Tomato 4/5 |
Baby Mama (2008) |
"a pithy deconstruction of both the trendy and the traditional, with well-aimed swipes at everything from designer parenthood to the redneck in the blue collar" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Babylon A.D. (2008) |
"It's all terribly muddled, jumbled and oddly inert, considering the amount of things that explode and other things that go bang" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Bad News Bears (2005) |
"The film skitters along picking up plot lines and then abandoning them . . . with the verve and mystery that atoms show when obeying the more esoteric laws of physics." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Bad Santa (2003) |
"Sure, there's gunplay, thievery, and general drunken disorderliness, but . . . the season is made bright, relatively, without even one of those annoying sugar plum fairies" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Ballast (2008) |
"a small gem of humanity brought into sharp focus without sentiment" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"no joke is too stale, no set-up too contrived, and no standard too low" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"Cage from the first frame looks like someone who should be offered an antacid as quickly as possible, and one of prescription strength at that" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Baraka (1994) |
"images [and juxtapositions] in BARAKA . . provoke speculation about our place in the cosmos" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals (2006) |
"doesn't just violate the audience's right to entertainment, it violates animal dignity to such an extent that PETA might want to consider getting involved" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bartleby (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Basic (2003) |
"[McTiernan] builds his momentum until by the end, the truth turns on a dime so quickly that it all but leaves a sonic boom in its wake." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 0/5 |
Basic Instinct 2 (2006) |
"It is said that the reason there were so many years between the first BASIC INSTINCT and its sequel is that Sharon Stone was waiting for just the right script. . . She didn't wait long enough." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Batman Begins (2005) |
"along with the fun, and there's plenty of that, there's a level of sophistication not seen before in this film franchise, a willingness to ponder the big questions" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003) |
"There's a whole lot of nothing going on" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Be Cool (2005) |
"It should be a rule of filmmaking that when the plot fizzles out, the film should end" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Because I Said So (2007) |
"The premise . . . isn't particularly innovative. It is, however, stretched paper thin with characters whose only allegiance to consistency is getting through the uniformly unfunny joke at hand" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Bedtime Stories (2008) |
"There may once have been a charming idea at the heart of Bedtime Stories, but alas, whatever it might have been has been Sandler-ized. And not for your protection." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bee Movie (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bee Movie (2007) |
"never sappy, often clever, and always great to look at. In short the perfect vehicle to keep the kiddies (and their adults) amused while getting across a well-framed message about species interdependence" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bend It Like Beckham (2003) |
"What sets this film apart . . . is the underlying but palpable affection with which director and co-writer Gurinda Chadha invests her characters." |
Andrea Chase |
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Bend It Like Beckham (2003) |
"Andrea Chase" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Beowulf (2007) |
"The 3-D effects are nothing short of stunning . . .big, bawdy and fast-paced enough to compensate for the animation ills with which it is afflicted" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Bewitched (2005) |
"[A]n effort that appears to be held together by baling wire and chewing gum. That would be an off-brand of both items.
" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Beyond the Sea (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
The Big Bounce (2004) |
"There is more thrill-packed excitement in the frequent shots of the languid Pacific trade winds ruffling the palm fronds and banana leaves" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Big Fish (2003) |
"a work that is both spiritually uplifting and metaphysically playful" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Big Trouble (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008) |
"By the end of [this] enlightening and infuriating documentary, the culture of winning has been decisively dissected and what is exposed isn't very pretty, but it is undeniably honest." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Birth (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
The Black Dahlia (2006) |
"There are so many missteps in Brian De Palma's THE BLACK DAHLIA that one hardly knows where to start" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Blade 2 (2002) |
"Alas, when you’re handed crap to start with, there’s really no way to dress it up as anything but." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Blade: Trinity (2004) |
"Parker Posey, in a series of increasingly scary hair-dos, [gives] a stumbling, zoned-out performance that could easily be interpreted as a cry for help." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Blades of Glory (2007) |
"This is essentially a one-joke film, but between [Ferrell and Heder], they keep that joke buoyant by finding every possible variation on the relationship between Chazz and Jimmy played out at the level of petulant six-year-olds." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (2003) |
"[There's]a furtive look in her eyes, as though she still can’t quite process that the man she worked for and found so charming was a mass murderer on a monumental scale." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Blindness (2008) |
"Moore comes through with a performance that is ferocious in its intensity" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Blood Diamond (2006) |
"these characters aren't the icons they might have been had the scripting not let them down at every turn, instead they are clichés" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Bobby (2006) |
"It pains me to have to slam a film that so obviously has its heart in the right place, but BOBBY is such an inept and misguided effort that there's no other option" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004) |
"is not so much a film as a sermon conceived as a series of lessons designed for moral improvement and delivered by a preacher who long ago exchanged enthusiasm for boredom" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Body of Lies (2008) |
"The plot devolves into a potboiler, reduced to a series of sequences wherein DiCaprio and Crowe can posture with the requisite machismo" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009) |
"It would be a disservice of an almost, you will pardon the expression, sinful nature to mistake it for anything deep, or anything more profound than the hellzapopping fireworks show that it is" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006) |
"The most important thing to know about BORAT is that you will be appalled by what you see, and then you will be appalled by the way it makes you laugh. Uproariously. And with wild abandon." |
Andrea Chase |
- |
Bottle Shock (2008) |
"Alan Rickman talks to Andrea Chase about working in the dark, the wonder of wine, and the impact of live theater." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Bottle Shock (2008) |
"a fine object lesson in the perils of perfectionism, snobbery, and preconceived notions" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) |
"This is Bond stripped of any glamour, but just as dazzling, as Bourne, without any of those nifty Bond gadgets, improvises with what is at hand, at one point, turning even a hardcover book into a lethal weapon" |
Andrea Chase |
- |
Brand Upon The Brain! (2006) |
"Guy Maddin talks to Andrea Chase about steambath discoveries, hometown alienation, and the truth of melodrama(streaming audio 22:10)" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Brand Upon The Brain! (2006) |
"exploring the phenomenon of memory with a transcendence that includes reality and fantasy with equal measure and equal importance. It is dark, it is disturbing, and yet, this is the man's genius, it is also wildly, improbably, blessedly funny" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Breach (2007) |
"two men playing off each other, everything they say working on more than one level and those levels changing with every exchange, sometimes with every line of conversation is where the film is at its best and most engrossing" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Brick (2006) |
"a startlingly original, wholly engrossing, and brilliantly plotted piece of work" |
Andrea Chase |
- |
Brick (2006) |
"Joseph Gordon-Levitt talks to Andrea Chase about taking falls, taking chances, and taking his time. (streaming audio)" |
Andrea Chase |
- |
Brick Lane (2008) |
"Sarah Gavron talks to Andrea Chase about color, atmosphere, and chemistry (streaming audio 16:49)" |
Andrea Chase |
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