Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 85%
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009) | "
Frankly, the story isn't remotely as interesting as Cage. Nothing is." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 85%
| Red Cliff (2009) | "
It's almost 2 1/2 hours, and too much is corny, cramped, and vague." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 28%
| Ninja Assassin (2009) | "
The credits for Ninja Assassin list two screenwriters and one director. But it's fair to say the movie has come straight out of a box." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 91%
| Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) | "
Avoiding the conventional tricks of lifting an audience up, the movie looks into this girl's wide, brown face and her bleak little life and sees, despite everything, a reason to live." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 90%
| The Messenger (2009) | "
A forcefully acted and peculiar emotional drama..." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 73%
| The Blind Side (2009) | "
Oher’s life is meant to make us feel good, and it mostly does. But how good we feel about his story is proportional to how blind we’re willing to be about how it’s told." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 82%
| Black Dynamite (2009) | "
Before an hour has passed tedium overtakes Black Dynamite -- one corny martial-arts sequence turns out to be plenty -- and all the good jokes dry up." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 69%
| (Untitled) (2009) | "
A serious comedy in which the assorted players - a couple of artists, some gallerists, and the people who attend (or don’t attend) their shows - discuss what art is, what it should aspire to be, and what kind of people collect, exhibit, and consider it." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 67%
| William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe () | "
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe is indeed about the radical-leftist attorney. But this engrossing and provocative documentary is also about a tragic kind of liberal guilt." — Boston Globe Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 94%
| Munyurangabo (2009) |
Click here to read article — Boston Globe Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 95%
| 35 Shots of Rum (2009) | "
I liked these characters, and suddenly not having them in my life anymore, simply because Denis has decided to start the closing credits, devastated me." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
Watching Jackson pop, lock, rock, writhe, thrust, and clutch his crotch, even at 50 percent, leaves a feeling of woe: This show really would have been major." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 28, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 45%
| Saw VI (2009) | "
Who knew that the franchise’s creators would eventually find a plot twist that made sense?" — Boston Globe Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 26%
| Motherhood (2009) | "
You can see the movie wants to comment on all the frustrations of urban motherhood, but it does so only shallowly. How did having children kill Eliza’s “fiercely lyrical’’ fiction career? The movie isn’t that political or reflective." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 94%
| Good Hair (2009) | "
If you arrive at Good Hair never having thought about the complexities of black hair, bring a notebook. If you are a black woman wearing a weave, bring a tissue." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 23%
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | "
Like a lot of action-movie directors, Gray lacks the imagination to view the art of cat-and-mouse as more than a chance to play with state-of-the-art war technology." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 42%
| New York, I Love You (2009) | "
How could so ethnically and artistically diverse a field of filmmakers produce a work of such lifeless uniformity?" — Boston Globe Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 93%
| The Damned United (2009) | "
While it’s true that a couple of the characters are vivid creations, it’s hard to glean what else Morgan sees in this story, which he adapted from a novel by David Peace, besides a showcase for Sheen. Mostly, that’s enough." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 80%
| Earth Days (2009) | "
Earth Days captures those years when through sheer relentlessness, activists broke through to the public and put the mounting disaster at its doorstep." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 34%
| St. Trinian's (2009) | "
Sadly, the movie is a zoo." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 96%
| The Beaches of Agnes (2009) | "
Varda recalls her childhood, her adulthood, her politics, and how both her films and her two children were born. She doesn’t just show us, she takes us inside of it all, inside of her. It’s a reverie." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 65%
| Coco Before Chanel (2009) | "
You know they’re out of ideas when all Tautou does is walk and look around, then walk and look around some more. It’s as if she’s window-shopping for another movie. The one she’s in isn’t terrible. But it’s not interesting, either." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 75%
| Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) | "
Isn’t every Michael Moore film ultimately about capitalism? This one just has a more facetious title." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 82%
| Whip It (2009) | "
Barrymore has so thoroughly laced Whip It with her own lunatic affections for women and the human race in general that it ought to be sold as an antidepressant." — Boston Globe Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) | "
It’d be nice to see an American filmmaker commit a similar reckoning with the Watts riots, the Weather Underground, or the Black Power movement, not simply resort to cant and kitsch but to really interpret those moments." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 28%
| Fame (2009) | "
Lives are spared in this sugarless new version of Alan Parker’s movie and the TV show it spawned. But innocent songs and unsuspecting dance routines are hacked to bits." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 88%
| Amreeka (2009) | "
This sensitively made movie is more than dim Americans making terrorist jokes. It’s one of the richer movies you’re likely to see about average Arabs in America." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 84%
| The September Issue (2009) | "
What emerges is a kind of comic thriller about the insult of having hard work ignored or heartlessly omitted, as Wintour does to several images from one of Coddington’s photo shoots." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 56%
| 9 (2009) | "
What I loved about 9 is how much evident care its makers have put into it." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
There’s classic screwball comedy lurking in this material, a cynic’s recognition that the world runs crookedly. But the movie is logy and repetitive." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 85%
| World's Greatest Dad (2009) | "
At times, the film recalls some amalgam of Heathers’ and Election,’ but its talons don’t draw the same blood." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 29%
| The Final Destination (2009) | "
The Final Destination is the movie equivalent of a struggling strip-mall store wedged between Metro PCS and a pawn shop. Someone please foreclose." — Boston Globe Posted Sep 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 77%
| It Might Get Loud (2009) | "
This is not a history of rock 'n' roll guitar. It's a movie-fantasy version of the "favorite music" section on Guggenheim’s Facebook page." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 27, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 92%
| The Way We Get By (2009) | "
Watching them issue hugs produces an involuntary response. You want to hug them, too." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 49%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
Lee has gone for shaggy comedy. Some of it is funny. Some of it just sits there." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 86%
| Fifty Dead Men Walking (2009) | "
Fifty Dead Men Walking provides another example of what happens when mediocre moviemaking meets an interesting life." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 93%
| Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2009) | "
This is as insightful a glimpse into a country’s cinema as you’re likely to see at this running time." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 90%
| 24 City (2009) | "
The director has an exquisite eye that keeps getting stronger and subtler. He trusts that beauty is vagueness’s alluring upside." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 75%
| Cold Souls (2009) | "
The movie turns what could have been a tedious meta-movie exercise into a sincere dour farce." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 91%
| Ponyo (2009) | "
Nothing in the great animation of a Miyazaki movie stays cute for long. Not the ocean, not the trees, not the critters that live in them. Change is constant but rarely natural." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 26%
| The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009) | "
The Goods has its exuberant moments. But the people behind the camera don’t appear to know what they’re doing as well as those in front of it." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 95%
| The Cove (2009) | "
The Cove is a thriller in a classical sense. It’s the first of these movies to tell a story with more than stock footage and on-camera interviews. It also smartly refracts a major ethical, ecological problem through the prism of guerrilla events." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 65%
| Adam (2009) | "
While it’s probable that this movie will bring Asperger’s to an audience that’s never heard of or experienced it, it’s also likely to bore them." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 6, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 25%
| The Collector (2009) | "
One trap leaves a woman impaled on a movie screen, producing an image that succinctly if literally sums up a genre’s cynicism." — Boston Globe Posted Aug 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 50%
| Died Young, Stayed Pretty (2009) | "
It’s apparent that Eileen Yaghoobian has almost no control over Died Young, Stayed Pretty. Ostensibly, her documentary is about the demise of rock-concert poster art. But few of the artists have anything enlightening to say about their craft." — Boston Globe Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 15%
| The Ugly Truth (2009) | "
The people responsible for The Ugly Truth were also responsible for Legally Blonde. That must have been a once-in-a-lifetime thing since this new movie is only half as entertaining as the other one." — Boston Globe Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 78%
| The End of the Line (2009) | "
This movie wants to cover every base without thinking very deeply about them. So while a lot of ground is covered in 80 brisk minutes, the information presented is only abstractly useful." — Boston Globe Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 63%
| One Day You'll Understand (2008) | "
[Director] Gitai works here from Jérôme Clément’s 2005 book about his mother. He whips something rich and delicate out of the story’s dramatic spareness." — Boston Globe Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 84%
| The Windmill Movie (2009) | "
A remarkable documentary attempt to reconcile Rogers’s sense of personal, professional, and artistic malaise, which culminated in his decades-long attempt to make a film about his life." — Boston Globe Posted Jul 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 84%
| Soul Power (2009) | "
Gluttons for these artists and for music festivals in general might wonder, as I have, whether there’s any way the filmmakers might share more of the remaining 123 1/2 hours." — Boston Globe Posted Jul 16, 2009 |
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