Fresh 4/5
| Missing Person | "
Michael Shannon adds another stunning performance to his resume with this small-scale neo-noir by writer/director Noah Buschel." Posted Dec 7, 2009 12:59 AM PST | Sara Schieron,
Boxoffice Magazine |
Fresh 3/4
| Up in the Air | "
This is one of those all-encompassing dramedies that makes you laugh, cry, contemplate life, hope for better times, believe in family %u2013 but it doesn't stick with you after it's over." Posted Dec 7, 2009 12:01 AM PST | Kit Bowen,
The Movie Kit |
Fresh A
| Invictus | "
I still don't understand the sport in the least, but I completely understand everything that was accomplished according to the story, and what a great story it was." Posted Dec 6, 2009 11:55 PM PST | Danny Minton,
Fort Bend Sun |
Rotten
| Everything Strange and New | "
Frazer Bradshaw's debut feature reeks of a need to do something grand, and its attempt to reach high art makes its failure that much more obvious." Posted Dec 6, 2009 10:38 PM PST | Beverly Berning,
culturevulture.net |
Fresh A-
| Up in the Air | "
The consummate bachelor, Mr. Clooney reflects just enough comfort in his own skin without teetering into arrogance, quietly amused by life's idiosyncrasies." Posted Dec 6, 2009 08:04 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Fresh B
| Red Cliff | "
The film's countless canned platitudes aside, an intriguing plot unfolds wherein intellect and brute strength play against one another..." Posted Dec 6, 2009 08:01 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | "
a bizarre amalgam of source material, director and star that's just nutso enough to work" Posted Dec 6, 2009 07:46 PM PST | Stephen Silver,
The Trend |
Rotten 2/5
| Planet 51 | "
I'm going to go out on a limb and say Planet 51 was written by a bunch of monkeys...who were trapped in a room with some typewriters. Surprisingly, the works of Shakespeare are the only texts they haven't blatantly ripped off." Posted Dec 6, 2009 07:39 PM PST | Anders Wotzke,
Cut Print Review |
Fresh A+
| Brokeback Mountain | "
Brokeback Mountain is ultimately about the paralysis of regret and how it fractures the lives of not just those afflicted by it, but everyone else around them." Posted Dec 6, 2009 07:37 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Fresh B
| Whip It | "
Whip It is a coming-of-age story told straight, devoid of trendy hipster sensibilities, yet aiming equally for entertainment as well as insight." Posted Dec 6, 2009 07:25 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Fresh B-
| The Invention of Lying | "
Mr. Gervais... has given us a static, crass Phil Connors to introduce the world to belief in the supernatural. Where are the Ghostbusters when you need them?" Posted Dec 6, 2009 07:23 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Fresh B
| Inglourious Basterds | "
Mr. Waltz's dynamic performance contrasts satirical and dramatic hues, effectively charismatic and repulsive at once." Posted Dec 6, 2009 07:21 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Fresh A
| The Informant! | "
Visual and narrative punchlines strike flawlessly like the absurdist humor of a Bugs Bunny cartoon..." Posted Dec 6, 2009 07:19 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Rotten D
| Jennifer's Body | "
Devil's Kettle might as well have been called Crock Pot." Posted Dec 6, 2009 07:16 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Rotten C-
| 9 | "
Entirely superfluous conversations and thoughts hinder what could have otherwise been a beautiful, somber existentialist film about a number of potential themes%u2014loss, survival, consciousness." Posted Dec 6, 2009 07:15 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Fresh B-
| Extract | "
...it's not quite as uninhibitedly ridiculous as The Hangover, the tacked-on moral lesson for which no apology is even attempted." Posted Dec 6, 2009 07:14 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Rotten F
| All About Steve | "
Were you thinking "deaf kids", "sinkhole"? No? I defy you to write a dumber screenplay." Posted Dec 6, 2009 07:10 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Rotten C-
| Taking Woodstock | "
Watch carefully as the film tries to ramrod too many themes, invoking split-screen technique, and see if you can identify how often self-indulgence is confused for enlightenment." Posted Dec 6, 2009 07:08 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Rotten D
| Post Grad | "
...a coming-of-age tableau that is neither inspirational nor uplifting." Posted Dec 6, 2009 07:05 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Rotten C
| Shorts | "
...what poignancy is served injecting heavy messages about parenting... into a movie which glorifies the suburban existence, makes light of bullying, and gratuitously employs property destruction for comic effect?" Posted Dec 6, 2009 07:02 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Fresh A
| District 9 | "
The film persuades us to look beneath the aliens' chitinous exterior, and slowly eats at us as the images of racism, subjugation and internment become familiar and prod our conscience." Posted Dec 6, 2009 06:57 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Fresh 4.5/5
| The Messenger | "
This is the type of original film that should be pulling in the box office numbers. Harrelson and Foster deliver completely natural and raw performances. See this movie now!" Posted Dec 6, 2009 06:56 PM PST | Kevin McCarthy,
BDK Reviews |
Rotten D-
| The Goods | "
Did the studio put so little faith in this snowball of ineptitude that the filmmakers couldn't even afford a tripod?" Posted Dec 6, 2009 06:55 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Armored | "
Armored has a decent second half but the use of obvious metaphors, cliches and amateur film making knocks the film down to a satisfactory rental." Posted Dec 6, 2009 06:53 PM PST | Kevin McCarthy,
BDK Reviews |
Fresh C
| Julie & Julia | "
Amy Adams is so meek she echoes Cynthia Nixon's waif servant in Forman's Amadeus. In fact, for a moment I thought she was Ms. Nixon, until I remembered that Amadeus was twenty-five years ago." Posted Dec 6, 2009 06:52 PM PST | Rubin Safaya,
Cinemalogue.com |
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