Fresh
| N/A | Temple Grandin (2010) | "
The best biopic in a very, very long time." — At the Movies Posted Feb 8, 2010 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| Red Riding Trilogy (2010) | "
It’s an awfully interesting series of movies." — At the Movies Posted Feb 8, 2010 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Frozen (2010) | "
There’s not enough here for 90 minutes." — At the Movies Posted Feb 8, 2010 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| From Paris With Love (2010) | "
The bazooka was as subtle and witty as the movie." — At the Movies Posted Feb 8, 2010 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 30%
| Dear John (2010) | "
Dear John carefully distills selected elements of human experience and reduces them to a sweet and digestible syrup. It may not be strong medicine, but it delivers an effective, pleasing dose of pure sentiment and vicarious heartache." — New York Times Posted Feb 5, 2010 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 75%
| Eyes Wide Open (2010) | "
It moves slowly and patiently through the ordeal of a single soul, illuminating in the process a cosmos of intense and hidden feeling." — New York Times Posted Feb 5, 2010 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 95%
| Ajami (2010) | "
You emerge from Ajami moved and also a little worn out, but mostly grateful for the heart, craft and intelligence the movie has shown." — New York Times Posted Feb 3, 2010 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| Saint John of Las Vegas (2009) | "
I don’t think that this movie has a coherent sense of what it’s about, what its characters are doing, what kind of tone of comedy or drama or quirkiness it’s trying to strike." — At the Movies Posted Feb 1, 2010 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Legion (2010) | "
There’s a lot going on, a lot of theology, a lot of bad horror movie effects." — At the Movies Posted Feb 1, 2010 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| The Tooth Fairy (2010) | "
Is there anything else to say except skip it?" — At the Movies Posted Feb 1, 2010 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 17%
| When in Rome (2010) | "
It lurches along, making Ms. Bell and Mr. Duhamel look duller than they need to." — New York Times Posted Jan 29, 2010 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 41%
| 44 Inch Chest (2010) | "
Think of 44 Inch Chest as a piece of chamber music and you can compensate for the thinness of its story and the lack of visual distinction." — New York Times Posted Jan 29, 2010 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 55%
| Edge of Darkness (2010) | "
Edge of Darkness is reasonably well executed, but its competence reeks of fatigue. Another dead kid. Another angry dad. Another day at the office." — New York Times Posted Jan 29, 2010 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Crazy on the Outside (2009) | "
I just get bored thinking about it." — At the Movies Posted Jan 25, 2010 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 44%
| Creation (2010) | "
Its view of life is that a paradigm-shifting breakthrough, rather than being the product of either solitary genius or cultural ferment, amounts instead to a pretext and a substitute for therapy." — New York Times Posted Jan 22, 2010 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 30%
| Extraordinary Measures (2010) | "
Ultimately about how feeling and objectivity can work together, and also about how the protocols of medical research and development can both enable and obstruct progress." — New York Times Posted Jan 22, 2010 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Wonderful World (2010) | "
While this movie is earnest and well-intentioned, it doesn’t quite work." — At the Movies Posted Jan 19, 2010 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| The White Ribbon (2009) | "
I don’t question Haneke’s craft: it’s his ideas that get under my skin." — At the Movies Posted Jan 19, 2010 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| The Book of Eli (2010) | "
I’m not going to give it away, but there’s a final plot twist in this movie that is beyond absurd." — At the Movies Posted Jan 19, 2010 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 8%
| The Spy Next Door (2010) | As for Mr. Chan, he has some passably choreographed bits with folding chairs, a bicycle and, later, some pots and pans at Gillian’s house. But it’s hardly enough to redeem -- or even make bearable -- this half-hearted hodgepodge. — New York Times Posted Jan 15, 2010 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Fish Tank (2010) | "
The contradictions of adolescence have rarely been conveyed with such authenticity and force." — New York Times Posted Jan 15, 2010 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 21%
| Leap Year (2010) | "
What makes Leap Year so singularly dispiriting is precisely that it is bad without distinction — so witless, charmless and unimaginative that it can be described as a movie only in a strictly technical sense." — New York Times Posted Jan 8, 2010 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| In Search of Memory (2008) | "
An engrossing portrait all the same, a generous introduction to someone worth knowing, who knows an awful lot." — New York Times Posted Jan 8, 2010 |
Fresh
| Fresh 66%
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) | "
A surprisingly interesting picture." — At the Movies Posted Dec 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| The Young Victoria (2009) | "
The way this story is told is just basically by people reading letters in voiceover while you look at beautiful furniture." — At the Movies Posted Dec 28, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Sita Sings the Blues (2008) | "
And the ingenuity of Sita -- which evokes painting, collage, underground comic books, Mumbai musicals and “Yellow Submarine” (for starters) — is dazzling. Not busy, or overwhelming, or eye-popping. Just affecting, surprising and a lot of fun." — New York Times Posted Dec 28, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 68%
| Sherlock Holmes (2009) | "
It seems that an evil aristocrat, executed for a series of murders, returns from the dead to mobilize an ancient secret society that he may have time-traveled into a Dan Brown novel to learn about. Doesn’t that sound fascinating? I thought not." — New York Times Posted Dec 25, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 74%
| Police, Adjective (2009) | "
This can be called realism, but that sturdy old word is not quite sufficient to describe Police, Adjective, which is at once utterly plain, even affectless, and marvelously rich." — New York Times Posted Dec 22, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 13%
| Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) | "
There’s a scene where Hugh Grant confronts a grizzly bear and I’ve never rooted so hard for a predatory mammal." — At the Movies Posted Dec 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Avatar (2009) | "
I had the feeling coming out of this movie that I haven’t felt since maybe I was eleven years old in 1977 and I saw Star Wars for the first time." — At the Movies Posted Dec 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| It's Complicated (2009) | "
Streep and Baldwin are terrific, and if you like your romance bittersweet you won’t want to miss this one." — At the Movies Posted Dec 21, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/5
| Rotten 37%
| Nine (2009) | "
Straining to capture artistic frenzy, it descends into vulgar chaos, less a homage to Federico Fellini�s 8 ½ (its putative inspiration) than a travesty." — New York Times Posted Dec 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Crazy Heart (2009) | "
Crazy Heart, written and directed by Scott Cooper, is a small movie perfectly scaled to the big performance at its center." — New York Times Posted Dec 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| A Single Man (2009) | "
This is a wonderful movie." — At the Movies Posted Dec 14, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 85%
| The Princess and the Frog (2009) | "
Most of The Princess and the Frog looks more like one of Disney’s straight-to-DVD sequels than like their animated classics, and the few big, fun musical set-pieces are brought down by second-rate songwriting." — At the Movies Posted Dec 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 36%
| The Lovely Bones (2009) | "
A victim obsessed with the lives that go on without her is at the center of The Lovely Bones." — New York Times Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| Invictus (2009) | "
It’s an exciting sports movie, an inspiring tale of prejudice overcome and, above all, a fascinating study of political leadership." — New York Times Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Up in the Air (2009) | "
I think that this is a classic in the making." — At the Movies Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Everybody's Fine (2009) | "
I didn’t feel like I was watching characters who were related to each other. Every scene they are in, I felt like I was watching movie stars meeting each other for the first time." — At the Movies Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Invictus (2009) | "
The movie, directed by Clint Eastwood, has its corny moments, for sure, but it’s also powerful, full of conviction and one of the most inspiring movies of the year." — At the Movies Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 42%
| Armored (2009) | "
An unabashed B movie: basic, brutal and sometimes clumsy, but far from dumb, and not bad at all." — New York Times Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 70%
| The Last Station (2009) | "
The kind of movie that gives literature a bad name. Not because it undermines the dignity of a great writer and his work, but because it is so self-consciously eager to flaunt its own gravity and good taste." — New York Times Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 58%
| Brothers (2009) | "
Brothers itself -- a smart, well-meaning project -- never quite pulls itself together." — New York Times Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) | "
I was interested in the characters and situations, but I was not absorbed." — At the Movies Posted Nov 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 6%
| Old Dogs (2009) | "
It’s kind of a funny story. Actually it isn’t. And not much in this movie is, unless you like to watch elderly dogs urinate, middle-aged movie stars overact wildly, and Seth Green get hit in the groin by a golf ball." — At the Movies Posted Nov 30, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Ninja Assassin (2009) | "
The problem is that the fight sequences -- the only reason anyone sees a movie like this in the first place -- are muddy, chaotic and boring. Even diehard fans of this genre would be well advised to skip this one." — At the Movies Posted Nov 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Me and Orson Welles (2009) | "
You feel a little bit what it was like to sit in that theater on opening night. You also feel like what it was and what it still is to be a young person infatuated with writing, with art, with theater..." — At the Movies Posted Nov 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| The Road (2009) | "
It hits a few tinny, sentimental notes. Still, I admire the craft and conviction of this film, and I was impressed enough by the look and the performances to recommend that you see it." — At the Movies Posted Nov 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Me and Orson Welles (2009) | "
The story of a teenager's sometimes uncomfortable brush with greatness, it is necessary viewing for anyone whose imagination has been seduced by the charms of art." — New York Times Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| The Road (2009) | "
The most arresting aspect of The Road is just how fully the filmmakers have realized this bleak, blighted landscape of a modern society reduced to savagery." — New York Times Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
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