Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| 2012 (2009) | "
2012 rarely convincingly places its stars in the midst of destruction." Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 74%
| The Blind Side (2009) | "
Its m.o. isn't understanding or identification, just white self-congratulation." Posted Nov 16, 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 |
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 29%
| 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 |
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 28%
| 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 |
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| Pride and Glory (2008) | "
Hokum." 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Rotten
| Fresh 93%
| Sicko (2007) | "
No other major filmmaker patronizes his audience this much." Posted Jul 8, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 7%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| 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 37%
| 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 |
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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) | "
It features good story and visual concepts in its first 75 minutes, before opting for the usual bloated indulgence." Posted Jun 4, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Spider-Man 3 (2007) | "
It would be more suited as a Fantastic Four sequel." Posted May 7, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 69%
| Blades of Glory (2007) | "
The comedy is disposable because Ferrell and Heder don't bother being recognizably human." Posted Apr 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 66%
| Meet the Robinsons (2007) | "
This shrine to Disney is really the world's most overstuffed Hanna-Barbera cartoon, right down to its Gargamel-patterned villain." Posted Apr 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| The Reaping (2007) | "
Between effects-shots is a whole movie of people discussing how fascinating things are." Posted Apr 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 8%
| Are We Done Yet? (2007) | "
The slapstick isn't sadistic. But that doesn't make this sequel's propensity of scenes where animals attack Nick, and moments where he learns the difference between a house and a home, more than inoffensive." Posted Apr 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 43%
| In the Land of Women (2007) | "
The "young man's post-traumatic discovery of life's value through quirky people tale" is an obscure genre that's somehow attracted Zach Braff, Cameron Crowe and Jon Kasdan." Posted Apr 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Disturbia (2007) | "
It hasn't the openness to find a perspective on teenage life." Posted Apr 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| Perfect Stranger (2007) | "
It's a movie that exists to showcase an actor more than it exists to be a movie." Posted Apr 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Fracture (2007) | "
Director Gregory Hoblit's sterile blue visuals are par for the lack of dramatic impact." Posted Apr 25, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| The Hills Have Eyes II (2007) | "
Despite having almost as much ick-content as the last film, The Hills Have Eyes 2 hasn't the skill to make it unnerving." Posted Mar 27, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| Dead Silence (2007) | "
Dead Silence is boring as often as it is insane. For a movie about a dead old woman who doesn't care that it's rude to stare at people, and relives her bad habit through a ventriloquist dummy that looks like Andy Garcia, that's unacceptable." Posted Mar 20, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| The Last Mimzy (2007) | "
It dumbs down sci fi cliché in hopes of reaching a child audience, creating a false sense of wonder." Posted Mar 20, 2007 |
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