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P.S. (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Ben Walters |
Splat 2/6 |
P2 (2007) |
"Bentley plays the role of funny, cagey psychopath quite well, and the film packs more laughs than frights. What woman wouldn’t be interested after his homicidal message of love?" |
Drew Toal |
Splat |
The Pacifier (2005) |
"Per its title, The Pacifier will lull you to sleep." |
Nigel Floyd |
Splat 3/6 |
The Page Turner (2007) |
"There's little recognition of the difference between simmering suspense and sluggish pacing, a sure kiss of death for a thriller." |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
The Painted Veil (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Fear |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Painter Sam Francis (2009) |
"It’s a stirring snapshot of that strange space where the act of creating can be a religious experience." |
S. James Snyder |
Tomato 4/6 |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"Del Toro specializes in taking horror and superhero films to bold, baroque places, yet Pan's Labyrinth is a step above his usual forays into the fantastic." |
David Fear |
Splat 1/5 |
Pandorum (2009) |
"As the credit “Produced by Paul W.S. Anderson” attests, this is hackwork of the highest order, lacking in all poetry and barely comprehensible aurally or visually." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 2/6 |
The Panic in Needle Park (1971) |
"The movie’s well-fed, camera-loving cast and general air of self-satisfied slumming reveal Panic for what it is: the kind of drug movie a pair of Malibu intellectuals and a fashion photographer would cook up." |
Mark Holcomb |
Splat 1/5 |
Paper Heart (2009) |
"Part documentary, part fiction and all cloying affectation, Paper Heart doesn’t seem to care about its subjects, whose insights are incredibly slight." |
Karina Longworth |
Splat 3/6 |
Paprika (2007) |
"When there’s this much spice and food for thought on one plate, how are you expected to taste anything at all?" |
David Fear |
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Paradise Now (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Ben Walters |
Splat 2/6 |
Paraguayan Hammock (2008) |
"The film is gentle and suggestive. But you’ll have to provide any stirring emotions yourself." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/6 |
Paraiso Travel (2009) |
"Paraiso Travel traces the route familiar to many undocumented Latino immigrants on their way to the States; it also retreads the common themes featured in movies about their experiences." |
Monika Fabian |
Tomato 5/6 |
Paranoid Park (2008) |
"Van Sant has created his most compassionate film about a lost boy since My Own Private Idaho." |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato 3/5 |
Paranormal Activity (2009) |
"There aren’t many movies that have the power to scare you with the sound of a creaking door, and it’s hard not to admire the way Paranormal Activity makes a virtue of simplicity." |
Ben Kenigsberg |
Tomato |
Pariah (1998) |
"The film maintains a convincing realism: It's acted out by little-known but expert talents and shot, cleverly, as though the camera were a fly on the wall." |
Michael Freidson |
Splat 2/5 |
Paris (2009) |
"This could have been a true urban mosaic. Instead, we simply get a vision of Paris as the city of lite." |
David Fear |
Splat 3/6 |
Paris 36 (2008) |
"Paris 36’s rich color palette, deliberate artificiality and general air of whimsy suggest more comparisons to Amélie than, say, Renoir’s French Cancan." |
Hank Sartin |
Splat 2/6 |
Paris, Je T'aime (2007) |
"You expect quality to vary from segment to segment, but the misses outweigh the hits by a depressingly high margin." |
David Fear |
Tomato 5/6 |
Passing Strange (2010) |
"Rousing, devastating, invigorating, painful, joyful, soulful -- all those adjectives don’t even begin to describe Passing Strange, but it’s a start." |
Stephen Garrett |
Splat 2/6 |
Pathfinder (2007) |
"Pathfinder’s main appeal will be to connoisseurs of gore, who will find no shortage of graphically rendered stabbings, shootings, smashings, severings and slicings." |
Joshua Land |
Splat 3/6 |
Patti Smith - Dream of Life (2008) |
"The opportunity to introduce newbies to a serious music-world icon -- and her significance -- feels squandered." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 1/6 |
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) |
"The Black Friday setting suggests that this was meant to be a holiday release, but it’s not hard to see why the studio dumped this suckfest in January." |
Hank Sartin |
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Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Nigel Floyd |
Splat 1/6 |
Penelope (2008) |
"Neither a talented cast nor the film’s Gaudi-like version of London’s urban landscapes can make up for schizophrenic pacing and inexplicable phenomena." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/5 |
A Perfect Getaway (2009) |
"The aesthetic is closer to a grand finale of Survivor than anything else, and while all the actors do scrappy work, they don’t have much psychology to play with -- unlike a fun, class-conscious wilderness tale like The Edge." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Perfect Holiday (2007) |
"Mixes rehashed inspirational-film cliches and urban humor, to no good effect." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/6 |
The Perfect Sleep (2009) |
"Alter’s film is a rare pleasure." |
Mark Holcomb |
Splat 2/6 |
Perfect Stranger (2007) |
"Some films are marred by absurd endings; this dire journo-thriller is like one big mar." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato 4/6 |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Melissa Anderson |
Tomato 5/6 |
Persepolis (2007) |
"Persepolis is much more than a history lesson; it's also the story of a misunderstood girl -- one who will certainly give Juno MacGuff a run for her money as the year's best teenage heroine." |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 48/100 |
Personal Velocity (2002) |
"Even on those rare occasions when the narrator stops yammering, Miller's hand often feels unsure." |
Mike D'Angelo |
Splat 1/5 |
Peter and Vandy (2009) |
"Activities that were cute and fun at the beginning, we see, ultimately become tedious. The novelty of the film’s gimmick follows suit." |
Karina Longworth |
Splat 2/6 |
Phoebe In Wonderland (2009) |
"Unfortunately, the film is insultingly soft in its portrayal of neurological disorders, linking the disease to Phoebe’s fanciful conversations with characters from Alice in Wonderland." |
Alison Willmore |
Splat 3/6 |
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2007) |
"Somewhere in this true story lies a grand statement about what taking lives for a living really does to a person’s moral compass. [Director] Adrian Shergold never quite finds it; his film dutifully recounts the facts but only skims the surface." |
David Fear |
Tomato 6/6 |
Pierrot Le Fou (1965) |
"Unmissable." |
Melissa Anderson |
Splat 2/6 |
Pineapple Express (2008) |
"By the end the movie's nonchalance seems less deliberate than sloppy." |
Ben Kenigsberg |
Splat 2/6 |
Ping Pong Playa (2007) |
"The setup has been trotted out a million times before, and the movie’s novel SoCal Chinese-American milieu only partially excuses the familiarity." |
Mark Holcomb |
Splat 2/6 |
The Pink Panther 2 (2009) |
"For a series that’s left so much Clouseau-like wreckage in its wake, disposability may be worth settling for." |
Ben Kenigsberg |
Splat 38/100 |
Pipe Dream (2002) |
"A singularly off-putting romantic comedy." |
Mike D'Angelo |
Tomato 3/5 |
Pirate Radio (2009) |
"Giggles, not belly laughs, come frequently, and it’ll help if viewers love U.K. comics." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 1/6 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) |
"Mind-bogglingly, there’s virtually no swordplay for the first two hours; when Keith Richards shows up for his soused cameo, the visual joke hangs in the air." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Tomato |
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2007) |
"Narrated with morbid relish by John Waters, this witty doc chronicles the rise and ruination of the Salton Sea, a tiny inland ocean once promoted as 'California’s Riviera' but now a festering, apocalyptically hideous ecological disaster zone." |
Cliff Doerksen |
Splat 2/5 |
Planet 51 (2009) |
"It’s just an excuse for classic-cinema shout-outs and roller-coaster-like commotion." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 4/6 |
Planet B-Boy (2008) |
"It’s only when Planet B-Boy settles into the stories of the 2005 tournament's hopefuls and turns into the Spellbound of bodyrockin' that the film finds its proper ambassadorial groove." |
David Fear |
Tomato 4/6 |
The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008) |
"The chance to discover a raw talent like this (who’ll convince you that every movie deserves a dream sequence featuring a polar bear) is a pleasure indeed." |
David Fear |
Splat 2/6 |
Poison Friends (2007) |
"Turgid ivory-tower drama." |
David Fear |
Tomato 4/6 |
Poisoned by Polonium: The Litvinenko File (2008) |
"This is a film that seems to require a more straightforward thriller approach. Still, it’s to Nekrasov’s credit that he doesn’t want his friend to have died in vain." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
Splat 2/5 |
Police, Adjective (2009) |
"The movie’s didactic mode is a killer, a sorry excuse for audience punishment to achieve modest ends. This is not what the new wave of Romanian cinema, never this underdramatized, has been about." |
Joshua Rothkopf |
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