Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| The Slammin' Salmon (2009) | "
It is the presence of Duncan as a Mike Tyson-esque, malaprop-spouting ex-champion that, at least momentarily, lifts the pic out of its mediocrity." — Variety Posted Dec 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | War on Kids (2009) | "
By and large, the docu's closely reasoned case synchs up nicely with Soling's freewheeling visual approach." — Variety Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Good Soldier (2009) | "
Avoids preaching to the choir, though perhaps only the choir will attend." — Variety Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Four Seasons Lodge (2009) | "
The pic serenely unfolds at the slow and steady pace of its indomitable subjects, ultimately rewarding viewers' patience as individual personalities and stories emerge amid the threatened sale of the Catskills colony." — Variety Posted Nov 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Act of God (2009) | "
Neither filtered through nor structured around another artist's work, and suffers from the lack of a unifying vision, its parts greater than the whole." — Variety Posted Nov 5, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| The Little Traitor (2009) | "
Sentimental and a bit too cute in evoking a child's-eye view." — Variety Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Sweetgrass (2009) | "
Sweetgrass showcases an elemental intimacy between man and animal." — Variety Posted Sep 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| The Bluetooth Virgin (2009) | "
Simultaneously insightful and idiotic, the minimalist pic features a succession of experts providing their two cents on Why We Write, the pitfalls of friendship and the need for outside validation." — Variety Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 22%
| I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009) | "
Distinguishes itself from such last-fling-before-the-wedding comedies as The Hangover with the grittiness of its Texas locales and the smug intelligence of its unapologetically narcissistic protagonist." — Variety Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| Tickling Leo (2009) | "
A radiant perf by Annie Parisse and a virtuoso turn by Eli Wallach are insufficient to lift this male intergenerational angst-fest out of the ghetto." — Variety Posted Sep 2, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Gospel Hill (2008) | "
The potentially thought-provoking concept of historical reconciliation is ill served by a half-baked script that reduces every cliched plot point to jaw-dropping levels of preachiness." — Variety Posted Aug 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 56%
| Casi Divas (2009) | "
[A] gloriously flamboyant comedic extravaganza." — Variety Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Ponyo (2009) | "
Ponyo possesses an almost demonic childish energy and a delight in form stronger than reason or narrative." — Variety Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
— | N/A | The Line (2009) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Aug 12, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| Paraiso Travel (2009) | "
Unfortunately, aside from the glimpses of the couple's nightmarish crossing, Brand never commands an aesthetic that galvanizes the pic's rather conventional moral oppositions." — Variety Posted Jul 22, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 0%
| Homecoming (2009) | "
Competent but unimaginative." — Variety Posted Jul 15, 2009 |
— | N/A | A l'aventure (2009) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Jul 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| The Vanished Empire (2009) | "
Unsentimental, almost antiheroic snapshot of a disaffected lost generation never billboards its end-of-a-civilization vibe, though that vibe does color its bittersweet nostalgia over youth wasted on the young." — Variety Posted Jul 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009) | "
Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg does an exemplary job of celebrating the seminal achievements of Gertrude Berg and reaffirming her status as a broadcasting pioneer." — Variety Posted Jul 7, 2009 |
— | N/A | Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same (2009) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Jul 7, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 15%
| Year One (2009) | "
An amiable stroll through biblical times featuring Jack Black and Michael Cera as exiled Neanderthals, Year One lacks seismic guffaws but elicits many mild smiles." — Variety Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| BLAST! (2008) | "
The pic climaxes in absurdism worthy of Herzog's doomed mad geniuses." — Variety Posted Jun 8, 2009 |
— | N/A | Red Passport (2003) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted May 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 79%
| Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight (2009) | "
Docu splendidly focuses on the artist but gives shorter shrift to the art itself." — Variety Posted May 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Being Jewish in France (2009) | "
Ambitious three-hour-plus documentary." — Variety Posted May 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 18%
| The Big Shot-Caller (2009) | "
Fortunately, musicvideo vet Rhein's competent helming skills counterbalance her off-putting dialogue and flat acting style so that the pic...doesn't come off strictly amateur." — Variety Posted May 14, 2009 |
— | N/A | La Destinazione (2003) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted May 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Objectified (2009) | "
Witty, engaging and exquisitely crafted." — Variety Posted May 8, 2009 |
— | N/A | One Shot (2004) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted May 8, 2009 |
— | N/A | Rockaway (2005) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted May 7, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 70%
| American Casino (2009) | "
The pic never completely escapes a smallscreen feel, however cogent the material." — Variety Posted May 1, 2009 |
— | Fresh 80%
| Ballerina (2008) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| A Wink and a Smile (2009) | "
Highly entertaining docu A Wink and a Smile provides an eye-opening lesson in the theory and practice of stripping." — Variety Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
— | N/A | As If Nothing Happened (2003) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| The Girlfriend Experience (2009) | "
Despite the pic's erotic subject matter and star (vet porn diva Sasha Grey), nothing could be less sensationalistic -- or moralistic -- than this fascinating study of free enterprise in free fall." — Variety Posted Apr 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| The Golden Boys (2009) | "
It seems particularly perverse to take actors who helped develop the '60's thesping style of hang-loose, semi-improvisational immediacy and stick them in a creaky period piece glazed with arch gentility and ersatz quaintness." — Variety Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Whatever Works (2009) | "
Though stuffed with witty one-liners and wondrously convoluted tirades, this far-fetched, deliberately artificial game of musical chairs...feels forced, often losing itself in excess verbiage." — Variety Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
— | Rotten 50%
| The Gatekeeper (2002) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 24, 2009 |
— | Fresh 80%
| El Carro (2003) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
— | N/A | Troop 1500 () |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 16, 2009 |
— | Fresh 69%
| Mystery of the Nile (2005) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 16, 2009 |
— | N/A | De Indringer (2005) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 15, 2009 |
— | Fresh 79%
| Washington Heights (2003) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
— | N/A | Sergeant Shakespeare (2001) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
— | Rotten 31%
| The Sisters (2006) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
— | Rotten 50%
| Morlang (2001) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
— | N/A | I'm Boricua, Just So You Know! (2005) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
— | Fresh 98%
| Spellbound (2003) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
— | N/A | Last Goodbye (2004) |
Click here to read article — Variety Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 56%
| Enlighten Up! (2009) | "
Well-crafted pic traverses the globe, interviewing a who's-who of gurus and investigating a wide range of regimens -- with Rosen as both questioner and body-contorting guinea pig." — Variety Posted Mar 31, 2009 |
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