Tomato |
2012 (2009) |
"If the world had actually ended two hours into the film we'd all be discussing how awesomely stupid 2012 was in heaven." |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato |
500 Days of Summer (2009) |
"(500) Days of Summer is that rare movie about boy meets girl that defeats the oldest nemesis of the rom-com genre: predictability" |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato |
9 (2009) |
"In an ultimate twist of irony for those who have seen the movie, the film lacks soul." |
Matthew Razak |
Splat |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Regardless of the well filled-out cast and the fact that it's structured like a comedy, Adventureland just isn't funny. There really aren't jokes and the overlong running time is mostly given to a standard budding romance." |
Adam Lippe |
Tomato 3/5 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Adventureland stays strictly on the games side of the amusement park, happily ambling along with no real dips or climbs." |
Austin O'Connor |
Tomato |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"The film is a wonderful piece of cinematic fluff sure to keep your eyes locked on the screen and your head at least partially interested." |
Matthew Razak |
Splat |
Antichrist (2009) |
"Von Trier throws in every controversial topic and random bit of symbolism to the point where the film plays like a parable about the foolishness of reading into parables." |
Adam Lippe |
Splat |
Away We Go (2009) |
"Krasinski and Rudolph have nothing to play. They are a stand-in for the audience in the same way that Styrofoam peanuts protect the contents of your package; lifeless, breakable, malleable, and totally unrelated to what they are assigned to protect." |
Adam Lippe |
Tomato |
Away We Go (2009) |
"It's a slice of American life just like Mendes delivered in American Beauty, Revolutionary Road and, to a lesser extent, the heavily underrated Road to Perdition -- except now he's done it with a bunch of comedians and a bit less depr" |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato |
Bad Blood (1995) |
"It's really the juxtaposition of this stumpy Asian man versus Lamas, the tall, chiseled lone wolf with a ponytail, which makes Bad Blood work." |
Adam Lippe |
- |
Black Dynamite (2009) |
"An audio interview with director Scott Sanders and writer/star Michael Jai White." |
Adam Lippe |
Splat |
Black Dynamite (2009) |
"Black Dynamite gets the details right, but so what? The result is like watching rightly vilified movies such as Epic Movie, Date Movie, or Meet The Spartans, but without as many scenes of characters being kicked in the balls." |
Adam Lippe |
- |
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) |
"An audio interview with director Troy Duffy and stars Sean Patrick Flannery and Norman Reedus." |
Adam Lippe |
Splat |
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) |
"The sequel is just as overlong, filled with gay jokes, gay panic, racial slurs, Keystone Kops humor, ethnic pride, self-satisfied dialogue, and misguided biblical references." |
Adam Lippe |
Tomato |
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) |
"All I can really say is that if liking a movie where two guys swing off of ropes tied to a building into a window with guns blazing and proceed to slide across the floor on their knees while shredding mobsters up with bullets is wrong, then I don't want t" |
Matthew Razak |
Splat 1/5 |
Bride Wars (2009) |
"excruciating, pointless, spectacularly unfunny, sometimes offensive, hapless stab at a chick flick" |
Austin O'Connor |
Splat |
Bride Wars (2009) |
"Bride Wars is absolutely harmless in the worst kind of way." |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato |
Bruno (2009) |
"The only thing Cohen can do is to throw the character's sexuality in people's faces, but there are several brilliant sequences of baiting and utilizing American gay panic that really hit the satirical button." |
Adam Lippe |
Tomato |
Bruno (2009) |
"Some of the scenes do beg the question of if they were staged or not, but after the first ten minutes or so you're laughing too hard to really care." |
Matthew Razak |
Splat |
Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) |
"It's even more disappointing because from the general plot of the film it is clear that had the film makers gone in a few different directions Shopaholic could have been a colorful dress from Betsey Johnson instead of just another little black noth" |
Matthew Razak |
Splat |
Couples Retreat (2009) |
"For those of us who were weened on the idea that we're all "money, and we don't even know it" Couples Retreat is a little difficult to see, but is it bad? Not entirely. It's not entirely good either." |
Matthew Razak |
Splat |
Crank High Voltage (2009) |
"Copping to how unrealistic your movie is by excusing it (no, no, it's a video game!), rather than running with it, is a mistake that Taylor and Neveldine never recover from." |
Adam Lippe |
Tomato |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) |
"Is Benjamin Button the best film of the year? I'm not sure, but it is definitely good enough to be." |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato |
Dare (2009) |
"Director Adam Salky nails down the notion that when your fantasies come true, sometimes they are awkward and unsatisfying. There's a reason they didn't seem realistic." |
Adam Lippe |
Tomato |
Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) |
"If you've ever wanted to see what 3D could actually do for a film if it wasn't just used as a gimmick then check out A Christmas Carol." |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato |
District 9 (2009) |
"Director Neil Blomkamp, whose future in Hollywood should now be a lock, along with screenwriter Terri Tatchell (not to mention Peter Jackson, the film's producer) have created a world with massive scope." |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato |
Drag Me To Hell (2009) |
"It's hard to know where to start with what the film does right, since almost everything in the movie is horrortastic." |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato |
Duplicity (2009) |
"Duplicity, when it comes down to it, is wonderful simplicity." |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato |
Extract (2009) |
"Judge is dealing with his usual subject, the paranoia and indifference of class warfare. How do you keep your front lawn and your pool clean while trying not to look too elitist and well-off?" |
Adam Lippe |
Splat 2/5 |
Extract (2009) |
"Exists squarely on that most comfortable rung of the American corporate ladder: the mediocre middle." |
Austin O'Connor |
Tomato |
Extract (2009) |
"Extract actually has to extract its laughs from the movie (pardon the pun), and that is something great comedy never has to do." |
Matthew Razak |
Splat |
Fast & Furious (2009) |
"The words plod, slow and drag should never even come close to a car chase movie, but that's what comes to mind instantly after watching this clunker." |
Matthew Razak |
Splat |
Fighting (2009) |
"Replacing a dance off with bloody knuckles is just bad movie making." |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato |
Fired Up (2009) |
"Check my man card at the door and begin making fun of me because I have to admit to completely enjoying Fired Up!." |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato |
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) |
"Five Minutes of Heaven is an almost-great film that gets points for sticking with its confused and conflicted characters as long as it does." |
Adam Lippe |
Splat |
Friday the 13th (2009) |
"If you really want to see this movie just go home and rent Friday the 13th parts 1-3 and if you want to see the best film in the series rent part 6." |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato |
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) |
"I don't think I've seen an untested film franchise be set up for a sequel so hard in my entire life." |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato |
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009) |
"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past might be one of the most unoriginal films ever made, but it works anyway." |
Matthew Razak |
Splat |
Grace (2009) |
"Grace is just a stretched thin short film, as the mother-in-law with the unsettling maternal issues, the corrupt doctor, and the lesbian midwife material don't fit in." |
Adam Lippe |
Tomato |
Gran Torino (2008) |
"Gran Torino is Clint Eastwood doing what Clint Eastwood does best." |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"So yes, Half-Blood Prince is a bloody good time, and the best summer blockbuster film since Star Trek, but make sure you make the time to sit down and read the books if you haven't." |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
I Love You, Man (2009) |
"It's really, really funny" |
Austin O'Connor |
Tomato |
I Love You, Man (2009) |
"Really, I Love You, Man is a wonderfully clever romantic comedy, it just happens that the love is platonic and between two guys." |
Matthew Razak |
Splat |
The Informant! (2009) |
"The exclamation point in the title combined with the burnt orange color scheme and silly haircuts and facial hair tells you all you need to know about Soderbergh's approach." |
Adam Lippe |
Splat |
The Invention of Lying (2009) |
"The star cameos in The Invention of Lying are non-stop, distracting, and always blatantly pointed out as if this were a Cannonball Run sequel." |
Adam Lippe |
Splat |
Jennifer's Body (2009) |
"There's not a moment in Jennifer's Body that's intentionally scary, and the characters never reach beyond the level of stereotype." |
Adam Lippe |
Tomato |
Jennifer's Body (2009) |
"Jennifer's Body is horror thrown back at us with it's tongue firmly in its cheek and its conventions open for all to see." |
Matthew Razak |
Tomato 3/5 |
Last Chance Harvey (2008) |
"Elevated considerably by fine lead performances from Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson." |
Austin O'Connor |
Splat |
The Last House on the Left (2009) |
"If you want good revenge read some Shakespeare, if you want blood see a slasher, if you want to waste two hours then visit the last house on the left." |
Matthew Razak |
Splat |
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"It's never clear how we're supposed to feel about Butler and when he's gone too far. Should he kill the judge? Maybe the court clerk for filing the paperwork?" |
Adam Lippe |
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