Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| The Girl From Monaco (2009) | "
For all the elasticity of the form, Anne Fontaine's Girl is still a cloying bit of business, rarely very funny and never smart enough to make a solid point, at least about anything we don't already know." — Washington Post Posted Jul 2, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 19%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
What's wrong here is that there's so much swirling, relentless action, indistinct robot characterizations and over-caffeinated techies loose on the special-effects machines that the movie, in mere seconds, achieves incoherence." — Washington Post Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| Tetro (2009) | "
Tetro has no internal tension and should have been a comedy." — Washington Post Posted Jun 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
Does for the supermarket what "Jaws" did for the beach -- marches straight into the dark side of cutthroat agri-business, corporatized meat and the greedy manipulation of both genetics and the law." — Variety Posted Jun 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| Imagine That (2009) | "
A movie that takes a major step toward reasserting Murphy's place as the comic heir not just to such obvious models as Richard Pryor but to Groucho Marx." — Washington Post Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 11%
| My Life in Ruins (2009) | "
Vardalos is charming." — Newsday Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Moscow, Belgium (2008) | "
Director Christophe Van Rompaey has a script, of course, but much of what comes across so eloquently in this Flemish comedy of ill-manners is wordless." — Washington Post Posted May 29, 2009 |
— | N/A | The Art of Flight (2005) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted May 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| The Brothers Bloom (2009) | "
A screwball comedy for the New Depression, "The Brothers Bloom" makes an abundant number of erudite references that mean almost nothing, and, like most con-man movies, it can't be trusted." — Washington Post Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 27%
| Dance Flick (2009) | "
We live in desperate times. But no one's desperate enough to laugh at Dance Flick. Which is sort of encouraging, no?" — Newsday Posted May 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | I Love You Phillip Morris (2009) | "
Less of a comedy than a hilarious tragedy." — Variety Posted May 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 32%
| Terminator Salvation (2009) | "
Darker, grimmer and more stylistically single-minded than its two relatively giddy predecessors, "Terminator Salvation" boasts the kind of singular vision that distinguished the James Cameron original." — Variety Posted May 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Angels & Demons (2009) | "
What the movie is supposed to accomplish -- laying out a fairly complex mystery in a way that creates suspense -- is precisely what it doesn't do." — Washington Post Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) | "
An urban nightmare with a surfeit of soul, “Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire” is like a diamond -- clear, bright, but oh so hard." — Variety Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Outrage (2009) | "
Auds, regardless of their politics, will find Kirby Dick's filmentertaining, brisk, visually interesting and perhaps even thrilling." — Variety Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
Wolverine is full of angst, and yet it has virtually all the humanity wrung out of it in an effort to create a live-action cartoon." — Washington Post Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Obsessed (2009) | "
Spends much time spinning its wheels and making auds practically beg for an explanation to all the madness and obsession." — Variety Posted Apr 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| An Unlikely Weapon (2009) | "
It's their reminiscences that are the most poignant and revealing about a man who seems, in Cooper's interviews, to have done all he could to conceal himself." — Variety Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| The Informers (2009) | "
A nihilistic, narcissistic, knuckleheaded move about nihilistic, narcissistic knuckleheads, The Informers might have been an interesting exercise in satire, if it only had a sense of humor. Which it doesn't." — Washington Post Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 85%
| Earth (2009) | "
The beauty of the landscape, the beauty of the animals, it's all irresistible." — Newsday Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 41%
| Fighting (2009) | "
For all the utter phoniness of Fighting... [it's] not so bad." — Variety Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 71%
| American Violet (2009) | "
American Violet is a justice story, with some honest justice. It's nicely reassuring that it happens to be true." — Newsday Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 51%
| Observe and Report (2009) | "
Given that the ordinarily likable Seth Rogen is portraying a delusional, violent, sexist, racist, homophobic mall cop with a bipolar disorder, there's not really a lot to laugh at." — Washington Post Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Rotten 55%
| Lymelife (2009) | "
Lymelife is well told, superbly acted, recalls some of the truly banal pop hits of the late '70s and hardly ever digresses from the genuine. It's a pearl among zucchinis." — Newsday Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 46%
| Hannah Montana The Movie (2009) | "
Director Peter Chesholm does a fine job moving Hannah out of its $14.95 Disney Channel set and onto a bigger canvas." — Newsday Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
Adventureland may be targeted at teens, but it's a sophisticated film that just happens to be about unformed people and their raw emotions." — Newsday Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 30%
| 12 Rounds (2009) | "
The future of vacuous action movies is clearly with the likes of Cena, humans who resemble characters from video games, albeit without the acting chops." — Newsday Posted Mar 30, 2009 |
— | Fresh 67%
| Reeker (2005) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| The Feature (2009) | "
It is a profoundly indulgent work -- what three-hour filmed memoir wouldn't be? -- but the memory of Auder's memory will linger on for the handful of resilient experimental-film fans who see it." — Variety Posted Mar 23, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 73%
| Sunshine Cleaning (2009) | "
Adams and Blunt are a great team and provide Sunshine Cleaning with nearly all of its potency, pain and emotional payoff, as sisters trying to avoid their own tragedy while cleaning up the mess of others." — Newsday Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 82%
| I Love You, Man (2009) | "
Even though I Love You, Man supplies plenty of cringes, it also has overtones of warmth and undertones of real humor, and two stars -- Paul Rudd and Jason Segel -- who do what they do with aplomb." — Newsday Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 4%
| Miss March (2009) | "
Overall a raggedy, unfocused affair that wastes both directors' acting talent and feels like too much work between the laughs." — Variety Posted Mar 13, 2009 |
— | Rotten 43%
| Immortal (2005) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Mar 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| The Trouble with Romance (2009) | "
Very little that anyone here says, or does, has the slightest connection to any known reality, and if a film is going to perform an autopsy on love, the corpse should at least be recognizable." — Variety Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| An American Affair (2009) | "
The Cuban Missile Crisis is a year passed and the assassination is looming, and yet Adam's pubescent crises are given Wagnerian emphasis." — Variety Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Class (2008) | "
The Class is not just the best film released thus far this year. It may be the most gripping." — Washington Post Posted Feb 19, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 23%
| Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) | "
Isla Fisher is carrying this often stylish comedy on her Prada-upholstered back." — Newsday Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) | "
Rebecca is the Lucy Ricardo of profligate spending." — Washington Post Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| He's Just Not That Into You (2009) | "
A not-quite-romantic-comedy that should click with the young-adult demos of both sexes." — Variety Posted Feb 2, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 84%
| Wendy and Lucy (2008) | "
For all its virtues, Wendy and Lucy seems like the most overrated of art movies." — Washington Post Posted Jan 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 18%
| New in Town (2009) | "
You can see where this is going all the way from Duluth." — Newsday Posted Jan 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| Bronson () | "
Has "cult hit" written all over it." — Variety Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| The Lodger (2009) | "
What needed to be a taut, structurally sound psychothriller instead malfunctions from the start." — Variety Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Sergio (2009) | "
Barker takes structural chances, eschewing the predictable for a more unorthodox film, and it works." — Variety Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 48%
| Chandni Chowk to China (2009) | "
If Chandni Chowk to China were a person, it would need Valium." — Variety Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Hotel for Dogs (2009) | "
A chihuahua-sized concept served up in a doggy bag of contrivances and shtick." — Variety Posted Jan 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 50%
| Notorious (2009) | "
A rock-solid biopic with a foolproof rise-and-fall storyline and a warmly nuanced performance by Jamal Woolard as iconic rapper Christopher Wallace." — Variety Posted Jan 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Wrestler (2008) | "
Imagining someone other than the beatifically battered Mickey Rourke in the title role of The Wrestler would be like picturing someone other than John Malkovich in Being John Malkovich." — Washington Post Posted Dec 29, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| The Tale of Despereaux (2008) | "
It's a beautiful film, but in the end, Despereaux is esthetically charmed but dramatically inert." — Washington Post Posted Dec 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 14%
| Delgo (2008) | "
A high-tech animation adventure with a top-flight voice cast and a well-told if familiar fable about power, peace and people getting it together." — Newsday Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
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