Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Surveillance (2009) | "
Horror fans are likely to guess the twist and feel bored; the more faint-of-heart may simply feel repulsed. And bored." — Variety Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Rage (2009) | "
Rage, or at least indignant annoyance, may also be what some auds will feel after having paid to see this lame black comedy-cum-indictment of the fashion industry." — Variety Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| In The Electric Mist (2008) | "
The whole gumbo lacks real zing." — Variety Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Human Zoo (2009) | "
Flashback-threaded tale of a half-Serbian, half-Albanian immigrant living in Gaul is an incoherent, mostly poorly acted muddle that doesn't even look very good, despite the work of normally ace lenser Thierry Arbogast." — Variety Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Flashbacks of a Fool (2008) | "
Whiile pic doesn’t exactly feel like a vanity project, its weak script might have kept it forever in development hell if debutant writer-helmer Baillie Walsh weren’t the topliner’s good buddy." — Variety Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| Stone of Destiny (2008) | "
This unabashedly sentimental and outright anti-English pic is stodgy as a cheap haggis with nationalistic sentimentality." — Variety Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 86%
| Mum & Dad (2008) | "
Despite droll moments and impressive production values for an allegedly tiny ($200,000) budget, an extra idea or two would have made this a little bit better than just OK." — Variety Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| The Edge of Love (2009) | "
While the period drama has several redeeming features, tonally it's all over the map, veering between artsy stylization and hum-drum, sometimes almost twee melodrama." — Variety Posted Jun 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Day Watch (2007) | "
Although more flashily assembled, pic's relentless onslaught charms less over a running time almost 25 minutes longer." — Variety Posted Jun 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Possession (2008) | "
Dully predictable." — Variety Posted May 21, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Bewitched (2005) | "
There may be special effects aplenty here, but precious little magic." — Channel 4 Film Posted May 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) | "
If rubber-burning car chases and short shorts are your thing, this is the summer remake for you." — Channel 4 Film Posted Apr 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Filth and Wisdom (2008) | "
Ineptly written and helmed story of three Londoners, although quite bad, does have a few redeeming features." — Variety Posted Feb 15, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| The Hottest State (2006) | "
The Hottest State takes a good deal of time to heat up and fails to generate much more than a lukewarm empathy for its petulant main characters." — Variety Posted Aug 1, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Itty Bitty Titty Committee (2007) | "
Great title, shame about the movie." — Variety Posted Jul 28, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Noriko's Dinner Table (2007) | "
Too long by half." — Variety Posted Jun 13, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| Magicians (2007) | "
Perky turns from supporting thesps can't compensate for the sense that this plays like an attenuated TV episode." — Variety Posted May 22, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Allegro (2005) | "
Like its gifted, but emotionally frigid, pianist hero, Allegro is filled with technical virtuosity but short on real feeling." — Variety Posted May 8, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 70%
| Irina Palm (2008) | "
Tonally all over the place, pic is built around a would-be humorous script, but jiggery lensing and gloomy lighting suggest helmer Sam Garbarski is under some delusion that he's making a slice of gritty realism with romantic undertones." — Variety Posted Mar 24, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Sixty Six (2008) | "
A thick, gooey layer of voiceover narration from Bernie is just one of several tired devices that makes pic feel hackneyed, despite some choice cuts of dialogue." — Variety Posted Dec 30, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Dirty Sanchez: The Movie (2006) | "
Like Jackass but without the charm." — Variety Posted Oct 13, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| The History Boys (2006) | "
Auds coming cold to this largely faithful adaptation of Alan Bennett's clever but contrived classroom comedy won't be so wowed, given pic's irrevocably stagy feel." — Variety Posted Oct 11, 2006 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Silence (2006) | "
Given that underwhelming police thriller The Silence is technically a made-for-TV movie, it might not be counted against helmer Cate Shortland as yet another example of the dreaded disappointing sophomore follow-up." — Variety Posted Sep 25, 2006 |
Rotten
| N/A | Offscreen (2006) | "
Despite escalating lunacy, result still feels like an empty aesthetic exercise or filmmaking in-joke." — Variety Posted Sep 23, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Syndromes and A Century (2007) | "
Sporadically mesmerizing imagery and a miasma-like atmosphere but only fits and starts in the way of plot." — Variety Posted Sep 23, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Khadak (2006) | "
With its emblematic characters and sometimes baffling, mystical storyline, pic ultimately remains emotionally distant." — Variety Posted Sep 23, 2006 |
Rotten
| N/A | Waiter (2006) | "
Likable but slight." — Variety Posted Sep 22, 2006 |
Rotten
| N/A | Palimpsest (2006) | "
Palimpsest amounts to rather less than the sum of its parts." — Variety Posted Sep 22, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Dead Man's Bounty (2007) | "
'Whatever' is likely to be auds' response to this occasionally engaging but often ineptly made exercise in postmodern irony." — Variety Posted Sep 20, 2006 |
Rotten
| N/A | I Am the Other Woman (2006) | "
Maybe Fassbinder himself could have made something of this script, although it seems on the face of it more suited to Ken Russell." — Variety Posted Sep 18, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Copying Beethoven (2006) | "
Its fictional frame about a woman copyist helping the maestro complete the masterwork hits too many duff notes." — Variety Posted Sep 15, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006) | "
Glacially paced and structurally lumpy." — Variety Posted Sep 12, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 51%
| The Fountain (2006) | "
Pic's hippy trippy space odyssey-meets-contempo-weepy-meets-conquistador caper starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz suffers from a turgid script and bears all the signs of edit-suite triage to produce a still-incoherent 95 minutes." — Variety Posted Sep 5, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Vacationland (2006) | "
Vacationland remains marred by sluggish script and Verow's inability to either direct actors or cast ones whose thesping ability matches their good looks." — Variety Posted Jul 26, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Excellent Cadavers (2006) | "
Although experienced helmer Marco Turco (A Familia) and company don't turn up any new evidence, film indicts the current Italian government's slack attitude toward organized crime." — Variety Posted Jul 10, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| America: Freedom To Fascism (2006) | "
Libertarian-positioned docu argues almost persuasively that U.S. citizens are not legally required to pay federal income tax, and much less convincingly that country is becoming a police state via new identity laws." — Variety Posted Jun 2, 2006 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Boy on the Galloping Horse (2006) | "
Luminous monochrome lensing, sparse note-by-note piano music and a general atmosphere of pious solemnity can't disguise fact that Polish drama The Boy on the Galloping Horse plays like an overstretched short." — Variety Posted May 30, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| Free Jimmy (2006) | "
Pic could be too dark, dirty and insufficiently funny to achieve more than cult success." — Variety Posted May 30, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Transylvania (2006) | "
Seemingly semi-improvised dialogue is kept mostly to a minimum, which is just as well because some of it's awful." — Variety Posted May 30, 2006 |
Rotten
| N/A | Daft Punk's Electroma (2006) | "
Helmers [Daft Punk] bizarrely choose not to use their own catchy tunes here, the one thing that might have given pic slim commercial legs." — Variety Posted May 25, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (2008) | "
For that narrow cross section of auds passionate about soccer and experimental cinema, docu Zidane, A 21st Century Portrait will rep a masterpiece; for everyone else, pleasure will vary." — Variety Posted May 25, 2006 |
Rotten
| N/A | Lying (2006) | "
Pretentious, contrived and made with less technical skillica than the average film school graduation project, pic assembles underdirected cast for drama about a pathologl liar." — Variety Posted May 25, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Lights In The Dusk (2007) | "
An amiable but very undercooked noirish fable about a security guard done wrong by a femme fatale." — Variety Posted May 23, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Princess (2007) | "
A distasteful sum total." — Variety Posted May 18, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 84%
| Live and Become (2008) | "
Rambling storyline, some ropey perfs and sentimentality prevent pic from becoming the gut punch it might have been." — Variety Posted Apr 21, 2006 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Perfect Afternoon (2005) | "
Arch use of film-within-a-film device and shaky lensing make this multigenerational dramedy feel knowingly amateurish, and slightly irritating for it." — Variety Posted Apr 18, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2007) | "
Shergold can't quite pull off tricky balancing act between understated working-class poetic miserablism, in the manner of acknowledged exemplar Vera Drake, and an issue-based melodrama's demands for a flashy third-act." — Variety Posted Apr 6, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Stoned (2006) | "
Mines the story of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones for a note-perfect pastiche of Swingin' '60s style, but is less satisfying in other departments." — Variety Posted Mar 23, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| V For Vendetta (2005) | "
Although often visually striking and undercoated by a compelling sci-fi concept, graphic-novel adaptation V for Vendetta feels flat as a storyboard." — Variety Posted Feb 14, 2006 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| Le Petit Lieutenant (2006) | "
The Young Lieutenant seems so determined to reproduce the drudgery of police work, it's boring for the first hour, and only marginally more exciting for the second." — Variety Posted Nov 16, 2005 |
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