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 56%
| 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 16%
| 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 87%
| 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 87%
| 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 13%
| 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 21%
| 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 17%
| 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 37%
| 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 48%
| 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 57%
| 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 86%
| 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 23%
| 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 95%
| 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 71%
| 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 84%
| 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 77%
| 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 92%
| 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 93%
| 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 55%
| 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 85%
| 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 48%
| 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 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 72%
| The Boys Are Back (2009) | "
The problem is that the movie always takes the easy way, scattering a few heavy, confrontational scenes among acres of picturesque montages." — New York Times Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 66%
| Coco Before Chanel (2009) | "
The blossoming of her ambition, as much as her love life, drives the story forward, and turns Coco Before Chanel into a costume drama worthy of the name." — New York Times Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| Blind Date (2009) | "
It does feel very stage bound, very formal." — At the Movies Posted Sep 21, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 32%
| The Burning Plain (2009) | "
The elliptical structure of the narrative can’t cover up its overheated, half-baked banality." — New York Times Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 45%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
Takes up a common theme of slasher films — that queasy, panicky fascination with female sexuality that we all know — and turns it inside out." — New York Times Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 94%
| 35 Shots of Rum (2009) | "
35 Shots of Rum is a quiet and lovely new film by the French director Claire Denis." — New York Times Posted Sep 16, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 83%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
The achievement of Jane Campion’s learned and ravishing new film is to trace the comminglings and collisions of poetic creation and amatory passion." — New York Times Posted Sep 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) | "
Very good, very smart, very clear." — At the Movies Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| The September Issue (2009) | "
RJ Cutler had plenty of access, but it’s pretty clear that from start to finish it was Anna Wintour who was in control of this movie." — At the Movies Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 6%
| Whiteout (2009) | "
Where are the penguins?" — At the Movies Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| The Other Man (2009) | "
It owes its air of mystery to a piece of narrative trickery that’s both obnoxiously manipulative and insultingly obvious." — At the Movies Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 89%
| No Impact Man (2009) | "
Unsparingly exposes the confused power dynamics of a certain kind of modern middle-class marriage." — New York Times Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 6%
| Whiteout (2009) | "
Has a perfunctory, by-the-numbers approach to its story and its characters." — New York Times Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
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