Tomato 3/5 |
Madame Sata (2003) |
"Actor Ramos brings an extraordinary intensity and focus to this contradictory role, changing emotions and actions on a dime." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Mafioso (1962) |
"Even some 40 years after it was made, Mafioso packs heat." |
Kent Turner |
Splat 2.5/5 |
A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
"Waiting for More's breaking point provides the only thread of suspense." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3.45/5 |
Man On Wire (2008) |
"Warning: this film will produce vertigo." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Maria Full of Grace (2004) |
"Writer/director Joshua Marston has created an almost Dickensian tale with a refreshingly empathetic protagonist." |
Kent Turner |
Splat 2/5 |
Marie Antoinette (2006) |
"The film deflates the reason why she is a compelling figure, if at all. Her courage during her confinement, %u2026 and her ultimate death made her an honorary member of the Dead Blonde Hall of Fame. Her victimization made her an icon." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Married Life (2008) |
"[Pierce] Brosnan, by the way, should be happy to have left the bonds of being Bond if he continues picking roles this wisely." |
Kent Turner |
Splat 2/5 |
Me and Orson Welles (2009) |
"Linklater doesn't give his cast the extra shot of adrenaline it badly needs%u2014the direction to pick up the pace." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato '2.75/5' |
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
"proudly quirky and optimistic" |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3/5 |
Mean Creek (2004) |
"Instead of shock, the effect [director] Estes successfully achieves is empathy." |
Kent Turner |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Meeting Resistance (2007) |
"Filmed during the first year of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, Meeting Resistance suffers from the same problem as the Iraq-set feature film The Situation %u2013 timeliness." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato '3/5' |
The Memory of a Killer (2005) |
"Belgium viewers of this crime thriller would have undoubtedly been reminded of serial killer Marc Dutroux." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Memory Thief (2008) |
"A thoughtful, creative, and disturbing way to treat the numbness of Holocaust and genocide fatigue, through striking images of a man's bizarre transformation and obsession." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Mid-August Lunch (2009) |
"A charmer that's a sleeper in the making" |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Midnight Express (1978) |
"Director Alan Parker's right. His 1978 riveting prison drama still holds up." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3/5 |
A Mighty Heart (2007) |
"Hollywood's biggest star of the moment and weekly tabloid cover girl doesn't overwhelm the film adaptation of Mariane Pearl's biography." |
Kent Turner |
Splat 2/5 |
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) |
"The film substitutes speed for camaraderie and cleverness." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3/5 |
Mongolian Ping Pong (2006) |
"The film's sly charms sneak up on you, if the beautiful and frequently breathtaking vistas of the wind-swept steppes haven't gotten to you first." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 2.75/5 |
Monsieur Ibrahim (2004) |
"[Pierre] Boulanger joins Keisha Castle-Hughes of Whale Rider as one of this year's strongest juvenile performers." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3/5 |
Moolaade (2004) |
"Rousing without preaching, this is an effortlessly compelling story that doesn’t resort to graphic violence." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Mother (2004) |
"Cold, caustic, polite, and understated, The Mother is undeniably British." |
Kent Turner |
Splat 2/5 |
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) |
"Overall the film is like a series of pretty postcards with poor people - Masterpiece Theatre for Marxists - offering little in political insight." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 9/10 |
Moving Midway (2008) |
"Cheshire deftly interweaves different interpretations of the antebellum South, through architecture, family memories (black and white), history, and popular culture." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Tomato '3.5/5' |
Murderball (2005) |
"In one shot, the directors may have inadvertently made the year's most political film." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3.50/5 |
Murderous Maids (2002) |
"Sylvie Testud is nothing less than ferocious...Even in her stillness, she’s compelling." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 9/10 |
Must Read After My Death (2009) |
"One of the most sympathetic and revealing portraits of a suburban woman in crisis ever made in any medium." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
My Best Friend (2007) |
"Startlingly, the film embraces male friendship without any sign of a wink or a nod to gay panic." |
Kent Turner |
Splat 2.5/5 |
My Brother Is An Only Child (2006) |
"If the political backdrop is not alienating, Accio's actions might be. As he swings from one side of the pendulum to the other, he remains at arm's length" |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 6/10 |
My Father My Lord (2008) |
"Overemphasizes the parents' rigidities in detailed portrait of Ultra-Orthodox, but this family is three-dimensionally human through beautiful hand-held cinematography." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Tomato 6/10 |
My Father My Lord (2008) |
"Unusually intimate portrait of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family in Jerusalem, from the perspective of a restless young boy, but overemphasizes the parents' rigidities." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
My Kid Could Paint That (2007) |
"My Kid Could Paint That is a welcome return to ambiguity in the documentary, while posing perhaps the year's most intriguing mystery." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3/5 |
My Mother's Smile (2005) |
"Bellocchio famously took on the Catholic Church and the Italian family in his frenetic first film ... Now 40 years later, Bellocchio's attack on the same institutions is calmer and more temperate." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 9/10 |
My Neighbor, My Killer (2009) |
"An intimate, nuanced and engrossing look at the implementation of an indigenous, grassroots approach to judging man's inhumanity to man." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Tomato '3.5/5' |
My Summer of Love (2005) |
"What begins as a boozy and desultory love affair winds down to a powerful and suspenseful finish." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3/5 |
My Winnipeg (2008) |
"Poignancy might be the last thing you'd expect from this film" |
Kent Turner |
Splat 4/10 |
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (2009) |
"Sarsgaard revels in a character who attracts all eyes and mouths, but the narration is too much of an explanatory crutch to parse the roundelay of identity exploration." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Tomato 3/5 |
Mysterious Skin (2005) |
"Mysterious Skin makes Midnight Cowboy look tame in comparison." |
Kent Turner |
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