Splat D+ |
Jack Frost (1998) |
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Tomato A |
Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007) |
"The intoxicating documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis, directed by Mary Jordan, is a love poem to the New York City of the '50s and '60s, when Smith, the visionary of camp, more or less invented performance art." |
Owen Gleiberman |
- |
Jack the Bear (1993) |
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Tomato B |
Jackass: Number Two (2006) |
"Even if you can't stomach (or stand) what they're up to, you still have to admit that these goons execute their gags exceptionally well." |
Gregory Kirschling |
Tomato B |
Jackass: The Movie (2002) |
"I'm not sure if I enjoyed myself, exactly, but I could hardly wait to see what I'd be appalled by next." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B- |
The Jacket (2005) |
"Feels like it must be the 12th jolt-laden morbid thriller to open this year, yet it's the first that doesn't insult your intelligence." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B |
Jackie Brown (1997) |
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Tomato B |
Jackie Brown (1997) |
"It's like a scuzz-bucket film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick at his most static-mesmeric." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Splat C+ |
Jackpot (2001) |
"Director Michael Polish and cinematographer M. David Mullen can't quite convince us that they're not simply swayed by freak show appeal and the chance to art direct scenes of pretty sadness." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B+ |
Jailhouse Rock (1957) |
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Tomato |
Jakob the Liar (1999) |
"Peter Kassovitz establishes an effectively grim, cramped yet barren setting, making respectful use of locations in Poland and Budapest." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Splat D |
James' Journey to Jerusalem (2003) |
"It offers two atrocious ethnic stereotypes for the price of one." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B |
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) |
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Tomato B |
The Jane Austen Book Club (2007) |
"There's comfort to be had in the plot geometry of The Jane Austen Book Club, a photogenic adaptation of Karen Joy Fowler's 2004 best-seller." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
- |
Jane Eyre (1996) |
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Tomato B+ |
Japanese Story (2004) |
"Brooks and screenwriter Alison Tilson pursue a notion of Asian-influenced understatement in their own sunny, big-boned Australian way." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B+ |
Jarhead (2005) |
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Tomato B+ |
Jarhead (2005) |
"Watching Jarhead, these unvarnished snapshots of what can really happen among U.S. combat troops all but slap you with their observational force." |
Owen Gleiberman |
- |
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) |
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Splat D- |
Jason X (2002) |
"It will come as no surprise that the movie isn't scary. But here's the real damn: It isn't funny, either." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Splat |
Jawbreaker (1998) |
"A synthetic yet shrill sadomasochistic cartoon!" |
Owen Gleiberman |
- |
Jaws (1975) |
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Tomato B |
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) |
"Smith, coming off the madly audacious Dogma, knows that he's slumming this time and revels in it." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B+ |
Jay Z - Fade to Black (2004) |
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Tomato B+ |
Jay Z - Fade to Black (2004) |
"You thought there was Red State America and Blue State America? Welcome to Jay-Z America. It's not your father's crossover rap show." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato A |
Jazz on a Summer's Day (1958) |
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Splat C |
The Jazz Singer (1927) |
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- |
The Jazz Singer (1980) |
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Tomato A- |
JCVD (2008) |
"The clever, stylish perception-teaser of a comic drama JCVD -- a reality-twisting cousin to Being John Malkovich -- showcases a Van Damme who's sly like a fox about his own image." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Splat C- |
Jeepers Creepers (2001) |
"Yet another hyperbolic slasher cartoon." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Splat C- |
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) |
"Salva squanders all of his original movie's not-entirely- awfulness and bumbles into the realm of unintentional comedy." |
Scott Brown |
- |
The Jeffersons - The Complete First Season (1975) |
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Tomato B+ |
Jellyfish (2008) |
"Marvelously inventive, often-ironic Israeli storyteller Etgar Keret and his life- and workmate, Shira Geffen, spin in Jellyfish a dreamy, arty, alluringly cockeyed tale." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B- |
The Jerk (1979) |
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Splat C- |
Jersey Girl (2004) |
"It's a goopy well, duh of a family drama." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B+ |
Jesus Camp (2006) |
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Tomato B+ |
Jesus Camp (2006) |
"As a documentary, Jesus Camp could lose its haunted-house score and contrapuntal Air America refrains and still deliver its message..." |
Scott Brown |
Tomato B |
Jet Lag (2003) |
"It's a pleasure to encounter a confectionary love story in which a man and woman of age and experience discover feelings that youth, more and more, has a patent on in Hollywood." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B |
A Jihad for Love (2007) |
"The accounts are powerful, but so many of the interviewees' faces are blurred to preserve their anonymity that it feels like you're watching A Jihad for Love through a shower curtain." |
Chris Nashawaty |
Tomato B |
Jim Brown: All American (2002) |
"Lee's achievement extends to his supple understanding of the role that Brown played in American culture as an athlete, a movie star, and an image of black indomitability." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B- |
Jiminy Glick in LaLaWood (2004) |
"In his curdled-butterball way, Jiminy Glick may be the most acidic showbiz send-up since Andy Kaufman's Tony Clifton." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B+ |
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007) |
"Director Jonathan Demme creates a gripping meditation on the very hot-button-ness of the Israeli-Palestinian question." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B+ |
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) |
"A lickety-split, madly packed, roller-coaster entertainment that might almost have been designed to make you scared of how much smarter your kids are than you." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B |
Jindabyne (2007) |
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Tomato B |
Jindabyne (2007) |
"Jindabyne can't contain all that the filmmakers want to throw in. Best to keep glued to the taut performance by Laura Linney as Claire, wife of one of the fishermen (Gabriel Byrne) and a woman moved to dramatic acts of atonement." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
- |
The Job - The Complete Series (2001) |
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Splat C |
Joe Dirt (2001) |
"At one point, Joe gets excrement poured all over his precious mullet, and that, in essence, is what the entire movie does to him." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Splat C |
Joe Somebody (2001) |
"[A] standard-transmission vehicle." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B+ |
Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten (2007) |
"The Future Is Unwritten captures the Joe Strummer who, in the late 1970s, just about firebombed the rock establishment with his fury." |
Owen Gleiberman |
- |
John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars (2001) |
"And about how the fighting in his film eschews those trendy Matrix moves. 'There wasn't a lot of flying around at the Alamo,' says Carpenter." |
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