Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon (2009) | "
This may be an admirable competition, but that doesn’t make this movie less self-serving." — L.A. Weekly Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
N/A | Fresh 75%
| The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) | "
A source of dismay for Dr. Seuss ... and a financial calamity (losing over $1 million), this weirdest of all children's movies inevitably became a cult hit." — GreenCine Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Labor Day (2009) | "
I'd call Glenn Silber's Labor Day a well-intentioned but dull, video-ugly documentary if it weren't partly financed by its subject, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU); that just makes it a crappy infomercial." — Village Voice Posted Oct 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 17%
| How To Seduce Difficult Women (2009) | "
How to Seduce Difficult Women is woefully incompetent and ugly, throwing out multiple threads without resolution, randomly interspersed with man-in-Union-Square documentary commentary of the Mars/Venus kind." — Village Voice Posted Oct 27, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| Free Style (2009) | "
Lower-class rage is addressed in a fashion that most movies -- let alone family ones -- shy away from. Which doesn't make this a good movie, but at least it has something on its mind." — Village Voice Posted Oct 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| The Bluetooth Virgin (2009) | "
This is self-vindicating L.A. narcissism that tries even less hard than usual." — Village Voice Posted Sep 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Harmony and Me (2009) | "
Slight, indifferently shot, and entirely lacking in ballast, Harmony and Me's sole justification for being is that it's consistently very funny." — Village Voice Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 30%
| Gamer (2009) | "
Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have slowly started garnering actual critical consideration for their Crank movies; with Gamer, they make another good case for taking them seriously." — L.A. Weekly Posted Sep 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 87%
| Big Fan (2009) | "
Audiences are invited to congratulate themselves for not reviling Paul, as long as they keep him at arm's length." — Village Voice Posted Aug 25, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| Post Grad (2009) | "
Post Grad tries to do three things at once -- and half-hits the mark on only one." — Village Voice Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 74%
| Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) | "
The three parts never coalesce, even if they each have potential." — Village Voice Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) | "
Making copy editors’ lives everywhere easier: The Goods doesn’t deliver." — L.A. Weekly Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Yasukuni (2009) | "
The documentary's cultural impact is lost in translation -- Yasukuni initially had trouble getting shown at all in Japan -- but the skill of the enterprise isn't." — Village Voice Posted Aug 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| Ghosted (2009) | "
Flat visuals, flat script, flat performances: Ghosted is only mildly redeemed by the on-the-ground travelogue footage of Taipei and Hamburg, and I'm being generous." — Village Voice Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Shrink (2009) | "
Hollywood movies don't get much more self-regarding than this." — Village Voice Posted Jul 21, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| The English Surgeon (2009) | "
I wish more attention had been focused on Marsh's Ukrainian friend Igor Kurilets's struggles with the country's proudly anachronistic medical establishment." — Village Voice Posted Jul 21, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| Deadgirl (2008) | "
[It] has more fantastically blunt, clunky, and downright laughable teen-sex dialogue per minute than anything this side of Larry Clark." — Village Voice Posted Jul 21, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| The Vanished Empire (2009) | "
The dead-end on-again, off-again courtship between Sergey and Lyuda bores, and their standard adolescent travails take up most of the screen time." — Village Voice Posted Jul 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 47%
| My Sister's Keeper (2009) | "
Diaz is a whiny irrelevance, but sharp supporting work from Alec Baldwin and Joan Cusack makes the proceedings tolerable for boyfriends." — Time Out Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 45%
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | "
Lacking even the briefest flicker of a joke not culled from the fart-gag, pop-cultural-reference grab bag, the latest installment in Fox’s most durable kiddie franchise offers unreasonably devoted parents less than usual to look forward to." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 47%
| My Sister's Keeper (2009) | "
Cassavetes has unexpectedly toned down the over-the-top series of twists from the novel’s last third, though restraint is still a relative concept." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 25, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009) | "
Right now, you're better off just watching the news." — Village Voice Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Brighton Rock (1947) | "
A seedy noir, equal parts concealed-camera atmosphere and tense set pieces." — Village Voice Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 81%
| Under Our Skin (2009) | "
Andy Abrahams Wilson builds a decent, if stylistically dull, case that Lyme disease is far deadlier and more neurologically debilitating than most doctors want to admit." — Village Voice Posted Jun 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Le combat dans lile (1962) | "
There's a surprise every five minutes, except when fascism gets its ass kicked at the end." — Village Voice Posted Jun 10, 2009 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 38%
| Imagine That (2009) | "
This is another loathsome family comedy in which a busy father is made to feel like a horrible parent until he abandons earning money and conforms to his child’s every whim." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | Autumn Ball (2009) | "
The film itself is sporadically amusing and largely uneventful." — Village Voice Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| What Goes Up (2009) | "
I've seen a lot of terrible movies in the line of duty, but What Goes Up might be the only genuinely unreleasable one." — Village Voice Posted May 27, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| Ghosts of the Heartland (2009) | "
Blumberg's point is that racism was/is bad -- hard to argue with that. It's equally hard to argue that the classic noirs would've been better off had they taken frequent time-outs for lectures on racial justice." — Village Voice Posted May 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Powder Blue (2009) | "
A movie full of egregiously overdramatic stupidities." — Village Voice Posted May 5, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Brothers at War (2009) | "
Just because Rademacher believes his film to be "non-partisan" does not make it so." — Village Voice Posted May 5, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Battle for Terra (2009) | "
Watching it will be no fun for either kids or adults." — Village Voice Posted Apr 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Ice People (2009) | "
Small moments of beauty -- a helicopter landing in a self-created snowstorm -- don't compensate for the overall dullness." — Village Voice Posted Apr 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| The Education of Charlie Banks (2009) | "
If it's a failure, at least it's a laudable one instead of cynically by-the-numbers." — Village Voice Posted Mar 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| Skills Like This (2009) | "
Skills thinks it's far more magically whimsical than it really is." — Village Voice Posted Mar 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Tokyo Sonata (2009) | "
Tokyo Sonata is finally deeply moving, either despite or because of the unusual path it takes to get there." — GreenCine Posted Mar 16, 2009 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 16%
| Crossing Over (2009) | "
Tied together with endless, flattening shots of L.A.'s cloverleaf freeways, Crossing Over is often simplistic and occasionally lugubrious, but it's rarely boring." — AV Club Posted Mar 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead (2009) | "
As it turns out, its titular subject makes it one of the few genuinely problematic documentaries to come along in a long while." — Village Voice Posted Feb 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| An American Affair (2009) | "
Only Noah Wyle, as Adam's unreadable dad, rises above the muck; he deserves his Tarantino-aided resurrection sooner rather than later." — Village Voice Posted Feb 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Dealing and Wheeling in Small Arms (2009) | "
If nothing else in Sander Francken's conscientious documentary on illicit arms trading packs the same kick (there's something powerful in outrageous behavior presented without editorial), it's still worthy without turning outright dull." — Village Voice Posted Jan 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2009) | "
[Zizek] steers clear of his usual dense Hegel-centric language and goes straight for the fun bits." — Village Voice Posted Jan 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Cargo 200 (2008) | "
Regardless of intent, Cargo 200 is beautifully filmed and completely disturbing for its entire running time." — Village Voice Posted Dec 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| Let Them Chirp Awhile (2008) | "
It's pretty hilarious." — Village Voice Posted Dec 2, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| House of the Sleeping Beauties (2007) | "
One of the year's worst releases." — Village Voice Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| N/A | Dinner With the President: A Nation's Journey (2008) | "
For all of Sumar's hard work and interesting footage, Dinner With the President is a mess, alternating interviews and Sumar's token progressive sentiments before carelessly using the assassination of Benazir Bhutto for a queasy, drawn-out climax." — Village Voice Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun (2008) | "
Little more than a good performance of dated material...Trumbo's pacifist rant now seems pleasantly corny in its memories of small-town America and absolutely irrelevant to the very real issues of present-day warfare." — Village Voice Posted Oct 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| The Gay Bed & Breakfast of Terror (2008) | "
There's no joking here, only a sincere belief that anyone who isn't a sophisticated urban queer is a mouth-breathing Reagan fanatic panting to give a homosexual beatdown." — Village Voice Posted Oct 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 91%
| Stranded (2008) | "
Stranded is the rare movie less complex and interesting than its press kit." — Village Voice Posted Oct 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| The Lucky Ones (2008) | "
It's finally all too familiar." — Village Voice Posted Sep 24, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Flow: For Love of Water (2008) | "
One of those charming little documentaries that make you question whether the human race is really worth preserving." — Village Voice Posted Sep 10, 2008 |
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