Fresh 4.5/5
| Rotten 50%
| Ricky (2009) | "
Ozon's Ricky contains moments of real grit, but also contains a dose of otherworldly magic that only movies can provide." Posted Dec 18, 2009 |
Fresh 5/5
| Fresh 92%
| Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) | "
Cinema-candy for grown-ups. I left the screening room thinking, I want to see this movie again." Posted Nov 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 94%
| The Wedding Song (2009) | "
Many, many movies have been made about World War II; but Albou's film provides a fresh perspective. It also doesn't hurt that her two lead actresses are terrifically beautiful." Posted Oct 27, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 56%
| Trucker (2009) | "
Monaghan's good, despite being too pretty, and the film, with a melodramatic storyline that seems perfect for a Hallmark TV movie, is good, too." Posted Oct 21, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 50%
| Wild Grass (2009) | "
Resnais's film keeps you guessing even beyond the audacious ending." Posted Oct 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 44%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
Gory rather than scary, mean-spirited rather than funny, Jennifer's Body is a nasty piece of work." Posted Sep 15, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 49%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
Taking Woodstock is enormous fun." Posted Aug 29, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 31%
| The Answer Man (2009) | "
Answer Man is a pleasant and enjoyable film, easy to go down, and often wrong about details: perfect for network TV." Posted Jul 26, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| 500 Days of Summer (2009) | "
Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel light up the screen in Marc Webb's directorial debut (500) Days of Summer. That might sound corny, but they do." Posted Jul 20, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 96%
| Somers Town (2009) | "
Somers Town, shot in glimmering black and white, reveals a working class England that brims with possibility." Posted Jul 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 47%
| Whatever Works (2009) | "
"Whatever Works" is Boris Yellnikoff's personal motto. It works for him, for his rag-tag friends, and best of all, for the audience, too." Posted Jun 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 66%
| Away We Go (2009) | "
Time and time again, Burt and Verona strike an artful pose while a guitar strums plaintive chords and mournful singer Alexi Murdoch tells the audience just how to feel." Posted Jun 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 81%
| Departures (2009) | "
The sweeping music and bucolic landscape serve to heap on the emotion to Takita's already heavy-handed manipulation." Posted May 26, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 51%
| Easy Virtue (2009) | "
A painfully unfunny flop." Posted May 22, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 72%
| Julia (2008) | "
Zonca's Julia is a difficult movie to stomach, but entirely worth the emotional unrest it puts through you." Posted May 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 73%
| Rudo and Cursi (2009) | "
To put it plainly, both actors play unlikeable dimwits. [...] It's a shame that Bernal and Luna could not have had a better project for their reunion." Posted May 8, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 39%
| The Limits of Control (2009) | "
The Lone Man remains inscrutably cool from beginning to end. He is is nothing more a hit man for hire who likes his coffee just so." Posted May 1, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 85%
| Tyson (2009) | "
Tyson offers no point of view other that that of Mike Tyson himself. He's impossible not to like and the gentle quality of his voice is entirely disarming." Posted Apr 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 73%
| American Violet (2009) | "
American Violet is a fine film. Dee Roberts is not an abstract symbol of injustice. To watch a mother be wrenched away from her children is heartrending." Posted Apr 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 55%
| Lymelife (2009) | "
Something about the flatness of Culkin's eternally dull expression makes him a difficult character to care about -- a fundamental problem since Scott is meant to be the heart and soul of Martini's sedentary film." Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 65%
| The Cake Eaters (2009) | "
Kristen Stewart is lovely, as is Masterson's beautifully crafted first film." Posted Mar 13, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 97%
| The Beaches of Agnes (2009) | "
Varda's luminous depiction of a life lived well is entertaining, informative, and finally, inspirational." Posted Mar 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 97%
| The Class (2008) | "
While The Class is not a documentary, Cantet has created a film so life-like that it seems as if the filmmaker has captured actual footage of a real classroom." Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Rotten 38%
| The Toe Tactic (2008) | "
Mona's concerns and pleasures - from the regular avoidance of phone calls from her mother to the joy of a fresh hundred dollar bill - are as real and immediate as the floating dogs are fanciful and poetic." Posted Jan 28, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 98%
| The Wrestler (2008) | "
Mickey Rourke is heart-breakingly good." Posted Jan 8, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 74%
| Just Another Love Story (2009) | "
A creepy, yet genuine love story" Posted Jan 8, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 93%
| Milk (2008) | "
A traditional bio-pic about historic figure Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man elected to public office in this country. Sean Penn gives a wonderful, inviting performance as the easy-to-smile Milk." Posted Nov 26, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 86%
| A Christmas Tale (2008) | "
Depslachin's film is not brimming over with good cheer, hardly, but it is warm and sometimes funny and refreshingly honest, illustrating the complicated beast that often is family." Posted Nov 19, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 93%
| Slumdog Millionaire (2008) | "
A conceit that grows horribly stale." Posted Nov 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 33%
| The Guitar (2008) | "
I was seduced by Melody's story. Sucked in, enjoying Amy Redford's film despite myself." Posted Nov 7, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 92%
| Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) | "
As Poppy likes to say, it's lovely." Posted Oct 16, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 86%
| Rachel Getting Married (2008) | "
A veritable orgy of family angst." Posted Oct 4, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 84%
| Wendy and Lucy (2008) | "
It's easy to admire to Williams' performance, without ever feeling compelled to cry." Posted Sep 30, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 78%
| Un Secret (2008) | "
French filmmaker Claude Miller has crafted a traditional, engrossing narrative in A Secret, the story of a Jewish family in France in the aftermath of the Holocaust." Posted Sep 5, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 63%
| Hamlet 2 (2008) | "
The lowbrow humor in Hamlet 2 works consistently well, but much more intelligent jokes are launched from the wry lips of Catherine Keener." Posted Sep 3, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 97%
| Trouble the Water (2008) | "
The co-directors of Touble the Water make the wise choice of narrowing their focus, a strategy that breaks down the almost incomprehensible suffering of the thousands of Americans and makes it intensely real." Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 82%
| Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) | "
If you like watching privileged beautiful people flitting from expensive homes to fancy restaurants to dazzling tourist attractions to plush hotel rooms and gala gallery openings, you're likely to find something to enjoy in this movie." Posted Aug 15, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 77%
| Baghead (2008) | "
For the Duplass' film about these talentless slackers to work - both as a drama and then as a horror film -- it's essential that we care about the characters. I couldn't do it." Posted Jul 24, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 41%
| Eight Miles High (2007) | "
Natalia Avelon is great to look at - either naked or in see-through clothes - and that's enough to merit 8 Miles High! a three-star-rating." Posted Jul 17, 2008 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 11%
| Garden Party (2008) | "
Willa Holland is the one good thing about Garden Party -- not because of her performance (which is neither good or bad) but for that nostalgia she evoked in me for young Fairuza [Balk]." Posted Jul 10, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 69%
| The Wackness (2008) | "
A surprisingly tender coming of age film about a white teenage drug dealer." Posted Jul 1, 2008 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 93%
| Tell No One (2008) | "
[T]he best movie I've seen this year." Posted Jul 1, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 75%
| The Last Mistress (2008) | "
There are far too many ludicrous, overwrought sex scenes. [...] The Last Mistress is nothing but pure, laughable melodrama." Posted Jun 24, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 79%
| Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) | "
A fine film: for children and adults." Posted Jun 21, 2008 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 65%
| Brick Lane (2008) | "
No new ground is explored, however, in this handsomely constructed film. Nazneen's story seems familiar every step of the way." Posted Jun 17, 2008 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 93%
| Encounters At the End of the World (2007) | "
Herzog appears to have no serious intent in his new documentary Encounters at the End of the World. Instead, the film seems only one more step on Herzog's path to living oddity." Posted Jun 12, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 40%
| Savage Grace (2008) | "
an oddly compelling film about contemptible people doing contemptible things to each other." Posted May 31, 2008 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| The Edge of Heaven (2008) | "
With The Edge of Heaven, the marvelously talented Fatih Akin, a German filmmaker of Turkish origin, continues to explore questions posed in Head On." Posted May 27, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 68%
| Redbelt (2008) | "
If you try to piece the story together, the logic won't hold. But trademark Mamet magic happens: requisite razor sharp dialogue, a complicated turn of events, and terrific cast of characters whose performances pop." Posted May 9, 2008 |
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