Tomato 3.5/4 |
Callas Forever (2004) |
"It's an odd little film with tremendous appeal. It's almost as if Zeffirelli ... has dug up a late-'70s time capsule to share with the world." |
Larry Ratliff |
Splat 2.5/4 |
El Cantante (2007) |
"Despite pulsating to a hot, hot, hot salsa beat, El Cantante is often a mess, mess, mess." |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 4/4 |
Capote (2005) |
"Philip Seymour Hoffman gets under the skin of late legendary author Truman Capote. So much so, in fact, that Hoffman ceases to exist and Capote is born again." |
Larry Ratliff |
Splat 1/1 |
Captivity (2007) |
"With the exception of ramming my head into a brick wall, then backing up and repeating the exercise, I can't think of anything I'd rather not be doing on a Friday afternoon." |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 3/4 |
Caramel (2008) |
"I like the way (Nadine) Labaki brings character depth to everyone in her sizable ensemble." |
Larry Ratliff |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Cars (2006) |
"A warning light came on in my head when I noticed that Cars has more credited screenwriters (six) than many cars have pistons (four)." |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 3/4 |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"Craig, Paul Newman's fidgety son in Road to Perdition and excellent recently opposite Toby Jones in Infamous, gives his all to one of the most iconic roles in movie history." |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"Even through the lens of director Phillip Noyce's sympathetic camera eye, it's impossible to keep the term 'terrorist' at bay while watching Catch a Fire." |
Larry Ratliff |
Splat 2/4 |
The Cave (2005) |
"It may dredge up a few frights, but for the most part The Cave is a spelunker clunker." |
Larry Ratliff |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Chalk (2007) |
"Like the teaching profession, Chalk is at times tedious and rewarding." |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 3/4 |
Changeling (2008) |
"Most filmmakers begin their careers hungry and looking for every possible nuance to improve their film. In his 78th year and with 35 of them under his belt as a filmmaker, Eastwood still has plenty of creative steam. ... This is no victory-lap production" |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"(Johnny) Depp, unparalleled when it comes to stepping out on a thin limb of eccentricity, commits fully to one of the screen's most memorable characters." |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 4/4 |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"The Russians are going, the Russians are going" |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 3/4 |
Chicago 10 (2008) |
"Chicago 10 brandishes enough sickening reality (Chicago police clubbing protestors, etc.) to make the audience gasp with astonishment." |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 3/4 |
Chicken Little (2005) |
"Oddly enough, Walt Disney Pictures breaks through the glass ceiling of modern animation with a tale about the sky falling." |
Larry Ratliff |
Splat 1/4 |
Christmas with the Kranks (2004) |
"Skipping Christmas will earn you a reputation as a modern-day Scrooge. Passing on Christmas With the Kranks ... makes you a wise holiday-movie consumer." |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 4/4 |
Cinderella Man (2005) |
"To say that this is the finest effort ever for the director of Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind is to praise an orchestration of true magnificence." |
Larry Ratliff |
Splat 1.5/4 |
A Cinderella Story (2004) |
"What we have here is a failure to communicate anything the least bit interesting unless you're under 10 and this is your first cinematic rodeo" |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 3/4 |
City of Men (2008) |
"City of Men, in Portuguese with subtitles, never quite achieves the dramatic impact of the Oscar-nominated drama that inspired it." |
Larry Ratliff |
Splat 2/4 |
The Clearing (2004) |
"The Clearing, rather fuzzy in so many ways, is an incredibly slow-moving exercise in tedium." |
Larry Ratliff |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Click (2006) |
"Click goes clunk when the screenwriters lather on the sentiment too thick" |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 3/4 |
Closer (2004) |
"Underneath the hard-hitting wordplay lurks a crafty relationship drama. Complex and challenging, it plays out like a game of championship chess." |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 3/4 |
Coach Carter (2005) |
"With the possible exception of Tommy Lee Jones, no one is better suited to dish out stone-faced, my-way-or-the-highway discipline than Jackson." |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Collateral (2004) |
"Collateral, even though cowboyed up with implausible action in a couple of pivotal scenes, is that rarest of thriller. In this one, words can also kill.
" |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Color Purple (1985) |
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Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Constant Gardener (2005) |
"As (Fiennes) straps on toughness, courage and understanding, he is also molding one of his finest performances." |
Larry Ratliff |
Splat 2/4 |
Constantine (2005) |
"A movie like Constantine is a huge undertaking. ... This is a vast canvas encompassing two worlds. It cries out for an experienced director, not a first-timer.
" |
Larry Ratliff |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Côte d'Azur (2004) |
"Bollywood musical revelry mixes with vaudeville's grand tradition of slamming doors to accent the comedy and emotional chaos." |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 4/4 |
Crash (2005) |
"This is one beguiling ride though what drives us emotionally and what dark, sorrowful detours we sometime swerve into.
" |
Larry Ratliff |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Cronicas (2005) |
"Shot on location in two villages of the filmmaker's native country, Crónicas seethes with authenticity, suspense and drama." |
Larry Ratliff |
Splat |
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) |
"As much as I admired Benjamin Button's gimmicks, the excellent makeup and a sometimes-mesmerizing emotional journey, I just couldn't shoo away the obvious Forrest Gump similarities. Roth leans on them too strongly as a screenplay crutch." |
Larry Ratliff |
Splat 2/4 |
Cursed (2005) |
"When the violence-filled, snarling creature-fest appears to be over, there's another act to go. It should have quit when it was almost a hoot.
" |
Larry Ratliff |
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