Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 49%
| Twilight (2008) | "
Twilight is mostly elegantly put together, though anything having to do with the pack of bad vampires is disastrous..." Posted Nov 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 37%
| 2012 (2009) | "
In the final forty-five minutes the movie starts to feel very long and played-out." Posted Nov 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 29%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
New Moon doesn't have much of a plot; the bulk of it is Bella moping around. But director Chris Weitz knows a thing or two about love..." Posted Nov 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 84%
| Pontypool (2009) | "
An entertaining cerebral chiller." Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 86%
| Trick 'r Treat (2009) | "
This movie loves Halloween so much you can almost taste the candy corn." Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| N/A | Sidewalk Stories (1989) | "
This lively forgotten film, which says so much without speaking, is certainly worthy of DVD salvation. Criterion, are you listening?" Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Rotten 36%
| Southland Tales (2007) | "
The brilliance of Southland Tales is inextricable from its flaws, if indeed they are flaws." Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
As a posthumous document, This Is It offers a veiled, vaseline-lens look behind the curtain. As a cultural event, it's more than a little creepy and depressing." Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Rotten 47%
| The Box (2009) | "
The best thing about the movie is that, if Kelly was really aiming to please the average popcorn-munchers, he fails. He can't help it." Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 83%
| Paranormal Activity (2009) | "
Actually makes its premise work and delivers substantial creeps." Posted Oct 24, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 70%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
This is a strange (and moving) heffalump indeed, a future cult classic if ever there was one." Posted Oct 18, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 97%
| Eyes Without a Face (1959) | "
A classic of twisted gothic enchantment." Posted Oct 11, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| N/A | Kokkuri (1997) | "
An exquisitely stately and subtle chiller." Posted Oct 11, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 77%
| Big Man Japan (2009) | "
The movie's shambling, matter-of-fact approach to pulpy material is funny, as is its steadfast avoidance of visual hype." Posted Oct 11, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 27%
| Pandorum (2009) | "
Clenches its teeth grimly as it blunders through its overstuffed plot." Posted Oct 11, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 82%
| Whip It (2009) | "
Whip It, the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore, is friendly and fun-loving and nurturing, as she seems to be." Posted Oct 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
It's a fundamentally lazy and witless film." Posted Oct 11, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Vanishing (1988) | "
Worthy of Hitchcock." Posted Oct 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 45%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
Stays on the level of a smarter-than-average Saturday-night demon-fest. It's still better than most of what we horror fans are served, haters be damned." Posted Sep 20, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 23%
| Sorority Row (2009) | "
I'd rather see an honest film about exactly what would happen if they'd told the truth. Failing that, a competent, scary, witty horror film might've been nice." Posted Sep 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
It's not a bad film -- it runs smoothly, creates an environment and a mood. But fans of Judge's previous work might do well to scale their expectations back." Posted Sep 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 21%
| Halloween II (2009) | "
There are bits and images in this film that would ensure praise from the horror-fan crowd if they weren't in a Halloween movie directed by Rob Zombie." Posted Aug 30, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Rotten 49%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
A great film that I will never, ever subject myself to again." Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
...a long, strange pop artifact, studded with instant-classic moments and sealed with a legitimately great image..." Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 29%
| The Final Destination (2009) | "
This series has clearly run out of ideas. The deaths are tired." Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Ponyo (2009) | "
Ponyo towers over this summer of empty toy-related blockbusters. It will end up as one of the best films in American release this year." Posted Aug 16, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
The movie also has the most emotionally perfect final shot since Shaun of the Dead, which, like this film, did not originate in Hollywood." Posted Aug 16, 2009 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 20%
| Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) | "
Really, is there supposed to be any entertainment value in this thing, or is it meant to be a ponderously stupid endurance test?" Posted Jul 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 55%
| Orphan (2009) | "
Competently directed junk, with a script that abandons logic at every turn and dialogue that even some snarky teenage girls seated behind me could predict out loud." Posted Jul 29, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 98%
| Apocalypse Now (1979) | "
There is greatness in Apocalypse Now, but there is also madness, and they feed off each other." Posted Jul 13, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 98%
| Nosferatu (1922) | "
Most likely the first horror film to express something beyond simple chills and thrills." Posted Jul 13, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 87%
| The Shining (1980) | "
The Shining is an intense and not always ingratiating experience, a natural bookend to 2001..." Posted Jul 13, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 67%
| Bruno (2009) | "
Brüno is hit or miss for its first half or so but picks up steam as it goes along." Posted Jul 13, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 67%
| Synecdoche, New York (2008) | "
Every scene is pitched at the highest level and acted accordingly." Posted Jun 28, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 98%
| The Hurt Locker (2009) | "
Kathryn Bigelow has shown Hollywood how it's done: The Hurt Locker is the strongest and most satisfying thriller in years." Posted Jun 28, 2009 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 15%
| Year One (2009) | "
When Ramis went home every night from filming, did he honestly think he'd shot anything funny?" Posted Jun 28, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) | "
Surly humor powers the movie as much as the ticking-clock premise does." Posted Jun 14, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 52%
| The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) | "
To watch the original Pelham and then to watch the new remake is to witness, irrefutably, the decline of mainstream Hollywood filmmaking." Posted Jun 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 76%
| Appaloosa (2008) | "
There's considerable pleasure in Appaloosa's respect for the undramatic. It doesn't go where you'd expect..." Posted Jun 7, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 65%
| Be Kind Rewind (2008) | "
A glowing valentine to creativity in opposition to commerce." Posted Jun 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 78%
| The Hangover (2009) | "
There's a better cast here than there deserves to be." Posted Jun 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 70%
| Religulous (2008) | "
Ultimately, the movie is an impotent howl into the wind." Posted Jun 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 92%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
The movie is manic and gross, all right, but not much fun unless you enjoy watching an attractive 29-year-old woman getting punished repulsively over and over." Posted May 31, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 32%
| Terminator Salvation (2009) | "
High craft in the service of an oppressively dull story." Posted May 24, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 36%
| Angels & Demons (2009) | "
...it's fun to watch Tom Hanks hoof it all over Vatican City for two hours, trying to save some cardinal from being licked to death by Illuminati puppies, or whatever..." Posted May 17, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 95%
| Star Trek (2009) | "
...a full-blooded and busy adventure, a promising restart." Posted May 10, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Lost in America (1985) | "
It is, I think, Brooks' masterpiece -- nothing inessential, one great scene after another, just flat-out perfect. Stanley Kubrick was an Albert Brooks fan for a reason." Posted May 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
The sort of thing I would've loved when I was thirteen. Unfortunately, that was 25 years ago." Posted May 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| Tyson (2009) | "
Tyson doesn't pretend to be a balanced picture, but it's a fascinating peek into a teeming, demon-filled brain that isn't like anyone else's." Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Rotten 17%
| The Passion of Darkly Noon (1996) | "
By the time you get to the giant glittering silver shoe floating in the river, you'll know whether The Passion of Darkly Noon is your kind of insanity." Posted Apr 29, 2009 |
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