Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| The Merry Gentleman (2009) | "
With just a few tweaks, The Merry Gentleman could have made a wickedly funny parody of the over-earnest, lyrically hard-edged indie movie. But it's too late for do-overs." — Washington Post Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| The Hangover (2009) | "
Even though Apatow has no fingerprints over this movie, The Hangover follows in the same surprise-me tradition: It takes us to the dumb side but comes back with something unexpectedly affecting." — Washington Post Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 28%
| Fast & Furious (2009) | "
The reunion is fun and frantic, like the original on double nitro." — Washington Post Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Everlasting Moments (2009) | "
It's gloriously absent of the hyper-speed anxiety that passes for storytelling on our multiplex screens." — Washington Post Posted Mar 26, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Coraline (2009) | "
For all its visual delights, Coraline remains more an engaging spectacle than a connective drama." — Washington Post Posted Feb 5, 2009 |
— | Rotten 37%
| Swing Vote (2008) |
Click here to read article — NPR.org Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| Tin Cup (1996) | "
Tin Cup works for viewers of any handicap." — Washington Post Posted Aug 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| American Teen (2008) | "
What makes Nanette Burstein's movie so powerful is its uncanny sense of familiarity. Watching them, we are transported into a humming, philosophical reverie about ourselves." — Washington Post Posted Jul 31, 2008 |
— | Rotten 15%
| Hitman (2007) |
Click here to read article — Washington Post Posted Jul 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008) | "
We want to high-five Romero for finding new ways to off his lifeless marauders." — Washington Post Posted Jul 16, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Cassandra's Dream (2008) | "
Although McGregor and Farrell produce some occasionally spirited moments, particularly in the earlier scenes, they are little more than walking and talking schemes, their choices based entirely on socioeconomic impulses." — Washington Post Posted Jul 16, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 87%
| The People Vs. Larry Flynt (1996) | "
We're really celebrating Hollywood's freedom to create biographies of anyone, no matter how high or low on the social ladder, and still come up with the same banal characteristics, messages and conclusions." — Washington Post Posted Jun 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Love Songs (2008) | "
Yes, it's weird. But it's wild card weird, with that thrill of never knowing what's coming next or when these Parisians are going to get musical on us." — Washington Post Posted Jun 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 14%
| Dudley Do-Right (1999) | "
Surprisingly pleasant." — Washington Post Posted May 20, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Son of Rambow (2008) | "
We cringe and laugh at -- and are ultimately moved by -- their clumsiness and innocence. And it endears us to the Rambo films in ways we never could have anticipated." — Washington Post Posted May 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Roman de Gare (2008) | "
The movie is more entertaining than it is logical; its narrative leaps are sometimes ahead of our ability to believe them. But as the compellingly enigmatic Pierre, Pinon keeps us rapt." — Washington Post Posted May 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 46%
| Mister Lonely (2008) | "
A visually and conceptually mesmerizing and mystical movie." — Washington Post Posted May 16, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 70%
| Irina Palm (2008) | "
Although director and co-writer Sam Garbarski takes great care in tracing this difficult dramatic path (he has to balance the twin tracks of other people's morality and Maggie's personal course), he can't avoid the predictability." — Washington Post Posted May 16, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 12%
| Made of Honor (2008) | "
At its best, a romantic comedy celebrates one of humanity's greatest yearnings: to give and to find the love of a lifetime. At its worst (and this is where Made of Honor comes in), it can leave you with a bad taste, not just in your mouth but in your soul" — Washington Post Posted May 1, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 12%
| Deception (2008) | "
Deception is another example of when genre-fication (the forcing of otherwise intriguing stories into the straitjackets of horror, thriller or other genres) reduces our entertainment to head-shaking banality." — Washington Post Posted Apr 24, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| The Singing Revolution (2007) | "
It's a powerful story of a nation that, almost literally, sang its way to freedom." — San Francisco Chronicle Posted Apr 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| My Blueberry Nights (2008) | "
A star-driven pseudo-indie affair that will please neither celebrity worshipers nor cineastes." — Washington Post Posted Apr 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) | "
You know you're in a fantasy movie when the central character has to traverse time in search of the 'Monkey King.' If only you were in a good movie." — Washington Post Posted Apr 17, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) | "
Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a refreshingly tender treatment of love gone wrong -- we mean, for a movie that's got enough lowdown sexual content to start its own Kinsey Report." — Washington Post Posted Apr 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Street Kings (2008) | "
We see the big picture way before the characters do, and that pushes us right out of the movie and back into our seats -- the last place we want to be." — Washington Post Posted Apr 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| My Brother Is An Only Child (2006) | "
Although the movie never quite dispels the sense of being dated (it could have been made anytime in the past 40 years), it's a memorable, often moving timepiece." — Washington Post Posted Apr 10, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| Chaos Theory (2008) | "
Chaos Theory shows just how crucial casting can be to a movie, especially something as sensitive to nuance, idiosyncrasy and timing as a romantic comedy." — Washington Post Posted Apr 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Alice's House (2008) | "
Even though it sounds awfully depressing, there's something moving about watching people go at their lives with everything they have -- or don't have." — Washington Post Posted Apr 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Shine a Light (2008) | "
For the most part, Scorsese (as he did in The Last Waltz, his brilliant documentary about the Band) largely lets the Stones be the Stones." — Washington Post Posted Apr 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Priceless (2008) | "
The routines may have been done a thousand times, but somehow they seem funny all over again." — Washington Post Posted Apr 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Girls Rock! (2008) | "
It's goooood." — Washington Post Posted Apr 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Married Life (2008) | "
Married Life is an engaging romance noir, a sort of updated The Postman Always Rings Twice that packs its surprises into four characters, none of them predictable." — Washington Post Posted Mar 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Flawless (2007) | "
Flawless makes an entertainingly nostalgic journey to old Britain -- that black-and-white world we remember from long-ago Alfred Hitchcock and David Lean movies." — Washington Post Posted Mar 27, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| 21 (2008) | "
It's a would-be parable about greed that emptily celebrates it, a drama about gifted people who are one-dimensional voids and, most laughable of all, a story about the giddiness of risk-taking that safely plays everything by the numbers." — Washington Post Posted Mar 27, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008) | "
Run Fat Boy Run is hard to love, thanks to the tedious romantic-comedy cliches to which it subjects its characters -- and us." — Washington Post Posted Mar 27, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| Celtic Pride (1996) | "
The outcome is deeply unsatisfying." — Washington Post Posted Mar 24, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 30%
| Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008) | "
To appreciate Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns, there's really only one requirement: Loosen up." — Washington Post Posted Mar 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Never Back Down (2008) | "
Never Back Down is teensploitation at its most obvious -- a boneheaded cliche-rama built around six-pack-ab standoffs between preening studs." — Washington Post Posted Mar 13, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| CJ7 (2008) | "
CJ7 is too bizarre an amalgam of sappy sentimentality and life-on-the-streets edginess." — Washington Post Posted Mar 13, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Blindsight (2008) | "
Blindsight makes us consider an apparent paradox that, for the blind, is the philosophical starting point of their day: how to see things the human eye won't register." — Washington Post Posted Mar 13, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008) | "
A computer-animated feature that strikes an amiable balance between honoring the text and the dictates of contemporary animation, the film is as good as one could hope for in this era of post-literate impatience." — Washington Post Posted Mar 13, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Let's Get Lost (1988) | "
Watching Let's Get Lost, shot in a liquid black-and-white, we are lost in a monotonal, gorgeously shot reverie about Chet Baker, the jazz trumpeter whose alabaster-smooth, pretty face and plaintive tones broke hearts." — Washington Post Posted Mar 6, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| The Bank Job (2008) | "
What makes director Roger Donaldson's movie greater than zany heist fare is that this particular robbery really happened and that this episode illuminated an almost moral clash between the haves and the have-nots of Great Britain." — Washington Post Posted Mar 6, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| The Lion King (1994) | "
A computer-animated scene featuring a stampede of wildebeest is positively breathtaking." — Washington Post Posted Mar 4, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) | "
Even by its own standards, the movie becomes increasingly macabre and ludicrous as Anne's machinations get the better of her, and everyone, including the audience, is left feeling shattered, shaken and vaguely unclean for having participated in all this." — Washington Post Posted Feb 28, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Semi-Pro (2008) | "
Our hesitation to identify [Ferrell] as the genuinely funny star of comedies such as Old School and Anchorman comes after seeing this actor's halfhearted, disconcertingly crude and only occasionally amusing performance." — Washington Post Posted Feb 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 51%
| Steep (2007) | "
Sometimes it takes escaping death to feel alive -- especially if we have survived a cancer scare, a road accident or some other potentially fatal encounter. But Steep is about those who actively seek that dance with danger." — Washington Post Posted Feb 21, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| Charlie Bartlett (2007) | "
Not surprisingly we learn that parents need to listen more often to what their kids are saying. What Charlie really needs is a scriptwriter who's forceful and creative enough to break new ground." — Washington Post Posted Feb 21, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Step Up 2 the Streets (2008) | "
Let's wait for a movie where they do get it all right: story, acting and dancing. It'll happen, just not this time." — Washington Post Posted Feb 14, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| The Last Seduction (1995) | "
The movie is a spirited attempt at modern film noir, and huge parts of it are enjoyable." — Washington Post Posted Feb 12, 2008 |
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