Splat |
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
"Despite the grand drama inherent in its narrative, the film pulls back from investing much energy into imparting upon us the gravity of what we are watching." |
Josef Braun |
Tomato 4/5 |
Radiohead: Meeting People Is Easy (1998) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 3/5 |
Raging Bull (1980) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 4/5 |
Raising Arizona (1987) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Raising Victor Vargas (2003) |
"Even though Raising Victor Vargas offers a fairly standard teen love story, it’s also a solid, intriguing look at an immigrant family in New York." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Rapture (1991) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
Tomato 4/5 |
Raymond Briggs' The Bear (1998) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Real Women Have Curves (2002) |
"This strong little independent film packs more colour and life into its trim 86 minutes than many puffed-up blockbusters can stuff into two hours." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
The Red Balloon (1955) |
"A cinematic landmark . . . Lamorisse's film floats off, with the breeze of magic-realism, into a feeling of escape and peace." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Red Dragon (2002) |
"A well-made but centreless horror show." |
Josef Braun |
Tomato |
Red Road (2007) |
"A strange sort of map of the city [is] spread across these fragmented cubes of visual information. And there's also the metaphorical map of the characters' lives, where they're coming from and where they're going." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Red Without Blue (2007) |
"Novelistic in its languid twists and turns, this astounding film superimposes images and photographs, or pans across the twins' shimmering hometown lake, only to dive in between the layers, plunging into the murky depths of identity and self-reflection." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Ref (1994) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Reign of Fire (2002) |
"Reign of Fire contains several scenes in which the screen is filled with immense fire-breathing dragons, but you don't feel the slightest twinge of awe or fear for the size of these creatures or their incredible destructive powers." |
Paul Matwychuk |
Splat |
The Republic of Love (2003) |
"The tiresome zaniness and Seinfeldian conceits might be forgivable if the romantic plot weren’t so full of empty truisms and nonsense lines that would stump a Zen monk.
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Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Resurrecting the Champ (2007) |
"Subtlety is knocked on its ass and put out for the count, though a chilling sense of white self-entitlement and ethical superiority tingles on." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
The Return (2004) |
"The Return feels like an experiment designed to find out how much basic plot information you can withhold from an audience and still have an interesting movie." |
Paul Matwychuk |
Splat 2/5 |
Return of the Secaucus Seven (1981) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Rhinoceros Eyes (2004) |
"Has its own peculiar sensibility, a sort of magical grotesqueness. . . . It's too bad that Woodley doesn't push his themes and ideas further, blurring reality and dream more profoundly." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 4/5 |
Riff Raff (1990) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
The Right of the Weakest (2006) |
"The film, in the end, as solidly good as it is, rings a bit hollow, feels a little pointlessly bleak. The last sparks of the steel furnace where Robert and Jean-Pierre used to work have faded, and all that's left is for life to grind itself down." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
The Ring (2002) |
"Nothing in Gore Verbinski’s previous résumé indicated he had the ability to create the lingering atmosphere of low-key dread he displays in The Ring." |
Paul Matwychuk |
Tomato |
Ripley's Game (2002) |
"Ripley's Game draws you in with its virtuoso performances and moody aura of menace." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
The Road to Guantanamo (2006) |
"Raw, riveting filmmaking that shines a light on the dark underbelly of the 'war on terror.' . . . a searing exposé of how badly our supposedly democratic, rights-upholding part of the world has lost its way since September 11." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Road to Perdition (2002) |
"Scorsese at his best makes gangster films that are equally lovely but also relentlessly brutal and brutally intelligent; Perdition, meanwhile, reads more like Driving Miss Daisy than GoodFellas." |
Josef Braun |
Tomato 5/5 |
Roger & Me (1989) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
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Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) |
"SideVue: The Fall of the Roman Empire. Considers the outrage over Roman Polanski's arrest in light of auteur theory, art vs. life, and Wells' admission in this documentary." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Rosenstrasse (2004) |
"This story is inherently dramatic enough to stand on its own, but von Trotta throws it off-kilter by framing her film within a dead-end, modern subplot." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
The Rules of Attraction (2002) |
"The thought of watching this film with an audience full of teenagers fixating on its body humour and reinforcement of stereotypes (of which they’ll get plenty) fills me with revulsion." |
Josef Braun |
Tomato |
The Rules of the Game (1939) |
"A scathing attack on the show of feeling by a murderously superficial elite . . . the more you watch it, the more Renoir's masterwork reflects the cold, hard truth%u2014The Rules of the Game still apply." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Runaway Jury (2003) |
"A tepid legal thriller . . . madly edited, with serviceable performances and dialogue that’s snappy without being biting. . . . evades answering the moral questions it poses." |
Brian Gibson |
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