Tomato A- |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"A.I. is a clash of the titans, a jumble, an oedipal drama, a carny act. I want to see it again." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B |
A/K/A Tommy Chong (2005) |
"It is also a portrait of resilience: Chong does his time (nine months) and has the last laugh, emerging as a born-again activist-survivor of the culture wars." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B |
Abandon (2002) |
"A competently made, mildly diverting collegiate thriller." |
Bruce Fretts |
Tomato B- |
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2007) |
"... as thickets of history and culture are (too) neatly avoided, the viewer is also left in the dark." |
Scott Brown |
Tomato B+ |
About a Boy (2002) |
"The movie sticks much closer to Hornby's drop-dead confessional tone than the film version of High Fidelity did." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato A |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"One of the best films of the year." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B |
Absolute Wilson (2006) |
"Intriguing." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B- |
Accepted (2006) |
"Accepted's winning dumbness and breezy bons mots save it from the pit." |
Scott Brown |
Tomato B- |
Adam (2009) |
"Adam is sweet, meticulous, and, at times, sort of clever, but it's also a not-quite-surprising-enough heartwarming trifle." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato A- |
Adaptation (2002) |
"Demonstrates that Kaufman, the real Charlie Kaufman, has a rare and really weird talent not only for finding portals into other people's psyches but also for Silly Puttying his own into the stories he tells." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato A- |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Adventureland doesn't quite soar -- it lopes along affectionately. But for nostalgia junkies, it's one from the heart." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B+ |
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) |
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Tomato |
After the Life (2002) |
"Each film stands satisfyingly on its own as a genre piece, but the triplex provides added understanding of character and consequence." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B- |
After the Sunset (2004) |
"The result is a knowingly preposterous toy thriller -- a sheer escape from consequence." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato A- |
After The Wedding (2007) |
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Tomato A- |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"Talented filmmaker Susanne Bier, armed with an outstanding compositional sense, keeps control over the storms of melodrama that swirl in this rich weepie." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B+ |
Afterschool (2009) |
"Anthony Campos (who was 24 when he made this jolting pic) captures the numbing psychic scramble that just might cause the YouTube generation to go morally haywire. Or become filmmakers." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B- |
Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
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Tomato B- |
The Agronomist (2004) |
"Works best as an homage." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B- |
The Agronomist (2004) |
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Tomato A- |
Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) |
"It's a far more gripping documentary than Broomfield's 1992 Wuornos film." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato |
Aimee & Jaguar (2000) |
"Färberböck's engrossing debut conveys the devotion between Aimée (Juliane Köhler) and Felice Schragenheim (Maria Schrader)." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B+ |
Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
"It's hard not to grin and admit that, yes, this is almost an art form." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B- |
Airplane! (1980) |
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Tomato B+ |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"Akeelah and the Bee may spell it out for you, but it pulls few punches in its depiction of the hurdles a verbally gifted South Central L.A. 11-year-old (Keke Palmer) must clear." |
Scott Brown |
Tomato A |
Aladdin (1992) |
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Tomato A- |
Alexander the Last (2009) |
"What looks like a drama of adultery turns out to be an exploration of how the spaces between people can separate them or join them, often at the same moment." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B- |
Alfie (2004) |
"Law makes self-satisfaction beguiling, and in an odd way that's his, and the movie's, limitation." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B- |
Alfie (2004) |
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Tomato B |
Ali (2001) |
"Dazzling, flawed, achingly ambitious." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B+ |
Alias Betty (2002) |
"A nifty, entwined, ultimately gripping adaptation of British crime writer Ruth Rendell's novel The Tree of Hands." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B+ |
Alien Trespass (2009) |
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Tomato B+ |
Alien Trespass (2009) |
"That warm tone, along with the picture's bright, saturated, anti-CGI look, is a welcome respite from jokes, irony, and the postmodern malaise of know-it-all-ness." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato |
Alien: The Director's Cut (2003) |
"In space, the famous tagline went, no one can hear you scream. In Alien, you can hear lessons for the sci-fi future in a great milestone from the recent past." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B- |
Aliens in the Attic (2009) |
"The ensuing war of the worlds is waged with weapons as fearsome as a bubble blower, a skateboard, and a sort of anti-gravity grenade that, frankly, looks like a lot of fun." |
Adam Markovitz |
Tomato B+ |
Aliens of the Deep (2005) |
"It's good that a kid, and maybe even an adult, may want to 'touch' one of the so-called aliens thrust out for our inspection. But more important, a kid, and maybe even an adult, may want to become a human scientist." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B |
Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) |
"Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem is a B movie that truly earns its B." |
Chris Nashawaty |
Tomato A |
All About Eve (1950) |
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Tomato A- |
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2002) |
"Iwai creates Yuichi's world as much through disembodied moments of sight and sound as through action, building to a surprising stab of melancholy." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato |
All About My Mother (1999) |
"Few melodramas with such tragic underpinnings have ever made me feel so intensely happy." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B- |
All or Nothing (2002) |
" With one exception, every blighter in this particular South London housing project digs into dysfunction like it's a big, comforting jar of Marmite, to be slathered on crackers and served as a feast of bleakness." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato A |
All the President's Men (1976) |
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Tomato A |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"A revelation in its ability to capture how love really feels." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato A- |
Alligator (1980) |
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Tomato |
Almost Famous (2000) |
"The performances ... have a beautiful, unforced naturalism, and the movie is laced with memorable moments." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B- |
Alone With Her (2007) |
"A Blair Witch Project for the new, surveillance-obsessed millennium." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B |
Along Came a Spider (2001) |
"Along Came a Spider moves at a taut, well-metered pace, one that allows for scenes of psychological excavation." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B- |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"I chuckled a few times at Along Came Polly, if only because Ben Stiller is willing to stoop as low as he can to turn himself into a clown prince of humiliation: the man who would be dork." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato |
An Amazing Couple (2002) |
"Each film stands satisfyingly on its own as a genre piece, but the triplex provides added understanding of character and consequence." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato A- |
Amelie (2001) |
"While Amélie the plucky girl beguiles, Amélie the charming movie, already an international success, seduces." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
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