Splat 1.5/5 |
Mad Money (2008) |
"Belongs in the shredder, delivering no comic bounciness, law-breaking glee or the tempting scent of freshly minted cash. Which isn't to say the movie doesn't give off an odor." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) |
"Totally, depressingly average, Africa is so irrelevant and uninspiring it practically rolls its eyes at itself." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Made of Honor (2008) |
"Movies like this make Cupid want to change careers." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2/4 |
Madea's Family Reunion (2006) |
"Madea's Family Reunion does an amateur job of addressing valid issues of love, faith and independence." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Maid (2009) |
"Both a domestic dramedy and a workplace procedural, incisively revealing the emotional consequences of living with a family that you're never quite a part of." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Mamma Mia! (2008) |
"My, my, it's easy to resist this." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Mammoth (2009) |
"Less obsessed with coincidence and more interested in the ways people from various cultures connect, or don't quite connect, in everyday situations." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Man in the Chair (2007) |
"Surprisingly moving proof that you can take a man out of the movies, but you can't take the movies out of the man." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Man of the Year (2006) |
"Nothing in the film works, and here's something upon which people of all political affiliations can agree: Man of the Year is one of the worst of the year." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 4/5 |
Man On Wire (2008) |
"A documentary every bit as entertaining and rebellious as the real life figure at its center." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Management (2009) |
"An impractically blissful and offbeat romantic comedy ... takes you by surprise, underplaying jokes and maximizing laughs in a way that's simultaneously familiar and fresh." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/4 |
Manufactured Landscapes (2007) |
"Pulls real, enigmatic beauty out of the artificial." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 0.5/5 |
The Marc Pease Experience (2009) |
"As pointless and obnoxious as someone pulling on your ears." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Margot at the Wedding (2007) |
"Noah Baumbach should take a break from moviemaking and go to therapy." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Marie Antoinette (2006) |
"The absence of accents is distracting, as is a smugness that makes this bratty time warp of a dramedy somewhat condescending to its source material." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Marley & Me (2008) |
"As flavoloress as the kitchen floor Marley can't resist chewing." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Married Life (2008) |
"Sachs avoids the casual misogyny that other filmmakers have brought to similar material." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Married Life (2008) |
"Quality actors can inflate standard material like a collagen injection, and great performances help "Married Life" expand beyond the typical double-crossing." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Martian Child (2007) |
"The overriding sappiness keeps killing the so-bad-it's-good buzz." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 3/5 |
Martian Child (2007) |
"It's a minor but affectionate flick that knows sometimes all kids seem like they're from Mars, and those without parents don't have much guidance in knowing how to be human." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 5/5 |
Mary and Max (2009) |
"I don't know how anyone wouldn't love this splendid, beautiful, hilarious and heartbreaking film." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Matador (2005) |
"An amusing and original comedy that skips along with the quirky, charismatic shake-shake-shake of maracas.
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Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/4 |
Match Point (2005) |
"A sexy, mysterious departure for Allen." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 3/5 |
Max Payne (2008) |
"Unable to really turn chilly menace into tough, action-packed fun." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Me and Orson Welles (2009) |
"Captures behind-the-scenes mayhem as the result of having a brilliant windbag at the helm, causing both chaos and inspiration with all his hot air." |
Matt Pais |
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Meet Dave (2008) |
"Photos of Eddie Murphy's greatest mistakes, even if they turned out to be hits" |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/5 |
Meet Dave (2008) |
"Contrary to appearances Meet Dave isn't terrible, with several laugh-out-loud moments funnier than anything in, say, a month." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2/4 |
Meet the Robinsons (2007) |
"Better than the 3-D movies at Disney World but nothing special on the big screen." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) |
"As authentic as cheeseburger teriyaki." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |
"Knowing exactly what really happened would be a lot more provocative than what we get: an offbeat jumble that feels like Coen Brothers-lite." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 0.5/5 |
The Merry Gentleman (2009) |
"Keaton and writer Ron Lazzeretti pick tones like someone pulling out lotto numbers ... veers from creepy to festive to sad to twinkly to spiritual to bright to depressing." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
The Messenger (2009) |
"A devastating debut helmed with immense power and control ... Foster, a rising talent whose career brings to mind Edward Norton, is tremendous." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2/4 |
Miami Vice (2006) |
"Southeast sizzle and undercover-cop cool are kept to such a minimum that Miami Vice may as well have been transferred to St. Louis." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 4/5 |
Michael Clayton (2007) |
"An engrossing intellectual thriller with a shrewd grasp of crowd-pleasing storytelling ... the kind of Hollywood movie we could use a lot more of." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Michael Clayton (2007) |
"Brilliantly precise in its deconstruction of dirty work and dirtier secrets, and a surprisingly subtle story of people who often can't tell if they're talking to a friend or an enemy." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) |
"Proves that no one can pull off glittery pants (or orange ones) like Jackson and, more importantly, that no one will ever fill his shoes." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Mighty Heart (2007) |
"Both benefits and suffers from Jolie, who delivers a quality performance while her mega-star wattage shifts the focus from the front page to the gossip page." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Military Intelligence and You! (2008) |
"To quote the film, 'There's no real victory in winning a battle we didn't have to fight.' Fair enough, but what about making a movie that didn't need to be made?" |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Milk (2008) |
"There's a reason this kind of movie is Oscar bait and Milk seriously ups the ante in the year's best actor competition." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 4/5 |
Milk (2008) |
"For an Oscar-baiting movie, Milk doesn't beg for attention, but it certainly earns it." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Miracle at St. Anna (2008) |
"Finds Lee surprisingly off his game with an ambitious project that aims big but achieves little." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 2/5 |
Mirrors (2008) |
"The concept isn't the problem here, it's the execution. Never campy enough to qualify as a guilty pleasure or consistently scary enough to work as pure horror." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 2/5 |
Miss Conception (2008) |
"It doesn't take long to recognize this cloyingly cute comedy for what it really is: misconceived." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Miss March (2009) |
"Been there, gagged at that." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) |
"Full of happiness waiting to bloom and an irresistible, splendid little picture that could probably thrive on stage." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2/4 |
Miss Potter (2006) |
"The film's spirit isn't terribly playful, and any real conflict is buried deeper than Peter Rabbit's carrots." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/5 |
Missing Person (2009) |
"A reasonable approximation of the style, capturing Shannon at his most coolly insular." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Mission: Impossible III (2006) |
"It's the way sequels should be: strong casting, breathless excitement, and characters with families and personality to remind us that, yes, action heroes are people, too." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/5 |
Mister Foe (2008) |
"There's a chance that Bell's strong work could turn this into a cult item." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Mister Lonely (2008) |
"Korine's strengths lie in crafting individual scenes, not in shaping a coherent whole." |
Geoff Berkshire |
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