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 49%
| 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 66%
| 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 42%
| Redacted (2007) | "
Calling the movie anti-soldier misses the despair with which DePalma views the troops' situation." Posted Jan 21, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Cloverfield (2008) | "
Besides disinterest, the only emotion it incites is the emotion of wanting to throw up." Posted Jan 21, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 22%
| 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 39%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 93%
| Sicko (2007) | "
No other major filmmaker patronizes his audience this much." Posted Jul 8, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| License To Wed (2007) | "
Sadie (Mandy Moore) and Ben (John Krasinski) are getting married (because they met at the start of the movie.)" Posted Jul 8, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Transformers (2007) | "
Indulging in the playground of technology at his disposal, Bay makes Transformers' hugeness personal." Posted Jul 8, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Evening (2007) | "
Evening's take on defining life choices reveals its manic depressive nature." Posted Jun 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 59%
| Gracie (2007) | "
The movie treats Gracie as a cause rather than an impassioned athlete." Posted Jun 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Ratatouille (2007) | "
It's a variation of Cyrano De Bergerac with its own comic sensibility." Posted Jun 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| 1408 (2007) | "
It's when the momentum remains inescapable that it's really on." Posted Jun 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Ocean's Thirteen (2007) | "
It's the best looking of the bunch. For a movie that's all posteur, that counts for a lot." Posted Jun 22, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Paris, Je T'aime (2007) | "
Even the downbeat segments are optimistic, and that's what unifies them." Posted Jun 22, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Hostel: Part II (2007) | "
Roth is covering his tracks from the typical accusations of slasher film misogyny, but his feminist angle just serves as jokey sexual fear." Posted Jun 22, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 49%
| Nancy Drew (2007) | "
Relocating with her single father to the land of Hollywood wealth, Nancy Drew just plays as a developmentally stunted version of Veronica Mars." Posted Jun 22, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) | "
It takes no risks, so it leads nowhere." Posted Jun 22, 2007 |
Rotten
| N/A | Rise (2006) | "
Rise is middling, but not by doing things the wrong way. It's not wild enough." Posted Jun 4, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Knocked Up (2007) | "
Its best and worst attribute is how nice it is." Posted Jun 4, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 41%
| Shrek the Third (2007) | "
The sequel hasn't been imagined as the next level with which to bring Shrek. It's just more of the same, served a little colder." Posted Jun 4, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| Mr. Brooks (2007) | "
Earl Brooks is presented as an admirable killer, because he's an upperclass, educated white man." Posted Jun 4, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| Severance (2007) | "
The sadistic silliness is given a heavy-hand." Posted Jun 4, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| 28 Weeks Later (2007) | "
It falls prey to the usual pessimism-as-realism crutch (most notable in its silly final 10 second coda), but director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo works in some real ideas along the way." Posted Jun 4, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| Bug (2007) | "
Friedkin gets political in exposing the value of dependence for people who believe they can depend on very little." Posted Jun 4, 2007 |
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