Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 30%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
It may be some kind of catharsis for the target audience, but all others are warned to venture forth at their own risk" Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 22%
| The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) | "
It would be a disservice of an almost, you will pardon the expression, sinful nature to mistake it for anything deep, or anything more profound than the hellzapopping fireworks show that it is" Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 96%
| Burma VJ (2009) | "
the footage, with the picture jumping as frenetically as the protesters being filmed, brings home as nothing else quite can the energy and the danger of the events depicted" Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 89%
| No Impact Man (2009) | "
what he and his family learned that they could do without and do without as a way of enriching their lives is both provocative and enviable" Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 59%
| Pirate Radio (2009) | "
to the beat of soundtrack that proves the point of why this music was feared and adored, it revels in the giddy delight of a time when all the old rules were questioned, if not thrown out" Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 16%
| Gentlemen Broncos (2009) | "
the celebration of pure imagination without the baggage of a value judgment to cloud the issue" Posted Nov 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 38%
| 2012 (2009) | "
There's a dash of Tibetan mysticism, a soupcon of comeuppances, and one family discovering what is really important. Take it for what it is and leave logic to fend for itself" Posted Nov 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 15%
| I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) | "
Sweet, funny, and smart in unexpected ways" Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 29%
| Gamer (2009) | "
a big, loud mess that loses its few good ideas in a morass of convoluted storytelling that it has, sadly, confused with stylish innovation" Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 18%
| The Fourth Kind (2009) | "
proves that a horror film doesn't need splashy digital effects or pyrotechnics to be effective" Posted Nov 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 45%
| Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) | "
Scrat-astic!" Posted Nov 7, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
Are the less than perfectly executed bits supposed to set off the truly terrific ones, or are the truly terrific ones supposed to distract the viewing audience from the bits that go clunk in the night?" Posted Nov 7, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 54%
| The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) | "
does a slick job of putting assumptions of all types to the test, and resists the temptation to make sport of any of them while still retaining a sense of fun" Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 45%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
Cody's blend of humor, horror, and satire is not entirely assured, though she scores more hits than misses as she explores both the victimizing and predatory nature of female sexuality" Posted Oct 31, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 43%
| The Proposal (2009) | "
a morass of clichés" Posted Oct 31, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 36%
| G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) | "
expensively produced escapist fantasy designed to protect the delicate sensibilities of the kids while never for a moment taxing their budding critical thinking skills" Posted Oct 31, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 20%
| Amelia (2009) | "
less engaging than a game of connect-the-dots, which is, essentially, all this is" Posted Oct 24, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 48%
| Astro Boy (2009) | "
dourly imagined tale whose only real value is in explaining the secret behind that pointy hairdo sported by our hero for all these years" Posted Oct 22, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 39%
| Surrogates (2009) | "
This predictable flick executed in a numbingly pedestrian fashion, has slapped a nifty conceit onto its threadbare mystery-thriller plot, but has somehow managed to miss every opportunity to take advantage of it" Posted Oct 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 42%
| New York, I Love You (2009) | "
To see this film is to understand why it is better to have loved and maybe lost, as the cliché goes, than to have missed out on the messy exhilaration of it all" Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| Whip It (2009) | "
Barrymore makes her directorial debut her with an astute eye for the complex emotional passage being experienced beneath Bliss's crash helmet." Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 22%
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | "
a competently made thriller that attempts to make up in panache what it lacks in credibility. It fails." Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 95%
| Crude (2009) | "
This isn't just a story of right and wrong, it's a story of money and media and, most of all, spin." Posted Oct 12, 2009 |
Rotten 0/5
| Rotten 12%
| Couples Retreat (2009) | "
during the shark attack . . . the sympathy was not necessarily with the humans in the water" Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 19%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
This benighted cacophony is a painful blend of overproduced action and shameless exposition" Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 75%
| Julie & Julia (2009) | "
With great panache, it celebrates butter, bravery, and believing in oneself, all excellent things, brilliantly executed" Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 100%
| You, the Living (2009) | "
a surreal still life that provokes the audience to find the absurdity rather than the tragedy" Posted Oct 4, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 91%
| Ponyo (2009) | "
lacks any real sense of conflict or danger. It makes up for it. . . with a delightfully absurd internal logic that is perfectly keyed into the way small children see the world" Posted Oct 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 63%
| Extract (2009) | "
bedrock American values skewed through a subversive version of morality that gives the more traditional take on morality a run for its money and then some" Posted Oct 3, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 76%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
scintillating and sly, but never self-congratulatory. It's agenda is of a higher nature, one that gently prods us into realizing that reality is a fluid thing" Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 56%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
never sacrifices its considerable humor, nor its even more considerable acuity, when it comes to parsing human nature" Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
a wacky celebration of the essential kichtiness of the idiom, and it may just be the sweetest zombie flick ever made" Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 56%
| 9 (2009) | "
Melding spirituality with science, this animated post-apocalyptic fantasy suffuses the two seemingly opposite disciplines into a rich synthesis" Posted Oct 1, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 98%
| Up (2009) | "
it's sharp, funny, tear-jerking, and there is simply no better time to be had at the movies for anybody of any age" Posted Jun 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 92%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
has re-animated every trope with a dazzling vibrancy that pays homage to the classics while still being acutely contemporary, thematically timeless, and absolutely terrifying" Posted Jun 1, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 32%
| Terminator Salvation (2009) | "
Even the terminators seem bored." Posted May 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 44%
| Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) | "
fun facts and intriguing images zip by as quickly as the plot" Posted May 19, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 64%
| The Brothers Bloom (2009) | "
an invaluable primer on love, life, and blowing things up" Posted May 18, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 27%
| Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) | "
The only thing of note is that its star, Matthew McConaughey, doesn't remove his shirt" Posted May 18, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 36%
| Angels & Demons (2009) | "
the good news is that [Hanks]has worked through whatever issues that resulted in the questionable hairdo he sported in The Da Vinci Code" Posted May 13, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 24%
| Little Ashes (2009) | "
a scattershot mess with beautiful people posing self-consciously in elegantly composed scenes" Posted May 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 66%
| Is Anybody There? (2009) | "
a bittersweet film about life, death, and magic. It's also one of Michael Caine's best performances, and that's saying a great deal" Posted May 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 84%
| State of Play (2009) | "
a vivid and provocative excursion into the juxtaposition of ideals and the profit motive." Posted May 9, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 36%
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) | "
Sure, Wolverine flying from a bombed building on his motorcycle with a wall of flame behind him has been done before, but Jackman's sense of conviction makes it all seem, if not new, at least not stale" Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 50%
| Observe and Report (2009) | "
The genius of casting Seth Rogan as Ronnie cannot be overstated. There is in him an innate likeability that overcomes the character's very real darkness" Posted Apr 21, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 88%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
the poignant sense of transience be it of Adventureland's short summer season, or the more subtle shifting of relationships, is beautifully realized here" Posted Apr 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 82%
| I Love You, Man (2009) | "
with wit, insight, and the occasional tasteless moment, takes on that delicate issue of bromance in the over-thirty set." Posted Apr 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 65%
| Duplicity (2009) | "
trust, lust, and double-crust pizzas" Posted Mar 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 18%
| The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) | "
more somber than spooky, more grimy than gory" Posted Mar 29, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 92%
| Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
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