Splat 2/4 |
Cabin Fever (2003) |
"...a rehearsal of sorts for the good thriller cowriter-director Eli Roth may eventually make." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 4/4 |
Caché (2005) |
"It doesn't just scare you; it messes with your head." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"It would take a monumental effort to keep this from being charming." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
El Cantante (2007) |
"...you'd learn almost as much about Lavoe and his sound if you watch Walk the Line or Ray." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Capote (2005) |
"...the rare movie biography that avoids hero worship." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 0/4 |
Captivity (2007) |
"...so ineptly conceived and staged it could be the first torture-porn comedy" |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cars (2006) |
"Cars may not have the strongest story, at least according to Pixar standards, yet thanks to Lasseter's passion the movie still gleams. It's as if the screen had just been waxed." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 0/4 |
Cashback (2007) |
"...focuses on a pervert who thinks he's a romantic. The more sincere this guy gets about his leering, the more he creeps you out." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"Give Daniel Craig credit for this: he's created the first James Bond who scares you." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cassandra's Dream (2008) |
"The cast makes the most of Allen's predetermined screenplay." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"Luke is ... a relatable stand-in for those who may be falsely accused - and seething - in prisons of our own." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch and Release (2007) |
"...the rare chick flick that defines its heroine on her own terms, not in terms of the husband or boyfriend she wants or has." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"Slick as a salesman and shallow as a kiddie pool, it's more interested in the con than the consequences." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Catch That Kid (2004) |
"If 20th Century Fox was so intent on making a facsimile, couldn't the studio at least have bothered to change the toner?" |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Catwoman (2004) |
"Not as sleazy and empty-headed as we might expect, [but] it still comes across as only a clunky imitation." |
Dave Gathman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Chalk (2007) |
"...will convince anyone who almost went into teaching that they made the right decision. Even if they're currently on unemployment." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Chapter 27 (2008) |
"...ostensibly about the last few days in Chapman's life, but it's really about how much Leto's belly bulges over his waistband." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"Burton and Dahl share what could best be called an affinity for whimsical misery." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Charlie Bartlett (2007) |
"It's not much of a movie, but it is an impressive calling card for the young star." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"...comes as a decided relief after a fall of clumsy, heavy-handed Iraq war dramas." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) |
"McG and his leading ladies captured something in a bottle [in the first film], and `Full Throttle' feels like they're trying to force that something back in." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Charlotte's Web (2006) |
"There is nothing magical here, but there is nothing blasphemous either." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Chicago (2002) |
"Zellweger...channels no one less than Marilyn Monroe. Just watch the word `booze' drip from her lips." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Chicken Little (2005) |
"There is no doubt the movie is a wannabe, but on those terms it works." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 4/4 |
Children of Men (2006) |
"Now this is a nativity story." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) |
"...manages to at once unleash Lewis' grandiose fantasy and corral it." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Chronicles of Riddick (2004) |
"Rarely has such minor success spawned such major hubris." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Cinderella Man (2005) |
"What a relief when an inspirational movie actually works." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
A Cinderella Story (2004) |
"...the picture isn't the prince of a vehicle Duff's been looking for." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
City by the Sea (2002) |
"...does with artful subtlety what `Road to Perdition' did with artsy pretension." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3.5 |
City of God (2003) |
"...juggles with a fleet sense of flair the very things that bogged `Gangs of New York' down." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Clerks II (2006) |
"Randal and Dante were funny 12 years ago; now they look and sound like MySpace predators." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Click (2006) |
"By the time Michael has tearfully attempted to correct his mistakes with his now-grown children and wife, even Sandler's biggest detractors will be longing for the aggressive, idiotic company of Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 4/4 |
Cloverfield (2008) |
"...rescues the Godzilla genre from the realm of kitsch." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Coach Carter (2005) |
"Jackson's ... fire-and-brimstone delivery adds a much-needed edge to the inspirational cliches." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Cold Creek Manor (2003) |
"I have a feeling I know who the true bad guy is...a little monster known as studio meddling." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Collateral (2004) |
"...first and foremost a continuation of director Michael Mann's love affair with nocturnal urban landscapes." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Comedy of Power (2005) |
"...explores how power is never really diminished - it just changes hands." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Condemned (2007) |
"This is a B picture that wants to be smarter than its central concept ... and there are moments when it's even smarter than it intends." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 4/4 |
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) |
"...so busy having fun it isn't burdened with being important -- though I can't think of another movie that has as many important things to say about ambition and failure." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Constant Gardener (2005) |
"The personal and the global are at frustrating odds..." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Constantine (2005) |
"...an entertaining `Exorcist' for our computer-generated, action-movie age." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Copying Beethoven (2006) |
"Thank goodness for the music, for it is the only thing that can be heard above Harris' embarrassing bellowing." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
The Core (2003) |
"...essentially a pleasure cruise through a quarry." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1/4 |
The Country Bears (2002) |
"Like a bedtime story on acid, or a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant that's been commandeered by teen ravers..." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 1/4 |
Cradle 2 the Grave (2003) |
"A ridiculous crime thriller...of elaborately idiotic moments." |
Josh Larsen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Crash (2005) |
"Most racially themed movies want to act as a naive balm, but not this one." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Crazy Love (2007) |
"...like the Scott and Laci Peterson saga set to conga music." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 2/4 |
Criminal (2004) |
"It has half the panache and none of the surprise for anyone who saw the original." |
Josh Larsen |
Splat 0/4 |
The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002) |
"A dim-witted and lazy spin-off of the Animal Planet documentary series, Crocodile Hunter is entertainment opportunism at its most glaring." |
Josh Larsen |
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