Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 30%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
The irony in this movie about vampires is that the only thing doing any sucking is the movie itself." Film Freak Central Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 70%
| The Road (2009) | "
And unlike the better-than-the-book No Country for Old Men, it's only as good as the book. I guess I'm saying there's enough blame to go around." Film Freak Central Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 92%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
Sure, Anderson's making a statement about the human animal, but he proves no Aesop and Fantastic Mr. Fox is, alas, no Animal Farm." Film Freak Central Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| N/A | The Cell 2 () | "
They should've called it "The Cell 2: Poor Frank Whaley."" Film Freak Central Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 70%
| Night of the Creeps (1986) | "
I remember sort of loving it when I was twelve, meaning only that twelve-year-olds are idiots." Film Freak Central Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 86%
| Trick 'r Treat (2009) | "
It's not a smart movie." Film Freak Central Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 47%
| The Box (2009) | "
What The Box resembles most, in fact, is a distended episode of "The Simpsons"' annual Halloween special." Film Freak Central Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 87%
| Bedlam (1946) | "
Lewton had something to say. Perhaps inevitably, he found less interesting ways of saying it over the course of nine films in a short four years." Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 85%
| Isle of the Dead (1945) | "
quite bad" Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 79%
| The Body Snatcher (1945) | "
there's a fascination with the ultimate futility of ever being something beyond opportunistic and solipsistic." Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| N/A | Ghost Ship (1943) | "
It's almost noir in its pitting of an individual against a closed society." Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 90%
| The Seventh Victim (1943) | "
the gauziest, maybe the most influential, surely the most underestimated, Lewton production." Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 91%
| I Walked With a Zombie (1943) | "
Sultry, claustrophobic, the guilt repressed here is the spectre of slavery stencilled over another abandonment of another wife..." Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 86%
| Curse of the Cat People (1944) | "
Lewton's masterpiece" Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 94%
| Cat People (1942) | "
In its complexity, it functions as a sharp, canny blueprint for the rest of Lewton's pictures." Film Freak Central Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 70%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
the rare work of art in any media that actually evokes the experience of sadness, the sensation of melancholy, the mechanism of regret. We're lucky to have it." Film Freak Central Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Fresh 75%
| About Last Night... (1986) | "
It takes a lot in order for Jim Belushi to be the best actor in something." Film Freak Central Posted Oct 13, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 45%
| St. Elmo's Fire (1985) | "
there's a perceptive, brilliant essay buried somewhere in St. Elmo's Fire on the dangers of deeply, tragically stupid people trying to write the great American novel." Film Freak Central Posted Oct 13, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 41%
| Indecent Proposal (1993) | "
Yes, it's true: in this astonishingly distasteful bit of dreck, there is at the bottom a sappy little romance." Film Freak Central Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 80%
| Fatal Attraction (1987) | "
has the makings of a serious examination of adult relationships and interactions under duress, only to end as a seriocomic slasher film dictated by popular taste." Film Freak Central Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
...written so deliberately that the zombies aren't the only ones moaning and craving brains by the end." Film Freak Central Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 92%
| Go (1999) | "
It's fantastic stuff." Film Freak Central Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
a war film about war. That's rarer than you think." Film Freak Central Posted Aug 20, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 36%
| Sleuth (2007) | "
It requires a light touch; I admire Branagh a great deal, but not for his light touch." Film Freak Central Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
District 9 is the real deal. Hallelujah." Film Freak Central Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
a movie about freaks and geeks written by a famous millionaire married to Leslie Mann; is it any wonder that it loses its way?" Film Freak Central Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 36%
| Southland Tales (2007) | "
It's the sort of experience you feel embarrassed about even though you had nothing to do with it, because it's not just a mess, it's a pretentious mess" Film Freak Central Posted Jul 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 61%
| Valkyrie (2008) | "
It's the perfect film for our age of reassessment and ambiguity." Film Freak Central Posted Jul 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 46%
| The Ruins (2008) | "
If it could happen to these kids, smart and beautiful, then it sure as shit is going to happen to me." Film Freak Central Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 83%
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) | "
An ungainly tween romcom sprinkled arbitrarily with a sudden horde of amphibious zombies; inexplicable cameos from Ursa, Non, and Zod; and silly broomstick rugby." Film Freak Central Posted Jul 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 51%
| Easy Virtue (2009) | "
It's only a surprise if you haven't seen his other films." Film Freak Central Posted Jul 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 40%
| Waterworld (1995) | "
actually pretty good" Film Freak Central Posted Jul 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 92%
| Enchanted (2007) | "
Inaugurates an entirely new demographic into the formula machination of the chick-flick (marital edition)." Film Freak Central Posted Jul 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 40%
| 27 Dresses (2008) | "
there's a desire to see their characters displaced into a better film with more on its mind than to be better than it should be because of its casting director." Film Freak Central Posted Jul 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 28%
| What Happens in Vegas (2008) | "
a funny movie about the sexes that doesn't diminish either gender in its execution--a tougher task, obviously, than one would presume." Film Freak Central Posted Jul 12, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 22%
| Catch and Release (2007) | "
...harbours a secret crush on Gray but, hey, so does everybody, since Gray has fairies and butterflies flying out of her vagina." Film Freak Central Posted Jul 12, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 12%
| Bride Wars (2009) | "
reptilian, hateful stuff, biologically engineered to disrespect--with maximum efficiency--the precise demographic to which it targets itself." Film Freak Central Posted Jul 12, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 45%
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | "
Beyond pointless." Film Freak Central Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 67%
| Public Enemies (2009) | "
a collection of beautiful pictures as inert as a coffee-table book." Film Freak Central Posted Jun 30, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| Roxanne (1987) | "
for all the things this movie is, it's probably Martin's fault." Film Freak Central Posted Jun 24, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 19%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
It's all so last administration." Film Freak Central Posted Jun 23, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 58%
| Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) | "
The popularity of over-scored, "let's hug" bullshit like Robin Hood predicts the certainty of a one-term George H.W. presidency better than any number of Gallup polls." Film Freak Central Posted Jun 15, 2009 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 52%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
the worst kind of dreck" Film Freak Central Posted Jun 11, 2009 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 21%
| The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) | "
It's just like us to be arrogant enough to believe, like Marvell's coy mistress, that our cherry is the ripest for busting of the lot." Film Freak Central Posted Jun 9, 2009 |
N/A | Fresh 93%
| Sugar (2009) | "
An interview with Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck" Film Freak Central Posted Jun 9, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 60%
| The Fall (2008) | "
I wonder if it's unforgivable heresy to say The Cell is badly underestimated and due for revisionism while The Fall, despite its relative obscurity, is badly overestimated." Film Freak Central Posted Jun 9, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 67%
| 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) | "
What is 2010 but a conservative Cold War "message" flick." Film Freak Central Posted Jun 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 98%
| Up (2009) | "
There's still something breathless about Up, but I wonder if the Pixar formula isn't starting to show its seams..." Film Freak Central Posted May 28, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 95%
| Being There (1979) | "
a product not of Ashby's essential modesty but of Kosinski's essential egoism." Film Freak Central Posted May 20, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 32%
| Terminator Salvation (2009) | "
shooting guns at things that aren't harmed by guns... following which there will be cheap philosophizing and the promise of another sequel." Film Freak Central Posted May 20, 2009 |