Pandora's Box (1928)

"The film...is more interested in the waywardness of almost everyone's longings and in their failures of self-preservation than it is about Lulu's particular immorality or recklessness."

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)

"Likely to extend and amplify your reactions to the first film, without really deepening the judicial case or its artistic point of view."

Paradise Now (2005)

"Paradise Now gets a little frantic and lost near the end, which is infinitely preferable to the bourgeois accessibility of its beginning. I would love for the film to have gone much further, cut deeper."

Paranormal Activity (2009)

"Paranormal Activity has the universally craved but preciously rare knack among modern horror movies of seeping into the skin and the cerebellum."

Passion in the Desert (1997)

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The Passion of the Christ (2004)

"The style and mode are a little too heterogeneous to come together right, even though some images have a pared-down majesty, and the main line of the film is tough."

The Perfect Storm (2000)

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Peter's Friends (1992)

"Why does this genre endure, and why does it attract actors of the caliber of Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, and Emma Thompson?"

Pink Flamingos (1972)

"Hard to make an argument based on sheer artistry; impossible to make an argument against outrageous charm and transfixing weirdness."

Pitch Black (2000)

"Pitch Black is action science-fiction that barely qualifies as action and not at all as either science or fiction."

The Player (1992)

"A gem; it's not even my favorite Altman, but it'd probably be my favorite by most other directors."

Poison (1991)

"A mysterious, funny, sexy, and scary triptych; each film works beautifully on its own, and even better in relation to the others."

The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993)

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Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)

"Frequently plays as though Daniels conceived it as a mash-up of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Rob Marshall's Chicago... Finally and semi-subversively denies that 'everything is a gift of the universe.'"

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

"Some memorable performances don't quite make Jean Brodie feel like real cinema."

Psycho (1998)

"A Psycho that functions perfectly on its own terms while polishing this jewel of a thriller into its own bright new gleam."