Rotten
| Rotten 57%
| Mystery Team (2009) | "
If this is the future of comedy in Hollywood, then there’s little to fear -- as long as everyone remembers that brevity is the soul of wit." Posted Dec 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Missing Person (2009) | "
Why has The Missing Person persisted in staying with me, even though I started craving The Big Sleep halfway through?" Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 29%
| Women in Trouble (2009) | "
A lucky alchemy of writer and cast turns what could have been an indie bore into something surprisingly uproarious." Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 69%
| (Untitled) (2009) | "
There’s something about Shelton as Madeleine that tilts the movie in her favor. Maybe it’s her deadpan delivery, or the series of hilariously noisy outfits she wears, but Madeleine seems like the sanest person in this absurd world." Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| Trucker (2009) | "
You want to like Trucker. You really do. But writer-director James Mottern makes it awfully hard with his washed-out, predictable aesthetic." Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| No Impact Man (2009) | "
You won’t want to give up two-ply, but you might rethink buying salad in one of those unwieldy plastic boxes during your next trip to the grocery store." Posted Sep 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 60%
| Art & Copy (2009) | "
By narrowing his focus to just the cream of the ad crop, [director] Pray comes across as a Madison Avenue huckster himself, one who’s selling the public on the classiness of smart ads." Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) | "
A throwback to American filmmaking of the ’70s, a pulse-pounding political thriller that grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go until the inevitable bloody conclusion; Germany’s Bonnie and Clyde, with a political conscience." Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 50%
| Death In Love (2009) | "
The failure of the movie is hardly attributable to Lucas, or co-stars Jacqueline Bisset and Lukas Haas. I’m afraid the blame rests squarely on the shoulders of writer-director Boaz Yakin." Posted Jul 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 11%
| The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2009) | "
Somehow, even as writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber slathers on the voiceover ooze or unwittingly evokes Sophie’s Choice with his central romantic triangle, he still manages to astonish with The Mysteries of Pittsburgh." Posted Apr 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| Forbidden Lie$ (2009) | "
By the doc’s end, how much of what Norma says is fact or fiction doesn’t matter as much as the entertaining, infuriating journey that Norma (and Broinowski) has taken us on." Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| Gigantic (2008) | "
There’s still something compelling about watching such a talented cast navigate the choppy waters of Aselton’s world." Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| Spinning into Butter (2009) | "
A fantastic story longing for a better film." Posted Mar 25, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 88%
| Sin Nombre (2009) | "
Unfortunately, other than some gorgeous scenery, Sayra’s stupidity is the only thing that feels truly fresh in Fukunaga’s debut feature." Posted Mar 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 59%
| Phoebe In Wonderland (2009) | "
Barnz shows a firm directorial hand, most impressively by keeping the troupe of child actors from becoming cloyingly adorable. But despite a unique and refreshing vision, he fails his film by explaining its mysteries." Posted Mar 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 17%
| An American Affair (2009) | "
A cliché-ridden hodgepodge of film genres." Posted Feb 25, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 59%
| Eleven Minutes (2009) | "
Eventually, the film stops being an entertaining look at what goes on behind-the-scenes at one designer’s headquarters prior to Fashion Week and just becomes frustrating." Posted Feb 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Two Lovers (2009) | "
For a movie with the word 'lovers” in the title, Two Lovers may be a dark and dreary affair, but one not without its rewards." Posted Feb 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh (2009) | "
Her story has inspired millions, so why does she comes across as such a pill in the new documentary Blessed is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh?" Posted Jan 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Chandni Chowk to China (2009) | "
Chandni Chowk to China never captures our imagination the way those twin Tarantino films did, mostly thanks to a lead character who’s too dumb to root for, much less believe in." Posted Jan 21, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| Adam Resurrected (2008) | "
Watching an entire film revolving around Goldblum becomes an exercise in frustration." Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 45%
| Antarctica (2008) | "
Manages to combine sizzling sex scenes with an actual heart, putting all of the low-budget gay trash that American audiences must suffer through to shame." Posted Dec 3, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 12%
| Lake City (2008) | "
All of these movies uneasily coexist under the umbrella title of Lake City, which is a shame because Sissy Spacek can be found wasting a genuinely affecting performance in this mess." Posted Nov 20, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| We Are Wizards (2008) | "
A better approach would have been one that focused less on a child’s home movies and performances and more on why he’s on stage singing about an imaginary wizard." Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| The Guitar (2008) | "
After spending 45 of the movie’s 95 minutes in an orgy of consumerism, The Guitar suddenly speeds up its tempo and begins bombarding us with plot developments." Posted Nov 5, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Max Payne (2008) | "
Max Payne is one of those ludicrous action movies based on a videogame that’s all style and little substance." Posted Oct 22, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 20%
| The Elephant King (2008) | "
If Grossman had found something more to say about life in Thailand other than that almost any attractive woman there can be had for money, The Elephant King might have more potency." Posted Oct 15, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 49%
| Good Dick (2008) | "
Good Dick manages to be a squirmily charming romantic movie, chockablock with surprising details." Posted Oct 15, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Sex Drive (2008) | "
Maybe Sex Drive wouldn’t be such a slobbering excuse for a comedy if anyone involved had shown one iota of originality." Posted Oct 15, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 46%
| Breakfast with Scot (2008) | "
Having the straight Tom Cavanagh and Ben Shenkman play the unwilling gay dads in Breakfast with Scot may seem like a disappointment, but this quirky, surprisingly refreshing comedy has a few tricks up its sleeve." Posted Oct 8, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 37%
| How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) | "
By some bizarre alchemy, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People has been translated to the screen as a Judd Apatow romantic comedy crossed with The Devil Wears Prada." Posted Oct 8, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| The Duchess (2008) | "
Though screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher has stuffed plenty of high-octane incidents into his script, none of them really register." Posted Sep 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 35%
| The Lucky Ones (2008) | "
Perhaps if The Lucky Ones wasn’t so crammed with incidents, the absurd coincidences wouldn’t be so grating." Posted Sep 24, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| Hounddog (2008) | "
As anyone could have predicted about a movie that generated so much negative buzz for its depiction of the rape of a young girl in rural Alabama during the 1950s, Hounddog is entirely underwhelming." Posted Sep 17, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2008) | "
Maybe if Everybody Wants To Be Italian were even intermittently funny, the stereotypes wouldn’t matter." Posted Sep 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| YPF (2008) | "
A smart and funny look at how people react under extreme sexual pressure." Posted Aug 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| I Served the King of England (2008) | "
The film remains a strange comic fable about finding happiness in the most outlandish of places." Posted Aug 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Year of the Fish (2008) | "
Year of the Fish does feature more than enough clever moments and ideas to compensate for forcing audiences to sit through yet another tale of a woman who needs a man to rescue her from a life of drudgery." Posted Aug 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| I.O.U.S.A. (2008) | "
For a topic as inherently boring as economics, [director Patrick] Creadon has managed a creditable job of keeping our attention throughout I.O.U.S.A." Posted Aug 20, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Baghead (2008) | "
But what makes Baghead more than just a hipster version of The Blair Witch Project (young filmmakers in the woods, being terrified) is the bromance at its core." Posted Jul 23, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| Take (2008) | "
While Take has a few moments of eye-rolling absurdity, the film has a way of slithering under your skin and staying there." Posted Jul 16, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 61%
| Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) | "
While the actual meat of the film features at least one spectacular sequence involving a chasm and floating magnetic rocks, the rest is marred by badly conceived 3-D effects." Posted Jul 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 14%
| Holding Trevor (2007) | "
In Holding Trevor, there’s a depressed form of anger bubbling beneath the surface." Posted Jul 2, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 65%
| Brick Lane (2008) | "
Fewer incendiary incidents and a red pencil applied to the script might have freed the good movie that’s buried somewhere beneath layers of unearned emotional conflict." Posted Jun 18, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 43%
| The Go-Getter (2008) | "
More than a movie about becoming an adult, The Go-Getter is a feature-length audition reel for Deschanel to finally get the roles she deserves." Posted Jun 4, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Stuck (2007) | "
That Stuck is mostly based an actual event is frightening, but ultimately irrelevant thanks to Suvari’s and Rea’s nuanced performances." Posted May 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 44%
| The Strangers (2008) | "
Any good thriller should make you worry about walking through the door and into your dark apartment, but The Strangers may prevent you from ever going home again." Posted May 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Yella (2007) | "
Somehow, this tightrope walk between the supernatural and underhanded business deals (call it Carnival of Michael Clayton) manages the neat trick of keeping its balance." Posted May 14, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Sangre de Mi Sangre (2008) | "
To write Sangre off as an unglamorous fairytale devalues what screenwriter/director Zalla achieves." Posted May 14, 2008 |
Rotten
| Rotten 31%
| The Babysitters (2008) | "
By undermining the subtle feminism of his movie, [director] Ross ends up undermining the whole thing, culminating in a terrifying parking-lot scene that doesn’t quite make sense." Posted May 7, 2008 |
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