Splat C+ |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Content to occupy that middle ground where insights are authentic but far from revelatory and comedy is more amiable than riotous." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Afterschool (2009) |
"Once made ... Afterschool proceeds to regurgitate its thesis with all the grace of a lumberjack leveling a redwood." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
An Education (2009) |
"A teen-targeted public service announcement." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Antichrist (2009) |
"Only sporadically feels like an effort interested in grappling with the miserable fallout from tragedy." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Adam Resurrected (2008) |
"Beleaguered by a general dearth of energy." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Australia (2008) |
"Dutifully goes through the sweeping-swoony motions." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007) |
"There's ultimately something exhilarating -- and, dare I say, liberating? -- about the film's chaotic avant-garde energy." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Atonement (2007) |
"A lushly shot, proficiently performed, and largely stultifying period piece that invites only mild, detached admiration." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Awake (2007) |
"Makes one want to assume a state of mind opposite to the film's title." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"Would be significantly more wearisome...were it not for Linklater's ability to tap into his source material's atmosphere of unsettling paranoia." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C+ |
Agnes and His Brothers (2006) |
"Fitfully engaging but narratively messy." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
Apocalypto (2006) |
"Overflowing with hackneyed but thrilling blockbuster-familiar moments, the majority of which, in another context, could have proven entirely comfortable in a mid-'80s Schwarzenegger vehicle" |
Nick Schager |
Splat B- |
Art School Confidential (2006) |
"Fails to find a suitably funny or illuminating target at which to direct [its] mordant negativity." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Ask the Dust (2005) |
"Generates all the heat of a snow cone." |
Nick Schager |
Splat |
After the Sunset (2004) |
"Behind the curve." |
Nick Schager |
Splat |
The Alamo (2004) |
"Laborious mush." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
"Unsurprisingly mediocre." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D+ |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"Inane, inorganic and predictable from the start." |
Nick Schager |
Splat |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
"Deserves to be locked up in a dank, water-filled dungeon and left to molder." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides: Working With Time (2003) |
"An absorbing portrait of a unique artist’s professional and personal communion with nature." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Absolute Power (1997) |
"Dunderheaded fantasy about noble thieves and corrupt commander-in-chiefs." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1994) |
"A damning portrait of cold-hearted greed." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Akira (1988) |
"A furious spectacle of lush colors and dynamic movement." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B+ |
Alice (1988) |
"Svankmajer's surrealist adaptation is a welcome antidote to the cute and cuddly Disneyfication of Carroll's iconic tale." |
Nick Schager |
Splat D |
April Fool's Day (1986) |
"I’ve seen this film before…as an episode of The Golden Girls." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C |
Any Which Way You Can (1980) |
"Perhaps the most disposable film Eastwood has ever made." |
Nick Schager |
Splat C- |
Audrey Rose (1977) |
"A possession thriller...that replaces Christian claptrap for Hindi hokum." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) |
"As formally compact and rigorously efficient as anything the genre filmmaker ever made." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
The Asphalt Jungle (1950) |
"A preeminent example of tough-guy cinema." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato B- |
All the King's Men (1949) |
"While [Crawford's] full-bodied performance still holds up nearly six decades later, the rest of Robert Rossen's Best Picture winner has lost a good deal of its fierce luster." |
Nick Schager |
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