Splat |
Taken (2009) |
"The usual vengeance-hunter plot, acting's sandblasted by action, and the movie rips through Paris like a One-Man Army American on a single-minded mission." |
Brian Gibson |
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Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"SideVue: Splitting The Screen. Considers the use of POV and perspective in cinema, in light of Rashomon, Taking Woodstock, and postmodern notions of fractured consciousness." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 4/5 |
Talk Radio (1989) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
Tomato |
Talk to Her (2002) |
"The most beguiling amalgamation yet of Almodóvar's pet themes." |
Josef Braun |
Tomato |
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) |
"It's with Dilawar that the film begins and ends, and it's with Dilawar that Alex Gibney's documentary can rest its case%u2014his story speaks with the deepest ache. Dilawar's face stares back%u2014a young, bearded man, his eyes wide in fright." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Tell Me You Love Me - The Complete First Season |
"Never as earnest or pleading as its title . . . finds a gentle, steadily fascinating poetry in the day-to-day struggle of stubborn, often inexplicable commitment that two people find themselves pushing and pulling each other into." |
Brian Gibson |
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Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"SideVue: Termination or Bale-Out For Critics? Considers the rise of the actor and fall of the critic in light of Christian Bale's Terminator: Salvation on-set rant and the relation of reviews to box-office gross for Star Trek." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Terror's Advocate (2007) |
"A documentary built on guilt by association. . . . no more interested in questioning the loaded word "terrorist" than Verges is in making distinctions between his clients. . . . leads us on a tour full of dark, mysterious purpose and not much of a payoff." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"Rarely has a film set the starkest of basic moral questions in such sharp-edged yet subtle relief. . . . like one of the master forger's brazenly passed-off copies--so bold, unflinching and brilliant that, to any eye, it's flawless." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
The Tiger's Tail (2006) |
"An almost madcap comic pace battles with thundercloud-building drama . . . The social commentary can be earnest and bald, with the mythic overtones seemingly contrived to tumble O'Leary into the class gap on his arse." |
Brian Gibson |
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Thirteen (2003) |
"Thirteen’s quick pans and jumpy, in-your-face directorial style were influenced by such innovative, semi-improvised ’70s films as Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Thirteen (2003) |
"Catherine Hardwicke’s work is a dizzying wallop of a teen movie. . . . Thirteen is a handheld, bleached-out, rollercoaster reel of celluloid." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
This Is England (2007) |
"This is the film that Meadows' deceptively casual, hands-in-its-pockets, neighbourhood storytelling has led up to. A tale of one boy's summer becomes a majestic, unromantic look back at 1980s Britain. With some lovely deleted scenes . . . followed by two" |
Brian Gibson |
Splat 2/5 |
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
Tomato 5/5 |
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
Splat |
Tideland (2006) |
"Never quite coheres . . . But Gilliam has still made an admirable--and, at times, daring--oddity . . . disturbingly different from most celluloid childhoods." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
To Be and To Have (2003) |
"In its discussion of the natural, essential roles of learning and teaching in life, Être et Avoir is an elegantly shot, eloquently stated, first-class report." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 4/5 |
To Be or Not to Be (1942) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
Tomato 3/5 |
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
Splat |
The Tracey Fragments (2008) |
"The basic power of the plot's rewound revelation isn't there, shrapneled by the form . . . Some films reward multiple viewings, but this film, offering multiple views, falls short of being memorably singular." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 4/5 |
Traffik (1989) |
No article available. |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Transamerica (2005) |
"A touching portrait of a world where everyone's a little bit born again and a little bit lost . . . re-examines our uneasy expectations about identity, family, and gender." |
Brian Gibson |
- |
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"SideVue: Revenge of the Mid-Summer Machines. Considers the military-industrial complex in the Transformers sequel, the resonance of Depression-era gangsterism in today's economy in Public Enemies, and Ice Age's Scrat going solo." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato |
Triad Election (2007) |
"Drips with a thick, Stygian darkness, but also offers violence that's too explicit and willfully perverse to be thoughtfully disturbing. . . . a little too overwrought, too operatic after its regal predecessor." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat 2/5 |
The Trouble with Harry (1955) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
Splat |
The Truth About Charlie (2002) |
"Never do you get the feeling that anybody is in any real danger, or that there’s any real attraction between Newton and Wahlberg—and when you’re making a caper film that doesn’t have any suspense or romance in it, there’s not a hell of a lot else left for" |
Paul Matwychuk |
Tomato 4/5 |
Turtle Diary (1986) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
Splat |
The Tuxedo (2002) |
"Taken as a whole, The Tuxedo doesn’t add up to a whole lot." |
Josef Braun |
Tomato |
Twentynine Palms (2004) |
"A narcissistic, wayward American male rage can only find release in a confusion of sex and violence . . . this startling, strange cine-philosophical experiment throws all the usual voyeuristic conventions of film into sudden, screeching reverse." |
Brian Gibson |
Splat |
Twilight (2008) |
"Mix 150-proof Victorian romance with some HP (Harry Potter) sauce, add a dash of Munsters humour. . . . The heroine becomes obsessed with surrender and submission to a man constantly tempted to kill her. That's one sucked-up subtext." |
Brian Gibson |
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Twilight (2008) |
"SideVue: Rise of the Teen Terrors. Considers the 'Teen Hormophosis' Genre and its pubescent werewolves and vampires." |
Brian Gibson |
- |
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) |
"SideVue: Twilight: New Gloom. Considers three categories of bad films--bad, damned bad, and dangerous--in light of the second Twilight Saga film." |
Brian Gibson |
Tomato 4/5 |
Twist and Shout (1984) |
No article available. |
Paul Matwychuk |
- |
Tyson (2009) |
"SideVue: The Heavyweight We Love To Hate. Considers some of the racist history of boxing and recent demonization of Mike Tyson in light of Toback's documentary." |
Brian Gibson |
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