Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 95%
| Herb & Dorothy (2009) | "
If Ripley's Believe It or Not! were still around, Herb and Dorothy Vogel would surely be in it for amassing a world-class art collection on the most ordinary of working-class salaries." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| Soul Power (2009) | "
A vibrant and joyous new documentary." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 66%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
With Public Enemies, he has made an impressive film of great formal skill, one that inescapably has a brooding dark-night-of-the-soul quality about it." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 51%
| Cheri (2009) | "
It's the kind of refined, delicate acting Pfeiffer does so well, and it's a further reminder of how much we've missed her since she's been away." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 97%
| The Hurt Locker (2009) | "
Overwhelmingly tense, overflowing with crackling verisimilitude, it's both the film about the war in Iraq that we've been waiting for and the kind of unqualified triumph that's been long expected from director Kathryn Bigelow." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 78%
| The End of the Line (2009) | "
The End of the Line is an apocalyptic documentary that is as beautiful as it is damning." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 46%
| Whatever Works (2009) | "
Except for brief moments, Whatever Works does not involve." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 85%
| Unmistaken Child (2009) | "
Its privileged glimpse deep into unfamiliar spiritual territory has the strength of revelation." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 50%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
The film does what a good hostage negotiator does: It distracts us from what's going wrong and pulls us into the story." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| Séraphine (2008) | "
The long French tradition of thoughtful, intelligent films of quality for adults is alive and well here, and that is reason to rejoice." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 66%
| Away We Go (2009) | "
Away We Go is a self-satisfied film about insecure people, a quirky and episodic comic drama that squanders its genuine assets and ends up not as special as it tries to be." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 96%
| Tulpan (2008) | "
With a deadpan charm all its own, Tulpan ends up dealing with some fairly serious questions on the order of how you make peace with a dream." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 97%
| Up (2009) | "
Rarely has any film, let alone an animated one powered by the logic of dream and fantasy, been able to move so successfully -- and so effortlessly -- through so many different kinds of cinematic territory." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 28, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 87%
| O'Horten (2009) | "
Nothing about this film even hints at being rushed -- if there were a cinematic equivalent to the Slow Food movement, this would fit right in -- but that doesn't stop it from being all that you want it to be." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 21, 2009 |
— | Fresh 100%
| The Red Shoes (1948) |
Click here to read article — Los Angeles Times Posted May 21, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 54%
| The New Twenty (2009) | "
Johnson provides them with plenty of challenges and reasons to question their values, priorities and goals." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 76%
| Outrage (2009) | "
It's a film that will cause a lot of talk, but its most compelling aspects are not its most obvious ones." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| Revanche (2009) | "
Intense and emotional." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
It is pleasant to report that though it's not perfect, the reconstituted Star Trek is successful enough for everyone to breathe a sigh of relief." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 90%
| Il Divo (2009) | "
Simultaneously exhilarating and confounding, dazzling and confusing, this is filmmaking of such verve and style that you likely won't care that you can't follow it completely." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
Whatever actually happened, the explosions all go off on time, which in a film like this is all that really matters." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Tyson (2009) | "
The result is as gripping as a title fight and as mesmerizing as a conversation with a cobra. You may not be happy with everything said, but you will not be bored." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 85%
| Earth (2009) | "
What it does well is so remarkable that by the time the credits roll you likely won't want it to end." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
— | Fresh 80%
| Ballerina (2008) | "
Ballerina is most memorable, not surprisingly, in capturing these women on the move, whether dancing in full costume on the Mariinsky stage or practicing endlessly in the theater's rehearsal rooms." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 92%
| Every Little Step (2009) | "
It's a can't-miss effort that knows how to please." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 57%
| Sleep Dealer (2009) | "
Adventurous, ambitious and ingeniously futuristic, Sleep Dealer is a welcome surprise." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 90%
| Forbidden Lie$ (2009) | "
Even after you've seen Forbidden Lie$, the dizzying, drop-dead fascinating documentary on Norma Khouri, you won't be absolutely sure if she's on the level or a con artist ranked as "one of the best ever." That's how good she is." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 13, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 98%
| Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) | "
No matter what travails they face, Lips and Robb remain good company, invariably upbeat no matter how many cockeyed crises come around the bend." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 94%
| Goodbye Solo (2009) | "
Goodbye Solo is a deceptive film. Its style is spare, rigorous, almost anti-dramatic, but it deals thoughtfully with some of the most complex elements of the human equation." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 88%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
With a cast that believed in one another and a writer-director who believed he didn't have to follow up Superbad with SuperEvenBadder, Adventureland is the kind of adventure we could all use more of." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| Valentino: the Last Emperor (2009) | "
It's a celebration worthy of the Sun King and a fitting way for both the designer and this unexpectedly involving documentary to literally and metaphorically bring it all back home." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Sugar (2009) | "
"We put a lot of love into this," Boden said when Sugar debuted at Sundance, and this thoughtful, poignant film reflects that love and more." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 66%
| Duplicity (2009) | "
Everything in Duplicity may be a scam, but [director] Gilroy's talent is the real thing." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 35%
| The Edge of Love (2009) | "
The Edge of Love has, as they say, all the tools, all the elements that usually make for success. It ought to be coaxing superlatives from all and sundry, but instead it leaves a bitter, unsatisfying aftertaste that lingers in the mind." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 12, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Everlasting Moments (2009) | "
A rich, intensely human story that deals with the mysteries of creativity and love and the pain and joy of relationships." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 64%
| Watchmen (2009) | "
Snyder has been unable to create a satisfying tone for the proceedings. While the graphic novel played everything as realistically as it could, the film feels artificially stylized and inappropriately cartoonish." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 5, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 12%
| Crossing Over (2009) | "
Forced, heavy-handed and overdone, it's a pretend serious film that offers crass manipulation in the place where honesty is supposed to be." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 94%
| Moscow, Belgium (2008) | "
Nothing will ever be easy for any of these characters, and that is why we care about them so." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 58%
| The International (2009) | "
It's got some effective moments and aspects, but the film goes in and out of plausibility, and its elements never manage to unify into a coherent whole." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 65%
| Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (2009) | "
Intent on seeing Senesh as a symbol of hope and resistance, Blessed Is the Match is content to focus on the tragic legend that her life became." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Coraline (2009) | "
Coraline is a remarkable feat of imagination, a magical tale with a genuinely sinister edge." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 92%
| Of Time and the City (2009) | "
Of Time and the City is a difficult film to describe but a distinct pleasure to experience." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 57%
| Taken (2009) | "
Taken is not the kind of action film to spend much time worrying about its pedestrian script or largely indifferent acting, so it's fortunate to have Neeson in the starring role." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 90%
| The Secret of the Grain (2008) | "
Rather than observing this family, we feel we are part of it, and that draws us in as nothing else can." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 29, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Made in U.S.A. (1966) | "
In terms of Godard's body of work, the 1966 film is as challenging as it is important." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 79%
| Gran Torino (2008) | "
It is familiar, but only to a point. Suddenly, that point is past and much more serious questions come up, questions of responsibility, of vengeance, of the efficacy of blood for blood." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 56%
| Defiance (2008) | "
Craig and Schreiber are two excellent actors, and both of them connect strongly with their roles as well as their fierce rivalry." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 30, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 60%
| Valkyrie (2008) | "
Valkyrie is made with impeccable professionalism and, flying in the face of years of Internet hysteria, is a perfectly acceptable motion picture. The only thing that keeps it from even greater accomplishments may be inherent in the story itself." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 29, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 69%
| Revolutionary Road (2008) | "
Strong performances steer this 1950s marital drama out of a period-picture trap." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 29, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 72%
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) | "
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button leaves you colder than it should, and it shouldn't leave you cold at all." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 29, 2008 |
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