Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 47%
| Everybody's Fine (2009) | "
Everybody's Fine -- a more subtle film than its advertising indicates -- works because it has a feel for little things." Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 58%
| Brothers (2009) | "
Brothers tries to delve into how war can tear families apart, but only succeeds in showing how miscasting and melodrama obscure good intentions." Posted Dec 4, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 72%
| The Road (2009) | "
This adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is intense and, yes, depressing -- and earns every minute that it rattles inside your head." Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 83%
| The Princess and the Frog (2009) | "
The first real addition to its princess lineup in 15 years, and the studio's biggest non-CG animated movie half a decade, it also belatedly brings racial diversity to a signature genre that's been mostly snow white for six decades." Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 58%
| Mammoth (2009) | "
The overlapping stories, the emotional disconnect, the heavy-handed symbolism -- no, it's not a movie from the makers of Babel, its a mumbling, stammering copycat drama from Swedish director Lukas Moodysson." Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| Red Cliff (2009) | "
Overlong but ambitious, Woo proves he's as good at tactical maneuvers as he is at close-quarters combat." Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 21%
| Planet 51 (2009) | "
This sharp-looking but unimaginative adventure hasn't the wit of similar kiddie flicks." Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 84%
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) | "
The film is an exasperating bore." Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 68%
| William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe () | "
A thoughtful, clear-eyed look at the life and career of Kunstler, the New York attorney who was famous, and infamous, for standing up for his liberal ideals even for clients who might have been morally objectionable." Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 30%
| Women in Trouble (2009) | "
This forced, charmless multi-character movie pretends to show women in all their glorious variety, but it really just traffics in the same old cliches." Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 60%
| Pirate Radio (2009) | "
It's all got a great backbeat and you can dance to it, but there isn't much to Curtis's rebels except some canned anti-authoritarian, sex-drugs-rock 'n' roll rants." Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 72%
| That Evening Sun (2009) | "
Director Scott Teems' film is as quiet as untilled soil -- not always a good thing -- but Holbrook has a handle on where to dig." Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 18%
| The Fourth Kind (2009) | "
Badly acted by everyone (including the director, Olatunde Osunsanmi, who appears onscreen), this insipid jumble's idea of fright is incessant screaming." Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 54%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
The narrative flips and flops ruin the comedic flow." Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
As the lead character, Carrey's CG-created body is spindly and bent, and he has fun with his vocal performance, turning every word into a strangled hiss." Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 13%
| Labor Day (2009) | "
Director Glenn Silber's look at how window washers, public employees, janitors and other working men and women played a role in 2008's political events is heartening, and yet, a year after being filmed, unintentionally aggravating." Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 87%
| Skin (2009) | "
This unadorned but affecting drama about Sandra Laing, who attracted media attention in the 1950s when her white parents fought the South African system, suffers from a one-note script, but still does right by its tricky subject." Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
For fans wondering if you should see the much-touted documentary memorial concert film Michael Jackson's This Is It, rest assured, the late King of Pop delivers." Posted Oct 28, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 50%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
Artfully horrific but artificial and soulless." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 26%
| Motherhood (2009) | "
Unfortunately, nothing here digs too deep." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 45%
| Saw VI (2009) | "
These movies lack a whole lot of panache." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 20%
| Amelia (2009) | "
his embalmed drama is a ghost from the '80s, a decade that regularly produced surprise-free, caramelized biopics. The airless Amelia is missing practically everything." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 25%
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | "
Law Abiding Citizen is such a lazy action-drama underachiever, it seems unfair to target stars Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler for bringing their C game." Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 9%
| Opa! (2009) | "
As standard uptight-American-unbuttons-himself-abroad movies go, director Udayan Prasad's gentle, unexceptional romance is exactly what you'd expect." Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 72%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
The film treats kids' inner lives as more than a fantasy, which is a rare and beautiful thing." Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 56%
| Trucker (2009) | "
Monaghan gets how people with honky-tonk souls move in mysterious ways." Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 83%
| Paranormal Activity (2009) | "
Some wild moments make it all worth it." Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 94%
| An Education (2009) | "
Watch Mulligan's face as she goes from weary to awakened, and see it all come together." Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 70%
| Chelsea on the Rocks (2009) | "
Ferrera's shaggy tone, which fits the iconic building, gets irritating. Still, if you come for the stories, you'll stay for the company." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 56%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
The movie is smart and silly." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
The undead here could be a rabid group of Garfield toys; it really doesn't matter. What matters is the hyper-crisp, snappy visual pizazz (Fleischer should be tapped for a midlevel superhero flick), the laughs and how well it's all played." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 35%
| Blind Date (2009) | "
It's about watching two always-fine actors do a lot with very little." Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 27%
| Pandorum (2009) | "
Throughout, some obvious questions pop up immediately." Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 28%
| Fame (2009) | "
Mullally has the most poignant moment, admitting to her students that the reason she teaches is because fame, for her, just wasn't in the cards. (Stardom, more than in the first film, is golden here.)" Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 75%
| Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) | "
The film works best when Moore sits with representatives of the 99 percent of Americans vulnerable to financial freefall." Posted Sep 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 77%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
The Informant! has two aces going for it: Soderbergh's poking at the mazelike holes in American business and Damon's whirling dervish performance." Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 31%
| The Children of Huang Shi (2008) |
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Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 45%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
As screenwriter Diablo Cody might say in her irritatingly pop-cult way, this zombie-chick horror-satire is more dead-eyed than Blake Lively." Posted Sep 17, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 0%
| Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009) | "
A good rule to follow for wannabe gritty thrillers: Lead actors shouldn't remind you of late-night informercial pitchmen." Posted Sep 14, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 18%
| The Other Man (2009) | "
A supposedly grown-up drama like The Other Man ought to have scruples about where it plans to take you. Trickiness for its own sake is simply a cheat." Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 6%
| Whiteout (2009) | "
Sadly, Whiteout wimps out, starting out like The Thing and winding up like CSI: South Pole, wasting whatever it has going for it." Posted Sep 10, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 29%
| Gamer (2009) | "
There’s plenty of violence, but the movie’s already-passe fear of a Web-based world is standard-issue." Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 88%
| Amreeka (2009) | "
Writer-director Cherien Dabis paints a gentle, often wry picture of human resilience, and Faour and Muallen give solid performances, but there are a few too many by-the-numbers moments." Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 31%
| Tickling Leo (2009) | "
Director Jeremy Davidson's father-son tale is refreshingly edgy and well-acted, but painfully obvious in almost every other way." Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 6%
| All About Steve (2009) | "
Since Bullock coproduced this masochistic venture, it seems she buys into the idea that fluffer-nut ditziness is what she does best. Except it isn't." Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 21%
| Halloween II (2009) | "
Zombie walks the walk, you can't deny it. And he's found the medium where he can let his freak flag fly highest." Posted Sep 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 85%
| We Live in Public (2009) | "
A snapshot of several New York eras that coincide with the Internet's growing pains." Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 87%
| At the Edge of the World (2009) | "
At the Edge of the World, a documentary with too much dead time between the arduous tasks at hand, never grabs a viewer because -- sad to say -- it's too dull." Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 86%
| Big Fan (2009) | "
The movie gets repetitive, and when it calls an audible and goes somewhere unexpected, it pulls back quickly. Too bad." Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Rotten 3/5
| Rotten 49%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
It's great that Taking Woodstock doesn't trample on anything sacred, but it also never arrives anywhere interesting." Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
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