Tomato 4/5 |
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) |
"It serves as a primer for what Lennon was and what he believed and what he did." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 4/5 |
U2 3D (2008) |
"Represents what is far and away the most impressive use of 3-D I've ever seen." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat 2/5 |
The Ugly Truth (2009) |
"There's this thing the studio publicists insist on calling 'an unexpected result.' It's the sort of unexpected result that happens when Christmas falls on December 25." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 3/5 |
UHF (1989) |
"Watchably amusing, nothing more." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat 3/5 |
The Ultimate Gift (2007) |
"A nice little movie that I'm not sorry I saw, but would never see a second time." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Ultraviolet (2006) |
"Overall, it's a film that can best be thought of as the work of a more cerebral Uwe Boll." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 5/5 |
Umberto D. (1952) |
"One of the truly great Italian neo-realist films" |
Ken Hanke |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Unborn (2009) |
"The film's raison d'être is a series of shock effects involving creepy kids, dogs with upside-down heads and a CGI-powered geriatric variant on Linda Blair's crab walk." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat 2/5 |
Uncle Buck (1989) |
"John Candy, John Hughes, precocious kids. Deadly." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Undead (1957) |
"Not good, but so strange it's mesmerizing." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 3/5 |
Under Suspicion (1991) |
"Fair mystery with interesting locations familiar to fans of The Prisoner." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 3/5 |
Under the Cherry Moon (1986) |
"Great looking, strange, not very effective, but an interesting effort" |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Under the Same Moon (2008) |
"Thoroughly watchable with flashes of inspired filmmaking, and it has a sincerity that, even when wrong headed, cannot be denied." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) |
"Wells' true gift as a writer and a director is her uncanny ability to be warm without toppling over into the warm and fuzzy, and that's a rare gift." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat .5/5 |
Underclassman (2005) |
"With movies like this is it a wonder that all theaters have lacked for most of the summer was the occasional tumbleweed to complete the illusion of their being ghost towns?" |
Ken Hanke |
Splat |
Undercover Brother (2002) |
"Eddie Griffin, who was so much better than the films that encased him with John Q and The New Guy, is certainly likable enough here, but he rarely lets loose with the kind of manic talent he evidenced in those supporting roles." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat 1/5 |
Underdog (2007) |
"Exactly the movie you'd expect from the director of Racing Stripes and the writer of Zoom." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat 2/5 |
Underworld (2003) |
"I, for one, am ready for a return to werewolves who walk on two legs and wear pants." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat 2/5 |
Underworld: Evolution (2006) |
"Mind numbingly boring. I'm still awaiting the return of werewolves in trousers -- like Lon Chaney Jr. and Henry Hull." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat 2/5 |
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) |
"The movie isn't without its entertainment value -- of the sillier kind, which in the cases of Michael Sheen and Bill Nighy may be intentional." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat .5/5 |
Undiscovered (2005) |
"Bottom line: I get paid to sit through this kind of rubbish. You don't." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat |
Unfaithful (2002) |
"It may not be quite as loony as Fatal Attraction (a.k.a. Bunny in the Pot), but it's very much cut from the same cautionary-tale cloth and done up in the same strained artsy style" |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 5/5 |
Unfaithfully Yours (1948) |
"It's as close as you're likely to get to a perfect movie." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat 1/5 |
Unfaithfully Yours (1984) |
"Pointless, charmless remake of the Preston Sturges classic." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
An Unfinished Life (2005) |
"The film travels pretty much to exactly where you expect it to go. But sometimes that's what you want." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Uninvited (1944) |
"Brilliant! One of the greatest of all ghost stories." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat 2/5 |
The Uninvited (2009) |
"I guess the titles The Uninspired and The Uninvolving were considered too honest." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
United 93 (2006) |
"The material itself makes it seem less like an attempt at examination, understanding or some kind of closure than like picking at an unhealed wound and reopening it." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
The Unknown (1927) |
"It may not be Browning's best silent film, but it is certainly his most fascinatingly perverse -- and that's saying something in the world of Tod Browning." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat 3/5 |
Unleashed (2005) |
"The film's apparent belief that it's more than a tarted-up action flick is even more ludicrous than the story.
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Ken Hanke |
Tomato 3/5 |
An Unmarried Woman (1978) |
"Tries so hard to be so sensitive that it starts to unravel." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) |
"There's a reason why Charles Walters' musicals are less remembered than Stanley Donen's." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Until the End of the World (1991) |
"A bit lumpy (with so much left on the cutting room floor, that was probably inescapable), but it's the kind of glorious lumpiness that only comes from a great filmmaker." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat 1/5 |
Untraceable (2008) |
"Untraceable? You'll only wish it was." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 5/5 |
Up (2009) |
"If it sounds like I can't find anything in Up to be curmudgeonly about, that's because I really can't." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 3/5 |
Up in Mabel's Room (1944) |
"Pretty funny farce not much seen these days." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Up in the Air (2009) |
"At the center of it all, is George Clooney in the role he seems born to have played -- a role he's lived himself into." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Upside of Anger (2005) |
"Not a bad movie -- and worth seeing for Costner's and Allen's performances -- but I'm inclined to think that ultimately its intentions are less than honest." |
Ken Hanke |
Splat 1/5 |
Uptown Girls (2003) |
"A reworking of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? with Fanning in the Davis role and, say, Emily Osment in the Crawford one might be a smart bet for some forward-thinking producer." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 3/5 |
Used Cars (1980) |
"It's better than most Zemeckis movies -- for what that's worth." |
Ken Hanke |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Usual Suspects (1995) |
"Good, but...movies don't come more overrated." |
Ken Hanke |