Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Brothers (2009) | "
Brothers is rooted in character-interplay, which Sheridan observes empathetically and from the ground level." Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 39%
| 2012 (2009) | "
2012 rarely convincingly places its stars in the midst of destruction." Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| The Blind Side (2009) | "
Its m.o. isn't understanding or identification, just white self-congratulation." Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
The 3-D motion-capture version runs through the motions, except for one detail: It's visually beautiful." Posted Nov 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| The Box (2009) | "
Not without interest, The Box opens to a collection of scenes that work and scenes that don't." Posted Nov 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| The Fourth Kind (2009) | "
"What you decide is up to you," Jovovich permits us at the end, reducing cinema to an Unsolved Mysteries episode." Posted Nov 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
It's great in parts." Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Ponyo (2009) | "
Ponyo observes the everyday, magically and truthfully." Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Bandslam (2009) | "
What keeps Bandslam afloat is the way its sweet moments find weird ways of stepping into convention." Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Halloween II (2009) | "
By not reaching for empowerment, Halloween II diminishes the horror genre. Nearly every victim is a terrible person." Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| The Final Destination (2009) | "
Selling bland fatalism to kids, it's the work of crooks." Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Sorority Row (2009) | "
They're not just college girls. They're B******!" Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
Soderbergh pokes fun at the self-importance of corporate thrillers." Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) | "
Insisting on simplifications -- poor equals virtuous, rich equals corrupt -- Moore invites distrust to all but the converted." Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Fame (2009) | "
The fragmented narrative of high school kids pursuing their dreams (job security) has just barely more feel and understanding of what it's like to be young than 17 Again ." Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
Harrelson and co-star Emma Stone do a good job of embodying comedically hardened B-movie action heroes." Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 87%
| A Serious Man (2009) | "
Larry's spiritual crisis doesn't attain its demanded empathy, leaving A Serious Man as a lesser work by great artists." Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 22%
| Next Day Air (2009) | "
Nearly every scene is a play on the perception that the accumulation of wealth will bring social validation and self-worth." Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
It's Jackson's history of visual iconography that This Is It should aspire to more often." Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Milk (2008) | "
As a true story, it makes great drama - preferable if you don't already know the history." Posted Dec 8, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 26%
| Punisher: War Zone (2008) | "
If you're on the wavelength that can laugh with this stuff instead of laugh at it, Punisher: War Zone is about as fun as commercial cinema gets this season." Posted Dec 8, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 51%
| Nothing Like the Holidays (2008) | "
Almost every Christmas there's a different version of this movie. Whether a given entry works depends on its character-interplay, and that makes Nothing Like the Holidays pretty good." Posted Dec 8, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| Pride and Glory (2008) | "
Hokum." Posted Oct 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 18%
| Max Payne (2008) | "
Take in the pleasure, because Max Payne is the most beautiful video game adaptation yet." Posted Oct 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) | "
Sure, High School Musical 3 is better than Chicago and Dreamgirls, but it must be accepted that this is a pop phenomenon more than it is a movie." Posted Oct 28, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Saw V (2008) | "
The Saw movies have a convoluted storyline for the same reason Playboy has articles. It gives the consumer an easy excuse." Posted Oct 28, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) | "
It doesn't hit the emotion of communities formed through grade-Z film art in Cecil B. Demented, Ed Wood, Bowfinger and Be Kind Rewind." Posted Oct 28, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Definitely, Maybe (2008) | "
Yes, you can polish a turd." Posted Feb 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| Jumper (2008) | "
It's a concept without a story." Posted Feb 19, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| Charlie Bartlett (2007) | "
Charlie Bartlett is a teen movie that only wants approval from adults." Posted Feb 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| The Great Debaters (2007) | "
The Great Debaters handles conventions well, making an important piece of history affecting and resonant." Posted Jan 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| Redacted (2007) | "
Calling the movie anti-soldier misses the despair with which DePalma views the troops' situation." Posted Jan 21, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| Cloverfield (2008) | "
Besides disinterest, the only emotion it incites is the emotion of wanting to throw up." Posted Jan 21, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Mad Money (2008) | "
Though Mad Money isn't despicable like Because I Said So, it's not recognizably human either." Posted Jan 15, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| I'm Not There (2007) | "
I'm Not There becomes another boomer ode to the cultural supremacy of the sixties." Posted Jan 15, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| First Sunday (2008) | "
Combining the hijinks of the Friday series with the spiritual bent of Tyler Perry's work seems like an obvious move. For producer/star Ice Cube, it's also a dishonest one." Posted Jan 15, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 4%
| In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2008) | "
Boll is in fact fascinating - largely because his movies assume their audiences exist in an alternate dimension of human experience." Posted Jan 15, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Inland Empire (2006) | "
Inland Empire is about the effects of movies themselves - the way they change us, inform our goals, and impact our self-image." Posted Sep 4, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| 3:10 to Yuma (2007) | "
3:10 to Yuma's sanitized view is flatly middlebrow - even the line readings are delivered to make convenient actor showcase clips on award shows." Posted Sep 3, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Halloween (2007) | "
Once it steps into a remake of the Carpenter film in its second half, it loses its seriousness." Posted Aug 31, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007) | "
Taking offense to a film about tolerance just because it's aimed squarely at Middle America is itself intolerant. Chuck and Larry's crime is it doesn't maintain its most audacious bits and it's never funny enough." Posted Aug 29, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Hairspray (2007) | "
The young and old cast division creates a colourful world of people and ideals. It's an abstraction of an era made resonant, contemporary, and purely joyful." Posted Aug 29, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| Bratz: The Movie (2007) | "
Bratz (freaky looking teen dolls for girls whose parents won't let them play with real teenagers) is now a high school movie made for people in Grade 6." Posted Aug 29, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) | "
It's the property's most relentless thriller, but director Paul Greengrass' visual style almost ruins it." Posted Aug 29, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| Superbad (2007) | "
Superbad has one detail I've never seen in a teen movie before: The sight of kids drinking alcohol and gagging after every swig." Posted Aug 29, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| Hot Rod (2007) | "
Through Hot Rod's manic weirdness, its take on young suburban males is completely authentic. It's the summer's happiest screen comedy." Posted Aug 29, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Balls of Fury (2007) | "
Balls of Fury is intended as a spoof of Enter the Dragon. That's important to know before walking into it, since it looks more like a spoof of the 80s martial arts spoof Big Trouble in Little China." Posted Aug 28, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 7%
| Captivity (2007) | "
The irony is that Captivity is ABOUT the things it's hated for - a culture that views women as objects, fascination with death and mutilation, turning to the misery of others for our entertainment." Posted Jul 17, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) | "
It's accomplished, but par for the course: A bloated, basically watchable light show." Posted Jul 17, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007) | "
It finds the defining spirit of these films and maintains it about half the time." Posted Jul 8, 2007 |
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