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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       3/4      Afterschool (2009)      "This is a little movie well worth checking out. The performances are very natural, and the themes are enticingly provocative." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3.5/4      Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)      "This Is It avoids the kind of messianic fervor that characterized Jackson's career. The man's work is simply allowed to speak for itself. There could be no more fitting tribute." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3.5/4      Paranormal Activity (2009)      "Paranormal Activity goes on the short list of films that totally, completely freaked me out." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3.5/4      Orphan (2009)      "This is the rare fright flick that is actually grounded in some genuine human emotion." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       1.5/4      Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)      "Starts off strongly, which only makes its drastic eventual decline that much more disappointing. What could have been a really quirky, edgy teen horror comedy instead turns into a crushing bore." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       4/4      Where the Wild Things Are (2009)      "A work of genuine imagination and intelligence that doesn't try to ram the same old feel-good platitudes down our collective throat." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       1/4      Law Abiding Citizen (2009)      "The mixture of gruesome revenge picture and self-satisfied message movie is deeply off-putting." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       2/4      Couples Retreat (2009)      "Couples Retreat is like watching somebody's boring vacation videos, except that they're filled with big stars." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       2/4      The Informant! (2009)      "While The Informant! has a lot going for it stylistically, the entertainment value is sorely lacking." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3/4      The Invention of Lying (2009)      "A funny, cleverly-conceived, heartfelt expression of a point of view that is not nearly my own." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3.5/4      Zombieland (2009)      "Zombieland makes undead cinema fresh again. This movie is just ridiculously, insanely, enormously entertaining." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       2.5/4      Surrogates (2009)      "The problem is simple: it's too short. The story introduces a series of gripping elements, then fails to fully capitalize on a single one of them. With a running time of just 88 minutes, how could it?" [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3/4      Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009)      "I Can Do Bad All By Myself may not be a model of tonal restraint, but it's well acted, it's funny, the music is phenomenal, and the religion is sincere." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3/4      Jennifer's Body (2009)      "A good example of how someone [like writer Diablo Cody] with a fresh perspective and an original voice can make even a genre picture better." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       1/4      Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)      "Ideally, you want to see the male and female leads end up together in a romantic comedy; if not, it all starts to become kind of creepy." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3/4      9 (2009)      "The fact that 9 looks so breathtakingly vivid and alive is reason enough to catch it on the big screen." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       2/4      Whiteout (2009)      "It has a great cast, an original thriller setting, and a compelling concept, and yet the central mystery is surprisingly limp." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       2.5/4      Extract (2009)      "I didn't dislike Extract by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not necessarily the kind of movie that's worth going out of your way to see, especially at full price." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       4/4      500 Days of Summer (2009)      "I loved (500) Days of Summer for many reasons, but for this one the most: I felt more during this movie than I have in any other romantic comedy in years." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       1/4      Halloween II (2009)      "After the success of his original, director Rob Zombie warned fans that he had no intention of making a cheesy sequel. Oh, how I wish he'd stayed true to that promise." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       4/4      Inglourious Basterds (2009)      "I think this is a key work in Tarantino's career, because it shows that he can pull off a masterpiece without resorting too much to his well-established bag of tricks." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       4/4      District 9 (2009)      "Smart, provocative, fun, and exciting...District 9 is everything that Transformers 2 and G.I. Joe tried - and failed - to be." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       2/4      The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)      "With a comedy like this, you want to be laughing constantly, not every 15 or 20 minutes." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3/4      17 Again (2009)      "While it's not in the same classic league, the movie has a nice Back to the Future vibe to it." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       1.5/4      G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)      "I don't mind if something blows up every five minutes so long as I'm given a reason to care why something is blowing up every five minutes." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3/4      Julie & Julia (2009)      "Meryl Streep and Amy Adams are great fun to watch, and Streep could well earn yet another Oscar nomination." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat            The Mighty Boosh - The Complete Season 1      ""The Mighty Boosh" is so weird, so unpredictable, and so incessantly funny that I became completely hooked before the first episode was over." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       4/4      Funny People (2009)      "Hilarious while also being poignant and wise, Funny People is, hands down, my favorite movie of the summer." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       2/4      The Ugly Truth (2009)      "I liked the Gerard Butler half of The Ugly Truth; the Katherine Heigl half, not so much." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3/4      The Green Lantern - First Flight      "Superhero tales are best when they strive for some complexity; this one has an engrossing plot and some solid character development that grown-ups can appreciate." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       2.5/4      Waiting for Dublin (2009)      "The plot isn't entirely successful in achieving the farcical tone it aims for." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3.5/4      The Answer Man (2009)      "The Answer Man is like a great big breath of fresh air on the first nice day of spring. It is a story with characters who feel real, as they try to find real answers to real problems." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       1/4      G-Force (2009)      "G-Force is being shown in both 2-D and digital 3-D formats. I saw it in 2-D, and that's the preferred format because it's one less dimension for the movie to suck in." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       2/4      I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)      "My problem with the film is that Larry Doyle (who also penned the screenplay) seems to have softened what his novel was fundamentally about." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3.5/4      Grey Gardens (2008)      "The movie would almost doubtlessly have garnered Oscar nominations for its two stars had it been released theatrically." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3.5/4      Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)      "I don't believe in magic, but I do believe in "movie magic," and this sixth installment has it." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3.5/4      Brüno (2009)      "The way the film exposes, tries, convicts, and administers punishment to homophobes - through humor rather than preachiness - had me laughing for 82 straight minutes." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3.5/4      Public Enemies (2009)      "Public Enemies is, at its core, a fascinating portrait of criminal narcissism." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3/4      Lookin' to Get Out (1982)      "Hal Ashby's cut of Lookin' to Get Out is a movie that deserves to be rediscovered." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       2/4      Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)      "The bottom line for me is that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen simply wasn't as much fun as the original. In their zeal to give us more of what they think we want, Bay and crew have sucked all the joy out of their own franchise." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       2/4      The Proposal (2009)      "A great example of moviemaking on autopilot. The screenplay not only heads for the predicable finish line, it also makes sure to hit all the predictable stops along the way." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       2.5/4      Inkheart (2009)      "If there's a problem for me with Inkheart, it is one of scope. This feels like it should be an epic movie, but it's not." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       1/4      Year One (2009)      "Rarely in the history of cinema have so many genuinely funny people come together to make a film that is so painfully unfunny to watch." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       1/4      The Cell 2      "The Cell 2 takes one of the most original and disturbing horror movies of recent years and turns it into a generic torture porn flick." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3/4      Land of the Lost (2009)      "The great irony of the new big-screen Land of the Lost adaptation is that the filmmakers have spent a reported $100 million to make a movie that looks like it cost $1.95. And you know what? In a weird kind of way, I actually appreciate that ethic" [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3/4      The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)      "It's not the most exciting movie I've ever seen, but it is a solid thriller with good performances and a workman-like construction from Tony Scott." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3.5/4      The Hangover (2009)      "The script is really a marvel of invention as it finds myriad ways to sink the characters deeper and deeper into the abyss, and this is where many of the film's biggest laughs come into play." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       4/4      Up (2009)      "It's no surprise that Up was chosen to open the Cannes Film Festival. This is a work of art." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       3/4      He's Just Not That Into You (2009)      "Despite some definite tendencies toward the formulaic, He's Just Not That Into You actually has half a brain in its head." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat       2.5/4      The Fox and the Child (2008)      "If, for example, Alvin and the Chipmunks is a children's movie, then The Fox and the Child is a children's movie for children who'd prefer to hang out at the local arthouse cinema than at the multiplex." [movie review]      The Aisle Seat

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