Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 81%
| Charlie Wilson's War (2007) | "
If Charlie doesn't feel quite real, Hanks at least makes him good company." Posted Dec 21, 2007 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 47%
| Laura Smiles (2007) | "
It's an interesting profile in self-destruction until the script becomes unhinged itself and has Laura doing things that are not so much outrageous as hilariously stupid." Posted Jul 27, 2007 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 0%
| Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002) | "
Between explosions there is enough room left for only minimal character development." Posted Jan 5, 2007 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 24%
| The Da Vinci Code (2006) | "
The movie is so nervous about offending anyone that it's hardly any fun." Posted May 18, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 55%
| Dead Man's Shoes (2006) | "
Like Park Chan-wook's Vengeance trilogy, it explores the nature of the beast of revenge, leaving the audience in a sweat of dread." Posted May 12, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 13%
| Just My Luck (2006) | "
The new Lindsay Lohan romantic comedy, Just My Luck, needs more than just luck to overcome an achingly stupid script. It needs a miracle." Posted May 12, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 52%
| Wah-Wah (2006) | "
Grant captures the essence both of boyhood rites of passage and a particular time and place for which he clearly holds affection, bumps, ruts and all." Posted May 12, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 36%
| Art School Confidential (2006) | "
There are two movies vying to occupy the same space here: a teen comedy about artistic pretension and academic double standards, and a darker, nastier movie about a serial killer." Posted May 5, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 26%
| Hoot (2006) | "
I question the message of Hoot, a family movie that tacitly encourages kids to vandalize property and behave like little ecoterrorists." Posted May 5, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 69%
| Mission: Impossible III (2006) | "
Logic and humanity would probably gum up the (fire)works. The Mission: Impossible template is about being resourceful, using gadgets in interesting ways to infiltrate the Vatican or swing Tarzan-like over the rooftops of Shanghai." Posted May 4, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| Three Times (2006) | "
... a lyrical, subtle, chaste and nearly wordless romance between a giggly pool-hall hostess and a former customer on a one-night leave from the military." Posted Apr 28, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 26%
| The Lost City (2006) | "
How the movie's politics will sit with the audience aside, one of the problems in this overlong melodrama is the distracting casting of Bill Murray as a wisecracking sidekick and Dustin Hoffman as mobster Meyer Lansky." Posted Apr 28, 2006 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 73%
| Lady Vengeance (2005) | "
The last of director Park Chanwook's revenge trilogy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance is another astonishing achievement of slasher-style justice, moral tussles, and eye-candy design ..." Posted Apr 28, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 23%
| RV (2006) | "
Had director Barry Sonnenfeld spent more time on sing-alongs and barbecues with the two families and less on Bob's punishing job and bad driving, RV might have gotten more happy campers." Posted Apr 28, 2006 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 97%
| Army of Shadows (1969) | "
Almost 40 years after it was made, Army of Shadows has more to tell us about the internal toll of war and taking a stand than anything Hollywood has produced." Posted Apr 28, 2006 |
Fresh
| Rotten 31%
| Stick It (2006) | "
A spirited, dizzyingly athletic movie about female rites of passage within the bitchy, competitive world of Olympics training." Posted Apr 28, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 36%
| Standing Still (2006) | "
A movie as inert as its title." Posted Apr 21, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 33%
| The Sentinel (2006) | "
The story and style fit comfortably with today's TV and movie fashions: the cop procedural, kinetic editing, a pressure-cooker job rife with competition, and a countdown to possible disaster." Posted Apr 21, 2006 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 77%
| Look Both Ways (2006) | "
A pleasantly peculiar ensemble movie about melancholic people coping with random tragedy." Posted Apr 14, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 67%
| Hard Candy (2005) | "
It's really a canny use of the medium to raise serious questions about point of view and empathy in the exploitation genre." Posted Apr 14, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 31%
| The Sisters (2006) | "
Richard Alfieri adapted his Chekhov-inspired stage play for this movie, but the outpouring of suppressed memories and emotions still seem to belong to the more personal realm of theater." Posted Apr 14, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 37%
| Scary Movie 4 (2006) | "
There's only so much humor left to wring from the pup tent of Brokeback Mountain or the matted-hair fetish of the Japanese horror genre." Posted Apr 14, 2006 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 70%
| Friends With Money (2006) | "
No one making movies today has as firm a grasp of the intricacies of female friendship as writer-director Nicole Holofcener." Posted Apr 8, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 43%
| Take the Lead (2006) | "
Take the Lead is like that -- it may seem hokey, but it uses the tried and true to get a smile out of you every time." Posted Apr 7, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 57%
| Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) | "
A good-natured, gag-filled sequel to the hit animated movie about animals trying to evade extinction while trading one-liners." Posted Mar 31, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 62%
| ATL (2006) | "
It feels like a real window on the lives of disenfranchised youths -- these are in South Atlanta -- as they make their way in a society that doesn't cut them any breaks." Posted Mar 31, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 22%
| Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (2006) | "
If you think the title is endless, wait till you see Goodman's death scene." Posted Mar 31, 2006 |
— | Rotten 41%
| American Gun (2002) |
Click here to read article Posted Mar 25, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 77%
| The Lady In Question is Charles Busch (2006) | "
Performer, performance artist, playwright and all-around charmer, Busch is someone it's hard to get enough of." Posted Mar 24, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 86%
| Inside Man (2006) | "
Lee takes the usual potshots at this stewpot of race, power and politics. Only here it's effective as part of the story, as opposed to when it's wielded like a tire iron in the context of a polemic." Posted Mar 24, 2006 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 86%
| L'Enfant (2006) | "
This is a movie about the kind of everyday miracle we all need to believe can happen -- how the tiniest glimmer of human connection can lead the most miserable specimen out of darkness." Posted Mar 24, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 38%
| American Gun (2006) | "
While this is not exactly a hopeful movie, it's a polished exercise in the kind of social commentary that can wake people up." Posted Mar 24, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 89%
| Beautiful City (2006) | "
Here's another deeply resonant little movie from Iran, featuring more polished (yet still naturalistic) acting than usually seen in U.S. productions." Posted Mar 17, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 73%
| V For Vendetta (2005) | "
[An] enjoyable -- if occasionally irresponsible -- comic-book thriller." Posted Mar 17, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 90%
| Duck Season (2006) | "
It's about the kind of kids who could never sit still enough, unfortunately, for a movie that perfectly captures the frustrations, longings, obsessions and torments of the awkward years before manhood." Posted Mar 10, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 37%
| Ask the Dust (2005) | "
Atmospheric but awkward drama." Posted Mar 10, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 92%
| Shakespeare Behind Bars (2006) | "
The mere fact that Shakespeare can teach hardened criminals to search their souls gives hope that forgiveness and redemption are possible -- even at the bottom of the human barrel." Posted Mar 10, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 27%
| The Shaggy Dog (2006) | "
Watching a pack of dogs sniff Tim Allen's butt -- repeatedly -- is probably someone's idea of a good time at the movies. Not mine." Posted Mar 10, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 76%
| Joyeux Noël (2006) | "
You can't go wrong with an uplifting, anti-war story like this, but director Christian Carion trowels on the schmaltz." Posted Mar 3, 2006 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Rotten 52%
| Aquamarine (2006) | "
Bouncy and sweet, Aquamarine has a mild feminist bent that's played for laughs, but it's definitely a movie for the shallow end of the pool." Posted Mar 3, 2006 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 92%
| Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006) | "
Once in a great while there's a movie that's so funny, infectious and welcoming - a movie that makes you feel so good about America and the people in it - you just want to climb inside the screen and live there." Posted Mar 3, 2006 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 6%
| Doogal (2006) | "
A dreadful animated movie stuffed with bad puns and little internal logic." Posted Feb 27, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 81%
| Tsotsi (2006) | "
This Oscar-nominated film convincingly celebrates the embers of decency that can be found in fires that are all but banked." Posted Feb 24, 2006 |
— | Fresh 73%
| Workingman's Death (2006) | "
It's a triumph of the human spirit that so many people in deadly jobs are able, nevertheless, to marry and have a few happy moments despite lives of hellish labor. Glawogger's intrepid camera finds both the shame and the grace in it." Posted Feb 24, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 73%
| Unknown White Male (2005) | "
Bruce's condition seems so bizarre that, at times, you suspect it's a hoax. But the film still manages to raise disquieting issues of personality and identity." Posted Feb 24, 2006 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 41%
| Winter Passing (2006) | "
Underneath the contemplative tone and poetic visuals lies a disappointingly familiar coming-of-age story." Posted Feb 17, 2006 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 71%
| Eight Below (2006) | "
Walker, of 2 Fast 2 Furious, is 2 flat 2 forgettable." Posted Feb 17, 2006 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 73%
| Nanny McPhee (2006) | "
Any time Thompson curls that prosthetic snaggletooth over her lower lip and murmurs a nearly inaudible harrumph is a comic moment to be treasured." Posted Feb 4, 2006 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 61%
| Something New (2006) | "
Hamri delivers a thoughtful, entertaining, imperfect but solidly adult movie about the inconvenient path of true love." Posted Feb 3, 2006 |
Rotten 1/4
| Rotten 16%
| Underworld: Evolution (2006) | "
... a movie that beats you over the head until you -- along with all the fanged and furry beasts of the future -- are senseless." Posted Jan 24, 2006 |
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