Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 18%
| Love Happens (2009) |
Click here to read article — Sacramento News & Review Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 75%
| Cold Souls (2009) |
Click here to read article — Sacramento News & Review Posted Sep 24, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 98%
| The Hurt Locker (2009) |
Click here to read article — Sacramento News & Review Posted Sep 17, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| Thirst (2009) | "
It’s a production of sensational confidence." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Sep 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
Sure, there are flashier, more adventurous movies out there, but this one puts in an honest day’s work." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Thirst (1979) |
Click here to read article — Sacramento News & Review Posted Sep 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 40%
| The Limits of Control (2009) |
Click here to read article — Sacramento News & Review Posted May 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 76%
| Shall We Kiss? (2008) |
Click here to read article — Sacramento News & Review Posted May 28, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 94%
| Goodbye Solo (2009) | "
The beauty of this third feature from director Ramin Bahrani, who co-wrote it with Bahareh Azimi, is how efficiently it disarms uneasy expectations." — Sacramento News & Review Posted May 21, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 88%
| Sin Nombre (2009) | "
This sense of equilibrium even carries over to Fukunaga’s crafty integration of professional and nonpro actors." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| Everlasting Moments (2009) | "
Troell knows that what we want from our photographic memories and the stories they prompt is a special kind of emotional precision: a permanent one." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 75%
| Tokyo! (2009) | "
There’s some pretty freaky diplomacy going on here." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Apr 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 88%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
The movie is well cast." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 33%
| Knowing (2009) |
Click here to read article — Sacramento News & Review Posted Mar 26, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 43%
| Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
Click here to read article — Sacramento News & Review Posted Mar 19, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 84%
| Wendy and Lucy (2008) | "
This sort of austere, elliptical portrait of the downtrodden owes much to the Italian neorealism made internationally famous by scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini and director Vittorio De Sica after World War II." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Mar 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Un Secret (2008) |
Click here to read article — Sacramento News & Review Posted Feb 19, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 88%
| Coraline (2009) | "
The 3-D isn’t a Super Bowl-commercial-style gimmick, but instead a savory essential element, used with restraint and in artfully deliberate contrast to the grounded tactility of Selick’s signature stop-motion animation." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Feb 5, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 56%
| Defiance (2008) | "
The actors’ way of reveling in their stagey gestures, sooty makeup and silly accents becomes increasingly pitiable." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Jan 15, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 79%
| Gran Torino (2008) | "
To be the perfectly career-summarizing Eastwood movie, Gran Torino needn’t be perfect." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Jan 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) | "
The requisite apprehensions about turning a story of only a few pages into a film of feature length are promptly dispatched -- or, well, protractedly dispatched." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Jan 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 83%
| Beauty in Trouble (2008) | "
For a class-conscious farce that’s at least serious enough to borrow its title from Robert Graves, it’s impressively unaffected and utterly watchable." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Dec 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 68%
| Cadillac Records (2008) | "
It helps that every performance is remarkable." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 93%
| Slumdog Millionaire (2008) | "
With a good feel for environment as character, Boyle brings his customary vitality -- throbbing music, jaunty editing, showy cinematography -- and an aptly, rousingly silly Bollywood-style dance number for the closing credits." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 91%
| Frost/Nixon (2008) | "
It seems like an exercise mostly for its own sake. But there is also a sense of security with its own limitations." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| Milk (2008) | "
Transcends the solemnity of its historical duty, seeming both timely and timeless -- and fully alive." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 25%
| Nobel Son (2008) |
Click here to read article — Sacramento News & Review Posted Dec 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 67%
| Synecdoche, New York (2008) | "
Life is so complicatedly humiliating, Kaufman insists, and he’s right. Too bad his insistence is so simple-mindedly aggrandizing." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Nov 20, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 28%
| Filth and Wisdom (2008) | "
There’s no wisdom in this script." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Oct 30, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 93%
| Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story (2008) | "
Positively brims over with sour-grapes hearsay and character assassination. But you just know he deserved it, right?" — Sacramento News & Review Posted Oct 30, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Flow: For Love of Water (2008) | "
Your tap water might be making you sick. But your bottled water might be making you sicker, while also enabling the environmental rape of the American heartland and unconscionable extortion in the Third World." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Oct 23, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| Rachel Getting Married (2008) | "
The movie compares not to other movies but to life. That's how it gets under the skin and why it's a breakthrough for Hathaway, who so skillfully evokes the paradoxically comforting and dissociating regression of returning to a messy nest." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Oct 23, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 70%
| Religulous (2008) | "
Doubt, Maher says, is his product, and you have to hand it to him for staying on message." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Oct 9, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 41%
| Blindness (2008) | "
Nearly drowning them all in a soup of shadow, bleach and blur, Meirelles can’t see his own forest for the trees; he does at least achieve a kind of allegorical myopia." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Oct 9, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 54%
| Choke (2008) | "
Choke, adapted by actor Clark Gregg in his directorial debut, lacks Fincher’s slickly overwrought style but gets Palahniuk’s silly plot turns and pet themes." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Oct 2, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 50%
| Battle in Seattle (2008) | "
Braiding brief snippets of these automatically suspenseful storylines with archival video footage of the actual event, Townsend makes a good point that the thing just got away from all involved." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Oct 2, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 47%
| Lakeview Terrace (2008) | "
It will at least be of value to sociologists." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Oct 2, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 11%
| Proud American (2008) |
Click here to read article — Sacramento News & Review Posted Oct 2, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 77%
| Burn After Reading (2008) | "
Like the meaning of its title, its stature within the Coen continuum is for you to decide." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Sep 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 90%
| Transsiberian (2008) | "
The limitations of its human characters aside, the movie has a terrific feel for the chilly, remote, attentively portrayed character of its environment." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Sep 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 86%
| Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008) | "
The movie is full of itself and fun but nonessential." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Sep 4, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 39%
| The Rocker (2008) | "
To those moviegoers who’ve expressed some weariness of Will Ferrell and Jack Black always doing what they do: Well, OK, here’s somebody else doing it." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Sep 4, 2008 |
Rotten 3/5
| Fresh 74%
| Elegy (2008) | "
You’d think screenwriter Nicholas Meyer would know better." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Sep 4, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 61%
| Traitor (2008) | "
The movie moves swiftly and purposefully enough to briefly distract from its own hackneyed conventionality. But disappointments and doubts can’t be held off for long." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Sep 4, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 93%
| Tell No One (2008) | "
A stylish, commercial, tautly paced thriller." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Aug 28, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 47%
| Bottle Shock (2008) | "
Verdict: Chewy, ripe and rounded almost to the point of flabbiness, it finishes rather cleanly; less satisfying is the fragrant bouquet, which contains notes of corn and all-wet underdog." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Aug 21, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 38%
| Henry Poole Is Here (2008) | "
Sometimes funny and sometimes tender-verging-on-rubbery." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Aug 21, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 69%
| Year of the Dog (2007) |
Click here to read article — Sacramento News & Review Posted Aug 7, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 65%
| Brick Lane (2008) | "
The story has many themes to contend with and sometimes accordingly becomes unfocused, but when fully controlled it’s also quite moving and surprising." — Sacramento News & Review Posted Aug 7, 2008 |
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