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D.E.B.S. (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Anna Smith |
Splat 1/6 |
Daddy Day Camp (2007) |
"Much time is spent waiting for a methane-filled toilet to explode, an incident that only begins to approximate the visceral experience of watching this movie." |
Joshua Land |
Splat 2/6 |
Daddy's Little Girls (2007) |
"Love can transcend class lines; in Tyler Perry’s universe, it also defies all rules of the legal system -- and logic." |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato |
Dallas 362 (2005) |
"Caan's directorial debut is eager to please, with flashy montage sequences, lots of colourful character bits ... black humour and a punk/blues score from the likes of Soledad Brothers and White Stripes." |
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Splat 2/6 |
Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun (2008) |
"A veteran theater director, Rowan Joseph adapted Dalton Trumbo’s antiwar novel into an Off Broadway play in 1982. If you’re still kicking yourself for missing that production, then this film is for you -- and only you." |
David Fear |
Tomato |
Daltry Calhoun (2005) |
"The movie has its flaws, but they are few and forgivable." |
Stephen Garrett |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Damned United (2009) |
"[Sheen is] dazzling here, finally cut loose." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
Dan in Real Life (2007) |
"Somewhere in between the forced movie-star moments is a smaller, sweeter picture trying to get out. We wish the suits would have given that second film more breathing room." |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
Dans Paris (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Fear |
Splat 2/5 |
Dare (2009) |
"Adam Salky’s high-school soap offers a virtual Spumoni of caricatured adolescent hand-wringing. When subtlety equals a drama-class performance of A Streetcar Named Desire’s rape scene, expect a bumpy ride." |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
Darfur Now (2007) |
"Darfur Now [is] both necessary viewing -- and a missed opportunity." |
Anthony Kaufman |
Splat 2/6 |
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) |
"It’s easy to know when Anderson is being serious: He slows down the camera to an underwater slog, pumps up a strummy Kinks song and has people run solemnly." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"Visually impressive, but any hack can do a halfway decent job with trailer-ready tangents. Not everyone can push the genre forward, and the fact that Nolan's padded popcorn flick isn't the streamlined masterpiece it could have been is a real buzzkill." |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
Dark Matter (2008) |
"he tensions of intellectual pride demand a quieter address; Dark Matter might have played like Shattered Glass in more capable hands." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 1/6 |
Dark Streets (2008) |
"This misbegotten musical noir homage could have been written for Garrison Keillor’s Guy Noir sketch, and it mistakes shooting out of focus for stylishness." |
Ben Kenigsberg |
Splat 2/6 |
DarkBlueAlmostBlack (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Tom Beer |
Splat 2/6 |
Day Night Day Night (2007) |
"Day Night Day Night brings plenty of shakycam immediacy and a cute face to what seems to be zero point of view." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 5/6 |
Day of Wrath (1943) |
"A lesser Dreyer work, but only in comparison with his own achievements." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 5/6 |
Day of Wrath (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
Day Watch (2007) |
"This sequel reprises the original’s conceit that if you just throw a lot of cool fantasy ballyhoo together, who cares if coherence becomes collateral damage? [This] is what you’d imagine it’s like being stuck inside the head of a geeky 12-year-old boy." |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato 4/5 |
Daybreakers (2010) |
"A darkly stylish horror film that's unusually solid for a January release..." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 4/6 |
Days and Clouds (2008) |
"Michele, in his inviolable pride and short temper, is almost a caricature of the vain Italian man, but the film otherwise deals with emotion in a truthful way." |
Drew Toal |
Tomato 4/6 |
Days of Glory (1944) |
Click here to see the review. |
Mark Holcomb |
Tomato |
Dazed and Confused (1993) |
"Seriously funny, and shorn of any hint of nostalgia or wish-fulfilment, this is pretty much where it's at." |
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Dead And Breakfast (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Trevor Johnston |
Splat 2/5 |
Dead Snow (2009) |
"Maybe it’s silly to criticize a zombie movie for having that not-so-fresh feeling. Then again, you expect more from Nazi flesh-eaters who want their gold back." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
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Deadline (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Derek Adams |
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The Deal (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Dave Calhoun |
Tomato 4/6 |
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) |
"An agile, dizzyingly thorough tear-wringer that’s equal parts memorial, crime drama and legal-reform tract, Dear Zachary handily trumps Capturing the Friedmans as the most searingly personal doc of the past half decade." |
Mark Holcomb |
Tomato 3/6 |
Death at a Funeral (2007) |
"Oz does a decent job of building up to Death’s big laughs." |
Mark Holcomb |
Splat 2/6 |
Death Defying Acts (2008) |
"Pearce’s boys-adventure take on the vaudeville legend is a hoot, though not nearly as laughable as the dialogue or Zeta-Jones’s pitiful attempts at basic emoting." |
David Fear |
Tomato 3/5 |
Death In Love (2009) |
"Survivor’s guilt jumps a generation in Boaz Yakin’s bleak family portrait, an incendiary journey back into the psychic horrors of the Holocaust." |
S. James Snyder |
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Death Of A Dynasty (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Trevor Johnston |
Splat 2/6 |
Death Sentence (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
Deck the Halls (2006) |
"Laden with false climaxes, the overstuffed plot leaves you exhausted well before the movie ends, and the amiable actors sleepwalk through their uninspired roles." |
Joshua Land |
Tomato 4/6 |
Dedication (2007) |
"Bitterness yields to a bruised but earned sense of reciprocity in Justin Theroux’s wintry directorial debut -- a romance that feels, for better or worse, like a John Hughes film. (In this critic’s eyes, better.)" |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 4/6 |
Deep End (1971) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Fear |
Tomato 5/6 |
Deep Water (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 3/5 |
Defamation (2009) |
"Meet Yoav Shamir -- the Israeli Michael Moore, who marches through the power centers of the U.S. and his homeland to challenge the religious orthodoxy." |
S. James Snyder |
Tomato 3/6 |
Defiance (2008) |
"Defiance is history made over into wish-fulfillment psychodrama, into Exodus. It’s stuck in my head, as only a wet-dog-nosed movie can, and I feel like adding more stars." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 1/6 |
Definitely, Maybe (2008) |
"In the end, the only intersex conflict is that between a 31-year-old dim hunk and an 11-year-old moppet fighting for fame. How romantic." |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 1/6 |
Deja Vu (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
Delgo (2008) |
"Perhaps the creators of Delgo were going for the ugly-chic appeal of Shrek, but their cartoon characters have all the aesthetic allure of Jar Jar Binks." |
Anna King |
Splat 2/6 |
Delirious (2007) |
"The caricatures of Hollywood sycophants and media scumbags are obvious and painfully unfunny, while the life lessons about friendship feel as if they’ve been lifted from a Hallmark card. Delirious? Not quite. Delusional? Most definitely." |
David Fear |
Splat 1/6 |
Delta Farce (2007) |
"If ribbing the U.S. armed forces was considered unpatriotic after 9/11, then Delta Farce proves that discussion of the Iraq War has now officially jumped the shark." |
Stephen Garrett |
Tomato 4/6 |
Delwende (2008) |
"Delwende bears a passing resemblance to the great Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene’s 2004 swan song, Moolaadé, in its deliberate pacing, lightly stylized performances and strong feel for the rhythms of contemporary village life." |
Joshua Land |
Tomato 5/6 |
The Departed (2006) |
"You’ll have to go back to GoodFellas to find a Marty movie this fun, this enamored of language, of ethnic slurs, of “Gimme Shelter,” of explosive violence. Scorsese’s return to form is the year’s most dynamic film. Really, how could it not be?" |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 3/6 |
Departures (2009) |
"Departures is a crier at funerals; it works, a little shamelessly, and leaves Ozu-like restraint far behind." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 3/6 |
Derek (2008) |
"Derek Jarman, queer provocateur and one of British cinema’s most fearless directors of the past 40 years, rightfully receives the hagiographic treatment in Isaac Julien’s slender portrait." |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato 66/100 |
Derrida (2002) |
"As an introduction to the man's theories and influence, Derrida is all but useless; as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old man, however, it's invaluable." |
Mike D'Angelo |
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