Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| Invictus (2009) | "
The results don't quite achieve inspiration, but it's still powerful stuff." Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
N/A | Fresh 82%
| The Princess and the Frog (2009) | "
Big role for the Big Easy"
INTERVIEW Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 82%
| The Princess and the Frog (2009) | "
Steeped in the Big Easy, The Princess and the Frog revives hand-drawn animation in gloriously entertaining style." Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 92%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
Deserves a prominent spot in the run for this year's best-animated feature Oscar." Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 5%
| Old Dogs (2009) | "
A weary hound of a movie." Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 71%
| The Road (2009) | "
A powerful and devastating adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's novel." Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 91%
| Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) | "
As uncompromising and genuine as movies that receive mainstream distribution get." Posted Nov 27, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 28%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
For true Twilight believers, the slow moments are more opportunity to gaze at pretty-boy young men playing characters who're both the best and worst boyfriends a girl could ever have." Posted Nov 27, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 60%
| Pirate Radio (2009) | "
Pirate Radio misses cues but doesn't run completely aground." Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 54%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
A quietly wacky military satire good for scattered chuckles and laughs." Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 37%
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) | "
Inept to the core, The Vampire's Assistant never rises to the occasion." Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
A beautifully assembled tribute to a great artist." Posted Oct 29, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 73%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
Better not set foot, hoof or paw on this isle of pain." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 83%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
Gorgeous to behold, the film also devastates with its meticulous portrait of impassioned lovers against whom fate conspires so mightily." Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 12%
| Couples Retreat (2009) | "
This couples-in-conflict comedy starts strongly but then slips into the turquoise water of paradise lost." Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
The amusement park sequence definitely merits a best zombie kill, or kills, of the week award." Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 28%
| Fame (2009) | "
The script doesn't earn the C average students must maintain for continued enrollment in their performing arts school." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 82%
| Whip It (2009) | "
Set in the rocky world of roller derby, Whip It proves Ellen Page can carry a good script without Kimya Dawson's songs and Michael Cera's sensitivity." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 23%
| Sorority Row (2009) | "
Sorority Row is most successful at creating characters even more insufferable than the usual young people who serve as slasher-flick fodder." Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 62%
| Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) | "
Perry sticks to his storytelling principles, doing what he does so well." Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 57%
| 9 (2009) | "
9 does a good job of mounting its post-war, post-human world, but the emphasis on noisy action sequences and fingers-on-a-chalkboard brutality leave storytelling behind." Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
A quietly subversive, sometimes delicious, little comedy." Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 6%
| All About Steve (2009) | "
A good idea lurks in the latest Sandra Bullock comedy but it quickly falls into a deep hole." Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 29%
| The Final Destination (2009) | "
Despite the added 3-D imagery, elaborate sequences that lead to doomed characters' deaths remain the most interesting thing about this latest Final Destination." Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 9%
| Post Grad (2009) | "
Its plot developments are safe and predictable, but the things Post Grad does well suggest it could have been more than just another middling romantic comedy." Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
The stylish Inglourious Basterds means next to nothing, but its pure outlandishness draws eyes to the screen." Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
Wielding wicked retribution, the clever District 9 reinvents alien invasion with a wry wink." Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 58%
| A Perfect Getaway (2009) | "
Trash with a whiplash." Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
Judd Apatow gives old pal Adam Sandler a deep but still funny script that lets the comic-actor go where he's never gone before." Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
There she goes, a chestnut mare who can't be lassoed, an elusive butterfly traveling to the beat of a different drum." Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 55%
| Orphan (2009) | "
An exceptional cast, including child actress Isabelle Fuhrman, make Orphan a cut above." Posted Aug 1, 2009 |
Rotten 1.4/4
| Rotten 24%
| G-Force (2009) | "
The maestro of mayhem, Jerry Bruckheimer, does a kids movie." Posted Aug 1, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| The Ugly Truth (2009) | "
An ugly, mean-spirited romantic comedy that lacks comedy and romance." Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 67%
| Bruno (2009) | "
Sacha Baron Cohen's smiling and gregarious Borat, as opposed to his haughty and selfish Bruno, scores much higher on the likeability scale." Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 83%
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) | "
Hats off to the young cast and director David Yates for bringing such depth to this latest stage of the characters' lives." Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 45%
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | "
The Ice Age series' creativity is clearly melting." Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 47%
| My Sister's Keeper (2009) | "
A tear-fest medical drama that seems much longer than it is." Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 66%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
Johnny Depp plays John Dillinger with wry charm, but the famous actor also gets in the legendary gangster's way." Posted Jul 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 20%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
John Turturro's very human, comic energy lifts an otherwise flat and re-dundant sequel." Posted Jun 26, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 27%
| The Narrows (2009) | "
Shuffling, mumbling and musing about his loser's life, Vincent D'Onofrio stealthily steals the picture." Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 15%
| Year One (2009) | "
Cecil B. DeMille meets Monty Python meets Superbad, Year One has some funny moments, but it eventually flops." Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 43%
| The Proposal (2009) | "
The Proposal restores Sandra Bullock to comic glory. It's her best role since While You Were Sleeping." Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 38%
| Imagine That (2009) | "
Thankfully freed by a child's imagination though it is, Imagine That eventually obeys well-worn, adult-imposed convention." Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
N/A | Rotten 38%
| Imagine That (2009) | "
Former Baton Rougean directs Eddie Murphy: Imagine that."
INTERVIEW Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 51%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
The film's leading men exceed the action genre's usual requirements, if only briefly." Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 92%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
Seethes with atmosphere and characters that echo the hallmarks of Universal horror." Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 18%
| Dance Flick (2009) | "
The Wayans are the masters of spoof." Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 98%
| Up (2009) | "
Technical brilliance and nuanced storytelling lift Pixar miles above the competition." Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 22%
| Next Day Air (2009) | "
Best to refuse this delivery" Posted May 15, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
If, in real time, the dull X-Men Origins prequel actually were the first X-Men film produced, it might have been the last." Posted May 8, 2009 |
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