Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a bewildering, noisy, sloppy, cynical piece of work, a movie that sneers at the audience for 147 minutes and expects us to lap it up as entertainment -- and be grateful." — Village Voice Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| The Proposal (2009) | "
You know every tinny beat and false note by heart, from the implausible setup to the sprint-to-the-airport finish." — Village Voice Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Up (2009) | "
Rest assured, it gets funny. And it's thrilling, too, as the third act takes place almost entirely in the sky." — Village Voice Posted May 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| The Brothers Bloom (2009) | "
Johnson has infused The Brothers Bloom with so much heart and beauty that one can and should easily overlook its discomfiting moments." — Village Voice Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
It's enough to move even a Star Wars fan to tears." — Village Voice Posted May 5, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
Most of the action is a mere replay of a single sequence: Wolverine and Sabretooth galloping toward one another, two immortal bros locked in eternal combat. Certainly feels like it." — Village Voice Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | "
The grandeur of the effects -- the honest-to-God spectacle of the thing -- elevates Monsters vs. Aliens to something approaching art. It’s not a masterpiece, but it’s most certainly a milestone." — Village Voice Posted Mar 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| I Love You, Man (2009) | "
Just as we thought the "bromantic comedy" had overstayed its welcome, the genre reaches its highest point with I Love You, Man." — Village Voice Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| Sunshine Cleaning (2009) | "
Yet another willful, comically tortured "indie" coated with Hollywood's happy-ending sheen." — Village Voice Posted Mar 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| Phoebe In Wonderland (2009) | "
The performances are transcendent -- especially Fanning's, as the little girl who wants to get better, who wants to be better, as she slowly disappears through the Looking Glass." — Village Voice Posted Mar 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Sherman's Way (2009) | "
Director Craig Saavedra and writer Tom Nance's collaboration plays like something out of an indie-film paint-by-numbers." — Village Voice Posted Mar 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 32%
| Fanboys (2009) | "
You're better off watching The Star Wars Holiday Special on YouTube. At least Bea Arthur sings." — Village Voice Posted Feb 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Notorious (2009) | "
Just buy the records; that's the point of this infomercial anyhow." — Village Voice Posted Jan 14, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Bride Wars (2009) | "
[A] shiny sitcom pilot that looks like something yanked from NBC’s shelves circa 1989." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| The Spirit (2008) | "
Miller, comics-writing icon turned director, has rendered comics-industry revolutionary Will Eisner's crime fighter Denny Colt a grim shade of dull -- all talk, no action" — Village Voice Posted Dec 23, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Valkyrie (2008) | "
Valkyrie feels like another installment in the never-ending franchise -- not just the action-movie one, but the Tom Cruise one. Like the operation itself, it's a good idea -- just not well-executed." — Village Voice Posted Dec 23, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| Yes Man (2008) | "
Nothing more than warmed-over holiday seconds, a repackaged best-of for those who already own the hits." — Village Voice Posted Dec 16, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Cadillac Records (2008) | "
There doesn't seem to be a single fact contained within writer-director Darnell Martin's ham-fisted fiction, which renders pre-rock musical history as yet another downer soap opera." — Village Voice Posted Dec 2, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Four Christmases (2008) | "
To brand, then dismiss, Four Christmases as a disappointment would be giving it too much credit -- never, for a second, did this New Line Cinema cast-off scream or even whisper decent in the run-up to its opening." — Village Voice Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| Quantum of Solace (2008) | "
If nothing else, there's no need to worry about where Quantum of Solace fits in the Bond pantheon -- it's easily one of the worst." — Village Voice Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) | "
Funniest movie of ’08? Close enough, for those who don’t mind monkeying around." — Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Role Models (2008) | "
Paul Rudd wears the constant look of glazed-eye amusement; everything seems to tickle him, even that which annoys or frustrates or disappoints him." — Village Voice Posted Nov 5, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) | "
Nothing about Zack and Miri feels terribly fresh, much less transgressive." — Village Voice Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| Pride and Glory (2008) | "
How ironic that a movie filled with police officers should end up feeling like a hostage situation." — Village Voice Posted Oct 22, 2008 |
— | Fresh 79%
| Punch-Drunk Love (2002) |
Click here to read article — Dallas Observer Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| Who Does She Think She Is? (2008) | "
By limiting herself to an actor, a painter, sculptors, and a printmaker, Boll gives herself plenty to work with; when the stories drag, and they occasionally do, the art's there to inspire and uplift." — Village Voice Posted Oct 15, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| The Express (2008) | "
Based on a Davis biography, Gary Fleder's account is a noble attempt at humanizing the myth, but it succumbs to the worst sorts of sports-movie clichés." — Village Voice Posted Oct 8, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) | "
It plays like a made-for-CBS redo of The Devil Wears Prada." — Village Voice Posted Oct 3, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| Flash of Genius (2008) | "
The big-screen version of inventor Robert Kearns’ legal battles with Ford and Chrysler... is about as exciting as Kearns’ Wikipedia entry." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 3, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) | "
Nick & Norah is like something crafted in a lab by 54-year-old hucksters trying to sell sh-t to the kids under the cheerless guise of "alternative." The only thing it’s an alternative to? Good." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 3, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Eagle Eye (2008) | "
Big Brother's watching you, and he can't stop laughing his ass off." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| Choke (2008) | "
Yawn." — Village Voice Posted Sep 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Igor (2008) | "
So bad it's scary." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 84%
| Ghost Town (2008) | "
It takes a good while for Ricky Gervais to warm up in Ghost Town; it takes even longer for the audience to warm up to Ricky Gervais." — Village Voice Posted Sep 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| The Rocker (2008) | "
A juvenile fairy tale that plays like the pilot for a Jonas Brothers sitcom on the Disney Channel, The Rocker comes off as something penned by an old dude who hasn't bought music since it was sold 'on records.'" — Village Voice Posted Aug 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| The Clone Wars (2008) | "
As Star Wars movies go, The Clone Wars is minor to the point of irrelevance, nothing more than a stylized direct-to-DVD shrug projected onto a big screen while Lucas launches two more TV series filling in prequel blanks better left empty." — L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 14, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 82%
| Tropic Thunder (2008) | "
When it isn't tossing softballs at the studios, Tropic Thunder is the very thing it parodies: a wall of noise engulfed in flame." — Village Voice Posted Aug 13, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Bottle Shock (2008) | "
Sadly, Bottle Shock is far from a great movie -- a little too sweet to the taste, almost sickly so." — Village Voice Posted Aug 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Pineapple Express (2008) | "
At last, a Judd Apatow production worth memorizing." — Village Voice Posted Aug 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Baghead (2008) | "
It's an indie about indies -- meta, right? But also mighty effective if you're into idle, drunken chit-chat about getting laid while waiting out the bogeyman in the bushes." — Village Voice Posted Jul 23, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| Space Chimps (2008) | "
[It's] like they ran out of the $292.96 budget halfway through." — Village Voice Posted Jul 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) | "
Episodes of Land of the Lost were more inspired." — Village Voice Posted Jul 10, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| Hancock (2008) | "
It doesn't take itself as seriously as it should, and undercuts a final act that should have and so could have packed a mighty emotional wallop." — Village Voice Posted Jul 1, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Trumbo (2008) | "
The readings of Dalton Trumbo's letters to family and friends are starkly rendered—famous faces...recite rousing missives without the aid of sets or props of any kind save for Trumbo's own thunderous proclamations in defense of free speech." — Village Voice Posted Jun 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| WALL-E (2008) | "
A film that’s both breathtakingly majestic and heartbreakingly intimate." — Village Voice Posted Jun 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 19%
| The Happening (2008) | "
Effective nonsense, chilling nonsense, occasionally wrenching nonsense." — Village Voice Posted Jun 11, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 66%
| The Incredible Hulk (2008) | "
The Incredible Hulk is The Pretty Good Hulk. All things considered, of course." — Village Voice Posted Jun 11, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Stuck (2007) | "
Stuck is both darkly comic and disgusting; the name alone reduces the crime to a sick joke." — Village Voice Posted May 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| The Foot Fist Way (2008) | "
This is irritainment, something you snicker at while covering your eyes, praying that this guy never gets loose in the real world, when, in fact, he's your next-door neighbor. Or you." — Village Voice Posted May 27, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) | "
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is as joyless as its predecessors were blissful." — Village Voice Posted May 21, 2008 |
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