Tomato 7/10 |
The Wackness (2008) |
"Parallel yet intertwined older and younger generations, and a real girl, set this above the usual young dudes genre, changing from comic to romantic to poignant and back." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Tomato 3/5 |
A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007) |
"The result of the interviews is the most vivid, and perhaps most damning, portrait of Warhol seen on film." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3/5 |
Walk on Water (2005) |
"Whether it veers toward cloak-and-dagger espionage, gay agitprop, or even comedy..., this drama never flags, although much of what develops is hardly surprising." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The War Tapes (2006) |
"As a chronicle of the war in Iraq, so far The War Tapes has no equal in candor or in its access to the front lines." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato '2.75/5' |
The War Within (2005) |
"The film sidesteps a more illusive and thornier issue - the psychological sense of victimization among Muslims." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 8/11 |
Water Lilies (2007) |
"Frankly and sensitively packs in a lot of teen girls' yearning for conformity above the water line and down below%u2013 pressure, insecurity, romance, and sexual exploration." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Tomato 3/5 |
We Live in Public (2009) |
"The film has a train-wreck fascination about it." |
Kent Turner |
Splat '2.25/5' |
The Weeping Meadow (2004) |
"It's like looking at a technically-polished painting, but not being fully drawn in." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 7/10 |
Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub (2008) |
"Entertainingly builds a convincing case for the club's significance as a NYC outlet for the politically-conscious interplay of Americana rock, folk, and hip-hop." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Splat 0/4 |
What the Bleep Do We Know? (2004) |
"A complete waste of time, energy and film." |
Phil Hall |
Tomato 6/10 |
What We Do Is Secret (2008) |
"West is magnetic trying to fill the gaps in the pop psychology insight into how the Germs' brief candle burned out so fast, with performances, "interviews" and flashbacks." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
When the Sea Rises (2006) |
"The film's intimacy is not unlike the similarly wistful romance on the road Lost in Translation or the fanciful My Summer of Love." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 2.75/5 |
Where The Truth Lies (2005) |
"In a refreshing departure from most 'making of' featurettes, this ... fly-on-the-wall look moves at a fast pace and captures the cast and crew with their guards down." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3/5 |
Who Killed Bambi (2004) |
"Perhaps not since 1978's Coma has a hospital stay been scarier." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3/5 |
Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock? (2006) |
"Who needs a piercingly satiric mockumentary when you have this lively documentary's broad, real-life personalities?" |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 2.75/5 |
Why We Fight (2006) |
"...dense, wide-ranging..." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3/5 |
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005) |
"Its amicability and bittersweet tone will charm more than just bird lovers." |
Kent Turner |
Splat '2.25/5' |
The Wild Side (2005) |
"The film explains why Stéphanie and her bisexual boyfriends need each other, but doesn't depict why they are drawn to each other, making the ménage à trois mechanical." |
Kent Turner |
Splat 4/10 |
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe (2010) |
"A fond introduction to the activist lawyer by his daughters that may be more informative for their generation given that it covers little new ground." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007) |
"Wind's not necessarily for the armchair historian; it's more gut-wrenching than intellectual." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 3.25/5 |
Winter Soldier (1972) |
"No matter one's politics, this grainy black-and-white documentary can't fail but be convincing %u2013 and harrowing." |
Kent Turner |
Splat 5/10 |
The Witnesses (2008) |
"Best when it turns from bed-hopping into a docudrama, but its effort to personalize the AIDS crisis is not emotionally convincing as the characters lose their individuality." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Tomato 2.75/5 |
A Woman in Berlin (2008) |
"[Nina Hoss], one of Germany's rising stars, delivers ... the complexity that the film, layered with tangled relationships, seeks." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 8/10 |
A Woman in Berlin (2008) |
"[C]reates complex, three-dimensional men and women, Germans and Russians, who are each victims of political propaganda and the horrors of a brutal, total war." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Tomato 8/10 |
Wonderful Town (2007) |
"Unique setting and affecting individualized characters impart a contemporary and jarring ache to the traditional tale of the city boy and the country girl." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Wonderland (2003) |
"Wonderland remains too subjective and doesn’t probe deep enough." |
Kent Turner |
Tomato 6/10 |
The World Unseen (2008) |
"When dialogue and pacing get bogged down in L Word soap opera and the rich social context in S. Africa fades to mostly background, the appealing cast holds the eye." |
Nora Lee Mandel |
Tomato 2.75/5 |
The World's Fastest Indian (2005) |
"It's [Hopkin's take-it-or-leave-it] attitude that undercuts the hokum and preciousness, though just barely." |
Kent Turner |
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