Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 41%
| Fighting (2009) | "
It's not a great film, or even a particularly good one, but every so often you catch glimpses of a better movie behind the simplistic structure and formulaic plot." Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
Not Trek? The movie has gaping plotholes, a skirt-chasing Kirk, time travel, and a BS pseudo-scientific resolution to a life-threatening situation...it's totally Trek!" Posted May 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
X-Men Origins: Wolverine has some serious problems. The biggest is that, aside from the dark and mysterious past, the character of Wolverine isn't all that interesting" Posted May 3, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 28%
| Fast & Furious (2009) | "
Mt. Rushmore sports a more animated ensemble cast than on display here, each of who seems content to try and outglare the other." Posted Apr 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 42%
| The Last House on the Left (2009) | "
There’s little to set this latest Last House apart from other revenge-themed horror flicks of the past 30 years." Posted Mar 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 64%
| Watchmen (2009) | "
[Snyder] ironically embodies the very overindulgence that Rorschach repeatedly points out will be the death of our society." Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 43%
| He's Just Not That Into You (2009) | "
The "star-studded" cast seems to have been selected according to their Premiere power ranking and/or desperation for exposure." Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | 4th and Long (2008) | "
The script has an easygoing, improvised feel to it, and hits the mark more often than not, and the cast is perfectly believable." Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 61%
| Marley & Me (2008) | "
... [W]hen an animal is endangering your family, inadvertently or not, you either turn the dog into an outdoor pet or you "take a walk" with him and your 20-gauge." Posted Dec 26, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 72%
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) | "
Don't believe the pre-release hype, this one's only for those of you who simply have to sit through all the Best Picture nominees." Posted Dec 26, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 49%
| Twilight (2008) | "
It would appear that in addition to robbing his brood of their need for blood, Carlisle also removed their balls." Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 64%
| Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) | "
In Alex the Lion and Marty the Zebra, we finally have the first unabashedly gay characters in a major Hollywood animated feature." Posted Nov 8, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 58%
| The Secret Life of Bees (2008) | "
The Secret Life of Bees should have billed itself as a fairy tale, as that's the only possible way to swallow what Prince-Bythewood and Kidd are feeding us." Posted Nov 8, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 61%
| Changeling (2008) | "
Whatever you think of her public image or some of her past roles, [Jolie} has really come into her own." Posted Nov 8, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 66%
| High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) | "
[A] moviegoing public that made "Beverly Hills Chihuahua" #1 at the box office two weeks in a row demands more, dammit." Posted Nov 8, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 65%
| Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) | "
Miri isn't as bad as Alyssa the Light Switch Lesbian from "Chasing Amy," but the premise [...] is almost as insultingly unrealistic." Posted Nov 8, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 57%
| Explicit Ills (2008) | "
I’m looking forward to seeing what Webber comes up with next." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 51%
| Body of Lies (2008) | "
Yet in spite of the movie's high-tech veneer and its top-billed stars, Body of Lies is depressingly inert." Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 19%
| The Clone Wars (2008) | "
It’s an almost entirely pointless exercise." Posted Aug 19, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Tropic Thunder (2008) | "
Stiller and company aren't exposing anything about the industry most of us didn't already know, he's just saying it really loudly and spraying blood everywhere while he does." Posted Aug 14, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 68%
| Pineapple Express (2008) | "
I can't deny that its appeal will increase a hundredfold if you choose to attend in an altered state of some sort." Posted Aug 6, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 94%
| The Dark Knight (2008) | "
Ledger makes the Joker his, imbuing the character with such menace and genuine insanity I finally got a sense of what talent he really had." Posted Jul 18, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 87%
| Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) | "
[W]hile it's nice of Mignola and Del Toro to create something like this out of whole cloth it's the eye candy, not the story, that people are going to talk about." Posted Jul 11, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) | "
Gonzo is a painstaking account of a man who was more and, ultimately, less than the infamous Raoul Duke." Posted Jul 5, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 39%
| Hancock (2008) | "
[...]it's always nice to see someone revisit Christopher Reeves' drunken Man of Steel act from Superman III." Posted Jul 2, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 71%
| Wanted (2008) | "
Wanted's greatest asset is director Timur Bekmambetov's (in his English-language directorial debut) willingness to acknowledge the film's utter goofiness." Posted Jul 2, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Familiar Strangers (2008) | "
One assumes writer John Bell isn’t plagued with a family full of neurotics like, say, Noah Baumbach, so while his movie manages to rise above cliche, it doesn’t have very far to go beyond that." Posted Jul 1, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 71%
| Wanted (2008) | "
A strangely enjoyable flick." Posted Jul 1, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 96%
| WALL-E (2008) | "
Visually dazzling and possessing wit and emotion 99 percent of movies with real-life actors can’t hope to achieve." Posted Jun 27, 2008 |
Fresh 5/5
| N/A | Year at Danger (2007) | "
The resulting documentary is truly remarkable. It’s a thoroughly unvarnished account of a soldier’s life in Iraq, from the excruciating boredom of day-to-day military existence to the tense aftermath of dozens of mortar and rocket attacks." Posted Jun 16, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Kung Fu Panda (2008) | "
[...]it's mercifully free of the kind of ephemeral pop culture-dependent humor that's plagued every previous DreamWorks cartoon." Posted Jun 9, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 35%
| You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008) | "
Were there laughs to be had? Sure, but even a "Dorf on Golf" videotape has its moments." Posted Jun 9, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 50%
| Sex and the City - The Movie (2008) | "
You wouldn't spend valuable real-life time hanging out with self-absorbed idiots like this, so why on Earth would you watch a TV show (or a movie) about them?" Posted May 30, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 27%
| What Happens in Vegas (2008) | "
During the screening, I tried to come up with as many synonyms for the word "excruciating" as I could." Posted May 27, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) | "
As much joy as it would give me to praise Kingdom of the Crystal Skull unreservedly, there are some noticeable defects." Posted May 23, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 66%
| The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) | "
[T]here's a not-so-subtle undercurrent of the White Man's Burden in these stories." Posted May 19, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation (1989) | "
[T]he unintentionally hilarious moments are the real gold, such as when a pudgy teen Strompolos says, "It's not the years, honey...it's the mileage."" Posted May 14, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 27%
| What Happens in Vegas (2008) | "
If What Happens in Vegas serves any purpose, it’s to make me consider spending my gambling money in Reno or on a riverboat instead." Posted May 13, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 36%
| Speed Racer (2008) | "
[C]omplaints about Speed Racer's volume and visuals sounds like the lamentations of a bunch of grandparents pining for the days of penny candy and segregated fountains." Posted May 9, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Iron Man (2008) | "
To counter the character's relatively low Q-rating among the non-fanboy masses, Paramount has jacked up the f/x budget and made some interesting casting choices..." Posted May 6, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 5%
| 88 Minutes (2008) | "
[...]as dumb a movie as you're likely to see this year, and may go down as Pacino's worst ever." Posted Apr 26, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 37%
| Street Kings (2008) | "
Street Kings feels like Lethal Weapon mashed up with The Shield, only without the former's goofy '80s vibe or the latter's relative authenticity." Posted Apr 26, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 54%
| Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) | "
The most shocking thing put forth in Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay just might be the proposition that George W. Bush is actually a pretty cool guy." Posted Apr 26, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 62%
| Baby Mama (2008) | "
Even when we learn the film's somewhat less than astounding twist about midway through, the movie's happy outcome is never really in doubt." Posted Apr 26, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 37%
| Street Kings (2008) | "
When the bar has been set as high as it has in recent years by the likes of The Wire and the aforementioned Training Day, wasting money and studio resources on a clichéd rehash like this is puzzling, to say the least." Posted Apr 15, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 46%
| The Ruins (2008) | "
There are a handful of intense sequences and a few scenes of squirm-inducing gore in The Ruins, but not much else. The film is based on Scott Smith’s excellent book, but does little to capture the novel’s sense of terror and hopelessness." Posted Apr 8, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 52%
| Leatherheads (2008) | "
Leatherheads is as trifling as Clooney's second movie (Good Night and Good Luck) was significant, but that's okay." Posted Apr 4, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 65%
| Stop-Loss (2008) | "
[T]here's a serious movie struggling to emerge from behind all the chiseled features and overwrought dialogue." Posted Mar 31, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 26%
| Drillbit Taylor (2008) | "
I'd call it a pointless endeavor, except now we might finally be able to pinpoint the source of Wilson's recent depression." Posted Mar 21, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Order of Myths (2008) | "
Smartly edited, utterly engrossing, and as intelligent an examination of American race relations as I’ve seen." Posted Mar 11, 2008 |
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