Splat 2/5 |
Racing Stripes (2005) |
"a passable entertainment for kids that is hobbled badly by a formulaic plot and talking animals that, for the most part, don’t have anything interesting to say" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Radio (2003) |
"writer Mike Rich and director Michael Tollin never thwack us over the head with the simple moral values celebrated here" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Rambo (2008) |
"the action here is repetitive, derivative, and clunky. Then there's the subtext, which embodies enough jingoistic Imperialism to make Kipling puff up his chest with pride" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"The only thing better than watching RATATOUILLE in a theater is watching the DVD of RATATOUILLE at home with a lovely big bowl of the eponymous fare on which to dine" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"Not only is it as light and airy as a soufflé, it's also as complex as the precise physics and flavorings that makes it a miracle" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Ray (2004) |
"takes facts and mixes them with a healthy dose of poetic license to splendid effect [resulting in] a kaleidoscopic view of Charles’ rise from unimaginable poverty to fame" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
The Real Cancun (2003) |
"It’s all smarmy in a voyeuristic way that makes you want to reach for the Lysol as you sit there watching it. . ." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 0/5 |
The Reaping (2007) |
"Just in time for Passover, Easter, and/or any other equinoctial festival on your liturgical calendar comes THE REAPING, an abomination of a film to put the fear of God in us all with its sheer awfulness" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Rebel (2008) |
"Beautifully shot, well acted, and boasting some memorable martial arts sequences, at heart it is a film about national pride starring charismatic actors" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
The Recruit (2003) |
"[Farrel], who seems to be trying to salvage his dignity, . . .gets points for keeping a straight face as Pacino constantly beetles in on him to deliver his lines." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Red Eye (2005) |
"played out with a squirm-inducing tension that occasionally supersedes the instinct to breathe" |
Andrea Chase |
- |
Red Eye (2005) |
"Wes Craven interviewed by Andrea Chase (streaming audio 13:08)" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"The good news is that this is one-half of a terrific film. The bad news is that Adam Sandler is in the other half." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Renaissance (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Renaissance (2006) |
" a film that can be appreciated, idolized even, for its stunning visual artistry, as well as admired for its unsentimental homage to the film noir genre it reproduces with such precision" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Rendition (2007) |
"An issue that springs from collective fear and the baser instincts it engenders deserves a better, more intelligent, and more perceptive treatment than the trite platitudes Rendition offers." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Rent (2005) |
"something more is needed than a thumbed nose at convention to make a work dazzle and RENT, the movie, doesn't dazzle, in fact it's barely able to stifle a yawn" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Resident Evil (2002) |
"Barbequed Doggie Zombies. If your heart just skipped a beat and you find yourself atingle with anticipation, then I wish you good luck and Godspeed and there's no need for you to read further" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) |
"Those in charge looked at the earlier film and decided . . . that there was just too darn much plot. So this time it’s just one tedious mutant smackdown after another" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Resurrecting the Champ (2007) |
"a literate story with more food for thought than competent follow-though" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Returner (2002) |
"[It's] like Saturday morning kid programming of the damned with none of the campy charm that the genre can sometimes evoke" |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Revolver (2007) |
"Caution! Guy Ritchie has entered his Ingmar Bergman phase." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Righteous Kill (2008) |
"lugubrious and lackadaisical" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Ring (2002) |
"It has the courtesy to tie up everything with a nice little bow, plus the nifty special effects climax of [the] serious wallop at the end. . ." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
The Ring Two (2005) |
" its only accomplishment is proving . . Hollywood’s propensity for catering to the triumph of greed over reason" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Robots (2005) |
"Witty, smart, and neither written down nor schmutzed up in order to appeal to a particular demographic. . . the writers have given themselves over to pure sense of fun." |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 2/5 |
Rock Star (2001) |
"Mark Wahlberg looks yummy in tight leather pants and that’s a good thing because there’s not much else to recommend . . . ROCK STAR." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Rocker (2008) |
"may not rock your world, but it's a sweet little fable that doesn't trouble itself with reality" |
Andrea Chase |
- |
Rocket Science (2007) |
"Jeffrey Blitz and Reece Daniel Thompson talk to Andrea Chase about stuttering, synapses, ordering ice cream. (streaming audio 11:56)" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Rocket Science (2007) |
"Never stoops to the tawdriness of the merely conventional or the expected. It is droll, wicked, and scathingly original." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Role Models (2008) |
"has an unexpected sweetness to it that builds to a fever pitch on several fields-of-honor, real, imagined, and legal" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 3/5 |
Rory O'Shea Was Here (2005) |
"[MacAvoy] is boisterous, projecting a larger than life personality that doesn’t so much rail against his disability as thumbs its nose at it" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 5/5 |
Roving Mars (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrea Chase |
Splat 1/5 |
Rumor Has It... (2005) |
"These are shallow, vacuous people who have somewhere along the way confused narcissism with introspection, [and] we the audience are forced to watch them struggle across the vast wastelands of their titanic egos" |
Andrea Chase |
- |
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008) |
"David Schwimmer talks to Andrea Chase about boom guys, race relations, and finding the truth in popping a blister." |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008) |
"Pegg is brilliant, pratfalling his way through heartbreak and indignity" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
Runaway Jury (2003) |
"will keep you wondering, and surprised, until the very end" |
Andrea Chase |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Rundown (2003) |
"not high art, not by a longshot, but it’s way big fun" |
Andrea Chase |
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