Rotten
| Fresh 95%
| Up in the Air (2009) | "
The kind of feel-good film about bad news that has been winning Oscars for decades." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Trash Humpers (2009) | "
Never has the bizarre beauty of degraded low-grade video been exploited to this extent." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Summer Hours (2009) | "
A lament for the lost luxuries of time and space." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| A Prophet (2009) | "
A beautifully made but not completely intellectually satisfying mirror on contemporary French upward mobility." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Hurt Locker (2009) | "
Bears the mark of a painter, full of deceptively beautiful imagery masking multiple layers of meaning." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| 35 Shots of Rum (2009) | "
Bittersweet." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| The House of the Devil (2009) | "
This is scary in a way that unrelenting brutality could never be." — SpoutBlog Posted Oct 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) | "
A powerfully loony portrait of American rot." — SpoutBlog Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 5/10
| Fresh 75%
| Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) | "
One wonders if Capitalism won't look almost avant garde when seen decades removed from the Moore cult of personality." — SpoutBlog Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Frownland (2008) | "
A very nearly unbearably bleak ode to the white blind rage inspired by the mundane." — SpoutBlog Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 56%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
"Fun!"" — SpoutBlog Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Maid (2009) | "
Saavedra, in an incredibly vanity-free performance, never shies away from Raquel’s darkest edges and still forces us to empathize with the frustrations and stunted loneliness of a life lived in servants’ quarters." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 61%
| Peter and Vandy (2009) | "
Activities that were cute and fun at the beginning, we see, ultimately become tedious. The novelty of the film’s gimmick follows suit." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 7, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 65%
| Coco Before Chanel (2009) | "
Fontaine hits a few trite beats -- personal agony begets a flurry of groundbreaking creative activity, as when Coco responds to heartbreak by designing her signature suit -- but Coco herself is a thrillingly atypical, genuinely complicated heroine." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 91%
| Harmony and Me (2009) | "
Harmony is a finely tuned comedy, complete with precisely scripted jokes and comic set pieces that swerve toward the playfully perverse." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 87%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
The Fox Searchlight house style perfected and taken to the brink of self-parody." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| In the Loop (2009) | "
The first thing that marks In The Loop as a break from the norm is its refusal to flatter the viewer's intelligence; the second, is the way the film forces them to use it." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Lorna's Silence (2009) | "
More entertaining on a base level than a Belgian film about poor people has any right to be." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 9/10
| Fresh 81%
| Beeswax (2009) | "
A crayon-colorful comedy steeped in colloquial American English." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | The GoodTimesKid (2005) | "
Photographed with a shabby romanticism." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 59%
| The Headless Woman (2009) | "
Martel rips Antonioniennui off its foundations by refusing to throw the audience a bone of indentification via the disorienting effects of lust/love." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 6/10
| Fresh 85%
| We Live in Public (2009) | "
A must see for anyone interested in internet fame and the phenomenon of casual over-sharing, even if the storytelling tactics are surprisingly stale." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 84%
| The September Issue (2009) | "
An irresistible pop culture mashup." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 7/10
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
Riotously funny." — SpoutBlog Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Bandslam (2009) | "
The movie is a far more convincing fantasy of performance-as-self-discovery than the High School Musical franchise." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 12, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 60%
| Paper Heart (2009) | "
Part documentary, part fiction and all cloying affectation, Paper Heart doesn’t seem to care about its subjects, whose insights are incredibly slight." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 5, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
Apatow has taken blisteringly personal material and filtered it through tropes and cliches borrowed from trite, mainstream factory-line cinema of another era. Judd Apatow the writer deserves a better director." — SpoutBlog Posted Jul 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
...this is pure 1930s movie escapism, which would be fine if Spinotti's camera was up to the task of capturing the contrast between the glitzy dance halls where Dillinger plays and the scrappy climes in which he hides." — SpoutBlog Posted Jul 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| The Windmill Movie (2009) | "
One gets swept up in the first soapy, then tragic melodrama of the life matter that overwhelmed Rogers' desire/compulsion/ability to make art." — Cinematical Posted Jun 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Winnebago Man (2009) | "
The filmmaker never makes it about him %u2014 it's clear throughout that he's onscreen because that's the most direct way to tell this story, and he wants nothing more than to serve as a conduit between what he sees and what he wants us to see. You don't" — SpoutBlog Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 52%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
Like swimming laps in bowl of room-temperature oatmeal." — SpoutBlog Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 19%
| Downloading Nancy (2008) | "
Director Johan Renck essentially builds Nancy and Albert's reality out of an aggregation of overwrought kitsch... and so what seem like occasional lapses into deadpan moments of fantasy aren't always productive in contrast. Heavily art directed for unplea" — SpoutBlog Posted Jun 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Tetro (2009) | "
...as [a] densely layered, intensely visual work of creative autobiography, Tetro claims a key place in the Coppola filmography. At least, for the first time in the last few decades worth of filmography, it feels like it's got somewhere to take you." — SpoutBlog Posted Jun 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 81%
| Sex Positive (2009) | "
Sex Positive too often looks like something hastily thrown together, which belies the built trust evident between the filmmaker and his subject. Over the course of the film, Berkowitz moves from refusing to discuss certain specifics to spilling in great d" — SpoutBlog Posted Jun 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| The Hangover (2009) | "
The Hangover, Todd Phillips' return to fratastic form after the disappointing School for Scoundrels, marks itself as an aesthetic step up for the Old School director right from the get go." — SpoutBlog Posted Jun 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| The Brothers Bloom (2009) | "
If Johnson doesn’t reinvent the con man wheel, he pulls off a magic act in the romance department, reinvigorating the fiction that first love can be the last/best/only love ever needed." — SpoutBlog Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
Glorious." — SpoutBlog Posted May 22, 2009 |
Rotten 1/6
| Rotten 20%
| Ghosts of the Heartland (2009) | "
The ambience may be right, but the film lacks what makes actual midcentury middle-American noir so effective: subtext." — Time Out New York Posted May 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 49%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
A psychological thriller that looks like art but satisfies as a work of genre." — SpoutBlog Posted May 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 61%
| The Girlfriend Experience (2009) | "
At once austere and seductive." — SpoutBlog Posted May 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Audience Of One (2009) | "
Real-life mockumentary." — SpoutBlog Posted May 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Julia (2008) | "
Thrillingly far off the rails." — SpoutBlog Posted May 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
The magic of Limits is that Jarmusch has used rigorous formalism to construct what feels like a loose, dreamy continuum of ideas." — SpoutBlog Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Throw Down Your Heart (2009) | "
A beautiful illustration of powerlessness in the face of art." — SpoutBlog Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | The Exploding Girl (2009) | "
Beautifully restrained." — SpoutBlog Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 76%
| Outrage (2009) | "
Thoughtfully persuades, but never shocks." — SpoutBlog Posted Apr 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Every Little Step (2009) | "
Uber crowd-pleasing...both candy for confirmed theater nerds, and functioning propaganda for the uninitiated." — SpoutBlog Posted Apr 14, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Fast & Furious (2009) | "
I can count on half a hand the things I found appealing about the middle fifty minutes of this movie, but I'll be damned if I don't want to know what happens next..." — SpoutBlog Posted Apr 13, 2009 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 78%
| Valentino: the Last Emperor (2009) | "
On one level, Valentino: The Last Emperor offers a rare glimpse at the bond between two men who have truly been partners for life. But it’s also a bittersweet portrait of the end of fashion as art and of supreme luxury as an aspirational construct." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Two Lovers (2009) | "
Two Lovers is a testament to the childish madness of infatuation, and maybe even true love's impossibility." — SpoutBlog Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
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