Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
Unencumbered by such petty nuisances as a point, a vision or even an ounce of social commentary, Ruben Fleischer’s transparently hollow zombie flick still succeeds at passing the time, even if a good 15 of its 81 minutes are pure filler." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 75%
| Humpday (2009) | "
This low-budget art film about two straight men who drunkenly decide to shoot a porno together in the style of a low-budget art film is actually kind of touching, if you can get past the inherent credibility gap." Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 75%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
I suppose it’s telling that the only time in Julie & Julia that I heartily chuckled was during an archived clip of Dan Aykroyd impersonating Child on Saturday Night Live. Now there was entertainment with some life to it." Posted Aug 6, 2009 |
Rotten 3/5
| Rotten 14%
| The Informers (2009) | "
The result turns the novel’s cynical satire into a facile morality play, in which these privileged children want to be told the difference between right and wrong." Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
— | Fresh 84%
| Mongolian Ping Pong (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 0.5/5
| Rotten 22%
| P.S. I Love You (2007) | "
A romantic dramedy that stumbles through its excruciatingly Oscar-padded 126-minute running time with no end in sight." Posted Dec 20, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 74%
| Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) | "
Reilly, imitating early Beatles, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan and Brian Wilson, shows more range than ever in the role that should catapult him into the A-list." Posted Dec 20, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 81%
| Charlie Wilson's War (2007) | "
Ultimately it’s a film that understands that it’s OK to insert a little T&A into the political discourse." Posted Dec 20, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 85%
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) | "
An invigorating experience that ranks among the best stage-to-screen translations ever filmed." Posted Dec 20, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| In Between Days (2006) | "
In Between Days is a wise and beautiful study of yearning and repression." Posted Nov 29, 2007 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Monsieur Hire (1990) |
Click here to read article Posted Nov 29, 2007 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 38%
| August Rush (2007) | "
Pandering to the point of offensive." Posted Nov 22, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 27%
| Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) | "
Oh, dear. What literary giant has the unstoppable Hollywood machine gone and tarnished now? That would be Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The grandfather of magic realism is given a clumsy, saccharine and unsubtle treatment." Posted Nov 15, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) | "
Loaded with operatic gravity and noirish fatalism." Posted Nov 15, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 27%
| Lions for Lambs (2007) | "
Lions for Lambs provides a more robust debate about the wars we’re in and may soon be in (in regard to Iran, the movie feels like it was written yesterday) than you’re likely to get from any cable news show." Posted Nov 8, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 94%
| My Kid Could Paint That (2007) | "
My Kid Could Paint That is great theater, thereby proving that even a story as unique as this can’t stay fresh without a little media-manipulated drama." Posted Nov 8, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 65%
| Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007) | "
The witless Wristcutters holds all the fascination of a train wreck. You’ll stay in your seat just to see if it’ll get any worse, and you won’t be disappointed." Posted Nov 1, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 64%
| Dan in Real Life (2007) | "
The movie is called Dan in Real Life, but it’s a stretch worthy of Reed Richards to believe that anything in this tepid plate of idiocy would actually happen in real life." Posted Oct 25, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 74%
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) | "
Eschewing John Ford’s advice to 'print the legend,' The Assassination of Jesse James instead chooses historical accuracy, a move that could make this epic unpalatable to a mass audience. But this contemplative movie is worth your patience." Posted Oct 18, 2007 |
— | Fresh 68%
| Lights In The Dusk (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 64%
| Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) | "
[Director] Bier's meditation on guilt, redemption, coping and addiction feels so much like old hat that it doesn't carry the weight to which it aspires." Posted Oct 18, 2007 |
Rotten 3/5
| Rotten 55%
| We Own The Night (2007) | "
A competent, quasi-profound but ultimately shopworn tale of familial loyalty, directed with television-drama flatness." Posted Oct 11, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Michael Clayton (2007) | "
As important as it is entertaining." Posted Oct 11, 2007 |
Rotten 3/5
| Rotten 26%
| The Final Season (2007) | "
Director David M. Evans generates nerve-racking suspense, but the idyllic shots of farm-fueled small towns as the utopia of the American heartland are just a John Mellencamp song away from being a political ad." Posted Oct 11, 2007 |
— | Fresh 86%
| Funny Face (1957) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 6, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Into the Wild (2007) | "
[Penn has] clearly found his home, his calling and consequently the best movie of his career in Jon Krakauer’s best-selling nonfiction book Into the Wild." Posted Oct 4, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 94%
| In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) | "
In the Shadow of the Moon tells a riveting story, even if we know how it ends." Posted Sep 27, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 27%
| The Game Plan (2007) | "
This is your ordinary funny-to-treacly plot arc -- funny if you’re 10 or younger, treacly if you’re older." Posted Sep 27, 2007 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 51%
| The Kingdom (2007) | "
The Kingdom doesn’t think much of its audience; it’s one of those movies that shows flashbacks of things that happened 30 minutes earlier, in case we forgot. It retains its patronizing tone for the drama as well as the comedy." Posted Sep 27, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 52%
| The Hunting Party (2007) | "
The movie, based on an Esquire article about a group of reporters who sneaked into Bosnia to catch the nation’s most notorious war criminal, goes so overboard with printing the legend that barely a note of it is feasible." Posted Sep 20, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 54%
| Across the Universe (2007) | "
Here’s an interesting failure: a collection of strung-together music videos -- scored with Beatles tunes -- that have plenty of Broadway pizzazz but no emotional resonance, a lot of visual distractions but nothing original to say." Posted Sep 20, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 67%
| The 11th Hour (2007) | "
The arguments the movie presents are powerful, necessary and, most importantly, underexplored by an increasingly distracted mainstream media." Posted Sep 13, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 70%
| Moliere (2007) | "
The film illuminates little about Moličre himself, but what do you expect from a movie that has the depth of a kiddie pool?" Posted Sep 13, 2007 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 13%
| Mr. Woodcock (2007) | "
Mr. Woodcock is patently offensive trash, celebrating the humiliation and abuse -- mental and physical -- of children as an introduction into manhood, after exploiting that abuse for cheap comic effect." Posted Sep 13, 2007 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 94%
| No End in Sight (2007) | "
You’ll leave the picture shaken and stirred, knowing that if the right people were in charge, this whole Iraq thing could have worked. To call this film a “must-see” is an understatement." Posted Sep 13, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 85%
| 2 Days In Paris (2007) | "
It’s no Before Sunset, but this honest and sometimes uproarious film ultimately feels more like escargot than fried pork rinds." Posted Sep 6, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Rotten 29%
| Goya's Ghosts (2007) | "
Goya’s Ghosts is less about the eponymous painter than it is a gripping two-part story of politics and faith during and after the Spanish Inquisition." Posted Aug 23, 2007 |
— | Fresh 71%
| Inland Empire (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted Aug 23, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 59%
| Resurrecting the Champ (2007) | "
Hartnett seems to be getting better with every performance, and it’s stunning to watch Jackson slip so effortlessly into a character so far removed from his well-defined persona." Posted Aug 23, 2007 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 87%
| Superbad (2007) | "
The best teen sex comedy ever made." Posted Aug 16, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 65%
| Broken English (2007) | "
Ultimately, the only wisdom you leave with is the implausibly wise pocket philosophy gleaned from romantic strangers on the streets of an idealized France." Posted Aug 9, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 76%
| Stardust (2007) | "
A fantasy for people who wished their fantasies were more like Willow and The Princess Bride and less like The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter." Posted Aug 9, 2007 |
— | Fresh 82%
| Broken English (1996) |
Click here to read article Posted Aug 9, 2007 |
Rotten .5/5
| Rotten 38%
| Hot Rod (2007) | "
The absolute dregs of American comedy." Posted Aug 2, 2007 |
— | Fresh 100%
| Ivan's Childhood (1962) |
Click here to read article Posted Jul 26, 2007 |
— | Fresh 96%
| Raise the Red Lantern (1991) |
Click here to read article Posted Jul 26, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 53%
| Introducing The Dwights (2007) | "
It understands that while we may do destructive things, we’re all well-meaning at our core." Posted Jul 26, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 39%
| No Reservations (2007) | "
A charming cast and an elegantly restrained Philip Glass score elevate the middling to the fairly sublime." Posted Jul 26, 2007 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 91%
| Hairspray (2007) | "
This screen-to-stage-to-screen disaster spits in the face of John Waters’ decade-defining pop pastiche of harmonious camp and progressive thinking, retaining the basic plotline and anti-segregationist morals but none of the authenticity." Posted Jul 19, 2007 |
— | Fresh 60%
| Thunderpants (2002) |
Click here to read article Posted Jul 19, 2007 |
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