Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 82%
| The Princess and the Frog (2009) | "
It's not easy being green. But to judge from how this hand-drawn movie addresses, or rather strenuously avoids, race, it is a lot more difficult to be black." — New York Times Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | My Dear Enemy (2009) | "
It's an artful, slightly absurdist romance, reminiscent of the gender-war comedies of Hong Sang-soo (Woman on the Beach) but more straightforward, with its meanings, and its feelings, much closer to the surface." — New York Times Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 58%
| Mammoth (2009) | "
In Mammoth, when a rich child eats her lunch in New York, a poor boy in the Philippines cries. And so it goes, as privilege begets exploitation with grimly deterministic logic and pages and pages of bad dialogue." — New York Times Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 29%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
The big tease turns into the long goodbye in The Twilight Saga: New Moon." — New York Times Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 90%
| The Sun (2005) | "
First shown at the Berlin Film Festival four years ago, The Sun is finally receiving its welcome American theatrical release, which means that one of the best movies of 2005 is now also one of the best of 2009." — New York Times Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 30%
| Women in Trouble (2009) | "
Mr. Gutierrez, as suggested by all the dcolletage, appears to be a breast man. Too bad he didnt set his sights higher." — New York Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 60%
| Pirate Radio (2009) | "
Boys will be boys and often at top volume in Pirate Radio, Richard Curtiss fanciful fiction about rebel broadcasters." — New York Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 37%
| 2012 (2009) | "
Despite the frenetic action scenes, the movie sags, done in by multiple story lines that undercut one another and by the heaviness of its conceit." — New York Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 47%
| The Box (2009) | "
Sincere and sinister and inevitably ambitious." — New York Times Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 54%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
A likable, lightweight, absurdist comedy." — New York Times Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 87%
| Skin (2009) | "
We dont need overwrought performances to understand the calamity of her life or to weep when her parents turn their backs on her. If anything, the story demands restraint because, invariably at the movies, its the gentle touch that hits harder." — New York Times Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 16%
| Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | "
Timing, good jokes and characters you can laugh with and at are mostly missing" — New York Times Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| The House of the Devil (2009) | "
After years of vivisectionist splatter, here is a horror movie with real shivers." — New York Times Posted Oct 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | Death returned Michael Jacksons humanity, and in a curious, tentative way so too does Michael Jacksons This Is It. — New York Times Posted Oct 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Rembrandt's J'accuse (2009) | "
A generally absorbing if sometimes fog-inducing investigation into the mysteries of the Rembrandt painting “The Night Watch.”" — New York Times Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 48%
| Astro Boy (2009) | "
Like a lot of movies, Astro Boy has been designed to function on different levels and serve different audiences, but in this case these multiple meanings and points of address have created a confusion of tone." — New York Times Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 20%
| Amelia (2009) | "
Alas, excesses of any pleasurable kind are absent from this exasperatingly dull production." — New York Times Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Maid (2009) | "
The narrative design of The Maid is at once simple and complex." — New York Times Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 71%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
Where the Wild Things Are is an alternately perfect and imperfect if always beautiful adaptation of the Maurice Sendak childrens book." — New York Times Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 56%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
A mostly funny if melancholic defense of deceit." — New York Times Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
A minor diversion dripping in splatter and groaning with self-amusement." — New York Times Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 39%
| Surrogates (2009) | "
Bruce Willis has little to do but hit his predictable marks and mouth the generic dialogue." — New York Times Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 75%
| Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) | "
Like most of his movies, Capitalism is a tragedy disguised as a comedy; its also an entertainment." — New York Times Posted Sep 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 77%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
A smart, cynical movie about how we buy now -- oops, I mean, how we live now." — New York Times Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Rotten .5/5
| Rotten 6%
| All About Steve (2009) | "
It seems incredible, but the grimly unfunny comedy All About Steve might just be the worst movie on Sandra Bullocks rsum." — New York Times Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
Fitfully funny with a low joke-to-minute ratio, Extract plays like two irreconcilable and unfinished sketches, neither particularly fertile comedic terrain." — New York Times Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Liverpool (2009) | Although it has its visual pleasures, and there's plenty to admire about his compositions, the journey in Liverpool seems comparatively slight. — New York Times Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Unmade Beds (2009) | "
A lovely, somewhat messy movie about lovely, messy young lives." — New York Times Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 85%
| We Live in Public (2009) | "
We Live in Public looks at one mans experiments with issues of privacy." — New York Times Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Still Walking (2009) | "
The Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda has a deceptively simple touch with the quiet, stirring film Still Walking." — New York Times Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 84%
| The September Issue (2009) | "
The September Issue has little to say about fashion, the real ins and outs of publishing or the inner workings of the magazines meanie-in-chief, Anna Wintour." — New York Times Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 86%
| Big Fan (2009) | "
Big Fan is a spasmodically funny and bleak film about the love that speaks its name." — New York Times Posted Aug 27, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) | "
A taut, unnerving, forcefully unromantic film." — New York Times Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
Simply another testament to his movie love. The problem is that by making the star attraction of his latest film a most delightful Nazi, one whose smooth talk is as lovingly presented as his murderous violence, Mr. Tarantino has polluted that love." — New York Times Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 74%
| Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) | "
A feature-length talkathon built on a sketchy premise and strong star turns from Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt." — New York Times Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 38%
| The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) | "
Often ridiculous, awkward, unsatisfying and dour melodramatic adaptation." — New York Times Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 26%
| The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) | "
A grubby-looking comedy about the art of the sale." — New York Times Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Ponyo (2009) | "
When the ocean rises in this wonderful movie, each leaping wave stares out at us with a baleful eye as if in watchful and worried wait." — New York Times Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 36%
| G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) | This pricey, juiceless pulp could never have been killed by critics, simply because it was already dead. — New York Times Posted Aug 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 72%
| I Sell the Dead (2009) | "
A fine pair of grave robbers, (director) Mr. McQuaid and (producer) Mr. Fessenden plunder freely from the movie crypt, unearthing other chomping, glowing mysteries and monstrosities." — New York Times Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 58%
| A Perfect Getaway (2009) | "
Just the thing for the summertime movie blahs: its a genuinely satisfying cheap thrill." — New York Times Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 74%
| Cold Souls (2009) | "
An ambitious, elegantly shot, tonally cool first feature written and directed by Sophie Barthes." — New York Times Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 43%
| Fragments (2009) | "
The casting directors of Fragments deserve credit for assembling so much talent in one modest movie; if only Rowan Woods, the director, knew what to do with them." — New York Times Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 85%
| Flame & Citron (2008) | "
The director Ole Christian Madsens Flame & Citron is a fictionalized film, based on fact, about two Danish Resistance fighters." — New York Times Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 85%
| Import/Export (2009) | "
Ulrich Seidls Import Export is an unflinching, at times almost unbearably hard yet moral look at human exploitation." — New York Times Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
Theres something irritatingly self-satisfied about Funny People, which explains why, though it glances on the perils of fame, it mostly affirms its pleasures." — New York Times Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 55%
| Orphan (2009) | "
Actors have to eat like the rest of us, but you still have to wonder how Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard ended up wading through Orphan and not laughing." — New York Times Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| The English Surgeon (2009) | "
Henry Marsh is a British brain surgeon whose humanity and talent with power drills make him an uncommonly enthralling linchpin." — New York Times Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 14%
| The Ugly Truth (2009) | "
A cynical, clumsy, aptly titled attempt to cross the female-oriented romantic comedy with the male-oriented gross-out comedy." — New York Times Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 96%
| Somers Town (2009) | "
Shane Meadows has been busily carving out his own corner in British cinema." — New York Times Posted Jul 14, 2009 |
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