Splat B- |
Caché (2005) |
"The early sequences’ chilling suspense winds up getting hidden amidst its crowded, clumsy allegorical concerns." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Calvaire (2005) |
"A glossy rehash that's far less interesting and frightening than the classics upon which it's unimaginatively modeled." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Cannibal Ferox (1981) |
"The most shocking thing about Cannibal Ferox is that it remains a somewhat popular entry in the largely worthless Italian cannibal genre." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D |
Cannibal Holocaust (1980) |
"The actual savages involved with Cannibal Holocaust are the ones behind the camera." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
Capote (2005) |
"Redeemed by Hoffman, who magnificently captures the shrill, needy egotism of the legendary author." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"The first Bond film to actually prize three-dimensional characters and moral dilemmas over action-film flash." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Cat Chaser (1990) |
"A butchered mess of a movie that only superficially resembles the Elmore Leonard novel on which it's based." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D |
Catwoman (2004) |
"An avalanche of de-clawed idiocy." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Cecil B. Demented (2000) |
"Mildly scabrous." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Changeling (2008) |
"There are three or four movies competing for attention within Changeling, and unfortunately for Clint Eastwood, they're all equally dreadful melodramatic drivel." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"Neither [Roberts] nor her illustrious co-stars can compensate for a facile screenplay without many laughs or insights into our government's inner workings." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Che (2008) |
"A strikingly constructed, handsomely HD-filmed museum display piece." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Choke (2008) |
"Aside from a few choice sequences, Gregg's script largely comes up short on the transgressive or poignant front." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
A Christmas Tale (2008) |
"A Christmas Tale's expansive stew of physical and psychological illness, death, betrayal, longing, religion, and ritual ultimately proves invigoratingly lush." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
City of Men (2008) |
"Utilizes its slum locale not for inquisitive sociological inquiry but blah melodrama and stereotypical gangster histrionics." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
CJ7 (2008) |
"Lacks any convincing magic or heart." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
The Class (2008) |
"Boasting a clarity and consistency of vision that's as bracing as its naturalistic performances, [The Class] is vigorous, incisive, immediate." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Closer (2004) |
"Competently acted, theatrically staged." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Code 46 (2004) |
"A luxurious sight to behold." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Code Unknown (2001) |
"[Haneke's] socio-political condemnations assume an aggressively hectoring tone." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D |
Cold Creek Manor (2003) |
"Supremely listless and scare-free nonsense." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Cold Mountain (2003) |
"Something to mildly admire rather than embrace." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
Collateral (2004) |
"Enjoyably unbelievable." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) |
"Mind-numbingly juvenile." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D |
The Cooler (2003) |
"A pointless, money-depleting waste of time to be avoided at all costs." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
Coraline (2009) |
"So dynamically careens between set pieces of elation and dread that one hardly has time to soak in all the twirling, tumbling visual marvels enveloping the screen." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
The Cove (2009) |
"A quite stirring call to arms against the senseless, copious murder of animals." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Crank (2006) |
"Its freneticism ... futilely tries to cover up the ludicrousness of every decision made by its dim characters." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Crime Wave (1954) |
"A neorealist noir gem." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Criminal (2004) |
"A second-generation photocopy of a David Mamet cryptogram." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
Crimson Gold (2004) |
"An incisive portrait of one man’s quiet rage at, and heartbreakingly violent response to, social inequality." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Cry-Baby (1990) |
"Successfully works in fits and starts." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Cry_Wolf (2005) |
"A tedious throwaway horror film without a logical marble in its head." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
Cure (2001) |
"The single best horror film I've seen this century." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Curse of the Golden Flower (2006) |
"Li...prov[es] so over-the-top imperial that she almost singlehandedly elevates the film's heightened drama into something epic." |
Nick Schager |
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