Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
Although sometimes too sly for its own good, this great-looking carnivorous caper brings Wes Anderson's whimsical melancholy to a kids' classic." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Adventures of Power (2009) | "
The rhythm's off in this goofy tale of an air-drumming underdog." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 67%
| Paris (2009) | "
From the catacombs to the city's heights, Paris turns an unblinking gaze on the beauty of melancholy and the daring leap toward joy." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Youth in Revolt (2010) | "
The collision of adolescent hormones and parental folly, hardly new cinematic territory, gets a bracing absurdist slant in Youth in Revolt." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 84%
| The September Issue (2009) | "
A slight, if often riveting, behind-the-scenes documentary." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 31%
| Irene in Time (2009) | "
Like its central character, Henry Jaglom's 16th feature is gangly and graceful, awkward and tender, a jumble of astute observation and clunkily heightened reality." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 69%
| Who Does She Think She Is? (2008) | "
With its playfully pointed use of archival clips and with its subjects' striking talents on display, the well-crafted film celebrates courage." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
— | Fresh 60%
| Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 26, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Toyo's Camera (2009) | "
Director Junichi Suzuki's film offers compelling insights into a long-shrouded chapter of history, yet Toyo's Camera lacks the subtlety of its subject's work." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 39%
| Inkheart (2009) | "
Inkheart is a valentine to books mainly by negative example -- the leaps of imagination it doesn't achieve." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| The Betrayal (2008) | "
[Betrayal's] saga, told with soul-stirring specificity, is also in a sense the history of 20th century bloodshed and dislocation, hauntingly anticipated in 5,000-year-old Lao prophecies." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 55%
| The Tale of Despereaux (2008) | "
Despereaux is a rare creature, not only for the handmade look and subtlety of its computer-generated imagery but also for its irony-free embrace of once-upon-a-time storytelling." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 19, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 78%
| $9.99 (2009) | "
Like most films that crisscross among a handful of city dwellers to mull contemporary ennui, $9.99 is less than the sum of its parts." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| The Black Balloon (2008) | "
This unblinking family drama packs a visceral punch. Thomas' journey toward acceptance is blessedly free of noble lessons and filled with real people." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 73%
| Eden (2008) | "
Walsh and Kelly are the embodiment of domestic despair, fumbling to find their way back into the light." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 64%
| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) | "
Translating this dark fable to the screen, Herman for the most part maintains the book's oversimplification of historical events, but he nonetheless crafts an affecting drama that refuses to soft-pedal its harrowing conclusion." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 7, 2008 |
— | N/A | The Demon Within (2002) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) | "
Simon Pegg is likably smart and obnoxious as the fish-out-of-water Brit in high-gloss Manhattan, but he's swimming upstream in a feature that substitutes slapstick for scathing wit." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 1, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 73%
| Alice Neel (2007) | "
The finely crafted Alice Neel is at once tribute, investigative journalism and messy family drama." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 66%
| Ping Pong Playa (2007) | "
The movie doesn't take its broad, jokey premise terribly far, but it manages to sustain a goofy-sweet comic energy and offers sly observations about assimilation, sibling rivalry and the art of competitive maternal bragging." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 5, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 91%
| I.O.U.S.A. (2008) | "
Packed with facts, figures and the testimony of policy experts, the film is no wallow in wonkiness, but a surprisingly sprightly tough-love lesson in fiscal responsibility." — Chicago Tribune Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Anita O'Day - The Life Of A Jazz Singer (2008) | "
Alive with improvisational energy and rejecting the conventional biographical format, the film pursues ideas and feelings rather than chronology as it scats through an archival wealth of interviews with O'Day and some of her most inspired performances." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| The Longshots (2008) | "
Every triumph registers low on the emotion meter, and most of the supporting characters are two-dimensional at best." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Aug 20, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) | "
Refreshingly sincere and full of wholesome can-do spirit." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 20, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| Miss Conception (2008) | "
It feels more like a small-screen distraction." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 36%
| You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008) | "
A genial, hit-and-miss return to the ridiculous for Adam Sandler." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 4, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| The Children of Huang Shi (2008) | "
Period tale of real-life heroism doesn’t fully come to life." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 26, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| How About You (2008) | "
by-the-numbers audience-pleaser." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 10, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 58%
| Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008) | "
With the collaboration of screenwriter Tonino Guerra, Khemir has created a fresh variation on the somewhat tired subgenre of the crisscross, in which the paths of strangers intersect and converge." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Vantage Point (2008) | "
Straight out of the slice-and-dice school of filmmaking, Vantage Point fractures chronology and perspective in a vain attempt to disguise its flimsiness." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 21, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) | "
A frenzied comedy promoting the family values of loud, obnoxious and mean." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 7, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Over Her Dead Body (2008) | "
A harebrained rom-com diversion offering few laughs and little romance." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 31, 2008 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Half Moon: A Musician's Last Journey (2007) | "
[Director Bahman Ghobadi] sparks a deeply humanist alchemy in unsentimental tales peopled by nonprofessional actors." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| First Snow (2007) | "
A fresh, intelligent and thoroughly involving psychological thriller." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Dec 4, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Art of Negative Thinking (2007) | "
An engagingly angry black comedy from Norway." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 19, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) | "
For all its playful touches and neat-o nostalgia for nondigital entertainment, the whimsy feels forced." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 16, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) | "
Most viewers will be left to wonder whether the message is connecting." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Nov 16, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 31%
| Martian Child (2007) | "
Those who stick with Martian Child won't entirely avoid mush, but they will find terrific performances by John Cusack, as the parental unit, and 10-year-old Bobby Coleman, as the self-proclaimed extraterrestrial." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 29, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Sydney White (2007) | "
A mildly fractured fairy tale that's often too dopey for its own good." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 20, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Protagonist (2007) | "
The film makes a lasting impression as it delves into an unfashionable territory: character as fate rather than a function of pharmaceuticals." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Sep 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 23%
| Balls of Fury (2007) | "
It's the killer pingpong action that ultimately keeps Balls afloat." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Aug 23, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2007) | "
Garlin's terrific comic timing is a key attribute, as is that of his strong cast." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Aug 11, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| David & Layla (2008) | "
Writer-director Jay Jonroy is better with atmosphere and visuals than with dialogue." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Aug 3, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Bratz: The Movie (2007) | "
You go, girlz. Mom and Dad will wait in the car." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 30, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 48%
| Cashback (2007) | "
A flair for language both cinematic and verbal elevates an ordinary coming-of-age comedy of little substance." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jul 20, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| Nancy Drew (2007) | "
It's hardly sacred literature that shouldn't be messed with, yet the source material's particular resonance remains elusive in this 21st century update." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jun 9, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| Gracie (2007) | "
It's not without well-observed moments, and in the title role, Carly Schroeder makes an agreeably flawed and feisty rooting interest." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 30, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Retrieval (2006) | "
Throughout, Bogumil Godfrejow's mostly hand-held camerawork is apt and affecting." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Mar 24, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 5%
| Because I Said So (2007) | "
A shallow rom-com that's not just eager but frantic to please." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 1, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Constellation (2007) | "
An accomplished cast that includes Billy Dee Williams, Lesley Ann Warren and Rae Dawn Chong struggles to elevate material that rarely gets deeper than a daytime soap, though it tries mightily." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Feb 1, 2007 |
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