Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 96%
| Persepolis (2007) | "
Persepolis feels abstract, never deeply personal, because Satrapi offers only surfaces and push-pin thoughts while sharing here sincere but glib sisterhood with Iranian history." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 91%
| There Will Be Blood (2007) | "
Anderson is a gambler who likes wild cards." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 23%
| Mad Money (2008) | "
What's not to believe? A lot. But asking for bolted logic and dramatic structure in such a movie is about like asking former Fed chief Alan Greenspan to open a mosh pit in Miami. Anyway, the money in the bank here is Keaton." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 40%
| 27 Dresses (2008) | "
The film 27 Dresses only seems like a lobotomy. In fact, this is public surgery to install a new vacuum tube for airheads into the generic chick flick, model 2008." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jan 18, 2008 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 95%
| Diva (1981) | "
Had Wile E. Coyote chased Jean-Luc Godard, the result might have been Diva." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jan 11, 2008 |
Fresh 3/5
| Rotten 42%
| The Bucket List (2007) | "
The Bucket List gets through its list while rarely seeming a chore. Its two great stars invite us into their company, often amusingly, always humanly." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jan 11, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 86%
| The Orphanage (2007) | "
The truly disturbing element is the heavy reliance on childhood loneliness, fear and sickness." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jan 4, 2008 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 93%
| The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) | "
It would be inhuman not to empathize with the actual man's plight, but the movie is a sophisticated prod, pushing us inside its own Bauby." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Dec 26, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 66%
| The Kite Runner (2007) | "
Afghanistan is a nation tortured by history, but the core feeling in The Kite Runner is heartburning love of the place, its proud people and dusty, rugged beauty." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 89%
| The Savages (2007) | "
The movie greedily uses its rich cast." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Rotten 30%
| Youth Without Youth (2007) | "
Coppola has conviction even with the airiest elements. The churn and sweep of time, memory, karma, the whole enchilada of fate, give the story a weirdly compulsive charm." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 81%
| Charlie Wilson's War (2007) | "
The movie's energizing strength is intelligence. It is so entertainingly adult." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 82%
| Atonement (2007) | "
Atonement, a triumph of adulthood, atones for a lot of shoddy stuff at the movies in 2007." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Dec 14, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 27%
| Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) | "
It's a free-fall into total plastic. Kids deserve better. Alvin, Simon and Theodore deserve better. But 'tis the season to take what you get." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Dec 14, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 60%
| What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) | "
An amiable but also angry documentary." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Dec 13, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 93%
| Juno (2007) | "
Not since Election has a female star talent hit the screen with such a sting of arrival." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Dec 13, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 17%
| The Perfect Holiday (2007) | "
The cast is game, the script is watered nog, the kids push their charm hard, Murphy is often excruciating, Union is pleasant in a sitcom mommy way, and Lance Rivera is a zero stylist." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Dec 11, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 51%
| Margot at the Wedding (2007) | "
It's a movie in which everyone wants answers without being able to formulate the questions." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Dec 7, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 42%
| The Golden Compass (2007) | "
There may be box-office gold from The Golden Compass, but panning for it while viewing is a real day at the mine." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Dec 6, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 27%
| Love in the Time of Cholera (2007) | "
What is missing is the novel, its strange time shifts and lusciously compiled details and playful, god-like viewpoint." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Nov 16, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 36%
| Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) | "
Get into the right and light holiday spirit, and you should be pleased." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Nov 16, 2007 |
Fresh
| Fresh 88%
| Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007) | "
Old fox Lumet deals out some flash cutting and time frame back-and-forths that, if not the Tarantino tango, are fairly adventurous." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Nov 9, 2007 |
Rotten
| Rotten 27%
| Lions for Lambs (2007) | "
This jabbering, photographed pamphlet might spark some discussion, but as a movie it suffocates on gas." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Nov 9, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 64%
| Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) | "
It's a soaper about a doper and a classy widow. Keep that in mind, even if you give way to seduction." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Oct 19, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 47%
| Rendition (2007) | "
A movie that has only two major scenes for Streep and one for Arkin has talent to spare." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Oct 19, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 37%
| Reservation Road (2007) | "
There is the squishy tension of a problem drama gone soft." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Oct 19, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 13%
| Mr. Woodcock (2007) | "
Finally even Thornton finds his inner softie, at which point the film, after some OK gags, dies with a mechanical squish." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Sep 14, 2007 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 89%
| Eastern Promises (2007) | "
As steeped in Russian flavors as a hot samovar, this fast, compelling story is also oddly Dickensian in its shadowy corners and twists." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Sep 14, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 51%
| Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007) | "
Atkinson is tireless, and a bit tiring. His facial contortions, weird grunts and malaprop moves almost never rest, and his holiday trip to Cannes from Paris is a twit's marathon." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Aug 24, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 29%
| Goya's Ghosts (2007) | "
What Forman doesn't give us is drama of sure coherence or credibility, but the trappings entrance." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Aug 10, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 20%
| Rush Hour 3 (2007) | "
Rush Hour 3 is a traffic jam of clichés that doesn't achieve gridlock mainly because the stars, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, are too tireless to quit." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Aug 10, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 76%
| Stardust (2007) | "
Stardust staggers with end-of-summer excess, seldom winning more than a weary gasp." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Aug 10, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 93%
| The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) | "
Ultimatum tries to stir sympathy for its indestructible hero. But Jason Bourne has all the charm of a howitzer. He needs some time with the Harry Potter bunch." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Aug 3, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 7%
| Bratz: The Movie (2007) | "
Always dressed and coiffed like perfect dolls, the Bratz reaffirm sisterhood by heading for the mall." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Aug 3, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 39%
| No Reservations (2007) | "
From Mostly Martha to Mainly Comfort Food -- by way of the Hollywood microwave." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jul 27, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 13%
| I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007) | "
The writers and director Dennis Dugan conspire to be gutsy in a gutless way." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jul 19, 2007 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 77%
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) | "
J.K. Rowling has a spirit of plenty. On page and screen, her vision is a deliciously human (not just mythic) triumph of fancy, a spreading of soulful wings to lift us high." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jul 9, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 7%
| License To Wed (2007) | "
You have to go back to the worst Hanna-Barbera cartoons to find gag material this excruciatingly contrived." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jul 6, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 27%
| Evening (2007) | "
Evening reaches for depth, at times plodding, never cloddish. The lessons about choice and loss and getting on in life have some decent heft, and there is a sunset magic in Redgrave's eyes." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jun 29, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 96%
| Ratatouille (2007) | "
If a bit long for a cartoon feature -- probably a sign that its makers fell in love with it -- Ratatouille is the eighth and one of the best Pixar features." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jun 29, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 77%
| A Mighty Heart (2007) | "
Moments of tension quicken almost unbearably, and no one is immune (the crowds are like nerves multiplied)." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jun 22, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 24%
| Evan Almighty (2007) | "
There are laughs, good effects, fine beasts and a mood of goofy apocalypse." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jun 21, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 70%
| Boy Culture (2007) | "
Seattle locales, some spry lines and tiny soundings of depth still leave us in the conceptual grip of 'love' as a system of endless bartering and vanity, with impulsive copulation treated as consecration. Oh, boy." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jun 18, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 83%
| The Other Conquest (2007) | "
A grand mural of trauma, with superb colors, a great escape scene and fertile myth-probing about how masters and vassals together forged the hot core of Mexican Catholicism." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jun 18, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 49%
| Nancy Drew (2007) | "
A recent book on the Nancy Drew mysteries notes that Nancy came along in 1930, just as 'the first tampons went on sale.' News to Nancy in 2007? Her love life remains virtuously naive, and Betty Boop still thinks she's a square." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jun 15, 2007 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 37%
| The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007) | "
If not entirely a downer, this is no topper." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jun 15, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 44%
| Angel-A (2007) | "
This Parisian fable is a talkathon, affecting a silly toughness, but the sights are good to see again." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jun 8, 2007 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 78%
| Surf's Up (2007) | "
Cartoonishly surging with liquid color, digital waves and jokes that even include gefilte fish, Surf's Up never forgets to have fun." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jun 8, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 69%
| Ocean's Thirteen (2007) | "
Plot pieces barely fit, almost nothing is clearly explained, the gizmos and twists are stupid, the wit witless. This movie smokes a fat cigar of assumption, smug that most viewers will need to feel like insiders." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jun 7, 2007 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 85%
| Paris, Je T'aime (2007) | "
Many districts of the city open to as many directors, each finding vignettes of love or loss." — San Diego Union-Tribune Posted Jun 1, 2007 |
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