Fresh B
| Rotten 46%
| Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007) | "
The big question for fans is does Aqua Teen Hunger Force have enough gags and giggles to translate to 86 minutes on the big screen? And the answer is ... yeah, sort of, well, maybe. ..." Posted Apr 12, 2007 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 19%
| The Last Sin Eater (2007) | "
If Sin Eater wasn't so laborious, it might be easier to overlook the movie's predictability. With too many slow-developing subplots, though, it finally illicits a feeling something like squirming in a hard pew during a long-winded sermon." Posted Feb 8, 2007 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 85%
| Hurricane on the Bayou (2006) | "
A convincing and entertaining argument for the importance of preserving Louisiana's wetlands." Posted Jan 18, 2007 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 27%
| Stomp The Yard (2007) | "
As expected, there's a final contest that resolves a whole mess of conflicts. But before that, Stomp the Yard flirts with several silly soap opera subplots while twisting its way around to a cursory touch of social consciousness." Posted Jan 11, 2007 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 92%
| Children of Men (2006) | "
What makes Children work is that camera and the staging of all the physical insanity its lens captures." Posted Dec 26, 2006 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 44%
| Night at the Museum (2006) | "
Computer-generated things that go bump in the night can't cover for a thin story and less-than-inspired performances from Stiller and Williams." Posted Dec 21, 2006 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 76%
| Rocky Balboa (2006) | "
The big surprise is that it also has just enough referential wit and nostalgic charm to keep the smiles coming through the schmaltz." Posted Dec 19, 2006 |
Rotten D+
| Rotten 28%
| Unaccompanied Minors (2006) | "
A Christmas lump of coal." Posted Dec 7, 2006 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 51%
| The Fountain (2006) | "
Aronofsky's long-time-coming version of spiritual wonder is finally more mind-numbing than soul-stirring." Posted Nov 21, 2006 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 90%
| Shut Up & Sing (2006) | "
The intimate, fly-on-the-wall context is what's most winning." Posted Nov 16, 2006 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 51%
| Fast Food Nation (2006) | "
What's most frustrating about Fast Food Nation is how much it promises and how little it delivers." Posted Nov 16, 2006 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 91%
| Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) | "
Hilarious, and purposefully offensive." Posted Nov 2, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Rotten 44%
| Renaissance (2006) | "
Its dark images echo in the mind's eye. And for that alone, it's worth seeing." Posted Oct 12, 2006 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 33%
| Flyboys (2006) | "
Watching Flyboys, it's hard not to giggle and think of Snoopy vs. the Red Baron." Posted Sep 21, 2006 |
Fresh B
| Rotten 40%
| Everyone's Hero (2006) | "
Everyone's Hero is a labor of love. And that clearly comes through in this feel-good animated feature about a 10-year-old boy, Yankee Irving, who becomes an unlikely World Series hero for the 1932 New York Yankees." Posted Sep 14, 2006 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 2%
| Crossover (2006) | "
Compared to those prodigious in-your-face fakes, alley oops and slam dunks, the movie's trite, trash-talking dialogue and drippy do-the-right-thing message fall as flat as an airball." Posted Aug 31, 2006 |
Rotten B
| Rotten 53%
| Strangers With Candy (2006) | "
Whether you guffaw, giggle or sit stone-faced through Strangers With Candy will depend on your reaction to Sedaris as Jerri and her freak show of over-the-top bad taste." Posted Aug 6, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 75%
| American Blackout (2006) | "
A powerful piece of political cinema that effectively documents the disenfranchisement of black voters in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections." Posted Aug 4, 2006 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 62%
| Clerks II (2006) | "
Clerks II brings Smith back to his roots, and his strengths as a writer-director." Posted Jul 20, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 26%
| Waist Deep (2006) | "
That sappy sentimentality juxtaposed with plenty of gritty gangster stuff drives both the tone and the plot of Waist Deep." Posted Jun 22, 2006 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 34%
| The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) | "
The adrenaline-charged racing sequences have a kind of brutally modern elegance. But when their fingers slip from the nitro fuel-injection buttons and the teens are forced to say a few syllables, big chunks of the movie come to a tire-screeching halt." Posted Jun 15, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 57%
| Drawing Restraint 9 (2006) | "
Sitting through the film's tedious unfolding can be an interesting mental exercise." Posted Jun 1, 2006 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 88%
| The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006) | "
Feuerzeig was able to fashion such a thorough, engaging film partly because aficionados such as Lee Renaldo of Sonic Youth shot so much footage of Johnston performing and acting out." Posted Apr 28, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 27%
| The Shaggy Dog (2006) | "
A pretty fair Disney family comedy." Posted Mar 9, 2006 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 91%
| Deep Sea (IMAX) (2006) | "
About as a good as the Imax 3-D experience gets." Posted Mar 2, 2006 |
Fresh A-
| Fresh 91%
| Neil Young - Heart of Gold (2006) | "
Neil Young: Heart of Gold, director Jonathan Demme's lovingly shot document of Young's August 2005 performances at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, has to rank among the most heartfelt concert films ever made." Posted Feb 23, 2006 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 70%
| Roving Mars (2006) | "
It's harder still not to root for anthropomorphized Spirit and Opportunity as time and again they perform like whirring, beeping little robots-that-could, far exceeding the expectations of the people who designed and built them." Posted Feb 4, 2006 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 56%
| Glory Road (2006) | "
Glory Road plays fast and loose with some of the facts leading up to that event. But that certainly gives it dramatic punch." Posted Jan 12, 2006 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 83%
| Wild Safari 3D: A South African Adventure (2005) | "
Those natural habitat glimpses are the best reason to take the kids to see Wild Safari." Posted Jan 5, 2006 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 33%
| The Gospel (2005) | "
When the music isn't pounding in sanctified syncopation, the look and the dialogue of The Gospel are a lot like what you might see and hear on daytime TV." Posted Oct 15, 2005 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 81%
| Serenity (2005) | "
Whedon works plenty of smart pop-culture references into his genre-jumping script." Posted Sep 29, 2005 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 31%
| The Baxter (2005) | "
While trying really hard to make Elliot a lovable loser, Showalter too often just renders him shrill and annoying." Posted Sep 15, 2005 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 11%
| The Man (2005) | "
Characters are pretty much composites of their previous roles. Think Jackson's Pulp Fiction Jules getting all Ezekiel 25:17 on Levy's American Pie dad." Posted Sep 8, 2005 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 25%
| 9 Songs (2005) | "
If you're a fan of the 'now' bands on the soundtrack or an art film buff (or a dirty old man), 9 Songs may appeal." Posted Aug 25, 2005 |
Fresh B
| Fresh 78%
| Red Eye (2005) | "
A nifty thriller that plays like B-movie blast from the past." Posted Aug 18, 2005 |
Rotten D
| Rotten 38%
| The Skeleton Key (2005) | "
The Hollywood cliche factory got its mojo working overtime on this one." Posted Aug 11, 2005 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 74%
| Wedding Crashers (2005) | "
Under all the raunchiness, Crashers is actually sort of a sweet movie. And at its best, it perfectly channels the winning personalities of Wilson and Vaughn." Posted Jul 14, 2005 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 29%
| Undead (2005) | "
Despite its clever low-budget visual style and campy sensibility, Undead is just too derivative to go on as long as it does." Posted Jul 7, 2005 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 81%
| Oldboy (2005) | "
A visually beguiling trip that keeps pulling you along and keeps you wondering what fresh hell could possibly come next." Posted Jun 2, 2005 |
Rotten C+
| Rotten 55%
| Lords of Dogtown (2005) | "
While the actors do a decent job capturing the aura of their characters, the writing, directing and editing stumble." Posted Jun 2, 2005 |
Rotten C+
| Fresh 66%
| Unleashed (2005) | "
Permeated with dark shadows that recall Frankenstein and The Elephant Man, Unleashed features a quite clever premise before detouring into a plot twist that should've been muzzled." Posted May 12, 2005 |
Rotten D-
| Rotten 16%
| XXX: State of the Union (2005) | "
Like the original, it's ultra loud and often looks like a PlayStation game. But when the fast and furious bludgeoning and blow-ups wane, the screen may as well be tuned to channel zero." Posted Apr 28, 2005 |
Rotten C-
| Rotten 23%
| In My Country (2005) | "
Is it a docudrama about South Africa's post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings? Or is it love story? The problem with In My Country is that it tries to be both." Posted Apr 14, 2005 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 63%
| Fever Pitch (2005) | "
It's frequently amusing and awfully sweet." Posted Apr 7, 2005 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 95%
| Travellers & Magicians (2005) | "
A colorful and witty work that doesn't preach so much as gently nudge us to consider the wonders of our existence." Posted Mar 3, 2005 |
Rotten D-
| Rotten 1%
| Alone in the Dark (2005) | "
Alone in the Dark co-stars perpetual party-girl Tara Reid as an archeologist. That alone should give you some clue as to how bad this movie is." Posted Jan 27, 2005 |
Fresh B-
| Fresh 64%
| Coach Carter (2005) | "
Thank goodness then for go-to guy Jackson. He takes what could have been a cardboard cliche role and puts flesh on it with his flamboyant intelligence." Posted Jan 13, 2005 |
Fresh B-
| Rotten 10%
| Elektra (2005) | "
True to form, Garner creates a strapping action character with as many foibles as muscles." Posted Jan 13, 2005 |
Rotten C
| Rotten 29%
| Flight of the Phoenix (2004) | "
More like a waddling turkey than a soaring bird." Posted Dec 16, 2004 |
Fresh B+
| Fresh 87%
| Lightning in a Bottle (2004) | "
Gets its great groove from the humor and dignity of the true blues musicians it documents." Posted Dec 2, 2004 |
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