Tomato |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"Bland reality becomes abstract: a visual representation of the way the movie's Substance D addicts observe their surroundings and themselves." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"The most densely layered science fiction film in years: a visionary bedtime story for adults." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Abandon (2002) |
"Abandon’s tsunami of conflicting tones -- it’s quirky but humourless, studied but predictable -- frequently make it feel much stronger than it actually is." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
About a Boy (2002) |
"About A Boy is so smart in execution and tone that its abhorrent subject matter becomes irrelevant." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"Director Alexander Payne and co-writer Jim Taylor steer through the material’s inherent trickiness by making it funny without reducing it to an insensitive freak show." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Accepted (2006) |
"Though keeping worthwhile targets - like professors who want to see their most creative students fail - director Steve Pink lets his punk inspiration slide into standard school rivalries and unrelated slapstick." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
"An earnest Scrooge story with a heart covered in excrement." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Adaptation (2002) |
"It’s an often hilarious endeavor that’s bizarre without reeking of calculated preciousness." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) |
"Never achieving comedic, satiric, or adventure serial heights, Pluto Nash has nowhere to go, and it doesn’t even care." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
"Rodriguez assures that even this minor film can be overflowing with invention and comedic alertness." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Aeon Flux (2005) |
"Weird pop-art becomes routine." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 5/5 |
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Airheads (1994) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"It's the kind of assured work that should be a filmmaker's breakthrough, but is so good-natured it's at risk of going unrecognized." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Akira (1988) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Aladdin (1992) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Alamo (2004) |
"When it feels like its winding to a close, [director] Hancock inserts a five minute scene of Dennis Quaid shaving, and then the movie goes on for another 20 minutes." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Alexander (2004) |
"Alexander is an Oliver Stone movie first and an historical/action epic second." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Alfie (2004) |
"Alfie talks into the camera like Ferris Bueller, hoping the viewer is petty enough to relate to his narcissism." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Ali (2001) |
"A clothesline rundown of Muhammed Ali's life...so preoccupied with realism, it neglects to have a thesis." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
"It’s marketing savvy that says making a movie people feel they have to see is reason to not bother making one people will want to see." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Aliens (1986) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
All of Me (1990) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
All Over Me (1997) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Alone in the Dark (2005) |
"Little of Alone in the Dark makes Earthly sense, but it at least knows how to be bad in original ways." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"By not making up for its generic redundancies with inspired lunacy, the whole thing just plays like Farrely Brothers lite." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"What Cassavetes gets right is how young bravado - not machismo, but extending to boys and girls - often wards off feeling by fetishizing heartlessness." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Always (1989) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Amadeus (1984) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"Amazing Grace's examination of men in power moved to change risks ridicule and righteousness for a smart take on history." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Amelie (2001) |
"Amelie is both brave and wise enough to consider happiness an emotion worthy of artistic taste." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"Writer/director Chris Weitz almost makes a good movie about how the public's 21st century media influence means everybody believes they're entitled to die famous, but he steps short of getting anywhere." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
American Experience - The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1995) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 5/5 |
American Graffiti (1973) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
An American in Paris (1951) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
American Splendor (2003) |
"The movie’s sober-minded empathy doesn’t stoop to the hipster crutch of ridiculing or revering Pekar’s everyman existence." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Amityville Horror (2005) |
"Unsuccessful but watchable, it's redeemed by occasionally reaching past mediocrity." |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Amongst Friends (1993) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) |
"Due to the film, one has peace of mind in learning that if a companion is swallowed by an anaconda, its digestive process takes so long that it won’t eat you too soon." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) |
"Generally funny, but for the first half hour it’s hilarious." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
"If you can get on its dank and heavy wavelength, the whole project is so aesthetically rich that it manages to transcend that it’s, at heart, a lot of dressed-up goofiness." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 4/5 |
Annie Hall (1977) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Another 48 Hrs. (1990) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat 2/5 |
Another Day in Paradise (1998) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
The Ant Bully (2006) |
"What wants to be fast paced and exciting ends up a chaotic, screechy thing." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Antwone Fisher (2002) |
"It doesn’t amount to a whole lot, but it's frequently moving and reasonably well made." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato |
Apocalypto (2006) |
"Barely a good movie, in its visionary fury it becomes a great one." |
Mark Palermo |
Tomato 3/5 |
Arachnophobia (1990) |
No article available. |
Mark Palermo |
Splat |
Are We Done Yet? (2007) |
"The slapstick isn't sadistic. But that doesn't make this sequel's propensity of scenes where animals attack Nick, and moments where he learns the difference between a house and a home, more than inoffensive." |
Mark Palermo |
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