Splat 2/6 |
Eagle Eye (2008) |
"To call Eagle Eye derivative is an understatement; the greater sin is how snoozy this Spielberg-produced anxiety drama feels, even with all sorts of objects flying toward your head." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 3/6 |
Eagle Vs. Shark (2007) |
"The actors' subtle, deadpan performances keep pure caricature at bay -- and also produce as much excruciating discomfort as laughter." |
Jane Borden |
Tomato 3/6 |
Earth (2009) |
"Nature can be cruel, children, but damned if it isn’t seriously photogenic." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/5 |
Earth Days (2009) |
"Earth Days has a lot to say about the minor victories of the past. It’s too bad that the film ends at the dawn of the 1980s -- all but ignoring the most important chapter of this ongoing saga." |
S. James Snyder |
Splat 2/6 |
East of Havana (2007) |
"East of Havana lacks the grace or intelligence to let the music speak for itself." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 5/6 |
Eastern Promises (2007) |
"How wonderful to see a dangerous director back in black." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
Easy Rider (1969) |
"A film important to and influential in the flower-power late ’60s, Easy Rider now seems like a narcissistic hodgepodge of travelogue and passion play." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 2/6 |
Easy Virtue (2009) |
"Coward’s champagne-fizz lightness has never felt so labored; nothing here comes easy." |
David Fear |
Tomato 3/6 |
Eden (2008) |
"It’s a tired conceit, but Kelly does a fine turn as an emotionally stunted lad, while Walsh dazzles, expertly conveying humiliation and resolve." |
Anna King |
Tomato 4/6 |
The Edge of Heaven (2008) |
"The Edge of Heaven ultimately triumphs over its overdetermined structure through the sheer power of its performers and the pleasures of some of its plot threads." |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 2/6 |
The Edge of Love (2009) |
"It’s all declarative surface, and director John Maybury treats the proceedings like a Josef von Sternberg wet dream, at once elegant, campy and desiccated." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 2/6 |
The Education of Charlie Banks (2009) |
"For a man prone to unleashed inhibitions, [director] Durst’s creative approach feels all bottled up." |
Stephen Garrett |
Splat 45/100 |
Eight Legged Freaks (2002) |
"Too silly to be frightening, too stolid to be funny, it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star, David Arquette." |
Mike D'Angelo |
Splat 3/6 |
Eight Miles High (2007) |
"The movie says nothing about the period and everything about the power of the pout." |
David Fear |
Tomato 4/6 |
El Topo (1970) |
"The movie’s lure is sensual and unflagging; that’s what makes it, for all its arty absurdity, the last great movie of the 1960s." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
Eldorado (2008) |
"Lanners’s preference for po-faced Continental quirk eventually wears out its welcome." |
David Fear |
Tomato 3/6 |
Elegy (2008) |
"Elegy sneaks up on you anyway -- even overacted, Roth's intelligence shines through." |
Ben Kenigsberg |
Splat 2/6 |
The Elephant King (2008) |
"Naïveté drives the characters and the filmmaking -- a lethal combination for a movie that’s desperate to come across as world-weary and wise." |
Stephen Garrett |
Tomato 3/6 |
Eleven Minutes (2009) |
"McCarroll’s 15 minutes of fame came pretty easily; it’s his 11 minutes of industry respect that will make his mark." |
Allison Williams |
Splat 2/6 |
Elite Squad (2008) |
"Elite Squad can’t decide whether it wants to pull the lid back on what urban decay has wrought or simply open up a can of whup ass." |
David Fear |
Tomato 3/6 |
Elsa & Fred (2008) |
"Yes, it’s formulaic and shamelessly manipulative. But Zorrilla and Alexandre have chemistry to burn; only a hard heart could resist their bittersweet romance." |
Maitland McDonagh |
- |
Emmanuel's Gift (2005) |
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Geoff Andrew |
Splat 3/6 |
Empty Nest (2009) |
"The longer the film’s fiftysomething playwright watches his marriage wither, his kids grow up and his teeth rot, the more psychological acuity gives way to the usual obsessing over loss and nubile females." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/6 |
Enchanted (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Fear |
Tomato 4/6 |
Encounters At the End of the World (2007) |
"...makes for fascinating anthropology despite the film’s flaws; Herzog’s take on the exterior landscapes may lack focus, but the keen attention he pays to interior geographies is perfect compensation." |
David Fear |
Tomato 3/6 |
The End of America (2008) |
"Wolf’s dire message has lost some of its urgency, but is still worth paying attention to, if only as a study of how aggressive regimes market their language in palatable ways." |
Drew Toal |
Splat 2/5 |
The End of Poverty? (2009) |
"It’s heartbreaking, of course, but also crassly manipulative and blandly shot, too." |
Aaron Hillis |
Tomato 3/5 |
The End of the Line (2009) |
"Through graph-wielding scientists, picturesque seascapes and Ted Danson’s voiceover, director Rupert Murray lays out the facts about the ongoing decimation of world fishing stocks, which could mean the end of tuna as we know it." |
Nicolas Rapold |
Tomato 3/5 |
Endgame (2009) |
"William Hurt and Chiwetel Ejiofor, impressive at opposite ends of the table as a government mouthpiece and a philosophy professor, provide all the fireworks the story needs." |
Kevin Lee |
Tomato 3/5 |
The English Surgeon (2009) |
"While the film leaves this bundle of post-Soviet contradictions packed up, its vérité depiction of the surgeon’s life surpasses the likes of ER." |
Kevin Lee |
Tomato 4/6 |
Enlighten Up! (2009) |
"The film doesn’t force an artificial resolution on their battle of wills, which may be the most enlightened thing about it." |
Maitland McDonagh |
- |
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) |
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Trevor Johnston |
Splat 0/6 |
Epic Movie (2007) |
"The gutter-brow auteurs who helped write the first Scary Movie and created Date Movie milk their lame sketch-comedy minds for yet another punishingly uninspired skewering of Hollywood hits." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
- |
Eros (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Trevor Johnston |
Splat 3/6 |
The Escapist (2009) |
"The script flaunts one thwart too many, including a head-slapping gotcha that barely makes sense. The film lacks an exit strategy." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
- |
Ethan Mao (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Dave Calhoun |
Splat 1/6 |
Evan Almighty (2007) |
"Desperation seeps out of every nook and cranny of Evan Almighty, a monolithically dumb Hollywood vehicle." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
Even Money (2007) |
"Even Money never quite achieves [Crash's] epic badness -- but Kim Basinger’s mortifying turn as the struggling writer is hysterical in every sense of the word." |
Joshua Land |
Tomato 4/6 |
Evening (2007) |
"The film never descends into the dreaded bath of sentimental kitsch." |
Tom Beer |
Tomato 4/6 |
Everlasting Moments (2009) |
"Everlasting Moments will stun you with simple pleasures: a naturally lit kitchen; a country dance captured austerely from a respectful distance." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
Every Little Step (2009) |
"There’s a terribly interesting story behind the creation of the musical phenom A Chorus Line, but don’t look to this confused and often self-congratulatory documentary to tell it." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 3/6 |
Everybody Wants to Be Italian (2008) |
"Beantown provides a salty backdrop, but when the action shifts to Italy, it seems the budget didn’t include airfares." |
Anna King |
Splat 1/5 |
Everybody's Fine (2009) |
"There’s some small pleasure in watching one of the great screen performers play such a recognizably fragile type, though De Niro and writer-director Kirk Jones shamelessly milk the situation for sentiment." |
Keith Uhlich |
- |
Everything is Illuminated (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Dave Calhoun |
Tomato 4/6 |
Everything's Gone Green (2007) |
"Appealing performances by Costanzo and Song, with comic support from Ryan’s entrepreneurial parents and Ming’s knife-wielding granny, guide us over the rough patches." |
Tom Beer |
Splat 3/6 |
The Ex (2007) |
"Though Bateman rolls through the film with sly comic skill, the whole exercise seems half-baked -- a high concept and some funny gags that do not a great comedy make." |
Tom Beer |
Tomato 3/6 |
Examined Life (2009) |
"For a fairly uncinematic movie, Examined Life does well by the concepts, and you may be reminded of the most exhilarating college lecture you half-slept through." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 4/6 |
Exiled (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
The Exiles (1961) |
"Kent MacKenzie’s forgotten indie basks in the retroactive glow of never having had a theatrical release -- as if that somehow makes it a work of misunderstood genius." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
- |
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Dave Calhoun |
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