Tomato 2.5/4 |
P.S. (2004) |
"[Despite] an identity crisis...a surprisingly subtle and pleasantly off-kilter comedy-drama." |
Peter Canavese |
- |
P.S. (2004) |
"Laura Linney on P.S., Kinsey, and Career Highlights" |
Peter Canavese |
- |
P.S. (2004) |
"Dylan Kidd on P.S. and Roger Dodger" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
P.S. I Love You (2007) |
"Butler, though puportedly attractive, gives a chipmunk-chipper performance that can only be described as supremely annoying." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1/4 |
The Pacifier (2005) |
"To those who think critics are too hard on movies...I ask, can you tell the difference between a Pacifier and a School of Rock? Family films don't have to suck." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Painted Veil (2006) |
"Like a long-term relationship, The Painted Veil is well-intentioned and not particularly sexy, but understands duties of forgiveness, sacrifice, and commitment." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Pale Rider (1985) |
"His saddle bag is a mixed one, though Pale Rider still has the touch of quality associated with latter-day Eastwood. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
Palindromes (2005) |
"Palindromes, for all its experimental verve—played out in a deliberate affectless style that becomes its own strange affect—cancels itself out.
" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"A fresh opportunity to revel in the darkly beautiful dreamscapes unleashed by the increasingly masterful del Toro." |
Peter Canavese |
- |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"Guillermo del Toro: 'I see the world like a room where a toddler, a baby, has been surrounded by the most expensive glassware. And those are laws and morality. And then you let him walk.'" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1/4 |
Paparazzi (2004) |
"A sleazy thriller which takes celebrity photo hounds to task for being sleazy...As in Gibson's...Payback, and others, the evil-doers must pay, Old Testament-style..." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Paper Clips (2004) |
"Has powerful moments, mostly courtesy of the Holocaust survivors, but the interviews and narration sound overly coached, and...the film is given to repetitive overstatement." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Paprika (2007) |
"Kon marries visual dazzle to unblinking pop existentialism in ways that make viewers' heads hurt so good." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Paranoid Park (2008) |
"A study in isolation and, yes, paranoia...The mesmerizingly beautiful images--often in slo-mo--glide to evoke Alex's primary pursuit of skating." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Paris, Je T'aime (2007) |
"In the generally deft new anthology film Paris je t'aime, short films are like streetcars." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Passage to India (1984) |
"Lean's visually appealing film frequently connects as a social satire and a mystical melodrama of transgressors looking for footholds in psychically threatening territory." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Passenger (1975) |
"As usual, Antonioni's pace is langorous, but The Passenger is never less than compelling." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Patriot Games (1992) |
"Ford gives one of his most commanding performances outside of a Lucas production, establishing an action formula Ford would repeat...[Blu-Ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 4/4 |
Patton (1970) |
"A bio-epic on the order of Lawrence of Arabia, Patton is a smart, even-handed, fully realized historical film. [Blu-Ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1/4 |
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) |
"The hero is named for a disgusting bodily function that's hardly PG material, but the movie itself seems to be aimed at grade schoolers." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Paycheck (2003) |
"Playful but inconsequential...the interpretation of Dick's intriguing concept is a street which mostly just dead-ends into noisy silliness. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
The Pelican Brief (1993) |
"You'd think that Pakula would be just the man to tease the intellectual and emotional depth out of a Grisham potboiler, but you'd be wrong. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Perfect Crime (2005) |
"Iglesia's comic cautionary tale observes the monsters created by "every man for himself" attitudes." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1/4 |
The Perfect Man (2005) |
"Who would've thought...that the certifiably awful/unaccountably popular Hilary Duff was daring enough to make a movie about having a lesbian relationship with her mother?" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Perfect Storm (2000) |
"An expertly crafted Hollywod entertainment...[constructed] as a series of grippingly fateful 'moments of truth.' [Blu-Ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1/4 |
Perfect Stranger (2007) |
"By the time the big finish rolls around, you'll be too jaded-too worn-down by the endless, pointless red herrings--to muster an interest in whodunnit." |
Peter Canavese |
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) |
"Tom Tykwer: 'Yes, I think there is--we took that idea quite serious: that there is an artist in a very difficult, let's say, in kind of an exaggerated obsessive mode.'" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) |
"By the time the mad finale rolls around, the viewer will feel had, for Perfume grasps for significance where there is none to be found." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Persepolis (2007) |
"So satisfying because it works on a few complimentary levels: as a coming-of-age story tracking innocence to experience, as an accounting of revolutionary and feminist struggles, and as an artful visual experience in cartoon form. [Blu-Ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Pierrot Le Fou (1965) |
"Theirs is, in their own words, 'A story,' 'All mixed up,' and their self-construction mimics that of their true Creator, the ever-experimental auteur Jean-Luc Godard. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Pineapple Express (2008) |
"Despite its rusty mechanics and hodgepodge of tones, Pineapple Express convincingly imitates the mode of Midnight Run: on-the-run odd-couple comedy with gunplay and car chases." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
Ping Pong Playa (2007) |
"One way to break down cultural walls is assimilation, and that's where Ping Pong Playa has its dubious triumph: it's just about as generic as the next 'loser makes good by coaching kids' comedy...[Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Pink Panther (1964) |
"All the ingredients for a great evening at the movies: lively music, eye-catching scenery, larger-than-life comic set pieces, suave men and beautiful women, and odd-man-out Clouseau, played to perfection by the one and only Peter Sellers. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
Pink Panther (2006) |
"Martin's innate verbal panache is the only asset that shows any reliability here. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
The Pink Panther 2 (2009) |
"For those looking for something for the kids in a Mr. Bean vein, there are worse things than Pink Panther 2. But the overall experience remains dispiriting to those of us who remember Peter Sellers." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) |
"Rum should be mandatory for every man, woman, and child misguidedly attempting to make sense of the frantic Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) |
"As if to mock the film's all-trappings, no-sense agenda, Depp's Sparrow gets off the film's sole sign of verbal wit: 'Look! An undead monkey!'" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Planet B-Boy (2008) |
"An independent generation's struggle to be understood by parents, the ravenous hunger to be affirmed as a champion, and the phenomenal creativity, skill, and athleticism of breaking." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 4/4 |
Playtime (1967) |
"Utterly unconventional and strikingly unique; it begs not to be watched in the same manner as a conventional narrative film. Like a great painting, it is meant to be savored, pored over, observed from different angles and revisited in time. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Point Break (1991) |
"Consistently stylish, dumb, and entertaining." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ponyo (2009) |
"Wondrous, weird, and sweetly innocent, Ponyo is a tale bursting with love, which is recommendation enough for the young and the young at heart." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005) |
"All in good fun....In the absence of anything better, it's a fine outing for the young'uns." |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 2/4 |
Poseidon (2006) |
"There's camp, and there's just plain lousy writing." |
Peter Canavese |
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A Prairie Home Companion (2006) |
"Lily Tomlin: 'I had this dream several times once...I was playing on the stage, and it was like--there was a medieval audience...And they were doing everything--talking, drinking, fornicating, everything--in the audience...'" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Prairie Home Companion (2006) |
"A nutty, fictional ode-elegy to a show that's still going strong, A Prairie Home Companion offers a unique hybrid of a folksy American showman and an improvisatory impresario." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) |
"Gabourey Sidibe brilliantly embodies the understandably bitter Precious, who shares her heartbreaking despair through extensive narration." |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3/4 |
Predator (1987) |
"A dumber version of the Alien franchise, but this initial picture works anyway, as an atmospheric exercise in pure, primal action with a science-fiction-y twist. [Blu-Ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Predator 2 (1990) |
"Undeniably bad, but sort of a nice try. [Blu-ray]" |
Peter Canavese |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Prestige (2006) |
"Nolan's supreme confidence, narrative skill, and taste for complexity make for unusually rich popular entertainment. Where was The Prestige this summer when we needed it most?" |
Peter Canavese |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Pretty Persuasion (2005) |
"Nothing is less shocking than a movie that's constantly trying to shock....more bite than bark, but it's all dog." |
Peter Canavese |
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