Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 82%
| A Single Man (2009) | "
In this beautifully tailored drama, content and style have as vital a relationship as George and Jim did. The one would be lost without the other." — Denver Post Posted Dec 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 70%
| Sherlock Holmes (2009) | "
It's all knotted together, then unraveled with brio, by Holmes and Watson. There are fisticuffs galore, fiery combustion aplenty, and, yes, my dear reader, clever deduction." — Denver Post Posted Dec 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 38%
| Nine (2009) | "
Nine is, if not a grand work, terrifically tasty eye and ear candy. Two numbers -- from somewhat unexpected quarters -- are worth the price of admission alone." — Denver Post Posted Dec 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 50%
| It's Complicated (2009) | "
Simply put, It's Complicated is a hoot." — Denver Post Posted Dec 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 83%
| Avatar (2009) | "
Cameron and his legion of CGI experts and skilled craftspeople have delivered a lovely, misty, dangerous world." — Denver Post Posted Dec 18, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 15%
| Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) | "
Yes, comedies thrive on broad strokes. But selling Americans lame images of one another as if we haven't traversed the country (if not in actuality, via television and film) is dispiriting." — Denver Post Posted Dec 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 76%
| Invictus (2009) | "
Eastwood makes moving pictures that seldom collapse under the burden of sentiment. He has a muscular understanding of how kernels of wisdom needn't become caramel corn." — Denver Post Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 89%
| Up in the Air (2009) | "
From taxi to touchdown, Reitman knows how to get us to the next destination." — Denver Post Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 83%
| The Princess and the Frog (2009) | "
The visual artistry of the song-and-dance numbers captivates." — Denver Post Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 57%
| Brothers (2009) | "
Brothers never fully earns the right to exploit Sam's crucible in Afghanistan and the angry anguish it brings about." — Denver Post Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 72%
| The Road (2009) | "
This is a willfully, skillfully crafted film with insufficient heart to the task it undertakes. It never fully connects us to love amid its ruins." — Denver Post Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 93%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
The filmmakers hew to Dahl's intent and add fine turns of their own." — Denver Post Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 92%
| Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) | "
Mo'Nique plunges headfirst into a moral abyss that makes her frightening." — Denver Post Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 72%
| The Blind Side (2009) | "
We never learn why Leigh Anne is so fearless, but Bullock is the force here. McGraw is an amiable anchor to her bull-by-the-horns portrayal." — Denver Post Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 54%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
It seems too much a privilege to be chuckling in the theater about psychic warfare while the unfunny business of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan continues." — Denver Post Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 50%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
Von Trier and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle use sumptuous black-and-white photography and saturated color. Few movies are as beautifully wrought as this." — Denver Post Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
Does this entertainment achieve a timelessness beyond its exquisite source material? Not even. Yet there's pleasure to be had and relief in feeling the filmmakers didn't Scrooge it up either." — Denver Post Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
This Is It isn't quite extraordinary as non-fiction film goes. Perhaps it's something better: a work of generosity." — Denver Post Posted Oct 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 94%
| Good Hair (2010) | "
Full of sweetly sardonic observations, the docu-comedy is one of the funniest movies of the year." — Denver Post Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 21%
| Amelia (2009) | "
The movie is as conventional a biopic as Earhart was an unconventional woman." — Denver Post Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 94%
| An Education (2009) | "
The film is gentle with its judgments. Or most of them." — Denver Post Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 82%
| Beeswax (2009) | "
Beeswax reminds viewers that in talkative films much can go unspoken. For writer-director Andrew Bujalski these betwixt-between, hem-haw spaces are the places to be." — Denver Post Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 87%
| A Serious Man (2009) | "
This parable of the welcome-unwelcome guest is less a key to the ensuing domestic drama than a teasing reminder of the traditional roots of the brothers' singular skill with humor and violence." — Denver Post Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 65%
| Coco Before Chanel (2009) | "
Tautou's sophisticated portrayal won't allow viewers to dismiss Coco as kept. Coco's talents are too pronounced, her approach to intimacy, to life, too aware for that." — Denver Post Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 73%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
Spike Jonze, we salute you." — Denver Post Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 29%
| Free Style (2009) | "
You don't have to be a swooning teenage girl to be enamored of Free Style and its heartthrob actor Corbin Bleu." — Denver Post Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 12%
| Couples Retreat (2009) | "
Greatly silly and unexpectedly wise at times." — Denver Post Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 32%
| The Burning Plain (2009) | "
Possibly the stories fit too neatly. If so, it's hardly a fatal flaw." — Denver Post Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 72%
| The Boys Are Back (2009) | "
Clive Owen was spared the role of James Bond. And The Boys are Back is an example of why we are all the better for it." — Denver Post Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 83%
| Whip It (2009) | "
Barrymore's embrace of gal power is joyful. The skaters are gutsy, goofy or both. They own their own odd sexiness." — Denver Post Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
We won't ruin it. Let's just say that if laughter distinguishes humans from zombies, then you'll know just how human you are after the quartet's visit to a mansion in Los Angeles." — Denver Post Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 84%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
Silence and stillness, as well as the restrained desire of its lovers, are given their due. After the clatter and rush of the summer flicks, patience is demanded but also rewarded." — Denver Post Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 92%
| The Way We Get By (2009) | "
It is straightforward work. Yet over time, it becomes clearly, steadfastly about the existential." — Denver Post Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 44%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
Director Karyn Kusama finds resonant terror in details: the look Anita and Jennifer exchange before Jen's fateful ride, or a victim's last-minute ah-hah." — Denver Post Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 2/4
| Fresh 85%
| World's Greatest Dad (2009) | "
Making Kyle godawful may seem edgy, even authentic. But it's pure setup." — Denver Post Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 84%
| The September Issue (2009) | "
[A] wise, engaging frock-umentary." — Denver Post Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Ink (2009) | "
As action-packed as his film is, Winans is in no hurry to tell his tale. His pace is deliberate." — Denver Post Posted Sep 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
These days, it appears to be a rare gift to do comedy in a way that comes across as smart, but never superior or willfully crass. Bateman has that talent to spare." — Denver Post Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 6%
| All About Steve (2009) | "
Despite her downward-tilted head and her nattering ways, Mary really does want to connect. Watching her realize this isn't deep but it is sweet." — Denver Post Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 86%
| Lorna's Silence (2009) | "
The Dardennes are masters of their brand of realist cinema. Over the years, the brothers' move from documentaries to narrative features has been handsomely rewarded." — Denver Post Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| Humpday (2009) | "
Getting to the showdown is a fine and funny journey." — Denver Post Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 49%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
Lee's larkiest film by far, Taking Woodstock features faces familiar and fresh." — Denver Post Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 91%
| Ponyo (2009) | "
A bright tale of wonder and connection, Ponyo is a reminder that a G rating needn't be a "little kid" designation." — Denver Post Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 96%
| The Cove (2009) | "
The Cove is one of the best in a growing class of nonfiction films" — Denver Post Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 75%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
What an expression of the joy of cooks and cooking Julie & Julia turns out to be." — Denver Post Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 26%
| Shrink (2009) | "
Directed by Jonas Pate and written with a nice ear for self-delusion by Thomas Moffet, Shrink mixes cliches with some pleasant surprises." — Denver Post Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 68%
| Tetro (2009) | "
It is interesting. Better, it is quite possibly great." — Denver Post Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
Apatow continues to celebrate comedy's traditions, raunchy and otherwise." — Denver Post Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 78%
| $9.99 (2009) | "
It isn't always clear if the animation is integral to the movie or merely a way of sprucing up its more familiar tales of melancholy and yearning." — Denver Post Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 86%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
This movie has flighty warmth. It makes delirious use of one of Hall & Oates' boppiest tunes. It has a bluebird of happiness, for crying out loud." — Denver Post Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
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