Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| 2012 (2009) | "
It's over two-and-a-half hours of Roland Emmerich simulating the experience of the "ID4" dog outrunning the fireball. It's slaphappy ludicrousness taken to an epic level." — HitFix Posted Nov 13, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 28%
| Fame (2009) | "
The devotion to the PG rating is damning, because 8 p.m. shows airing on ABC Family can be edgier and more topical than the new "Fame."" — HitFix Posted Sep 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) | "
Lord & Miller have found a way to make smart film about our culture of excess without losing the massive pancakes, swimming pools of nacho cheese and tornados of pasta." — HitFix Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| Love Happens (2009) | "
More truthful (equally generic) titles might include: "Death Happens," "Psychobabble Happens" or "Lazy Screenwriters Make Love Happen Even If The Leads Have No Chemistry"" — HitFix Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 60%
| Art & Copy (2009) | "
It's indispensable." — HitFix Posted Aug 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 87%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
A chick flick for guys, a workplace comedy in the Billy Wilder/Cameron Crowe mold, a new spin on a familiar genre, "500 Days" was one of the best films I saw at Sundance." — Film Threat Posted Jul 16, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 25%
| Land of the Lost (2009) | "
You sit for long stretches where set pieces fail on every level and then laugh at a PG-13-skirting entendre or an strange reference or a rambling bit of improv from McBride" — HitFix Posted Jun 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 78%
| The Hangover (2009) | "
"The Hangover" pretty much demands you leave your Political Correctness Cap at home and urges you to eschew your Thinking Cap as well." — HitFix Posted Jun 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
We're 9 years past the first "X-Men" movie and computer-driven effects have only improved, so how is it possible that Wolverine's metallic claws looked worse now?" — HitFix Posted Apr 30, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
"Adventureland" is the sort of film that seems simultaneously slavishly derivative of countless other coming-of-age stories, but also admirably personal and specific." — HitFix Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 64%
| Watchmen (2009) | "
As technically talented as he may be, Snyder is at best a gifted mimic. Far from delivering a unique point of view, he's only able to reproduce what was already represented." — HitFix Posted Mar 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 94%
| Casino Royale (2006) | "
Craig is a marvel, but the decision to have Bond engaged in a game of Hold 'Em poker is a betrayal of the character and an embarrassing bit of pandering. Small detail, I know." — Zap2it.com Posted Nov 17, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 83%
| This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006) | "
The movie is driven not by the desire to explore one or two specific aspects of the problem in any depth, but to run through the long list of Dick's frustrations superficially" — Zap2it.com Posted Sep 4, 2006 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 60%
| Crank (2006) | "
It boils down to 83 minutes of Chev journeying through LA's ethnic 'hoods dispatching minorities. Granted the movie can't be taken seriously, its cavalier racism is shocking." — Zap2it.com Posted Sep 4, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 48%
| Idlewild (2006) | "
There's a certain oddness to a movie that casts Paula Patton as a singer only to dub her voice but leaves legends like Ben Vereen and Patti LaBelle in non-musical parts." — Zap2it.com Posted Aug 25, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 70%
| Invincible (2006) | "
Credit Invincible with varying the Disney formula just a bit. While still a "feel good" movie, it's a dark and miserable road that must be traveled along the way." — Zap2it.com Posted Aug 25, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 39%
| Beerfest (2006) | "
Beerfest is a one-joke movie ("Hey what if the Olympics had cool competitions like beer pong?") and the level to which it sustains that one joke is almost admirable." — Zap2it.com Posted Aug 25, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 74%
| The Illusionist (2006) | "
The story is about ineffable things, but the police procedural aspects of The Illusionist make it all too effable." — Zap2it.com Posted Aug 18, 2006 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 36%
| Accepted (2006) | "
Unlike recent supposedly pro-outcast movies like "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Benchwarmers," "Accepted" seems to have actual affection for its characters." — Zap2it.com Posted Aug 18, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 4%
| Zoom (2006) | "
Featuring a bizarrely dated soundtrack fueled by new music from Smash Mouth, Zoom was designed as a film of training montages. I stopped counting after a half-dozen." — Zap2it.com Posted Aug 11, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 20%
| Step Up (2006) | "
The stars blend decently when they're flailing their limbs, but faced with the horribly earnest dialogue written by Duane Adler and Melissa Rosenberg, neither stands out" — Zap2it.com Posted Aug 11, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 70%
| World Trade Center (2006) | "
Stone doesn't shy from bawling wives, gauzy sentimental flashbacks or rousing musical cues, but there's little doubt that he could have gone more overboard." — Zap2it.com Posted Aug 11, 2006 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 72%
| Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) | "
Talladega Nights is a tighter, more structured film than Anchorman, which is probably both to its advantage and determent." — Zap2it.com Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 84%
| The Descent (2006) | "
Can audiences weaned on the murky sadism of the Saw movies and the Hills Have Eyes remake even recognize what a truly scary movie looks and feels like?" — Zap2it.com Posted Aug 5, 2006 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 38%
| Scoop (2006) | "
Scoop is surely a slight and flimsy film, but it's pleasant to watch Woody Allen wander around London and to watch Allen's new favorite leading lady expand her range." — Zap2it.com Posted Jul 28, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 90%
| Little Miss Sunshine (2006) | "
A Sundance-tested slice of American Domestic Dysfunction proving, once again, that no matter what Tolstoy said, sometimes unhappy families are unhappy in very familiar ways." — Zap2it.com Posted Jul 28, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 24%
| Lady in the Water (2006) | "
Lady is a solipsistic and sour fairy tale that sets out to be about the value of community and magic, but ends up as the director's somber celebration of himself." — Zap2it.com Posted Jul 24, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 74%
| Monster House (2006) | "
Ultimately, the environments are far more interesting than the humans navigating within them." — Zap2it.com Posted Jul 24, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 62%
| Clerks II (2006) | "
Although it's as funny as any movie this summer, Clerks II has to struggle to achieve the level of universality that the original "Clerks" seemed to hit effortlessly." — Zap2it.com Posted Jul 24, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 53%
| Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) | "
Watching Depp in The Black Pearl was like discovering a new acting continent. Watching him here is like returning to a warm, familiar place - nice and all, not exciting" — Zap2it.com Posted Jul 4, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 88%
| Who Killed The Electric Car? (2006) | "
No matter how fine Paine's intentions, he can't obscure that the movie is, at day's end, the tragic tale of rich people whining because somebody took their trendy toys away.
" — Zap2it.com Posted Jun 30, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 76%
| Superman Returns (2006) | "
Overlong and occasionally unfocused, it may have flaws, but like its formerly unknown star, it weathers its early uncertain steps by providing memorable moments of its own.
" — Zap2it.com Posted Jun 28, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 32%
| Click (2006) | "
While Sandler shouldn't be advised to shun movies with heart, he needs to recognize the difference between genuine emotions and this sort of decidedly unfunny mawkishness." — Zap2it.com Posted Jun 23, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 34%
| The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) | "
A couple bravura set pieces and a surprise cameo may make fans forget that for much of the time, this "Fast and the Furious" is closer to "Sluggish and the Dispassionate."" — Zap2it.com Posted Jun 16, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 39%
| Nacho Libre (2006) | "
Someday, Jared Hess will aspire to make a movie that goes a bit deeper than just a geeky outsider with bad hair, a funny name and an exaggerated accent. But not today." — Zap2it.com Posted Jun 16, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 36%
| The Lake House (2006) | "
If Kate (Bullock), a doctor with easy access to computers, would just take 10 seconds to Google the man she professes to love so much, the movie could be over in five minutes." — Zap2it.com Posted Jun 16, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 81%
| A Prairie Home Companion (2006) | "
Such is Altman's gift with actors that he even makes Lindsay Lohan seem fresh-faced, building the film to a climax in which the pop tartlet makes the most of her thin voice." — Zap2it.com Posted Jun 12, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 75%
| Cars (2006) | "
I'm wondering if the Piston Cup conceit of huge crowds of cars watching fellow cars race around a track crashing is perverse in a "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" sort of way." — Zap2it.com Posted Jun 12, 2006 |
Rotten
| Rotten 33%
| The Break-Up (2006) | "
A wishy-washy little relationship comedy that's nowhere near as nasty as it evidently wants to be." — Zap2it.com Posted Jun 1, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 56%
| X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) | "
Ratner has taken a series characterized by subversive wit and intelligence and put it in a bland box -- It could be worse, but it couldn't be less distinctive." — Zap2it.com Posted May 25, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 24%
| The Da Vinci Code (2006) | "
Langdon's not a human character, but an amalgamation of pop-up trivia and pensive stares and there's nothing Hanks can do to make him sympathetic, interesting or engaging." — Zap2it.com Posted May 18, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 33%
| Poseidon (2006) | "
There are several characters you're happy to see go -- Try not to cheer when Fergie takes a blast of water to the face -- but there's nobody you'd particularly want to save.
" — Zap2it.com Posted May 13, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 52%
| Down in the Valley (2006) | "
As he did in Primal Fear, American History X and Fight Club, Norton generates suspense by never tipping viewers off if he's supposed to be trusted." — Zap2it.com Posted May 13, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 52%
| Wah-Wah (2006) | "
Although it's clearly a personal story, Wah-Wah proves as formulaic and meandering as its satirical targets are bloated and obvious.
" — Zap2it.com Posted May 13, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 26%
| Hoot (2006) | "
There has to have been a way for Hoot to have preached the gospel of wildness preservation, grabbed a PG rating and still maintained Hiaasen's delirious nastiness." — Zap2it.com Posted May 5, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 12%
| An American Haunting (2006) | "
A Post-Colonial Scooby-Doo, as respectable actors in perfectly pressed costumes run up and down stairs avoiding unseen spooks. The director stands in the corner yelling "Boo!"" — Zap2it.com Posted May 5, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 87%
| The Proposition (2006) | "
If Peter Weir, Sam Peckinpah and Jim Jarmusch could somehow collaborate on a film written by Joseph Conrad, it would probably look something like this." — Zap2it.com Posted May 5, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 31%
| The Promise (2005) | "
Gorgeous costumes, elaborate fights and the illusion of swooning romance don't amount to very much if you don't care about any of the characters for a single second." — Zap2it.com Posted May 5, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 69%
| Mission: Impossible III (2006) | "
You never completely forget Abrams' TV pedigree, but the fact he's turned Mission: Impossible into a star-studded, amped-up version of Alias isn't a bad thing." — Zap2it.com Posted May 4, 2006 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 83%
| Akeelah and the Bee (2006) | "
Atchison's film relentlessly rams warm fuzzies down your throat and you know what? For all of the cliches and cringe-worthy dialogue, I found it nearly impossible to stay mad." — Zap2it.com Posted Apr 28, 2006 |
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