Tomato 3/4 |
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
"This isn't exactly an uplifting tale of the indomitability of the human spirit; rather, there are many heartbreaking moments, and the coda delivers an additional wallop." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"Better to spend some time with Rachel at the wedding than with Margot at the Wedding." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/4 |
Radio (2003) |
"Gooding is never allowed to play a three-dimensional character but rather ... human currency to be handed around whenever a character needs his or her consciousness raised." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Raging Bull (1980) |
"The true power of De Niro's performance rests in his ability to worm his way into this lug's twisted psyche and air out his personal demons for all to see." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Rain Man (1988) |
"Now as then, it's clear that this was hardly the crowning achievement of its year, yet that's not meant to take away from the film's crowd-pleasing appeal." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Raising Helen (2004) |
"The sort of sitcom-by-way-of-Hallmark material we can expect from Marshall." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 5/5 |
Ran (1985) |
No article available. |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Randy and the Mob (2007) |
"Arch in a way that his previous feature was honest, it's a clumsy attempt to lay an overcoat of forced cornpone whimsy on a drab storyline involving mobsters." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"A love letter to Paris, a valentine to the fine art of cooking, and a gift to summer moviegoers." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ray (2004) |
"Much more than Smith as Ali or Hopkins as Nixon, the actor loses himself so thoroughly in the role that it's impossible to tell where Ray Charles ends and Jamie Foxx begins." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Reader (2008) |
"Since more time is spent exposing the milky white breasts of Kate Winslet than exposing the horrors of the Holocaust, viewers might be forgiven for thinking they stumbled into a big-budget remake of Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Reaping (2007) |
"Stephen Hopkins, who directs every film as if it were a NASCAR vehicle gunning for the finish line, doesn't have much faith in the screenplay, since he orchestrates much of the picture with all the delicacy of a lumberjack in ballerina slippers." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Recruit (2003) |
"Without the propulsive thrust of either Spy Game or Enemy of the State, two far more engaging movies about government skullduggery, the movie gets bogged down in the same types of twists that carried it through the first half." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Red Dragon (2002) |
"That Manhunter should remain a better movie than the new version should come as a surprise to no one. And yet, the contest is a lot closer than it would appear at first glance." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/4 |
Redbelt (2008) |
"The only thing that truly gets bloodied is Mamet's resume." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1/4 |
Reefer Madness (1937) |
"The most famous of all the vintage "message" movies from the 30s and 40s only gets, uh, better with age." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Reign of Fire (2002) |
"Reign of Fire may well be the most grim dragon movie ever made -- and it's all the more effective for the filmmakers' decision to play it straight." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"Cheadle provides the movie with a sturdy center around which Sandler can orbit with his character's many moods." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1/5 |
The Relic (1997) |
No article available. |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/5 |
Remo Williams - The Adventure Begins (1985) |
No article available. |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/4 |
Rendition (2007) |
"It all adds up to a dilution of the real issues at hand ... With friends like this movie, who needs Dick Cheney?" |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rent (2005) |
"Easy to like and even easier to hum." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Rescue Dawn (2007) |
"While Herzog has hardly sold out, he has tamed his inner filmmaking demons long enough to make a respectable movie that won't ruffle any feathers during the summer film season." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Resurrecting the Champ (2007) |
"Towering over the entire picture is Jackson, who takes a showy role and invests it with so much humanity that it's impossible not to feel deeply for the character every step of the way." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/5 |
Return of the Jedi (1983) |
No article available. |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/5 |
Return of the Living Dead (1985) |
No article available. |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Revolutionary Road (2008) |
"Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director of American Beauty, has made another American beauty, this one a powerful examination of a young couple trying desperately to deal with the plasticity of 1950s suburbia." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Ring (2002) |
"For a movie built around a piece of film containing unsettling images, The Ring is itself a rather tame undertaking." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Ring Two (2005) |
"A hemorrhaging film whose greatest sin is that it's unremittingly dull." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Ringer (2005) |
"Navel-scratching slobs won't enjoy this any more than navel-gazing snobs once they catch a whiff of its overwhelming timidity." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ripley's Game (2002) |
"John Malkovich [delivers] a performance that's as playful as it is perverse." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Rize (2005) |
"Masterfully shows how these musical manifestations have provided African-Americans in the war zones of South Central a path away from the guns'n'poses of self-styled gangstas." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Road (2009) |
"Mortensen comes through with another haunting performance that mixes the cerebral with the physical." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Road to Perdition (2002) |
"For all its visual panache and compelling supporting characters, the heart of the film rests in the relationship between Sullivan and his son." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/4 |
Robots (2005) |
"When a film's primary source of pleasure comes from sights half-hidden in the background, there's something terribly amiss." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/5 |
Rock 'N' Roll High School (1978) |
No article available. |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/4 |
Rocky Balboa (2006) |
"The movie spends too much time in idle and not enough in overdrive." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Roger Dodger (2002) |
"Sharply written by Dylan Kidd." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Roman de Gare (2008) |
"What's especially clever about the plotting is that anything that proves to be merely a red herring is then incorporated into another storyline." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/5 |
Rookie of the Year (1993) |
"Merely mediocre." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rounders (1998) |
"The "good buddy, bad buddy" symmetry harkens back to the days of James Cagney-Pat O'Brien pictures, but this is stylish enough to make us forgive the narrative conventions." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rudo and Cursi (2009) |
"A cheeky viewing experience." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1/4 |
The Rules of Attraction (2002) |
"Its salient points are simultaneously buried, drowned and smothered in the excesses of writer-director Roger Avary." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/4 |
Rumor Has It... (2005) |
"A sloppy comedy that ultimately goes nowhere." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1/4 |
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008) |
"A thin premise undermined by rampant stupidity at every turn." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Runaway Jury (2003) |
"Good performances, a quicksilver pace, and some modest surprises result in a satisfying popcorn picture." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Rundown (2003) |
"One of those failed adventure yarns in which the character interaction is forced to make up for other shortcomings." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1/4 |
Running with Scissors (2006) |
"Running With Scissors is alternately grating and boring, as deadly a combo as one could imagine sitting through for two unendurable hours." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1/4 |
Rush Hour 3 (2007) |
"A total dud, as well as perhaps the worst sequel to appear in this up-and-down summer movie season." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/4 |
RV (2006) |
"By the end, the crudity is so excessive, it makes National Lampoon's Vacation look as sophisticated as The Accidental Tourist by comparison." |
Matt Brunson |
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