Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 92%
| Of Time and the City (2009) | "
[A] mesmerizing, visceral and heartfelt, a lushly rendered assembly of colour and black-and-white archival footage that evokes not only a remembrance of things past, but perhaps as they never were." Posted Jan 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 30%
| Youth Without Youth (2007) | "
Not so much a bad movie as a dispiritingly unnecessary one (especially by a once-great director), Youth Without Youth ultimately boils down to a long, autumn stroll around the block to a place everyone winds up at some time or another." Posted Jan 4, 2008 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 73%
| The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) | "
A tepid, CGI-enhanced family movie that should delight 6-year-olds with a lap full of popcorn." Posted Dec 26, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 79%
| The Great Debaters (2007) | "
It's ultimately less a movie than a high-gloss civics lesson." Posted Dec 26, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 86%
| Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) | "
It's easily Burton's best since, well, ever." Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 8%
| Mama's Boy (2007) | "
It's not that the movie is utterly bereft of arresting moments. It's just that each of these prominently features one of the aforementioned supporting cast and not the so-called star." Posted Dec 14, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 66%
| The Kite Runner (2007) | "
The Kite Runner has become that most unfortunate of awards-season Hollywood casualties: a worthy bore." Posted Dec 14, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| N/A | My Dinner With Jimi (2003) | "
More a collection of dubiously myth-serving, purple-hazed '60s' sketches than anything else." Posted Dec 7, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 82%
| Atonement (2007) | "
Atonement is not only too polite but maddeningly orderly, resulting in a prettily cast, professionally performed, impeccably mounted bore." Posted Dec 7, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 42%
| The Golden Compass (2007) | "
With its rushed, jargon-pumped exposition, surplus of quarter-baked characters, stray narrative strands and generously dropped hints of things possibly to come, The Golden Compass is a movie that wears its franchise ambitions on its sleeve." Posted Dec 7, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 100%
| Life of Reilly (2007) | "
In this rippingly entertaining documentary of Reilly's celebrated autobiographical monologue Save It for the Stage, the unfailingly witty, shamelessly bitchy Reilly gets to set the record straight about a number of things." Posted Nov 30, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 54%
| This Christmas (2007) | "
If the real-life Christmas experience tends too often to be marred by the rude contradiction between expectations and reality, movies like the ultra-bland holiday family movie This Christmas are at least partly to blame." Posted Nov 24, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 52%
| Margot at the Wedding (2007) | "
There's no question Baumbach has a way with words and actors (Kidman, Leigh and Jack Black are terrific)." Posted Nov 24, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 38%
| August Rush (2007) | "
Exuberantly bad and strenuously preposterous." Posted Nov 21, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 79%
| Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007) | "
From the open-air stroll he took down Pennsylvania Ave. on his inauguration day, to the sunny-coloured cardigans he wore when addressing the nation, president James T. Carter always seemed like a guy who wanted people to remember he was one of them." Posted Nov 17, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 44%
| Redacted (2007) | "
Where Casualties of War had the swooning formal elegance of an opium dream, Redacted adopts the fractured fitfulness of a seizure." Posted Nov 16, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 85%
| Terror's Advocate (2007) | "
The movie functions crackingly well as a non-fiction international thriller." Posted Nov 16, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 88%
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) | "
At a time when family movies are usurped by fantasies of sentimental feelgood, Lumet's latest -- the mangled-heist melodrama Before the Devil Knows You're Dead -- delivers a swift kick straight to the jewels." Posted Nov 16, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 68%
| Darfur Now (2007) | "
In movie making, as in life, it's not enough to mean well. The real challenge is in being meaningful." Posted Nov 9, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 27%
| Lions for Lambs (2007) | "
There is much talk of paralysis in Robert Redford's what's-wrong-with-America movie Lions for Lambs, and there is a whole lot of the same in the movie itself." Posted Nov 9, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 34%
| P2 (2007) | "
P2 feels like a vehicle lost in an after-hours parking facility, constantly backing up, shifting gears and generally speeding around in circles in a vain attempt to get somewhere." Posted Nov 9, 2007 |
— | Rotten 38%
| The Bubble (2006) |
Click here to read article Posted Nov 3, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 31%
| Martian Child (2007) | "
If all this is supposed to be so life-affirming, how come I envied the dead dog?" Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 81%
| Lars And The Real Girl (2007) | "
Lars and the Real Girl remains suspended somewhere between perversity and pap, with only Gosling hinting at the mingling that might have been." Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 79%
| American Gangster (2007) | "
Ridley Scott's listless Big Statement is a wheezy, hot air-inflated dud." Posted Nov 2, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 18%
| Saw IV (2007) | "
An incomprehensible cacophony of screams, shock cuts, dour pseudo-philosophizing, heavy metal mutilation and low-rent TV-standard performances." Posted Oct 29, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| Control (2007) | "
Joy Division has the movie that, for better or worse, lives up to the myth." Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 64%
| Dan in Real Life (2007) | "
A movie nicely packed with pleasantly unpredictable surprises." Posted Oct 26, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 37%
| Reservation Road (2007) | "
The major failure here is fear of the very emotions the movie purports to be about." Posted Oct 20, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 47%
| Rendition (2007) | "
It's one thing for a thriller to be timely, quite another for it to function as Rendition does, a gripping piece of entertainment with a clear head on its shoulders." Posted Oct 19, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| N/A | American Venus (2007) | "
Never settling on a consistent tone or establishing a convincing context for its central character, the movie ultimately seems to grow bored even with itself." Posted Oct 12, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 90%
| Michael Clayton (2007) | "
While the plot is complex in the telling, it unfolds onscreen with propulsive fascination." Posted Oct 5, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 0%
| Puffball (2007) | "
Everyone in this soggy tale of maternal reproductive instincts gone berserk is wisely attired in Wellingtons at one time or another, but it can't save them from sinking in the spreading sludge." Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 82%
| Into the Wild (2007) | "
Super '70s in both style and sensibility, Into the Wild does for vagabond New Age souls what Deliverance did for misguided suburban macho." Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 27%
| The Game Plan (2007) | "
Generic to the point where it might be called Sport-Themed Disney Girly Movie All Rights Reserved." Posted Sep 28, 2007 |
Rotten .5/4
| Rotten 23%
| Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) | "
If ever a movie was made for a quick in-and-out engagement at the multiplex, this is it." Posted Sep 24, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 75%
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) | "
It's a western destined to outlive the pronouncements of its own death, because it knows that death is only the first stage in the life of legend." Posted Sep 21, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 89%
| Eastern Promises (2007) | "
Menacingly brilliant." Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 67%
| Shoot 'Em Up (2007) | "
If John Woo had directed a Bugs Bunny cartoon written by the creators of South Park, the result might be something like Shoot `Em Up, but with a crucial difference: Bugs Bunny cartoons were always less than 10 minutes long." Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 16%
| The Brothers Solomon (2007) | "
Neither Odenkirk's limp direction nor SNL alumnus Will Forte's script -- not nearly clever enough to get away with its questionable gags about matters sexual and racial -- provides much by way of actual plot or comedy." Posted Sep 7, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 20%
| Death Sentence (2007) | "
. At both its best and worst, it feels like the missing third part of the faux retro double-bill Grindhouse." Posted Aug 31, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 59%
| Resurrecting the Champ (2007) | "
While Resurrecting the Champ seems to be just what you expect, it's only when you've let your guard slip that you realize it's hiding something altogether more forceful in its glove." Posted Aug 24, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 17%
| The Last Legion (2007) | "
In The Last Legion, Rome doesn't fall. But it does look like it would rather be lying down and taking a nap." Posted Aug 17, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 24%
| El Cantante (2007) | "
This may be one of the very few biopics in which the subject is marginalized to the point of irrelevance." Posted Aug 17, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 87%
| Superbad (2007) | "
Contains laughs galore, so many that the last one may get in the way of next one coming. But it's also got moments where you may want to cover your eyes to shield yourself from the sheer, wince-inducing familiarity of the behaviour on display." Posted Aug 17, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 70%
| Moliere (2007) | "
Woefully miscast as the seminal 17th-century French farceur Molière, the intense, black-maned young French movie star Romain Duris never seems more comfortable than the brief moments when he's rotting in a dank jail." Posted Aug 10, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 29%
| Klimt (2006) | "
Klimt comes across as a lovely but unfathomable object, and an inadvertent case study in the argument for the ultimate integrity of Klimt's art." Posted Aug 10, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 76%
| Stardust (2007) | "
Stardust [feels] episodic and clunky, constantly straining for the impression of overall coherent design that Gaiman renders invisible." Posted Aug 10, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 14%
| Skinwalkers (2007) | "
Skinwalkers announces its irony-impaired comic-shop geek credentials from the beginning." Posted Aug 10, 2007 |
Rotten 0.5/4
| Rotten 1%
| Daddy Day Camp (2007) | "
Not quite as funny as a perforated ulcer." Posted Aug 8, 2007 |
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