Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| Sherlock Holmes (2009) | "
The plot? Wish you hadn't asked." Posted Dec 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Me and Orson Welles (2009) | "
Christian McKay's impersonation of young Orson Welles is sensational in this enjoyable, though slight, historical fiction about a teen who spends a memorable week with the legendary wonder." Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Avatar (2009) | "
The screen is alive with more action and the soundtrack pops with more robust music than any dozen sci-fi shoot-'em-ups you care to mention." Posted Dec 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Nine (2009) | "
The disappointments are many here, from a starry cast the film ill uses to flat musical numbers that never fully integrate into the dramatic story." Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Crazy Heart (2009) | "
Jeff Bridges is terrific but the movie only ordinary." Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| Invictus (2009) | "
We applaud the final game but must leave the cheering to the on-screen fans." Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 46%
| Everybody's Fine (2009) | "
A thoroughly fake movie with trite characters that is about, of all things, the need for truthfulness." Posted Dec 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| The Lovely Bones (2009) | "
The film certainly plays well enough as a melodrama-cum-revenge thriller." Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| The Princess and the Frog (2009) | "
This is the best Disney animated film in years." Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 5%
| Old Dogs (2009) | "
Insipid, predictable, broad comedy mixed with Disney Family Values makes for one exasperating sit." Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Brothers (2009) | "
A remake of a Danish film has much to admire but never comes together with the impact of the original." Posted Nov 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 23%
| Planet 51 (2009) | "
A playful throwback to the days when cartoons were mostly aimed at children." Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Love Hurts (2009) | "
A flat-footed sitcom with unconvincing situations and comedy." Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
A Christmas Carol is, in its essence, a product reel, a showy, exuberant demonstration of the glories of motion capture, computer animation and 3D technology. On that level, it's a wow. On any emotional level, it's as cold as Marley's Ghost." Posted Nov 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
Looks like the world has missed one helluva concert." Posted Oct 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 87%
| The House of the Devil (2009) | "
A horror film with no punch." Posted Oct 26, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) | "
A vampire movie in sore need of a transfusion." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 11%
| The Stepfather (2009) | "
This remake turns a fondly remembered horror/thriller into a mild and tedious suspense film." Posted Oct 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 24%
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | "
An implausible thriller with a few horror elements in the guise of social criticism." Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 73%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
A reverential but uninvolving adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic illustrated book for children." Posted Oct 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 12%
| Couples Retreat (2009) | "
This intermittently funny tale of four couples undergoing relationship therapy struggles hard for its occasional laughs." Posted Oct 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| A Serious Man (2009) | "
A seriously funny film about an angst-ridden Jewish professor seeking the answers to life's questions and getting a metaphysical pie in the face." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| More Than a Game (2009) | "
A superb, slam-dunk documentary about young boys achieving personal and team goals on the basketball court." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Surrogates (2009) | "
Just as the dystopian world the movie portrays is arid and specious, the movie itself is a mechanical sci-fi'er absent of logic or emotions." Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| The Boys Are Back (2009) | "
Never does anything feel forced or contrived. Life, as this memoir reminds, can offer plenty of drama that need not abide by fictional formulas or genre conventions." Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 44%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
An unoriginal and mostly unscary horror-comedy from, surprisingly, the pen of Diablo Cody." Posted Sep 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| The Damned United (2009) | "
A sports rivalry poisons everyone in this British soccer movie based, loosely, on a true story." Posted Sep 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 77%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
A comedy about corporate fraud, malfeasance and a mental disorder that never quite succeeds as a comedy." Posted Sep 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| Gamer (2009) | "
Crass, nonstop action triumphs over narrative and character in this movie-length simulation of a video game." Posted Sep 8, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 6%
| All About Steve (2009) | "
A total misfire from the first scene to the last." Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| The Final Destination (2009) | "
Death comes in 3D but everything else is tedious." Posted Sep 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| In the Loop (2009) | "
Painfully funny satire of British and American bureaucrats in the days leading up to the Iraq War." Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 9%
| Post Grad (2009) | "
A homogenized piffle about the "ordeal" of a middle-class college grad momentarily without a job." Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
Not for a single moment does anyone in this film make a good decision. Consequently, you quickly catch on and easily anticipate the bad decisions before they happen." Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| X Games 3D: The Movie (2009) | "
3D adds a little something extra to this movie-length advertisement for X Games." Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| 9 (2009) | "
It certainly is a valuable introduction to an exciting new talent, but by expanding the film's length, characters and otherworldly environment things are strangely diminished." Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 74%
| Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) | "
It is very good at stating the obvious but fails to bring new insight to this age-old morality tale." Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) | "
Bana and McAdams make you feel the pain and the ultimate acceptance of their dilemma but never convey the magic that allows the couple to persevere through such a grand but trying love." Posted Aug 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Shorts (2009) | "
The CG slapstick soon grows wearying and even predictable." Posted Aug 10, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 58%
| A Perfect Getaway (2009) | "
A gimmicky, tricked-out tale that is all too self-aware. But the film does keep you guessing and probably guessing wrong." Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 29%
| Aliens in the Attic (2009) | "
Writers Mark Burton and Adam F. Goldberg pretty much let their imaginations go wild." Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 26%
| Shrink (2009) | "
There really was a much better comedy here than melodrama." Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Mesrine: Part 2 - Public Enemy #1 (2009) | "
Director Jean-Francois Richet shows a career in crime with pulse-pounding moments of pure cinema, then lets you decide what to make of this homicidal sociopath." Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
A genuinely original science fiction film that grabs you immediately, not letting go until the final shot." Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Adam (2009) | "
A sensitive but not sentimental story about a romance involving a mentally challenged young man never makes a misstep." Posted Jul 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
Julie & Julia is a mixed blessing. You enjoy vicariously many dishes, sample the good life in France and get treated to another Streep marvel." Posted Jul 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
A more mature but still funny Judd Apatow comedy whose move into serious human relation issues nearly scuttles the third act." Posted Jul 25, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 75%
| Humpday (2009) | "
Shelton never follows up on the film's satirical possibilities." Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Orphan (2009) | "
A pretty interesting movie about the crack-up of an American family lies right under the filmmakers' noses, but in their rush to deliver shock and gore they miss every opportunity to make a smart movie." Posted Jul 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
The writing is often clever and the overall production playful and intelligent." Posted Jul 16, 2009 |
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