Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 92%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
Other filmmakers turn to children's stories when they have kids of their own. Anderson seems to have made this one for his inner child." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 72%
| The Road (2009) | "
In adapting this harsh, unyielding book for the screen, Hillcoat and screenwriter Joe Penhall pull their punches the slightest degree and thus too much." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 8%
| Old Dogs (2009) | "
If Old Dogs isn't the absolute worst movie either star has appeared in, it's close enough to count." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| Bronson (2009) | "
It’s a meditation on the art of rage -- an action painting passing itself off as an action movie." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 16%
| Planet 51 (2009) | "
Young children and adults with high pain thresholds will enjoy the movie during its brief pause on the way to your On Demand menu." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 30%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
Where the first film’s director, Catherine Hardwicke, plugged into Meyer’s vision of supernatural teenage lust with abandon, Chris Weitz is stuck with a sequel that’s a morning-after mope-fest." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 85%
| Flame & Citron (2008) | "
Madsen makes the most of his budget, and he keeps pulling his camera back for long, visually sumptuous overhead shots." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 100%
| The Maid (2009) | "
The tension doesn’t just derive from wondering where the story’s going to go but to which genre this movie even belongs. Are we in a horror film or a humanist drama? Will Raquel burst into tears or break out the knives?" — Boston Globe Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 59%
| Pirate Radio (2009) | "
Richard Curtis has made a party, not a movie, and if the party goes on much too long, at least the guests are great company and the host’s taste in music is impeccable." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 37%
| 2012 (2009) | "
A state-of-the-art multiplex three-ring circus whose special effects stagger the senses and play like a video game, whose human drama aims for the cosmic and lands waist-deep in the Big Silly." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 42%
| Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon (2009) | "
Less a documentary than a relentlessly upbeat nonprofit infomercial..." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
Shockingly, the new film turns out to be very good, at times close to brilliant: a darkly detailed marvel of creative visualization that does well by Dickens and right by audiences -- when it’s not trying to sell them a theme park ride." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 54%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
You can’t make this stuff up, but you can botch the telling of it, and that’s what sinks this satiric drama based loosely on a 2004 nonfiction book by London-based journalist Jon Ronson." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 95%
| Crude (2009) | "
At first Crude looks like one more environmental agit-doc intended to outrage and inspire. Director Joe Berlinger is no doctrinaire hack, though." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 22%
| The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) | "
[It] isn’t art but it is an improvement: a scurrilous, lowdown, sub-Tarantino action comedy that, unlike the original, doesn’t make you want to claw your eyes out. How’s that for praise?" — Boston Globe Posted Oct 29, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 29%
| The Canyon (2009) | "
The Canyon is so singularly inept it gives you a whole new appreciation for the ept." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 38%
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) | "
Chris Massoglia is almost wholly charisma-free, a handsome, hesitant two-by-four who makes you appreciate the rich thespian skills of Daniel Radcliffe. Casting an unknown is always a gamble. This time the house wins." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 48%
| Astro Boy (2009) | "
Astro Boy alternately soars and sputters through a story line that’s not quite sure who it’s aimed at." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 49%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
For better and for worse, it is exactly the movie von Trier wanted to make and a piece of staggeringly pure cinema. On at least one level, it’s also hateful." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 100%
| Heart of Stone (2009) | "
Heart of Stone is a heartbreaker: a documentary about an inner-city high school that shows how hard, how necessary, and how infinitely rewarding it can be to open doors for kids who didn’t know they were there." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 11%
| The Stepfather (2009) | "
Better to honor history and rent the original." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 18, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 70%
| Chelsea on the Rocks (2009) | "
You may not learn much about the hotel itself from Chelsea on the Rocks, but you come away knowing exactly what it was like to live there." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 94%
| An Education (2009) | "
A star may or may not be born in An Education, but an actress most surely is." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 70%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
The movie is a wild thing, and that’s not such a bad thing at all." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 85%
| We Live in Public (2009) | "
Midway through We Live in Public, one Quiet participant delivers the hard social lesson of cyberspace: "The more you get to know everyone, the more alone you become."" — Boston Globe Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 12%
| Couples Retreat (2009) | "
Yes, there’s pointed human comedy to be mined from the very real stresses of married life, but this bonehead idiots-in- paradise farce raises issues only to gloss them over." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 86%
| A Serious Man (2009) | "
Can art come from jadedness? Will the brothers ever “mean it’’? A Serious Man forces the issue in ways that will either floor you or drive you batty." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| No Impact Man (2009) | "
No Impact Man is a very confused documentary that somehow puts its confusion to good use." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
Zombieland makes up in laughter what it lacks in screams, and the arch weariness with which it looks out at undead America hides a frisky yet disturbing message: We’re closer than we think." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 72%
| The Boys Are Back (2009) | "
All told, the movie’s a solid entry in the Bad Dad Gets It Together genre and Owen is really quite touching, especially when he’s not trying too hard, which is most of the time." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 56%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
With The Invention of Lying, the British comic actor Ricky Gervais has come up with a wickedly funny idea for a movie -- and then purged the wickedness right out of it.-" — Boston Globe Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 39%
| Surrogates (2009) | "
Give credit to filmmaker Jonathan Mostow for keeping the movie on track; give credit to star Bruce Willis for keeping a straight face." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 69%
| Paris (2009) | "
If Paris feels like an Altman film in structure, it lacks the late filmmaker’s bite, not to mention his genuine curiosity about human beings." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 79%
| Disgrace (2009) | "
Disgrace is an ugly movie, at times torturous to watch. It probably needs to be." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 83%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
Bright Star is ripe with the eroticism of a proud woman being seduced by words and undone by emotions. If that’s not worth more than a year of Megan Fox movies, I can’t help you." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 76%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
It'd be a tragedy if it weren't so richly absurd, but it would also make for better comedy if the joke weren't on us. The Informant! laughs so long and hard that it forgets to check whether we're laughing along." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 19, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 18%
| Love Happens (2009) | "
Not that the grieving process shouldn’t be addressed in a movie, but this one feels increasingly cooked up." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 86%
| Big Fan (2009) | "
A bleakly funny character study of a very particular species of urban fauna -- the sports radio call-in fanatic -- Big Fan is compulsively watchable." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 45%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
Jennifer’s Body falls into the dispiriting category of dumb movies made by smart people, in this case a glibly clever writer and a talented director who think a few wisecracks are enough to subvert the teen horror genre." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 62%
| Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) | "
It’s the best Tyler Perry movie to date -- the writer/director/actor/mogul’s most confident and competent mixture of uplifting black middle-class melodrama and low-down comedy." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 14, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 6%
| Whiteout (2009) | "
A ham-handed murder mystery." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 6%
| All About Steve (2009) | "
Easily the worst movie of the week, month, year, and Bullock’s entire career. It is to comedy what leprosy once was to the island of Molokai: a plague best contemplated from many miles away." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
— | Fresh 72%
| I Sell the Dead (2009) | "
If it's not actually a good movie, on some level you have to admire the chutzpah of a film set in 1850s Ireland but shot on Staten Island." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 27, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
Inglorious Basterds is an entertainment but an uneasy one; it represents 153 minutes of bravura stalling, after which its creator loses interest and walks away." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 82%
| Thirst (2009) | "
Thirst keeps coming up against the limitations of its various inspirations like a bumper car on a crowded court. On almost every other level, the film’s audaciously entertaining, at times even quite moving. You just have to have the stomach for it." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 45%
| Shorts (2009) | "
Shorts channels the same gross-out overkill as the Captain Underpants books that parents endure and pre-teen boys so dearly love. The difference is that those books have an editor (and they’re funnier)." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 86%
| The Silence Before Bach (2008) | "
The Silence Before Bach is a movie in which to take refuge, and it abjures the summer heat of pop culture for a cool and lasting immersion in the miracles that people are and can create." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 86%
| Lorna's Silence (2009) | "
It’s a very good film nevertheless, and in Dobroshi it has a face that passes through every conceivable shade of sorrow." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 80%
| Bandslam (2009) | "
Within the context of modern family comedies and the vast enabling wasteland of tweener TV, these people feel almost three-dimensional." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 38%
| The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) | "
The Time Traveler’s Wife is told with a tenderness that’s unusual in a major motion picture but that leads mostly to dullness." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
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