Tomato 4/5 |
W. (2008) |
"Is W. a serious drama, or a nightmare comedy of power, privilege and parental friction played out on the global stage?" |
James Rocchi |
Tomato |
The Wackness (2008) |
"Finally, a film for kids of the 90's!" |
Erik Davis |
- |
The Wackness (2008) |
"Get a Look at The Wackness" |
Erik Davis |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Wackness (2008) |
"Trim a good twenty minutes from this overlong exercise, and you'd help the comedic pacing a whole lot." |
Scott Weinberg |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Wah-Wah (2006) |
"After watching his directorial debut, Wah-Wah, I'd like [Richard] Grant to stay in front of the camera." |
Christopher Campbell |
Tomato |
Waitress (2007) |
"Good-hearted, well-made comedy that will hopefully lead a broader audience to find the work [director Shelly] left behind as her legacy." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato |
Waitress (2007) |
"Russell delicately maintains Waitress' mixture of aching drama and bubbly comedy." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Walker (2007) |
"An unexpectedly candid character study that features a supremely solid cast of characters." |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato 4/5 |
WALL-E (2008) |
"A beautiful sci-fi tale complete with all the feel-good vibes and fantastic, cutting-edge visuals we've come to expect from a film wearing the Pixar name." |
Erik Davis |
Tomato 4/5 |
WALL-E (2008) |
"Too many kid's movies are created to give kids things to buy; WALL-E is a kid's movie that might, perhaps, give you and your kids pause to think about what things truly cost." |
James Rocchi |
Splat 2/5 |
Waltzing Anna (2006) |
"If this were a well-made film with particularly astounding acting, it might be easier to overlook the predictability of the plot. The script, unfortunately, is actually the least of Waltzing Anna's problems." |
Kim Voynar |
Tomato 4/5 |
Wanted (2008) |
"Wanted's a corporate product, but, thankfully, it's an excellent one -- the two-fisted, double-barreled high-octane guilty pleasure summer action movie you've been waiting for." |
James Rocchi |
Splat 1.5/5 |
War (2007) |
"If you've seen the trailer, then you've already seen a much more entertaining version of War." |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato |
The War Tapes (2006) |
"The director has managed to shape real people's lives into a drama, without imposing ideological filters, and without sacrificing what makes them real." |
Karina Longworth |
- |
The Way I Spent The End Of The World (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Martha Fischer |
Splat 2.5/5 |
We Are Wizards (2008) |
"The greatest weakness with "We Are Wizards" is that there's just not much of an arc to the film at all. Josh Koury, the director, presents the information about the bands and the fan sites largely as just chunks of information, with not much in the way of" |
Kim Voynar |
Tomato |
We Own The Night (2007) |
"If anything makes We Own the Night worth watching, it's Phoenix and Wahlberg." |
James Rocchi |
Splat 2/5 |
Weapons (2007) |
"It's basically just another "teens hate everyone, especially each other" story." |
Scott Weinberg |
- |
Weirdsville (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Monika Bartyzel |
Splat 1/5 |
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) |
"If Lee had actually directed his performers ... Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins probably would have been a better movie. But frantic flailing isn't consistent forward motion." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato |
Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
"After seeing these two films from Reichardt, I can't wait to see what she does next." |
Kim Voynar |
Splat 1.5/5 |
What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"I just don't know what to make of a scene in which a judge sentences two selfish jerks to "six months hard ... marriage," but I'm simply too old and too smart for material this insipid." |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato 3/5 |
What Just Happened (2008) |
"Really, how many times will you get to see Bruce Willis, Sean Penn, and Robert De Niro work together? (And in a comedy, no less.)" |
Scott Weinberg |
Splat |
Whatever Works (2009) |
"Does little except reinforce the notion that Allen's creative well has long since run dry." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008) |
"Manages -- in graceful and bleak ways, in unblinking yet sympathetic depictions of family life -- to take an all-too-familiar plot and still find something fresh in it through skillful and well-crafted execution." |
James Rocchi |
Splat 2.5/5 |
When You're Strange (2009) |
"Yank the narration straight out of the movie, telling the story in only songs and pictures, and When You're Strange would be a much better film." |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato |
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) |
"... While Spurlock may not actually answer the question of where, he actually tackles, with humor, probing wit and a certain grace, the much more important question of why." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato |
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) |
"As an understated work of spectacle, or maybe a spectacular work of understatement, Jonze's latest film is not only his best to date, but a monstrous achievement in its own right - with or without the big furry creatures." |
Todd Gilchrist |
- |
White Lies, Black Sheep (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Kim Voynar |
Tomato A |
The White Ribbon (2009) |
"An utterly nerve-wracking, edge-of-my-seat experience - certain scenes that consisted of little more than, say, a measured conversation between father and son are, in context, unbelievably suspenseful." |
Eugene Novikov |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Who Killed The Electric Car? (2006) |
"Transcends its own awful construction by being a documentary, further supporting the idea that docs needn't be well made to be worthwhile." |
Christopher Campbell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Wicked Flowers (2006) |
"What Saw 5 might look like if it were co-directed by David Lynch, Rod Serling and the Pang brothers." |
Scott Weinberg |
Splat 2/5 |
Wicked Little Things (2006) |
"Feels like something that was written, shot and glued together over the course of one drab and uneventful weekend." |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Wicker Man (2006) |
"A half-compelling, half-goofy and half-redundant piece of remake revisionism. (Yes, that's three halves, but it's that weird a movie.)" |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato |
Wide Awake (2006) |
"It's possibly Alan Berliner's most personal documentary ever." |
Karina Longworth |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Wild Man of the Navidad (2008) |
"A little scary, occasionally funny, and rather enthusiastically splattery before it's all done with." |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato |
Wild Tigers I Have Known (2007) |
"The movie wears its ancestors on its sleeve -- Tarnation and My Own Private Idaho, sure, but also Kenneth Anger, Warhol, Harmony Korine." |
Karina Longworth |
Tomato |
The Windmill Movie (2009) |
"One gets swept up in the first soapy, then tragic melodrama of the life matter that overwhelmed Rogers' desire/compulsion/ability to make art." |
Karina Longworth |
Tomato 4/5 |
Winnebago Man (2009) |
"Don't laugh TOO hard at those YouTube 'fools.' That's you and me, don't forget." |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato 3/5 |
Winter Passing (2006) |
"While Deschanel is the reason to see Winter Passing, her support is nearly impeccable in keeping it from being a one-woman show." |
Christopher Campbell |
Tomato |
With Your Permission (2007) |
"I know, I know -- there's nothing funny about spousal abuse. And yet, there are very funny moments in this film that allow it to be entertaining, in spite of its potentially weighty subject matter." |
Kim Voynar |
Splat D |
The Women (2008) |
"If you changed the names and added an Irving, this could be the movie version of 'Cathy,' with women trying on bathing suits and saying 'Ack!'" |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Woodpecker (2008) |
"After 10 minutes, you're going to be questioning and second-guessing. That's part of the ass-backwards, off-kilter enjoyment of the film." |
Jette Kernion |
Splat 3/5 |
The Woods (2006) |
"Not a groundbreaking or innovative horror film, but contains many elements that make horror movies appealing: screaming schoolgirls, spooky forces of nature, stylish camerawork, a good sense of humor throughout ... and the presence of Bruce Campbell." |
Jette Kernion |
Tomato 4/5 |
World's Greatest Dad (2009) |
"A truly strange comedy that actually has a message hidden beneath its colorfully tacky exterior. Admirably twisted, too." |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Wrestler (2008) |
"Don't believe the hype -- or, more importantly, look past it; The Wrestler offers viewers far more than just Rourke's performance -- which, it must be said, is excellent -- if they're willing to not flinch from what it has to say." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato |
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007) |
"It's a bold first effort, with a distinct, swaggering sense of style and humor that's hard -- even for a cynical blogger sick to death of indie 'quirk' -- to resist." |
Karina Longworth |
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