Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 79%
| 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 70%
| 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 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| Planet 51 (2009) | "
The whole thing is just terrible." — At the Movies Posted Nov 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 30%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
It has an amazing kind of emotional integrity and intensity." — At the Movies Posted Nov 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 73%
| The Blind Side (2009) | "
A movie made up almost entirely of turning points and yet curiously devoid of drama or suspense." — New York Times Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 85%
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) | "
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans -- why Port of Call? what does that mean? -- is no masterpiece, but it is undoubtedly the work of a master." — New York Times Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Broken Embraces (2009) | "
Leaves the viewer in a contradictory state, a mixture of devastation and euphoria, amusement and dismay that deserves its own clinical designation." — New York Times Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 59%
| Pirate Radio (2009) | "
Any serious music fan -- that is anyone who sees the radio pirates as kindred spirits -- will be outraged by its sloppy approach to the history of rock and roll." — At the Movies Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| 2012 (2009) | "
Even though this movie’s running time of two and a half hours is about one hour too long, there’s still some pretty cool disaster stuff on the way." — At the Movies Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| That Evening Sun (2009) | "
Holbrook is a terrific actor, and it’s nice to see him in a leading role, but this is still a movie you can skip." — At the Movies Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 64%
| Dare (2009) | "
Dare feels a bit unfinished, at once overreaching and underrealized. But there is a lot of intelligence, and considerable daring, in the basic conceit." — New York Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| The Messenger (2009) | "
Oren Moverman’s sober and satisfying drama shows how the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have created a fissure in American society." — New York Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
Fantastic Mr. Fox, which Mr. Anderson wrote with Noah Baumbach, and which he has been hoping to make for many years, is in some ways his most fully realized and satisfying film." — New York Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 47%
| The Box (2009) | "
I think that Richard Kelly, from one film to the next, has gone in some very interesting and sometimes puzzling directions." — At the Movies Posted Nov 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 54%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
Everyone involved seems to have had a pretty good time, but this one looks like it was more fun to make than it is to watch." — At the Movies Posted Nov 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| The Fourth Kind (2009) | "
[A] dull, clumsy little movie." — At the Movies Posted Nov 9, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009) | "
One of the finest dance films ever made, but there’s more to it than that." — New York Times Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
A branded piece of shiny seasonal entertainment." — New York Times Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) | "
A hybrid, a mash-up that might have been ungainly, but that manages to be graceful instead." — New York Times Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| The Maid (2009) | "
A smart little gem from Chile." — At the Movies Posted Nov 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) | "
While the director, Lee Daniels, does not shy away from the grimmest elements of the story, his eclectic filmmaking style is almost exhilarating, finding room for fantasy, operatic melodrama, and authentic humor." — At the Movies Posted Nov 2, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | "
It doesn’t have any kind of emotional center." — At the Movies Posted Nov 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
The Michael Jackson we see here is not a self-styled Messiah or a tabloid oddity. He is, instead, what he always was underneath it all: a talented musician, a brilliant dancer, and one of the most gifted entertainers of his time." — At the Movies Posted Nov 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 22%
| The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) | "
I will not defend it as a good movie, but I have to say, I had a pretty good time at it." — At the Movies Posted Nov 2, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Astro Boy (2009) | "
I just felt like this was a mistranslation -- almost trying to combine the slightly sinister, cold world of Japanese anime with the warm, sentimental, fuzzy, bouncy world of Hollywood kid animation." — At the Movies Posted Oct 26, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| Amelia (2009) | "
Wwhy does such an exciting life make such a dull movie?" — At the Movies Posted Oct 26, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 26%
| Motherhood (2009) | "
The humor is soft, the dramas are small, and the movie stumbles from loose and scruffy naturalism to sitcom tidiness." — New York Times Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 38%
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) | "
Tests its viewers' patience even as it strives to build their loyalty." — New York Times Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 49%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
The scandal of Antichrist is not that it is grisly or upsetting but that it is so ponderous, so conceptually thin and so dull." — New York Times Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 34%
| St. Trinian's (2009) | "
Every scene is so frantic and desperate to make you laugh, to be clever, to be naughty and none of it worked." — At the Movies Posted Oct 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| Trucker (2009) | "
You know exactly what is going to happen and you don’t really care." — At the Movies Posted Oct 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 42%
| New York, I Love You (2009) | "
But in spite of some attempts at human and neighborhood variety, the stories have a self-conscious sameness, as if they were classroom assignments in an undergraduate fiction-writing class." — New York Times Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Black Dynamite (2009) | "
As a five-minute clip on YouTube, this spoof might be a small masterpiece. As a feature film, it's both too much and not nearly enough." — New York Times Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 22%
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | "
It's about the cat-and-mouse game between two very smart guys, and it's perfectly happy to be as dumb as it wants." — New York Times Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Good Hair (2009) | "
This movie just does take what seems like a kind of a superficial topic and really does go into it with great depth." — At the Movies Posted Oct 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
These monsters that are made of costumes with CGI faces and voiced by these wonderful actors, they’re just as real and as complicated as the real people." — At the Movies Posted Oct 12, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 12%
| Couples Retreat (2009) | "
Couples Retreat is a comedy of exhaustion. But it is the comedy itself, in both concept and execution, that seems tired." — New York Times Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 83%
| Paranormal Activity (2009) | "
It works best when it comes out of nowhere, because that’s, in the end, where it goes." — New York Times Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 78%
| Bronson (2009) | "
A bit like Stanley Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange reimagined as a one-man stage show and stripped of any political implications." — New York Times Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| The Damned United (2009) | "
The rare sports movie that deals with humiliation and disappointment." — New York Times Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 94%
| An Education (2009) | "
It’s a pleasure -- which I don’t mean entirely as a compliment." — New York Times Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
It’s bogged down in too many squishy romantic-comedy pieties." — At the Movies Posted Oct 5, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
This movie is fundamentally empty." — At the Movies Posted Oct 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 82%
| Whip It (2009) | "
It will not change the way you think about movies, roller derby or the relations between teenage girls and their mothers, friends or dreams. But it does invite you to stop and appreciate all those things." — New York Times Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 73%
| More Than a Game (2009) | "
evoted fans of the game, and especially of LeBron James, will love More Than a Game. The skeptical and the curious may find themselves wanting more." — New York Times Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| A Serious Man (2009) | "
A Serious Man is, like its biblical source, a distilled, hyperbolic account of the human condition. The punch line is a little different, but you know the joke. And it’s on you, of course." — New York Times Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) | "
Even if you don’t agree with the answers that Michael Moore suggests, I think you should see this movie." — At the Movies Posted Sep 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009) | "
Tthough this experiment doesn’t quite succeed, there’s enough intelligence and insight in this movie to make it worth the attempt." — At the Movies Posted Sep 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Fame (2009) | "
I don’t mind the cornball and I don’t mind the clichés, but I just think that the thing has to be executed a little better than this." — At the Movies Posted Sep 28, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 35%
| Blind Date (2009) | "
The film never lifts itself above its origin as a well-meaning, underdeveloped exercise." — New York Times Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
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