Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 98%
| The Wrestler (2008) | "
Mickey Rourke delivers such an unexpectedly moving, charming and physically impressive performance that he deserves some other award than Guy Who Gets Asked 'What The Hell Happened To You?' Most Often." Posted Jan 8, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 26%
| Punisher: War Zone (2008) | "
The ultraviolent third stab at Marvel's homicidal vigilante is the best and closest to the source material." Posted Dec 5, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 37%
| Transporter 3 (2008) | "
Another enjoyable if not particularly memorable installment." Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 64%
| Quantum of Solace (2008) | "
Marc Forster seems like a counterintuitive choice to direct an action spectacle. But any doubts I might have had flew out the window and splattered onto the hood of a parked car during an early, hellacious brawl." Posted Nov 13, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 73%
| Fear(s) of the Dark (2008) | "
Maybe different things scare the French. But I'll give them this: Prattling monologues can be unsettling." Posted Oct 31, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 65%
| Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) | "
It's all vintage Smith -- if you can say that about a 38-year-old -- just pushed a little further." Posted Oct 30, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 58%
| Sukiyaki Western Django (2008) | "
As much of a hoot as the movie is, it feels like just an exercise well before it ends." Posted Oct 3, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 69%
| Religulous (2008) | "
It's sharp and outrageously funny enough to keep it from coming off like a self-righteous screed and to keep Maher from looking like the Michael Moore of religion -- for the most part." Posted Oct 3, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 58%
| Humboldt County (2008) | "
A relaxed, sweetly amusing little indie effort that'll make you want to hang out with its inhabitants, except with better snack food than they have." Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 54%
| Choke (2008) | "
There's a lot going on in Choke, and it may be more than first-time director Clark Gregg can handle." Posted Sep 26, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 85%
| Ghost Town (2008) | "
Fans of Gervais' awkward, caustic brand of humor should be pleased to see him in a big Hollywood movie that'll make him more of a household name." Posted Sep 19, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 47%
| Lakeview Terrace (2008) | "
A racial thriller that may be the feel-bad movie of the summer." Posted Sep 19, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 62%
| Cthulhu (2008) | "
Too much about the movie is just amateurish." Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 20%
| Righteous Kill (2008) | "
What a waste." Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 77%
| Burn After Reading (2008) | "
A cruelly, insanely hilarious comedy populated with imbeciles whose appetites lead to giant helpings of Just Desserts." Posted Sep 12, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 61%
| Traitor (2008) | "
First-time director Jeffrey Nachmanoff, known for The Day After Tomorrow script, wrote the screenplay. Of all people, Steve Martin came up with the idea. It is neither wild nor crazy." Posted Aug 27, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 43%
| Death Race (2008) | "
Death Race should at least score points for its title, which is more apt than, say, Feelings Exploration. It's mostly a race, and there's a lot of death." Posted Aug 21, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 19%
| The Clone Wars (2008) | "
The new feature-length Star Wars cartoon is so cute that I want to hug it. Tightly. Until it stops breathing." Posted Aug 14, 2008 |
Rotten
| Fresh 68%
| Pineapple Express (2008) | "
Maybe I'd have thought this buddy-action-comedy was funnier and more exciting if I were as baked as its two heroes." Posted Aug 5, 2008 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 13%
| The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) | "
If movies were people, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor would be a total bimbo: nice-looking and kind of fun sometimes, but so unbearably empty and dumb that it doesn't matter." Posted Aug 1, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 90%
| Operation Filmmaker (2008) | "
If learning about other cultures shows that we're all basically alike, Operation Filmmaker is a reminder that foreign countries have their own share of nitwits, too." Posted Jul 25, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 80%
| Yella (2007) | "
An import non-thriller so enigmatic and subtle that it's inert." Posted Jul 11, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 87%
| Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) | "
Director Guillermo del Toro is a mad genius, and I want to get drunk with him." Posted Jul 10, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 72%
| Wanted (2008) | "
Director Timur Bekmambetov's gimmicks and the A-list cast sell the nonsense." Posted Jun 27, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 53%
| Get Smart (2008) | "
Despite what seemed (in the trailers, at least) like inspired casting of Steve Carell, the perpetrators of Get Smart almost entirely miss what made the Cold War TV spy comedy funny." Posted Jun 20, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 66%
| The Incredible Hulk (2008) | "
The relaunch of Marvel's green goliath is an improvement over director Ang Lee's ponderous 2003 Hulk in nearly every way." Posted Jun 13, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 53%
| The Promotion (2008) | "
The directorial debut of Pursuit of Happyness writer Steve Conrad, The Promotion carries a deadpan corporate-absurd whiff of Office Space but never quite scans." Posted Jun 13, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 55%
| The Foot Fist Way (2008) | "
Some bits fall flat well before they're driven into the ground, such as when Simmons tries to seduce a new female student. Others are painfully telegraphed so that when the payoff arrives, you've anticipated the blow and have become inured to it." Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 73%
| Stuck (2007) | "
Even though it may seem a long haul at just 85 minutes, it pays off by the time things finally start spiraling into hell." Posted Jun 6, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 77%
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) | "
[It's] the most ridiculously cartoonish of the four flicks -- but Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is still a lot of fun anyway." Posted May 21, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 75%
| OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2008) | "
Dujardin is what really makes it all work, though. He's an absolute riot, with Conneryesque looks and physicality, and the ability to segue into utter goofballery with a degree of arch-browed suaveness." Posted May 9, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 68%
| Redbelt (2008) | "
David Mamet's take on the trendy new world of mixed martial arts is a gem not quite like anything I've seen before — a smart, absorbing, anti-Hollywood, hypermacho look at what it is to be a true martial artist and a man." Posted May 9, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 93%
| Iron Man (2008) | "
The payoff of casting Downey is as big as the risk. He's not in the movie, he owns it in a way that makes it hard to imagine without him." Posted May 1, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 54%
| Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) | "
It's as if the filmmakers were doing something that impaired their concentration and made them lose focus on something they started." Posted Apr 25, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 37%
| Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) | "
Uh, Pakistan. Roll credits." Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 64%
| The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) | "
It might take a Zen master to explain exactly what audience this is aimed at." Posted Apr 18, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 57%
| Super High Me (2008) | "
However benign you may think its subject is, Super High Me is proof that stoned people are rarely as funny as they think they are, just the same as your coked-up friends are never as interesting as they think they sound." Posted Apr 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 37%
| Street Kings (2008) | "
The potential match made in crime heaven has some admirably gritty action but suffers from first-degree obviousness and some bad dialogue that's especially painful when it comes out of Keanu Reeves." Posted Apr 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 48%
| Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008) | "
Tere's nothing edgy or new about Run, Fat Boy, Run." Posted Mar 28, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 38%
| The Killing of John Lennon (2008) | "
It's well-constructed and acted, but mainly just left me feeling like I needed a shower after an exercise in voyeurism surrounding an event that's still hard to watch." Posted Mar 21, 2008 |
Rotten .5/4
| N/A | Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005) | "
To describe the film might imbue it with a coherence to which it doesn't aspire." Posted Mar 21, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 51%
| Funny Games (2008) | "
Are you complicit for watching the stuff? Would you be less of a jerk if you walked out? Is [Haneke] wallowing in the thing he's critiquing and consequently a bigger jerk?" Posted Mar 14, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 79%
| The Bank Job (2008) | "
Blending suspense, humor, period detail, interesting characters and bringing together a complex plot in an immensely satisfying way, [director Roger] Donaldson really pulled one off this time." Posted Mar 7, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 21%
| Semi-Pro (2008) | "
I laughed from start to finish at its relentlessly, energetically profane absurdity and a cast crammed with funny actors in even the smallest roles." Posted Feb 29, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 16%
| Jumper (2008) | "
A whole lot of teleporting [with] a story that seems unfinished." Posted Feb 13, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 80%
| In Bruges (2008) | "
A kind of eccentric, wisecracking Waiting for Godot that shifts gears into a bloody, unpredictable action spectacle that never loses its heart." Posted Feb 8, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 59%
| Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008) | "
Unfortunately, the four comics on the road trip are about on the level of your average Last Comic Standing contestant -- competent and just mildly funny, but unremarkable. Definitely no future Bill Hicks or Richard Pryor in the lot." Posted Feb 8, 2008 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 82%
| Teeth (2008) | "
[The] castration scenes aren't nearly as excruciating as his awkward timing and worse-than-obvious pacing." Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 37%
| Rambo (2008) | "
A grim, hyperviolent send-off that could give you post-traumatic stress disorder." Posted Jan 25, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 76%
| Cloverfield (2008) | "
It's a giant-monster movie from the point of view of some of those little people running and shrieking in the street -- and it works incredibly well." Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
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