Tomato 3/5 |
Hairspray (1988) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Hairspray (2007) |
"The young and old cast division creates a colourful world of people and ideals. It's an abstraction of an era made resonant, contemporary, and purely joyful." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Half Past Dead (2002) |
"Most of the action setups are incoherent." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Halloween (2007) |
"Once it steps into a remake of the Carpenter film in its second half, it loses its seriousness." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 1/5 |
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1996) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Halloween II (1981) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Halloween II (2009) |
"By not reaching for empowerment, Halloween II diminishes the horror genre. Nearly every victim is a terrible person." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Halloween: Resurrection (2002) |
"An unsatisfying hybrid of Blair Witch and typical stalk-and-slash fare, where the most conservative protagonist is always the last one living." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Hangin' With the Homeboys (1991) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"To stay invested in the dulldrum vigilantism of Hannibal Rising requires siding with a psychopath." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Happily N'Ever After (2007) |
"Happily N'Ever After is a cutting edge contraction for Happily Not Ever After. It's a shame other films weren't blessed with this hip foresight, otherwise we'd have N'Another Teen Movie and The World is N'Enough." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"By not being afraid of delivering an experience, its impact and enjoyability are unmeasured amongst current kid films." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
Happy Gilmore (1996) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Harakiri (1962) |
"While avoiding (even criticizing) the epic scale inherent in samurai films, it’s thrilling and involving in ways that few straight genre films accomplish." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
Hard Eight (1997) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 0/5 |
Hard Hunted (1992) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Hard Way (1991) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) |
"A distinct entry in the pantheon of stoner comedies; the “what the hell?” moments are so insanely conceived that they’re often really funny." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Harry and the Hendersons (1987) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
"Sequentially and tonally, it’s so derivative of the last movie that it not only fails to build upon its predecessor, it’s stuck covering the very same ground." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"Despite the skill and spectacle of the special effects, the prosaic storytelling is never interesting as cinema." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"It's accomplished, but par for the course: A bloated, basically watchable light show." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"[It] has moments that come alive, but is confined by an attitude that fantasy needn’t pertain to anything beyond itself." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) |
"Like the Ewok TV movies of the mid 80s, Harry Potter meaninglessly shoestrings a new fantastical event with every scene." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Harsh Times (2006) |
"Ayer's overly flashy direction epitomizes how the film never finds the right balance between too much and too little." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Hart's War (2002) |
"The movie's surplus of male-fraternizing never conveys that these Americans are under imminent danger and stress." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 5/5 |
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Heat (1995) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Heavy Traffic (1973) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Heist (2001) |
"Mamet plays his cards carefully enough to raise the performances into a meditation on the nature of trust itself." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Hellboy (2004) |
"Set within Del Toro’s typical world of yellow gothic decay, the monsters are gruesome, the spiritual overtones abundant and the action is cut with an adventure serial zeal." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Her Alibi (1989) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Hero (2004) |
"Director Zhang Yimou takes film art into a tapestry of kinetic movement and colour as monumental as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fantasia and Kurosawa’s Ran." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 5/5 |
Hi, Mom! (1969) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Hidalgo (2004) |
"Horses can’t act." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Hide and Seek (2005) |
"Hide and Seek is a technically slicker paranoid thriller than director John Polson’s previous Swimfan, but its esteemed posture makes it even trashier." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
High Crimes (2002) |
"It's a serviceable courtroom mystery, geared for unadventurous Saturday night crowds who know exactly what they want." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
High Noon (1952) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) |
"Sure, High School Musical 3 is better than Chicago and Dreamgirls, but it must be accepted that this is a pop phenomenon more than it is a movie." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Hills Have Eyes (1977) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
The Hills Have Eyes (2006) |
"Everything great horror used to be: Disturbing, outrageous, subtextual, and (don't run from it) morally aware.
" |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Hills Have Eyes II (2007) |
"Despite having almost as much ick-content as the last film, The Hills Have Eyes 2 hasn't the skill to make it unnerving." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
History of the World: Part 1 (1981) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
A History of Violence (2005) |
"When dealing with themes of identity, this is very much a tragic spin on a superhero story." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Hitch (2005) |
"Hitch claims to spit on the importance of coded language in relationships. But these are only nice asides; the film is too comfortable with the rom-com statusquo." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Hitcher (2007) |
"Meyers' young characters are denied personality. The psychological turmoil is all at the surface." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) |
"The movie has its share of clever touches, but not much of a soul." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Holes (2003) |
"Holes is too long, but its scenarios unfold with unforgettable colour." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Holiday (2006) |
"Fast food merchandising of the heart." |
Mark Palermo |
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