Tomato 4/5 |
About a Boy (2002) |
"It's well-timed, it'll never bore you and the film's close is comic humiliation par excellence." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato 3/5 |
About Adam (2001) |
"It's smart, it knows its audience can join dots and it actually makes you think about - and not just laugh at - the messes that people get themselves in over four letters." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato 3/5 |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"Ultimately, it’s in scenes where Schmidt’s grief and emotional shock are evinced that Jack shows he’s worthy of the plaudits which so freely come his way." |
Tom Grealis |
Tomato 3/5 |
Accelerator (2000) |
"Finding a place for social insight within the run-don't walk confines of an action film is no mean feat." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato 2/5 |
Adaptation (2002) |
"You may never see its like again - but maybe you won't want to." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato 3/5 |
Aimee & Jaguar (2000) |
"Theatre director Max Färberböck could hardly have picked a more intense and heartbreaking story for his cinema debut." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato 3/5 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"While there's a temptation to dismiss Akeelah and the Bee as Good Will Spelling, there aren't enough (good) heartwarming films like this for either younger or older audiences." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato 3/5 |
Ali (2001) |
"Mann has emerged with only a few cuts and bruises, while Smith, to paraphrase his character, hasn't a mark." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato 3/5 |
Ali G Indahouse: The Movie (2002) |
"Ali's graduation from little screen to big is far less painful than his opening scene encounter with an over-amorous terrier." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato 4/5 |
Alias Betty (2002) |
"An ingenious and often harrowing look at damaged people and how families can offer either despair or consolation." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato 4/5 |
Alien: The Director's Cut (2003) |
"Nearly a quarter of a century down the line, a great film has been made greater." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato 4/5 |
Almost Famous (2000) |
"For anyone who ever looked at a record sleeve and dreamed, it's a one-way ticket to Shangri-La." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato |
Amelie (2001) |
"Tautou's inherent charm, garnished with a gaze of innocent sexuality, lends the character of Amélie the perfect recipe for audiences to take her to their collective hearts." |
Tom Grealis |
Tomato 4/5 |
Amen (2003) |
"A fascinating study of good, evil and the inaction dividing them." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato 4/5 |
American Wedding (2003) |
"One of those very rare weddings where no-one goes home complaining." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato 3/5 |
Animal Factory (2000) |
"What it does lack is a performance by Furlong that's the equal of Dafoe's." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato 3/5 |
Antitrust (2001) |
"It won't win any Oscars but it might make 14-year-olds wonder whether it's really worth spending life in front of a screen." |
Harry Guerin |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) |
"By the close you're convinced that there should have been more to the film than what ended up onscreen." |
Harry Guerin |
Splat 2/5 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"More time should have been spent on the script and less on the effects.
" |
Harry Guerin |
Splat |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"Spielberg's insistence on labouring the Pinocchio resonance becomes extremely jarring, and nostalgia for the wide-eyed charm of his 1982 masterpiece 'E.T.' strengthens as the film staggers to its over-wrought climax." |
Tom Grealis |
Splat 1/5 |
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
"Don't let your festive spirit go this far." |
Harry Guerin |
Splat 1/5 |
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) |
"There's just not enough depth of thought to sustain it onscreen for 90 minutes." |
Harry Guerin |
Splat 2/5 |
After the Hole (2001) |
"An adolescent adventure that goes disastrously wrong for the protagonists – and, quite frequently, the audience." |
Harry Guerin |
Splat 2/5 |
After the Hole (2001) |
"An adolescent adventure that goes disastrously wrong for the protagonists – and, quite frequently, the audience." |
Harry Guerin |
Splat 2/5 |
Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
"This may be a case of mission unaccomplished, but the future looks brighter for Cody Banks than it does for Austin Powers." |
Harry Guerin |
Splat 1/5 |
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
"The racial stereotypes trotted out here suggest the scriptwriters reckon Europe and the world is some kind of long-haul Middle Earth for US audiences." |
Harry Guerin |
Splat |
All the Pretty Horses (2000) |
"Despite a script which remains faithful to the sparse language of the novel, and some breathtaking cinematography, the whole production feels too lethargic." |
Tom Grealis |
Splat |
Along Came a Spider (2001) |
"Enjoyment, or even tolerance, of 'Along Came A Spider' hangs upon a couple of plot twists, which even by Hollywood standards are pretty far-fetched." |
Tom Grealis |
Splat 1/5 |
An American Haunting (2006) |
"The star of Don't Look Now and the star of Carrie appearing in a film as weak as this - now that's scary." |
Harry Guerin |
Splat 2/5 |
American Pie 2 (2001) |
"Fans of the first one will come away tasting soggy reheat, not this year's new improved recipe." |
Harry Guerin |
Splat 2/5 |
The Amityville Horror (2005) |
"Unlike many of its multiplex peers, it does offer up a few decent scares, even if diehards will have seen them all before." |
Harry Guerin |
Splat 1/5 |
Analyze That (2002) |
"Forget about it." |
Harry Guerin |
Splat 1/5 |
Anger Management (2003) |
"The amount of laughs [here] is about the same as the number of Oscars Nicholson has. Maybe one less." |
Tom Grealis |
Splat 2/5 |
The Animal (2001) |
"No classic but far less offensive than the witless dross like See Spot Run that kids have endured on their time off." |
Harry Guerin |
Splat 2/5 |
At Five in the Afternoon (2003) |
"An already powerful story could've had more impact had the characters been developed further.
" |
Harry Guerin |
Splat |
Audition (2001) |
"The grisly finale will undoubtedly linger in the memory but in the end, it just comes off as a case of too much, too late." |
Tom Grealis |
Splat 2/5 |
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) |
"If this series has any more life left in it, Myers and Roach have to do a major rethink." |
Harry Guerin |
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America's Sweethearts (2001) |
"Slight, but at least fitfully funny." |
Tom Grealis |
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