- |
The Wackness (2008) |
"Filmmaker Interview - Says Jonathan Levine: "Luckily, I'd read Henry IV, otherwise I would have just had to pretend like I knew what the f*ck he was talking about."" |
Brent Simon |
Tomato |
The Wackness (2008) |
"Kingsley's pot smoking puddle of regret is one of the few Big Apple personas to come close to Hoffman's bag of Ratso Rizzo tricks." |
Richard Horgan |
Splat |
Waiting... (2005) |
"McKittrick neglects to realize that his target audience (males, ages 18-25) presumably aren’t interested in seeing or hearing about the male genitalia at any time..." |
Kevin Biggers |
Tomato |
Waitress (2007) |
"The pregancy news depresses her, which is exactly the opposite response of women in most chick flicks." |
Anderson Jones |
- |
Waitress (2007) |
"Actor Interview - Says co-star Jeremy Sisto of his late writer-director: "As her friend, knowing how much she wanted this to happen, it's just sad, profoundly sad."" |
Pam Grady |
- |
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
"There are a half dozen memorable cameo appearances contained in Walk Hard, the final piece of Judd Apatow’s phallic career year." |
Richard Horgan |
- |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"Celebrity Interviews - For Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix, the best part of their Tennessee two-step involved feeding off the other’s self-confidence." |
Michael Szymanski |
Tomato |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"As sure as night is dark and day is light; Joaquin will be on voters’ minds both day and night." |
Richard Horgan |
- |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"Red Carpet Report - Lurking in the background of Joaquin Phoenix’s amazing performance as singer Johnny Cash are vocal coach Roger Love and musician T-Bone Burnett." |
Richard Horgan |
- |
The Walker (2007) |
"Filmmaker Interview - Says Paul Schrader: "I knew people would connect the two films, which is why I put a dressing montage at the beginning."" |
Pam Grady |
- |
The Walker (2007) |
"So quick, since both Bacall and Lumet show no signs of slowing down, someone come up with a way to reunite these two legends in front of the camera." |
Richard Horgan |
- |
Walking Tall (2004) |
"Celebrity Interviews - The Rock, Johnny Knoxville and director Kevin Bray recall the joys of working on a grade A, mainline Hollywood action flick." |
Susan Michals |
Splat |
Walking Tall (2004) |
"Much like his career-launching appearance on SNL, The Rock towers above this highly uneven remake of the 1973 ‘hixploitation’ classic." |
Susan Michals |
- |
WALL-E (2008) |
"Filmmaker Interview - Says Andrew Stanton: "We're the biggest movie geeks. We love movies. We know what a great movie feels like when you see it."" |
Pam Grady |
- |
WALL-E (2008) |
"In one sense, the two lead robotic characters in WALL-E are a representation of Apple computers past and present." |
Richard Horgan |
- |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"Wallace & Gromit's latest bit of mayhem has been bested critically in the last five years only by Spirited Away, The Incredibles and Aardman Animation’s own Chicken Run." |
Kevin Biggers |
- |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"Filmmaker Interview - Three shorts, one feature, four Academy Award nominations, two wins. Can Nick Park make it three out of four in March of '06?" |
Pam Grady |
- |
Wanted (2008) |
"If they still did double bills, Wanted and The Promotion could be paired under the heading "Work Is Hell."" |
Pam Grady |
- |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"Filmmaker Interview - Right now, special effects wizard Dennis Muren is leading the charge at ILM to do more in less time and still do it better than the competition." |
Ian Spelling |
- |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"Filmmaker Interview - For what amounts to basically Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind, the pied piper of Hollywood veered more on the side of a post-9/11 world." |
Ian Spelling |
- |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"Red Carpet Report - Tom Cruise reversed the usual order of things in doing promotion for War of the Worlds. And so far, it seems to have worked." |
Richard Horgan |
Splat |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"The balancing act between pleasing crowds and evoking larger human truths eventually escapes Spielberg's grasp, as it has occasionally in the past." |
Todd Gilchrist |
- |
The War Tapes (2006) |
"Filmmaker Interviews - Suggests Sgt. Bazzi, one of the soldiers at the center of Deborah Scranton's harrowing film: "Everyone stands to make money the longer we're there."" |
Shelley Gabert |
Splat |
War, Inc. (2008) |
"The filmic equivalent of a bleating, hot microphone - all crossed wires and misfunneled energy." |
Brent Simon |
- |
The Warriors (1979) |
"Filmmaker Interview - To fans of the 1979 cult classic, this is anything but a surprise: director Walter Hill is no sentimentalist." |
Ian Spelling |
Splat C- |
Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2004) |
"Presiding over it all is an absurdly indestructible baddie who combines Zamfir's mastery of the pan flute with a flawless mimicry of Prince circa Purple Rain." |
Larry Carroll |
- |
Wassup Rockers (2006) |
"Filmmaker Interview - It began with an L.A. photo shoot and ended three years later with a film. In between, Larry Clark says he learned a whole lot about the ghetto." |
Daniel Robert Epstein |
- |
Watchmen (2009) |
"Actor Interview - Says Matthew Goode: "This is really the Citizen Kane of all graphic novels."" |
Pam Grady |
- |
We Are Marshall (2006) |
"This is the closest the big screen has come yet to reflecting the personality of the "real" McConaughey. You know, the guy Matt Damon was imitating.
" |
Richard Horgan |
Tomato |
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"The revelation here is Dern, whose fierce, intensely moving portrayal of a woman struggling to hold on to what she cares about is the movie’s most urgent anchor of sympathy." |
Brett Buckalew |
- |
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"Celebrity Interviews - American director John Curran got his start Down Under. Australian actress Naomi Watts is now a big thing in Hollywood. Confused yet?" |
Brett Buckalew |
- |
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"Celebrity Interview - After decades of freely following in the footsteps of her famous parents, actress Laura Dern must now balance career with a family of her own." |
Pam Grady |
Splat |
We Own The Night (2007) |
"Takes enough interesting turns and twists to earn and keep your attention, all before an ending that sacrifices credibility for the sake of convenience." |
Brent Simon |
- |
We Own The Night (2007) |
"But perhaps the thing that most solidly bonds the part-Spanish Joaquin to the part-Spanish Humphrey is their shared distaste for deconstructing the art of acting." |
Richard Horgan |
- |
The Weather Man (2005) |
"With two Pirates sequels on his radar, director Gore Verbinski certainly isn’t hurting for work. But even he didn’t expect this small a blip for The Weather Man." |
Brett Buckalew |
Tomato |
The Weather Man (2005) |
"Inhabited by a courageously schlumpy Nicolas Cage, this strange and audacious character study becomes even more of a gleefully misanthropic blast." |
Brett Buckalew |
- |
Wedding Crashers (2005) |
"Celebrity Interviews - For director David Dobkin and stars Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, Wedding Crashers was more like a raunchy family reunion." |
Brett Buckalew |
Tomato |
Wedding Crashers (2005) |
"The scene at a crowded dinner table is bound to become the most widely referenced sex gag since Cameron Diaz discovered a new kind of hair gel in There’s Something About Mary." |
Brett Buckalew |
- |
The Wedding Date (2005) |
"Red Carpet Report - In real life, $6,000 brought Heidi Fleiss a whole lot more trouble than what it gets Debra Messing's character in The Wedding Date." |
Richard Horgan |
Splat |
The Wedding Date (2005) |
"Mulroney contributes virtually nothing save a convincing profile and makes the transition to lover-for-life feel about as shallow as a single-tiered wedding cake." |
Todd Gilchrist |
Tomato |
Weirdsville (2007) |
"At the very least, one would hope that enough of the talent agents, managers and producers currently using heroin properly tap the vein of Bentley's terrific performance." |
Richard Horgan |
- |
Weirdsville (2007) |
"Filmmaker Interview - Says Allan Moyle: "When you’re young and Canadian and want to please too much, it’s a recipe for making sh*tty movies.”" |
Richard Horgan |
Splat |
Welcome to Mooseport (2004) |
"In a comedy that could just as easily have been titled Grumpy Middle-Aged Men, Ray Romano and Gene Hackman are forced to make do with so-so material." |
Todd Gilchrist |
- |
Welcome to Mooseport (2004) |
"Rumored to be looking for $4 million an episode next year, Ray Romano dissects the relative merits of the big screen and turning down the lead in Cheaper by the Dozen." |
Todd Gilchrist |
Splat |
The Wendell Baker Story (2007) |
"If ever there were a more shrug-worthy modern hop behind the camera, it's hard to recall." |
Brent Simon |
- |
West Side Story (1961) |
"As Russ Tamblyn recalls it, sadistic choreographer Jerome Robbins didn't think his dancers were really doing a good job unless their feet were bleeding." |
Pam Grady |
Tomato |
Whale Rider (2003) |
"Of particular note is the behind-the-scenes controversy over the portrayal of smoking among the Maori people. Caro was determined to tell the truth and stuck to her guns." |
Annlee Ellingson |
Tomato |
Whale Rider (2003) |
"Admittedly, one might be reticent to embrace the film’s subject matter, but Caro’s sensitivity to the characters and the magnetic realism of the performances behind them will win more than most audiences’ sympathies." |
Todd Gilchrist |
- |
What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"The film's opening weekend box office is a perfect example of why Hollywood continues to bet on Cameron Diaz." |
Brent Simon |
- |
What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"It all adds up to Jon Stewart's operation being the most reliable minter of male comedic talent this side of Saturday Night Live." |
Richard Horgan |
IGN RSS Feeds
