Tomato 3/4 |
Hair High (2006) |
"None of this is for kids, and the way Plympton works clearly isn't for studios. It's just for grown-up fans of eye-catching animation." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Hairspray (2007) |
"More a reinvention than a retread, Hairspray is a pleasant surprise, a breath of fresh, whimsical air in a season that's been dominated by franchise entertainment." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2/4 |
Half Nelson (2006) |
"Half Nelson certainly sees things in a new way. Unfortunately, it doesn't see them very clearly." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1/4 |
Halloween (2007) |
"Revamping the influential 1978 shocker Halloween for a new generation of viewers, director Rob Zombie offers a film with more sex, more violence, no humor and zero scares." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"It has some hilariously humiliating jokes (Coogan really has no fear) and some surprisingly pointed real-life humor (Elisabeth Shue, you are a genuine sport)." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Hammer (2008) |
"A nearly comatose comedy that spends its time just bum-stumbling along, never putting in the work necessary to land a solid joke or develop a winning character." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Hancock (2008) |
"With great power comes great -- irresponsibility." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Hangover (2009) |
"Every summer needs at least one silly, dirty comedy, but The Hangover may end up being one of the few to actually get the mix right." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"The great thing about monsters is that they glide noiselessly from nightmare straight into myth, fully formed and eternally mysterious. To know what made them is to explain them. And once you explain anything, you begin to lose your fear of it." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Happening (2008) |
"If Shyamalan's ever going to do something different then he should have made something manic, dark and twisted. But that's not Happening." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Happily Ever After (2005) |
"None of these men, unfortunately, is a very compelling character." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Happily N'Ever After (2007) |
"[An] unfunny, trying-to-be-hip fairytale, with ugly CGI animation, a few bad songs, and Andy Dick and Patrick Warburton doing some of voices." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happy Endings (2005) |
"There's something compelling about Happy Endings and something unexpectedly sweet." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"The production numbers are delightful, but the musical fun is marooned in clichéd storytelling." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2/4 |
Happy Here and Now (2002) |
"A bit too mannered to engage." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Happy Hour (2004) |
"LaPaglia is solid and there's a grittiness here, and a clear-eyed approach to alcoholism that's reminiscent of Leaving Las Vegas." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"Happy-Go-Lucky ultimately charms -- just like its dizzy, disarming heroine." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Hard Candy (2005) |
"Hard Candy takes itself way too seriously. It's a genre movie that serves empty calories weighted with self-importance." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat |
The Hard Word (2003) |
"Few opportunities are seized." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
"The whole film feels easily distracted and apt to laugh at anything. But that's okay. So is its target audience." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) |
"While Harold & Kumar isn't quite a low-brow revelation on the scale of Clerks, it is one of film history's more inspired examples of off-color Jerseyana." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"Along with intensified frights, the PG-13 film offers sharpened portrayals from its young stars and a new level of maturity in its storytelling." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"Visually, yes, this is another solid Harry Potter entry, with the same impressive sets and effects. But it also badly misses the presence of a new or at least formidable villain." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"It all feels a little safe. The movie's full of spells, all right. But where's the magic?" |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"The other films had magic brooms, but this is the first picture that flies." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Harsh Times (2006) |
"It's true that we don't need to like characters for a movie to work. We should, however, at least find them interesting." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
The Haunted Mansion (2003) |
"Disney's latest cinematic spin-off of a theme park attraction is a vortex of boredom. The mansion itself looks great, but what happens inside is woefully uninspired." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) |
"Eventually the whole thing ends as these B-movies usually do -- with false denouements, sudden conflagrations and forced happy endings that leave the audience groaning and prematurely grabbing for their coats." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Havana Nights (2004) |
"The salsa routines are fittingly sultry, but not nearly torrid enough to redeem the leaden dialogue and labored emoting that surround them." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2/4 |
Haven (2006) |
"More a mediocrity than a shipwreck." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato 3/4 |
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) |
"What makes He's Just Not That Into You work are the things that Hollywood does well -- a few good jokes, a lot of pleasant performances and two brief hours of grown-up entertainment and escape." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Head in the Clouds (2004) |
"For all the hot sex and fevered politics, the movie is remarkably blah, a generic rush of attractive actors in compromising positions." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato |
Head-On (2005) |
"Director Fatih Akin has made a remarkable film -- the first great film of the new year -- marked by strong characters and intense scenes." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Heading South (2006) |
"In Laurent Cantet's fine new film Heading South, the amorous travelers aren't men but well-heeled, middle-aged women from North America, and their playground is lawless Haiti." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 0/4 |
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2006) |
"Stripped of all its lurid backstory, the fictional tale is revealed onscreen to be a mere catalog of horrors, an ugly grafting together of Dickens and America's Most Wanted." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
The Heart of Me (2003) |
"Forgets an important dramatic lesson: Watching two beautiful people hurt themselves is cathartic. Watching them hurt someone else is simple cruelty." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Heart of the Game (2006) |
"As far as magnetic team leaders go, it's hard to imagine a Hollywood screenwriter dreaming up a character as colorful as the coach in the basketball documentary, The Heart of the Game." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2/4 |
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) |
"The new version doesn't have any of the ethnic nuance or black-comic nastiness of the earlier one, and the Farrellys miss the opportunity to add their own." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Heights (2005) |
"Heights is just as contrived as the entertainment it mocks." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat |
Hellboy (2004) |
"For all the monstrous eviscerations, there's no real heart here." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) |
"It's del Toro telling stories in the language of Hollywood. And I miss the language of his dreams." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005) |
"Herbie moves along swiftly enough, but it suffers from a poor sense of direction and certainly can't keep pace with the original." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat |
Hidalgo (2004) |
"Like last year's Seabiscuit, the movie spends too much time harping on ancillary bustle, and not enough watching the title character put his hoofs to work." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat |
Hide and Seek (2005) |
"The camera leers at 10-year-old Fanning to the brink of criminality." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 1/4 |
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) |
"Sorry. Started to doze off." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1/4 |
The Hills Have Eyes (2006) |
"The Hills Have Eyes is the latest revision to reach theaters, and it's one of the ugliest." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
The History Boys (2006) |
"The play, however, has been heavily cut and the boys blend together, as director Nicholas Hytner masses them in groups and Bennett provides only the barest of descriptions." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2.5/4 |
A History of Violence (2005) |
"As a history of Cronenberg, it's a good introductory lecture, detailing his careful composition, mastery of unease and complicated thematic interests. As a Cronenberg film though, it's figuratively bloodless, without any real body to it at all." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Hitch (2005) |
"It is smarter than your average rom-com and boasts some genuine pathos towards the end. The movie certainly has enough commendable qualities to earn referrals from dating gurus." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2/4 |
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) |
"It's a mutant piece of entertainment that's bound to leave fans feeling betrayed and everyone else befuddled." |
Lisa Rose |
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