Tomato 3/5 |
Ma Vie En Rose (1997) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
The Machinist (2004) |
"You can’t stop thinking about how awful Bale looks—partly because his transformation is so unnerving, but also because the film doesn’t give you anything else to think about.
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Paul Matwychuk |
Tomato |
Machuca (2005) |
"Machuca is so powerful because of its clear-eyed, relentlessly tragic dovetailing of personal passions and political betrayals." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Macunaima (1969) |
"Its hippie politics are none too subtle. . . . Flesh Gordon elements don’t help: Most of the women in Macunaíma are reduced to softcore conquests." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Mad Men - Season 1 (2007) |
"One extra shows the research behind the show's period details, often gleaned from the writers' own childhoods. Another flips through a 1960 of solidifying, post-war middle-class wealth. The best is a sampler of the show's hair, costume and set designs." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) |
"Can't quite make it to the front of the pride. The animation is fine; a lot of the lines are snappy; there are a few nicely absurd situations. But each main character gets a semi-intriguing subplot that isn't developed, then disappears. The pace hobbles." |
Brian Gibson |
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Mallrats (1995) |
"In a multiplex era of sprawling, blockish, gross-out gagfests, Mallrats stands out as a charming, scruffy boutique of a comedy" |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Man Who Would Be King (1975) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Man With One Red Shoe (1985) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
The Man Without a Past (2003) |
"A wistful, romantic concoction served straight-up, with no chaser to brace you against the strong kick of reality. . . . unforgettable." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Manda Bala (2007) |
"Kohn takes a distinctive approach to this chronicle of kidnappings in Brazil%u2014call it the obsessively tangential drama-documentary. . . . the elegant, bright camerawork, along with the jaunty Brazilian musical score, builds a fitting sense of the surr" |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Manufacturing Dissent (2007) |
"Rarely acknowledges the basic transparency of Moore's films . . . only when [this doc] takes on [Moore's] work does it land its hardest blows. The disc's best special feature is a ten-minute 'Documentary Discussion.'" |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Mariages (2001) |
"Rarely has melodrama unfolded so ponderously. . . . This is an overwrought, precious potboiler pretending to be a serious feminist art film." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Marion Bridge (2000) |
"Too many scenes are colourless and unimaginative...There’s a gap between the pedestrianism of life and the necessary dramatic tension of art [that] this film never bridges." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat 2/5 |
Masquerade (1988) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
Tomato |
Matchstick Men (2003) |
"Delivers some double-crosses worthy of the best con flicks, with twists that are both punchy and poetic." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 4/5 |
Matinee (1993) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
Splat |
Max Payne (2008) |
"Slaloms between gritty action and comic-book noir before skidding out into overblown fantasy. The plotline is weak and stretched-out. As the end nears, the pacing gets choppy. But by then, Max Payne lost that important sidekick, Minnie Pleasure." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat 2/5 |
The Mighty Ducks (1992) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
A Mighty Wind (2003) |
"A Mighty Wind is a decent comedy, but it’s also A Teeny Bland." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Milarepa (2007) |
"By-the-book mythmaking: stately, straightforward and not too interesting. The story . . . falls flat on film, a moody, visual medium, tremendously difficult to rework into a mirror for introspective, spiritual transformation." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Military Intelligence and You! (2008) |
"This often clever, snappy little comedy fires off some satirical shots with deadly sniping accuracy. And the disc's extra is an actual doc about the First Motion Picture Unit of the US Army, where we see how the military propagandistically covered itself." |
Brian Gibson |
- |
Milk (2008) |
"SideVue: Playing Politics.Considers movies about politicians in light of Milk and the recent Canadian Parliament crisis." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 5/5 |
Miller's Crossing (1990) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
The Mission (1999) |
"The male world of deception, violence, and suave killers remains intact, a woman's death letting buddies off the hook for their betrayal of the bodyguards' code." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat 1/5 |
Mississippi Burning (1988) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
Tomato 4/5 |
Mon Oncle Antoine (1971) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Mona Lisa Smile (2003) |
"Mona Lisa Smile is more of a Guernica grin—a broadly drawn, fractured, too-modern take on 1950s repression." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Mondovino (2005) |
"This look at globalization through rosé-tinted glasses is a poignant, whimsical magnum opus. . . . a vital, sobering nightcap to Gleaners and I and Sideways." |
Brian Gibson |
- |
Monster (2003) |
"'This is absolutely the greater truth of what happened in that time period,' Jenkins says. . . . 'you have to decipher what, like a criminologist, you believe was going on.'" |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 5/5 |
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Mostly Martha (2002) |
"The surprising thing about Mostly Martha is not that it dodges the clichés it sets up... but that its fulfillment of those clichés, and the warmth you feel as a result, seem so honestly earned." |
Paul Matwychuk |
Tomato |
Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001) |
"This French documentary ranks with the best I have seen. . . . The strength of the film is its patient, chronological build-up." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
My Best Friend's Girl (2008) |
"'There's this guy, Tank, and other guys hire him to give their exes "emotional terrorism." It's a romantic comedy.''Can you throw in a cheap anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic joke? And have Tank tell some kids how to pull a brutal sexaul trick on a woman?'" |
Brian Gibson |
- |
My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) |
"SideVue: 3D-Day. Considers 3D technology and film." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
My Kid Could Paint That (2007) |
"The paintings become colourfully self-deluded distortions of a world where adults project themselves back into childhood, capitalizing on both the adult nostalgia for innocence and our fascination with children who seem somehow adult." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 4/5 |
My Life as a Dog (1987) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 4/5 |
My Name is Joe (1998) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Splat 1/5 |
My Stepmother Is An Alien (1988) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
Tomato |
My Summer of Love (2005) |
"Torrid eroticism tinged by a sense of menace . . . circles around its complex, conflicted characters before plunging into their dark feelings and hidden half-truths." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
My Wife is an Actress (2002) |
"Attal's hang-ups surrounding infidelity are so old-fashioned and, dare I say, outdated, it's a wonder that he couldn't have brought something fresher to the proceedings simply by accident." |
Josef Braun |
- |
Mystic River (2003) |
"Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River is muddy and turgid, its scenes bogged down in overwrought menace and choppy dialogue." |
Brian Gibson |
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