- |
The A-Team (2009) |
"Sharlto Copley, Jessica Biel Join The A-Team" |
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- |
The Accidental Husband (2009) |
"EW Puts Fall Releases in the Steel Cage" |
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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 |
Splat C |
Adoration (2009) |
"Atom Egoyan's latest glum puzzle is a meditation on post-9/11 hysteria, but it's too much 'What's the meaning of terrorism?' cud chewing too late." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Splat C+ |
Adventureland (2009) |
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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+ |
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 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+ |
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 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 |
Splat D |
All About Steve (2009) |
"Oops, sorry, we're not supposed to think of Mary as mentally ill, psychologically unbalanced, or any of those painful things, just full of gumption and sunny determination." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Splat C+ |
Amelia (2009) |
"Amelia is a frustratingly old-school, Hollywood-style, inspirational biopic about Amelia Earhart that doesn't trust a viewer's independent assessment of the famous woman pictured on the screen." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato A- |
American Swing (2009) |
"A shrewdly made documentary about the rise and fall of Plato's Retreat, the infamous Manhattan sex club of the '70s and '80s." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B+ |
American Violet (2009) |
"An artlessly powerful performance by newcomer Nicole Behaire anchors American Violet, an instructive, sturdily built drama based on a true story worth teaching." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato A- |
Amreeka (2009) |
"The good humor, generosity, and love Dabis bestows on her characters in this assured first feature are uniquely hers -- the mark of a talent to watch" |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
- |
An Education (2009) |
"Carey Mulligan: An Education in Oscar Buzz" |
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- |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"Angels & Demons Lands Female Lead" |
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Tomato B- |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"Angels & Demons barrels along with a confidence -- and, more fundamentally, a pulse -- missing from director Ron Howard's first encounter with the best-selling novels of Dan Brown." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Splat C |
The Answer Man (2009) |
"Arlen's salvation plays out with tender cloying predictability, though Lauren Graham, as the chiropractor who falls for him, has more spark than the movie deserves." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Splat |
Antichrist (2009) |
"It's one good-looking, publicity-grabbing provocation, with an overlay of pseudo-Christian allegory thrown in to deflect a reasonable person's accusations of misogyny." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Splat C |
Antichrist (2009) |
"The impotent folly of Antichrist is that von Trier has made it his mission to shock the bourgeoisie in an era when they can no longer be shocked." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato A |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
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Tomato A |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"It's a hilarious, and unexpectedly moving, documentary about the greatest metal band you've probably never heard of." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Splat C+ |
Armored (2009) |
"Alas, Armored is one predictable and forgettable movie that should consider itself very lucky not to have gone straight to DVD." |
Clark Collis |
Tomato B |
Art & Copy (2009) |
"An entertaining but also oddly naive documentary about American advertising." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B |
Astro Boy (2009) |
"Astro Boy is a marvelously designed piece of cartoon kinetics, with the pleasing soft colors and rounded-metal tactility of an atomic-age daydream." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B |
Avatar (2009) |
"As visual spectacle, Avatar is indelible, but as a movie it all but evaporates as you watch it." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B- |
Away We Go (2009) |
"A gilded entry in the cinema du quirk. It's a movie that invites you, all too often, to feel superior to the people on screen. Yet it's been designed, shot, and edited with unusual finesse, and the two main characters are fresh screen types." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Splat C |
Adam Resurrected (2008) |
"The director, Paul Schrader, tries for cleansing audacity, but ends up too close to farce." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Splat C |
An American Carol (2008) |
"Only you can decide whether you're in the mood to wade through the smear of stink jokes and political ravings." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Splat C- |
American Teen (2008) |
Click here to see the review. |
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- |
American Teen (2008) |
"Nanette Burstein Is Going the Distance" |
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Tomato A- |
American Teen (2008) |
"The players are timelessly familiar in American Teen. But filmmaker Nanette Burstein tells their stories with a distinctly 21st-century pop and audacity that makes this latest version of Fast Times at My So-Called Happy Days High a timely pleasure." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Tomato B |
Appaloosa (2008) |
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Tomato B- |
Appaloosa (2008) |
"Appaloosa is a pleasingly spacious piece of work, but for all of its little tangles it never musters the kick of a psychological duel." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato A- |
August (2008) |
"Anyone who thinks that Josh Hartnett isn't a true movie star should see his riveting, high-wire performance in August, a shrewdly dramatized look back at the bursting of the dot-com bubble." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Splat C- |
Australia (2008) |
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Splat C- |
Australia (2008) |
"Missing the 'e' in epic, the filmmaker has produced a labored pic, weighed down by the very artifice that is traditionally his specialty." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Splat D- |
The Abandoned (2007) |
"The movie sinks so deep into deathly atmosphere that there's no life to it." |
Owen Gleiberman |
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 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+ |
Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
"It's hard not to grin and admit that, yes, this is almost an art form." |
Owen Gleiberman |
Tomato B |
Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) |
"Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem is a B movie that truly earns its B." |
Chris Nashawaty |
Tomato B- |
Alone With Her (2007) |
"A Blair Witch Project for the new, surveillance-obsessed millennium." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Splat C |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat C |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"Cassavetes (The Notebook) throws in everything he can recycle to grab a core-demo viewer -- slutty teens making out, blaring rock music, guns, split screens." |
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
Splat C |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat C+ |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"It leaves the blood unstirred." |
Gregory Kirschling |
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