Fresh 8.5/10
| N/A | Shutter Island (2010) | "
The work of a master at his height. This is Scorsese flexing his muscles and cracking his knuckles and making a movie that's intense and thrilling and engrossing and beautiful and dense." — CHUD Posted Dec 15, 2009 |
Rotten 6.5/10
| Fresh 82%
| Avatar (2009) | "
Cameron only cares that his characters are three dimensional visually. And he certainly doesn't care that his story is hackneyed, corny and trite." — CHUD Posted Dec 16, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 80%
| A Town Called Panic (2009) | "
An amazing head trip, a glorious journey right inside a semi-innocent imagination" — CHUD Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 31%
| Ninja Assassin (2009) | "
Ninja Assassin features gigabytes of blood being shed on screen." — CHUD Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
There's a certain irony in having a timeless tale about a man finding his soul being told in the most soulless way possible" — CHUD Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Rotten 39%
| 2012 (2009) | "
2012 is well made spectacle. It's finely crafted trash. It's in on the joke, and it's laughing along with you." — CHUD Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 39%
| The Lovely Bones (2009) | "
For most of the running time of The Lovely Bones I thought the film was bad, but when the movie entered the final twenty minutes I realized my mistake: it's a disaster." — CHUD Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Fresh 8.5/10
| Rotten 57%
| Brothers (2009) | "
Tobey Maguire is the dark, compelling heart of Jim Sheridan's surprising new film." — CHUD Posted Dec 7, 2009 |
Fresh 7.5/10
| Fresh 89%
| Up in the Air (2009) | "
Too smart to be a solidly mainstream film, too trite to be an art film, Up in the Air is perfectly, emptily middlebrow." — CHUD Posted Dec 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2/10
| Rotten 28%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
The most surprising thing about New Moon, the second film in the Twilight series, is how much worse it is than the first." — CHUD Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 73%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
A masterpiece about the sorrows of growing up, about the pain of being a bright, creative, lonely, troubled child, about the search for love, acceptance, stability and comfort." — CHUD Posted Oct 12, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 82%
| Paranormal Activity (2009) | "
While the film is well worth seeing, you might consider skipping it in theaters and renting the DVD on a night when it's dark, quiet and a little scary in your own house." — CHUD Posted Sep 28, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Rotten 21%
| Halloween II (2009) | "
Halloween II is trying to be something more than 'just' a slasher movie, and while I don't think it's ever in any danger of succeeding I respect the fact that the guy tried." — CHUD Posted Aug 29, 2009 |
Fresh 9.5/10
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
Ballsy, brash and utterly committed to the revolutionary power of cinema, Inglourious Basterds is a completely remarkable film." — CHUD Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
An amazing movie, one that will sweep you up emotionally and intellectually, that will give you plenty to think over and even more to marvel at. It's an achievement that needs to be seen to be believed, and once it's seen it's guaranteed to be beloved." — CHUD Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 68%
| Grace (2009) | "
Grace is a truly horrifying movie." — CHUD Posted Aug 12, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 60%
| Paper Heart (2009) | "
Cute and touching, and more than a little romantic. It's the kind of movie that will find its audience, and its audience will adore it." — CHUD Posted Aug 12, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 91%
| Ponyo (2009) | "
Admirable and enjoyable and beautiful, but it's a movie for the littlest of the little ones." — CHUD Posted Aug 12, 2009 |
Fresh 8.5/10
| Rotten 36%
| G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) | "
If I was 10 years old, GI Joe would be one of the best movies I had ever seen. As a grown up it's one of the better summer movies; a delightfully light, fun and action-packed kick in the ass." — CHUD Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Fresh 9.5/10
| Fresh 83%
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) | "
A remarkable achievement... moving, funny, honest and true and sad and sweet. A movie about characters who we have come to know and love, and a movie that understands that it's these characters, and not the magic they perform, that is the real hook." — CHUD Posted Jul 6, 2009 |
Rotten 6.5/10
| Fresh 66%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
While Public Enemies is a well made, well acted, well written film, it's one without a spark at the center to make it truly special." — CHUD Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Rotten 1/10
| Rotten 20%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
Revenge of the Fallen is almost literally plotless. It's like a movie based on a TV Guide description. A bloated, ponderous piece of s**t." — CHUD Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Rotten 4.5/10
| Rotten 15%
| Year One (2009) | "
Year One is so dedicated to being historically accurate that it only uses jokes that are at least two thousand years old." — CHUD Posted Jun 18, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 89%
| Moon (2009) | "
If only Hollywood was willing to make more science fiction films like this one." — CHUD Posted Jun 14, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Rotten 51%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
Under all the layers of MTV circa 2003 there's a tight, good story that's been barely changed from the original, and there are some good performances trying to poke their way through the ADD editing." — CHUD Posted Jun 14, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 92%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
Drag Me To Hell isn't a perfect movie, but it may be a perfect moviegoing experience." — CHUD Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 98%
| Up (2009) | "
From start to finish Up is simply amazing." — CHUD Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 7.5/10
| Rotten 25%
| Land of the Lost (2009) | "
Maybe those lowered expectations played some part, but I was very, very surprised by the actual movie." — CHUD Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 32%
| Terminator Salvation (2009) |
Click here to read article — Empire Magazine Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten 5.5/10
| Rotten 36%
| Angels & Demons (2009) | "
Much easier to sit through than the stultifying THE DAVINCI CODE. In fact, the pace could almost be considered breakneck, especially for a movie where someone is always stopping to deliver a lecture on history, art or symbology." — CHUD Posted May 14, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 73%
| Rudo and Cursi (2009) | "
Rudo Y Cursi is charming and fun, but never slight." — CHUD Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
JJ Abrams is a miracle worker. He has taken a script that is so bad and so dumb as to be almost a disaster and made a movie that's a lot of fun and actually quite good from it." — CHUD Posted May 7, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
To quote Spinal Tap, 'It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.' Wolverine rarely threatens to cross that line into clever, instead remaining fairly stupid, mostly formless and endlessly silly." — CHUD Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 6.5/10
| Rotten 41%
| Fighting (2009) | "
FIGHTING may find an audience on home video, where the flaws become easier to tune out and the things that are good - and that are, on occasion, legitimately great - are easier to focus on." — CHUD Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Rotten 4/10
| Rotten 58%
| 17 Again (2009) | "
You know those movies that look like they're going to be really insipid and then completely surprise you? 17 Again isn't one of those." — CHUD Posted Apr 16, 2009 |
Fresh 7.5/10
| Fresh 84%
| State of Play (2009) | "
A capable, intelligent, compelling thriller, but it seems possible that [Crowe and Affleck's] shared scenes were shot at different times and digitally composited together." — CHUD Posted Apr 14, 2009 |
Rotten 3/10
| Rotten 11%
| The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2009) | "
Here's the big mystery of Pittsburgh: How did this movie manage to be so completely terrible?" — CHUD Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Rotten 50%
| Observe and Report (2009) | "
Perfect; it's dark and strange and dances right on the edge of being completely mean and unfriendly, but manages to keep from tumbling over. It's f***ing amazing." — CHUD Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 98%
| Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) | "
A feel-good film of rockin' proportions." — CHUD Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Fresh 10/10
| Fresh 85%
| World's Greatest Dad (2009) | "
An amazing work of dark, dark genius." — CHUD Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Rotten 0/10
| Rotten 14%
| The Informers (2009) | "
Perhaps the only use this film has is to give philosophers who sit through it some way of experiencing what eternity truly means." — CHUD Posted Apr 4, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 72%
| Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | "
MONSTERS VS ALIENS comes so close to being something truly special, but even as a movie that's just enjoyably above average it beats the pants off everything else that Dreamworks has done so far." — CHUD Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 88%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
ADVENTURELAND is loving towards its characters but also brutally honest about them. sweet and funny and real, and definitely one of the best coming of age movies in years, if not ever." — CHUD Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 82%
| I Love You, Man (2009) | "
It's not bad. It's often really funny. But it's almost completely ephemeral; there's barely a story in the film, just a concept geared towards getting Rudd and Segel hanging out onscreen for 90 or so minutes." — CHUD Posted Mar 11, 2009 |
Rotten 5.5/10
| Rotten 42%
| The Last House on the Left (2009) | "
Morally hollow, devoid of bigger issues and discussion points." — CHUD Posted Mar 11, 2009 |
— | Rotten 12%
| The Unborn (2009) |
Click here to read article — CHUD Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
— | Rotten 23%
| Push (2009) |
Click here to read article — CHUD Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 64%
| Watchmen (2009) | "
A huge budgeted superhero movie that delivers intellectually? That takes serious, ballsy chances with the form? Why, that sounds like a piece of art. A glorious, epic, exciting, mind blowing piece of art." — CHUD Posted Feb 24, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Rotten 25%
| Friday the 13th (2009) | "
The franchise needed this. A 21st century FRIDAY THE 13th with the best Jason ever." — CHUD Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Fresh 8/10
| Rotten 56%
| My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) | "
An in-your-face bit of bloody fun that's guaranteed to thrill those looking for a gory good time." — CHUD Posted Dec 16, 2008 |
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