— | Fresh 96%
| Deep Water (2007) |
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— | Rotten 42%
| Shutter (2004) |
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— | Fresh 100%
| Normal (2003) |
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— | Fresh 98%
| For the Bible Tells Me So (2007) |
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Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 39%
| The Rocker (2008) | "
The Rocker is an amiable comedy, so efficiently constructed that you can practically see the computer software on how to write comedy screenplays at work. Nonetheless it is an enjoyable construction." Posted Aug 20, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 61%
| Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) | "
If 3D is indeed the future of movies, we're going to need something more substantial than Journey to the Center of the Earth to convince us." Posted Jul 11, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 93%
| Encounters At the End of the World (2007) | "
In his latest documentary, Encounters at the End of the World, Herzog -- who warns the viewer at the outset not to expect any 'fluffy penguins' -- deals with the men and women who perform scientific research in Antarctica." Posted Jun 27, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 53%
| The Promotion (2008) | "
The Promotion works as a comedy because, in the depths of our dark hearts, we enjoy seeing the woes that beset our comic antagonists." Posted Jun 27, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 10%
| Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) | "
Don't expect any serious debate here about God and evolution. This documentary is like watching a paranoiac making fun of a hysteric." Posted Jun 27, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| N/A | Global Metal (USA) | "
Dunn's movie is an indulgent presentation of metal and its devotees -- it even implies the world will be a better place when adolescents everywhere have a chance to bang their heads." Posted Jun 20, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 48%
| Before the Rains (2008) | "
India has rarely looked so beautiful onscreen. Against the anguish of his human characters, director Santosh Sivan juxtaposes a tranquil, green world in the hills of the southwestern state of Keralain 1937, 10 years before independence." Posted Jun 20, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 70%
| Irina Palm (2008) | "
A pleasingly sentimental British domestic drama." Posted Jun 13, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 18%
| The Happening (2008) | "
Shyamalan seems to have lost his sense of the fine line between the disturbingly grotesque and the outright ridiculous. The film even seems to be a parody of the scientific method." Posted Jun 13, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 86%
| My Brother Is An Only Child (2006) | "
The linkage in this movie between politics and family dynamics is a point well taken, but the movie -- whose sense of frenetic activity going nowhere is captured by Luchetti's buoyant camera -- does go on and on before anyone learns anything." Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Rotten 1/4
| N/A | Finn's Girl (2008) | "
Score several political points for this cheaply manufactured romantic fantasy." Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 31%
| The Children of Huang Shi (2008) | "
It's a compelling story, with only a few jarring notes." Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 36%
| You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008) | "
There's a lot to be said for consumerism as a salve for historic wounds. Of course, there's also a drawback to our free market ways -- we get shoes made in China and movies like You Don't Mess with the Zohan." Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 46%
| Mister Lonely (2008) | "
Korine has found an evocative subject, but he remains entirely too cavalier in this attitude towards narrative coherence." Posted May 30, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 17%
| This Beautiful City (2009) | "
A sense of coherence is not helped by an arty, handheld-camera feeling." Posted May 23, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| The Edge of Heaven (2008) | "
As a director [Akin] is clearly a humanist, championing the virtues of forgiveness and relying on strong narrative and deep sympathy for his characters to drive his movies." Posted May 23, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 80%
| The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008) | "
The story of these people is certainly engaging. The conundrums of art and reality, of reflection and mirror images, presented by the movie are another matter – they seem at times gratuitous. But at least the movie does give us something to think about." Posted May 16, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 66%
| The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) | "
Something human is missing here, amidst all the centaurs and talking bears and mobile trees. It's the art of storytelling, which knows when to allow characters time for heartfelt interaction, when to build suspense, when to mount a climax." Posted May 16, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 32%
| A Previous Engagement (2008) | "
This is a romantic comedy where the romance is too fraught with implications for a comedy, and the treatment of character is too flippant for a romance." Posted May 9, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 43%
| The Stone Angel (2008) | "
These elemental forces fuel a compelling narrative, but the second half of the movie starts to drift." Posted May 9, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 37%
| Speed Racer (2008) | "
The movie, unfortunately, doesn't make that leap from sensation to art, but it suggests fascinating possibilities for moviemakers interested in using the latest techniques seriously to explore the world -- the fairyland we have made with our technology." Posted May 9, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 28%
| What Happens in Vegas (2008) | "
Here's a romantic comedy that is goofy, highly implausible, sometimes over the top, often in bad taste, and resolutely empty-headed. In short, it's the best example of its genre to appear on the screen this year." Posted May 9, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 13%
| Made of Honor (2008) | "
Somewhere in the shades of Hollywood, the ghost of Cary Grant is shaking his head." Posted May 2, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 90%
| The Visitor (2008) | "
The story of Vale's revitalization and his grief is compelling but simple, free of any sentimentality, and marked by powerful performances from Jenkins and Hiam Abbass, who plays Mouna Khalil, Tarek's mother." Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 29%
| War, Inc. (2008) | "
It all adds up to a fast pace, lots of shooting, and a movie that, in its heart, is as corrupt as the politics it attempts to satirize." Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 12%
| Deception (2008) | "
The inevitable absurdities and coincidences of the plot are easy enough to accept along the way, except perhaps for the sex club, which is just a little too absurd to function as a plot device." Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 71%
| London to Brighton (2008) | "
Its tautness is satisfying. Not one line of dialogue is superfluous, not one take is a second too long." Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 25%
| Emotional Arithmetic (2007) | "
A piece of advice for Canadian filmmakers -- don't make movies out of dreary CanLit novels. They're easy enough to spot." Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| Young@Heart (2008) | "
One of the most remarkable scenes you will ever see in a documentary is the chorus of elderly men and women -- average age of 80 -- singing Bob Dylan's 'Forever Young' before convicts in a Massachusetts penitentiary." Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 31%
| Chaos Theory (2008) | "
Reynolds goes through his emotional paces with conviction and is developing a trademark wounded look that is quite effective." Posted Apr 11, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 46%
| The Ruins (2008) | "
Moral of the story: never visit an out-of-the-way Mexican ruin covered by vines and blood-red flowers that make a squeaking sound." Posted Apr 7, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 100%
| Kenny (2008) | "
The result is a minor masterpiece of tone in Kenny's portrayal of a character that is absurd, guileless and shrewd at the same time." Posted Apr 4, 2008 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 26%
| Sex and Death 101 (2008) | "
Why not simply admit this is cheeseball porn, assembled with a slightly higher brand of cheese and nuts?" Posted Apr 4, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 73%
| Under the Same Moon (2008) | "
The performances -- and the movie's sideways glance at the culture of illegal immigrants, including a funny song about Superman ('He has no social security and no green card') -- give the movie its nicely controlled vitality." Posted Apr 4, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 49%
| Nim's Island (2008) | "
The movie is not particularly rewarding for adults or children who believe that even a tale of fantastic events should be governed by plausibility." Posted Apr 4, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 83%
| The Year My Parents Went On Vacation (2008) | "
Director Cao Hamburger, a Brazilian of Italian and German descent, treats this development with a very light hand." Posted Mar 28, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 64%
| Stop-Loss (2008) | "
The movie is a gripping but very limited view of their lives." Posted Mar 28, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 7%
| Shutter (2008) | "
With Shutter, that nerve-tingling soundtrack gets heavy use almost from the beginning of the movie. It becomes tiresome." Posted Mar 24, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 38%
| The Grand (2008) | "
This failure of steely intention, combined with a not quite satisfactory resolution of the fates of the characters, keeps the movie just shy of being a first-rate comedy." Posted Mar 21, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 29%
| Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008) | "
It would take a stony critic to dismiss entirely the movie's tribute to the virtues of perseverance and generosity." Posted Mar 21, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 48%
| Doomsday (2008) | "
If you can accept this farrago of nonsense, and enjoy simulated beheadings and lopped-off hands and massive spurts and splashes of blood, this may be the movie for you." Posted Mar 17, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 49%
| CJ7 (2008) | "
The presence of Xu Jiao, who never tips her gender for a moment, and is winsome without being cute, is enough to keep the audience watching." Posted Mar 14, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 24%
| Never Back Down (2008) | "
Tyler does not live on planet Earth, but planet Hollywood formula, where the storm clouds of Fight Club hang over the once charming but now seedy landscape of The Karate Kid." Posted Mar 14, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) | "
You can't criticize a soufflé for not being a side of beef." Posted Mar 7, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 13%
| College Road Trip (2008) | "
When all else fails, and the last faint possibility of comedy has vanished, the director turns on the sentiment." Posted Mar 7, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 75%
| City of Men (2008) | "
This is an engrossing film, partly because the director pulls the camera back from time to time to mitigate the occasional effect of claustrophobia and to remind the audiencehow stunning the landscape is." Posted Feb 29, 2008 |
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