009) | "
They want the recognition we all want, and the film persuades you that almost every one of them deserves it." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 62%
| The Brothers Bloom (2009) | "
The leads have zero comedic skills, but you can tell they're being funny because they all wear sarcastic hats." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 44%
| Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) | "
The sequel to the big family hit Night at the Museum struggles with a big creative challenge. The sense of wonderment you feel in seeing museum displays magically come to life is not as strong the second time around." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 32%
| Terminator Salvation (2009) | "
The Terminator franchise was built on thrills, imagination, narrative, emotion, believability, character development and watchability. Terminator Salvation has plenty of thrills." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| Tyson (2009) | "
A revealing portrait of the troubled Mike Tyson elicits horror and sympathy." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 92%
| Tokyo Sonata (2009) | "
A realistic social drama, but the story taps deep, cold wellsprings of dread." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 14, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 33%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
This interminable trifle from indie icon Jim Jarmusch aims to be the last word in ironic cool, but it comes across as the work of a fatigued dilettante." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 14, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 37%
| Angels & Demons (2009) | "
Even though the sluggish Da Vinci Code is an easy act to follow. There's not a moment of inspiration on display here, but ample craft and professional technique." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 96%
| Tulpan (2008) | "
Equal parts deadpan romcom and National Geographic special, Tulpan certainly the funniest movie about Kazakh sheep herders that you will ever see." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 92%
| The Lemon Tree (2008) | "
Lemon Tree offers the bittersweet satisfaction of understanding a thorny situation a bit better. In a uniformly strong cast, Hiam Abbass is outstanding as the proud, lovely Salma." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 7, 2009 |
Rotten .5/4
| Rotten 18%
| Next Day Air (2009) | "
A fiasco. A flop. A failure's failure. Next Day Air aims low but still misses the target." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 55%
| Lymelife (2009) | "
Overall the film feels like The Ice Storm or American Beauty on training wheels, but Martini's next efforts could be well worth watching." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 98%
| Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) | "
It's an affectionate portrait of performers starving for applause, achingly funny as only real life can be." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
This is really the story of how the Enterprise crew meets, hammers out its differences and becomes a team, and the telling is pure bliss." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 67%
| Is Anybody There? (2009) | "
The story flirts with sticky sentimentality but never quite falls into the trap, thanks to Caine's masterful presence." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 46%
| Battle for Terra (2009) | "
Naive but ambitious, it comes across as a Battlestar Galactica vetted by pacifists, Clone Wars neutered for Saturday morning kids' TV." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 28%
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | "
Douglas, radiating an arid narcissism, does look as if he was recently exhumed. Whether this is a deliberate makeup choice or unfortunate lighting is hard to guess." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
A crude blunderbuss of a superhero movie, X-Men Origins: Wolverine proves that the greatest supervillains confronting Marvel Comics' shape-shifters, lycanthropes and mind-readers are clumsy directors and sloppy screenwriters." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 15%
| The Informers (2009) | "
TMZ with phony gravitas. Ellis' stories had more oomph before drug-crazed screwups like Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan and Amy Winehouse became the center of the Internet news cycle." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 74%
| Tokyo! (2009) | "
Overall, Tokyo! is two-thirds of a good movie." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 41%
| Fighting (2009) | "
It's all footnotes, hardly any main story, and overcompensates by jacking up the violence." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 85%
| Earth (2009) | "
A splendid wildlife documentary." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 93%
| Sugar (2009) | "
Put this one in the Win column." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 55%
| The Soloist (2009) | "
The Soloist is pitch-perfect, a sensitive rendering of challenging social and emotional themes." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 58%
| Paris 36 (2008) | "
It's an overstuffed homage to a bygone style of show business rather than a vigorous piece of entertainment on its own." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 94%
| Moscow, Belgium (2008) | "
A romantic drama, interwoven with bright ribbons of humor." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 89%
| Sin Nombre (2009) | "
This is a stunning feature debut for director Cary Fukunaga. The story borrows from road movies and crime thrillers, but the scenes and situations vibrate with authenticity." — Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted Apr 16, 2009 |
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