Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 13%
| Feel the Noise (2007) | "
Dramatic tension and narrative momentum are MIA." Posted Oct 13, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 34%
| Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) | "
For a narrative that's positively overflowing with dramatic intrigue, Elizabeth: The Golden Age is only fitfully compelling." Posted Oct 12, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 85%
| Terror's Advocate (2007) | "
A brilliantly shrewd and maddeningly elusive figure, controversial lawyer Jacques Vergès alternately fascinates and repulses in Barbet Schroeder's gripping documentary." Posted Oct 12, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 26%
| The Final Season (2007) | "
So relentlessly earnest and maudlin it makes Hoosiers look like a Martin Scorsese film, The Final Season is the latest and worst sports-themed underdog story to get the big screen treatment." Posted Oct 12, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| Outsourced (2007) | "
A smart, low-key charmer." Posted Oct 6, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 94%
| Lake of Fire (2007) | "
A monumental achievement, 17 years in the making and financed by Kaye himself, Lake of Fire reveals Kaye to be a far more thoughtful and mature filmmaker than his loose cannon public persona suggests." Posted Oct 5, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 94%
| My Kid Could Paint That (2007) | "
That Bar-Lev takes such care to depict them as complex, foible-laden individuals who can't be pegged either good or bad is one of the great strengths of this intriguing and provocative documentary." Posted Oct 5, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 96%
| Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2007) | "
The ridiculous and the sublime collide, with tragicomic results, in Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea, Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer's lively, fascinating chronicle of "Paradise Lost" in the Southern California desert." Posted Oct 3, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 28%
| Trade (2007) | "
Alternately gripping and frustrating, Trade is a regrettable disappointment." Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 67%
| The Darjeeling Limited (2007) | "
Although The Darjeeling Limited pales in comparison to Anderson's best film, Rushmore, it's still a vast improvement over the director's last and worst film, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou." Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 23%
| Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) | "
No better or worse than its video game-derived predecessors, hack-for-hire Russell Mulcahy's tired schlockfest blatantly rips off other, infinitely better sci-fi chillers." Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 5%
| Good Luck Chuck (2007) | "
A poor man's version of a Judd Apatow-style raunchy romantic comedy." Posted Sep 22, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 65%
| The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) | "
Engaging but overly glossy." Posted Sep 21, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 43%
| December Boys (2007) | "
Except for the breathtaking Australian landscape, there's little to recommend about December Boys." Posted Sep 14, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 54%
| Across the Universe (2007) | "
It's overlong, exhaustingly so, and barely held together by the flimsiest of narratives." Posted Sep 14, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 89%
| Eastern Promises (2007) | "
This intermittently riveting and atmospheric film nevertheless ends on such a bewilderingly abrupt and unsatisfying note, you wonder if there's a missing reel." Posted Sep 14, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 79%
| Manda Bala (2007) | "
In the end, Kohn's one-note approach diminishes, rather than intensifies, the impact of Manda Bala." Posted Sep 8, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 37%
| Milarepa (2007) | "
A captivating fable, told with heartfelt eloquence and restraint." Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 26%
| Fierce People (2007) | "
The analogies drawn between the Ishkanani and the Osborne social circle come off as insufferably precious, rather than thoughtful." Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 67%
| Shoot 'Em Up (2007) | "
A former storyboard artist, Davis orchestrates the film's nearly wall-to-wall action sequences with breakneck precision and exhilarating verve -- the more outrageous the mayhem, the better." Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| 3:10 to Yuma (2007) | "
A terrific, old-fashioned western, proof positive that sometimes, they do "make 'em like they used to."" Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 16%
| The Brothers Solomon (2007) | "
A strong argument for birth control and 2007's worst comedy to date." Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 33%
| Freshman Orientation (2007) | "
Freshman Orientation barely rates a passing grade." Posted Sep 1, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 82%
| Exiled (2007) | "
For anyone bored silly by the formulaic drivel churned out by the studios, Exiled is like a blast of cinematic adrenaline." Posted Aug 31, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 23%
| Balls of Fury (2007) | "
A top contender for the summer's worst comedy..." Posted Aug 31, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 17%
| The Last Legion (2007) | "
A passably entertaining hodgepodge of sword-and-sandal film clichés and Arthurian romance." Posted Aug 25, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 13%
| September Dawn (2007) | "
What could have been a galvanizing and all-too timely account of religious fanaticism turning violent has instead been reduced to the banal level of an Romeo and Juliet-type love story." Posted Aug 24, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 51%
| Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) | "
A breezily funny showcase for the rubbery-faced Atkinson's signature character, a near-mute buffoon partly inspired by the similar antics of Jacques Tati." Posted Aug 24, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 97%
| The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) | "
An audience favorite on the film festival circuit, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a laugh-out-loud funny and rousing documentary that's far more compelling than the would-be summer blockbusters crowding the multiplex." Posted Aug 17, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 19%
| The Invasion (2007) | "
Aside from a handful of scenes, the fourth version of Finney's pulp novel may induce drowsiness, rather than goose-bumps." Posted Aug 17, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 15%
| Underdog (2007) | "
Yet another misbegotten live-action remake of a beloved Saturday morning cartoon, Underdog is a negligible family film that's so blandly formulaic, it makes the original, '60s-era cartoon look downright edgy in comparison." Posted Aug 9, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 6%
| Who's Your Caddy? (2007) | "
About the best that can be said for this clunky mixture of tired stereotypes, obvious gags, and on-the-nose social commentary is that it's relatively short, clocking in just less than 90 minutes." Posted Aug 4, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 38%
| The Ten (2007) | "
A resoundingly mediocre film that commits the cardinal sin of tedium." Posted Aug 3, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 88%
| The Camden 28 (2007) | "
A vivid and impassioned chronicle of unwavering moral courage under extreme duress." Posted Jul 27, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 70%
| Moliere (2007) | "
One of the year's best films to date." Posted Jul 27, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 74%
| Sunshine (2007) | "
Sunshine is also an atypically humorless entry from Boyle, who's never made a film this oddly devoid of personality." Posted Jul 20, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 77%
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) | "
Stodgy rather than sweeping, with precious little of the wondrous excitement conjured by Alfonso Cuaron in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban." Posted Jul 12, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 62%
| Joshua (2007) | "
This stylish and sophisticated film loses its way in a frustratingly vague third act that's more unsatisfying than unsettling." Posted Jul 7, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 27%
| Evening (2007) | "
Danes, radiant with intelligence, warmth and common sense, captures your heart. Sadly, the same cannot be said of Evening." Posted Jun 29, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 93%
| Sicko (2007) | "
A galvanizing, infuriating and sometimes heartbreaking look into the red tape-snarled morass of the American health care system." Posted Jun 29, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 77%
| A Mighty Heart (2007) | "
One of the year's most compelling films to date." Posted Jun 22, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 95%
| 12:08 East of Bucharest (2007) | "
Corneliu Porumboiu's drolly witty black comedy 12:08 East of Bucharest is an understated gem, infused with gimlet-eyed humor, weary pathos and surprising tenderness." Posted Jun 8, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 78%
| Surf's Up (2007) | "
Overly long and often listlessly paced." Posted Jun 8, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 76%
| Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2007) | "
See it if you're a fan of serious, literate drama and virtuoso acting." Posted Jun 1, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 90%
| Knocked Up (2007) | "
Hollywood's reigning auteur of raunchy romantic comedy, Judd Apatow, scores a near-knockout with Knocked Up, his extremely funny and sweetly endearing follow-up to The 40-Year-Old Virgin." Posted Jun 1, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 59%
| Bug (2007) | "
Bug holds you in its disturbing grip until the genuinely shocking denouement." Posted May 25, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 45%
| Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) | "
Alternately exciting and exhausting, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End may occasionally sail off course, but it never runs completely aground." Posted May 25, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 24%
| Even Money (2007) | "
Robert Tannen's first-produced screenplay certainly doesn't lack for story -- or clichés, for that matter. Nor does Tannen skimp on trite, predictable plot twists, or well-worn, stock characters in his pedestrian script." Posted May 18, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 41%
| Shrek the Third (2007) | "
The narrative momentum and comic energy begin to flag right about the point Shrek and his sidekicks begin their quest for Artie, who's an exceedingly bland addition to the cast of characters." Posted May 18, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 17%
| Georgia Rule (2007) | "
Frankly, it's a wonder that stars Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman didn't belly up to the bar alongside Lohan, once they read Mark Andrus' screenplay, an atonal, ersatz mix of garden-variety family dysfunction and rank 'chick flick' clichés." Posted May 11, 2007 |
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