Splat 2.5/4 |
Take the Lead (2006) |
"The performances deserve applause. The script is another story." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2/4 |
Taken (2009) |
"Some movies flirt with absurdity. Taken takes it to bed, and then out for waffles in the morning." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Taking Lives (2004) |
"Just as the central criminal steals the identity of his victims, Taking Lives lifts traits and style from other movies. Both do so relatively successfully, until they bungle the job in the final half-hour." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"We've been waiting too long for a sharp little urban thriller with a couple of tense scenes and one fine, bold performance. Given the time, we'll grab this express train, happily." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Taking Sides (2003) |
"Taking Sides is a symphony played on two instruments, both somewhat out of tune." |
Bob Campbell |
Splat 2/4 |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"Too much of Taking Woodstock seems barely sketched out." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Tale of Despereaux (2008) |
"Their gentle care and attention help fill out this sweet tale. So, too, do the background artists who have created wonderfully intricate universes for the different rodents to inhabit." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) |
"Ferrell reteams with director Adam McKay (Anchorman) for another gleefully trashy comedy." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2/4 |
Tamara (2006) |
"This indie death-feast, directed by Jeremy Haft and penned by Jeffrey Reddick (co-writer of Final Destination), was initially slated to debut on video. Watching it, you'll wonder why the distributor changed its plans." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato |
Tarnation (2004) |
"Caouette has taken the broken pieces of two lives and slowly, painstakingly, pasted them together -- and created one superb work of art." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Teacher's Pet (2004) |
"Crammed full of small jokes and visual puns." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Team America: World Police (2004) |
"It may be one of the strangest pieces of entertainment to hit multiplexes in some time, but in terms of its politics, it's one of the sanest." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Tell Them Who You Are (2005) |
"It's a case in which the director should have put his ego and personal issues aside to create a more conventional life story." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Ten (2007) |
"It's more a frivolous spoof than a pointed satire." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato |
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006) |
"Although some jokes and songs are recycled from the band's back catalog, the movie contains plenty of new material, a mix of killer tunes, monster laughs and savvy references." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat |
The Terminal (2004) |
"The dramatic part of this ensemble drama doesn't work very well." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) |
"Mechanical and soulless, it's proof that the machines have already risen -- and won." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"Skynet may not have ensured its own future, yet. But their robots have clearly made serious inroads in our movies." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
"Does convey the sense of being caught in a nightmare. A stupid person's nightmare." |
Bob Campbell |
Splat 1/4 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) |
"No character, no commentary. Just slice-and-dice, pare-and-scare, scream-and-run and fall-and-die." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Thank You For Smoking (2006) |
"Reitman makes shrewd choices condensing the book, removing conspiracy subplots and adding a story line about the relationship between Nick and his son, Joey (Cameron Bright)." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"Director Stefan Rukowitzky keeps his camera -- wisely -- inside the forgers' separate barracks. They, and we, can only guess at what is going on in the rest of the camp. But it haunts them still." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) |
"The Day the Earth Stood Still may bill itself as science fiction. But it understands neither." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
The Polar Express (2004) |
"A botched technological experiment of Tron proportions, cold, remote and creepy rather than engaging, warm and jolly." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Signal (2007) |
"Ultimately, The Signal doesn't rewrite the rules of horror, the way those masters did. But its filmmakers do provide a creepy, bloody good show." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
Then She Found Me (2008) |
"For a "personal project," it's all fairly impersonal and predictable. By the second act, you know everything that's going to happen in the third. And by the third -- well, I almost found myself missing Meg Ryan." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 0/4 |
They're Just My Friends (2006) |
"A film to stand alongside the best of Ed Wood." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"A movie about loss and mourning and bottomless sadness. But its very production is, on another level, a reason to celebrate." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Thirst (2009) |
"At a time when so much of popular culture is turning the vampire into just another gently exotic, vulnerable lover, Park brings things back to bloody basics." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
Thirteen (2003) |
"Well paced and inventively shot." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
This Christmas (2007) |
" Loretta Devine is a treasure as the no-nonsense mother, and Delroy Lindo is as delightful as ever as her longtime beau -- give these two old pros a whole movie about late-in-life romance and we'd all be happy." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006) |
"The gotcha journalism backfires; instead of looking like a crew of crusading reporters unmasking the powerful, it just looks like a couple of practical jokers invading people's privacy." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
This Is England (2007) |
"A gripping bit of British drama." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
This So-Called Disaster (2004) |
"The details of Shepard's life ... are fascinating, particularly to fans." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Three Marias (2003) |
"At times, the filmmaker seems unsure of his mission. He should have had Filomena for his producer." |
Bob Campbell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Three Times (2006) |
"According to one American critic, Three Times is 'why cinema exists.' Only if you think that cinema has no higher calling that presenting a long series of gorgeously lit closeups of beautiful actresses are you likely to agree." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Thumbsucker (2005) |
"While it isn't a pioneering piece of filmmaking, Thumbsucker travels a familiar path in an engaging way, bolstered by a heady cast and smart, unsparing writing." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat |
Thunderbirds (2004) |
"Thunderbirds looks like something that began as a high-camp adventure for grownups and then got dumbed down for kids." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Tickling Leo (2009) |
"Briefly in theaters now, Tickling Leo -- the title makes little sense -- will undoubtedly disappear quickly, only to have a faltering second life at small film festivals. You'll miss little if you pass it by." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1/4 |
Tideland (2006) |
"Ugly and misjudged." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005) |
"Corpse Bride offers unclassifiable enchantment." |
Lisa Rose |
Splat |
Time of the Wolf (2003) |
"It's unclear what lessons Haneke wants us to draw from this story." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Time to Leave (2006) |
"As in any Ozon film, there are indelible performances from strong women here." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 2/4 |
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) |
"The whole thing feels arbitrary. Henry and Clare's love is bedeviled not by anything they've done or have any control over, so the drama fails to build." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Timeline (2003) |
"It looks like cheesy '60s television, with paper-thin characters and crummy special effects that wouldn't even have made it in the last season of Star Trek." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat 1.5/4 |
TMNT (2007) |
"There are endless scenes in which the turtles sit around discussing their feelings. All the talk of anger management and sibling rivalry is sure to test the attention spans of viewers in every age group." |
Lisa Rose |
Tomato |
Together (2003) |
"When it's hitting all its notes, Together makes beautiful music -- the complex two-part harmony of the new China and a newer one, of a peasant father rooted in the old ways and a citified son uncertain of what comes next." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Tokyo Godfathers (2004) |
"Great animation can delight children or adults; truly great animation may delight both. But Tokyo Godfathers seems unlikely to enthrall either -- or be remembered much past the flicker of its final cel." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tokyo Sonata (2009) |
"It's a painfully pertinent subject (although the best work on this is still Laurent Cantet's 2001 Time Out). Yet Kurosawa, while working in domestic drama, gives this his own quirky sensibility." |
Stephen Whitty |
Splat |
Torque (2004) |
"A vapid attempt to ride the high-octane coattails of Fast and Furious." |
Lisa Rose |
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