Splat .5/4 |
R.S.V.P. (2002) |
"The degree to which R.S.V.P. slowly but surely alienates the viewer is nothing short of remarkable..." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
"...the film never manages to express
that extreme feeling of risk that the real-life girls must have felt." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
"...suffers from a pervasively stagnant atmosphere that effectively drains the energy right out of its high-octane moments..." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"...an alternatingly intriguing and maddening cinematic experience..." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Radiant City (2006) |
"...successful as both a documentary on the suburbs and an intimate look at the ups and downs of an admittedly quirky nuclear family." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
Radio (2003) |
"...there's nothing about Radio's life (the film is based on an actual person) that seems to warrant a full-length movie being made about him." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Raging Bull (1980) |
"While there's no denying that it's very well acted and flawlessly filmed, Raging Bull is nevertheless...sporadically engaging but mostly overrated..." |
David Nusair |
Splat 1/4 |
Rahtree: Flower of the Night (2003) |
"The film's focus on clumsy, inept characters results in a series of jokes that are beyond lame..." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) |
"Justifiably one of the most indelible adventure films in cinematic history..." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Rails & Ties (2007) |
"...ultimately redeemed by Kevin Bacon's expectedly engrossing performance." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rain Man (1988) |
"...there's more going on here than just the standard grin-and-smirk performance that dominated much of Cruise's early work." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
Rainy Dog (1997) |
"...probably Miike's most accomplished and coherent effort - though it's still suffering from a whole host of problems." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rambo (2008) |
"...fans of the [action] genre flat-out owe it to themselves to check out the movie theatrically (if only to encourage the studios to quit making watered-down garbage like Hitman and Live Free or Die Hard)." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rambo - First Blood Pt. 2 (1985) |
"...precisely the sort of unapologetically brutal piece of work that's sorely missing from contemporary multiplexes." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rambo III (1988) |
"...an entertaining, sporadically electrifying piece of work that makes up in thrills what it lacks in relevance." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"...ultimately one of the most uneven and least compelling efforts from Disney's Pixar Animation Studios to date..." |
David Nusair |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Rated X (2000) |
"...this just isn't an interesting story, with the Mitchell brothers making for truly unsympathetic protagonists." |
David Nusair |
Splat 1/4 |
Read It and Weep (2006) |
"...even the most inept viewer will have little difficulty in figuring out precisely where the film is going at all times." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Real Time (2008) |
"...the movie's final half hour [is] affecting and involving in ways that one might not have initially anticipated." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Rear Window (1954) |
"...the film surely remains one of the most memorable and downright essential examples of the slow-burn thriller genre." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rebecca (1940) |
"The meandering storyline, however, ultimately prevents the film from living up to its reputation as one of Hitchcock's best..." |
David Nusair |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Rebound (2005) |
"Rebound isn't completely unwatchable, I suppose, but there's just got to be a better way to spend 87 minutes." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
Recipe for Disaster (2003) |
"About the only element in the film that might appeal to viewers past puberty is Larroquette's performance, which is expectedly enjoyable." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
The Reckoning (2004) |
"...impressive visually but completely dull storywise." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
The Recruit (2003) |
"...plays like one of those lame straight-to-video flicks that usually star either Eric Roberts or Dean Cain..." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
Red (2008) |
"...a deliberately paced and downright thoughtful piece of work." |
David Nusair |
Splat 1/4 |
The Red and the White (1968) |
"...frustratingly esoteric and inaccessible." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
Red Dragon (2002) |
"...as far as thrillers go, this is certainly a consistently entertaining and exciting one." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Red Dust (2004) |
"...never quite becomes as compelling or intriguing as we get the impression it's supposed to be." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
Red Eye (2005) |
"...tense, exciting, and thoroughly entertaining..." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Red Heat (1988) |
"...a plodding, downright generic buddy-cop thriller that's simply unable to sustain the viewer's interest for more than a few minutes at a time." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
Red Letters (2000) |
"[The Red Letters is] generally entertaining, though, and especially enjoyable is Paul Gleason essentially reprising his Breakfast Club role (except this time he's a Dean instead of a Principal)." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
Red Sands (2008) |
"...an ambitious yet wholly underwhelming endeavor..." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
Redbelt (2008) |
"...a sporadically uneven yet consistently engaging effort that'll undoubtedly please Mamet's devoted fans." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Ref (1994) |
"...[The Ref is] the sort of movie that improves on repeated viewings." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Reign of Fire (2002) |
"...McConaughey goes for broke and turns this guy into an amalgam of every hard-nosed soldier previously committed to celluloid." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
Relative Strangers (2006) |
"...nothing more than a sitcom-level romcom that becomes more and more predictable and flat-out conventional as it progresses." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
Relentless (1989) |
"...director William Lustig tries his best to infuse the movie with a decent amount of style." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
Religulous (2008) |
"...Religulous begins to seriously run out of steam somewhere past the halfway mark, as the repetitive nature of the movie's structure becomes increasingly tough to take." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
Remember the Titans (2000) |
"...impossible to resist." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
Remembering Arthur (2006) |
"...the filmmaker dwells on some of the less interesting aspects of his [subject's] life..." |
David Nusair |
Splat 0/4 |
Renaissance (2006) |
"...suffers from an unpleasant and relentlessly distracting animation style that ultimately renders its few positive attributes moot." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rendition (2007) |
"It's not until the pieces finally start to fall into place that Rendition becomes the hard-hitting, thought-provoking drama Hood clearly wants it to be..." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rent (2005) |
"...that rare musical that just might appeal to folks that ordinarily shun the genre." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
Replicant (2001) |
"Replicant doesn't even come close to some of Van Damme's better flicks (Timecop and Sudden Death), but it's certainly an improvement over what he's been up to lately." |
David Nusair |
Splat 2/4 |
Repo Man (1984) |
"...the movie, more often than not, just comes off as strange for strangeness' sake." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Republic of Love (2003) |
"...remains entertaining because of the two stars, both of whom give incredibly charismatic performances." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Requiem (2006) |
"...never quite as compelling as Hüller's performance..." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Requiem for Murder (1999) |
"...may be worth a look if you ever wondered what [Ringwald] would look like as a brunette (answer: weird)." |
David Nusair |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rescue Dawn (2007) |
"...much of the film's success is due primarily to Bale's captivating, flat-out astounding performance as the actor becomes Dieter to an almost ridiculous degree..." |
David Nusair |
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