Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 46%
| Everybody's Fine (2009) | "
... earnest piffle ..." Posted Dec 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 23%
| Planet 51 (2009) | "
... characters are as thin and unengaging as the animation is sleek and shiny." Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 71%
| The Blind Side (2009) | "
... could wind up giving inspirational sports pictures a good name." Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
... unapologetically worshipful, but it delivers." Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 18%
| The Fourth Kind (2009) | "
... a sophisticated hoax ..." Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
... the heart of the story is there, and Zemeckis honors and respects it." Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 94%
| Good Hair (2009) | "
... subject is interesting, [the] treatment is entertaining, and the movie has thoughtful things to say ..." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 65%
| Coco Before Chanel (2009) | "
Audrey Tatou may have been born to play Coco Chanel ..." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 48%
| Astro Boy (2009) | "
... the familiarity gives it the elemental power of a fairy tale." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 72%
| The Boys Are Back (2009) | "
... flirts dangerously around the outskirts of melodrama." Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 70%
| My One and Only (2009) | "
... Zellweger shines in the middle of it all ..." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 28%
| Fame (2009) | "
... no worse than the original, but that's plenty bad enough." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 62%
| Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) |
Click here to read article Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 84%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
... [Jane] Campion is on solid ground here, and she treads it respectfully." Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2005) | "
... another deft mixture of sentiment and family melodrama ..." Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 85%
| Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) | "
... enjoyable kid stuff ..." Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 6%
| All About Steve (2009) | "
... hopelessly harebrained ..." Posted Sep 13, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 78%
| It Might Get Loud (2009) | "
It really should be about the music, not the talk." Posted Sep 13, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 65%
| Adam (2009) | "
... a confident, surefooted dramatic comedy about an uncertain, tentative romance." Posted Aug 31, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 38%
| The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) | "
... a science-fiction date flick, tailor-made to draw the chicks and the dudes in equal numbers ..." Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 45%
| Shorts (2009) | "
It's perfectly silly, but irresistible fun." Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 80%
| Bandslam (2009) | "
The music is the movie's best feature, but even that's not much..." Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 91%
| Ponyo (2009) | "
Those who consider Miyazaki a filmmaking master will probably consider this another one of his masterpieces." Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 36%
| G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) | "
... marginally better than the Transformers franchise (not that the bar was all that high) ..." Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 86%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
... actually dares to invite comparison with Annie Hall ... [and] manages, against all odds, to stand up under it." Posted Aug 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 83%
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) | "
A boy behind me at the screening I attended put it succinctly: 'That was the most boringest movie I ever saw!'" Posted Jul 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 66%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
...Johnny Depp and Christian Bale playing cops and robbers in fedoras and pinstripe suits." Posted Jul 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 47%
| My Sister's Keeper (2009) | "
...a high-class tear-jerker thanks to an intelligent script...sensitive direction...and strong performances..." Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 45%
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | "
...again stale sitcom stuff with lame pop culture references..." Posted Jul 3, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 43%
| The Proposal (2009) | "
...formula filmmaking at its coldest..." Posted Jun 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 36%
| Angels & Demons (2009) | "
...too long and ponderous for its own good, but Howard and Co. gloss over or eliminate most of the more outlandish howlers in Brown's preposterous story." Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 44%
| Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) | "
...what the heck, it's fun on the same level as the original..." Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 98%
| Up (2009) | "
...adventure, humor and beauty to spare." Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| Tyson (2009) | "
[Mike Tyson] could hardly have wished for a more sympathetic protrait." Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 10%
| My Life in Ruins (2009) | "
...it's hard to like the movie as much as you might wish." Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 25%
| Land of the Lost (2009) | "
...[Will] Ferrell's talents don't extend to making something out of a nothing script." Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 38%
| Imagine That (2009) | "
...a rather sweet allegory about trusting the imaginary child within." Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 51%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
...would probably have been even better if the two stars had switched roles..." Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Rotten 0/5
| Fresh 78%
| The Hangover (2009) | "
To call it 'atrocious' and 'loathsome' is to pussyfoot around the truth." Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 73%
| Rudo and Cursi (2009) | "
...a gentle touch and a brisk pace, but the gain-the-world-and-lose-you-soul moralizing is a bit too pat and predictable." Posted May 21, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 22%
| Next Day Air (2009) | "
...an oppressive parade of unsavory and unlikeable losers." Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
J.J. Abrams has raised the craft of rejuvenating a movie franchise to something like a fine art." Posted May 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 84%
| State of Play (2009) | "
...a rather conventional political thriller with a terrific cast..." Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 58%
| 17 Again (2009) | "
Efron makes th emost of the stale script, but there's not that much to be made of it." Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Fresh 63%
| Crank High Voltage (2009) | "
...just as sloppily caffeinated as before, with an extra layer of scummy race jokes." Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 41%
| Fighting (2009) | "
...shapeless and sloppy..." Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 14%
| The Informers (2009) | "
...a dreary, loosely connected parade of drug-, drink- and sex-sodden lost souls." Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 86%
| Earth (2009) | "
...if not exactly innovative, at least breathtaking on a how-in-the-world-did-they-get-that-shot level." Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 27%
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | "
All in all, it's a pleasantly familiar way to spend two hours." Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 19%
| Obsessed (2009) | "
...performances are convincing for as long as the script will allow." Posted May 1, 2009 |
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