La Moustache (2005)

"an awfully rickety, hollow exercise in style over substance"

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

"Fun, perfectly realized Ealing Studios outing"

A Love Song for Bobby Long (2004)

"Gabel has potentially challenging material on her hands but her treatment of it feels too hygienic, mistaking tastefulness for subtlety "

Ma Mere (2005)

"...a dispirited affair and often feels like a parody — a decidedly self-serious one — of one of Bertolucci or Pasolini’s boundary-pushing offerings from the ‘70s"

Mad Max (1979)

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Mail Order Wife (2005)

"a simple-minded circle jerk about exploitation, peopled by characters without the least bit of originality, vitality or appeal"

Mighty Aphrodite (1995)

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The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

"Garcia Bernal and de la Serna offer heartfelt, charismatic performances which...give Diaries its simple, enduring appeal."

Oldboy (2005)

"Oldboy is a true-to-form sendup of grittier, more lurid manga fare. This is good news for die-hard fans of the form and teeth-gritting torture for those who are not."

The Other Side of the Bed (2003)

"it’s impossible for me to completely dismiss a movie that features not one but two Spanish women....The rest of [this] sex romp/romantic comedy...can’t be so summarily praised"

Palindromes (2005)

"Nothing's Shocking"

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

"takes all that was so charming about the first Pirates...and amps it up to the wattage of a Looney Tunes cartoon"

Raising Victor Vargas (2003)

"ultimately, it lacks the backbone, the thematic heft, to be anything beyond a sweet redemption story"

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003)

"Revolution... is not just a portrait of a fascinating, paradoxical leader but of a vibrant people and culture long-hidden by our own media."

Showboy (2004)

"a legitimately smart and appealing work"

Spider (2003)

"Cronenberg pieces together a compelling portrait of madness, but one which lacks the poignancy to be a rich, moving character study."

Steamboy (2005)

" In spite of...obvious and unfortunate flaws, if you’re going to see Steamboy do so on the big screen so as to be reminded of the marvels of hand-drawn animation"

A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003)

"a delirious mélange of styles that absorbs us for two solid hours"

A View to a Kill (1985)

"The aging Roger Moore rehashes his somewhat foppish Bond in this sad '80s installment with Grace Jones as a vampish villainess. Awful, and an embarrassment to the Bond mystique."

The Woodsman (2004)

"Bacon’s Walter is a searing creation...breaking through the The Woodsman’s well-behaved exterior to reveal something of the...untrodden depths churning at its heart."