Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Brothers (2009) | "
Brothers is rooted in character-interplay, which Sheridan observes empathetically and from the ground level." Posted Dec 7, 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 |
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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
Soderbergh pokes fun at the self-importance of corporate thrillers." 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Transformers (2007) | "
Indulging in the playground of technology at his disposal, Bay makes Transformers' hugeness personal." Posted Jul 8, 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 69%
| 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 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Knocked Up (2007) | "
Its best and worst attribute is how nice it is." Posted Jun 4, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| 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 59%
| 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 |
Fresh
| Rotten 29%
| Lucky You (2007) | "
It's a small film, but a rewarding one." Posted May 7, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| The Lives of Others (2006) | "
Von Donnersmarck moves certain sequences too slowly, but matches his tightest suspense with human intrigue." Posted Apr 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Grindhouse (2007) | "
What we're mainly getting is two big directors with expensive movies pretending they're niche directors with low funding. It's an act, but an enthralling one." Posted Apr 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Hot Fuzz (2007) | "
Hot Fuzz is more comfortable as a play on action films than it is as social satire." Posted Apr 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Vacancy (2007) | "
Though Vacancy plays as gruesome horror in its own right, it's also director Nimrod Antal's criticism of how suffering has become the selling point in recent horror films." Posted Apr 25, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Reign Over Me (2007) | "
Binder's strength is in connecting characters to the world and then connecting them to each other." Posted Mar 27, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| The Lookout (2007) | "
That The Lookout isn't stronger as a whole is due to its effort to fit a character piece into thriller conventions." Posted Mar 27, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 71%
| Amazing Grace (2007) | "
Amazing Grace's examination of men in power moved to change risks ridicule and righteousness for a smart take on history." Posted Mar 20, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| Fido (2007) | "
The cleverness of Fido's concept maintains enough charm to want to disregard that its satire is pretty thin." Posted Mar 20, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 33%
| TMNT (2007) | "
The striking use of image and motion allows each of its action sequences to leave an impression. It's an accomplished, unpretentious restart to this franchise." Posted Mar 20, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 39%
| Nacho Libre (2006) | "
Director Jared Hess' weapon of choice is his innocence." Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Queen (2006) | "
It's all strongly performed, and smartly assembled in its scene-to-scene progression, despite Frears' continued disinterest in visual filmmaking" Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| The Illusionist (2006) | "
An early flashback scene indicates how The Illusionist might have played like The Princess Bride for the tea and scone set. Instead it's just a nobly acted stage mystery." Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| World Trade Center (2006) | "
It's 9/11 ingeniously structured as the basis of a Beckett play." Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Snakes on a Plane (2006) | "
Its trash pic spirit locates funny nuances of human behaviour." Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Little Miss Sunshine (2006) | "
It works better than most movies with a quirky Sundance pedigree, because the filmmakers aren't quick to paint any of their characters as morally wrong." Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Rotten 15%
| The Wicker Man (2006) | "
It's a troubled strangeness - the uncommon sight of a literate studio film extolling messages most literate audiences can't get behind - that makes the movie's whole presence fascinating." Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| The Science of Sleep (2006) | "
The Science of Sleep is Gondry's loosest, most confident movie journey into the imaginative mind." Posted Mar 15, 2007 |
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