Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 70%
| Act of God (2009) | "
Philosophically ripe but cinematically undercooked." — New York Times Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 38%
| Splinterheads (2009) | "
A shaggy comedy with more heart than heft." — New York Times Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 75%
| Collapse (2009) | "
Not just sobering; it’s a full-on assault." — New York Times Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 17%
| How To Seduce Difficult Women (2009) | "
Inept, immature and terminally irritating, Mo is the kind of persistent clown who only responds to a slap in the kisser; would that the film were as easy to banish." — New York Times Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 15%
| Stan Helsing (2009) | By the time we reach the climactic karaoke smackdown, we have learned more about Freddy Krueger’s personal hygiene challenges -- and how to make a shockingly bad movie -- than we ever wanted to know. — New York Times Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 93%
| The Wedding Song (2009) | "
This seductively fluid and tactile drama explores love and identity through the prism of the female body and the rights of its owner." — New York Times Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Fresh 89%
| Night and Day (2009) | "
The South Korean director Hong Sang-soo unleashes yet another emotionally stunted antihero in Night and Day, a rambling study of male arrested development." — New York Times Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 50%
| The Little Traitor (2009) | "
A muddled morality tale more interested in coming of age than getting of wisdom." — New York Times Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| N/A | After the Storm (2009) | "
Directed by Hilla Medalia with exactly the right balance of musical theater and personal drama, After the Storm presents a touching affirmation of the healing power of right-brain stimulation." — New York Times Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 61%
| Peter and Vandy (2009) | "
More a designer frame for actors than nourishing entertainment." — New York Times Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 34%
| St. Trinian's (2009) | "
A stunningly witless revival of the infamous British film series about a girls’ boarding school." — New York Times Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 95%
| Good Hair (2009) | "
Spirited, probing and frequently hilarious, it coasts on the fearless charm of its front man and the eye-opening candor of its interviewees." — New York Times Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 0%
| A Beautiful Life (2009) | "
Set among the mean streets and meaner people of downtown Los Angeles, this laughably clichéd dive into sexual masochism and hardscrabble survival replaces story with outline and characters with place holders." — New York Times Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Where is Where? (2009) | "
Anyone looking for some idiosyncratic, visually stimulating entertainment this week could do worse than Where Is Where?" — New York Times Posted Sep 30, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 89%
| The Horse Boy (2009) | "
It recounts a deeply personal, highly subjective and inarguably thought-provoking story of one family’s quest for a certain kind of peace." — New York Times Posted Sep 30, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 27%
| Pandorum (2009) | According to the press notes, pandorum means “Orbital Dysfunctional Syndrome”; whatever that is, by the end of the movie I was convinced I had caught it. — New York Times Posted Sep 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 50%
| The Providence Effect (2009) | "
More an infomercial than a movie, The Providence Effect is, at best, a well-earned tribute to one man’s unwavering vision." — New York Times Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Rotten 36%
| Irene in Time (2009) | Mr. Jaglom displays an endearing lack of cynicism but an equal lack of discipline. — New York Times Posted Sep 22, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 71%
| Fuel (2009) | "
Thanks to an informative, buoyant tone and the director’s own restless intelligence, the film preaches to the unconverted with passion, energy and graphics so clear that they would make Al Gore weep all over his PowerPoint." — New York Times Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 91%
| Harmony and Me (2009) | "
Despite the film’s sketchy aesthetic and barely animate lead, its tone is carefully contrived: I’ll wager no one in your circle is as dryly funny or spontaneously surreal as Harmony’s nonsupport group." — New York Times Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| Fresh 71%
| Walt and El Grupo (2009) | "
A relentlessly upbeat vanity project destined for the Disney family archive." — New York Times Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 0%
| Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (2009) | "
Despite excellent stunt work and a too-brief appearance by Orlando Jones as an unflappable cop, the movie -- unlike Mr. Douglas’s hairdo -- never rises above mediocrity." — New York Times Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| N/A | Marina of the Zabbaleen (2009) | "
Filled with glancing light and happy faces, Marina of the Zabbaleen, fights hard to sweeten the misery of its surroundings." — New York Times Posted Sep 10, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 30%
| Gamer (2009) | "
In the press materials Mr. Butler informs us enthusiastically that the movie “has all the hallmarks of Neveldine’s and Taylor’s sick, yet genius minds.” At least he’s half right." — New York Times Posted Sep 8, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| N/A | House of Numbers (2009) | Trafficking in irresponsible inferences and unsupported conclusions, the filmmaker Brent Leung offers himself as suave docent through a globe-trotting pseudo-investigation that should raise the hackles of anyone with even a glancing knowledge of the basic — New York Times Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/5
| N/A | Sandstorm (2009) | Has a static, playlike tone exacerbated by stilted performances and meager production values. — New York Times Posted Sep 4, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 29%
| The Final Destination (2009) | "
Since not even 3-D can put your eyes out, our only hope is that this time, the title is a promise and not a tease." — New York Times Posted Sep 1, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 86%
| At the Edge of the World (2009) | "
An intrepid record of modern-day piracy and the high-stakes battle between commerce and ecological survival." — New York Times Posted Aug 28, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| Cloud 9 (2009) | "
Mr. Dresen and his actors create an atmosphere of reckless vulnerability that’s immediately compelling and artistically intriguing. We want to explore this relationship further." — New York Times Posted Aug 26, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 9%
| Post Grad (2009) | "
Note to the writer Kelly Fremon: Is Ryden postgraduation or postmortem?" — New York Times Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 46%
| Shorts (2009) | "
Feels underwritten and overdressed." — New York Times Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh 2.5/5
| Rotten 56%
| Casi Divas (2009) | With a surrogate for every demographic and a heroine for every taste, Casi Divas jiggles and jokes its way around as many Mexican box-office bases as possible. — New York Times Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 80%
| Earth Days (2009) | "
At once regretful and optimistic, frustrated and proud. Mr. Stone has shown us the way; now all we need is the will." — New York Times Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 71%
| Cloud 9 (2005) | "
Mr. Dresen and his actors create an atmosphere of reckless vulnerability that’s immediately compelling and artistically intriguing. We want to explore this relationship further." — New York Times Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 72%
| I Sell the Dead (2009) | "
Its wit and style, however, are thoroughly modern, as is a hilarious ending that leaves the sequel door wide open. And why not?" — NPR Posted Aug 10, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 26%
| The Collector (2009) | "
One of the more doltish entries in the torture subgenre." — New York Times Posted Aug 3, 2009 |
Fresh 3/5
| Fresh 93%
| Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2009) | This film is an affectionate, rollicking guide to the drive-in classics of Australian filmmaking from the 1970s and ’80s. — New York Times Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 95%
| The Cove (2009) | "
The movie is a Trojan horse: an exceptionally well-made documentary that unfolds like a spy thriller, complete with bugged hotel rooms, clandestine derring-do and mysterious men in gray flannel suits." — New York Times Posted Jul 31, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| Fresh 65%
| Adam (2009) | "
Hugh Dancy plays a Manhattan engineer who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome in this charming romantic comedy." — New York Times Posted Jul 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| N/A | Sabor Tropical (2009) | "
An aggressively hetero American male is seduced by a hot Colombian pickpocket in Sabor Tropical." — New York Times Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 33%
| Paraiso Travel (2009) | "
The tangled issue of illegal immigration gives Paraíso Travel its motivation, but thoughtful storytelling and committed performances give the movie its heart." — New York Times Posted Jul 24, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Fresh 91%
| The Way We Get By (2009) | "
Unfailingly modest and profoundly humane." — New York Times Posted Jul 17, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 20%
| Blood: The Last Vampire (2009) | "
Suffers from abusive close-ups, repetitive fight sequences and uninspired demon design." — New York Times Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 81%
| Lake Tahoe (2009) | "
So different from the usual fare that it might have arrived from another galaxy." — New York Times Posted Jul 10, 2009 |
Rotten 1.5/5
| Rotten 33%
| The Last International Playboy (2009) | "
“He’s having an existential crisis,” explains Sophie. Too bad it’s not a very cinematic one." — New York Times Posted Jun 12, 2009 |
Fresh 3.5/5
| Rotten 38%
| The Art of Being Straight (2009) | "
Smart without being smart-alecky, Mr. Rosen’s writing avoids the aggressive cleverness and gummy politics of many similarly themed movies, focusing instead on realistic dialogue and low-key interaction." — New York Times Posted Jun 5, 2009 |
Fresh 4/5
| N/A | Autumn Ball (2009) | Emboldened by alcohol and steeped in despair, the characters in Sugisball lunge for love but would settle for understanding. — New York Times Posted Jun 3, 2009 |
Fresh 4.5/5
| Fresh 92%
| Drag Me To Hell (2009) | "
At a time when horror is defined by limp Japanese retreads or punishing exercises in pure sadism, Drag Me to Hell has a tonic playfulness that's unabashedly retro, an indulgent return to Mr. Raimi's goofy, gooey roots." — New York Times Posted May 29, 2009 |
Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 33%
| Offshore (2009) | "
Hampered by a script that veers from infantile to ugly and a director who doesn't know when to say "cut."" — New York Times Posted May 29, 2009 |
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