Splat 3/6 |
I Am Legend (2007) |
"The script seizes on Matheson's messianic strain, his weakest element, resulting in a doomy mysticism not unlike last winter's overrated Children of Men." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
I Can't Think Straight (2008) |
"The comedic touches are well wrought, but there's a lot of plodding, earnest discussion about Palestine and Israel, when the focus should be on the Lebanese. Sorry -- the lesbians." |
Anna King |
Tomato 4/6 |
I Don't Hear the Guitar Anymore (1991) |
"Both a tribute and a pitiless autopsy of a couple’s self-destructive tango." |
David Fear |
Tomato 5/6 |
I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (2007) |
"A serious return to creative form and a renewal of focus; there’s a sense that every perfectly timed slow take and studied composition serves a purpose. And not a single melon gets shtupped." |
David Fear |
Splat 1/6 |
I Hate Valentine's Day (2009) |
"Put it this way: Children who see this film at an impressionable age risk inhibiting their social growth." |
Ben Kenigsberg |
Splat 3/6 |
I Have Never Forgotten You (2007) |
"A frustratingly routine hagiography of someone most of us think we know all about, this doc respectfully summarizes the life of Nazi tracker Simon Wiesenthal without ever going too deep." |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 1/5 |
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009) |
"Beginning with the stalest of premises -- three buds and a bachelor party -- director Bob Gosse attempts to cash in on the vulgar bromance craze." |
Andrew Grant |
Tomato 3/6 |
I Know Who Killed Me (2007) |
" Know Who Killed Me is ten times more fascinating as an accidental piece of private exposure." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 1/6 |
I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) |
"This nightmare scenario is to high-school valedictorians what this wreck of a movie is to comedy screenwriters." |
Kevin Lee |
Tomato 4/6 |
I Love You, Man (2009) |
"Pushing the male-male rom-com into its bro-oque phase, I Love You, Man has the perfect Apatovian title, even if it doesn’t have that producer-director’s actual involvement." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 3/5 |
I Sell the Dead (2009) |
"The year’s most deliriously heavy title comes attached to a cheeky Victorian-era horror-comedy about grave-robbing -- and it’s not just human corpses being raided here." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 4/6 |
I Served the King of England (2008) |
"Attention, world-cinema fanatics: Jirí Menzel is back." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/6 |
I Think I Love My Wife (2007) |
"Viagra jokes, I-have-a-headache rebuffs, a sequence devoted to the humiliation of buying condoms at a pharmacy…c’mon, Chris, you can do better than that." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2007) |
"Despite Garlin’s chops and cameos from a who’s who of Second City alumni, the film can’t find a consistent comic groove." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/5 |
I'm Gonna Explode (2009) |
"The title of the film promises something revolutionary, but all we get, aesthetically and thematically, are second-gen hand-me-downs." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 2/6 |
I'm Reed Fish (2007) |
"Some nice performances (Fisk is especially appealing as Reed’s love interest) and a go-nowhere midfilm meta shift don’t propel the movie beyond its pat life-lesson intentions." |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato 4/6 |
I've Loved You So Long (2008) |
"In his helming debut, director-screenwriter Philippe Claudel crafts a solid woman’s picture that, as an obvious but no less pleasurable star vehicle for Kristin Scott Thomas, suggests a kinship with Warner Bros. weepies from the 1940s." |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 2/6 |
I.O.U.S.A. (2008) |
"[T]his attempt to explain the nation’s fiscal crises in an entertaining and enlightening way ends up in the red." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/5 |
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) |
"Lacking even the briefest flicker of a joke not culled from the fart-gag, pop-cultural-reference grab bag, the latest installment in Fox’s most durable kiddie franchise offers unreasonably devoted parents less than usual to look forward to." |
Vadim Rizov |
Tomato 4/6 |
Ice People (2009) |
"With its lack of narration and subjective distance, the film is a uniquely meditative, psychological portrait of individuals who approach scientific exploration with the passion and fervor of artists." |
Andrew Grant |
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Ice Princess (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Trevor Johnston |
Splat 1/5 |
If One Thing Matters: A Film About Wolfgang Tillmans (2009) |
"The risk of such hands-off filmmaking is that the narrative itself can become mired in the mundane; there’s little that happens here to shed light on the way this renowned shutterbug works or thinks." |
S. James Snyder |
Splat 2/6 |
Igor (2008) |
"A few inspired bits can’t save this piece of candy from its own gooey center." |
Hank Sartin |
Tomato 4/6 |
Il Divo (2009) |
"Il Divo taps into something that’s indeed borderless: Americans recognize political corruption and backroom conspiracies even if we don’t intimately know the players." |
David Fear |
Tomato 3/6 |
Illegal Tender (2007) |
"It’s hard to shake the impression that this movie has the sort of penny-pinching authenticity Quentin Tarantino’s been trying for his entire career." |
Mark Holcomb |
Splat 3/6 |
The Illusionist (2006) |
"You may be temporarily beguiled, but not fooled." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) |
"It’s a film teeming with visual invention (often to the point of exhaustion), yet the big-budget pageantry is always counterbalanced by Gilliam’s deeply felt and thematically potent sympathy for the downtrodden artistes of the world." |
Keith Uhlich |
- |
Imaginary Heroes (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Wally Hammond |
Tomato 4/6 |
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust (2004) |
"This solid, clip-heavy history of Hollywood’s narrative efforts pushes past sobriety to arrive at some tough ideas." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
Imagine That (2009) |
"This is another loathsome family comedy in which a busy father is made to feel like a horrible parent until he abandons earning money and conforms to his child’s every whim." |
Vadim Rizov |
Tomato 4/5 |
Import/Export (2009) |
"Import Export demands we contemplate the horror and the beauty of existence in equal measure." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 3/6 |
In a Dream (2009) |
"The movie feels as if its creator is simply too close to his subject to cover all the angles; perhaps a director without blood bonds might have managed a less claustrophobic look at the clan." |
Anna King |
Tomato 5/5 |
In a Lonely Place (1950) |
"The genre trappings of this noir masterpiece -- which details the short-lived relationship between live-wire screenwriter Dixon Steele (Bogart) and his goldilocked muse Laurel Gray (Grahame) -- don’t matter a whit." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 4/6 |
In Between Days (2006) |
"Rings true to anyone who’s ever moped and yearned." |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato 4/6 |
In Bruges (2008) |
"McDonagh’s sense of the absurd never falters." |
Ben Kenigsberg |
- |
In My Country (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Nigel Floyd |
Splat 18/100 |
In Praise of Love (2001) |
"Impenetrable pseudo-philosophical gibberish." |
Mike D'Angelo |
Splat 2/6 |
In Search of a Midnight Kiss (2008) |
"She’s all long blond hair and cigarettes; he’s scruffy and affable. But they’re no Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy; the dynamic between the pair is often flat." |
Anna King |
Tomato 4/5 |
In Search Of Beethoven (2009) |
"Beethoven’s painful insecurities and petty squabbles are deftly balanced with generous musical examples." |
Steve Smith |
Tomato 4/6 |
In Search of Mozart (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Raven Snook |
Splat 3/6 |
In the City of Sylvia (2008) |
"The director’s near-silent tour of quaint European street scenes is even more adept at making the picturesque seem pretentious, as well as at reminding you that male-model good looks don’t make antisocial behavior any less creepy." |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
In the Land of Women (2007) |
"The screenplay by Kasdan is soggy with earnest clichés." |
Tom Beer |
Tomato 4/6 |
In the Loop (2009) |
"As with Robert Altman’s brilliant The Player, the movie operates on a subtle kind of audience flattery, welcoming us to the real deal behind the issues -- which turns out to be a shouty, catty competition." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) |
"Uniquely, almost impressively dull." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
In the Valley of Elah (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
"If The Incredible Hulk, a plastic, steroidally pumped reattempt, is what the fanboys really wanted, then they don’t deserve directors like Ang Lee." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 3/6 |
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
"The worst that can be said of Crystal Skull is that it won’t be inspiring any youthful vine-swinging. A shame, really." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/5 |
The Informant! (2009) |
"The Informant! is one of [Soderbergh's] ugliest works, photographed on the RED digital camera system in such a way that depth of field is meaninglessly flattened into backlit brown mush." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 4/6 |
The Informers (2009) |
"The Informers is the new gold dream: a gorgeous lie of squandered wealth that might make you choke laughing." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 4/5 |
Inglourious Basterds (2009) |
"Detractors and proponents alike will see what they want to see in this two-and-a-half-hour World War II fable, which hits all the beats of a retribution-laden genre piece without ever entirely satiating character or audience bloodlust." |
Keith Uhlich |
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