Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 29%
| The Canyon (2009) | "
Competent execution and respectable performances still can't save this threadbare attempt at a minimalistic Deliverance." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 79%
| Disgrace (2009) | "
A simmering lead performance by John Malkovich anchors Aussie director Steve Jacobs’ surprisingly deft screen adaptation of South African Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee’s widely-acclaimed 1999 novel Disgrace." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Cloud 9 (2009) | "
An otherwise routine look at a love triangle is passed with middling success through geriatric and Teutonic filters in this largely improvised drama from veteran German director Andreas Dresen." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Fresh 85%
| World's Greatest Dad (2009) | "
An exceedingly risky black comedy with enough seriousness around the edges to suggest that there just might be a real artist yearning to break out of the one-time Police Academy star." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 50%
| Death In Love (2009) | "
A strangely indulgent and highly personal film seemingly crafted less as a piece of entertainment than a work of expression from an increasingly conflicted artist." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 20%
| Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) | "
Blood: The Last Vampire feels both derivative and strangely amateurish, an awkward blend of Hong Kong-style combat set pieces and clumsy English-language dialogue scenes that verge on laughable." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 86%
| Tony Manero (2009) | "
Larrain’s consciously raw execution in telling the story of a compelling but ultimately unsavory character is an id-bending exercise in provocation that’s both competent and challenging." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 38%
| Imagine That (2009) | "
Amid the peaks and valleys of Eddie Murphy's topsy-turvy career, Imagine That falls squarely in the unremarkable middle, an inoffensively formulaic family comedy designed to maximize mediocrity without taking any undue chances on originality." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love (2009) | "
Fans and newcomers to N'dour's music will be equally enthralled by the finely observed, patiently wrought documentary." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 10%
| My Life in Ruins (2009) | "
Once those gags run out, however, the film slowly drags itself back on track, finding just enough traction in a handful of earnest moments -- all involving Richard Dreyfuss -- to help audiences forget how awful it had been at the start." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 11%
| What Goes Up (2009) | "
A rambling, self-serious and chronically unfocused look at ’80s-era small town America and the socio-psychological anguish of disaffected youth." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 89%
| Pressure Cooker (2009) | "
Neither the filmmakers nor the students—nor, for that matter, Stephenson—are fishing for sympathy. What they really want most is to give back—to provide nourishment, literal and figurative, to those who have so generously helped nourish them." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 28, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 9%
| Not Forgotten (2009) | "
It’s a cliche-addled, nonsensical bit of piffle that would rightfully have vanished into the deepest recesses of the used-DVD dollar bin if not for the fortunate casting of television's Mentalist, Simon Baker." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 18, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| N/A | Not Forgotten (2002) | "
It's a cliche-addled, nonsensical bit of piffle that would rightfully have vanished into the deepest recesses of the used-DVD dollar bin if not for the fortunate casting of television's Mentalist, Simon Baker." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 15, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 27%
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | "
If Charles Dickens isn't spinning in his grave, it's only because Matthew McConaughey's career is in the way." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
Considerable credit is due to both Benioff and Woods for what amounts to no small task—crafting a prequel that manages to fill in the blanks of the previous films (particularly X2) without letting fans get ahead of the story based on what they already kno" — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
This is as close to a pure ’80s valentine as anyone has made since the 1980s." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Apr 8, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Fresh 68%
| The Cake Eaters (2009) | "
As directing debuts from actors and actresses go, Masterson’s falls somewhere on the upper-end of the middle, a better-than-respectable effort given the difficulty of the material and the constraints of the budget." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 43%
| Race to Witch Mountain (2009) | "
Unfortunately, there's simply no way to take something that was once fresh and transform it into a referential collage of all that followed without caving to every imaginable genre cliche in the Hollywood playbook." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Mar 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| Shall We Kiss? (2008) | "
A wry but gentle romantic comedy that is both romantic and comedic without wallowing in the excesses of either." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 17, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 13%
| The Pink Panther 2 (2009) | "
Vapid, low-grade slapstick, hopelessly dull yet innocuous, designed more for marketability than entertainment." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Feb 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 82%
| I Love You, Man (2009) | "
It's the inspired casting of Rudd and Segel -- both Apatow vets -- that most effectively brings out the film's unexpected charms." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 57%
| Shadows (2008) | "
An exercise overly rooted in American genre filmmaking while never sufficiently mainstreaming the European context in a way that would break out to more commercial stateside distribution." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 57%
| Taken (2009) | "
Won't win any accolades for its brash illiberalism, and that'll be just fine with fans of the genre who for nearly a generation have been driven more and more to the substandard offerings of the direct-to-video world." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 39%
| Inkheart (2009) | "
The real problem with Inkheart isn't that it's badly made but that it simply shouldn't have been made at all." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 21, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 81%
| Owl and the Sparrow (2008) | "
Smartly balancing earnest sentiment with an unvarnished look at contemporary Vietnamese life, [Director Stephane] Gauger deftly bridges cultural, emotional and artistic barriers while remaining true to a uniquely Asian aesthetic." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 34%
| Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) | "
James and Mays are engaging and a handful of moments do generate genuine laughs. Not enough to justify a paid night at the movies..." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 13, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Made in U.S.A. (1966) | "
In a time of severe economic uncertainty, it's questionable whether even the most esoteric of New Wave adherents will want to wallow in this kind of Godardian excess -- though it's also quite possible that the film has never been more timely." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jan 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 27%
| Seven Pounds (2008) | "
Though the film can ultimately be faulted for pulling its punches...simply having the courage to indulge in some very risky conceits at holiday time, particularly during harsh economic conditions -- merits Smith and his colleagues enormous kudos." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 17, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 21%
| The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) | "
Unfortunately, it’s the demise of even passable screen storytelling, rather than the earth itself, to which audiences will be treated in this dreadful remake." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Dec 12, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 12%
| Lake City (2008) | "
An intermittently admirable but largely incongruous work that suggests not only divergent sensibilities on the part of the two neophyte filmmakers, but a certain indecisiveness regarding their core audience." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 21, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 54%
| Australia (2008) | "
This costly, much-troubled, forever-in-production epic nonetheless falls short of its lofty ambitions; undone by an unfortunate combination of hubris, predictable studio meddling and fate." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Nov 20, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 78%
| Ashes of Time Redux (1994) | "
The wash and wax has definitely given it a flashy millennial look, but Wong's lyrical stream-of-consciousness prequel to Louis Cha's legendary novel The Eagle-Shooting Heroes remains a typically impenetrable." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 51%
| Body of Lies (2008) | "
High production value and solid performances lay enough of a spit shine on an otherwise dingy pile of drivel." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 85%
| Ghost Town (2008) | "
That pervasive sense of the humanistic, along with judicious use of, but not overreliance on, special effects and some exceptionally clever staging of actors...should earn Ghost Town some fast and furious word of mouth." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 19, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 13%
| The Women (2008) | "
English means to resurrect the original play's highly evolved '30s era feminism for a post-feminist audience, but the result feels more like a dusted-off quilting circle with an improved sense of style." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Sep 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 43%
| Death Race (2008) | "
What fans of the original will immediately glean from the quasi-remake, now simply titled Death Race, is just how prophetic Bartel's film was … and how desperately the new film needs its forebear's sense of irony." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Frozen River (2008) | "
Something of an intriguing contradiction—on one level an atypical Sundance film, grittily accomplished and unabashedly self-important, while at the same time refreshingly hopeful and subtly earnest in ways that few Sundance films ever dare." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Aug 1, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 13%
| The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) | "
If only it actually were that fun." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 31, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 55%
| Step Brothers (2008) | "
It takes roughly 45 minutes for the film to start formulating some semblance of plot, but it's too little too late." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 24, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 90%
| The Grocer's Son (2008) | "
Guirado's genuine affection for the people of Provence and their genteel lifestyle engenders an honest warmth and coziness that carries the film breezily through its less-inspired moments." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 94%
| The Dark Knight (2008) | "
Far from offering traditional summer escapism...a brainy, action-packed morality play meant to throttle the audience, body and mind, for a solid 152 minutes and haunt them for days and weeks later." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 93%
| My Father My Lord (2008) | "
A surefooted and frequently touching revisionist retelling of the Abrahamic narrative that, while hardly revolutionary, is certainly evocative and provocative." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 11, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| The Exiles (1961) | "
Though it arrives nearly three decades too late for Mackenzie to enjoy its resurrection, it comes none too soon to enthrall serious cinephiles seeking respite from the assaultive bombast of studio summer blockbusters." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jul 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 72%
| Wanted (2008) | "
The audience is made uncomfortably complicit in a callous and hypocritical game in which any and all human life becomes secondary to a momentary movie thrill." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 26, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| Love and Honor (2008) | "
Love and Honor is a welcome affirmation of Yamada’s determination to maintain his historic workload, even while in his 70s." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 20, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 14%
| The Love Guru (2008) | "
Outdated, unfunny, juvenile and at times downright perplexing, the intended New Age satire comes off more like an over-expensive schoolyard prank; bathroom graffiti come to life across an 86-minute, patience-straining running time." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 20, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 66%
| The Incredible Hulk (2008) | "
That Leterrier is not particularly strong with character and acting further compounds the problem, leaving audiences with little to cling to but cartoon monsters and cardboard humans." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 12, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 36%
| You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008) | "
It’s painfully unfunny and cumbersome for extended stretches, necessitating bizarre story detours to jumpstart jokes that, though funny, often seem completely misplaced." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 77%
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) | "
Utterly unnecessary, unbelievably uninspired and preposterous beyond all imagination." — Boxoffice Magazine Posted May 23, 2008 |
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