Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 55%
| Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) | "
There's a lot of dark magic in this Dickensian Yuletide." Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| N/A | Inside Hana's Suitcase (2009) | "
What always feels genuine, movingly so, are the faces of the school children caught up in their account of the unforgotten past." Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 18%
| The Fourth Kind (2009) | "
The mission here is to demonstrate how, in this explosive age of dubious information, cynicism can be quickly trumped by gullibility." Posted Nov 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| N/A | Three Blind Mice (2009) | "
We've seen how they run. Now see if we care." Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 73%
| More Than a Game (2009) | "
Really, it's just an extension of the LeBron James brand, released to coincide with a book on the same subject and designed to explore the star's humble roots even while further buffing his galactic glitter." Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 78%
| Bronson (2009) | "
Bronson is one of those “based on a true story” dramatizations where the theatrically staged drama only gets in the way of the more interesting truth." Posted Oct 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 20%
| Amelia (2009) | "
Seldom has a bio's style clashed so deafeningly with its content." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 15%
| Stan Helsing (2009) | "
How do you make fun of boredom without being boring? Well, that's a tall task requiring lots of smarts and even more artistry." Posted Oct 23, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 23%
| Law Abiding Citizen (2009) | "
This strikes me as narrative cheating, but you may play the critical game by more relaxed rules." Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 92%
| The Damned United (2009) | "
Like a skill player who just can't score, The Damned United is all dazzle and no finish and, ultimately, damned frustrating." Posted Oct 16, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| N/A | Haeundae (2009) | "
When all is screamed and done, disaster's mimicry is only competent at best." Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 12%
| Couples Retreat (2009) | "
There are also scenes, the disjointed kind that wander off aimlessly in the vague hope of finding a movie, not to mention a laugh." Posted Oct 9, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 80%
| Unmistaken Child (2009) | "
This documentary is only partly a story of the chosen one; mainly, and more intriguingly, it's a chronicle of the choosing one, of the nervous young monk charged with the job of leading the search party." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 66%
| Coco Before Chanel (2009) | "
Director Anne Fontaine is at her strongest when she's aiding and abetting Chanel's all-seeing gaze." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 89%
| Zombieland (2009) | "
At a brisk 80 minutes, the flick isn't a minute too short. Better yet, for those with a sweet fang for confections, it's far more charming than chilling and way more funny than frightening." Posted Oct 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 57%
| Delta (2008) | "
For all its lofty thematic intentions, this thing has precious little to say." Posted Sep 25, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 45%
| Jennifer's Body (2009) | "
Apparently, there's nothing like lean and hungry times to awaken the undead." Posted Sep 18, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 85%
| A Serious Man (2009) | "
That leaves us in limbo -- laughing yes, but also wondering what to make of a film so simultaneously engaging and disengaging." Posted Sep 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 81%
| The Road (2009) | "
The two principals are superb, and the direction is resonant in its very restraint." Posted Sep 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 83%
| Bright Star (2009) | "
[Star, Abbie] Cornish shines." Posted Sep 11, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| Lorna's Silence (2009) | "
Don't look for milk and kindness in the cinematic world of the Dardennes brothers." Posted Aug 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 51%
| Taking Woodstock (2009) | "
The script has a dubious source, taken from a memoir by Elliot Tiber that, based on this evidence, does nothing to scrape the rust off Woodstock's mythic cliché." Posted Aug 27, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 50%
| Died Young, Stayed Pretty (2009) | "
Yaghoobian proves she has a flair for the telling detail every bit as keen as her subjects'." Posted Aug 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 88%
| Inglourious Basterds (2009) | "
War reduced to pop entertainment should at least be easy to swallow, but this stuff keeps getting stuck in our craw. The trash that Tarantino used to elevate he now imitates." Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 95%
| In the Loop (2009) | "
The brainchild of British director Armando Iannucci, it takes on the politicians at their own dirty game, daring to fictionally embellish the tawdry facts, to out-spin the spin doctors." Posted Aug 21, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 38%
| The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) | "
Romance is robbed of its gamble, stripped of its suspense, shorn of its mystery, and deprived of an ending that feels earned." Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 90%
| District 9 (2009) | "
The fresh premise over, the stale action returns." Posted Aug 14, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 93%
| Sugar (2009) | "
The film's strength is reportorial, sensitively exploring a theme that has grown ever more prominent with the globalization of sport." Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 84%
| State of Play (2009) | "
Giving new meaning to movie magic, those Hollywood tricksters have managed to shorten the story while slowing the pace -- all of a sudden, minutes are passing like hours." Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 11%
| The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2009) | "
When a director has an overinflated conception of the adapted book, we stand a pretty good chance of being really underwhelmed by the completed movie." Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 83%
| Two Lovers (2009) | "
Phoenix plays that schism -- the damaged soul in a hunky body -- to perfection, so well that we overlook the logical chasm at the centre of the tale." Posted Apr 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 71%
| Cloud 9 (2005) | "
A heart-rending portrayal of love's labours lost and won." Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 32%
| Fanboys (2009) | "
Turns out there is something more annoying than an infatuated bunch of Star Wars nerds. Turns out a movie about an infatuated bunch of Star Wars nerds can really set your teeth on edge." Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| Adventureland (2009) | "
[Director Mottola] coaxes a set of uniformly credible performances from his ensemble cast, and makes effective use of a soundtrack that's as eclectic as the characters." Posted Apr 2, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 72%
| Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) | "
Shooting a chaotic action scene in an extra dimension definitely adds to the clutter, but does zilch to subtract from the tedium." Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 18%
| The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) | "
Ho-hum, one more slapped-together exercise in pre-fab horror." Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 72%
| Sunshine Cleaning (2009) | "
Sunshine Cleaning is one of those dependent independent films -- dependent on the need to be "quirky" yet "heartfelt" too, and as much a slave to the formulaic as any Hollywood product." Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Fresh 2/4
| Fresh 79%
| 12 (2007) | "
In the end the film is too much of a piece with its topic, intensely fascinating yet seriously flawed." Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| N/A | The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins (2008) | "
There's something about Beecroft, with her softly whispering voice and her pre-Raphaelite air, that keeps bringing us back and drawing us in." Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 65%
| Duplicity (2009) | "
A light/bright movie that actually illuminates our dull grey lives, reminding us that intrigue can be, well, intriguing. And damn sexy too." Posted Mar 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 16%
| Crossing Over (2009) | "
All we get is a mess of good liberal intentions loosely anchored to a mass of pure Hollywood hokum." Posted Mar 13, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 97%
| Trouble the Water (2008) | "
The person at the centre emerges as a force of nature unto herself. Meet, and prepare to be inspired by, Kimberly Rivers Roberts." Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 58%
| The International (2009) | "
An action thriller with some decent action and a few thrills, but all embedded in a yarn so hopelessly tangled that even the loose threads have knots." Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 23%
| Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) | "
I did not know that mannequins in Manhattan store windows could actually talk. I did not find their performance in the least wooden." Posted Feb 12, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 46%
| Cassandra's Dream (2008) | "
It's enough to make you pine for the good old days -- back when life was only partly ironic and Woody was totally funny." Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 84%
| Wendy and Lucy (2008) | "
Such is the resonant magic of Kelly Reichardt's remarkable little film, one of those exercises in minimalism where every word matters, every shot counts, until the kernel expands and a whole world emerges in 80 brief minutes." Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 44%
| He's Just Not That Into You (2009) | "
Pretty routine, pretty forgettable." Posted Feb 6, 2009 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 100%
| Know Your Mushrooms (2009) | "
Like Calvin Trillin in print, or Errol Morris on screen, [director Ron] Mann has the knack of generating fascination where none seemed to exist, of carving intrigue from an apparently non-intriguing topic -- okay, a measure of intrigue anyway." Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 18%
| New in Town (2009) | "
Poor Renée. Her character may find a cozy hearth, but she's definitely left way out in the cold." Posted Jan 30, 2009 |
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