Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 6%
| Old Dogs (2009) | "
We have reached a point in our moviegoing life where the two most horrifying words a studio can mutter are "Robin" and "Williams."" — Washington Post Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 16%
| Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | "
What Michael Bay did for the Hollywood blockbuster with his second Transformers movie, Jared Hess has now done for the low-budget indie with Gentlemen Broncos -- namely, stain an entire genre with a sense of soulless calculation." — Washington Post Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Stan Helsing (2009) | "
If Stan does nothing else, it should at least get its four leads some attention." — Variety Posted Oct 26, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 55%
| The Little Traitor (2009) | "
The cost of zealotry, and its collateral damage, aren't Roth's chief concerns -- humanity is -- but she manages to confect a film of both sweetness and subtle meaning." — Newsday Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| The Stepfather (2009) | "
It's hard to get absorbed in a story with so many unresolved issues." — Variety Posted Oct 18, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 25%
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | "
Not only is it a hapless crime drama about outrage and revenge, it provides the sad spectacle of a movie far less intelligent than the one its filmmakers thought they were making." — Newsday Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| Food Beware: The French Organic Revolution (2009) | "
Food Beware takes a grassroots view of a mini-food revolution as the entire town transforms into a hotbed of healthy eating." — Variety Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Do Knot Disturb (2009) | "
David Dhawan's big-budget sitcom is a major, slumdogging step in the right direction, with nosebleed-inducing production values, infectious musical sequences and some astoundingly beautiful actors." — Variety Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 75%
| Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) | "
Proving that demagoguery can come as easily from the left as from the right, Michael Moore has produced a jerry-rigged jeremiad about free enterprise that hands up some very legitimate indictments, without really making a case." — Newsday Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| It Might Get Loud (2009) | "
Depicts wood, lacquer and hardware the way Hugh Hefner depicts Miss September. Guitar nuts will be turned on, but everyone else will have a good time, too." — Washington Post Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 31%
| Tickling Leo (2009) | "
[Pressman's] performance ... as the increasingly demented poet and Holocaust survivor Warren Pikler, gives us the man Warren was, is and will be. It isn't easy, but like a long line drive, it's a great thing to watch." — Newsday Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Play the Game (2009) | "
The good news is that the seemingly perennial TV fixture is still funny and sharp and folksy. The bad news is that he lost the bet, or whatever it was that got him into Marc Fienberg's smarmy, lackluster comedy." — Washington Post Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Lorna's Silence (2009) | "
The story within Lorna's Silence is built on tiny increments of tantalizing details, meted out in penurious droplets and with chest-tightening tension that suggests that what the brothers wanted to be when they grew up were boa constrictors." — Washington Post Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 80%
| Bandslam (2009) | "
Simultaneously shiny and retro, calibrated and uncalculated, familiar and unpredictable." — Newsday Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) | "
What makes The Time Traveler's Wife work as drama, and certainly better than it might have, is an unhesitating emotional commitment on the part of the actors." — Washington Post Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
A sci-fi-fueled indictment of man's inhumanity to man -- and the non-human -- District 9 is all horribly familiar, and transfixing." — Washington Post Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | By the People: The Election of Barack Obama () | "
A less-than-electrifying account of an electrifying election." — Variety Posted Aug 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| A Perfect Getaway (2009) | "
As thrillers go, the film is more nerve-wracking than most, and far better acted -- the four principals are terrific, particularly Jovovich, who gives a really nuanced performance." — Washington Post Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/5
| Rotten 5%
| Bio-Dome (1995) | "
Despite the advances humankind has made since dragging itself out of the primordial ooze, Shore is a successful comedian." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 25%
| The Collector (2009) | "
A surprisingly stylish and confident high-concept thriller." — Variety Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
— | Fresh 67%
| New York (2009) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| 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 68%
| Tetro (2009) | "
Tetro has no internal tension and should have been a comedy." — Washington Post Posted Jun 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| 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 38%
| 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 10%
| 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 64%
| 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 18%
| 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 36%
| 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 91%
| 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 19%
| 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 14%
| 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 86%
| 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 73%
| 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 50%
| 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 56%
| 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 44%
| 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 28%
| 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 |
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