Fresh
| Fresh 73%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
What stays with you is the sadness. There's an almost unbearable undertow of melancholy in director Spike Jonze's awkward, arty adaptation of Maurice Sendak's 1963 picture book." Posted Oct 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| A Serious Man (2009) | "
Grappling with massive cosmic mysteries on a deceptively mundane stage, it's a film about the silence of God, seething with profound existential panic... viewed through the hilariously cracked prism of everyday suburban minutiae." Posted Oct 27, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
It has a lot more in common with Little Miss Sunshine than just Abigail Breslin." Posted Sep 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
The sublime Damon has a ridiculous moustache, a bad toupee and carries himself with the supreme confidence of a man who has no idea he's acting like an imbecile." Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009) | "
Hustling like a blockbuster action flick, it's a crash course in domestic terrorism as rock n' roll adrenaline rush." Posted Sep 8, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| World's Greatest Dad (2009) | "
Brilliantly cynical in dealing with grief as a fashion statement... exposing the vanity of mourning in public and our often absurd sanctification of the dead." Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Husbands (1970) | "
Cassavetes' most dangerous and unfiltered expression of masculine anxiety -- a raw, deliberately off-putting masterpiece." Posted Aug 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
After you've watched a doomed alien race become obsessed with cat food and Nigerian prostitutes, gunfights don't seem all that impressive anymore." Posted Aug 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
Streep nimbly apes that famous warbly voice and bemused laugh, clomping around the set like a delightful giantess." Posted Aug 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
Bitterly clear-eyed about the consequences of Apatowian perpetual adolescence, it's a dark movie that comes from somewhere deeply personal." Posted Aug 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Tetro (2009) | "
A dazzling mess... it throbs with an excess of emotion and idealistic, cuckoo daring." Posted Jul 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
A wonky art-house curio disguised as a summer blockbuster... it's also one hell of a Western." Posted Jul 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Moon (2009) | "
There's a marvelous sense of isolation in the picture's cold, aloof setting and classical, still frames." Posted Jul 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 47%
| Whatever Works (2009) | "
David's human sandpaper delivery gives a full, deep voice to Allen's reckless misanthropy." Posted Jul 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 54%
| Cheri (2009) | "
What a drag it is getting old." Posted Jul 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
Not a movie likely to be enjoyed by cat lovers..." Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
More than any Trek project in decades, this one conjures the camaraderie, the easy humor and most important the swagger we associate with headstrong Jim Kirk and his logical, pointy-eared pal." Posted May 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Tyson (2009) | "
It's like a Spalding Gray monologue performed by a maniac." Posted May 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 62%
| Crank High Voltage (2009) | "
Bigger, dumber and even sicker than the rotgut original... I had a blast, but don't say you weren't warned." Posted Apr 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Sugar (2009) | "
Of course, calling a movie 'too humane' isn't really all that much of a complaint..." Posted Apr 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Amarcord (1974) | "
Watching the movie feels like flipping through a cartoon sketchbook of Fellini's vivid remembrances and formative experiences." Posted Apr 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
Like a John Hughes movie directed by Francois Truffaut...gangly, deeply felt and just lovely." Posted Mar 31, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | "
It's not great -- but it's not bad -- and it's the first DreamWorks animated flick that won't feel dated by the time it hits home video." Posted Mar 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Duplicity (2009) | "
A fluffy, comedic sequel to CLOSER... breezy, delightful and bitterly hilarious." Posted Mar 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Two Lovers (2009) | "
While I'll concede that on some level it's fairly absurd, I also found it impossible not to be swept up in the film's gonzo sincerity..." Posted Feb 24, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| The Class (2008) | "
This is a marvelous film." Posted Feb 10, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 57%
| Taken (2009) | "
Junk, reactionary father-knows-best-because-he-used-to-murder-people-for-a-living nonsense, implicitly reinforcing all sorts of xenophobic paranoias and insidious patriarchal hierarchies. It's also absurdly entertaining." Posted Jan 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| The Wrestler (2008) | "
Welcome back, Mickey. It's been too long." Posted Jan 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Gran Torino (2008) | "
Clumsy and crude, yet preposterously entertaining throughout -- the movie plays like catnip to longtime Clint Eastwood fans." Posted Dec 25, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Milk (2008) | "
Like the inclusive American ideals its hero so staunchly advocates, this movie is open to everybody." Posted Dec 10, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| Quantum of Solace (2008) | "
How fascinating is it that 2008's two most inconsolable, borderline psychotic movie heroes are Batman and James Bond?" Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 65%
| Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) | "
Even old dogs can learn new tricks, and Kevin Smith just directed a good movie." Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| W. (2008) | "
Stone has accomplished something I would've thought impossible: he made me feel sorry for this miserable son of a bitch." Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Rachel Getting Married (2008) | "
There's so much joy in this movie... and also such pain." Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 97%
| Trouble the Water (2008) | "
A real-life CLOVERFIELD... only infinitely scarier." Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 74%
| A Girl Cut in Two (2008) | "
Chabrol keeps such rigid formal control of the material that it feels more momentous than such a tawdry tale has any right to." Posted Oct 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) | "
Woody Allen's best film in years... talk about damning with faint praise. Vicky Cristina Barcelona is hardly a return to form, but it'll do." Posted Aug 28, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Flow: For Love of Water (2008) | "
There are more than 116,000 manmade chemicals floating around our allegedly clean H2O supply. One scientist even points to the recent discovery of Prozac in Texas tap water (which, come to think of it, actually explains a lot about the Lone Star State.)" Posted Aug 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 63%
| Hamlet 2 (2008) | "
Director Andrew Fleming tends to err on the side of volume, blowing up jokes two or three sizes larger than they probably needed to be. But all sins are quickly forgiven once the curtain rises on Mr. Marschz's Opus." Posted Aug 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Pineapple Express (2008) | "
A warm and fuzzy sendup of Reagan-era action-film iconography, it's sort of like what might happen if Cheech and Chong played Tango and Cash." Posted Aug 27, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| The Dark Knight (2008) | "
The movie may fall shy of greatness, but that's not for lack of trying." Posted Jul 16, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 93%
| Encounters At the End of the World (2007) | "
As far as this summer's movie doomsday prophecies go, Herzog's feels somehow strangely brighter and more upbeat than even Wall-E." Posted Jul 9, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 96%
| Up The Yangtze (2007) | "
This, the film argues, is the way of the future: One form of poverty-stricken squalor replaced by a tackier, more plasticized life of similarly deadend subservience, all in the guise of economic progress." Posted Jul 6, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) | "
What a relief that Crystal Skull turns out to be a serviceable little nostalgia piece. I'm not sure there's any compelling reason for it to exist, but it's a fun night out at the movies. No more than that -- and certainly no less." Posted May 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| The Flight of the Red Balloon (2008) | "
If you're patient enough, an affecting melancholy seeps through. Some scenes are maddeningly vague, but others wonderful and mysterious, capturing a child's plaintive wide-eyed perspective for a few gorgeous, fleeting moments." Posted May 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 40%
| Zombie Strippers (2008) | "
Over the years I've seen Jenna Jameson do lot of things in a lot of movies, but I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've ever seen her reading Nietzsche." Posted May 21, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 84%
| Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) | "
The smartest thing about Segel's script is its spirit of generosity. It's a pleasure spending time with these people, and that affection lingers after the lights come up." Posted Apr 20, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Shine a Light (2008) | "
Smiling self-mockery plays a big part, and if the movie is actually about anything, it's about aging gracefully into a cuddly caricature of your former self." Posted Apr 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| Under the Same Moon (2008) | "
This American Tail for the Lou Dobbs era probably shouldn't work as well as it does, but even we hardened film critics can get a little mushy sometimes." Posted Apr 3, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| Snow Angels (2008) | "
This wonderfully distinctive filmmaker is suffering growing pains, trying to wrestle his meandering, oddball sensibilities into the requirements of conventional genre forms." Posted Mar 29, 2008 |
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