Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 96%
| Chop Shop (2007) | "
Iranian-American filmmaker Ramin Bahrani showed great compassion for New York's underclass with his first feature, Man Push Cart, and his storytelling skill has only sharpened with this riveting followup." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 29, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 21%
| Semi-Pro (2008) | "
For die-hard Ferrell fans, this could be the ultimate test. He has been playing variations of Elf for five years, and his antics have grown as stale as Jackie's socks." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 29, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 16%
| Jumper (2008) | "
Given its uninvolving story, uninteresting characters and the presence of half-man/half-tree Hayden Christensen, the movie is wholly dependent on special effects, which I rate only so-so." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 14, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 79%
| The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) | "
Happily, Highmore has no trouble grasping the task at hand. As both the thoughtful Simon and the brash Jared, he transports himself into this literal faerie tale with such convincing enthusiasm, he turns us into believers, too." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 14, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 80%
| In Bruges (2008) | "
There are good moments laced through the severely uneven In Bruges, but the best reason for seeing it is Bruges itself." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 8, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 59%
| Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008) | "
The tour stops may have been successful, as Vaughn claims, but the documentary of it comes off more as a well-intentioned vanity production than the career launching pad he envisioned." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 8, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 84%
| Live and Become (2008) | "
Both a love story and inspirational tale of an individual finding peace with himself in a hostile environment." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 1, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 15%
| Over Her Dead Body (2008) | "
The worst night at the movies in this young year." — New York Daily News Posted Feb 1, 2008 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 55%
| Trailer Park Boys - The Movie (2008) | "
Canada may have a better health care system than ours, but the popularity of the TV show Trailer Park Boys proves that when it comes to low-brow entertainment, they can go lower than Jerry Springer." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 48%
| Lost in Beijing (2008) | "
When a rapist (Tony Leung) is the second-most sympathetic character in a story about greed, duplicity and adultery among four people, it needs a more forgiving audience than me." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 96%
| 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) | "
...a true horror story." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 92%
| U2 3D (2008) | "
The concert itself is spectacularly produced, with Jumbotrons providing backdrop and long, curving runways that allow Bono and other band members to move far out into the crowd." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 13%
| The Air I Breathe (2007) | "
I can't fault any of the actors for anything other than bad judgment. Their performances are fine, but a good fortune cookie might have told them to stay away from this." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 37%
| Rambo (2008) | "
The enemies so comically monstrous and their deaths so gory, that you may just throw your head back and roar with laughter." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 14%
| Untraceable (2008) | "
Untraceable essentially forces its audience to identify with those who would be willing accomplices to torture and murder." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 21%
| Day Zero (2008) | "
Truth to be told, it's hard to care." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 82%
| Teeth (2008) | "
Actor turned writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein has bitten into one of the oldest myths in human folklore with Teeth, an imaginatively demented horror-comedy." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 91%
| Still Life (2008) | "
These searches are not particularly suspenseful or emotionally stirring, but they're excuse enough for us to take in the breath-taking views of Three Gorges, the river and the razing of buildings along its banks." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 46%
| Cassandra's Dream (2008) | "
A dreary tale of two loser brothers who agree to become assassins in exchange for financial help from their corrupt uncle." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 77%
| Cloverfield (2008) | "
It's fun in its morbidly campy way." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| Woman on the Beach (2006) | "
The scenery's great and the performances adequate, but wake me when it's over." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 11, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 80%
| The Business Of Being Born (2008) | "
Passionate, enlightening and unabashedly one-sided, Abby Epstein's documentary is not for everyone. But at the very least, it should be seen by every pregnant woman in America." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 86%
| The Orphanage (2007) | "
The last act is laced with surprises, but, unfortunately, none that you might call pleasant." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 2, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 38%
| The Killing of John Lennon (2008) | "
Piddington does a beautiful balancing act, creating a movie that works both on the level of suspense and as a detailed factual chronicle." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 2, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 67%
| Honeydripper (2007) | "
Honeydripper takes forever to develop its characters, its period and its location. But once it's done all that, the payoffs are rich." — New York Daily News Posted Jan 2, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 62%
| Smiley Face (2007) | "
One shudders to think what Smiley Face might have been with someone like Paris Hilton in the role. But Faris has this character -- a bright, sweet college graduate with a temporarily incapacitated brain -- down perfect." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 26, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 96%
| Persepolis (2007) | "
The black-and-white animation won't dazzle your eyes, but everything else about Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's adaptation of Satrapi's graphic comic book series Persepolis will hold you in its thrall." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 26, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 42%
| The Bucket List (2007) | "
Despite some emotional dips and a see-it-to-believe-it load of schmaltz at the end, The Bucket List is mostly a joy ride with good company, and the actors obviously were having a high time on their traveling boondoggle." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 26, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 91%
| There Will Be Blood (2007) | "
Blood does not release its grip on the audience until its last, bizarrely crazy minutes." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 26, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 79%
| The Great Debaters (2007) | "
It's an inspirational film that wears its heart on its sleeve. But it's got a good, strong heart and, despite some awkward moments in the later going, it's an elegantly directed second effort from Washington." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 26, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 74%
| Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) | "
There are a few too many lazy jokes played off Dewey's last name, but not nearly enough to wipe that grin off your face." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 51%
| Steep (2007) | "
The movie takes us to the most dangerous peaks of the French Alps and to the breath-taking slopes of southeastern Alaska that are accessible only by helicopter." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 85%
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) | "
Depp may not be a trained singer, but his voice is more than passable, and his presence -- his Sweeney is Edward Scissorhands gone bad -- is perfect." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 31%
| National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007) | "
All you can do is sit and watch, and wish there was more wonder." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 22%
| P.S. I Love You (2007) | "
P.S. Why should we care?" — New York Daily News Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 77%
| A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007) | "
This is one for the Warhol archives, not theaters." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 14, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 60%
| Look (2007) | "
Orwell would have loved it." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 14, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 30%
| Youth Without Youth (2007) | "
The year's most bizarre novelty item." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 14, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 66%
| The Kite Runner (2007) | "
The movie has two extraordinary characters and performances. Non-pro Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada breaks your heart as the innocent, wide-eyed child Hassan, and Homayoun Ershadi makes Amir's father a model of intuitive decency." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 14, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 69%
| I Am Legend (2007) | "
The Manhattan movie of the year, Francis Lawrence's I Am Legend, offers a stunning glimpse into how the city -- as we know it today -- might look in 2012 if it were abandoned in 2009." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 14, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| 'Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris (2007) | "
The film serves him well, replaying a few surviving recordings that make clear what a beautifully melodious voice he had and what a talent went wasted." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 7, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 12%
| Strength and Honour (2007) | "
There is not a real character to be found, nor a single convincing punch thrown. But I do like the name 'Smasher'." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 7, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 53%
| The Walker (2007) | "
When a good actor makes a bad choice, he can only hope to be saved by his director, and Woody Harrelson didn't get that hand from Paul Schrader while filming The Walker." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 7, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 82%
| Atonement (2007) | "
It is an amazing story, filled with quiet moments of profundity and more surprises than you could imagine." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 7, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 42%
| The Golden Compass (2007) | "
Represents the year's biggest gamble -- and it delivers the year's biggest and most ambitious fantasy." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 7, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 93%
| Juno (2007) | "
It is certainly the feel-good movie of the season, and credit for that goes to the gifted [director] Reitman, novice screenwriter Diablo Cody and the film's sensational lead actress, Ellen Page." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 5, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 85%
| The Hoax (2007) | "
It's hard to get a fix on what Hallstrom had in mind." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 4, 2007 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 24%
| Awake (2007) | "
Possibly the worst movie of 2007, and certainly the worst movie ever made featuring the spirits of dying people discussing their futures and sharing mortal flashbacks." — New York Daily News Posted Dec 2, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 75%
| Oswald's Ghost (2007) | "
[A] meticulously researched, seemingly unbiased summary of the [JFK] killing and the major conspiracy theories." — New York Daily News Posted Nov 30, 2007 |
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