Tomato 3.5/4 |
Caché (2005) |
"Haneke's exploration of willful ignorance, guilt, and history takes hold, and doesn't quite let go when the lights come up." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Caligula (1979) |
"More infamous for its widespread ineptitude than for its artistic innovation... [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
Callas Forever (2004) |
"The Carmen sequences, though consistent with Callas Forever's washed-out '70s look, have a beauty and immediacy which the rest of the film lacks." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
Camp Rock (2008) |
"[A] derisive discussion of 'stupid cookie-cutter pop star stuff' is more than a little ironic in this Radio Disney petri dish, but at least the Jonas Brothers are a class act." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Capote (2005) |
"Radiating serpentine self-absorption, Philip Seymour Hoffman embodies a youthful Truman Capote. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cars (2006) |
"Even if Cars isn't the studio's champion outing, Pixar continues to run on all cylinders." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cartoon Adventures Starring Gerald McBoing Boing (1950) |
"Rhyming narration and highly-stylized disproportionate designs distinguished the theatrical cartoon[s]....colorful divertissements for kids." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Casanova (2005) |
"A modern romantic comedy movie transplanted to 18th Century Venice...Hallstrom's fleet-footed romp is impossible to take seriously, but that's largely the point." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Cashback (2007) |
"Cashback's eccentricity holds, but Ellis and his audience would have benefited from a clearer direction and a bit more restraint." |
Peter Canavese |
- |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"2005 Daniel Craig Interview" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"Everyone's favorite British agent is still good for a punch, a shag, and a quip...Casino Royale gives the reborn franchise a second chance to grow up." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
Cassandra's Dream (2008) |
"Two years after Match Point, Allen delivers another London-set murder melodrama, with diminishing returns. [DVD]" |
Peter Canavese |
- |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"Tim Robbins, Phillip Noyce, and Shawn and Robyn Slovo: [Robbins:] 'That Afrikaaner policeman...was made out to be the bad guy when in fact the people that set the policy wound up in mansions with very large pensions.'" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"Plays like a political Heat, but for the sake of the scrupulously researched social history, a bit of artificially induced pulse-pounding can be forgiven." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
The Cave (2005) |
"Now that Hollywood has manufactured enough Alien clones to fill a wall at Blockbuster, who needs another?" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Cavite (2006) |
"a fresh bid for indie-thriller cred....[but] watching Gamazon and Dela Llana charge through their limitations is a bit like watching a sprinter run in clogs." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Cellular (2004) |
"We here at New Line Cellular...have the plan for you!...92 inflexible real-time minutes that are sure to pump up your fast-paced, action-packed lifestyle." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Changeling (2008) |
"A fascinating true-crime story, elegant period detail, and Clint Eastwood's consummate filmmaking technique mask [that]...Changeling lacks enough grit and intellect to convert moody melodrama into thoughtful drama." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"Never stops doling out demented treats....Dahl's morality play of bad parenting and bad-egg kids is evergreen....a genuinely amazing movie." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Charlie Bartlett (2007) |
"Honors the neuroses of high school while also holding out the hope every teen needs..." |
Peter Canavese |
- |
Charlie the Ox (2004) |
"Jon Polito on Charlie the Ox and Career Highlights" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"A Bizarro-world Frank Capra picture...Though the story deserves more weight...still a pleasing, unusually smart, consistently witty mass entertainment." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Charlotte's Web (2006) |
"Competence and a core faithfulness are enough to communicate the simple charms of E.B. White's perennial children's novel." |
Peter Canavese |
- |
Che (2008) |
"Soderbergh: 'Americans get accused of being philistines when it comes to art...This is the only place in the world that audiences are seeing the Roadshow Version, because all the distributors everywhere else in the world said, "Nobody in our country will" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Che (2008) |
"A complex production mounted, with confidence and a scrupulous eye for detail, by one of our great American filmmakers." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Che, Part One (2008) |
"A revolutionary procedural." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Che, Part Two (2008) |
"Can be dry, but it's never less than interesting, well filmed and honestly acted." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Cheaper By the Dozen 2 (2005) |
"Okay, everybody, back to your shopping--there's nothing to see here." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Cheers - The Complete Seventh Season (1988) |
"A typical season of Cheers, which is to say 'excellent.'" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Cheri (2009) |
"Doesn't so much get anything wrong; it just fails to go oh so right." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Children of Men (2006) |
"In Cuarón's highly-skilled hands, Children of Men continuously threatens to develop into something more fascinating than it is." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Children of the Corn (1984) |
"It's a--look, it has to be said--corny "B" horror flick with a certain je ne sais WTF about it. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
- |
Choke (2008) |
"Sam Rockwell: '[We] talked about Harold and Maudeas a tone. Fisher King, I brought that up. And then Alfie and Five Easy Pieces and a few others...We wanted something realistic but funny...moving and emotionally deep.'" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Chorus (2005) |
"A conspicuously charming kids' film [but] adults who slobber over The Chorus are kidding themselves if they think it's sophisticated, realistic, or original." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
A Christmas Tale (2008) |
"In working to keep the audience off-center...Desplechin artfully makes the well-worn family weekend plot endearing again." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
Christmas with the Kranks (2004) |
"A mildly abrasive satire of America's holiday lockstepping [which backpedals] desperately into toothless humanism." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) |
"Adamson is willing to jettison Lewis' "quaint" (I'd say loveable) whimsy and mythical acumen in favor of more martial sequences that'll sucker in the Lord of the Rings crowd." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) |
"Though Adamson lacks Lewis' storytelling confidence...The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe still comes across as a quirkily diverting children's entertainment." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1/4 |
Chronicles of Riddick (2004) |
"Vainly attempts to elevate Riddick into a mythological hero in a political-intrigue contest meant to be Dune in an action context, though it's a lot more like Stargate in a crap context. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cinderella Man (2005) |
"Cinderella Man may not be subtle, but it's reminiscent of the well-crafted popular entertainments of Hollywood's Golden Age, blarney and all. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) |
"Gothic pop...a ripping yarn for the big screen..." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cirque Du Soleil - Corteo (2006) |
"Corteo is classic Cirque du Soleil, a multilingual paegant of music, dance, acrobatics, gymnastics, and clowning...the ingenious production design run with highly refined coordination." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cirque du Soleil - The Anniversary Collection (2005) |
"A bargain for lovers of splashy, outre entertainment." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
CJ7 (2008) |
"He knows he's the hundredth director to rip off E.T.: he's just going to do it better, and with jokes fit for a vintage Warner Brothers cartoon. [Blu-Ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Class (2008) |
"A great achievement in cinematic realism...when conflict arises, and it frequently does, the filmmakers refuse to instruct us on who's right and who's wrong, making the film its own kind of Socratic lecture. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
- |
The Class (2008) |
"Laurent Cantet: 'There is a domestication--that when you go out of a school, you have to behave like society wants you to behave...Politically speaking, I wouldn't accept it very easily, but I have to admit I've been socialized by school too.'" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Clerks II (2006) |
"Makes a surprisingly convincing case for Dante and Randal as characters worthy of a revisit once a decade." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Closer (2004) |
"Strangers becoming lovers, lovers becoming estranged: the paradox of oh-so-modern coupling keeps the home fires burning in Patrick Marber's astringent Closer." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Cloverfield (2008) |
"The mysteriously titled project might just as well have been called "9/11: The Thrill Ride," so thoroughly does it trade on our emotions of that disaster. [Blu-Ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
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