Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 70%
| The Road (2009) | "
This is a willfully, skillfully crafted film with insufficient heart to the task it undertakes. It never fully connects us to love amid its ruins." — Denver Post Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 92%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
The filmmakers hew to Dahl's intent and add fine turns of their own." — Denver Post Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 91%
| Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) | "
Mo'Nique plunges headfirst into a moral abyss that makes her frightening." — Denver Post Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 73%
| The Blind Side (2009) | "
We never learn why Leigh Anne is so fearless, but Bullock is the force here. McGraw is an amiable anchor to her bull-by-the-horns portrayal." — Denver Post Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 54%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
It seems too much a privilege to be chuckling in the theater about psychic warfare while the unfunny business of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan continues." — Denver Post Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Rotten 49%
| Antichrist (2009) | "
Von Trier and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle use sumptuous black-and-white photography and saturated color. Few movies are as beautifully wrought as this." — Denver Post Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
Does this entertainment achieve a timelessness beyond its exquisite source material? Not even. Yet there's pleasure to be had and relief in feeling the filmmakers didn't Scrooge it up either." — Denver Post Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 80%
| Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) | "
This Is It isn't quite extraordinary as non-fiction film goes. Perhaps it's something better: a work of generosity." — Denver Post Posted Oct 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 94%
| Good Hair (2009) | "
Full of sweetly sardonic observations, the docu-comedy is one of the funniest movies of the year." — Denver Post Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 20%
| Amelia (2009) | "
The movie is as conventional a biopic as Earhart was an unconventional woman." — Denver Post Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 94%
| An Education (2009) | "
The film is gentle with its judgments. Or most of them." — Denver Post Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 81%
| Beeswax (2009) | "
Beeswax reminds viewers that in talkative films much can go unspoken. For writer-director Andrew Bujalski these betwixt-between, hem-haw spaces are the places to be." — Denver Post Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 86%
| A Serious Man (2009) | "
This parable of the welcome-unwelcome guest is less a key to the ensuing domestic drama than a teasing reminder of the traditional roots of the brothers' singular skill with humor and violence." — Denver Post Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 65%
| Coco Before Chanel (2009) | "
Tautou's sophisticated portrayal won't allow viewers to dismiss Coco as kept. Coco's talents are too pronounced, her approach to intimacy, to life, too aware for that." — Denver Post Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 70%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
Spike Jonze, we salute you." — Denver Post Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 29%
| Free Style (2009) | "
You don't have to be a swooning teenage girl to be enamored of Free Style and its heartthrob actor Corbin Bleu." — Denver Post Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 12%
| Couples Retreat (2009) | "
Greatly silly and unexpectedly wise at times." — Denver Post Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 31%
| The Burning Plain (2009) | "
Possibly the stories fit too neatly. If so, it's hardly a fatal flaw." — Denver Post Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 72%
| The Boys Are Back (2009) | "
Clive Owen was spared the role of James Bond. And The Boys are Back is an example of why we are all the better for it." — Denver Post Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 82%
| Whip It (2009) | "
Barrymore's embrace of gal power is joyful. The skaters are gutsy, goofy or both. They own their own odd sexiness." — Denver Post Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
We won't ruin it. Let's just say that if laughter distinguishes humans from zombies, then you'll know just how human you are after the quartet's visit to a mansion in Los Angeles." — Denver Post Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 83%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
Silence and stillness, as well as the restrained desire of its lovers, are given their due. After the clatter and rush of the summer flicks, patience is demanded but also rewarded." — Denver Post Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 92%
| The Way We Get By (2009) | "
It is straightforward work. Yet over time, it becomes clearly, steadfastly about the existential." — Denver Post Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 45%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
Director Karyn Kusama finds resonant terror in details: the look Anita and Jennifer exchange before Jen's fateful ride, or a victim's last-minute ah-hah." — Denver Post Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 2/4
| Fresh 85%
| World's Greatest Dad (2009) | "
Making Kyle godawful may seem edgy, even authentic. But it's pure setup." — Denver Post Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 84%
| The September Issue (2009) | "
[A] wise, engaging frock-umentary." — Denver Post Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Ink (2009) | "
As action-packed as his film is, Winans is in no hurry to tell his tale. His pace is deliberate." — Denver Post Posted Sep 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
These days, it appears to be a rare gift to do comedy in a way that comes across as smart, but never superior or willfully crass. Bateman has that talent to spare." — Denver Post Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 6%
| All About Steve (2009) | "
Despite her downward-tilted head and her nattering ways, Mary really does want to connect. Watching her realize this isn't deep but it is sweet." — Denver Post Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 86%
| Lorna's Silence (2009) | "
The Dardennes are masters of their brand of realist cinema. Over the years, the brothers' move from documentaries to narrative features has been handsomely rewarded." — Denver Post Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 75%
| Humpday (2009) | "
Getting to the showdown is a fine and funny journey." — Denver Post Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 49%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
Lee's larkiest film by far, Taking Woodstock features faces familiar and fresh." — Denver Post Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 91%
| Ponyo (2009) | "
A bright tale of wonder and connection, Ponyo is a reminder that a G rating needn't be a "little kid" designation." — Denver Post Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 95%
| The Cove (2009) | "
The Cove is one of the best in a growing class of nonfiction films" — Denver Post Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 75%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
What an expression of the joy of cooks and cooking Julie & Julia turns out to be." — Denver Post Posted Aug 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 26%
| Shrink (2009) | "
Directed by Jonas Pate and written with a nice ear for self-delusion by Thomas Moffet, Shrink mixes cliches with some pleasant surprises." — Denver Post Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 68%
| Tetro (2009) | "
It is interesting. Better, it is quite possibly great." — Denver Post Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
Apatow continues to celebrate comedy's traditions, raunchy and otherwise." — Denver Post Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 80%
| $9.99 (2009) | "
It isn't always clear if the animation is integral to the movie or merely a way of sprucing up its more familiar tales of melancholy and yearning." — Denver Post Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 87%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
This movie has flighty warmth. It makes delirious use of one of Hall & Oates' boppiest tunes. It has a bluebird of happiness, for crying out loud." — Denver Post Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 15%
| The Ugly Truth (2009) | "
With its set 'em up, knock 'em down series of cliches, The Ugly Truth marks off the romantic comedy checklist." — Denver Post Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| O'Horten (2009) | "
The whimsy is never overplayed. The peculiar isn't teased at any character's expense." — Denver Post Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| N/A | Surviving Crooked Lake (2009) | "
Too often, volatile scenes of interpersonal tension and fear stretch the green cast thin." — Denver Post Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 83%
| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) | "
With its deft handling of teen yearning and affection, Half-Blood Prince maneuvers mysteries of heart and hankering that resound in worlds magic and Muggle." — Denver Post Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 55%
| Surveillance (2009) | "
In this long-time-coming sophomore film, Lynch exercises powers of her own. She gets repellant, seductive, sympathetic performances from her actors. Ormond and Pullman are frightfully good at teasing intimacy." — Denver Post Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 96%
| Herb & Dorothy (2009) | "
Sasaki balances her subjects' yarns with insights into the cultural moment that shaped them and vice-versa, in particular the shift from abstract expressionism to the sparer gestures of minimalist and conceptual art." — Denver Post Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| Treeless Mountain (2009) | "
In modest, lovingly observed ways, the director gives her characters -- and, one hazards, herself -- the gentlest gift of sweet possibility." — Denver Post Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 98%
| The Hurt Locker (2009) | "
The miserably visceral exists here not as exploitation but out of the demands of authenticity." — Denver Post Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 15%
| I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) | "
Like the high school's bison mascot, this romp is lean on fresh laughs." — Denver Post Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 90%
| The Secret of the Grain (2008) | "
Never sagging, it unfolds over 2 1/2 hours. Nothing is overexplained. Indeed, it takes us time to suss out Slimane's various familial relationships." — Denver Post Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
IGN RSS Feeds