Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 94%
| Moscow, Belgium (2008) | "
Moscow, Belgium feels not only like a movie from another culture but from another world." Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 82%
| I Love You, Man (2009) | "
I Love You, Man makes sure to give audiences exactly what they’re expecting, but I couldn’t shake the sense that the whole thing felt compulsory." Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 23%
| Jonas Brothers - The Concert Experience (2009) | "
They are all part of a great American tradition. Hate them if you want to, but you might as well hate gated communities,The Real World, and the war on terror while you're at it." Posted Mar 5, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| I've Loved You So Long (2008) | "
Remarkable directorial debut of French novelist Claudel." Posted Feb 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 23%
| Fired Up (2009) | "
This new movie borrows from the 2005 Vince Vaughn/Owen Wilson hit with such utter shamelessness, you have to wonder if royalty checks are already in the mail." Posted Feb 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 58%
| The International (2009) | "
The International is just passable; it’s a clock-puncher that’s almost entirely free of suspense or surprise." Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 76%
| Che, Part Two (2008) | "
Luckily for us, Soderbergh is one of those rare directors who's able to make uninterrupted misery engaging." Posted Jan 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 72%
| Che, Part One (2008) | "
In the end Che isn’t really about a hero or a man; it’s about the mechanics of guerrilla warfare, the day-to-day workings of an insurgency." Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 56%
| Defiance (2008) | "
The story, in other words, is pure Hollywood gold, full of opportunities for stirring speeches, ethical quandaries, lessons about tolerance and humanity, and violence against Nazis." Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 98%
| The Wrestler (2008) | "
As far as I’m concerned, you can keep your Sean Penns and your Brad Pitts and your Frank Langellas; if there’s any justice in the world, this year’s best actor Academy Award will be going home with Rourke." Posted Jan 9, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 25%
| Bedtime Stories (2008) | "
I was so exhausted by Sandler’s rubbery-face-and-funny-voices schtick, that no amount of good-natured moralizing about the importance of family and love was going to have any effect on me." Posted Dec 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 27%
| Seven Pounds (2008) | "
Smith is more likable the less he tries to make us like him." Posted Dec 17, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 15%
| Dark Streets (2008) | "
A collection of 1950s B-movie mannerisms that would have made for a great parody if only it were capable of laughing at its own hard-boiled absurdity." Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 12%
| Lake City (2008) | "
The only thing saving Lake City from total ridiculousness is Spacek." Posted Dec 4, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 58%
| The Dukes (2008) | "
As light as a feather and about as memorable, The Dukes is a pet project all the way, just a lark for Davi and his buddies to star in and screen for one another like a home movie." Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 65%
| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) | "
The tropes of the heartwarming indie kids movie get thrown together with the tropes of the low-voltage, war-at-home war drama, and the result is muddled but undeniably affecting" Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Fresh 73%
| Fuel (2009) | "
Fuel's message is clear -- oil is bad; alternative energy is good -- and its goals are simple -- put Big Oil out of business by selling the American public on the virtues of cleaner energy sources, such as wind, solar, ethanol, hemp, and world music." Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 45%
| Soul Men (2008) | "
Soul Men is pure mediocrity." Posted Nov 6, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| Role Models (2008) | "
Rudd has his shot at the marquee, and he makes the most of it, mainly by defying all reasonable Hollywood expectations of what a marquee role is supposed to be." Posted Nov 6, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 59%
| RocknRolla (2008) | "
Better just to sit back and enjoy RocknRolla for what it is: a fast-paced amoral joyride that’s more interested in the absurdities of violent criminality than the complications of real life." Posted Oct 31, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 92%
| Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) | "
Leigh's creation is fixed and unchangeable, admirably optimistic as a person but completely unengaging as a movie character." Posted Oct 30, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Order of Myths (2008) | "
Trapped under the weight of hundreds of years of racial animosity and mistrust, with few clues as to how to work themselves free, the celebrants of the oldest Mardi Gras in the country take refuge in their traditions." Posted Oct 24, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 73%
| Under the Same Moon (2008) | "
Its parallel stories of two lost souls seeking each other across geographical divides is never more than one small step away from mawkishness and cliché, and oftentimes less. But as a sociological study, it’s fascinating." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| The Unforeseen (2007) | "
The result is an expansive and ambivalent testament to human ingenuity, human intransigence, and nature’s endangered yet enduring power to move." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 26%
| Sex and Death 101 (2008) | "
Heaven help a writer who turns a philanderer into a blank." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 15%
| My Best Friend's Girl (2008) | "
Any schmuck with a typewriter and a dirty mouth can test the limits of good taste; it’s something else entirely to push the boundaries of narrative possibility and emotional empathy." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 40%
| Fireproof (2008) | "
The writing and directing Kendrick brothers, Alex and Stephen, have raised blandness and narrative predictability to the level of high art." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 84%
| In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008) | "
Holdridge is clever enough to keep his characters from slipping into outright narcissism, or when they do, he’s familiar enough with the art of mainstream moviemaking to balance the exhausted with the ecstatic." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 60%
| What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 53%
| A Four Letter Word (2008) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 57%
| Married Life (2008) | "
One of the more ethically dubious films to come out of Hollywood in years." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 58%
| Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008) | "
[It] proves that, even in our troubled times, East and West can still come together, when necessary, to produce something completely and utterly confusing." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| Snow Angels (2008) | "
Hopefully, one of these days, Green will be bold enough to make a movie where nothing happens, where conversation is both his means and his end." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 37%
| How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) | "
The film version of Young’s book is more slapstick than skewer, more loving portrait than leveling blow." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 79%
| Manda Bala (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 63%
| Bra Boys (2008) | "
A piece of PR propaganda." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 46%
| Cassandra's Dream (2008) | "
At this point, I guess we should just applaud Allen for his work ethic." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 20%
| Meet Bill (2008) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 64%
| Holly (2007) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 20%
| Chapter 27 (2008) | "
Despite all his obvious effort and admirable Stanislavskian immersion, his Chapman is pure cinematic affectation, a compendium of great movie madmen of the past." Posted Oct 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Flow: For Love of Water (2008) | "
Flow is the kind of terrifying, impending-apocalypse documentary none of us wants to watch but all of us probably should; it isn’t the most enjoyable experience you’ll have at the movies this year, but I wouldn’t doubt if it’s one of the most eye-opening." Posted Oct 17, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 60%
| W. (2008) | "
Stone’s latest head-first dive into the deep end of the American political pool is a tale of two movies. The first is a story that was dying to be told; the second, one that’s been told to death." Posted Oct 16, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 62%
| The Express (2008) | "
That rare sports film that isn’t afraid to dabble in personal and social ambiguity." Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 58%
| Flash of Genius (2008) | "
Despite an obsessiveness bordering on (and occasionally toppling over into) mania, Kearns just doesn’t have the kind of larger-than-life personality we look for in our cinematic little-guy heroes." Posted Oct 1, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 80%
| I Served the King of England (2008) | "
[It's] surrounded by and infused with the potential for meaning but feels like a lark: a bit of nothing whistling past the graveyard of 20th century European history without a thing to do but indulge itself." Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 28%
| Eagle Eye (2008) | "
Good, manic fun plus a heavy dose of political intrigue adding up to two hours of clamorous, mind-numbing nonsense." Posted Sep 24, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 89%
| The Edge of Heaven (2008) | "
[It's] a much-needed maturation of the Babel/Crash formula but also fails to rattle your bones the way those movies did. Pick your poison, I suppose." Posted Sep 19, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 47%
| Lakeview Terrace (2008) | "
Lakeview Terrace is boilerplate stuff through and through, aiming to play on our shared fear of a besieged home life but settling instead for being a bland study in improbable vigilantism and profound domestic irritation." Posted Sep 18, 2008 |
Rotten 3/5
| Fresh 77%
| Burn After Reading (2008) | "
The Coen brothers may be masters of black comedy, but there are times when there’s no point in taking them seriously." Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 29%
| The Little Red Truck (2008) | "
This is kids stuff all the way: incident without drama, controversy, art, or any of the other things that make a movie watchable." Posted Sep 5, 2008 |
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