Tomato |
Take (2008) |
"While Take has a few moments of eye-rolling absurdity, the film has a way of slithering under your skin and staying there." |
Mark Peikert |
Tomato |
Taken (2009) |
"Action-movie aficionados know to look forward to Besson’s spatially energized productions, and the new film Taken maintains his high standards." |
Armond White |
Splat |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"Pelham 123 exploits urban anxiety without relief or understanding. Using exacerbation as entertainment, it is simply an I HATE NY ad." |
Armond White |
Splat |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"Really, it’s the same circumstance captured in Bye Bye Birdie, but Lee and Schamus lack a sense of humor." |
Armond White |
Splat |
Talk to Me (2007) |
"'Every stereotype has truth,' says Don Cheadle as Petey Greene. That fallacy ruins Talk to Me." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Taxidermia (2009) |
"Pálfi’s skill at making something as churlishly repulsive as a scene of self-mummification completely mesmerizing is a testament to his unparalleled dedication to imaginary grotesques." |
Simon Abrams |
Tomato |
Teeth (2008) |
"A twisted inversion of the standard rampaging murderer story." |
Eric Kohn |
Tomato |
Tekkon Kinkreet (2007) |
"Borrowing in equal measures from innocuous child fantasies and Street Fighter, the colorfully imaginative world of Tekkonkinkreet has its fair share of marvels." |
Eric Kohn |
Splat |
Tell No One (2008) |
"All the clues make sense when pieced together -- but only on the surface." |
Simon Abrams |
Splat |
The Ten (2007) |
"Lacking a steady hand, this flimsy amalgam of bad jokes is without form and void." |
Eric Kohn |
Tomato |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"McG’s boyish sensationalism is inoffensive, justified by paying attention to how Wright preserves an unlikely human essence. Worthington is a find." |
Armond White |
Splat |
Tetro (2009) |
"Clearly, Coppola needs to re-read O’Neill and stop trying to be Soderbergh." |
Armond White |
Splat |
The Clone Wars (2008) |
"Apart from the new ground Ahsoka breaks as the first female Jedi, The Clone Wars is a pointless experiment in computer-generated (CG) animation." |
Simon Abrams |
Tomato |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"[Director] Ruzowitzky’s straightforward approach to this unusual story and cinematographer Benedict Neunfels’s documentary-style immediacy transcend the now well-worn Holocaust genre, bringing another side of the tragedy into unflinching focus." |
Raphaela Weissman |
Splat |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) |
"This film is a perfect illustration of how to screw-up a remake despite having a perfect example in front of you." |
Armond White |
Splat |
The Duchess of Langeais (2008) |
"Duchess of Langeais -- compared to an exhilarating neo-New Wave movie like The Witnesses -- is always dull." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
The Signal (2007) |
"The Signal has a cosmic sense of justice that's often hilarious; a sense of irony about the suggestion that we really could amuse ourselves to death." |
Eric Kohn |
Splat |
Then She Found Me (2008) |
"April and Frank are mired in angst, for no discernable reason, other than having the misfortune of being stuck in a downer of a movie." |
Raphaela Weissman |
Splat |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"'No!' is the first word spoken in There Will Be Blood, and it should be the last said in response to Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest pretend epic." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"[Del Toro is] both beast and beauty in a movie that mismanages the idea that life is not a fairy tale." |
Armond White |
Splat |
Thirst (2009) |
"One can’t take Thirst seriously, even with its ironic cha-cha music cues, when Park sets up his usual elaborate sentimental ending -- further variation on his typical self-flagellation and mortification of the flesh." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
This Is England (2007) |
"It’s only a half-great film, which is to say that its best moments are more perceptive and powerful than any other movie this summer." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Time (2007) |
"It’s a strange and subtly told tale that successfully hacks into the desires and fears of most us who are trying to figure out how to make love work -- without sewing it all back together into a nice, pretty package." |
Jerry Portwood |
Tomato |
Tirador (2008) |
"With its gritty but gorgeous visual style, Slingshot confirms Mendoza’s status as a provocateur with talent and ambition to burn." |
Simon Abrams |
Tomato |
Tokyo Sonata (2009) |
"Tokyo Sonata is an Ozuan domestic melodrama and for almost its entire length, it holds together wonderfully as a bleak but rich vision of a contemporary family on the verge of collapse." |
Simon Abrams |
Splat |
Tokyo! (2009) |
"Tokyo! presents a generation of filmmakers who succumb to sodden, dull, solipsistic hipsterism -- not the life force of Boccaccio ‘70 or even 2007’s Paris, Je T’aime." |
Armond White |
Splat |
Tony Manero (2009) |
"Cinephilia -- the smart-about-movies concept about the love of film -- has been so distorted in contemporary movie culture that it has led to the repugnant Chilean film Tony Manero." |
Armond White |
Splat |
Towelhead (2008) |
"Towelhead is the worst movie of its kind since Little Children. It’s another adaptation of a trendy novel’s contrived cynicism ('smartness' in mediaspeak)." |
Armond White |
Splat |
Traitor (2008) |
"Martin sacrifices tough satire for apolitical piety. Traitor could have been called Patriot, but the latter notion is unfashionable." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Transamerica (2005) |
"The most original American movie comedy this year." |
Armond White |
Splat |
Transformers (2007) |
"Too bad the filmmakers don’t let these bots take over the spectacle." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is more proof [Bay] has a great eye for scale and a gift for visceral amazement." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Transporter 3 (2008) |
"Forget the Oscar bait, Transporter 3 is the only movie you need to see this season." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Transsiberian (2008) |
"It may not be relevant or particularly PC, but it is a very entertaining time capsule buried decades after its time." |
Simon Abrams |
Tomato |
Treeless Mountain (2009) |
"Deeply rooted in the perspectives of its ill-fated heroines, Treeless Mountain finds a place in the modern abandoned-child narratives alongside Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop and the inferior period piece Blame It On Fidel." |
Eric Kohn |
Tomato |
Tropic Thunder (2008) |
"Its behind-the-scenes humor sharpens our understanding about how movies exploit history. Stiller sketches comic idiocy so energetically it’s almost disappointing when the film settles into a plot; yet his skits relentlessly expose filmmaker hubris." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Trouble the Water (2008) |
"An impressive document of devotion that miraculously stems from still-festering pain." |
Simon Abrams |
Splat |
Trucker (2009) |
"You want to like Trucker. You really do. But writer-director James Mottern makes it awfully hard with his washed-out, predictable aesthetic." |
Mark Peikert |
Splat |
Trumbo (2008) |
"Myth and piety are the film’s guiding principles -- documenting truth isn’t." |
Armond White |
Splat |
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) |
"Bella’s confusion about the mystery of boys, adrenaline and testosterone matches her confusion about her soul. For Weitz, it’s all just F/X." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Two Lovers (2009) |
"For a movie with the word 'lovers” in the title, Two Lovers may be a dark and dreary affair, but one not without its rewards." |
Mark Peikert |
Splat |
Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) |
"To keep empire building, Perry needs to step up his game. And his new film -- the almost-musical I Can Do Bad All By Myself -- ain’t quite there." |
Armond White |
Splat |
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008) |
"After the enjoyable Why Did I Get Married?, Meet the Browns is a woeful setback." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? (2007) |
"It’s alarming that American film critics alienate themselves from the aspects of Perry’s films that should be universal." |
Armond White |
Tomato |
Tyson (2009) |
"Tyson is a mirror portrait that gets under our skin. Through film, [Director James] Toback achieves what even his mentor Norman Mailer’s magnificent writing on boxing was never able to accomplish." |
Armond White |
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