Splat C+ |
P2 (2007) |
"Has quite a bit going for it, which makes its eventual reliance on inane genre gimmicks that much more disappointing." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
The Painted Veil (2006) |
"Lack[s] an essential, gripping spark of self-destructiveness and ardor." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"Has a sumptuous visual creepiness that contributes to its affecting portrait of shattered childhood innocence." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
Paprika (2007) |
"Becomes far more enthralling ... the more one simply surrenders to the awe-inspiring beauty of Kon's images of flesh, metal and unhinged mental delusions." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Paranoid Park (2008) |
"Paranoid Park's triumph ... is its aesthetic design." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Paranormal Activity (2009) |
"The same old thing dressed up in very slightly different clothes." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
The Party (1968) |
"Plays like leftovers from the Panther films." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D |
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"Sick." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D+ |
Pecker (1998) |
"A transparent, laugh-free parable about Waters’ own rise to fame." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D |
The People Under the Stairs (1991) |
"Perhaps the most staggeringly incompetent movie in the director’s uneven canon." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) |
"Annoyingly amateurish." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Perfect Blue (1997) |
"Quite enthralling." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Perfect Strangers (1985) |
"Delivers off-kilter thrills." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) |
"[Its] off-the-charts screwiness obscures virtually all shortcomings." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Phantasm (1978) |
"Benefits from repeated viewings" |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Phantasm 2 (1988) |
"There’s little to enjoy about this second outing save for Scrimm’s deliciously menacing specter of death." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994) |
"Falls back on mystery-sapping exposition." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D |
Phantasm IV: Oblivion (1999) |
"A stinker of the first order." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
Pickup on South Street (1953) |
"80 minutes of breathless genre fun infused with pure, uninhibited passion." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Pineapple Express (2008) |
"Never makes more than a surface impression, albeit a fitfully amusing one." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Pink Flamingos (1972) |
"Still succeeds as an all-out assault on good taste." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
The Pink Panther (1964) |
"Sellers is at the top of his game." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Piranha (1978) |
"Of all the late '70s-early '80s Jaws knockoffs, none balanced tongue-in-cheek humor with out-and-out gore as deftly as Joe Dante's Piranha." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Poltergeist (1982) |
"Cut from the Spielberg mold." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986) |
"Crushing tediousness." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Polyester (1981) |
"Stinks in all the right ways." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Poseidon (2006) |
"Its ever-present underlying racial politics [mirror] those of dunderheaded '80s B-horror movies." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
The Poseidon Adventure (1972) |
"Neither as exciting nor as unintentionally funny as one would like it to be." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
A Prairie Home Companion (2006) |
"The iconic 81-year-old auteur's own attempt at confronting both his advancing age and his legacy." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009) |
"Daniels and screenwriter Geoffrey Fletcher pile tribulations onto their protagonist not to inform but merely to exploit." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Predator 2 (1990) |
"Half as taut and twice as dumb." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Primer (2004) |
"Unrelentingly boring." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
Prince of Darkness (1987) |
"Reasonably chilling." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Prison (1987) |
"A horror film in which staging gruesome deaths becomes a lame substitute for creating tension and eeriness." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Pumping Iron (1977) |
"A rather amateurish, rough-around-the-edges affair." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
The Puppet Masters (1994) |
"About as nerve-wracking as a warm bath." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
Pushover (1954) |
"Marked by a visual claustrophobia that nicely matches MacMurray's increasingly hemmed-in situation." |
Nick Schager |
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