Splat 2.5/5 |
Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
"More like a pile of small, strange rocks that somehow landed in the same hole." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"The kind of film where everyone on screen is having a lot more fun than the audience." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 3/5 |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"There's no denying the heavy burden of guilt and shame that weighs on [Hathaway], nor the film's ability to unravel family tension like stitches tearing open." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Rails & Ties (2007) |
"No amount of clunky train metaphors can cover up the movie's routine dramatic trajectory." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 1/5 |
Rambo (2008) |
"Proficiently made, deeply offensive and undeniably cruel, like a popular restaurant serving fresh-roasted puppy." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 5/5 |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"Ratatouille is an instant classic." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 4/4 |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"Even more fun to watch than it is to say." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Reader (2008) |
"Rather than an examination of what it means to discover a legacy of pain, The Reader serves merely, for a while, as a weirdly sexy depiction of statutory rape." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2007) |
"A genuine, no-frills, working person's story of giving as much to the world as you reap from it.
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Matt Pais |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Reaping (2007) |
"A bad movie is a bad movie, even if Hilary Swank is in it." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Red (2008) |
"A low-key but compelling thriller that refuses to follow the traditional vengeance movie template." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 3/5 |
Red Cliff (2009) |
"At its best, Red Cliff is quite entertaining and a real visual stunner. It's a reminder of just how talented Woo can be when he sticks to his strengths." |
Alexis Loinaz |
Splat 3/5 |
Redacted (2007) |
"Unless De Palma's trying to be ironic--and we're quite sure he's not--a fictionalized story likely isn't the best way to show how real-life truths are concealed from the public." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Redbelt (2008) |
"Compels as a story of the struggles and consequences of being a good, honest man in a world that rarely rewards either attribute." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"Far from a bad film but not quite a good one, Reign Over Me is a partly successful attempt to make a 9/11 movie that's not a 9/11 movie." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 4/5 |
Religulous (2008) |
"If you give [Maher] a chance, you'll find an intelligent, witty and well-researched cynic eager to give voice to an underserved minority." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Rendition (2007) |
"A movie about secret government procedures can probably do without a subplot about a terrorist in love." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Reno 911!: Miami (2007) |
"Big laughs are spaced out by a lot of dead air in between." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2/4 |
Rent (2005) |
"The film's reliance on too many thematically obvious (though marvelously belted) group songs delays evocative conversations like an overdue rent check." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) |
"Deserves points for showing some guts in a year of bland musicals ... It's just too bad the music's so one-note." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 4/5 |
Reprise (2008) |
"Strikes universal chords strong enough to break down cinematic language barriers." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rescue Dawn (2007) |
"Gives a sense of not only what it was like to be there but the brotherhood that comes from being holed up in close quarters, waiting for a search party that may never come." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Reservation Road (2007) |
"[Mark] Ruffalo ... is the only thing that saves Reservation Road from being utterly forgettable." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Reservation Road (2007) |
"Something's missing, and it's the question of whether any prison sentence can ever be as painful as living with guilt, its own form of inescapable punishment." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/4 |
Resurrecting the Champ (2007) |
"A heart-warming film about sons and fathers and the reality of famous figures, whether they're on the radio or across from you at the dinner table." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Revanche (2009) |
"To its credit, the film is an unusual choice for an Oscar nominee ... but perhaps a little too emotionally guarded for its own good." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 3/5 |
Revolutionary Road (2008) |
"A skillfully composed but gloomy affair that rigidly positions itself as a Serious Adult Drama of the feel-bad variety." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 3/5 |
Revolutionary Road (2008) |
"Another tale about how suburban domesticity is miserable simply because it's marriage and it's the suburbs." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Revolver (2007) |
"Ritchie remains hopelessly inept at delivering a caper flick that's as fun as it is flashy, but now he looks like a pretentious jackass too." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 2/5 |
Revolver (2007) |
"The thing about being smooth is that it's not supposed to look like you're trying, and most of the time Ritchie seems like he's working hard." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
RiffRaff (2008) |
"A funny, snarky look at the hiccups of youth and the kind of summer that teaches lots no matter how hard you try to learn nothing." |
Matt Pais |
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Right at Your Door (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Matt Pais |
Splat 1/5 |
Righteous Kill (2008) |
"Pacino and De Niro look totally spent, and watching Righteous Kill will likewise make a long, tired day feel even more endless." |
Matt Pais |
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The Ringer (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Matt Pais |
Splat 3/5 |
The Road (2009) |
"The apocalypse probably won't have a soundtrack, yet there's a pesky score during every heavy-handed emotional moment." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Rocker (2008) |
"Appeals to the part of you that dreams of stage diving, counting groupies and trashing hotel rooms." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2/4 |
Rocket Science (2007) |
"Destined to be severely overrated." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
RocknRolla (2008) |
"It seems that we've already seen all Ritchie has to offer." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Rocky Balboa (2006) |
"Does right by the big lug and proves he's got some fight left in him." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Role Models (2008) |
"The year's best, funniest comedy." |
Matt Pais |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Roman de Gare (2008) |
"Succeeds as a mystery, comedy and romance in unexpected ways." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (2008) |
"Persuasively demonstrates Polanski was guilty as sin, yet his conviction was a miscarriage of justice." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Romance & Cigarettes (2007) |
"John Turturro has crafted a truly unique American musical worthy of the Coen brothers' executive producer credits." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Romulus, My Father (2008) |
"Gaita clearly had a rough childhood, but while the tragedies of his young life pile up on screen the drama remains frustratingly inert." |
Geoff Berkshire |
Tomato 3/5 |
Rudo and Cursi (2009) |
"A watchable breeze, elevated by the rapport between Garcia Bernal and Luna that blends love and competition into one indistinguishable family bond." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Ruins (2008) |
"At least the killer plant in Little Shop of Horrors could talk." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Rumor Has It... (2005) |
"As glazed and cooked as a Christmas ham." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008) |
"So pathetically average that you can barely muster the energy to have an opinion about it." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 0/4 |
Running Scared (2006) |
"With a herky-jerky visual style and a plot riddled with bullet holes, Running Scared is a brutal, misanthropic and downright nasty excuse for bang-bang entertainment." |
Matt Pais |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Running with Arnold (2008) |
"Even if you sympathize with the movie's politics, it's impossible to embrace its hysterical approach." |
Geoff Berkshire |
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