Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Paranormal Activity (2009) | "
Forget gaps in logic. Paranormal Activity is all about the night-frights, caught on night-vision video." — Jam! Movies Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 56%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
The film touches on subjects as strange as reality television and as profound as the nature of true love, the integrity of religion, or the value of genetics in relationships. Yet it does so with whimsy, gentle sarcasm and entertaining wit." — Jam! Movies Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 83%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
It is a great film about a great love." — Jam! Movies Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
The film is so good overall that the robust punctuation -- and all that Oscar buzz -- is deserved." — Jam! Movies Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 49%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
There is no need to oversell Taking Woodstock. Even though it is based on reality, it is meant as a modest allegory about the search for innocence and understanding and peace and love and so on." — Jam! Movies Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
What is not to like about dispatching armed and angry Jews to kill Nazis during the Second World War?" — Jam! Movies Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 26%
| The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) | "
Start laughing." — Jam! Movies Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 36%
| G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) | "
Sienna Miller is eye-candy in black leatherette as good-bad girl the Baroness. Ditto for Rachel Nichols as redheaded heroine Scarlett." — Jam! Movies Posted Aug 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 29%
| Aliens in the Attic (2009) | "
For the youngsters, it offers a lot of fun -- and it's funny." — Jam! Movies Posted Aug 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 69%
| Adoration (2009) | "
Best you "feel" the film as it presents itself. Then engage it intellectually. That is what an Egoyan film is all about." — Jam! Movies Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 79%
| Before Tomorrow (2009) | "
The film is beautiful to behold: The Arctic tundra is a wondrous spectacle, especially in summer. It is well acted, with a naturalism that lends a documentary feel. It is thoughtfully dramatic, albeit in a subtle way." — Jam! Movies Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 65%
| Duplicity (2009) | "
Duplicity is pretty silly when it all works out in the end. This is a wasted opportunity, since so much went into making it look like it was about something." — Jam! Movies Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 62%
| Che (2008) | "
A riveting invocation of history." — Jam! Movies Posted Feb 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 58%
| The International (2009) | "
Mercifully free of car chases but packed with other adrenaline injections -- including a couple of life-and-death foot races for Clive Owen -- The International is a classy, old-school thriller." — Jam! Movies Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Journey to Mecca (2009) | "
In a complex world of religious mistrust, misunderstanding and violence, the new IMAX film Journey to Mecca: In the Footsteps of Ibn Battuta is about peace and enlightenment." — Jam! Movies Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Coraline (2009) | "
Coraline is a hand-crafted masterpiece of American animation." — Jam! Movies Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| Canvas (2007) | "
There is something to be said for a filmmaker like Greco who takes the truth -- no matter how tough it is -- and turns it into a compelling drama about people we might know in life." — Jam! Movies Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| A Christmas Tale (2008) | "
A minor masterpiece." — Jam! Movies Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 33%
| Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) | "
Repo! is a bloody grotesquerie, not a delicious delight as was Rocky Horror." — Jam! Movies Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| Synecdoche, New York (2008) | "
While not uniformly successful, and potentially disastrous for some viewers, Synecdoche, New York is dazzling for its ambition and risk-taking." — Jam! Movies Posted Nov 7, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 67%
| Heaven on Earth (2008) | "
I can sense the profound ambition that inspired Deepa Mehta to craft her drama Heaven on Earth. But her uneven film turns out to be deeply troubling." — Jam! Movies Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 75%
| The Last Mistress (2008) | "
Rather boring." — Jam! Movies Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 38%
| Passchendaele (2008) | "
A poignant and occasionally profound film out of a page in history." — Jam! Movies Posted Oct 17, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 41%
| Blindness (2008) | "
Blindness is a mature, thoughtful film for adult audiences who believe cinema should address the human condition, no matter how bleak, and not just provide escapism." — Jam! Movies Posted Oct 3, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 35%
| The Lucky Ones (2008) | "
Director and co-writer Neil Burger's drama uses the war as a springboard to tell a darkly funny, and sometimes profoundly moving, story of the men and women who are the warriors." — Jam! Movies Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Rotten 3/5
| Rotten 34%
| Miracle at St. Anna (2008) | "
Spike Lee's World War II epic Miracle at St. Anna is a good movie wrapped in rags. Sadly, what could have been a handsome, poignant spectacle is diminished." — Jam! Movies Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) | "
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Woody Allen's giddy romantic comedy, is the funniest film he has made since 1995's Mighty Aphrodite." — Jam! Movies Posted Aug 15, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Tropic Thunder (2008) | "
Crazy? Yes! The flick also happens to be hilariously, dangerously, weirdly funny." — Jam! Movies Posted Aug 13, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Amal (2008) | "
Accept it without cynicism and it shines, a light along the path as we explore human nature through cinema." — Jam! Movies Posted Aug 8, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Last Continent (2008) | "
This is a compelling story." — Jam! Movies Posted Aug 4, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) | "
Meticulously crafted and keenly thought out, the film also serves as a useful historical document. It illuminates its time period, delves into moral hypocrisy and shows the evolution of muck-raking celebrity journalism." — Jam! Movies Posted Jul 25, 2008 |
Fresh 1.5/5
| N/A | The 4th Life (2008) | "
As pure cinema, however, it is a punishing ordeal just to get through a single screening of this pretentious piece of nonsense." — Jam! Movies Posted Jul 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 53%
| The Promotion (2008) | "
The Promotion is generally harmless but boring." — Jam! Movies Posted Jun 27, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | Days of Darkness (2007) | "
Denys Arcand's Days of Darkness have arrived, and not just as a film title." — Jam! Movies Posted Mar 21, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| Caramel (2008) | "
A light-hearted yet razor-smart, bittersweet comedy about life in Beirut." — Jam! Movies Posted Feb 22, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 59%
| Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008) | "
While not overtly done, the entire movie explores what America is laughing about at this point in time -- and what people in the heartland don't find funny. Either way, it is illuminating." — Jam! Movies Posted Feb 8, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 10%
| Fool's Gold (2008) | "
Not offensive. Not icky. Not even naughty. Just stupid." — Jam! Movies Posted Feb 8, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) | "
It is a masterwork on both an artistic and emotional level." — Jam! Movies Posted Dec 26, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Life of Reilly (2007) | "
For anyone who appreciates what The Life of Reilly was really all about, it is worthwhile." — Jam! Movies Posted Nov 30, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 94%
| No Country for Old Men (2007) | "
Both perplexing and engrossing as it explores humanity's animal instincts. This being McCarthy and the Coens, nothing is spelled out. The seeds are there and they will flourish in a fertile mind." — Jam! Movies Posted Nov 9, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 64%
| Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) | "
Simply put, do not go to this film if you are looking for a romantic comedy or a routine drama. Things We Lost in the Fire offers no such escapism. Instead, even in a fiction, it brings us face to face with the demons of life." — Jam! Movies Posted Oct 19, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 47%
| Rendition (2007) | "
While truth is stranger than fiction, even melodramatic films can focus those truths." — Jam! Movies Posted Oct 19, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 7%
| Silk (2007) | "
It is interesting and not riveting, lovely and not luxurious, good and not great. Some may even find it boring. It certainly is repetitive." — Jam! Movies Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Into the Wild (2007) | "
Penn's melancholic epic is a slam-dunk." — Jam! Movies Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 54%
| Across the Universe (2007) | "
Watching some sequences is as close to an actual drug experience as clean living can offer." — Jam! Movies Posted Sep 14, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Eastern Promises (2007) | "
Like A History of Violence, David Cronenberg's brilliant new film goes far beyond its thriller genre." — Jam! Movies Posted Sep 14, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 67%
| The 11th Hour (2007) | "
An earnest, thoughtful documentary." — Jam! Movies Posted Aug 24, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 17%
| The Last Legion (2007) | "
The real problem is that The Last Legion is just too boring." — Jam! Movies Posted Aug 17, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 92%
| Journey From The Fall (2007) | "
As a fictional version of historical fact, it artfully tells a story of humanity that will interest anyone who wants to understand what happens in a war zone when the shooting stops." — Jam! Movies Posted Aug 17, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 1%
| Daddy Day Camp (2007) | "
Other than being silly most of the time and stupid on occasion, there is nothing offensive about Daddy Day Camp." — Jam! Movies Posted Aug 8, 2007 |
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