Rotten C-
| Rotten 18%
| Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) | "
Blood: The Last Vampire might be described as Kill Bill crossed with Buffy, only that would make it sound like more than the slapdash, thrill-less dud that it is." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jul 9, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 90%
| Soul Power (2009) | "
What's infectious in Soul Power is the almost shocking optimism of its America-meets-
Africa '70s world-beat vibe." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jul 9, 2009 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 70%
| Bruno (2009) | "
The movie is a toxic dart aimed at the spangly new heart of American hypocrisy: our fake-tolerant, fake-charitable, fake-liberated-yet-still madly-closeted fame culture." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jul 9, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Rotten 59%
| Surveillance (2009) | "
A grubby, disturbing serial-killer mystery, a kind of blood-simple Rashomon." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 44%
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | "
Nice, sweet, safe." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Rotten 51%
| Cheri (2009) | "
These two lovebirds are playfully mismatched, and that's just why they fall for each other." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 19%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
Revenge of the Fallen may be a massive overdose of popcorn greased with motor oil. But it knows how to feed your inner 10-year-old's appetite for destruction." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 23, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 78%
| The End of the Line (2009) | "
This passionate ecological documentary, The End of the Line, spells out the problem in clear, urgent, prosaic terms." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 61%
| Tetro (2009) | "
Tetro fuses the awkward and the ripely operatic." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 17%
| Year One (2009) | "
Platt, more than anyone, is the soul of the movie, because he makes even the most
primitive perversity sound...well, civilized." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 97%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
An essential, disturbing portrait of how the food we eat in America has become a deceptively prefab, even hazardous industrial product." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 10, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 88%
| Moon (2009) | "
Moon is the first feature to be directed by Duncan Jones, who is David Bowie's son, and he brings it a grimy industrial look, as well as witty touches like giving Gerty a smiley-face screen that changes expression in tandem with Spacey's voice." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 10, 2009 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 43%
| Imagine That (2009) | "
Imagine That is a benignly didactic kiddie movie that at once benefits from and gets buried under Eddie Murphy's skittery, overeager inflections." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 10, 2009 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 19%
| Downloading Nancy (2008) | "
What makes the movie a trial to sit through isn't just the heroine's pain-freak tastes. It's that a kinkfest with this blah an emotional spectrum is selling its own chic form of puritanism -- sex with all the life force repressed." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 12%
| My Life in Ruins (2009) | "
My Life in Ruins is a middle-aged Hallmark chick flick that makes you wish you were on a Greek vacation (and not, in fact, watching the movie)." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 28%
| Land of the Lost (2009) | "
Land of the Lost has stray amusing
tidbits, but overall it leaves you feeling splattered." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 66%
| Away We Go (2009) | "
A gilded entry in the cinema du quirk. It's a movie that invites you, all too often, to feel superior to the people on screen. Yet it's been designed, shot, and edited with unusual finesse, and the two main characters are fresh screen types." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 78%
| The Hangover (2009) | "
The Hangover has scattered laughs (many in the cathartically funny end-credit montage), but overall it's more amusing than hilarious." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 73%
| Departures (2009) | "
Like Sunshine Cleaning, this is a gentle comic tale of grisly
employment opportunity in desperate times. Only Departures is tender and, at times, rather squishy." — Entertainment Weekly Posted May 27, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 50%
| Easy Virtue (2009) | "
Jessica Biel in a teacup-rattling '20s period piece? With her lewd pinup grin and husky flat voice, she sticks out like a sore starlet in Easy Virtue -- but that's the whole point in this loosely 'freshened up' version of a Noël Coward play." — Entertainment Weekly Posted May 27, 2009 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 93%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
Going back to his roots, Raimi has made the most crazy, fun, and terrifying horror movie in years." — Entertainment Weekly Posted May 27, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 27%
| Dance Flick (2009) | "
In this enjoyably dirty-minded sendup of when-ballet-met-hip-hop youth musicals, the Wayans brothers hand the directorial reigns over to their nephew, Damien Dante Wayans, who piles on the stupid/smart gags with just the right what-the-hell abandon." — Entertainment Weekly Posted May 27, 2009 |
Fresh A
| Rotten 58%
| The Girlfriend Experience (2009) | "
The Girlfriend Experience is one of Steven Soderbergh's bite-size, semi-improvised, shot-on-DV doodles, and it's the best one he's made" — Entertainment Weekly Posted May 20, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Rotten 44%
| Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) | "
This is what you call a wholesome kiddie movie on drugs." — Entertainment Weekly Posted May 20, 2009 |
— | Rotten 32%
| Terminator Salvation (2009) | "
The whole movie is a bit of a machine." — Entertainment Weekly Posted May 20, 2009 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 46%
| Management (2009) | "
An indie dud." — Entertainment Weekly Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 92%
| Revanche (2009) | "
As long as Revanche focuses on the relationship between Tamara (Irina Potapenko), an indentured Ukrainian prostitute, and Alex (Johannes Krisch), the ex-con gofer and would-be tough guy who wants to help her escape, it's riveting." — Entertainment Weekly Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 62%
| The Brothers Bloom (2009) | "
The novelty here, and it's a good one, is that Johnson decorates and deepens the gamesmanship with tender shoots of family feeling." — Entertainment Weekly Posted May 13, 2009 |
Rotten C
| Fresh 75%
| Adoration (2009) | "
Atom Egoyan's latest glum puzzle is a meditation on post-9/11 hysteria, but it's too much 'What's the meaning of terrorism?' cud chewing too late." — Entertainment Weekly Posted May 6, 2009 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 25%
| Little Ashes (2009) | "
Pattinson and Beltran are stuck with a rudderless script, and they make a soft, dull pair." — Entertainment Weekly Posted May 6, 2009 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 76%
| Outrage (2009) | "
You'd expect a documentary about closeted gay politicians who hide their sexuality behind virulently antigay voting records to be a diatribe. But Kirby Dick's furious, deft, revealing film is
humane enough to separate the sinner from the sin." — Entertainment Weekly Posted May 6, 2009 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
With a crew like this, you can welcome the future." — Entertainment Weekly Posted May 6, 2009 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 33%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
The Limits of Control, even with its flow of star cameos (Tilda Swinton, Gael García Bernal, a frenetic Bill Murray), is a listless long pause that rarely refreshes." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 28%
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | "
The movie is cheesy, tacky, and gimmicky. But as directed by Mark Waters, it's also prankish and inventive enough to be kind of fun." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 15%
| The Informers (2009) | "
It's by far the most slack, ho-hum movie ever made from Ellis' material." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 18%
| Obsessed (2009) | "
It's doubtful that Obsessed will stick in the popular imagination for more than two weeks, because the movie is borderline ludicrous, and it jams its characters into rigid slots." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 92%
| Every Little Step (2009) | "
A movie as layered and enthralling as its subject." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Apr 15, 2009 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 55%
| The Soloist (2009) | "
It's all a bit shapeless, yet made with sincerity and taste, and the two actors seize your sympathy." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Apr 15, 2009 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 85%
| State of Play (2009) | "
[An] excitingly twisty and topical new politics-and-media conspiracy thriller." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Apr 15, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 46%
| Hannah Montana The Movie (2009) | "
Cyrus, as always, is a professional charmer (it's hard to resist when she leads a hip-hop hoedown), and the crusty folkiness of Billy Ray Cyrus as her real-life dad is as welcome as ever." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Apr 13, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2009) | "
A stillborn rendering of Michael Chabon's first novel." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Apr 8, 2009 |
Fresh A
| Fresh 98%
| Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) | "
It's a hilarious, and unexpectedly moving, documentary about the greatest metal band you've probably never heard of." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Apr 8, 2009 |
Rotten F
| Rotten 58%
| Paris 36 (2008) | "
The 'spicy' numbers have no dazzle, the actors mug like contestants in a Maurice Chevalier impersonation contest, and the plot is a drily indigestible wad of show-must-go-on preciousness and socialist sentimentality." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 94%
| Goodbye Solo (2009) | "
A playful, elusive movie that isn't so much heartwarming as soul-cleansing." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 93%
| Sugar (2009) | "
This is a sports drama of total originality, as well as the most authentic inside view of the immigrant experience the movies have given us in quite a while." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 88%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
Adventureland doesn't quite soar -- it lopes along affectionately. But for nostalgia junkies, it's one from the heart." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Fresh A-
| Rotten 52%
| American Swing (2009) | "
A shrewdly made documentary about the rise and fall of Plato's Retreat, the infamous Manhattan sex club of the '70s and '80s." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Mar 25, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 50%
| The Education of Charlie Banks (2009) | "
Ritter, who's like the young Ethan Hawke on a bender of violence, is an actor to watch." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Mar 25, 2009 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 32%
| Knowing (2009) | "
If you want to know how inept the movie is...well, it's so inept that you may wish you were watching an M. Night Shyamalan version of the very same premise." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Mar 23, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 89%
| Sin Nombre (2009) | "
Whenever Sin Nombre turns violent, it seizes you with its convulsive skill, but the film's images
vastly outstrip its imagination." — Entertainment Weekly Posted Mar 18, 2009 |
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