Fresh
| Rotten 29%
| Ninja Assassin (2009) | "
...a tight-lipped, tightly wound adventure that mostly satisfies audience demand for throwing stars, swinging swords and disemboweled bodies, at least when you can see them getting disemboweled." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Nov 25, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 67%
| William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe () | "
...an in-depth but deeply emotional chronicle of their father's fascinating life." — BitterLawyer.com Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 16%
| Planet 51 (2009) | "
Planet 51 sucks." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Nov 20, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 30%
| The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) | "
...it fulfills the expectations of fans and followers of the franchise but nevertheless still falls short of forming something transcendent and meaningful to everyone else." — Cinematical Posted Nov 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 38%
| 2012 (2009) | "
Roland Emmerich's latest Irwin Allen-on-steroids disaster movie is the mother of all apocalypse movies, and it mostly satisfies..." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| The Messenger (2009) | "
...a poignant tale of redemption that counts as one of the very best films of the year." — Cinematical Posted Nov 12, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 92%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
a celebration both of its stop-motion medium and Anderson's aesthetic, while still managing to fully document the spectacular fun in original author Roald Dahl's daffy, distinctive imagination." — Cinematical Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
...a remarkable and effective adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic novel that manages to overcome the familiarity of its source material and become something more fulfilling." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| The Box (2009) | "
Badly paced, plotted, directed and acted, the film really defies understanding how and why anyone other than Kelly not only would want to see it, but would make it in the first place." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 18%
| The Fourth Kind (2009) | "
...a thriller that unravels easily even if it nevertheless occasionally qualifies as a scary good time." — Cinematical Posted Nov 1, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| The House of the Devil (2009) | "
...a virtual refutation of all of the conventions of contemporary horror that manages to be terrifying precisely because it refuses to give you that gratification until you've almost given up wanting it." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Nov 1, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 63%
| Hardware (1990) | "
...a worthy film to revisit primarily to see how well it fueled our feverish imaginations before it fell to the wayside." — Cinematical Posted Oct 27, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009) | "
...the kind of cult sensation that earns immortality on the merits of its gobsmacking levels of gore, despite the fact that all in all it's really not a very good film." — Cinematical Posted Oct 27, 2009 |
Rotten
| N/A | The Hills Run Red (2009) | "
The Hills Run Red is an example of the kind of horror movie that gets a pass from forgiving genre fans, but its clumsy, obvious execution will otherwise not likely entertain (much less scare) anyone else." — Cinematical Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 86%
| Trick 'r Treat (2009) | "
Michael Dougherty's directorial debut is one treat that deserves not to be spoiled before it's opened." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Saw VI (2009) | "
...a worthy and faithful entry in a franchise which at this point seems expressly designed to document people dying in increasingly inventive ways." — Cinematical Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 38%
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) | "
...the first installment in a potential franchise that fails to offer reasons why mainstream audiences will want to follow it any further." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 48%
| Astro Boy (2009) | "
Astro Boy ultimately fizzles when it should be flying." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 20%
| Amelia (2009) | "
Amelia modestly succeeds at inspiring its audience and provides a remarkably well-rounded role model for modern women, thanks to a terrific performance by Hilary Swank." — BitterLawyer.com Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 23%
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | "
...even if it's not an open-and-shut classic, it occasionally makes a compelling argument for the kind of movie that thrills your pulse while not quite making you think." — BitterLawyer.com Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 70%
| Where the Wild Things Are (2009) | "
As an understated work of spectacle, or maybe a spectacular work of understatement, Jonze's latest film is not only his best to date, but a monstrous achievement in its own right - with or without the big furry creatures." — Cinematical Posted Oct 15, 2009 |
Fresh
| N/A | Toy Story/Toy Story 2 (3-Disc Ultimate Toy Box Collector's Edition) (1995) | "
...[it] might leave some longtime fans feeling like they paid twice for the same Toy." — Cinematical Posted Oct 5, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 56%
| The Invention of Lying (2009) | "
...an extended sketch from a comedy show that outlasts its entertainment value long before the movie ends." — Cinematical Posted Oct 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
...one of the funniest movies of the year, but one of the best all-around zombie movies in the last decade." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Oct 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 75%
| Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) | "
...a one-sided love story, even if its message could be truly reciprocal if enough people opened their minds up enough to hear it." — Cinematical Posted Sep 26, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 47%
| Ong Bak 2 (2009) | "
...a self-aggrandizing historical epic that somehow proves that you can actually make a movie without a plot." — Cinematical Posted Sep 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Grace (2009) | "
It focuses on characters rather than the color red, which is why it manages to surpass many of its more prominent cinematic competitors and qualify as one of the few true must-see horror movies of 2009." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Sep 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 83%
| Paranormal Activity (2009) | "
Paranormal Activity takes all of the things that go bump in the night and gives you enough of a reason to think they might be real." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Sep 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 76%
| The Informant! (2009) | "
Director Steven Soderbergh's latest turns anti-capitalist fare into commercial entertainment, crafting a studio charmer cut loosely from the mold of his Ocean's movies while recontextualizing residual ideas he previously explored in his independent, two-p" — BitterLawyer.com Posted Sep 26, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 85%
| Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) | "
...co-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller crreate a world that scarcely resembles anything that could or would happen, and manages to be all the more exciting because of it." — Cinematical Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 45%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
Jennifer's Body substitutes hipster credibility for emotional currency, confuses pop-psychology insight with substantive social commentary, and measures terror on a scale that ranges from the word boo to a dead spider." — Cinematical Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| Gamer (2009) | "
...a film that isn't merely offensive but borderline irresponsible, and all the more so because the filmmakers might consider that description a compliment." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 29%
| The Final Destination (2009) | "
It's a shame that the filmmakers didn't use a little bit of creativity and inventiveness to come up with characters that we might actually want to see live, even if we would still be entertained when they didn't." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 21%
| Halloween II (2009) | "
Anyone uninitiated with Rob Zombie's brand of grainy hillbilly brutality would be better served by eating a bran muffin and steering clear of this particular horror film, because it's a compliment to call it a piece of crap." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
...a wartime opus whose shortcomings upon first viewing are as immediately recognizable as the fact they will after many more of them prove to be virtues..." — Cinematical Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 91%
| Ponyo (2009) | "
Ponyo's considerable charms translate easily to audiences of all ages, making the film not mere spectacle, but something truly special." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| I Sell the Dead (2009) | "
An equally suitable title might have been The Medieval Dead." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
Because Neill Blomkamp's emphasis is on humanistic rather than cultural relevance, the writer-director's feature debut is a genuine triumph nonetheless." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Aug 13, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| Funny People (2009) | "
Funny People is one of the summer's, if not the year's best films, because it's a comedy that inverts the medium's typical use %u2013 effectively revealing feelings rather than concealing them %u2013 and invites the audience to share in that discovery." — Cinematical Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 55%
| Orphan (2009) | "
Orphan delivers the goods and then some, but it's the pretense of respectability that overshadows its often silly, superficial but satisfying scares." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 82%
| Thirst (2009) | "
Thirst might just be the best horror movie of the year so far, precisely because it isn't one, but nevertheless works as though it is anyway." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 36%
| G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) | "
Stephen Sommers' film captures the silly energy that made the series such a childhood favorite and finds a way to fulfill the expectations of fanboys from 13 to 30 (okay, 33) in the process." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 67%
| Bruno (2009) | "
Bruno is curiously ineffective, a sort of middling effort that fails to liberate itself from the stereotypes that provide the character's foundations, even if it also doesn't deliberately or harmfully reinforce them." — Cinematical Posted Jul 9, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 19%
| Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) | "
...a monolithic action masterpiece that feels destined to be the biggest movie of all time." — Cinematical Posted Jun 22, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 15%
| Year One (2009) | "
Year One seems destined to earn the dubious distinction of being the one movie released in the summer of 2009 that made another trapped-in-time adventure, Land of the Lost, seem like a masterpiece by comparison." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Moon (2009) | "
Moon is a terrific alternative for science fiction fans who like to think in addition to simply being thrilled." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Rotten
| Fresh 66%
| Dead Snow (2009) | "
This Norwegian export adds precious little to the zombie-movie canon that hasn't already been thoroughly cannibalized by better directors and storytellers." — Sci Fi Wire Posted Jun 19, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 25%
| Land of the Lost (2009) | "
Land of the Lost is if nothing else an interesting place to visit." — Cinematical Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 98%
| Up (2009) | "
Up delivers like no other movie released this year thus far, operating as a massive summer movie and an intimate character study at the same time and with equal impact." — Sci Fi Wire Posted May 29, 2009 |
Fresh
| Rotten 32%
| Terminator Salvation (2009) | "
...it's hard to get too excited about yet another extension of the series' fairly joyless mythology, even if it qualifies as an otherwise well-executed and engaging summer blockbuster." — Sci Fi Wire Posted May 20, 2009 |
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