Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 33%
| The Slammin' Salmon (2009) | "
A Hollywood California-roll gone bad, with super-sized stereotypes, underdone pratfalls and tasteless one-liners." Posted Dec 10, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 18%
| The Fourth Kind (2009) | "
Osunsanmi's action sequences resemble episodes of Unsolved Mysteries without the budget, where a spooktastic owl stands in for belligerent ETs. Honestly." Posted Nov 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 86%
| Lorna's Silence (2009) | "
By scorning accessibility, the filmmakers unwittingly throw out the baby with the bathwater. After all, what's authentically human, if not high drama?" Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 24%
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | "
A particularly cynical brand of celluloid nihilism, in which über-wealthy movie producers finance their Hollywood mansions by marketing films to an audience feeling disenfranchised by the status quo." Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| It Might Get Loud (2009) | "
A celebration of philosophical and artistic conflict in which passion leads to inspiration instead of prejudice or judgment, and principles are ingrained." Posted Oct 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
The Informant! is a martini neither shaken nor stirred. It's neat, dry and straight-up hilarious." Posted Sep 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 58%
| 9 (2009) | "
Earnest, inspiring and far from perfect, 9 is the kind of animated experience that defies traditional sensory logic." Posted Sep 9, 2009 |
Fresh 2/4
| Rotten 9%
| Post Grad (2009) | "
In Post Grad, although screwiness abounds, I was wishing there were a bit more rule-breaking." Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 60%
| Paper Heart (2009) | "
The pretend moments call into question the legitimacy of the genuine ones, until it becomes impossible for Paper Heart to make its own point." Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 26%
| The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) | "
If cash for clunkers applied to films, The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard would be eligible. Its rusty comedy comes factory-installed with faulty gags, badly in need of a tune-up." Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 96%
| Food, Inc. (2009) | "
A brutally disturbing, fundamentally important new documentary." Posted Jul 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 45%
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | "
Countless escapades through logs, massive dino-rib-cages, and cracks in the frozen tundra never quite justify the movie's use of 3-D, however. The children sitting next to me in the theater jettisoned their cumbersome glasses right away." Posted Jul 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 66%
| Away We Go (2009) | "
It would be difficult to overpraise Rudolph's subtle, unexpectedly genuine performance, Alexi Murdoch's gorgeous acoustic-folk soundtrack or Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida's observationally savvy screenplay." Posted Jun 25, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 51%
| Easy Virtue (2009) | "
Sporadically engaging, Easy Virtue would do better swapping amusement for a more elusive quarry: truth." Posted Jun 18, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 77%
| Valentino: the Last Emperor (2009) | "
Garavani's remembrances, and those of lifelong friend and manager Giancarlo Giammetti, evoke the smoky opulence of mid-20th-century class." Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 14%
| The Informers (2009) | "
Ellis, director Gregor Jordan and a cast that's hollow but only occasionally empty, manage to anticipate excess' hangover, a headache we've become intimately familiar with -- all over again." Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| Sin Nombre (2009) | "
Sayra and her family are the poor, huddled masses our founders were talking about, and it's painfully bracing to watch them crushed beneath the promise of a stocked cupboard and living wage." Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 90%
| The Black Balloon (2008) | "
The Black Balloon is marked by the fiercest bravery you're likely to encounter on screen this year." Posted Apr 16, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 0%
| Super Capers (2009) | "
Nothing here works." Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 23%
| Push (2009) | "
Eventually buckling beneath the girth of its own mythology, Push ends with less a cliffhanger than really just a cliff." Posted Feb 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 32%
| The Uninvited (2009) | "
The Uninvited rattles doorknobs and creaks floorboards but can't quite drown out the louder rattling of its shaky script." Posted Feb 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 50%
| Notorious (2009) | "
The film's Achilles' heel proves to be this sense of survivor's guilt that's too often M.I.A." Posted Jan 15, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 15%
| The Spirit (2008) | "
I'll take the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future any night over this year's spooktacularly puerile, woefully bad holiday action film The Spirit." Posted Dec 29, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 20%
| The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) | "
The new Earth is both too dumb and not quite dumb enough to be any fun at all." Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 62%
| The Express (2008) | "
When it should be scrambling for inches, The Express keeps lobbing emotional Hail Mary passes." Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 51%
| Body of Lies (2008) | "
An apocalyptic vision of cloak-and-dagger intelligence, Lies is like a suicide note written by Tom Clancy, but the movie's gloomy inaccessibility actually makes it all the more intriguing." Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 86%
| Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) | "
The rare documentary that puts you in a headlock to pin you to your seat, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson is a bracing masterpiece." Posted Sep 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 80%
| I Served the King of England (2008) | "
I Served the King of England might not suit Charlie Chaplin, were he alive today. But Chaplin’s visual gusto complements this precisely timed and profoundly reverent ode to silent cinema." Posted Sep 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 61%
| Traitor (2008) | "
Traitor blusters and whines like innumerable Steve Martin personas, too focused on making noise to think up much to say." Posted Aug 27, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 38%
| Henry Poole Is Here (2008) | "
An easy film to surrender to." Posted Aug 15, 2008 |
— | Rotten 43%
| Flawless (1999) |
Click here to read article Posted Jun 19, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 37%
| Street Kings (2008) | "
Ellroy, who also co-wrote the screenplay, and Ayer share an interest in L.A. after dark, and they explore the city's neon-bathed streets with the glee of children in a funhouse, watching the distortions of everyday people in bent mirrors." Posted Jun 19, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 24%
| Anamorph (2008) | "
Anamorph dances around ponderous issues and grotesque scenery but fails to really engage, startle or disturb." Posted Jun 19, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 44%
| The Strangers (2008) | "
For a film too goofy to be scary and too clumsy to be fun, even the least discerning splatter fan will find it hard to depend on the violence of The Strangers." Posted May 30, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 74%
| Son of Rambow (2008) | "
You know the Sundance drill: Eventually, the whole school is caught up in their good-natured artistic high jinks, and all involved learn the heartwarming lesson that there's a place in the world for a group of loners." Posted May 16, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 71%
| Notes on Marie Menken (2006) | "
Menken's flickering opuses about nothing more or less than walking through a garden seem to suggest that there's art all around us in the mundane -- something Kudlácek should have taken to heart." Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 55%
| Flawless (2007) | "
It's a work of brilliant cut, color and clarity that delivers on almost all of its ambitious promises." Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 18%
| Sleepwalking (2008) | "
Sleepwalking seems especially cruel to dwell on the bleak and cold at this time of year, when icy drizzle saturates the bones." Posted Apr 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 35%
| Vantage Point (2008) | "
Vantage Point is the highlights reel of an action movie too average to watch in any other form." Posted Feb 22, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 59%
| Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008) | "
Rarely since Easy Rider has a road-trip movie so successfully taken us there." Posted Feb 7, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 74%
| Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) | "
Its comic riffs are simple jingles that always seem to outstay their welcome." Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) | "
A film that's less about academic research than it is about breaking and entering." Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 34%
| P2 (2007) | "
A mostly threadbare Christmas stocking with too many plot holes to patch." Posted Nov 8, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 65%
| Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007) | "
Almost 40 years ago Easy Rider established that road trips can make great independent films. Or at least cheap ones. But when booking a room inside the pearly gates, cheap may not be exactly what you're looking for." Posted Nov 1, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 55%
| We Own The Night (2007) | "
It somehow manages to squander an impressive roster of A-list actors on material so uninteresting and formulaic that you've seen the whole story in the trailers." Posted Oct 11, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 40%
| The Banquet (2006) | "
This may be one of the year's better films, and some of the rawest Shakespeare you'll ever see." Posted Oct 4, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 54%
| Across the Universe (2007) | "
I never realized what a lush cast of characters populate Fab Four records. Or how giddy it would be to see Max, Jude, Jo-Jo, Prudence and Sadie come to life." Posted Sep 27, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 54%
| Eagle Vs. Shark (2007) | "
Though the result is desperately trendy, it's also seriously short on innovation, coasting mostly on the fumes of previous, and better, indie-fare." Posted Jul 19, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 77%
| 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (2007) | "
[Director] Ray interjects observations about his own travels like a backup musician who thinks he's the frontman. A little less cowbell, please." Posted Jul 19, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 90%
| Hot Fuzz (2007) | "
Like a creaky roller coaster rattling to its precarious summit, Hot Fuzz is often thrilling because it doesn't feel quite safe. Beneath the surface of this British action-comedy lurks the beating heart of a slasher film that might have been." Posted Apr 20, 2007 |
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