Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 70%
| The Road (2009) | "
The Road, a tremulous heartbreaker onscreen, has successfully made the leap despite an unthinkable amount of fidelity." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 79%
| Me and Orson Welles (2009) | "
Try to imagine a version of Linklater’s School of Rock that didn’t pivot on the manic music teacher played by Jack Black but instead, perhaps, on his boring roommate. That’s what you have here." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 76%
| The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009) | "
Adult children and friends watch nervously as Pippa reclaims a measure of spunk; too bad it all feels like one of those pharmaceutical ads for longer, healthier lifestyles." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 82%
| Broken Embraces (2009) | "
After a standout opening seduction in which a blind man manages to charm an assistant half his age out of her jeans, the movie settles into a strangely stilted four-way." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 85%
| Red Cliff (2009) | "
The latest picture from John Woo isn’t especially Woosome -- not if you remember his delirious gun hugs from The Killer and Face/Off." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 58%
| Mammoth (2009) | "
Moodysson hasn’t exactly descended to Babel-level pabulum with Mammoth, his first foray into English..." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 38%
| 2012 (2009) | "
The worst sins of dialogue are visited upon the wonderfully soulful Chiwetel Ejiofor, who has to remind creepy government types that those massive high-tech arks are for all of us, not just the rich and powerful." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 59%
| Pirate Radio (2009) | "
Giggles, not belly laughs, come frequently, and it’ll help if viewers love U.K. comics." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 18%
| The Fourth Kind (2009) | "
Unfortunately, none of the subsequent noise is all that scary, and the striving for Paranormal Activity’s buzz is shameless." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| The Messenger (2009) | "
Though it feels a little too indie-ish in its wallowing misery, The Messenger signals the start of strong year-end work." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 54%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
George Clooney browbeats livestock with the same crazy eyes he brought to O Brother, Where Art Thou? -- but his new movie, an unfocused comedy about weird Army pseudoscience, ends up blinking before we laugh." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 95%
| The Bicycle Thief (1948) | "
It’s a title you simply must watch, not necessarily for the truths it packs but rather for the bombed-out buildings of postwar Italy, peripheral details that director Vittorio De Sica insisted on." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 4, 2009 |
Fresh 5/6
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
A must-see danceumentary." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 45%
| Saw VI (2009) | "
Yes: a horror movie about health insurance." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 28, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 49%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
A joke, a toxic cocktail of banal psychobabble, laughably arty slo-mo flourishes and unmotivated sexual violence that only brain-in-jar types could take as a serious statement." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 21, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 89%
| A Woman Under The Influence (1974) | "
Watching 35 years later, you’re struck by its forward sense of therapeutic misfortune." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 21, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 47%
| Ong Bak 2 (2009) | "
If you’ve ever stood in front of a mirror and practiced your Bruce Lee “kara-tay” chops, Thailand’s Tony Jaa should, de facto, be your hero." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 21, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 42%
| New York, I Love You (2009) | "
You say you love us, collection of shorts, but honestly, we’ve heard that one before. We’re not falling for it." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| The Damned United (2009) | "
[Sheen is] dazzling here, finally cut loose." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 7, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 78%
| Bronson (2009) | "
Swaddled in Kubrickian cheek and some hilariously ostentatious classical-music cues, the movie is a stylish, aggressively arty joke, toggling between Hardy’s vaudeville fantasy life and an only slightly more realistic series of prison vignettes." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 25%
| Adventures of Power (2009) | "
Forgive the film its Napoleon Dynamite overquirk; a loving god is watching all, genuflected to on bedroom-wall posters and seen in the film’s final five minutes -- and if you’re not a Rush fan, this is not your movie." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 58%
| Trucker (2009) | "
As the camera perches high on a hill at dawn, Diane’s truck sneaking out of town, you sense the Demme-esque working-class comedy that might have been." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 7, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 97%
| Some Like It Hot (1959) | "
The Great American Comedy (if you discount the Marx Brothers)." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
The movie isn’t particularly scary -- not a crime when your goal is laughs. More egregious is the niggling fact that this simply isn’t as witty as Shaun of the Dead, forever the yuks-meet-yucks standard." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 30, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| Whip It (2009) | "
Marcia Gay Harden is the picture’s treasure; watching her swell with concern at her daughter’s choices, you understand how hard it is to let go -- even when kneepads are provided." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 30, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 86%
| A Serious Man (2009) | "
See this film immediately." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 45%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
Cody throws one too many losses at Needy; the screenwriter loses her satiric way about halfway through. But for a while, this has real fangs." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 95%
| Crude (2009) | "
Berlinger is fully invested here, but a little distance might have helped." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| Odd Man Out (1947) | "
The movie has a vaunted place in the context of British cinema, and deservedly. Today, what Odd Man Out most suggests is a desperate endgame, the potentials of a long life snuffed out in a moment of impulsiveness." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
Judge has assembled a slyly adventurous cast, and even though you’ve seen these plot machinations before, they move along briskly." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 29%
| The Final Destination (2009) | "
Even a mediocre FD is better than more Jigsaw." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 1, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 100%
| Still Walking (2009) | "
To submit to the quiet tensions of the modern-day Yokoyama clan, an extended family haunted by the memory of a departed son, is to experience moviemaking of a rare emotional subtlety." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 26, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 85%
| World's Greatest Dad (2009) | "
Though wildly uneven, the film sometimes comes within screaming distance of the sick ironies of Heathers." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
— | Fresh 71%
| Cold Mountain (2003) |
Click here to read article — City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Taxidermia (2009) | "
Those who pride themselves on iron guts will want to trek down to Cinema Village for this surreal, stunty endurance test, occasionally redeemed by a darkly Pythonesque sense of humor." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 58%
| A Perfect Getaway (2009) | "
The aesthetic is closer to a grand finale of Survivor than anything else, and while all the actors do scrappy work, they don’t have much psychology to play with -- unlike a fun, class-conscious wilderness tale like The Edge." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 12, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 77%
| It Might Get Loud (2009) | "
A must-see for ax players, the movie is not terribly concerned with history. Still, its design is smarter than you realize." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 12, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
District 9 has too many gory vaporizations to qualify as a serious statement on race relations, but it does outclank Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen by a wide margin, and you thrill to the cleanly cut action sequences." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 72%
| I Sell the Dead (2009) | "
The year’s most deliriously heavy title comes attached to a cheeky Victorian-era horror-comedy about grave-robbing -- and it’s not just human corpses being raided here." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 10, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 81%
| Beeswax (2009) | "
Those who see strength in the film’s modesty are settling for too little." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 5, 2009 |
Rotten 3/5
| Fresh 75%
| Cold Souls (2009) | "
becomes an arty, strangely underwritten drama." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 5, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 75%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
Streep and her colleague from The Devil Wears Prada, Stanley Tucci, make up a thrillingly rich and urbane union. They are perfect ingredients." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 5, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2009) | "
If Mad Max (a rare stateside success) is the only Down Under–and-dirty flick you remember, you missed out on a vital drive-in culture, one that Mark Hartley’s Not Quite Hollywood does a suitably supercharged job of chronicling." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 30, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 82%
| Thirst (2009) | "
Filled with romantic nuzzling and superhuman bounding up walls, Thirst also pushes the succubus genre toward its sexual omega." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 29, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
This is not an industry movie, but rather, a rare case of Hollywood letting itself feel lost -- and found." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 31%
| The Answer Man (2009) | "
Unwittingly, a much darker and more interesting movie flits just out of reach, as Juno’s playful Olivia Thirlby and the snidely compelling Kat Dennings make impressions on the periphery." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 95%
| In the Loop (2009) | "
As with Robert Altman’s brilliant The Player, the movie operates on a subtle kind of audience flattery, welcoming us to the real deal behind the issues -- which turns out to be a shouty, catty competition." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 14%
| The Informers (2009) | "
We may not care about these cokeheads, but only rarely does Jordan fall into knee-jerk retribution." — Time Out Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 0%
| Homecoming (2009) | "
Director Morgan J. Freeman doesn’t excite much of a pulse from the film’s gentle, lunkheaded object of desire." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 15, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 96%
| Somers Town (2009) | "
The quiet loveliness of the movie comes in its poise, pitched exactly at the moment when self-protective toughness yields to a tentative camaraderie. Rarely do directors understand their preoccupations so completely." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 15, 2009 |
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