Tomato 4/4
No Country for Old Men (2007)
"A dust-bowl Pulp Fiction, the movie is bloody, suspenseful, unnerving and, not incidentally, hilarious. The best Coen Bros. drama, without the twitchy mannerisms of Fargo."
Kyle Smith
Tomato 3/4
Observe and Report (2009)
"Reminded me of the work of Paul Thomas Anderson and Quentin Tarantino."
Splat 2/4
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
"The "Ocean's" series started out popping like the Bellagio. With "Ocean's Thirteen" it has gone as dead as CircusCircus. On a Tuesday afternoon. During a Shriners convention."
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
"Set your bosoms to heave and prepare to have your bodices ripped: "The Other Boleyn Girl" is in the house with a pair of 16th century foxes."
Splat 1.5/4
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
"Yo ho ho and a bottle of regulations!...has the soul of a three-hour U.N. committee meeting. Gods' bodkins, me hearties, this movie blows like a whale from the vasty deep."
Ratatouille (2007)
"I would have loved to have been present during the pitch meeting for "Ratatouille." "It's, um, a little bit 'Willard,' a little bit 'Like Water for Chocolate'"!...The greatest rat movie and the greatest food movie ever made."
Splat 1/4
The Rocker (2008)
"Memo to Rainn Wilson: A shot of a paunchy middle-aged man in jockey shorts is not automatically funny. Okay, it kind of is. But The Rocker is as formulaic as a Whitesnake song without the virtue of a four-minute running time."
Tomato 3.5/4
Rocket Science (2007)
"A frightening memorandum from a dismal and mysterious dungeon: high school."
Role Models (2008)
"Good fun for males in the mental age bracket of 14-22, which is most males."
Semi-Pro (2008)
"Goes up for the dunk but misses the rim, the backboard and the point. Instead it manages to strike out and get sacked at the same time."
A Serious Man (2009)
"You're unlikely to react with much more than a shrug."
Sex and the City - The Movie (2008)
"To its credit, though, the movie turns Carrie's value system, which equates "the two Ls--Labels and Love," to its advantage, and in the second half the movie achieves a nice balance between comedy and drama."
The Soloist (2009)
"A neat summation of how liberal thinking boils down to one symbol -- a soiled, tattered American flag, emblem of our supposed national shame -- and one phrase: 'Force him.'"
Splat 2.5/4
Star Trek (2009)
"Barely competent. J.J. Abrams has a TV soul."
Starter For 10 (2007)
"Up there with early John Cusack films such as "The Sure Thing" and "Better Off Dead.""
Superbad (2007)
"American Graffiti, Sixteen Candles and Dazed and Confused, bow to your new master. It super freaking rocks."
Swing Vote (2008)
"A usually reliable indicator of a bad movie is this: It contains the credit 'Larry King as himself.'"
The Clone Wars (2008)
"What's Lucas's next big idea for brand extension--Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. Darth?"
There Will Be Blood (2007)
"A macabre joke: suppose Capitalism and Evangelism climbed down an inky black hole together? Which one would emerge?"
"It is the despair about lacking family that destroys Daniel Plainview."
Tomato 2.5/4
Tropic Thunder (2008)
"Half showbiz satire, half action movie, half broad comedy and all Tom Cruise."
Splat 0.5/4
W. (2008)
"Hee-Haw meets Dr. Strangelove."
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
"Hey, bay-buh! There's a whole lot of funny goin' on in Walk Hard. It's got sex and drugs and Elvis and giraffes and Members Only jackets."
WALL-E (2008)
"Too Gloom-E."
What Happens in Vegas (2008)
"Should have stayed, not in Vegas, but elsewhere in the state of Nevada. How about those mountains where they are supposed to store the radioactive waste?"
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)
"Not just childish, smug and unfunny but a hideous affront to the 9/11 families, to whom Spurlock owes an abject apology."
You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008)
"If "Munich" is the disease, the Zohan is the cure. Some hard little grains of truth make this Sandler's funniest movie since "The Waterboy.""
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