Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 14%
| Looking for Palladin (2009) | "
Looking for Palladin meanders around Antigua (Guatemala) at a leisurely gait and enjoys the presence of Ben Gazzara in its central role. That's about all there is to find, however." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 25%
| Adventures of Power (2009) | "
Gold places his fond comedy in the '80s with all the cinematic skill of early MTV." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
There are even a few poignant moments in the movie, but they don't get in the way of the funny, violent, zombie-killing good time." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 33%
| The Open Road (2009) | "
The Open Road is no Grand Prix winner, but it's no six-car pileup either. It's a low-key road movie that doesn't stray far from the very, very beaten path." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 72%
| I Sell the Dead (2009) | "
The worst fault visually, probably intended as a charm against the spell of low-budget-itis, is relentless darkness. Pervasive shadows in most shots do not evoke atmosphere, but eye strain." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 68%
| Grace (2009) | "
It's a horrifying meditation on the unbreakable union of mother and child." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 25%
| The Collector (2009) | "
Critiquing the filmic technique of this blatant horror franchise-bait is akin to quibbling with the shade of lipstick on a slaughtered pig." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| In the Loop (2009) | "
A very effective, verbally blood-stained portrait of how a little brazen scheming on one side, coupled with selfishness and failure of nerve on the other, can actually change the world." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 87%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
(500) Days of Summer is something seldom seen: an original romantic comedy." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 20%
| Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) | "
Often-unwatchably dim." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 77%
| Big Man Japan (2009) | "
You've probably never seen anything like Big Man Japan." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 15, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 17%
| Mutant Chronicles (2009) | "
It's photogenic people killing mutants before green screens; what more could you ask?" — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 56%
| Lymelife (2009) | "
Despite the familiar themes, the movie maintains its originality through its specificity." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 33%
| Delhi-6 (2009) | "
Anchored by a fascinating score from Oscar winner A.R. Rahman, naturalistic performances and a wide cinematic palette, Delhi-6 is a fair introduction to Indian cinema for outsiders -- who will have no clue at times why the audience is laughing." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 21%
| Passengers (2008) | "
It's a long ride to a familiar destination." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 30, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 52%
| Allah Made Me Funny (2008) | "
It has the potential to be culturally bridging in its way, and that makes looking for Muslim comedy in the Western world worthwhile." — Chicago Tribune Posted Oct 3, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 72%
| Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) | "
It is a teen romantic comedy that largely fits the familiar template but is also fleshed out with atmosphere, a nice blend of broad goofiness and sophistication, and two appealing leads who bring it to life." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 2, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 40%
| Callback: The Unmaking of Bloodstain (2008) | "
A mockumentary-thriller-broad-comedy-psychological-drama-sex-farce-insider-Hollywood satire that . . . wait for it . . . could use some focus." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 29, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 33%
| Forever Strong (2008) | "
The movie is well shot and edited, the rugby scenes are enjoyable (if likely puzzling to the uninitiated) and Strong's earnestness excuses at least some of its predictability." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 15%
| My Best Friend's Girl (2008) | "
Ultimately, its most unforgivable sin is that it's simply not funny." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 22, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 86%
| Tinker Bell (2008) | "
To its target audience, it will be another self-empowerment fable with loads of imagination and colorful, painterly images (and a keen marketing blast for Disney fairies)." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 19, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 9%
| Bangkok Dangerous (2008) | "
There's a charming restaurant scene, some nifty hand-to-hand combat and the cast is great looking. But pretty much all the things that made the original so original are filtered out of this un-original." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 8, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 7%
| Babylon A.D. (2008) | "
Babylon feels like an almost random pastiche of good and bad. There may be a deadly virus, or genetic engineering, or a virgin birth, or some combination of all, it's not clear." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 2, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 2%
| Disaster Movie (2008) | "
Perhaps they'll eventually make one called Spoof Movie, which would brilliantly parody the genre by being consistently funny." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 2, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 43%
| What We Do Is Secret (2008) | "
First-time writer-director Rodger Grossman bangs out a visceral, energized biopic that captures the vibrant idiocy of punked-out youth and a tortured soul gaining his wish of cult status." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 39%
| The House Bunny (2008) | "
Factory made, nothing new... and really funny." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Sixty Six (2008) | "
Sixty Six may find a niche audience, but instead of depicting a boy's first steps toward manhood -- ceremony aside -- it turns into an uninvolving portrait of self-absorption." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 6, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 47%
| Bottle Shock (2008) | "
The soul of the grape, that thing that elevates a wine to greatness, proves here as elusive on screen as in the bottle." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 6, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 77%
| Baghead (2008) | "
Delightfully unpredictable." — Chicago Tribune Posted Jul 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| American Teen (2008) | "
The kids' mistakes make you cringe -- often with laughs of recognition -- and, during the film's most involving moments, makes you long to comfort them through their trials and cheer on their triumphs." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 37%
| Space Chimps (2008) | "
There's probably not enough fuel beyond cute chimps in Candyland to achieve orbit for the kids." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 18, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 17%
| National Lampoon's Homo Erectus (2008) | "
Thanks to natural selection, without the script, direction or comedic chops to survive, Homo Erectus will be extinct from theaters soon enough." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 11, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic (2008) | "
As obvious as the film's uncredited sources are, it's a pleasant-enough diversion with a notable song score." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 3, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 79%
| Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) | "
It appeals to kids while evoking genuine emotion without excessive sentimentality." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 20, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 64%
| Poultrygeist - Night of the Chicken Dead (2006) | "
A heaping helping of political incorrectness gleefully spiced to offend just about every sentient being." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 13, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Polar Opposites (2008) | "
More disastrous than disaster movie." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Solar Flare (2008) | "
The film tries to be a cautionary tale against corporate interference in both the environment and technology, but it really serves as a warning beacon against enervated staging and ineffectual dialogue." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| Shotgun Stories (2007) | "
Shotgun Stories is a cautionary tale about revenge, but more than that, it is a beautiful, authentic-feeling portrait of a family and a place." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 40%
| Zombie Strippers (2008) | "
Zombie Strippers is a B-movie whose ideas and wit set it well above the great unwashed of the genre." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 60%
| Look (2007) | "
With its emphasis on its interweaving stories, the movie offers no commentary on the phenomenon of increasingly pried-apart privacy, positive or negative." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 14, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 27%
| Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) | "
Dang it, the little animated rodents are cute. Not as cute as the über-rendered daemons of The Golden Compass, but they'll do." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 14, 2007 |
Rotten 3/5
| Rotten 16%
| Nina's Heavenly Delights (2007) | "
Making her feature debut after several documentaries, Parmar displays rookie jitters with excessive cutting and camera moves whose restlessness occasionally recalls Mumbai soap operas." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 21, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 48%
| Hatchet (2007) | "
Even after appropriately lowering expectations, it's kind to call this one a cut below." — Los Angeles Times Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 35%
| Self-Medicated (2007) | "
Self-Medicated must have been cathartic for writer-director-producer-star Monty Lapica to make, but its therapeutic value for audiences is questionable." — Los Angeles Times Posted Aug 31, 2007 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 53%
| David & Layla (2008) | "
Though it's no Romeo and Juliet, David & Layla is an offbeat cross-cultural romance with a positive message." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jul 19, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams (2005) | "
The film is passionately made, but its unapologetically romantic views of war and the Old South leave a bitter aftertaste." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 8, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 98%
| The Devil Came On Horseback (2007) | "
Documentarians Ricki Stein and Annie Sundberg do a good job of explaining, through [interviewee] Steidle, the complex conflicts in the region." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jun 1, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 13%
| The Salon (2005) | "
This movie abruptly becomes a too-convenient black history lesson, complete with a truly egregious deus ex machina. The Salon is a cut below." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 11, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Rock the Bells (2007) | "
Rock the Bells is stressful to watch, but its entertaining stage performances and document of people under pressure should interest even non-rap fans." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 4, 2007 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 64%
| American Cannibal - The Documentary (2006) | "
The real savagery is in the satire, coldly measuring the lengths to which contestants might go and the depths to which the protagonists sink." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 27, 2007 |
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