Tomato |
Mad Detective (2008) |
"It may make no sense to throw logic out the window, but that’s exactly what makes Detective such an unhinged blast." |
Simon Abrams |
Tomato |
Made in U.S.A. (1966) |
"Made in U.S.A. is a tonic experience; its style is both vibrant and severe like Godard’s 1985 Detective. But it’s also Godard’s most soulful movie." |
Armond White |
Splat |
Mamma Mia! (2008) |
"The new film version of the Broadway musical Mamma Mia! seems to be made by people who have no instinctive connection to pop music." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
The Man of My Life (2007) |
"The most visually resplendent movie so far this year (photographed by Michel Amathieu), yet it lacks the rich balance of sex and intellect that makes an André Téchiné film great." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Man On Wire (2008) |
"Marsh’s film may not probe very deeply into Petit’s character, or try to conjecture what his accomplishment means in a post-9/11 environment, but it does make for a wonderful caper, which is exactly how Petit envisioned it." |
Simon Abrams |
Splat |
Margot at the Wedding (2007) |
"Noah Bambauch makes it easy to dislike his films. Problem is, he also makes it easy for New York’s media elite to praise them." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Match Point (2005) |
"Imperfect yet significant." |
Matt Zoller Seitz |
Splat |
Max Payne (2008) |
"Max Payne is one of those ludicrous action movies based on a videogame that’s all style and little substance." |
Mark Peikert |
Tomato |
Memorial Day (2009) |
"Fox’s directorial debut is a strangely fascinating piece of misguided intentions, a crooked attempt to editorialize on the ugliest aspects of human nature gone awry." |
Eric Kohn |
Splat |
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |
"It’s smugness -- unleavened by wit -- that makes Goats so offensive." |
Armond White |
Splat |
The Messenger (2009) |
"So bungled up with fashionable ambivalence about the Iraq War that every single behavioral detail is not just prejudicial but wrong." |
Armond White |
Splat |
Michael Clayton (2007) |
"Hipster filmmakers keep looking backwards to the 1970s, hoping to disguise how ill-equipped they are to deal with contemporary social issues." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) |
"Spielberg’s failure to engage Jackson on a movie-musical project (Peter Pan or Earth Song or Childhood) deprived the world of a possible Minnelli-level masterpiece." |
Armond White |
Splat |
A Mighty Heart (2007) |
"Nothing in A Mighty Heart conveys the magnanimity of its title." |
Armond White |
Splat |
Milk (2008) |
"A bizarre manipulation of the gay political impulse." |
Armond White |
Splat |
Milton Glaser: To Inform & Delight (2009) |
"Unfortunately, the portrait first-time director Wendy Keys paints of the 80-year-old is more about myth building than anything else." |
Jerry Portwood |
Splat |
Miracle at St. Anna (2008) |
"As another example of Lee settling scores, it ruins its own premise by attempting to out-do Saving Private Ryan." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Missing Person (2009) |
"Why has The Missing Person persisted in staying with me, even though I started craving The Big Sleep halfway through?" |
Mark Peikert |
Splat |
Mister Foe (2008) |
"In his attempt to make the audience sympathize with Hallam, [director] Mackenzie uses the cheapest trick in the book: attempting to give the audience a link into his head with a manic soundtrack." |
Simon Abrams |
Splat |
Mister Lonely (2008) |
"Mister Lonely is an offshoot of our celebrity-mad culture, like the National Enquirer morphing into The Maury Povich Show." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Momma's Man (2008) |
"Within its modest docudrama style, Momma’s Man addresses universal experience as presumptuously as does a mainstream Pop epic." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Monika (1952) |
"A fully realized Bergman psychodrama, rather than an early model for his later work." |
Benjamin Sutton |
Splat |
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) |
"Just because digital 3-D technology is improving doesn’t mean animated movies are getting better." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Moon (2009) |
"Co-writer/director Duncan Jones’ debut feature Moon is a modest but nonetheless exciting bit of (derivative) speculative fiction." |
Simon Abrams |
Splat |
Mother of Tears (2008) |
"The best thing about Dario Argento’s The Mother of Tears is that it ends." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Motherhood (2009) |
"Revealing the contradictions of this postfeminist age, Motherhood is good enough to recall Up the Sandbox, the elegant and eccentric 1972 response to feminism, race, class and media..." |
Armond White |
Splat |
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) |
"Uninspired despite its various attempts to find inspiration, Magorium is itself like a toy: Shiny, mystifying and completely expendable." |
Eric Kohn |
Splat |
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) |
"Screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar stuff Dragon Emperor with the same kind of disjointed details that almost ruined the jubilantly preposterous atmosphere of the conspiracy theory hokum in David Koepp’s Crystal Skull screenplay." |
Simon Abrams |
Tomato |
Must Read After My Death (2009) |
"As much as it is a peek behind the closed doors of a marriage, Must Read After My Death is a grotesque glimpse into how a medley of therapists operating from their own prejudices did more to hinder than help this unhappy family." |
Felicia Feaster |
Tomato |
My Best Friend (2007) |
"There’s always an element of humane piquancy -- sort of like a twist of lemon in a soft drink or espresso -- that makes you feel you aren’t simply watching product." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
My Blueberry Nights (2008) |
"In My Blueberry Nights, Wong Kar-wai’s first American-set, English-language film -- and his first feature shot on video -- the Hong Kong filmmaker has achieved a ravishing, triple triumph." |
Armond White |
Splat |
My Blueberry Nights (2008) |
"Although sincerely interested in exploring New York isolation, Nights relies too heavily on a stilted performance from singer Norah Jones and the cheesy romantic babbling of her off-kilter romantic interest (Jude Law)." |
Eric Kohn |
Tomato |
My Brother Is An Only Child (2006) |
"[Director] Luchetti understands that the soul of Italy is found in its disparate people -- its brothers -- and particularly in its cinema tradition. Luchetti strides in the footpath of giants." |
Armond White |
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My Life on Ice |
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Armond White |
Tomato |
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2009) |
"Somehow, even as writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber slathers on the voiceover ooze or unwittingly evokes Sophie’s Choice with his central romantic triangle, he still manages to astonish with The Mysteries of Pittsburgh." |
Mark Peikert |
Splat |
Mystery Team (2009) |
"If this is the future of comedy in Hollywood, then there’s little to fear -- as long as everyone remembers that brevity is the soul of wit." |
Mark Peikert |
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