Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 67%
| New York (2009) | It’s a remarkable history, rich in comedy and occasionally heartbreaking, filled with wise reflections and strange digressions about the wonders of life. — New York Times Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 96%
| The Beaches of Agnes (2009) | "
The Beaches of Agnès is at once an illustration of the fine art of foraging and an autobiographical portrait." — New York Times Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 65%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
Michael Mann’s Public Enemies is a grave and beautiful work of art." — New York Times Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 60%
| Surveillance (2009) | "
A would-be transgression that tries to squeeze dark laughs from the spectacle of human suffering." — New York Times Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 51%
| Cheri (2009) | "
In Chéri you see the frailty and the strength, yet you rarely experience either with the depth of feeling you might because of the palpable uneasiness surrounding her performance." — New York Times Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 19%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
In Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, the director’s subject is as blatant and consistent as his cluttered mise-en-scène." — New York Times Posted Jun 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 66%
| Dead Snow (2009) | "
Chomp-chomp, zip-zip go the Nazi zombies in Dead Snow, a self-consciously outlandish horror flick." — New York Times Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 46%
| The Proposal (2009) | "
Like most Hollywood romantic comedies these days, The Proposal is all about bringing a woman to her knees." — New York Times Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 17%
| Year One (2009) | "
A thoroughly, sometimes gaggingly broad and sly conceptual laugh-in." — New York Times Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 97%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
One of the scariest movies of the year [is] Food, Inc., an informative, often infuriating activist documentary." — New York Times Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 61%
| Tetro (2009) | "
Tetro is a visually lush cinematic fugue about love, ambivalence and two brothers fleeing the dark shadow of their domineering father." — New York Times Posted Jun 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 94%
| 24 City (2009) | "
The actors in 24 City, an experimental fiction-nonfiction hybrid, bring their own existential realities to their short, touching performances." — New York Times Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/5
| Rotten 19%
| Downloading Nancy (2008) | "
Downloading Nancy is a nasty exploitation flick tarted up with art-house actors and psychobabble." — New York Times Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 28%
| Land of the Lost (2009) | "
The only marginally interesting, if unsurprising, thing about Land of the Lost is that a lot of money has been spent on yet another cultural throwaway." — New York Times Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 8%
| What Goes Up (2009) | "
Mr. Coogan doesn’t seem altogether comfortable with his part, which, like the story, undergoes a number of unconvincing changes." — New York Times Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 97%
| Up (2009) | "
As in their finest work, the Pixar filmmakers have created thrilling cinema simply by rifling through its history." — New York Times Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Enter the Void (2009) | "
[Noe is] using pure cinema and not just cheap exploitation tricks to make an impact." — New York Times Posted May 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 68%
| Julia (2009) | "
Ms. Swinton doesn't have Ms. Rowlands' tenderness, but, damn, she has just about everything else you need or want." — New York Times Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
A bright, shiny blast from a newly imagined past." — New York Times Posted May 7, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 28%
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | "
A junky-looking romantic comedy that's neither remotely romantic nor passably comic." — New York Times Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 33%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
A nondramatic work best appreciated as a pure image-and-sound event." — New York Times Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| The Merry Gentleman (2009) | "
An austere, nearly pitch-perfect character study of two mismatched yet ideally matched souls." — New York Times Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 55%
| The Soloist (2009) | "
The film is imperfect, periodically if unsurprisingly sentimental, overly tidy and often very moving." — New York Times Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Treeless Mountain (2009) | "
Treeless Mountain has the tang of real life, though this is realism that has been filtered through 60 or so years of world art cinema." — New York Times Posted Apr 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 56%
| 17 Again (2009) | "
Keeps people and things moving fast enough so that you don't have time to worry about the details, like the inanity of the story." — New York Times Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Leon Morin, Priest (1961) | "
Melville's eye for exacting detail here is expected. What is remarkable is the depth of feeling he exacts from the juxtaposition of these ordinary moments with their extraordinary context." — New York Times Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
— | N/A | Oblivion (1994) | No article or quote available — New York Times Posted Apr 16, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Desert Dream (2009) | "
Silence, interrupted only by the periodic violent howls of the wind and animal mewls and bleats, pervades the otherworldly landscape of Desert Dream." — New York Times Posted Apr 15, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| Oblivion (2008) | "
Oblivion is a movie so suffused with feeling for its human subjects that when a man starts weeping, you don’t feel dirty about watching his tears fall." — New York Times Posted Apr 15, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 51%
| Observe and Report (2009) | "
A potentially brilliant conceptual comedy that fizzles because its writer and director, Jody Hill, doesn’t have the guts to go with his spleen." — New York Times Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 55%
| Lymelife (2009) | "
Despite some floundering, Lymelife keeps you hooked, mostly through its performances." — New York Times Posted Apr 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 35%
| The Edge of Love (2009) | "
Booze and jealousy make a toxic cocktail, one that’s heavily imbibed with much self-lacerating gusto in the grim British drama The Edge of Love." — New York Times Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 82%
| I Love You, Man (2009) | "
A fitfully funny comedy that owes much to Judd Apatow." — New York Times Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| Sin Nombre (2009) | "
The caressing, honeyed light in Sin Nombre beautifies and softens every ugly moment in this equivocating story about geographic and moral border crossings." — New York Times Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 63%
| Alexander the Last (2009) | "
Alexander the Last, a 72-minute series of loosely connected scenes, follows an actress’s lurching conversations and tentative gestures in life and the theater." — New York Times Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 20%
| Severed Ways (2009) | "
If nothing else, Mr. Stone, from his tangled hair to dirty feet, has taken himself and his story into the beyond -- way, way beyond." — New York Times Posted Mar 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 92%
| Tokyo Sonata (2009) | "
Though Tokyo Sonata looks like a family melodrama, there is more than a touch of horror to its story of a downsized salaryman." — New York Times Posted Mar 12, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 60%
| Frontier of Dawn (2009) | "
Love is a universe of two in Philippe Garrel’s fatalistic romance Frontier of Dawn." — New York Times Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 95%
| Fados (2009) | "
Fados is Carlos Saura’s big-screen film about the musical genre that is the soul music of Portugal." — New York Times Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 57%
| Explicit Ills (2008) | "
There is much to argue with, and much to regret, about a film whose director thinks he needs to drop an anvil on our heads when art would suffice." — New York Times Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 12%
| Crossing Over (2009) | "
Crossing Over delivers its sanctimony with less hand-wringing and more fist-shaking, complete with lurid violence and periodically bared female flesh." — New York Times Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Dillinger is Dead (1969) | "
There are some sharp ideas tucked alongside the tedious high jinks and rank sexism of Dillinger Is Dead." — New York Times Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 25%
| Fired Up (2009) | "
At once funnier than it should be and more witless than it should have been." — New York Times Posted Feb 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Must Read After My Death (2009) | "
Raises unsettling questions about the erosion of the private sphere." — New York Times Posted Feb 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 91%
| Gomorrah (2009) | "
Gomorrah is a corrosive and ferociously unsentimental fictional look at Italian organized crime." — New York Times Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 23%
| Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) | "
Like the flailing American economy, Confessions of a Shopaholic wants to eat its cake and have its spiritual redemption too. (Talk about timing!)" — New York Times Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Gomorra (2008) | No article or quote available — New York Times Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Lithuania and the Collapse of the USSR (2009) | "
I not only watched all 286 minutes, I also rewatched a few sections." — New York Times Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 43%
| He's Just Not That Into You (2009) | "
Imagine an action flick in which the hero spends the entire movie chasing the villain without the satisfaction of smashing his enemy to smithereens." — New York Times Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 57%
| Taken (2009) | "
Taken starts in low gear and almost immediately stalls out." — New York Times Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
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