Rotten
| Rotten 42%
| Bad Guy (2001) | "
The audience is subjected to a series of emotional contortions, encouraged to experience them like a voyeur, and then scolded for doing so." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 8, 2010 |
Rotten
| Rotten 10%
| Bad Company (2002) | "
Director Joel Schumacher does a fair job of managing the chaos, but after a while you get tired of being dragged from setup to setup." — Chicago Reader Posted Feb 5, 2010 |
Rotten 1/6
| Rotten 14%
| The Ugly Truth (2009) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Jan 14, 2010 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 6%
| All About Steve (2009) | "
A talented director might have made Bullock seem like a comic genius, but Phil Traill has no control over tone, leaving the audience unsure whether to laugh or cry." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 9, 2009 |
Rotten
| Rotten 14%
| The Young Unknowns (2003) | "
This bleak little drama started as a play, and I'd bet that even onstage it felt contrived." — Chicago Reader Posted Jul 20, 2009 |
Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 27%
| The Narrows (2009) | "
Imagine Mean Streets with less grit, unconvincing casting and none of Scorsese’s tortured Catholic guilt." — Time Out New York Posted Jun 17, 2009 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 64%
| The Merry Gentleman (2009) | "
As a director, the star isn’t especially polished, but there’s something likable about his effort not to make yet another quirky, smirky film about a hit man in a funk." — Time Out New York Posted May 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 35%
| Not Easily Broken (2009) | "
That’s a reasonable message, but it might feel more resonant if the script were a little fairer to both sexes." — Time Out Posted Apr 17, 2009 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 34%
| Alien Trespass (2009) | "
All that’s missing from this would-be spoof are laughs." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 18%
| The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) | "
Cornwell delivers shock-cut scares with metronomic regularity; all you can do is sit numbly, waiting for the next pummeling." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Rotten 3/6
| Rotten 59%
| Paris 36 (2008) | "
Paris 36’s rich color palette, deliberate artificiality and general air of whimsy suggest more comparisons to Amélie than, say, Renoir’s French Cancan." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 1, 2009 |
Rotten 3/6
| Rotten 33%
| Knowing (2009) | "
The film's final third [is] a mélange of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Christian eschatology that will make you wish the film had ended 15 minutes sooner." — Time Out Sydney Posted Mar 27, 2009 |
Rotten 2/6
| Fresh 72%
| The Great Buck Howard (2009) | "
The younger Hanks is a blander version of his father, without any sense of the elder’s hidden zaniness; Malkovich, unsurprisingly, is quite convincing as a man whose ego surrounds him like an enveloping fog." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 18, 2009 |
Rotten 3/6
| Rotten 33%
| Knowing (2009) | "
Knowing tosses around paranormal-thriller clichés with gleeful abandon." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 18, 2009 |
Fresh
| Fresh 100%
| Life of Reilly (2007) | "
As this entertaining recording of his one-man show reveals, Reilly was a natural raconteur." — Time Out Posted Mar 10, 2009 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 88%
| Frozen River (2008) | "
The points Hunt wants to make may not be profound (desperate people do desperate things; morality takes a backseat, but not forever), but Leo makes them seem fresh." — Time Out Sydney Posted Feb 20, 2009 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 23%
| Push (2009) | "
Paul McGuigan’s jittery editing and shaky cameras make the action confusing rather than thrilling, and nothing can save this movie from the screenplay’s nearly incomprehensible twists." — Time Out New York Posted Feb 11, 2009 |
Rotten 1/6
| Rotten 32%
| Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) | "
Take our advice: Buy a rubber mallet and strike yourself repeatedly until you start to black out. Same basic feeling." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 29, 2009 |
Rotten 1/6
| Rotten 34%
| Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) | "
The Black Friday setting suggests that this was meant to be a holiday release, but it’s not hard to see why the studio dumped this suckfest in January." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 21, 2009 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 35%
| Not Easily Broken (2009) | "
[Has] a reasonable message, but it might feel more resonant if the script were a little more fair and balanced in the battle of the sexes." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 7, 2009 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 61%
| Marley & Me (2008) | "
Marley & Me strikes a surprisingly delicate balance between wacky humor and a more heartfelt look at how a dog, even a badly behaved one, becomes part of the family." — Time Out New York Posted Dec 17, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 94%
| Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) | "
Just take our advice and bring tissues. You’re going to need them." — Time Out Posted Nov 25, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Rotten 50%
| Twilight (2008) | "
[Hardwicke's] earnest, moody approach to Stephenie Meyer’s tremendously popular novel may be just the thing for the 14-year-old girl in all of us." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 20, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Fresh 64%
| The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) | "
[Director] Mark Herman knows how to milk the melodrama from every scene, but viewers may feel a little icky about the experience." — Time Out New York Posted Nov 5, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 65%
| Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) | "
With Zack and Miri Make a Porno, Smith seems eager to retake the fast-talking-filth crown, and also get in on a little of Apatow’s racket of throwing in some sentimentality." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 29, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 17%
| Max Payne (2008) | "
No one actually cares if the story adds up in a movie based on a video game. Audiences expect to have their nerve endings stimulated (or frayed), as they will be by the aggressive, bass-heavy sound mix." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 15, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Fresh 62%
| The Express (2008) | "
We’re not asking for another Brian’s Song, but does Davis’s tale have to seem like a rehash of Remember the Titans?" — Time Out New York Posted Oct 8, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Rotten 37%
| How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) | "
How to Lose is toothless, substituting broad humor and a romance for the needed cynicism." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 1, 2008 |
Fresh 3/6
| Rotten 58%
| Flash of Genius (2008) | "
Kinnear, a generally underappreciated actor, holds the picture together almost by force of will." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 1, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 31%
| Nights in Rodanthe (2008) | "
Nicholas Sparks’s novels are to Harlequin romances as international coffees are to Nescafé: Marketed as having a little dash of class, they’re still ersatz java." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 24, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 35%
| Igor (2008) | "
A few inspired bits can’t save this piece of candy from its own gooey center." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 17, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Fresh 63%
| Hamlet 2 (2008) | "
Bafflingly, this poorly executed, undercooked comedy was the big winner at Sundance this year." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 22, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 19%
| The Clone Wars (2008) | "
This ugly, lumbering mess feels strangely like a tired Star Wars wanna-be, but made by people with the rights to the characters." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 14, 2008 |
Fresh 3/6
| Fresh 64%
| Brideshead Revisited (2008) | "
If you can let go of your memories of the novel and the outstanding 1981 miniseries, this is enjoyable enough as tasteful melodrama." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 24, 2008 |
Fresh 3/6
| Rotten 53%
| Mamma Mia! (2008) | "
This movie isn’t just unapologetic fluff; it’s aggressive, out-loud-and-proud fluff. Just like ABBA." — Time Out New York Posted Jul 16, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Rotten 53%
| Get Smart (2008) | "
The only real fun is watching old pros like Arkin and Stamp sell material that doesn’t deserve the love they give it. There’s nothing terribly wrong here, but there’s nothing terribly right, either. Missed it by that much" — Time Out New York Posted Jun 18, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Fresh 66%
| The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) | "
Adamson adjusts to the darker tone nicely, but the kids, so richly drawn in the first film, often seem to be carried along in the wake of the chugging plot." — Time Out New York Posted May 22, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 64%
| The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002) | "
This Cartoon Network feature-length animation manages to teach kids some good lessons and amuse the grown-ups without overdosing on pop-culture references." — Chicago Reader Posted May 20, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Rotten 37%
| Speed Racer (2008) | "
It’s frankly exhausting, and like that bag of Skittles, it won’t really satisfy your hunger. But look at all those bright, shiny colors." — Time Out New York Posted May 8, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 39%
| The Favor (2008) | "
Writer-director Eva Aridjis has a flat style that’s frankly numbing; Wood tries valiantly, but he and Donowho are both dragged down by the script." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 30, 2008 |
Fresh
| Rotten 53%
| The Transporter (2002) | "
Jason Statham uses his smoldering charisma to great effect." — Chicago Reader Posted Apr 16, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 37%
| Street Kings (2008) | "
A police thriller that’s desperate to be gritty, Street Kings boasts a protagonist so dumb it takes him an hour of screen time to realize a 'plot twist' we assumed was a given." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 10, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Fresh 86%
| Shine a Light (2008) | "
After the shrewd, in-depth analysis of No Direction Home, we expect more from Scorsese than two hours of perfectly framed close-ups of Mick." — Time Out New York Posted Apr 3, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Fresh 64%
| Stop-Loss (2008) | "
While Phillippe does a creditable job and Cornish is suitably torn by her divided loyalties to two men, Tatum and especially Gordon-Levitt are utterly wasted, used like extras when either of their stories seems interesting enough for a film of its own." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 27, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 24%
| Never Back Down (2008) | "
The eternal battle between the hot-but-arrogant blond and the hot-and-likable brunet continues on new turf in the almost gleefully bad Never Back Down." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 14, 2008 |
Fresh 4/6
| Fresh 78%
| Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) | "
If [director] Bharat Nalluri can’t always sustain the fizz, it’s certainly not Adams’s fault; this is another eye-catching performance from the actor, who seems to be specializing in playing dumb." — Time Out New York Posted Mar 7, 2008 |
Rotten 2/6
| Rotten 38%
| August Rush (2007) |
Click here to read article — Time Out New York Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Rotten 3/6
| Rotten 23%
| Mad Money (2008) | "
In legal terms, Mad Money isn’t a felony; it’s more like a misdemeanor." — Time Out New York Posted Jan 17, 2008 |
Fresh
| Fresh 68%
| The Treatment (2007) | "
Eigeman has been in training for this kind of thing for years, but the pleasant surprise is Janssen, who shows a gift for clever dialogue. This is light fare, but it’s smart, enjoyable light fare." — Time Out Posted Aug 9, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007) | "
For the Broadway babies out there, ShowBusiness will make you want to schedule a trip to the Great White Way." — Time Out Posted Jul 12, 2007 |
