Rotten F
| Rotten 6%
| Old Dogs (2009) | "
"Old Dogs" also wants to entertain the adults in the audience. Frankly, any adult who finds this film humorous may be at the same level of intelligence as their child and someone should call child services immediately." Posted Nov 29, 2009 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 28%
| Ninja Assassin (2009) | "
It's a wild mess, and it commits the worst crime a messy film can make--it completely lacks entertainment. It's an overly violent, unintelligible bore." Posted Nov 27, 2009 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 30%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
Had the audience at my screening heaving and sighing so often, here's a recommendation: Bring an oxygen tank. You'll need it and a mask, particularly in the presence of so much heaving and sighing and busy shirtlessness." Posted Nov 27, 2009 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 25%
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | "
It should be put under citizen's arrest as it's one colossal disappointment." Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 58%
| Mammoth (2009) | "
The message of the movie seems to be that Americans can solve guilt by paying the right person." Posted Nov 21, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 16%
| Planet 51 (2009) | "
It's cute, it's passable, the animation is fine--but the major problem with the film is its predictability." Posted Nov 21, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 74%
| The Blind Side (2009) | "
By avoiding excessive cliche and maintaining a simple and optimistic attitude throughout, and with a healthy dose of comedy, "The Blind Side" ends up being one of the best sports films of recent years." Posted Nov 21, 2009 |
Fresh A
| Rotten 54%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
Begins with the subtitle: "More of this is true than you would believe." It's the perfect beginning to a film that deftly combines truth and fiction." Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 37%
| 2012 (2009) | "
What's so frustrating about "2012" is that it could have been a great action movie. If the special effects team can do their jobs, certainly better writers could have been hired. But no. Just try finding a surprise." Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 60%
| Pirate Radio (2009) | "
Though the sum isn't quite as good as the parts, the film does succeed due to its phenomenal cast, which consists of some of the best British actors working today. Philip Seymour Hoffman gives one of his most entertaining performances." Posted Nov 14, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
What's curious about the movie is that you can tart it up all you want, but Dickens' words still resonate, his characters still infuriate, frighten and touch, and there's still satisfaction to be had in his tale." Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 20%
| Amelia (2009) | "
Amelia is a film that could have been great, but instead is an average film about an extraordinary person." Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 18%
| The Fourth Kind (2009) | "
The film doesn't deliver any frights or creepiness. The so-called shocking parts are revealed in the trailer. The rest feels as if moments have been stitched together to make a whole." Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 47%
| The Box (2009) | "
Anyone going into "The Box" expecting a simple everyday thriller surely will be surprised with what they get--a dismal, morally complicated piece of sci-fi surrealism." Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
What "This is It" accomplishes is key to not only preserving Jackson's memory, but also to galvanizing his myth. Onstage, he still moonwalks, but there are new moves to be had here and a voice that is still strong." Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 83%
| Paranormal Activity (2009) | "
Proves that in a horror movie, often the less you see, the more intense the story." Posted Oct 29, 2009 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 12%
| Couples Retreat (2009) | "
Director Billingsley, who once played Ralphie in 1983's "A Christmas Story," should have picked up that old BB gun of his and blown the hell out of the script before he ever signed on to make a movie out of it." Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
This spoof on the zombie genre literally and figuratively is killer. It's laugh-out-loud funny, the gore is beautifully over-the-top, and the wicked script is laced with a cutting wit." Posted Oct 10, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 71%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
Jonze has, in a sense, deepened the work that came before it." Posted Oct 3, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 39%
| Surrogates (2009) | "
The problem with the movie is that while the action is swift, the set design is polished and the running time is enjoyably lean, the film leaves behind too many unanswered questions in its quest to drive the action forward." Posted Oct 3, 2009 |
Fresh D
| Rotten 18%
| Love Happens (2009) | "
Good movies happen, too. Just not this time around." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 28%
| Fame (2009) | "
Thing is, to live forever would mean the eventual re-remake of Fame. And that won't do." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 86%
| Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) | "
One of the year's better animated movies." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh A+
| Fresh 100%
| The Wizard of Oz (1939) | "
The movie--well, you know the movie. You know how great Judy Garland is as Dorothy, how memorable the rest of the cast is, how terrific Victor Fleming's direction is, and that the film's themes of the importance of home have helped it to resonate througho" Posted Sep 27, 2009 |
Rotten F
| Rotten 40%
| Wrong Turn (2003) | "
The understatement of the year. Essentially, ax-wielding rednecks unite in a slasher flick that drives itself into a brick wall of no return." Posted Sep 27, 2009 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 90%
| Misery (1990) | "
Director Rob Reiner creates an atmosphere of tense horror wrapped around rich dialogue ("Cockadoodie dirty birdie!"), and in the process, he gets sterling performances from Caan and Bates." Posted Sep 27, 2009 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 27%
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | "
A deluge of dim jokes and rote romantic interludes between Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner that are intended to recall Charle's Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." God help us all." Posted Sep 27, 2009 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 50%
| Observe and Report (2009) | "
Here's an observation--Jody Hill's bum comedy fails to live up to the potential of its two talented stars, Seth Rogen and Anna Farris. As for the story, here's the report. It's stupid." Posted Sep 27, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 82%
| Whip It (2009) | "
You admire it for the care that went into fleshing out its characters, the camaraderie that grows between them, and the thrill of watching a few harrowing turns around a skating rink." Posted Sep 27, 2009 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 45%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
"Jennifer's Body" has issues." Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 56%
| 9 (2009) | "
It's disappointing to report that the movie--while terrific to look at and rousing in parts--is not the movie it could have been." Posted Sep 20, 2009 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
Smart and affable, but not laugh-out-loud funny. A comedy shouldn't be as grounded as this. Since it's coming from Mike Judge, you expect it to fly." Posted Sep 12, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 10%
| Catwoman (2004) | "
Widely considered a terrible movie, but if you enjoy the camp genre, it's a must-see. It is, in fact, camp on a catnip high." Posted Sep 12, 2009 |
Rotten F-
| Rotten 21%
| Halloween II (2009) | "
My open letter to Rob Zombie on his *cough* brilliant execution of Halloween II." Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh B
| N/A | Sons of Anarchy - Season 1 (2008) | "
A fine show that follows a band of outlaw bikers through all sorts of dramatic hell." Posted Aug 30, 2009 |
Fresh B
| N/A | Scrubs - The Complete Eighth Season (2008) | "
Remains a highlight. It's smart, well-balanced lunacy with an undercurrent of romantic and dramatic tension that cuts through the laughs." Posted Aug 30, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 77%
| Gladiator (2000) | "
Beefcake! Blood! Body slams! Boring! Boring? Well, not quite, but at 150 minutes, "Gladiator" isn't entirely the thrilling, action-packed Roman epic some fans of the genre were expecting." Posted Aug 30, 2009 |
Fresh B
| N/A | Desperate Housewives - The Complete Fifth Season (2008) | "
In this season of the show, Wisteria Lane and the "ladies" who lunch there remains a place where friendship and neighborly love don't exactly go down like spoonfuls of sugar. Saccharine, yes, but rarely sugar." Posted Aug 30, 2009 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
Tarantino's best movie to date turns out to be his latest movie, which clashes together history and fantasy, intentionally echoes back to many of the World War II movies that came before it, and uses them to inform it." Posted Aug 30, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
This low-budget film with its unknown cast is recommended because it ultimately is thought-provoking and smart. This isn't a sci-fi thriller so much as it is a sci-fi drama. It poses several serious questions about the state of humanity." Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 74%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
Nora Ephron's winning new movie is a tonic for those seeking something different from the usual summer fare of explosions, aliens and all things gone berserk. And what a swell departure it is." Posted Aug 16, 2009 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
The script has unexpected jolts of substance and drama, so much so that too often there are long stretches between the laughs, all of which fuel the film's bloated 2.5-hour running time." Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 14%
| The Ugly Truth (2009) | "
Everybody loves a good romantic comedy. Unfortunately, nobody gets one in "The Ugly Truth," a crude movie that won't be a surprise for anyone who sees where the genre is going, which essentially is down a dark hole of no return." Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 83%
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) | "
The movie satisfies with new revelations and twists, one of which is so dire, it left many at my screening in their seats long after fate revealed its cruel hand and the credits started to roll." Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 67%
| Bruno (2009) | "
The new Sacha Baron Cohen movie, "Bruno," really isn't a movie at all. Calling it one is sort of like calling mutton the new white meat." Posted Jul 16, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 67%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
Director Michael Mann pulls a fine performance from Johnny Depp as John Dillinger in ways that lift the film's otherwise so-so storyline." Posted Jul 14, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 98%
| Up (2009) | "
Its refusal to sugarcoat death and loneliness deepens its appeal, with Carl's longing for Ellie so palpable, few won't be moved as the film wends along its harrowing way." Posted Jul 14, 2009 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 15%
| I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) | "
Sign the pre-nup so you can get a refund at the box office. "I Love You, Beth Cooper" has a few moments, but mostly it fails to show us the love." Posted Jul 14, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 78%
| The Hangover (2009) | "
Easily, one of summer's more outrageous, funny comedies." Posted Jul 14, 2009 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 19%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
A crowning achievement--the first English-language film that needs subtitles in order to understand it. It's a shoo-in for the Razzies--Worst Foreign Language Movie in a Non Foreign Language." Posted Jul 4, 2009 |
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