Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 15%
| Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) | "
A comedy with mostly likable, broadly drawn characters; tart, nonthreatening social satire with sharp enough teeth to leave an impression while not breaking the skin; and well-timed, modestly sophisticated repartee." Posted Dec 18, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 40%
| Tenderness (2008) | "
A movie undone by its formulaic plot conventions, and its need to give its star more screen time than his characters merits." Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 11%
| Hannah Free (2009) | "
Hannah Free is a tear-jerker about longtime lesbian lovers languishing in the same Michigan nursing home." Posted Dec 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | Sincerely Yours (2009) | "
Sincerely Yours conveys a mood of urban desolation in an impersonal universe." Posted Dec 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 79%
| Before Tomorrow (2009) | "
Frustratingly sketchy partly because it is not finally a survival tale but a mystical evocation of the power of Inuit mythology, and how the passing down of ancient wisdom can sustain the human spirit in the direst circumstances." Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Gigante (2009) | "
An appealing, gently comedic prologue to a love story." Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 28%
| Serious Moonlight (2009) | "
Serious Moonlight suggests an unholy, watered-down hybrid of The Ref and Funny Games, played as a chirpy screwball comedy." Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 46%
| Everybody's Fine (2009) | "
False to the core." Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 6%
| Old Dogs (2009) | "
This imbecilic, mean-spirited farce, which sneers at adults, leaves you wondering: where are the Three Stooges when we really need them?" Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 23%
| Planet 51 (2009) | "
The agreeable but flagrantly unoriginal Planet 51 belongs to the mix-and-match school of animated moviemaking." Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 21%
| Oh My God (2009) | "
[A] picturesque but shallow inquiry into the meaning of God." Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 42%
| Turning Green (2009) | "
A whimsical dirty joke of a movie set in a picturesque Irish village." Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 73%
| William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (2010) | "
A refresher course on the history of American left-wing politics in the 1960s and ’70s." Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 55%
| Uncertainty (2009) | "
A taut, skillful exercise in cinematic clockwork." Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 18%
| The Fourth Kind (2009) | "
May be humorless, paranoid nonsense, but its biggest failure is its inability to scare." Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 77%
| That Evening Sun (2009) | "
Holbrook’s fierce, contained performance matches in depth and truthfulness his portrayal of a weary Army retiree who briefly becomes a surrogate father to Emile Hirsch’s survivalist in Into the Wild." Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 70%
| Storm (2009) | "
A political thriller with real-world resonance." Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 25%
| Looking for Palladin (2009) | "
A semicoherent, overacted mélange of travelogue, farce and suds" Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| Killing Kasztner (2008) | "
The film leaves you with a sense that Kastner's name is a casualty of rhetorical crossfire." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 69%
| (Untitled) (2009) | "
Shrewdly hedges its bets about the value of it all, it is ultimately on the side of experimental music and art and their champions, no matter how eccentric. For that alone this brave little movie deserves an audience." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 11%
| The Stepfather (2009) | "
A clumsy remake of the 1987 cult thriller." Posted Oct 18, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Adela (2009) | "
The widely acclaimed Filipino actress Anita Linda gives a quietly transfixing performance as the title character of Adela." Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Stark Raving Black (2009) | "
In Stark Raving Black, Lewis Black’s concert movie, the comedian is at his most eloquently splenetic." Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 56%
| Trucker (2009) | "
The vehicle (if you will pardon the pun) doesn’t quite know what to do with her character. And so the movie, the first feature written and directed by James Mottern, turns into a conventional mother-child reunion drama." Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 80%
| Yes Men Fix the World (2009) | "
It takes some nerve, not to mention diabolical intelligence and financial resources, to pull off the elaborate pranks devised by the Yes Men." Posted Oct 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 63%
| As Seen Through These Eyes (2009) | "
Art executed under the most excruciating conditions deserves a far more searching study than this too short film, which has the structure of a hurried checklist." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 70%
| Chelsea on the Rocks (2009) | "
An enraptured fantasia of high times at the hotel, the film is so intoxicated with the Chelsea’s bohemian mystique it virtually consumes itself." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 22%
| I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009) | "
A mediocre gross out movie that barely pushes the envelope." Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 41%
| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009) | "
Compacted into an 80-minute mishmash of interviews, confessions and sketches, melded into a shaky mosaic, the answers from a cross section of men are shallow, self-serving and ultimately unenlightening." Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 18%
| Love Happens (2009) | "
Until it erupts in tears, Love Happens dawdles along uncertainly as though debating exactly how to season its morose story with enough attempted witticisms to keep the audience from dozing off." Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 84%
| Disgrace (2009) | "
A faithful, compelling screen adaptation of J. M. Coetzee’s Booker Prize-winning 1999 novel." Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 67%
| Paris (2009) | "
Although Paris makes gestures toward being a top-to-bottom examination of the city’s social fabric, its perspective is solidly middle class." Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 23%
| Sorority Row (2009) | "
Sorority Row is an interminable mess of a film that juggles more characters and undeveloped subplots than it can handle and even manages to bungle the setup." Posted Sep 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 83%
| Gogol Bordello Non-Stop (2009) | "
Choppy, high-energy documentary of the band’s rise from a cult phenomenon to international acclaim." Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 18%
| The Other Man (2009) | "
The sexual temperature remains a safe, nap-inducing 98.6." Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 31%
| Tickling Leo (2009) | "
The film’s rich performances, in which every shade of every character’s emotions registers, can go only so far to camouflage the glaring lapses in a drama that often confuses hints and allusions with coherent storytelling." Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 87%
| Amreeka (2009) | "
Stands as one of the most accomplished recent films about a non-European immigrant coming to the United States." Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 70%
| American Casino (2009) | "
The lesson of this story: if enough money is involved, greed trumps morality." Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 33%
| Gospel Hill (2008) | "
So completely lacking in his eye for revealing detail and his ear for colloquial speech that it feels less like a movie than an incomplete first draft of a well-meaning if unsophisticated essay." Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 48%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
Given a subject that has become synonymous with overblown mythmaking, its modesty becomes it." Posted Aug 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 70%
| My One and Only (2009) | "
A good-natured screwball road film set in 1953." Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 85%
| World's Greatest Dad (2009) | "
With a merciless acuity this nihilistic comedy ridicules collective grief and the news media’s cynical marketing of inspirational uplift after a death." Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| Fifty Dead Men Walking (2009) | "
A streamlined, adrenalized thriller that is not as deep as it would like to appear, treads a retrospective political tightrope." Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Rotten 59%
| The Headless Woman (2009) | "
A full appreciation of Lucrecia Martel’s elegant, rain-soaked film, The Headless Woman, requires the concentration and eye for detail of a forensic detective." Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 18%
| Spread (2009) | "
More skin is shown in Spread than in most Hollywood movies. But despite twitches of insight into its characters and their world, Spread refuses go more than skin deep." Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 70%
| I'm Gonna Explode (2009) | "
The small, sometimes confusing movie is a knowing homage to Jean-Luc Godard." Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 80%
| Taxidermia (2007) | "
Produces nightmarish horror and formal beauty in a surreal, Central European blend." Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 67%
| Bliss (2007) | "
However streamlined, this consistently gripping, visually intoxicating film stands as a landmark of contemporary Turkish cinema." Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 26%
| Shrink (2009) | "
Like smog settling over Los Angeles, a creeping sense of anomie haunts the Hollywood power players and parasites sidling nervously through Shrink." Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| The Age of Stupid (2009) | "
A frightening jeremiad about the effects of climate change." Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
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