Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 22%
| Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) | "
The earlier Alvin movie made more than $217 million just in the United States. It’s hard to imagine this somewhat confused sequel doing as well." Posted Dec 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 33%
| The Slammin' Salmon (2009) | "
It has its share of funny moments. But it also has its share of tired ones." Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 92%
| Defamation (2009) | "
Presumably Mr. Shamir’s film plays differently in Israel. In the United States, it feels like just another day on the Op-Ed page." Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 77%
| The Good Soldier (2009) | "
A film whose benign-sounding title and Veterans Day release give a false impression of what it actually is: an attack on the military, drenched in blood." Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 61%
| The End of Poverty? (2009) | "
Why Philippe Diaz has titled his new documentary The End of Poverty? is unclear, because this guilt trip/history lesson is really about the beginning of poverty." Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 0%
| Eulogy for a Vampire (2009) | "
It's hard to imagine anyone watching this attempt at a horror film without guffawing. (Or maybe it's supposed to be a comedy?)" Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 9%
| Opa! (2009) | "
Opa!, a sweet, nontaxing movie set in the gorgeous Greek Isles, has a bit of a black hole at its center named Matthew Modine." Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story (2009) | "
Several things might strike you as odd about Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story, a documentary about the cross-dressing British comedian." Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 20%
| Eating Out: All You Can Eat (2009) | "
It needs to be emphasized that Eating Out 3 has nothing to do with the restaurant business, lest any foodies wander into this ineptly written and acted gay sex comedy by accident." Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 24%
| Adventures of Power (2009) | Your enjoyment of Adventures of Power will be proportional to your tolerance for the one-joke phenomenon of air drumming. Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| Afterschool (2009) | "
Those with the patience to wait out Mr. Campos’s overindulgences will definitely leave Afterschool unnerved, which is probably exactly what he had in mind." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 17%
| If One Thing Matters: A Film About Wolfgang Tillmans (2009) | "
It’s like choking down 72 minutes of a stranger’s unedited home videos, only without the occasional cute kiddie or pet to lighten the tedium." Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | Fatal Promises (2009) | "
Lacks focus and adds little to the awareness of the subject that even a casual follower of the news has already acquired." Posted Sep 17, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 25%
| Jazz in the Diamond District (2009) | "
Some dreams will be realized, some dashed, but audiences, having been dragged through this story too many times, won’t care which." Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 32%
| Fanboys (2009) | "
The plot device of young men who refuse to mature has never felt more exhausted, maybe because these actors or ones who look like them have already done this shtick in other movies." Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | The Soviet Story (2008) | "
The filmmaking in The Soviet Story is so overwrought that at times the movie comes across as comical." Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | News from Home/News from House (2008) | "
Somehow it doesn't seem like enough of an insight for a freestanding film." Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 0%
| Talento de Barrio (2008) | The violence-laden story, such as it is, is ineptly stitched together; it's unclear who is shooting at whom and why; and the dialogue seldom advances beyond "Yo, dog" and "Whassup?" The soundtrack is the only draw here. Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 44%
| The Amazing Truth about Queen Raquela (2008) | "
It's like being trapped in a roomful of teenage girls for 80 minutes." Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 29%
| Ripple Effect (2008) | Starts with a not-very-original insight and takes too many shortcuts delivering it. Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| Greetings from the Shore (2008) | "
That's harmless enough in this type of warm-weather reminiscence, until Mr. Sorvino, a real actor and a good one, shows up...and he makes Ms. Shaw and some of the other cast members look like amateurs." Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 67%
| Young & Restless In China (2008) | "
Almost everything experienced by the nine, who appear to be in their 20s and 30s, is garden-variety living and learning." Posted Apr 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Fade (2008) | "
It would be nice to say that Fade cures the very thing that it’s about, sleeplessness. But that wouldn’t convey the pretentiousness of this psychological drama." Posted Mar 19, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 43%
| The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything - A Veggietales Movie (2008) | "
This is no savvy Toy Story. It's a boilerplate plot like one you might find in any morning cartoon." Posted Jan 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | Cocalero (2007) | "
Cocalero, Alejandro Landes's documentary about the presidential campaign of Evo Morales in Bolivia, seems to mirror the campaign itself: ragged and bare-bones." Posted Nov 9, 2007 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 69%
| The Girl Next Door (2007) | "
The kind of movie that makes you wish you could rinse your brain in bleach, to wash all traces of it from your memory." Posted Oct 5, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 17%
| The Last Legion (2007) | This sword-and-sandal spectacle from those epic-loving De Laurentiises might have made a good children’s film. Posted Aug 20, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 90%
| Punk's Not Dead (2007) | "
Poor punk. Such a bundle of complexes, most of them encapsulated in the needlessly defensive title of Susan Dynner's documentary Punk's Not Dead." Posted Jul 27, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 2%
| Kickin' It Old Skool (2007) | Kickin' It Old School is actually much more amusing than it has a right to be, considering that you know exactly what's coming. Posted Apr 28, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| N/A | Urchin (2006) | "
If nothing else, Urchin tells us that certain New York City subway stations need a bit more security." Posted Feb 20, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 21%
| Arthur and the Invisibles (2007) | "
Luc Besson serves up a hybrid of live actors and computer-generated figures to tell a not-endearing-enough story about a boy who shrinks to microscopic size to find his missing grandfather." Posted Jan 12, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 4%
| Code Name: The Cleaner (2007) | Cedric the Entertainer's artless performance deadens what could have been a much funnier comedy. Posted Jan 5, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 43%
| Danielson: A Family Movie (2006) | J L Aronson's documentary is about Daniel Smith, a musician who performs Christian music that is a world away from most of what is heard under that label. Posted Dec 14, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 50%
| Ever Again (2005) | "
This documentary, by an arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, seeks to stir up outrage about recent bursts of anti-Semitism in Europe." Posted Dec 8, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 20%
| Snow Blind (2006) | "
Snow Blind calls itself a documentary, but it never stops feeling like the in-house channel on a ski-lodge television." Posted Dec 8, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 17%
| Sun Kissed (2006) | When a movie aspires to be gay pornography but can't even manage that, well, you know you've got a bad movie. Posted Nov 23, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 13%
| Shottas (2006) | Stars from reggae and other musical worlds give acting a try in Shottas, a witless, misogynistic, gratuitously violent, drug-culture-worshiping film. Posted Nov 10, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| N/A | Justice (2006) | "
Justice often moves painfully slowly, and so does Justice (Justiça), a documentary by Maria Ramos about low-level criminal courts in Brazil that at times might be mistaken for an unedited video feed from a courthouse security camera." Posted Oct 19, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields and Crossroads (2006) | "
It never stops worshiping Los Lonely Boys, the Texas trio made up of the brothers Henry, Jo Jo and Ringo Garza, long enough to feel genuine, as is evident from the frequent appearances of Kevin Wommack, the group's manager." Posted Sep 22, 2006 |
Rotten 0.5/5
| Rotten 27%
| Beer League (2006) | Artie Lange, Howard Stern's radio sidekick, somehow manages to make beer-league softball seem no fun at all in this extremely lowbrow comedy. Posted Sep 19, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 71%
| Light From the East (2006) | Amy Grappell's documentary is about American actors who were accidentally caught up in momentous political events during a tour of Ukraine in 1991. Posted May 11, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 0%
| Kiss Me Again (2006) | [Smith] seems not to realize just how tired the notion of married folk deciding jointly to experiment with other partners is. Posted May 5, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 31%
| The Sisters (2006) | It's a bit of an oversimplification but still a rule no writer should forget: Insufferable characters make for an insufferable play or movie. Posted Apr 14, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 41%
| When Do We Eat? (2006) | In this distasteful film from Salvador Litvak, a Jewish family tries to race through a Seder, but drug use, possible incest and some jokes at the expense of the autistic slow them down. Posted Apr 7, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 38%
| 95 Miles to Go (2006) | Ray Romano makes a quick comedy tour and an intern films it. But much of the onstage material is recycled, and the down-time banter is more irritating than entertaining. Posted Apr 7, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 62%
| ATL (2006) | A couple of rap stars make respectable starts on acting careers in this tale of black teenagers in Atlanta, despite a script marred by cliches and predictability. Posted Mar 30, 2006 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 9%
| Stay Alive (2006) | The star of Stay Alive is a cutting-edge video game, but the film still has hackneyed horror at its heart. Posted Mar 28, 2006 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 59%
| Game 6 (2006) | "
Michael Keaton is Nicky Rogan, a Red Sox fan living in New York who is also a playwright hoping that his new work revives his career." Posted Mar 9, 2006 |
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