Splat 2/5 |
P.S. I Love You (2007) |
"The emotional tug is lost in uninspired dialogue, trite situations, and some plot twists that defy credulity while exploring the limits of tedious convention" |
Andrea Chase |
- |
The Painted Veil (2006) |
"Edward Norton talks to Andrea Chase about language, travel, and traveling by sedan. (streaming audio 6:51)" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"Guillermo Del Toro creates an alternate reality where danger is a constant state and where fantasy and reality are equally vivid." |
Andrea Chase |
- |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"Guillermo del Toro talks to Andrea Chase about luck, happiness, and creeping audiences out with just the right sound. (streaming audio 16:32)" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Party Monster (2003) |
"Call it what you will, a morality tale, a cautionary fable, one walks away with a sense of catharsis" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) |
"Blazing in its intensity, and overwhelming in its poetry." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"The ultimate contradiction ... is that a film about the Prince of Peace is violent enough to earn an R rating." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) |
"mostly this film spins its wheels not unlike the way that Paul spins the wheels of his mall-issued Segway%u2122." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Paycheck (2003) |
"a big, well-paced thriller that’s scads of fun as it races along to a suitably Woo-esque climax of gunshots, acrobatics, and way cool slow motion effects" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Perfect Stranger (2007) |
"the twists flail along one after another until enough people have been incarcerated, incriminated, or killed to prevent any further deus ex machinas from imposing themselves on us" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) |
"It is Tykwer's particular cinematic gift that he can recreate the inner universe that his characters inhabit to such an extent that said subjective universe seems, if not normal, somehow perversely seductive" |
Andrea Chase |
- |
Persepolis (2007) |
"Marjane Satrapi talks to Andrea Chase about forgiveness, color, and defining subversiveness (streaming audio 17:44)." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Phone Booth (2003) |
"You're sitting there thinking that this is just silly. But gosh darn if there isn't something about PHONE BOOTH that makes you want to see what's going to happen next." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Pianist (2002) |
"(Brody's] performance is a marvel of wary tenacity and unquenchable humanity." |
Andrea Chase |
- |
The Pianist (2002) |
"Andrea Chase" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Pieces of April (2003) |
"[Hedges] plays our emotions like a virtuoso, mixing farce with tragedy with equal assurance and wisely eschewing words when silence can be more effective" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Pineapple Express (2008) |
"An endearingly disjointed film that is funny despite fighting a losing battle with coherence." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Pink Panther (2006) |
"a mixed bag, but while the jokes misfire as often as they hit their target . . .when it works, it is very, very funny." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
The Pink Panther 2 (2009) |
"Martin dons silly costumes and then lets them do the work for him. An emerald green toreador costume can only do so much, however, even with the tassels" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Pirate Radio (2009) |
"to the beat of soundtrack that proves the point of why this music was feared and adored, it revels in the giddy delight of a time when all the old rules were questioned, if not thrown out" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) |
"It drifts along in its own sort of doldrums, two minutes of not terribly exciting story followed by ten minutes of special effects, some of which are dandy, most of which demonstrate the textbook definition of overkill." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) |
"like a slow boat to China, it takes a very long time to get where it is going and not every moment is thrill-packed, but it's not without some very nice points of interest that make the effort worthwhile" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) |
"[Depp has] the air of someone who's decided reality is just a bit too much of a chore, he verges on camp and sometimes blithely surrenders to it altogether." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Pixar Short Films Collection - Vol. 1 (2007) |
"Art school geek meets basic math and the result is the magic that is the Pixar Studio" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Pixar Story (2007) |
"There is nothing short of a giddy delight in watching the fine folks who founded PIXAR living out their dreams in ways much larger than even they could ever have imagined" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Planet 51 (2009) |
"can't quite get over the inertia of its failings" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Ponyo (2009) |
"lacks any real sense of conflict or danger. It makes up for it. . . with a delightfully absurd internal logic that is perfectly keyed into the way small children see the world" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Poseidon (2006) |
"more cheese than the caves of Roquefort and more syrup than Vermont" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 0/5 |
Premonition (2007) |
"Blithely unfettered by internal logic, exhibiting the pacing of a banana slug, and boasting a heroine who makes Betty Crocker seem like a radical feminist, Premonition is exactly the reason that the Razzie Awards exist." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Prestige (2006) |
"An enchanting puzzle, not flashy, but fiendishly clever in the plotting and even more fiendish in the telling." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Prey for Rock & Roll (2003) |
"Gershon rocks the screen" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Pride and Glory (2008) |
" passionate performances in a story that is a series of letter-perfect clichés" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Prime (2005) |
"it quickly becomes a one-note joke with exactly the same punch line every five or ten minutes" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
The Prince & Me (2004) |
"churns suds like an industrial washing machine spiffing up 100 pounds of bland" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 0/5 |
Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004) |
"When it’s not annoying, it’s cloying, and in both cases is so acutely irritating that one longs for the passive delights of mere tedium" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Promotion (2008) |
"bills itself as a comedy, and elements of it do fall into that category, but at its core, this is an incisive and often merciless deconstruction of the American Dream" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
The Proposal (2009) |
"a morass of clichés" |
Andrea Chase |
- |
Protagonist (2007) |
"Jessica Yu talks to Andrea Chase about puppets, gender, and having an aha moment (streaming audio 18:30)." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Protagonist (2007) |
"fascinating, troubling, and scathingly brilliant in both concept and execution" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Protocols of Zion (2005) |
"an unflinching and often terrifying look at a particularly insidious type of hate that has for too long flown under the radar of mainstream attention" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
The Punisher (2004) |
"When it’s good, which is not often enough, it’s a kitschy delight exploring the wilder shores of nihilism and true love. When it’s bad, though, yikes." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Punisher: War Zone (2008) |
"there are so many tones at work in the non-script that the only suspense is in wondering what genre will be used (badly) next." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 0/5 |
Push (2009) |
"In plot, it meanders. In character development, it implodes. In action, it plods. In effect, it numbs, but, alas, not quickly enough." |
Andrea Chase |
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