Tomato 3.5/4 |
Caché (2005) |
"Chillingly reminds us that in life, love, family and politics, we never know the full story. And someone is always watching." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2/5 |
Cadaver (2009) |
"The routine and seriously overlong ghost story won't inspire interest beyond the deeply devoted." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Cadillac Records (2008) |
"If Cadillac Records had a theme song, it would be Zeppelin's 'Communication Breakdown' or House of Pain's 'Jump Around.'" |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Cake Eaters (2009) |
"A small movie in every way, but solidly crafted and respectably acted." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 1.5/4 |
El Cantante (2007) |
"Just a lot of interchangeable salsa songs and Lopez delivering a performance even Fran Drescher would call annoying." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 3/5 |
Canvas (2007) |
"An absence of detail means that Canvas teaches little about what it's like to be mentally ill or to know someone who is." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Canyon (2009) |
"Ends up feeling like a direct-to-video release that -- like our newlyweds -- seems to have gotten lost on the way to its actual destination." |
Alexis Loinaz |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) |
"[Michael] Moore hasn't made a measured film because he's not looking for a measured response. He wants to get his viewers outraged and shake them out of their complacency." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Captivity (2007) |
"If this is Cuthbert's idea of being, as she claims, choosy about the horror offers she accepts, heaven help us from the ones she's turned down." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Caramel (2008) |
"Gently exposes another side of a culture and country known more for headline-making wars than sensitive filmmaking." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cars (2006) |
"You'll walk out of the theater wondering if it's OK to be disappointed when a movie is merely good." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Casanova (2005) |
"A horndog who deserves a swift kick where the Venetian sun don't shine." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Cashback (2007) |
"Offers such a 13-year-old boy's perspective on love and sex that you wouldn't even trust it to unhook a bra." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cashback (2007) |
"Youthful love and lust, everlasting movie topics, are back again in Cashback, a modest but engaging film that mixes hormonal surges with art-house ingenuity." |
Sid Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"Craig plays Bond so rough that his edges have edges, becoming a sex symbol with more in common with Harley Davidson than Sean Connery." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 3/5 |
Cassandra's Dream (2008) |
"Allen fumbles the execution of a decent setup, with an end to this downward spiraling tragedy that's as puny as the filmmaker himself." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"Thanks to Luke, the film is never in danger of losing its spark." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2/4 |
Catch and Release (2007) |
"Doesn't move things along so much as let them float in an abyss of romantic comedy Jell-O that congeals from the get-go." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/4 |
Chalk (2007) |
"Amusingly riffs on the wide gap that exists between teachers and students." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Changeling (2008) |
"Not one of Eastwood's best films, but an engrossing tale nonetheless ... all the more compelling for its stranger than fiction credibility." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 3/5 |
Chaos Theory (2008) |
"At least the film strives for its own quirky rhythm, which can't be said for stuff like 27 Dresses." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 3/5 |
Chapter 27 (2008) |
"A study guide for celebrity bodyguards." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 3/5 |
Charlie Bartlett (2007) |
"Certainly more fun than Michael Clayton, but Ferris Bueller this isn't." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 3/5 |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"Like grafting the conflict-free pizzazz of Ocean's Thirteen onto Lions for Lambs." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Charlotte's Web (2006) |
"There are pleasures to be had from a family film that doesn't scamper from one action sequence to the next." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 3/5 |
Che (2008) |
"Enduring over four hours of Guevara wandering in the jungle will leave audiences more fatigued than enlightened." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Cheri (2009) |
"The movie looks beautiful but the story suffers, largely because the bond between Cheri and Lea is never particularly credible or compelling." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 2/5 |
Chicago 10 (2008) |
"Should probably have more depth after four decades of reflection." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2/5 |
The Children of Huang Shi (2008) |
"Such an old school bore that you'll be tempted to wonder if it's actually satire played inexplicably straight." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 4/4 |
Children of Men (2006) |
"A breathtaking and original embodiment of the purity of a child, and the absolute necessity of knowing that life goes on." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Choke (2008) |
"A movie about strange people trying to find their way, no matter what anyone says is 'normal.'" |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Chop Shop (2007) |
"Skillfully evading bleakness and sentimentality, Chop Shop is a terrifically assured piece of filmmaking." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 4/5 |
A Christmas Tale (2008) |
"Has as much emotional baggage as any soap opera but not an ounce of melodrama, exploring the cuts and letting us understand the scars." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Chronicle of an Escape (2007) |
"If you need to break out of captivity, clearly running naked is the way to go." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) |
"The continuing adventures of the world's scrawniest heroes." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) |
"There's something giddily entertaining about watching married beavers bickering--without the usual Disney attempt at cuteness." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2/5 |
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) |
"No satisfying resolution, no sense of characters coming into their own, and no feeling that the world that's been created was interesting enough to sustain one movie, let alone several." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 2.5/5 |
City of Ember (2008) |
"Will almost certainly bore both you and the child/kid brother/nephew/court-appointed protege you brought along--unless they truly love learning about pipes and power sources." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/5 |
City of Men (2008) |
"It's not the gangsters we're interested in this time around, and gunfire just feels awkward in the midst of a more conventional example of world cinema." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 3/5 |
CJ7 (2008) |
"A look at the things kids think they need, the things they really need, and the pain a parent will endure to get it for them." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Class (2008) |
"Doesn't lecture, but that doesn't mean its audience won't learn something." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Clerks II (2006) |
"Another raunchily funny, mildly sad and brutally candid purging of [Smith's] demons and dreams." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2/4 |
Click (2006) |
"Tunes into two channels: a low-brow comedy station on which dogs hump stuffed animals, and a cautious network whose heart relies on a conventional wake-up call for a workaholic." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/4 |
Climates (2006) |
"A painful, tearful and concise journey of two people past the point of no return, trudging the slow path towards moving on." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 4/5 |
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) |
"Silly and surprisingly funny, Meatballs is light on its feet and quick-witted, with a bonus self-awareness that most family flicks confuse with irony." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 4/5 |
Cloverfield (2008) |
"The first great monster movie for the YouTube generation." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 4/5 |
Coco Before Chanel (2009) |
"Approaches the designer's life with a calm unsentimentality, allowing Chanel's acid wit and bluntness to dictate the tone." |
Alexis Loinaz |
Splat 1/4 |
Code Name: The Cleaner (2007) |
"It's about time for Cedric the Entertainer to change his name." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Cold Souls (2009) |
"The finer points make Cold Souls a canny satire of our need to escape ourselves while aspiring to become someone else." |
Alexis Loinaz |
Tomato 4/5 |
Collapse (2009) |
"There's not much to Collapse beyond 77 minutes of one man talking about the possible end of society as we know it, and it's riveting stuff start to finish." |
Geoff Berkshire |
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