Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 77%
| Falling Down (1993) | "
Atrociously written by actor Ebbe Roe Smith and atrociously directed (it goes without saying) by Joel Schumacher..." — Film Freak Central Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Rotten 50%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
It's a beautiful film, if a difficult one to love, an adaptation in form of "Thanatopsis" that hears Nature speak with a forked tongue" — Film Freak Central Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 73%
| The Young Victoria (2009) | "
Mostly harmless." — Film Freak Central Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 55%
| Orphan (2009) | "
Alas, in the end, it's not nasty enough." — Film Freak Central Posted Dec 1, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Fresh 71%
| The Blind Side (2009) | "
Institutional racism as inspirational melodrama, it's regressive entertainment, our very own Triumph of the Will." — Film Freak Central Posted Dec 1, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 29%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
The irony in this movie about vampires is that the only thing doing any sucking is the movie itself." — Film Freak Central Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 71%
| The Road (2009) | "
And unlike the better-than-the-book No Country for Old Men, it's only as good as the book. I guess I'm saying there's enough blame to go around." — Film Freak Central Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 92%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
Sure, Anderson's making a statement about the human animal, but he proves no Aesop and Fantastic Mr. Fox is, alas, no Animal Farm." — Film Freak Central Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| N/A | The Cell 2 () | "
They should've called it "The Cell 2: Poor Frank Whaley."" — Film Freak Central Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 73%
| Night of the Creeps (1986) | "
I remember sort of loving it when I was twelve, meaning only that twelve-year-olds are idiots." — Film Freak Central Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 86%
| Trick 'r Treat (2009) | "
It's not a smart movie." — Film Freak Central Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 45%
| The Box (2009) | "
What The Box resembles most, in fact, is a distended episode of "The Simpsons"' annual Halloween special." — Film Freak Central Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 87%
| Bedlam (1946) | "
Lewton had something to say. Perhaps inevitably, he found less interesting ways of saying it over the course of nine films in a short four years." — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 85%
| Isle of the Dead (1945) | "
quite bad" — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 79%
| The Body Snatcher (1945) | "
there's a fascination with the ultimate futility of ever being something beyond opportunistic and solipsistic." — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| N/A | Ghost Ship (1943) | "
It's almost noir in its pitting of an individual against a closed society." — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 90%
| The Seventh Victim (1943) | "
the gauziest, maybe the most influential, surely the most underestimated, Lewton production." — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 91%
| I Walked With a Zombie (1943) | "
Sultry, claustrophobic, the guilt repressed here is the spectre of slavery stencilled over another abandonment of another wife..." — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 86%
| Curse of the Cat People (1944) | "
Lewton's masterpiece" — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 94%
| Cat People (1942) | "
In its complexity, it functions as a sharp, canny blueprint for the rest of Lewton's pictures." — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 70%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
the rare work of art in any media that actually evokes the experience of sadness, the sensation of melancholy, the mechanism of regret. We're lucky to have it." — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Fresh 75%
| About Last Night... (1986) | "
It takes a lot in order for Jim Belushi to be the best actor in something." — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 13, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 45%
| St. Elmo's Fire (1985) | "
there's a perceptive, brilliant essay buried somewhere in St. Elmo's Fire on the dangers of deeply, tragically stupid people trying to write the great American novel." — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 13, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 41%
| Indecent Proposal (1993) | "
Yes, it's true: in this astonishingly distasteful bit of dreck, there is at the bottom a sappy little romance." — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 80%
| Fatal Attraction (1987) | "
has the makings of a serious examination of adult relationships and interactions under duress, only to end as a seriocomic slasher film dictated by popular taste." — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
...written so deliberately that the zombies aren't the only ones moaning and craving brains by the end." — Film Freak Central Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 92%
| Go (1999) | "
It's fantastic stuff." — Film Freak Central Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
a war film about war. That's rarer than you think." — Film Freak Central Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 36%
| Sleuth (2007) | "
It requires a light touch; I admire Branagh a great deal, but not for his light touch." — Film Freak Central Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
District 9 is the real deal. Hallelujah." — Film Freak Central Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
a movie about freaks and geeks written by a famous millionaire married to Leslie Mann; is it any wonder that it loses its way?" — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 36%
| Southland Tales (2007) | "
It's the sort of experience you feel embarrassed about even though you had nothing to do with it, because it's not just a mess, it's a pretentious mess" — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 61%
| Valkyrie (2008) | "
It's the perfect film for our age of reassessment and ambiguity." — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 46%
| The Ruins (2008) | "
If it could happen to these kids, smart and beautiful, then it sure as shit is going to happen to me." — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 83%
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) | "
An ungainly tween romcom sprinkled arbitrarily with a sudden horde of amphibious zombies; inexplicable cameos from Ursa, Non, and Zod; and silly broomstick rugby." — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 51%
| Easy Virtue (2009) | "
It's only a surprise if you haven't seen his other films." — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 40%
| Waterworld (1995) | "
actually pretty good" — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 92%
| Enchanted (2007) | "
Inaugurates an entirely new demographic into the formula machination of the chick-flick (marital edition)." — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 40%
| 27 Dresses (2008) | "
there's a desire to see their characters displaced into a better film with more on its mind than to be better than it should be because of its casting director." — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 28%
| What Happens in Vegas (2008) | "
a funny movie about the sexes that doesn't diminish either gender in its execution--a tougher task, obviously, than one would presume." — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 12, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 22%
| Catch and Release (2007) | "
...harbours a secret crush on Gray but, hey, so does everybody, since Gray has fairies and butterflies flying out of her vagina." — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 12, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 12%
| Bride Wars (2009) | "
reptilian, hateful stuff, biologically engineered to disrespect--with maximum efficiency--the precise demographic to which it targets itself." — Film Freak Central Posted Jul 12, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 45%
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | "
Beyond pointless." — Film Freak Central Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 67%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
a collection of beautiful pictures as inert as a coffee-table book." — Film Freak Central Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| Roxanne (1987) | "
for all the things this movie is, it's probably Martin's fault." — Film Freak Central Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 19%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
It's all so last administration." — Film Freak Central Posted Jun 23, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 58%
| Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) | "
The popularity of over-scored, "let's hug" bullshit like Robin Hood predicts the certainty of a one-term George H.W. presidency better than any number of Gallup polls." — Film Freak Central Posted Jun 15, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 51%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
the worst kind of dreck" — Film Freak Central Posted Jun 11, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 21%
| The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) | "
It's just like us to be arrogant enough to believe, like Marvell's coy mistress, that our cherry is the ripest for busting of the lot." — Film Freak Central Posted Jun 9, 2009 |
N/A | Fresh 93%
| Sugar (2009) | "
An interview with Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck" — Film Freak Central Posted Jun 9, 2009 |
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