Rotten D
| Rotten 0%
| One Missed Call (2008) | "
One big miss of a horror movie." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 79%
| Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007) | "
Moviegoers might initially find the inside peek into a media book tour fascinating. But the tedium of trekking from hotel to car to interview and back to a waiting limo can wear down one's resolve." Posted Nov 24, 2007 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 56%
| Randy and the Mob (2007) | "
It's a film brimming with individual scenes featuring nice visual touches about the South and comforting down-home dialogue spiced with a healthy twinge of sarcasm. Too bad the movie never completely gels." Posted Sep 21, 2007 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 90%
| The Simpsons Movie (2007) | "
The Simpsons Movie isn't anything special and certainly not the creative spark necessary to jump-start what for years has been a sagging show." Posted Jul 26, 2007 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 77%
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) | "
The movie is at times brilliant with a powerhouse performance by Imelda Staunton." Posted Jul 9, 2007 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 56%
| Transformers (2007) | "
Great special effects + Shia LaBeouf - flimsy story = lotsa fun." Posted Jul 2, 2007 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 81%
| Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007) | "
It's loud, yippee-ki-yay explosive, mostly watchable and, unfortunately, almost entirely forgettable after its final bang." Posted Jun 26, 2007 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 24%
| Evan Almighty (2007) | "
When the film ultimately does deliver on the threat of a flood, there's not much to think other than that the special effects are adequate and that Carell's movie is one big washout." Posted Jun 21, 2007 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 37%
| The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) | "
Silver Surfer is watchable. But make no mistake. It's for younger filmgoers." Posted Jun 14, 2007 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 69%
| Ocean's Thirteen (2007) | "
Ultimately, if you give yourself up to its manufactured charm, it all becomes comfortingly familiar." Posted Jun 7, 2007 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 90%
| Knocked Up (2007) | "
More than just laugh-out-loud funny. It's the relationship comedy of the summer and likely the best boy-meets-girl movie of the year." Posted May 31, 2007 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 60%
| 300 (2007) | "
Call 300 the New Age sword-and-sandal epic -- a Hercules movie for the computer age." Posted Mar 8, 2007 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 89%
| Zodiac (2007) | "
Staying true to its real-life scenario, the film gets mired in the inevitable red tape of police investigations, [and it] switches focus enough times to make you think it's three movies instead of one." Posted Mar 1, 2007 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 25%
| Daddy's Little Girls (2007) | "
Tyler Perry likes preaching to the choir." Posted Feb 14, 2007 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 67%
| Off the Black (2006) | "
A modest drama fueled by Nick Nolte's gutsy lead performance as a disheveled 57-year-old junkyard proprietor who's been as flattened by life as the rusty old cars he crushes." Posted Feb 1, 2007 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 95%
| Pan's Labyrinth (2006) | "
Pan's Labyrinth is del Toro's home run. He's delivered a film full of power, beauty, horror and, ultimately, sadness." Posted Jan 18, 2007 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 38%
| The Nativity Story (2006) | "
The proceedings come across as quite a bit less than the greatest story every told." Posted Nov 30, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 15%
| Turistas (2006) | "
Give Turistas, the edgy, unnerving, graphically violent South American vacation movie full of sex-hungry young adults and horror, credit for knowing full well not only what kind of entertainment it is, but for delivering the goods." Posted Nov 30, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 83%
| Come Early Morning (2006) | "
A mostly watchable, somewhat satisfying drama." Posted Nov 9, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 80%
| Little Children (2006) | "
Complicated, involving and just plain smart, Children is the kind of movie that worms its way back into your head days after you've seen it." Posted Oct 19, 2006 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 73%
| Flags of Our Fathers (2006) | "
Flags is classic Eastwood, filmed with weighty purpose and, often, skilled precision." Posted Oct 19, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 75%
| A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006) | "
Populated with actors who know their characters so intimately they seem to spring to life from the screen." Posted Oct 12, 2006 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 21%
| Employee of the Month (2006) | "
Before Employee of the Month shoots itself in the foot with an immensely lame finale, the film does cash in with a few comedic bright spots." Posted Oct 5, 2006 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 37%
| The Guardian (2006) | "
This is a silly movie made of taped-together Hollywood hokum, the kind where you just know the pitch was something like, 'It's Top Gun meets An Officer and a Gentleman in The Perfect Storm.'" Posted Sep 28, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 12%
| Pulse (2006) | "
It's not about blood, gore and oozing innards but unsettling creepiness that gets under a moviegoer's skin and makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck." Posted Sep 23, 2006 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 90%
| Half Nelson (2006) | "
For a solid 107 minutes, Gosling shapes his character into a flesh-and-blood tone poem." Posted Sep 21, 2006 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 74%
| Fearless (2006) | "
As purported, if Jet Li's final Chinese martial arts movie is indeed Jet Li's Fearless, the talented fist-and-foot pounder would have made more impact if he had ended things sooner." Posted Sep 21, 2006 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 61%
| Jackass: Number Two (2006) | "
Be forewarned, when you're not laughing out loud you could well be trying hard not to lose your lunch." Posted Sep 21, 2006 |
Rotten B-
| Fresh 68%
| Hollywoodland (2006) | "
We could say, Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown. But that just conjures up memories of the kind of mystery movie Hollywoodland only wishes it could be." Posted Sep 7, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 17%
| Jailbait (2006) | "
Disturbing and affecting." Posted Aug 31, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 87%
| The Motel (2006) | "
There is honesty and integrity in the filmmaking and the performances, which make The Motel among the best character studies of the year." Posted Aug 31, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 73%
| The Great New Wonderful (2006) | "
Not all the little stories and vignettes work (some seem almost pointless), but most of the performances, especially a haughty luncheon under a veil of politeness with Gyllenhaal and Falco, are spot on, involving and revealing." Posted Aug 31, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 68%
| Snakes on a Plane (2006) | "
Call me. I'll see it again with you this weekend." Posted Aug 18, 2006 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 20%
| Step Up (2006) | "
Step Up is so predictable, so remarkably so, you might wonder how such a movie got made." Posted Aug 10, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 73%
| Lady Vengeance (2005) | "
... as brutal as it is beautiful." Posted Aug 6, 2006 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 47%
| Miami Vice (2006) | "
Miami Vice is a dark, grainy and heavy drama and so super-serious and smoky thick it could be called Miasma Vice." Posted Jul 27, 2006 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 13%
| Little Man (2006) | "
Some verbal jokes simply don't work, and Darryl's persistent I-wanna-be-a-daddy musings are more insipid than inspiring. But some of the physical comedy scores." Posted Jul 13, 2006 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 86%
| The Heart of the Game (2006) | "
Most certainly, it will make you root for the Roughriders on and off the court." Posted Jul 6, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 95%
| Wordplay (2006) | "
Dramatic, especially for those moviegoers who tax their brains working crosswords." Posted Jun 22, 2006 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 26%
| The Omen (2006) | "
The last Damien is young actor Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick. He lowers his head, hardens his face and glares. Big woo. The movie's dogs do a better job of looking sinister." Posted Jun 6, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 80%
| District B13 (2006) | "
B13 is watchable and, sometimes, quite invigorating. But only when it's getting its adrenaline rush from its stampeding macho duo." Posted Jun 1, 2006 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 52%
| Down in the Valley (2006) | "
Jacobson's story goes haywire." Posted May 25, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 69%
| Mission: Impossible III (2006) | "
It's like Abrams understands the public perception of Cruise's kooky celebrity. So why not embrace it." Posted May 4, 2006 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 90%
| United 93 (2006) | "
It easily ranks as the best movie so far this year." Posted Apr 27, 2006 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 36%
| Preaching to the Choir (2006) | "
One just wishes that with the word 'choir' in the title, there would be a lot more top-drawer gospel singing." Posted Apr 20, 2006 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 59%
| Lonesome Jim (2006) | "
A slight, but amusing and occasionally touching, dark comedy about depression and dysfunction that percolates with indie film hipness." Posted Apr 20, 2006 |
Rotten C-
| Fresh 62%
| ATL (2006) | "
ATL is not interesting. Nor compelling. Nor lively. Nor always comprehensible." Posted Mar 30, 2006 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 27%
| The Zodiac (2005) | "
Boring when it should be gripping." Posted Mar 16, 2006 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 49%
| The Hills Have Eyes (2006) | "
The story is more focused on a kind of meat-market smorgasbord mixed with political the-government-did-this-to-us overtones. It doesn't really work." Posted Mar 9, 2006 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 58%
| Night Watch (2005) | "
Clarity may be lost, but rare is the movie that grabs viewers by their throats and never lets go. Bekmambetov's Night Watch is one of the grabbers." Posted Mar 2, 2006 |
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