Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| Imagine That (2009) | "
Why anyone imagines children want to see Eddie Murphy's internal struggle may be the first question posed by Imagine That, but it's hardly the last" — PopMatters Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
As Food, Inc. shows, these pretty, red, genetically engineered tomatoes are signs of a dodgy future already here." — PopMatters Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
Nothing if not self-aware, this update of Joseph Sargent's 1974 thriller begins by rearranging the class dynamics." — PopMatters Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| Year One (2009) | "
This strategy -- cutting away before a likely punchline -- is Year One's preferred mode." — PopMatters Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Whatever Works (2009) | "
Whatever Works, a reported reworking of a 30-year-old script, is overtly old." — PopMatters Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 66%
| Dead Snow (2009) | "
Dead Snow knows exactly what it is... a horror film with Nazi zombies as stars." — PopMatters Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Laila's Birthday (2009) | "
It's only the start of Abu Laila's long, long day in Laila's Birthday (Eid milad Laila), and already, he's impatient." — PopMatters Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
Christine's monstrosity is hardly so daunting as that of the evil spirit stalking her, but it's of a piece with Drag Me to Hell's mostly vague cultural critique." — PopMatters Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Pontypool (2009) | "
In Bruce McDonald's suitably weird zombie movie, the coin of the shock jock's own realm -- language -- is the source of all the trouble." — PopMatters Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Outrage (2009) | "
Kirby Dick's documentary argues that it's long past time that the many stories that shape closeted gay politicians' lives and careers be sorted out." — PopMatters Posted May 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Rudo and Cursi (2009) | "
Only a few minutes into Rudo y Cursi, the brothers are discovered playing grand and gloriously boyish fútbol." — PopMatters Posted May 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Julia (2009) | "
Julia is a mix of fantasy and tragedy, with the violence amped up and the background noisy and lurid." — PopMatters Posted May 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Song of Sparrows (2009) | "
The goldfish flopping in the sun is an image typical of Majid Majidi's films, fable-like and seemingly simple even as it is also complex." — PopMatters Posted May 21, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| The Brothers Bloom (2009) | "
Overrated as truth may be, in The Brothers Bloom, Penelope (Rachel Weisz) is supposed to signify it." — PopMatters Posted May 21, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 32%
| Terminator Salvation (2009) | "
It's late in Terminator Salvation when Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his much-hyped non-appearance." — PopMatters Posted May 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| Tokyo! (2009) | "
Taken together, the three movies in Tôkyô! create a frightful, smart, and lingering impression." — PopMatters Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Treeless Mountain (2009) | "
So Yong Kim's remarkable film never spells out exactly what Jin or Bin is thinking, the camera implies how they see." — PopMatters Posted May 7, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| Fighting (2009) | "
For all its attention to local "color", Fighting focuses on the white boy's progress." — PopMatters Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Tyson (2009) | "
Tyson is about the processes that make Mike Tyson." — PopMatters Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh 5/10
| Rotten 55%
| The Soloist (2009) | "
The Soloist illustrates Nathaniel's internal life -- his music and his madness -- in reductive, sensational imagery." — PopMatters Posted May 7, 2009 |
Rotten 1/10
| Rotten 28%
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | "
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past submits that Connor deserves to be saved by Jenny. But it never shows how or why she should bother with him." — PopMatters Posted May 7, 2009 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 8%
| The Skeptic (2009) | "
You know you're in trouble when the most appealing element your film is Tom Arnold." — PopMatters Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Rotten 33%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
The limits of control are simultaneously intimate and global. And Isaac De Bankolé's face reveals just as much as you can know." — PopMatters Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
The much-anticipated movie reintroduces all the characters from the franchise's first iteration, but its most intense and rewarding focus is friendship between Kirk and Spock." — PopMatters Posted May 7, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 20%
| Chapter 27 (2008) | "
Mature, slow-moving Lennon assassination drama." — Common Sense
DVD REVIEW Posted May 5, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 5%
| 88 Minutes (2008) | "
Serial killer thriller runs out of time, momentum." — Common Sense
DVD REVIEW Posted May 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 38%
| Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) | "
Super Size Me guy heads to the Middle East." — Common Sense
DVD REVIEW Posted May 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 37%
| Street Kings (2008) | "
Grim, brutal bad-cop drama isn't meant for kids." — Common Sense
DVD REVIEW Posted May 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 48%
| Doomsday (2008) | "
Violent action flick paints a grim, bloody future." — Common Sense
DVD REVIEW Posted May 5, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Lymelife (2009) | "
Lymelife features frustrated, confused kids, and frustrated, self-obsessed adults." — PopMatters Posted Apr 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Forbidden Lie$ (2009) | "
As unusual, even sensational, images appear, it becomes clear that Forbidden Lie$'s more conventional images are also up for challenges, that they can no longer be assumed to be true." — PopMatters Posted Apr 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Guest of Cindy Sherman (2009) | "
Paul H-O's hurt feelings over being the overlooked man in a relationship with a famous woman, are surely familiar and not especially provocative." — PopMatters Posted Apr 19, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 71%
| American Violet (2009) | "
Based on the infamous Panhandle Regional Narcotics Task Force case in Tulia, Texas, American Violet makes clear the corruption and racism that pervades the official structures of its fictional town." — PopMatters Posted Apr 19, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Fresh 85%
| State of Play (2009) | "
In this new universe where facts are mutable and ends are means, so-called ethical triumphs can only be short-term." — PopMatters Posted Apr 19, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 93%
| Sugar (2009) | "
In this carefully observed and impressively minimalist movie, Sugar redefines and refines his art." — PopMatters Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Fresh 69%
| Who Does She Think She Is? (2008) | "
Who Does She Think She Is? shows the daily chaos facing women artists trying to keep pace with families and ambitions, activist politics and personal choices." — PopMatters Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 63%
| Enlighten Up! (2009) | "
Enlighten Up! is at least occasionally skeptical of the premise that true things might be articulated and disseminated." — PopMatters Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Rotten 52%
| American Swing (2009) | "
Certainly, the sex was exciting, as well as controversial. But Plato's Retreat also represented an effort to think through the mores behind monogamy, to challenge assumptions and imagine an alternative." — PopMatters Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 94%
| Goodbye Solo (2009) | "
Almost as soon as he appears in Goodbye Solo, the optimistic Solo is confronted with another perspective, belonging to a weary fare named William." — PopMatters Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Rotten 36%
| The Objective (2008) | "
When the straggling survivors in The Objective learn they are expendable, they are also, much like the Nostromo crew, upset." — PopMatters Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Fresh 66%
| Duplicity (2009) | "
For all its bright banter and flashbacky fanciness, Duplicity boils down to this rudimentary formula: morality and success are functions of beauty." — PopMatters Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Rotten 46%
| The Hunger (1983) | "
The focus of Hunger is emphatically the death of Bobby Sands, specifically, what happens to his body, viewed from a tragic outside and, to an imaginative extent, a determined inside." — PopMatters Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2/10
| Rotten 18%
| The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) | "
In the poorly paced and ineptly edited Haunting in Connecticut, Matt is surrounded by dark shadows, ooky male choruses, and reflections of tortured corpses in dirty glass." — PopMatters Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 28%
| Fast & Furious (2009) | "
Fast & Furious is everything it sounds like: crass, unoriginal, and mostly tiresome." — PopMatters Posted Apr 7, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 88%
| Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead (2009) | "
In the documentary, Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead, New York Law School professor and well-known retributivist Blecker submits he can measure -- in his gut -- who deserves to die." — PopMatters Posted Mar 15, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 61%
| Brothers at War (2009) | "
It is striking that Brothers at War approaches this profound and complicated relationship between brothers by way of trauma and death." — PopMatters Posted Mar 15, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 77%
| Chocolate (2009) | "
Chocolate (Chokgohlaet) offers sensational martial arts set pieces -- beautifully choreographed, exquisitely colored, and acrobatically shot." — PopMatters Posted Mar 8, 2009 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 26%
| Friday the 13th (2009) | "
Chewie knows his place in this determinedly un-new Friday the 13th: Asian Nerd About to Die." — PopMatters Posted Mar 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/10
| Rotten 23%
| Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) | "
What is John Salley doing in this movie?" — PopMatters Posted Mar 8, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Rotten 58%
| The International (2009) | "
Tom Tykwer's thriller shrewdly introduces Lou (Clive Owen) as he observes rather than acts." — PopMatters Posted Mar 8, 2009 |
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