Splat |
The Pacifier (2005) |
"The Pacifier may be a better tyrannical father-figure movie than Man of the House, but that’s a very low standard." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Package (1989) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Painted Veil (2006) |
"The marital problems played out by Naomi Watts and Edward Norton are of trivial concern when set within a cholera epidemic in China." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"Del Toro parallels the horror of two civilizations (one real, one imagined, each with their own monsters), crafting a rich and violent film for grownups who haven't lost touch with their childhood resources." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Panic Room (2002) |
"An uneven mainstreaming of Hitchcock and De Palma, Panic Room's thrills are in the right place, but it lacks a damaging psychic impact." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Paparazzi (2004) |
"Paparazzi is Hollywood’s egomaniacal warning to moviegoers: Love us, just don’t come near us." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Paper Clips (2004) |
"Paper Clips is a nice social interest project, but not much of a documentary." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Paris, Je T'aime (2007) |
"Even the downbeat segments are optimistic, and that's what unifies them." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
Party Girl (1995) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"Watching it is an act of self-flagellation." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
PCU (1994) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Peaceful Warrior (2006) |
"It's the director's willingness to toughen conventions through personal idiosyncrasies that sets the film apart." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
The Pelican Brief (1993) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
The People Under the Stairs (1991) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Perfect Man (2005) |
"Disinterest gets stretched past disbelief." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Perfect Score (2004) |
"The characters are united in an ability to be more boring than anybody who went to high school in the real world." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Perfect Stranger (2007) |
" It's a movie that exists to showcase an actor more than it exists to be a movie." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
A Perfect World (1993) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) |
"Plenty of high profile movies are about the tormented lives of artists. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer takes it up a notch: It's a legitimate artwork." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Permanent Midnight (1998) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Pet Sematary (1989) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Peter Pan (2003) |
"Peter Pan is so loaded with visual wonder that even when aspects of it fall short, it’s gorgeous to behold." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Phantasm (1978) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 5/5 |
Phantom of the Paradise (1974) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Philadelphia (1993) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Phone Booth (2003) |
"Being browbeaten into learning someone else’s values is almost as off-putting in narrative fiction as when it occurs in life." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
The Pianist (2002) |
"Polanski's ability to probe feeling without melodrama elevates The Pianist's terrific final hour into his best work since 1974's Chinatown." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Pink Flamingos (1972) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) |
"It features good story and visual concepts in its first 75 minutes, before opting for the usual bloated indulgence." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) |
"Verbinski's pacing of action appears to use every available take of cannons firing and pirates being thrown around deck, until any attempted tension is nullified by boredom." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) |
"It epitomizes exactly the sort of empty professionalism that Spielberg gets wrongly accused of." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Player (1992) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Poetic Justice (1993) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Point Break (1991) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
Polyester (1981) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Ponyo (2009) |
"Ponyo observes the everyday, magically and truthfully." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005) |
"The positivity in this endeavour is stretched thin of personality, but young kids should be entranced by the familiar characters and good feelings." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Porky's (1981) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Possession (2002) |
"Because of LaBute's own inhibitions at opening himself to the story's emotion...Possession never quite functions as an exploration of passion." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002) |
"There's wicked delight in a children's film that's leftfield humour is this detached from the dumbed-down cultural status-quo." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
The Prestige (2006) |
"The year's most intricate screenplay... The Prestige pinpoints an unspoken torment of creative artists, where being second best represents failure when first place is within grasp." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Pretty Persuasion (2005) |
"The very dark comedy is about the crossing point of righteousness and exploitation." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
Pretty Woman (1990) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Pride and Glory (2008) |
"Hokum." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Primeval (2007) |
"As if the point wasn't already enforced in Turistas, when you step off American soil you'll have to deal with other ethnicities trying to kill you." |
Mark Palermo |
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