Rotten
| Fresh 62%
| The Runaways (2010) | "
It's sexy, but, in the end, skin-deep." — Village Voice Posted Mar 16, 2010 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| The Exploding Girl (2010) | "
Avoiding allegorical clichés, Gray turns the frustrations of epilepsy into an effective metaphor for non-epileptic youthful paralysis, and the inevitable "explosion" into the culmination of all those growing pains" — Village Voice Posted Mar 9, 2010 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Suss (2010) | "
Stuffed with talking heads, Harlan is overlong and redundant, but its core questions are worthy." — Village Voice Posted Mar 2, 2010 |
Fresh
| Rotten 19%
| Cop Out (2010) | "
Working with a full-on studio budget for the first time in his decade-and-a-half career, Smith is still making movies about guys just like him." — Village Voice Posted Feb 23, 2010 |
Fresh
| N/A | Bulletproof Salesman (2008) | "
As if heading off criticism that the film could be perceived as an infomercial, Epperlein and Tucker formally foreground Cloer’s talent, regularly branding the screen propaganda poster-style with Cloer’s sales slogans, such as "Chaos is an opportunity."" — L.A. Weekly Posted Feb 18, 2010 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Lourdes (2010) | "
Lourdes ultimately eschews rigorous religious inquiry to study the mechanics of envy and frustrated desire." — Village Voice Posted Feb 16, 2010 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| October Country (2010) | "
If the film doesn't get anywhere narratively, that's just form following content: The Moshers themselves don't go anywhere, either." — Village Voice Posted Feb 9, 2010 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Valentine's Day (2010) | "
So many stars, so many storylines, looking for love in all the wrong places" — Village Voice Posted Feb 9, 2010 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 21%
| Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) | "
Blending CGI and live action, this "squeakquel" to the witless 2007 kids' film proves just how dangerous such technology is when placed in the wrong hands." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Missing Person (2009) | "
It’s beautiful dread." — SpoutBlog Posted Dec 2, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 90%
| 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 92%
| Summer Hours (2009) | "
A lament for the lost luxuries of time and space." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| A Prophet (2010) | "
A beautifully made but not completely intellectually satisfying mirror on contemporary French upward mobility." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| 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 96%
| 35 Shots of Rum (2009) | "
Bittersweet." — SpoutBlog Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| 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 86%
| 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 57%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
"Fun!"" — SpoutBlog Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| 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 64%
| 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 86%
| 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 93%
| 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
| Fresh 68%
| 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 83%
| 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 64%
| 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 18%
| 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 89%
| 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 48%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
A psychological thriller that looks like art but satisfies as a work of genre." — SpoutBlog Posted May 20, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| The Girlfriend Experience (2009) | "
At once austere and seductive." — SpoutBlog Posted May 13, 2009 |
