Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Fog of War (2003) | "
A great and disturbing film." Posted Jul 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) | "
Michael Moore's fierce and funny Fahrenheit 9/11 is not so much a documentary as a mythology, reducing geopolitical complexities to a neat, tawdry narrative." Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 93%
| Juno (2007) | "
Little Miss Rain Clouds" Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| The Aristocrats (2005) | "
A joyful film, full of men and women alight with the pleasure that comes from negating every compliment civilization has ever paid itself." Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Balls of Fury (2007) | "
[Is it] good? Heavens, no. But it has its seedy charms." Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Frost/Nixon (2008) | "
The director of Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind serves up a merely pleasing, vaguely edifying tale of penitence and redemption, or something like that." Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Last Chance Harvey (2008) | "
These practiced charmers wring every effect they can think of from the corny material thrown their way." Posted Jan 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| Valkyrie (2008) | "
Claus's Eleven" Posted Jan 13, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Seven Pounds (2008) | "
Operates on an emotional level so crude that the sacrificial act at its heart appears not only kitschy, but also repellent%u2014not to mention icky." Posted Dec 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 54%
| Australia (2008) | "
By the end, your wonderment at Luhrmann's inextinguishable enthusiasm for hokum starts to break you down and win you over." Posted Dec 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Bolt (2008) | "
Perfectly acceptable children's fare." Posted Dec 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) | "
Cheerleaders for melancholy have often linked it with profundity. But it's Leigh's achievement to show that happiness, too, can have its depths, and even its darkness." Posted Nov 13, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Rachel Getting Married (2008) | "
Has an improvised, documentary feel that jibes beautifully with the characters' own, often fumbling attempts to find the right form for their affections." Posted Oct 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 58%
| Flash of Genius (2008) | "
A thoughtful inquiry into the doubtful benefits of pursuing one's ideals 'to the end of the line,' as they say in Double Indemnity." Posted Oct 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 72%
| Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) | "
MP3some" Posted Oct 1, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| Bangkok Dangerous (2008) | "
A perfectly uninvolving tale of errors acknowledged and manhood proved." Posted Sep 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Mirrors (2008) | "
Sutherland does a passable job of clenching his jaw grimly %u2014 lest it, too, be torn from his skull, perhaps." Posted Aug 27, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Brideshead Revisited (2008) | "
I cannot think of another screen adaptation that treats its source with similar indifference, almost contempt." Posted Aug 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Pineapple Express (2008) | "
Long on concept and short on most everything else except kinetic energy." Posted Aug 13, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| The Spanish Apartment (2003) | "
A Big Mac with a mineral water chaser." Posted Jul 29, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008) | "
The fault is not in our steroids, but in ourselves." Posted Jul 16, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 53%
| Get Smart (2008) | "
Another pop-culture icon lazily mined for ready cash. Mission accomplished." Posted Jul 2, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008) | "
Sandler's unflappable Jewish gigolo superhero hairdresser act is an overconceptualized drag." Posted Jun 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| Open Range (2003) | "
Something like...It's a Wonderful Life, only rich in slaughter." Posted Jun 9, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Sex and the City - The Movie (2008) | "
As the movie drifts into its third hour, you start to feel that it's not joy that's keeping you in the theater. It's duty." Posted Jun 4, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Babel (2006) | "
Babel...belongs to an unfortunately proliferating genre that might be called the higher kitsch." Posted Jun 1, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| What Happens in Vegas (2008) | "
It Happened One Drunken Night" Posted May 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Capote (2005) | "
The Passion of Truman Capote." Posted May 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| The Passion of the Christ (2004) | "
All [Gibson has] done...is to trade in the Hollywood conventions of yesteryear for the crasser, more bloodthirsty conventions of today." Posted May 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Love Actually (2003) | "
Transfixed by the taboos of the...British class system, Curtis seems to think that nothing could be more erotic than the subordinate who fetches tea or dusts the crockery." Posted May 17, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) | "
It is marked by a peculiarly English celebration of the Church Militant. That noted, it's also a ripping yarn." Posted May 17, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Queen (2006) | "
She is a human being." Posted May 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Volver (2006) | "
With all its unexpected twists and turns, the story still unfolds naturally, like some gaudy Mediterranean flower." Posted May 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Brokeback Mountain (2005) | "
At times feels as ancient and familiar as any well-worn piece of American legend, even if its content could set John Wayne spinning in his grave." Posted May 10, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 90%
| Knocked Up (2007) | "
For all its avowed interest in life -- as in, you know, the biological imperatives of our existence -- its characters seem acquainted only with television." Posted May 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Ratatouille (2007) | "
Journey to the Center of the Broth" Posted May 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) | "
Burton has done that rare thing -- turned a great play into a great film." Posted May 10, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 96%
| Persepolis (2007) | "
As a reminder that Iran is a complex society with a long tradition of cosmopolitan interchange with the West, Persepolis could hardly be more welcome. As a narrative, however, the film sometimes loses its way." Posted May 10, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| August Rush (2007) | "
"Someone in Hollywood must have it in for Thanksgiving. How else to explain the cruelly timed release of August Rush, a wretched confection that only the most determined will be able to count among their blessings?"" Posted May 8, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 78%
| Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008) | "
Earth, as Robert Frost thought, might be the right place for love, but television is certainly the right place for Dr. Seuss." Posted May 8, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 79%
| The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) | "
Lord of the Deathly Thingamabob" Posted May 7, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 84%
| Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) | "
The trademark Apatow mix of pasty, media-addled boy-men and the gorgeous, gorgeous women who badger them into an imitation of maturity already feels dated." Posted May 7, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 71%
| Cold Mountain (2003) | "
A kitschy, lugubrious and deeply unhistorical exercise in self-congratulation." Posted May 6, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Intolerable Cruelty (2003) | "
A competent bit of work from which striking originality and idiosyncrasy have mostly been pruned away." Posted May 6, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| The Counterfeiters (2008) | "
An especially impressive achievement." Posted May 6, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Stop-Loss (2008) | "
The Worst Years of Our Lives" Posted Apr 11, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Doomsday (2008) | "
The only thing that saves Doomsday from complete disgrace is that it knows it's trash." Posted Mar 28, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| City of Men (2008) | "
An efficient, simply told story...in spite of the plot's neat contrivances and the movie's determination to pull some edifying nugget from the heartbreak and hopelessness at its core." Posted Mar 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| 27 Dresses (2008) | "
Like its protagonist, 27 Dresses undoes itself with niceness." Posted Feb 4, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 89%
| The Savages (2007) | "
The latter half suffers from degenerative indie-itis, that epidemic syndrome whose main symptom is unwarranted interest in the ennui afflicting well-read urban misfits." Posted Jan 23, 2008 |
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