Splat |
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"SuDoku: The Movie." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Daddy Day Care (2003) |
"Daddy Day Care is ground zero in the new breed of awful family movies -- entertainment designed for parents who'll take their kids to anything that shuts them up for 90 minutes." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Daddy's Little Girls (2007) |
"Perry's habit of reducing drama to verbal sermons is the main thing keeping his movies within the realm of daytime TV." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Dances with Wolves (1990) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Daredevil (2003) |
"Daredevil is stunted by its habit of reprocessing recent superhero blockbusters to the point where it has few distinctions of its own." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Dario Argento's Tenebre (1982) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Dark Crystal (1982) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Darkness (2003) |
"It’s clear from these films that the only thing horror fans are really terrified by is what they’d do if they were to see a child." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Darkness Falls (2003) |
"There's a spooky excitement to the opening and closing showpieces that's noticeably missing from the boring middle stretch." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Date Movie (2006) |
"There's no level of dumb a person can be that's too stupid for Date Movie." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006) |
"Block Party captures a communal gathering with an honesty that makes what could be a dull lack of dramatics into something spectacular." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
"Melding video game dynamics into big screen action, it’s as much a product of its time as the original, but one with, ironically, a consumer-tested appeal." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) |
"The movie settles into a generic soap opera broken up with enough fancy effects shots to cut a nifty trailer." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
De-Lovely (2004) |
"Winkler’s technique is to proceed a scene of Porter experiencing something with a scene of a song performance that’s inspired by that event. Rinse. Repeat." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Dead Again (1991) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Dead Alive (1993) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Dead Man (1996) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
Dead Poets Society (1989) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Dead Silence (2007) |
"Dead Silence is boring as often as it is insane. For a movie about a dead old woman who doesn't care that it's rude to stare at people, and relives her bad habit through a ventriloquist dummy that looks like Andy Garcia, that's unacceptable." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Dead Zone (1983) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Dear Frankie (2005) |
"Dear Frankie runs the immediate risk of film snob derision: It’s a nice movie that might make you feel something." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Death to Smoochy (2002) |
"A movie that can't decide how it feels about any of its characters, and becomes exhausted with indifference before the one-hour mark." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
Deathtrap (1982) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Deck the Halls (2006) |
"It's not enough to be set at Christmastime. Deck the Halls has no Christmas spirit." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 5/5 |
Deep Red: The Hatchet Murders (1975) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Definitely, Maybe (2008) |
"Yes, you can polish a turd." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Degrassi Junior High - Complete First Season (1987) |
"This is where a large chunk of young Canadians (and some American PBS viewers) first learned basic adult values." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Deja Vu (2006) |
"It's delivered with an assured pacing and discovery where the story is still revealing itself after the first act." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Demons (1985) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
The Departed (2006) |
"Scorsese's treatise on honour and trust has a sprawl that's at once epic and cohesive." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
The Descent (2006) |
"At its most powerful (and evil), it lets viewers feel like they're being buried alive." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
Desperate Living (1977) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Detroit Rock City (1999) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Devil Rides Out (1967) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) |
"Involvement with Andy's pursuit requires numb identification with her desire to assimilate - selling out her friends and values while stepping up the corporate ladder." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
The Devil's Rejects (2005) |
"The film ups the stakes on armchair support of underdogs vs. the system, asking, “NOW how much do you like them?”" |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) |
"Blandly directed and dramatically shameless." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Dick Tracy (1990) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Die Another Day (2002) |
"Die Another Day is best processed as an over-the-top symphony of the most absurd elements these movies have to offer." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Die Hard 3: Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007) |
"It finds the defining spirit of these films and maintains it about half the time." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
DIG! (2004) |
"Most of the movie gets its interest from musicians overestimating their own importance." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Dirty Pretty Things (2003) |
"A tightly constructed exercise, bearing real humanist payoffs." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Dirty Work (1998) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Disclosure (1994) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) |
"The 3-D motion-capture version runs through the motions, except for one detail: It's visually beautiful." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Disturbia (2007) |
"It hasn't the openness to find a perspective on teenage life." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) |
"It doesn't help that the script considers elderly characters swearing and discussing alcoholism to be the pinnacle of comic genius." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Do the Right Thing (1989) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
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