Tomato B+ |
Dangerous Game (1993) |
"One of [Ferrara's] most rewardingly challenging works." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Dark City (1998) |
"An unsettling depiction of reality as elusive and ephemeral." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Dark Habits (1984) |
"Plenty of premise but little payoff." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
The Dark Past (1949) |
"Another of the era's barely tolerable advertisements for Freudian psychoanalysis." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
Dark Star (1974) |
"Isn't nearly as funny as it once was...but it nonetheless has its amusing moments." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Dark Water (2002) |
"About as frightening as a soggy diaper." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D |
Darkness (2003) |
"There’s nothing very frightening about this shallow, stupid spookfest." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
"Nicely amplifies George A. Romero’s 1978 zombies-at-the-mall horror classic." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
Day of the Dead (1985) |
"The film’s frosty pessimism about mankind’s future does eventually get under your skin." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
The Day of the Triffids (1963) |
"Decidedly short on awe-inspiring moments." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
The Dead Girl (2006) |
"The various tales amount to little on their own and fail to resonate outside of their narrow narrative confines." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D+ |
Dead Silence (2007) |
"Somehow operates under the assumption that a dumb nursery rhyme, a colorless visual palette punctuated by deep reds, and some creaky dolls will frighten anyone over the age of five." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
Dead Snow (2009) |
"Unevenly replicates Sam Raimi's whirligig blend of terror and comedy." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D+ |
Dear Wendy (2005) |
"A daft portrait of the U.S. (and its racism and gun-worship) that’s wide of the mark." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) |
"A manipulative, tearjerking thriller that, functioning as a sustained, anguished primal scream, is as emotionally devastating as any film, fiction or non-, released this year." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006) |
"Possesses a raw, focused outrage that’s difficult to shake." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Death Race 2000 (1975) |
"The conception and execution are top-notch low-budget trash." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Defiance (2008) |
"Smacks every clichéd note with maximum gusto." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
The Descent (2006) |
"Essentially a more grave, and less unintentionally hilarious, version of The Cave." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006) |
"Riveting even when it borders on the hagiographic." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) |
"Makes one pine for any comparable '50s working-girl comedy (or, for that matter, 1988's Working Girl)." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D |
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003) |
"A wince-inducing comedic atrocity." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Dinner at Eight (1990) |
"A pleasant trifle." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
District B13 (2006) |
"The purest adrenaline rush of the summer." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Dogville (2003) |
"Manages to strike a poignant chord as a more general denunciation of humanity’s latent tendencies for malicious selfishness." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D |
Dolls (1987) |
"Feels like it was made by a trio of monkeys with a $20 budget." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Domino (2005) |
"All-sizzle, no-substance." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
The Doom Generation (1995) |
"Self-consciously strives for transgressive nihilism without ever recognizing the sheer absurdity of its every component." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
Doubt (2008) |
"Aside from awkward, often ill-fitting tilted camera angles, the writer/director adapts his stagey work with a modicum of aesthetic theatricality." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968) |
"There’s just not enough of Lee’s Dracula." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1965) |
"The least effective Hammer horror film featuring Christopher Lee as the fly-by-night Count." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
The Dreamers (2004) |
"The venue for Pitt’s marvelous coming-out performance." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Dreamgirls (2006) |
"Lacks the one quality that Marshall's sub-par Best Picture winner Chicago had going for it - an invigorating, irresistible, knockout score." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
The Driller Killer (1979) |
"Only sporadically exhibits the skill and wit of [Ferrara's] scintillatingly skuzzy subsequent efforts." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Duck Season (2006) |
"A nuanced, authentic portrait of adolescent ennui and maturation that treats pre-teen emotions with a Jim Jarmusch-ian brand of detached sympathy and bemusement." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) |
"Comes reasonably close to [being] finger-licking good." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Dust in the Wind (1986) |
"Anguishing." |
Nick Schager |
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