Tomato A- |
Hairspray (1988) |
"The defining moment in the auteur’s career-long dedication to lionizing Baltimore’s misfit population." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
Hairspray (2007) |
"Though colorful, cheery and energetic, there's something missing from this song-and-dance routine." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"Might have been brilliantly funny had the film found a way to suitably lay the groundwork for its premise." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Happiness (1998) |
"Exhibits an almost pitch-perfect balance between condescension and compassion." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Happy Birthday to Me (1980) |
"A camp-tastic footnote to the late-'70s, early-'80s slasher flick craze." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"Stands at the very top of the 2006 animated kid's film class." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"[Leigh's] legitimately uplifting film benefits from its own refusal to unduly sentimentalize or moralize." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"So bloated and joyless that it makes one pine for the bland mediocrity of Chris Columbus." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"Visually marvelous." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Head-On (2005) |
"Ultimately more provocative than insightful." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
The Headless Woman (2009) |
"So affected and emotionally inaccessible as to be borderline intolerable." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Heat (1995) |
"De Niro delivers a frightening vision of frosty criminal efficiency." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Hell Up In Harlem (1973) |
"Lacks nearly everything that made its predecessor so groovy." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003) |
"Winds up functioning no differently than the disgraceful, despicable films it scrutinizes." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Hellboy (2004) |
"Del Toro’s energized adventure has humor, excitement, and soul to burn." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) |
"Thrilling and touching in equal measure, it's on the short list of great superhero films." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Les herbes folles (2009) |
"Never congeal[s] into an emotionally coherent or compelling whole." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Hero (2004) |
"Strikes a mildly resonant chord." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D |
Hide and Seek (2005) |
"A lame showcase for DeNiro’s monotonous blankness and the hysterics of Fanning." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
High Heels (1991) |
"Not funny, suspenseful, or original." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
High Noon (1952) |
"A simple, somewhat creaky tribute to defiant courageousness." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
The Hills Have Eyes (2006) |
"What's fundamentally missing is the anarchic, irrational unpredictability that made the original so terrifying." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
A History of Violence (2005) |
"Probes our intrinsic attraction to violence with caustic incisiveness." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
The Hitcher (1985) |
"Hauer's lunatic performance is the only thing that keeps The Hitcher from completely running off the road." |
Nick Schager |
Splat |
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) |
"A disappointingly potholed ride." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Horror of Dracula (1958) |
"The most tantalizingly creepy entry in [Hammer's] series of cinematic nightmares." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Hostel (2006) |
"Wants to be preeminent shock cinema, but doesn't have the [courage] to fully follow through on its promise of unbridled carnage." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Hotel Rwanda (2004) |
"Incapable of honestly confronting its ugly subject matter." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A |
House of Flying Daggers (2004) |
"Wonderfully conveys how the act of loving another can be a game, a sacrifice, a ruse, a weapon, a betrayal, and, most of all, a political act." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
House of Sand and Fog (2003) |
"Partially successful." |
Nick Schager |
Splat F |
House of the Dead (2003) |
"One of the most astonishingly idiotic pieces of entertainment I’ve ever had the displeasure of sitting through." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
House of Wax (1953) |
"Price brings a touch of creepy class to this otherwise middling B-level horror story." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
House of Wax (2005) |
"A mundane slasher flick populated by blandly pretty people who look really good in sweaty tank tops." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
The Howling (1981) |
"A perverse, satirical contribution to the oft-maligned werewolf genre." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Humanité (1999) |
"Feels like an overly deliberate meta-Bressonian prank." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Humpday (2009) |
"Ultimately devoid of anything much to say about sexuality or friendship." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
Hunger (2008) |
" Especially during his opening sequences, McQueen's visual eye proves sharp." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
The Hunted (2003) |
"Be prepared to endure pounds of painful preposterousness in return for the film’s pint-sized pleasures." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
The Hurt Locker (2009) |
"Harrowing and horrifying, The Hurt Locker delivers the visceral, heart-in-throat action goods, and in doing so, gets at more truths about Iraq than its preachy ... brethren." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Hustle & Flow (2005) |
"Subtly glosses over the most despicable elements of [its] protagonist's behavior." |
Nick Schager |
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