Rotten
| Fresh 66%
| Dead Snow (2009) | "
Let's call this the gooiest movie of the year (so far)." — Village Voice Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Street Dreams (2009) | "
First-time director Chris Zamoscianyk nicely captures the boozy, profane silliness of teenage boys on the loose, while drawing believable performances from a cast comprised largely of nonactors." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Unbeatable Harold (2009) | "
Unbeatable Harold is an obvious labor of love that is, much like Harold himself, sweet and occasionally amusing but often a bit grating." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Love 'N Dancing (2009) | "
Everyone moves beautifully, yet director Robert Iscove keeps such a coolly professional distance from the dancers that we never feel their heat." — L.A. Weekly Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Newcastle (2009) | "
Slightly overlong but visually striking." — L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Baby on Board (2008) | "
One winces for the cast, although end-title outtakes suggest that the principal stars had a high time -- which can only mean that when it comes to loving whoopee cushion humor, there is no middle ground." — L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 54%
| The New Twenty (2009) | "
Johnson and co-writer Ishmael Chawla have a light touch that keeps things from turning overly melodramatic." — Village Voice Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Shuttle (2009) | "
Next time, spring for a cab." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 31%
| The Uninvited (2009) | "
We’ve seen it all before, but that doesn’t diminish the accomplishment of first-time directors (and brothers) Charles and Thomas Guard, who clearly believe that a creaking door is scarier than a gouged-out eyeball." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 29, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Growing Out (2008) | "
Well produced but overlong, Growing Out feels like a labor of love made by young filmmakers in need of a stern screenwriting professor." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 49%
| Twilight (2008) | "
The movie version gives really good swoon." — Village Voice Posted Nov 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 45%
| Soul Men (2008) | "
As swan songs go, Soul Men is pretty sweet." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 5, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Splinter (2008) | "
Splinter earns our respect while delivering 82 minutes of lean, mean fun." — Posted Oct 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Saving Marriage (2008) | "
Energetic and unapologetically biased." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Breakfast with Scot (2008) | "
Often quite funny." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 9, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Lower Learning (2008) | "
Lafferty is all about expletives and sexual innuendo of the frankest kind, some of it so raunchy (and unfunny) as to make one wonder if the parents of the film’s many child actors bothered to read the script." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Save Me (2007) | "
Light, best known for her TV-sitcom work, turns a cliché -- the zealot with a secret pain of her own -- into an achingly sad woman; it's one of the year's best performances." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 51%
| Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys (2008) | "
This snail-paced film might as well take place in the 1950s, since it seems to have been inspired by one those Hollywood melodramas in which one company employs the entire town, and the only places free of corruption are the church and the local diner." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Appaloosa (2008) | "
It could be said that Harris and his co-writer, Robert Knott, haven't done a whole lot of writing, but as Cole himself might say, there's no need to get all fancy with what's plain and true." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 18, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Traitor (2008) | "
Creating an ingenious mad bomber isn't quite the thrill it used to be." — L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 28, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer (2008) | "
This low-budget horror comedy arrives via a lively trailer and a witty print ad, yet the film itself never quite takes off." — L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 14, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) | "
Hellboy II doesn’t have much on its mind, but few will care, since del Toro and his stellar Pan’s Labyrinth team, including Oscar-winning cinematographer Guillermo Navarro, stage one virtuoso set piece after another." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jul 10, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| Prom Night (2008) | "
There’s nothing scary in there, but here’s a shudder-inducing fact: McCormick and Cardone are currently collaborating on a remake of the witty and nearly perfect 1987 thriller, The Stepfather." — L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 14, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| The Take (2008) | "
Furman stages the final foot chase with brio, but one wishes that he'd found a way to stay at home with Felix and Marina, who don't need guns to thrill." — L.A. Weekly Posted Apr 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| Shelter (2008) | "
Rowe displays new authority and confidence, as if lately he’s been looking in the mirror and seeing himself, rather than that other, more famous blond." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 41%
| The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) | "
The filmmakers deserve credit for being serious-minded, but they might have hinted at the top of the film that all would not be well in the end." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 28, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Cover (2008) | "
Duke appears to be aiming for a Tyler Perry-style mix of the taboo and the saintly, but his touch is so leaden that one ends up giggling, not weeping." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 24%
| Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) | "
It's impressive, actually, that Lawrence lets this film's supporting players steal so much of his show -- as movie stars go, he must be a pretty secure guy." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 7, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Running with Arnold (2008) | "
It’s a shame that [Director Dan] Cox resorts to such Rove-style foolishness." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jan 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| N/A | Torn from the Flag (2008) | "
Superb." — L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | Forfeit (2007) | "
Director Andrew Brendan Shea can’t seem to decide if he’s making a thriller, a boozy blue-collar melodrama or a religious parable." — L.A. Weekly Posted Dec 5, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Stephen King's The Mist (2007) | "
The Mist made me want to scream, but for all the wrong reasons." — Village Voice Posted Nov 20, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| Weirdsville (2007) | "
I kept wishing for a rewrite that sent the Satanists packing and pulled the love story hiding within Wennekers’ script to the fore." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 18, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Feel the Noise (2007) | "
First-time screenwriter Albert Leon appears to have turned for music industry insight not to his famous producer (who has no excuses) but to other music-themed movies (Mariah Carey’s Glitter, perhaps?)." — L.A. Weekly Posted Oct 8, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Other Side (2006) | "
Bishop has chops; someone give this man a meeting." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 27, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007) | "
That one can’t quite decide if these charming men are heroes or villains is a mark of Johnson’s calm, even approach to an issue seemingly fueled by emotions run amok." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 27, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Shoot 'Em Up (2007) | "
It’s hard to get too worked up about a film whose very title announces its maker’s intent." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 6, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 33%
| Marigold (2007) | "
Marigold is saved from the predictability of its setup by the enthusiasm of its cast, color-drenched sets and costumes, and full-on musical numbers staged outdoors on a beautiful seaside stage." — L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| Skinwalkers (2007) | "
The only thing more boring than a vampire with moral issues about biting people in the neck is a werewolf who’d rather become fully human than howl at the moon once a month." — L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 20%
| Rush Hour 3 (2007) | "
After all these years and all the complex fight scenes [Chan's] been in, the basics are plenty satisfying. He’s still the Gene Kelly of martial arts. Tucker and Ratner can’t even begin to match Chan’s grace, but to their credit, they seem to know it." — L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 9, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | Yellow (2006) | "
A fresh take on an oft-told tale." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 21, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | Fireworks Wednesday (2008) | "
This is director Asghar Farhadi’s third feature, and it’s brilliantly assured, both in the fluidity and unexpected stylishness of the camerawork and in the subtlety with which Farhadi and co-writer Mani Haghighi explore the complexities of modern [Iran]." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 21, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Amu (2005) | "
The flashback sequences are vibrant and intense, and the film’s long closing shot is so dense with feeling for a nation and its people that Bose deserves to be noted as a filmmaker to watch." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 14, 2007 |
Fresh
| N/A | Americanizing Shelley (2007) | "
Americanizing Shelley isn’t original, or the least bit believable, but it’s so lovingly made that one’s usual resistance to such clichés falls away." — L.A. Weekly Posted Jun 13, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 47%
| Duck (2007) | "
The filmmaker is good with actors, and in Hall, she has a lead with such innate authority that you can’t take your eyes off him, even when he’s manhandling flapping waterfowl." — L.A. Weekly Posted May 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 30%
| Downtown: A Street Tale (2007) | "
Clichéd though it may be, this movie was clearly made with love." — L.A. Weekly Posted May 10, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Race You to the Bottom (2007) | "
Interesting, well-acted debut feature from writer-director Russell Brown." — L.A. Weekly Posted Mar 29, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Boy Who Cried Bitch: The Adolescent Years (2007) | "
This is a decidedly bizarre movie, nicely photographed and designed -- someone spent some money -- but built entirely around dialogue so stilted and unrevealing that it’s little wonder poor [actor Adam] LaVorgna screams it." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 15, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Daddy's Little Girls (2007) | "
Perry has great casting instincts, and in Elba and Union he’s matched two gifted, equally gorgeous actors, both of whom seem ready to make sparks fly. If only their director would let them." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Antibodies (2005) | "
Antibodies is fairly riveting, thanks to Alvart’s command of craft and tone. He’s a director to watch." — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 15, 2007 |
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