Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 20%
| Amelia (2009) | "
Woodenly acted and grinningly bland, this Amelia Earhart life story turns Hilary Swank and Richard Gere, playing the aviatrix’s publisher husband, into virtual Thunderbirds puppets." — Financial Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 49%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
A damp squib, thrown fizzling into the memory arena of the world’s pioneer rock festival." — Financial Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 85%
| We Live in Public (2009) | "
Another bizarre, bewitching tale from those that make up life in, on and around the worldwide web." — Financial Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 97%
| Tulpan (2008) | "
The film is irresistibly human and funny, and properly momentous when calamity strikes." — Financial Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 77%
| Harry Brown (2009) | "
The youthful villain demographic, plus the prompts to our indignation, come straight from the UK tabloids. But before it spins into terminal hokum, Barber’s feature debut has moments of power and menace." — Financial Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 38%
| 2012 (2009) | "
Roland Emmerich is an apocalypse chef. In 2012 he cooks America till it boils, adding live meat to the process at judicious intervals." — Financial Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 89%
| The White Ribbon (2009) | "
A film of subtle savagery and mordantly encompassing vision." — Financial Times Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 50%
| 1 Day () | "
A gangsta farrago, convincing neither as street-tough crime drama nor soul-motorised rap show. The performers go through the motions, and emotions, as if reading cue cards." — Financial Times Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 54%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
The film starts hopefully, drifts into the desert, ends up starved of point, pith and pattern." — Financial Times Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
Dickens purists can stay away. Others can feel free to sample the rollicking aerial views of Victorian London, the droll and scary elasticity of Carrey." — Financial Times Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno () | "
Shocking, enthralling, educative. It proves that falling in love with cinema can be, for some who pick it as a career, the most health-endangering thing of all." — Financial Times Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 60%
| Paper Heart (2009) | "
The film becomes more bewitching the more it loses direction. Yi stops questioning strangers and starts questioning herself. She also interrogates the ability, or inability, of cinema to follow love into its deepest mazes." — Financial Times Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 83%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
Steadfastness, truth and a simple, blazing, incandescent humanity. This is a literary life story in which life, for once, is the meaningful word." — Financial Times Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Tales from the Golden Age (2009) | "
There are no sharp instruments, just gentle barbs and pokes. Mungiu suggests that Romania under dictatorship was at worst a comically fearful bureaucracy." — Financial Times Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 73%
| Starsuckers (2009) | "
The tone elsewhere is too often hectoring and self-righteous: a team of salesmen exhorting us not to listen to salesmen." — Financial Times Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 94%
| An Education (2009) | "
Mulligan has a sit-up-and-watch talent." — Financial Times Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 84%
| Pontypool (2009) | "
Bruce McDonald directs a tiptop cast. Tony Burgess, scripting from his own novel, clearly saw the grand guignol potential in the computer virus, in the way great plagues can be planted in tiny units of understanding." — Financial Times Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 81%
| Triangle (2009) | "
Rackingly involving and, as corpses multiply, fearless of appearing penny-dreadful. Smith also made the loopy shocker Severance. This is becoming a body of work to watch." — Financial Times Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 94%
| Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (2009) | "
The film has about as much sense of structure as – well, as Thirst, but I laughed a fair bit." — Financial Times Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 82%
| Thirst (2009) | "
Once on course, he is uncontrollable. I don’t mean the hero, I mean the director. Park’s gallows wit and visual inventiveness keep us alert for an hour amid the ramshackle story structuring." — Financial Times Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 65%
| The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) | "
An overdone blow-out of a modern fairy tale." — Financial Times Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 10%
| My Life in Ruins (2009) | "
Think of Shirley Valentine and take away charm, wit, realism and Pauline Collins." — Financial Times Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 27%
| Pandorum (2009) | "
Action mayhem full of gibbering hominoids, hanging corpses and a few live stars." — Financial Times Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 56%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
The laughs rain down early on; later – Messiah moment apart – they thin to a drizzle, deprived of variation." — Financial Times Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Army of Crime (2009) | "
Grave, heartfelt, medium-engrossing, it still feels like every resistance movie you have ever seen, rolled into a ball of historical revisionism." — Financial Times Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 96%
| The Beaches of Agnes (2009) | "
A loose-leaf diary in which the pages are shuffled by instinct, wit and surreal art." — Financial Times Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 36%
| Je Veux Voir (2009) | "
The idea is misconceived, the execution gets closer and closer to the danger zone of embarrassment." — Financial Times Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 85%
| Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) | "
The film continues in meal-monsoon mode for 90 minutes with scant variation." — Financial Times Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| The Firm (2009) | "
A sleek, if superfluous, remake." — Financial Times Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 77%
| Chevolution (2008) | "
Revolution is always with us: this week’s guerrilla documentary, watchable and well-researched, is Chevolution." — Financial Times Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 94%
| BirdWatchers (2009) | "
Bechis bequeaths us a landscape scattered with enigmas, jigsaw pieces for us to complete our own picture." — Financial Times Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 66%
| Away We Go (2009) | "
Potentially poignant stories are presented with the same caricatural brusqueness or dispassion as the stories of people who are plain stupid." — Financial Times Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 64%
| Greek Pete (2009) | "
Greek Pete proves what we had long suspected. Life imitates Mike Leigh films, at least in Britain. So do many aspiring filmmakers when trying to look with wit and forlorn truthfulness at the reality of Britain" — Financial Times Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| Bustin' Down the Door (2008) | "
Once or twice – making it all worthwhile – an interviewee touchingly chokes up at his own memories, and brims with sudden tears." — Financial Times Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 100%
| Tricks (2007) | "
A small Polish charmer that seems lost in the wake of time." — Financial Times Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 29%
| The Final Destination (2009) | "
You never saw so much ducking and weaving, or heard such gasps of happy horror, outside a funfair." — Financial Times Posted Aug 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 92%
| Mesrine: Part 2 - Public Enemy #1 (2009) | "
All the world loves an outlaw. But how cheaply is that love won if all his partners and opponents have been drafted in from Dullsville-sur-Seine?" — Financial Times Posted Aug 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
Sandler has gained dramatic weight and variety. But if I want to see him play Hamlet, I’d rather have Shakespeare as the scriptwriter." — Financial Times Posted Aug 29, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| Broken Embraces (2009) | "
Can Pedro Almodóvar make a bad film? The answer seems to be no, even when he might be accused of trying. Broken Embraces has a mazy plot in which a poor director would lose himself fast." — Financial Times Posted Aug 29, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 98%
| The Hurt Locker (2009) | "
The film sweats out its truth from its central character." — Financial Times Posted Aug 29, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 45%
| Shorts (2009) | "
From whirling mini-UFOs to giant animated nose bogeys, the screen is never still and the script never smart or engaging." — Financial Times Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 61%
| Chiko (2008) | "
The handsomely grungy photography, the moments of grislier-than-usual violence and the producing participation of film-maker Fatih Akin fail to rescue this moody thug epic from being a cross-Channel cousin to the UK’s mod gangster genre." — Financial Times Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 76%
| Afterschool (2009) | "
This is a major debut. A dystopic vision, yes; but in comparison with the usual school high-jinks from US cinema - fiercely fresh and corrosively memorable." — Financial Times Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
Whirled around the floor of a story that goes absolutely nowhere, contains no human verities, has no significant heft as historical drama, yet still proves, now and then, an entertaining piece of Pop Disco Art from the cinema’s most talented tease." — Financial Times Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 29%
| Aliens in the Attic (2009) | "
Very winsome and very long." — Financial Times Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 58%
| A Perfect Getaway (2009) | "
The scenery is fabulous, the script less so, the final action sequences a headlong plunge into hokum and bathos." — Financial Times Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 38%
| The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) | "
Like two hours on the Burma railway, heaving away at time/space conundrums, arch-to-soppy dialogue and tail-chasing plotting under the lash of distributors who put us in a crowded, no-escape cinema." — Financial Times Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Sin Nombre (2009) | "
The movie never quite determines if it is docudrama or melodrama, though each, at times, shines strongly." — Financial Times Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| Mid-August Lunch (2009) | "
[An] exquisite, coralled miniature." — Financial Times Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 65%
| Adam (2009) | "
Everyone dallies and dithers and radiates well-meaningly. This is mental illness served up for romcom pathos and sentimentality." — Financial Times Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
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