Fresh 8/10
| Rotten 50%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 is solid action thriller filmmaking with some real thrills and strong character work. Viewers will come away mostly fulfilled, though perhaps wishing the train had gone the extra half-mile for its climax." — iF Magazine Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
N/A | Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
Profile: CHRIS PINE TAKES CONTROL OF THE ENTERPRISE IN 'STAR TREK' AS A YOUNG CAPTAIN KIRK" — iF Magazine Posted May 14, 2009 |
N/A | Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
Listmania: THE TOP 10 FRIENDS, FOES AND FAN FAVES WE WANT TO SEE IN 'STAR TREK 2'" — iF Magazine Posted May 14, 2009 |
Rotten 6/10
| Rotten 26%
| Friday the 13th (2009) | "
It's not that the new FRIDAY THE 13TH is bad. It just doesn't feel new, and yet doesn't deliver the old shocks with the zest of horrific discovery that made the original and its better follow-ups so iconic." — iF Magazine Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Rotten 58%
| The International (2009) | "
Because banks all over the world are in such turmoil now, THE INTERNATIONAL seems dated by six months to a year. However, if you like watching law enforcement personnel working on a big, non-standard crime, this is pretty good." — iF Magazine Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Rotten 48%
| Donkey Punch (2009) | "
British thriller about seven college-age Britons in Spain who come together for an afternoon of flirting and wind up having a night of sex, paranoia and murder" — iF Magazine Posted Jan 27, 2009 |
Rotten 7/10
| Rotten 14%
| The Alphabet Killer (2008) | "
Fans of Dushku will get their money's worth. However, the rest of THE ALPHABET KILLER doesn't spell either good detective work or true spectral horror." — iF Magazine Posted Nov 14, 2008 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 65%
| Quantum of Solace (2008) | "
It would be hard to top the legend-relaunching force of CASINO ROYALE. QUANTUM OF SOLACE wisely doesn't try, contenting itself and us with being a good if unexceptional entry in the Bond franchise." — iF Magazine Posted Nov 14, 2008 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 61%
| The Express (2008) | "
THE EXPRESS isn't the sports movie equivalent of what Ernie Davis was to football in his day, but it still plays a pretty good game." — iF Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Fresh 8/10
| Rotten 51%
| Body of Lies (2008) | "
Where BODY OF LIES does succeed very well is in demonstrating the multitude of ways in which even very well-thought-out plans to make the world safer can become not only corrupted but can also be hopelessly compromised by other likewise world-safety-minde" — iF Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Fresh 8/10
| Rotten 59%
| RocknRolla (2008) | "
There's just a lingering sense that, in his eagerness to get to the "good stuff" of character riffs and general coolness, Ritchie neglects plot and pacing. By its own standards, then, ROCKNROLLA as a movie is a proper player, but not quite a true rocknrol" — iF Magazine Posted Oct 9, 2008 |
N/A | Fresh 90%
| Sleeping Beauty (1959) | "
Exclusive Profile: 'SLEEPING BEAUTY' AWAKENS A NEW ERA FOR DISNEY BLU-RAY" — iF Magazine Posted Oct 7, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 21%
| Righteous Kill (2008) | "
There are some flashes of wit here, but the value of narrative surprise, especially when we're expecting one of some kind, only goes so far. RIGHTEOUS KILL relies far too much on what it's got up its sleeve and doesn't pay enough attention to what it's sh" — iF Magazine Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 78%
| Burn After Reading (2008) | "
There's a lot of cleverness here, but neither heart nor a spirit of true insanity. BURN AFTER READING is watchable for a number of reasons, but it never really heats up." — iF Magazine Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 60%
| Traitor (2008) | "
TRAITOR seems to want to be a little more articulate than it winds up being in discussions of the concept of the greater good and the cost of role-playing. However, the questions it brings up are potent and its structure as a thriller is so strong, with s" — iF Magazine Posted Aug 28, 2008 |
Fresh 8/10
| Rotten 43%
| Death Race (2008) | "
The upshot is that DEATH RACE trips over its own machinations in a number of areas, but if you want to see Jason Statham and/or over-the-top vehicular mayhem, there have been worse showcases for both." — iF Magazine Posted Aug 24, 2008 |
Rotten 6/10
| Rotten 19%
| The Clone Wars (2008) | "
It would seem Nietzsche's famous saying has been disproved. STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS won't kill us - or the STAR WARS franchise - but it won't make any of us stronger, either." — iF Magazine Posted Aug 15, 2008 |
Fresh 8/10
| Rotten 15%
| Mirrors (2008) | "
Kiefer Sutherland as a man having worse days than Jack Bauer ever has." — iF Magazine Posted Aug 15, 2008 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 65%
| Sixty Six (2008) | "
Eddie Marsan, Helena Bonham Carter, Stephen Rea and DR. WHO's Catherine Tate in a dramedy about a bar mitzvah vs. the World Cup in London" — iF Magazine Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 90%
| Transsiberian (2008) | "
TRANSSIBERIAN is another one of those movies that seems like an advertisement for never going outside one's own neighborhood. Trips to Eastern Europe seem particularly ill-advised from the looks of, for example, the HOSTEL films and FRONTIERE(S)." — iF Magazine Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 94%
| The Dark Knight (2008) | "
Nolan and Co. do weave an enormous and gratifyingly textured tapestry of plot, giving unexpectedly affecting moments to characters we initially see as mere background figures." — iF Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2008 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 61%
| Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) | "
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is ultimately pleasant enough, though it's hardly the definitive adaptation of Verne's work. The freshest aspect of it is Fraser's conviction." — iF Magazine Posted Jul 11, 2008 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 87%
| Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) | "
Mixing lore from Mike Mignola's comics (Del Toro and Mignola collaborated on the new film's story) with old European fairy folklore and what seems like a touch of homage to Hayao Miyazaki (not to forget J.R.R. Tolkien), HELLBOY II is something to both beh" — iF Magazine Posted Jul 11, 2008 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 83%
| Batman - Gotham Knight (2008) | "
So if you need some more Dark Knight action, this is a great entry because it continues that darkness of the films but in animated form." — iF Magazine Posted Jul 10, 2008 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 77%
| Phenomena (1985) | "
While not nearly as brutal or fast paced as TENEBRE or SUSPIRIA, PHENOMENA brings its own uniqueness to the table including a completely out-of-place opera-metal soundtrack that plays throughout the film, weird voice-overs by the insect professor (played" — iF Magazine Posted Jun 2, 2008 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 79%
| American Gangster (2007) | "
Steven Zaillian's intelligent, perceptive screenplay, inspired by an article on Lucas entitled "The Return of Superfly" by Mark Jacobson, doesn't go exactly where we expect. There are moments of real surprise here, moments of odd satisfaction." — iF Magazine Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 52%
| Bee Movie (2007) | "
Indeed, Bee Moive is full of half-thought-through notions. Much is at first made of Barry's "romance" with a human, voiced by Renee Zellweger, but any potential problems in the friendship are dropped without discussion midway through." — iF Magazine Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 18%
| Saw IV (2007) | "
Director Darren Lynn Bousman sees to it that Saw IV fulfills the franchise's ethos of inventive, gory sadism and grungy, creepy surroundings faithfully and creatively." — iF Magazine Posted Oct 29, 2007 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 94%
| Gone Baby Gone (2007) | "
You have to admire director Affleck and his co-screenwriter Aaron Stockard for having the guts to tackle material this morally complex, and for keeping most of Lehane's twists while condensing them into something that fits coherently into a two-hour film." — iF Magazine Posted Oct 19, 2007 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 36%
| Sleuth (2007) | "
Topping off the new SLEUTH's problems is Law's performance.We need to believe Milo at least could be in earnest some of the time, not feel that he's obviously full of baloney the whole time (especially in those instances where it turns out that he's being" — iF Magazine Posted Oct 12, 2007 |
Fresh 8/10
| N/A | Deadwood Park (2007) | "
A most excellent independent horror film that really does a great job with atmosphere, creepy imagery and just downright spooky frights. If the production values were better and had this been given a theatrical release, it would easily become a cult class" — iF Magazine Posted Oct 9, 2007 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 86%
| Poltergeist (1982) | "
"Stay away from the light, Carol Anne!" Yikes, anything you say just get me outta the damn TV. Remastered from the original source material and looking better than ever with high resolution video and sound, this is the version to own even with it being 25" — iF Magazine Posted Oct 9, 2007 |
— | N/A | Chance (2002) |
Click here to read article — Audio Video Revolution Posted Sep 29, 2007 |
Fresh B+
| Rotten 53%
| The Hunting Party (2007) | "
Even though the tone moves into tragedy on occasion, filmmaker Shepard maintains a sense of ironic "can you believe this?" humor that serves the story's events well." — iF Magazine Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 67%
| Shoot 'Em Up (2007) | "
Shoot 'em Up is so fast and fanny and perfectly attuned to what it's doing that it's as if director/writer Michael Davis has put all the elements of entertaining violent action flicks in a centrifuge and distilled them down to their essence." — iF Magazine Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 88%
| 3:10 to Yuma (2007) | "
Mangold and the writers find the action potential in the Western format and ride the hell out of it. Fight and chase sequences are striking, even thrilling." — iF Magazine Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 23%
| Balls of Fury (2007) | "
Yes, it's racist and homophobic, but those are actually secondary concerns. Mainly, it's just not funny. There's no reason to pick on Balls of Fury unduly, but unless you are a diehard fan of any of the parties involved, there's no reason to see it" — iF Magazine Posted Aug 31, 2007 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 13%
| September Dawn (2007) | "
September Dawn has emotional weight, but rather than having an air of conviction, it makes one want to reach for the history books, which may not be a bad thing at that." — iF Magazine Posted Aug 24, 2007 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 70%
| Right at Your Door (2007) | "
By not hammering at the points that surface organically here, Gorak gets us to ask ourselves a lot of questions, for which there may not be any clear answers, even as we are engrossed with what's happening to the characters. The combination of these facto" — iF Magazine Posted Aug 24, 2007 |
Fresh 8/10
| N/A | House: Season Two (2005) | "
The doctor is back in! Fox's hottest drama series makes its third season debut on DVD with 24 more episodes of Gregory House solving the oddest, strangest and deadliest medical cases known to mankind." — iF Magazine Posted Aug 21, 2007 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 63%
| Death at a Funeral (2007) | "
Part of the fun here is when we can guess what's coming, part of the fun is when we're blindsided, and all of the fun is in seeing how Oz, Craig and the perfectly chosen cast sail through it as though it's the most real ongoing situation ever." — iF Magazine Posted Aug 17, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Taxi Driver (1976) | "
One of the great films from the 1970s has been re-released with a new digital transfer from the original source material for high quality video and audio." — iF Magazine Posted Aug 14, 2007 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 76%
| Stardust (2007) | "
There are times when Stardust feels a little confined, either due to Vaughn's liking of close shots or due to budget constraints. However, it is mostly a very pleasing fantasy, with conviction in its storytelling and a sense of magic in its heart." — iF Magazine Posted Aug 9, 2007 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 20%
| Rush Hour 3 (2007) | "
The trouble is, without at least character consistency, the set pieces are usually only good for a chuckle, if that, and when Ratner and Nathanson try for some John Woo-style dramatics, the results are flat." — iF Magazine Posted Aug 9, 2007 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 24%
| Descent (2007) | "
On the one hand,trying something new and the statement they want to make is laudable. However, the distanced style, hard grainy lighting and extremely lengthy rape sequences make Descent not only often unpalatable but also mostly just plain dull." — iF Magazine Posted Aug 9, 2007 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 92%
| Crime Story (1993) | "
The special edition includes a brilliant new digital cut of the film, director audio commentary, deleted scenes and much more." — iF Magazine Posted Aug 7, 2007 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 93%
| The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) | "
Thanks to director Greengrass, editor Christopher Rouse and the very astute and adept actors and stunt performers, the hand-to-hand combat is almost shocking in its brutality. Even though blood is kept to a minimum, the sheer sense of violence, physical e" — iF Magazine Posted Aug 3, 2007 |
Fresh 7.5/10
| N/A | Babylon 5: The Lost Tales (2007) | "
This is actually two stories on one DVD that are both interconnected as the stars from the series must confront new enemies and new threats to the peace they have achieved. The DVD includes new interviews with the entire cast and Stracynski ..." — iF Magazine Posted Jul 31, 2007 |
Fresh 7.5/10
| N/A | Shadow Puppets (2007) | "
SHADOW PUPPETS is a very impressive straight to DVD release that is much more entertaining than some of the schlock coming out in the theater." — iF Magazine Posted Jul 24, 2007 |
N/A | Rotten 32%
| Terminator Salvation (2009) | "
"We envision this T4 would be the beginning of a new trilogy. We had talked about having Arnold doing a cameo and we've never been at a point where that could happen. There's a lot of momentum to getting financing for the movie now that there are ..."" — iF Magazine Posted Jul 23, 2007 |
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