Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 10%
| Ghosted (2009) | "
An elegant but unsatisfying drama of cross-cultural lesbian love triangles." — New York Times Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 69%
| Loren Cass (2009) | This sharp, gutsy indie is one of the year’s great discoveries. — New York Times Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
— | Fresh 100%
| California Company Town (2009) | No article or quote available — New York Times Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 57%
| Died Young, Stayed Pretty (2009) | "
Unstructured and free-associative, cutting among interviews and images at breakneck speed to no discernible narrative or thematic purpose, the documentary is mercurial to the point of incoherence." — New York Times Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Nollywood Babylon (2009) | For all its limitations, Nollywood Babylon serves as an intriguing primer. — New York Times Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
— | Fresh 76%
| The End of the Line (2009) | This vital, if rhetorically clumsy, film by Rupert Murray subverts our ancient faith in the ocean as an inexhaustible resource. — New York Times Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 86%
| Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love (2009) | The director, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, is in thrall to her subject, and dewy-eyed accounts of pop stars, even those with as compelling a biography as Mr. N'Dour, tend to wear out their welcome. — New York Times Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Cayman Went (2009) | "
There are any number of reasons a group of filmmakers would choose so idyllic a locale to mount a production. Making an interesting movie, however, does not appear to have been one of them." — New York Times Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 96%
| Herb & Dorothy (2009) | "
The Vogels [Herb and Dorothy], sitting in their same old apartment, overflowing as ever, make for charming company." — New York Times Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 50%
| Kassim the Dream (2009) | Kassim Ouma has, to say the least, an unusual life story....The filmmaker Kief Davidson recounts this vivid tale in the dull documentary. — New York Times Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 63%
| New World Order (2009) | "
An unrelentingly tedious documentary." — New York Times Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| Big Man Japan (2009) | "
The most impressive special effect here is Mr. Matsumoto’s hilariously restrained performance, a tour de force of comedic concision in a movie bloated by increasingly surreal developments." — New York Times Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Anaglyph Tom (Tom with the Puffy Cheeks) (2009) | "
Even the least of Mr. Jacobs’s efforts illuminate a rare imagination." — New York Times Posted May 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Audience Of One (2009) | Audience of One follows the descent of a scrappy indie production into a full-blown fiasco and megalomaniacal folly. — New York Times Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 22%
| Next Day Air (2009) | With a script that snaps and characters that pop, Next Day Air nears neo-blaxploitation perfection. — New York Times Posted May 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Ice People (2009) | "
The film's hesitation, lack of rhetorical inflation and commitment to humble observation generate a tough poetry. Ice People sticks in the mind." — New York Times Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 40%
| A Wink and a Smile (2009) | "
Just as burlesque loses most of its oomph when put on video -- no art is more dependent on the intimacy of live performance -- self-esteem trips are less compelling to hear about than to experience firsthand." — New York Times Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | I Can See You (2009) | "
The filmmaker Graham Reznick arrives with a bang in his feature debut, the experimental horror film I Can See You." — New York Times Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 53%
| Empty Nest (2009) | "
In Empty Nest, a couple is forced to question their identities and relationships now that parenting is not their most immediate concern." — New York Times Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 79%
| An Unlikely Weapon (2009) | "
The strongest material in An Unlikely Weapon contemplates the import of that shot, and of photojournalism itself, on the events of its time." — New York Times Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 79%
| In a Dream (2009) | "
Bursting with vivid home movies and loving appreciations of Isaiah’s artwork -- frenzied drawings and monumental mosaics in tile and mirror, many of which now beautify his Philadelphia neighborhood -- In a Dream abounds in visual pleasure." — New York Times Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 63%
| Lifelines (2009) | "
Written and directed by Rob Margolies, Lifelines starts promisingly, but soon gives way to a compressed, schematic psychodrama endemic." — New York Times Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 28%
| Fast & Furious (2009) | "
This example of presummer pop diversion will be best appreciated by future audiences flabbergasted by its unabashed revelry in fossil-fuel consumption." — New York Times Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 56%
| Enlighten Up! (2009) | "
Enlighten Up! explores its subject with a light touch and welcome sense of humor." — New York Times Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 28%
| 12 Rounds (2009) | "
Renny Harlin’s 12 Rounds satisfies, on the most primitive level, the expectations for a second-rate action flick." — New York Times Posted Mar 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 18%
| The Cross (2009) | "
The gee-whiz rhetoric and breathless amateurism of The Cross is not likely to inspire." — New York Times Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| Guest of Cindy Sherman (2009) | "
At once a fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpse, bittersweet autobiography and witty trip down art-world memory lane." — New York Times Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Rotten .5/5
| Rotten 0%
| Super Capers (2009) | "
Intended as a campy riff on comic-book antics, Super Capers is instead a monumental negative achievement: a super catastrophe." — New York Times Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 20%
| Bob Funk (2009) | "
Looks like a comedy, acts like a comedy and sounds like a comedy, but it isn’t funny." — New York Times Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 54%
| The New Twenty (2009) | The movie is admirable for taking these people seriously, even if it does little to illuminate their individual or cultural significance. — New York Times Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 50%
| The Feature (2009) | "
Michel Auder has been making videos longer than almost anyone, and that alone makes the work of this underappreciated artist and filmmaker worth attending to." — New York Times Posted Mar 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 8%
| Waiting for Dublin (2009) | "
Stiff acting and a clunky script are at odds with the visual suavity, though at a mere 83 minutes, the film won't make you wait long for the sentimental denouement." — New York Times Posted Mar 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 7%
| Reunion (2009) | "
This may not be quite the moment to solicit our sympathy for self-absorbed beneficiaries of Ivy League privilege." — New York Times Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 8%
| New York City Serenade (2009) | The movie is a character study about two underachieving dullards scarcely worth contemplating. — New York Times Posted Mar 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 75%
| Tokyo! (2009) | "
For the new omnibus feature Tokyo!, Bong Joon-ho, Leos Carax and Michel Gondry were invited to make a film in the Japanese capital." — New York Times Posted Mar 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 23%
| Jonas Brothers - The Concert Experience (2009) | "
Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience isn't a movie so much as a devotional object, a kind of secular fetish designed to induce rapture." — New York Times Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead (2009) | "
As for the filmmaker, Mr. Schillinger remains neutral to a fault. His documentary, while compelling, can also be frustrating." — New York Times Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 25%
| Friday the 13th (2009) | The undying Friday the 13th franchise gets a surprisingly decent reboot in this stylish, playful example of the decapitated hottie genre. — New York Times Posted Feb 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| Chocolate (2009) | "
Chocolate is risibly sentimental even for a genre not known for its emotional sophistication." — New York Times Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 9%
| Memorial Day (2009) | Memorial Day moves from clever mock documentary to groan-inducing conceptualism. — New York Times Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | The Color of Magic (2009) | "
The Color of Magic mashes together a pair of comedic fantasy novels by Terry Pratchett into one long, rambling saga." — New York Times Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 33%
| Between Love and Goodbye (2009) | "
Between Love & Goodbye tells of the ill-fated romance between a pair of East Village transplants with 2 percent body fat, zero personality and even less chemistry." — New York Times Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 34%
| Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) | "
Directed by Steve Carr, a man who knows how to put a camera in front of things, if little else, and written, sort of, by Nick Bakay and Mr. James." — New York Times Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Sleepwalking Land (2009) | "
With Sleepwalking Land, the filmmaker Teresa Prata creates an affecting portrait of life during wartime." — New York Times Posted Jan 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 60%
| BLAST! (2008) | "
Directed by Paul Devlin, this absorbing documentary flirts with metaphysics...but mostly it keeps an amused eye on the effort of these driven brainiacs to set aloft an extremely sophisticated and fragile recording device." — New York Times Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| Owl and the Sparrow (2008) | "
Stephane Gauger's debut feature, Owl and the Sparrow, is a charming little movie, nothing more." — New York Times Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Pageant (2008) | "
This classicism is not without its charm, and it’s touching, in a goofy sort of way, to see how seriously everyone takes it." — New York Times Posted Feb 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Ballerina (2008) | "
If only a glimpse, the privilege compensates: one wants more from Ballerina because the world it reveals -- elegant and harsh, glamorous and grinding, classical and obsolete -- proves so rich in exquisite contradictions." — New York Times Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 15%
| Dark Streets (2008) | Dark Streets has atmosphere coming out its ears, but not much going on between them. — New York Times Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Herbert (2008) | "
This is, rather incredibly, Mr. Mukhopadhyay's first film, and it exhibits the passionate, more-is-more abandon of an artist bursting with welcome (if exhausting) enthusiasm onto the scene." — New York Times Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
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