Tomato 3/4 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"There's always something eye-catching on view." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/5 |
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) |
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Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
About a Boy (2002) |
"A thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses Grant's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"A magical mystery tour with the power to restore one's faith in both movies and music." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adaptation (2002) |
"This loopy comedy certainly scores points for originality -- or at least until it writes itself into a corner during the final half-hour." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Here's that rare youth flick where it's actually believable that the geek gets the girl." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"Initially threatening to turn into the most shameless of melodramas, it instead builds upon its rickety foundation with such dexterity and grace that it eventually emerges as a deeply moving experience." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"What sets the film apart is the manner in which it details how Akeelah's triumphs end up lifting the entire community." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Aladdin (1992) |
"The humor quotient is high, thanks to such scene-stealers as the duplicitous parrot Iago, the mischievous monkey Abu and, of course, Robin Williams' motormouth Genie." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alfie (2004) |
"The key to this movie's success rests in the central performance by Jude Law -- this easily represents his best acting to date." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 4/4 |
All About Eve (1950) |
"My all-time favorite film." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 4/4 |
All in the Family - The Complete Second Season (1971) |
"The second season features many of the series' most enduring episodes, including the immortal show in which Sammy Davis Jr. visits the Bunker residence." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"There's something about the simplicity and directness of the relationship in All the Real Girls that truly touches the heart." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"Perhaps more Masterpiece Theatre than motion picture, Amazing Grace nevertheless tells a story that's compelling enough to compensate for the occasional stuffiness." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"For all its familiar trappings, director Ridley Scott and writer Steven Zaillian invest their tale with plenty of verve, even if they frequently soft-pedal the deeds of their real-life protagonist." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Teen (2008) |
"As a movie character, [Hannah's] a keeper; if she didn't really exist, Diablo Cody would probably have to create her." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
An Education (2009) |
"Coming-of-age movies are a dime-a-dozen, but one as exemplary as An Education deserves nothing less than the opportunity to command top dollar on the open market." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
"A pleasant diversion, but it still runs behind Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera and Claude Rains' The Phantom of the Opera." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 4/5 |
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) |
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Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Anger Management (2003) |
"Both last fall's Punch-Drunk Love and now Anger Management demonstrate that Sandler can be an engaging presence when he drags himself away from projects aimed at mentally deficient frat boys." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Anything Else (2003) |
"Part of the appeal is that the creep-out factor has been excised -- namely, Allen's tendency to cast himself as elderly nebbishes who prove to be irresistible to young women." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Art School Confidential (2006) |
"Starts out as a great movie that eventually devolves into a pretty good one." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ashes of Time Redux (1994) |
"The motion picture as mood ring." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"Hardly a straight shoot-em-up, it instead serves as a commentary on the manner in which Western fact morphed into Western myth even as the ink was still drying on that particular time in American history." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) |
"Sean Penn's reputation often exceeds his actual accomplishments (an Oscar for Mystic River? Please...), yet here's the actor delivering one of his finest performances." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Atonement (2007) |
"It's a shame that the denouement doesn't completely provide us with the emotional catharsis we require." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Auto Focus (2002) |
"A distant, even sterile, yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Aviator (2004) |
"A stirring tale about a man whose drive allowed him to climb ever higher, grazing the heavens before his demons seized the controls and forced the inevitable, dreary descent." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Away From Her (2007) |
"Portrays the ravages of [Alzheimer's] with clear-eyed honesty, tracking not only the effects on its victims but also on the caretakers who provide support even as their loved ones are fading away right before their eyes." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Away We Go (2009) |
"The results prove to be wildly uneven." |
Matt Brunson |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Awful Truth (1937) |
"Cary Grant ... delivers one of the greatest comic performances we'll ever have the pleasure of witnessing." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/4 |
Adam (2009) |
"Arriving on the scene just in time to feast on (500) Days of Summer's sloppy seconds." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Adoration (2009) |
"Adoration may be driven by Egoyan's usual weighty concerns, but too often it operates on cruise control." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Aeon Flux (2005) |
"An impersonal slab of sci-fi sameness, Aeon Flux wears its lethargy like a badge of honor." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/4 |
After the Sunset (2004) |
"Beyond the eye candy represented by the stars and their sun-soaked surroundings, there's little else that's memorable about this disposable tissue of a movie." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Against the Ropes (2003) |
"Against the Ropes ... is "inspired" by Kallen's life but ultimately has as much to do with her story as Schindler's List did with the War of 1812." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Alamo (2004) |
"The equivalent of one long drone from a stiff Social Studies teacher who can scarcely be bothered to add any sort of relevance to the topic." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1/4 |
Alexander (2004) |
"This movie is unremittingly dull, visually unappealing, narratively muddled, inadvertently campy, wretchedly performed -- and that's just for starters." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1/4 |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"An unmitigated disaster, choked by miscast actors, suffocated by illogical editing and drowned by a choppy script that offers no real sense of period and no clear delineation of its central themes." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"Two factors save this from being a disaster." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1/4 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"Desperately conceived on every level, this forlorn family film amounts to little more than celluloid roadkill." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/4 |
Amelia (2009) |
"In its effort to be one of the first Oscar-bait titles out of the gate, the stately but sterile Amelia ends up stumbling over its own feet." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/4 |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"This isn't a black comedy -- it's more like a whiter shade of pale." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1/4 |
The Amityville Horror (2005) |
"I've seen episodes of Sesame Street that were more frightening than this generic junk." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) |
"Aimed squarely at the open-mouth-breathers who turned Dumb and Dumber and Big Daddy into hits." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/4 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"Feels like nothing more than a cross between a Frommer's travel guide and a scavenger hunt, as Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon hits all of Rome's holy hot spots gathering up clues as if they were empty Dr. Pepper bottles or grimy 1992 pennies." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Ant Bully (2006) |
"The only thing it inspired in me was a sudden urge to spray the screen with Raid." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 2/4 |
Apocalypto (2006) |
"Gibson isn't interested in educating either us or himself ... [and] the switch to pure action allows him to indulge in his by-now predictable sadism." |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Around the Bend (2004) |
"Given the plotline, how about a KFC promotion in which their chicken is sold in a bucket that's shaped like an urn?" |
Matt Brunson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Around the World in 80 Days (2004) |
"Everything about this production seems tired." |
Matt Brunson |
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