Splat 2.5/5 |
The Air I Breathe (2007) |
"None of the four morality plays ... are necessarily original in plot, nor is the film itself particularly innovative in its structure ... it just seems flat and useless." |
Christopher Campbell |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"The best thing ... is that, unlike the majority of sports films, the film doesn't suggest that spelling has some kind of transcendental importance." |
Christopher Campbell |
Tomato 4/5 |
Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) |
"A humorous, but more importantly illustrative, documentary about the weight of the media -- especially the comedic media -- on the last presidential election." |
Christopher Campbell |
Splat 2/5 |
Annapolis (2006) |
"What Annapolis really is, more than a college movie or a boot-camp movie, is a boxing movie, and a run of the mill one at that." |
Christopher Campbell |
Tomato B |
Adam (2009) |
"It's actually a humorously bittersweet story buoyed by likable performances, and not an oh-geez-here-comes-another-film-about-a-saintly-disabled-person movie." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C+ |
Aliens in the Attic (2009) |
"Small pleasures aside, the movie doesn't offer anything particularly memorable or inventive." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
American Son (2008) |
"Blessed with a powerful, honest screenplay." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C+ |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"I get that saving the world from disaster is important business. But is it too much to ask for it to be fun for the audience?" |
Eric D. Snider |
- |
The Age of Ignorance (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
James Rocchi |
Tomato 3/4 |
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2009) |
"All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (is) the best modern slasher flick since Scream. In fact, I like All the Boys Love Mandy Lane a little more than Scream -- All the Boys may be knowing and post-modern as it begs, borrows and steals from films like Prom Night," |
James Rocchi |
Splat 2/4 |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"The problem with ... All the King's Men is that it's a political movie where we never really get a sense of politics." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"" ...even if Alvin and the Chipmunks has one hand reaching for your wallet, at the very least its heart seems to be in the right place."" |
James Rocchi |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"American Gangster isn't bad or poorly-made or unsatisfactory; it's just good enough to make you painfully aware of all the ways it could have been better, too big and observed to watch as simple entertainment and too glossy and glib to watch as meaningful" |
James Rocchi |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Hardcore (2006) |
"Punk rock was never about sonic perfection: It was (and is) about emotional intensity, and American Hardcore has that in van loads, and delivers with onetwothreefour! power." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato |
American Teen (2008) |
"If you seek out American Teen looking for an engaging, stylish and surprisingly smart piece of non-fiction entertainment, you're going to be completely won over." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato |
An Education (2009) |
"Superbly constructed, yes, but those elements also connect; a perfectly-picked song cue speaks to a character's mood, a gorgeous camera shot moves the plot forward, an exquisitely painful line is backed with a warm, real performance." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato 5/5 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
""A hymn to the human spirit, played in power chords ... It isn't just better than most music documentaries; it's better than most documentaries, period."" |
James Rocchi |
Splat 0/4 |
Apocalypto (2006) |
"... Gibson's directorial efforts have been fairly blood-soaked historical exercises -- and Apocalyto isn't just more of the same, it's entirely too much of the same. ... Apocalypto is a career-ending flop, and easily the worst movie of 2006." |
James Rocchi |
Splat |
Assassination of a High School President (2008) |
"Assassination has a meandering plot line that dithers when it should drive forward, and lingers at times it should leap ahead." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"While Pitt is fine here -- he's as enigmatic and half-seen as you'd want an icon to be -- it's Affleck who impresses." |
James Rocchi |
Tomato 4/5 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"I don't think the movie will appeal to a wide audience, but I could see it becoming a perennial cult classic, right up there with Repo Man." |
Jette Kernion |
Splat 1.5/5 |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"Did writer-director Paul Weitz think that U.S. audiences would be too dumb to appreciate actual satire?" |
Jette Kernion |
Tomato 3/5 |
American Zombie (2007) |
"Doesn't add much to the contemporary zombie genre or even the horror comedy genre but does provide light entertainment, especially if you like jokes about filmmaking." |
Jette Kernion |
Splat 2/5 |
Arctic Tale (2007) |
"Some kids at the screening I attended were growing restless ... and so was I." |
Jette Kernion |
Splat 1/5 |
Are We Done Yet? (2007) |
"It lies there like the housewarming gifts of dead sturgeon that are another lame attempt at humor in the film, smelling slightly fishy but not yet starting to stink." |
Jette Kernion |
Splat |
Art School Confidential (2006) |
"A stilted satire of teenage passion and apathy, sex and death and crime...so concerned with aping style that it never bothers to consider its characters as people." |
Karina Longworth |
Tomato |
Atonement (2007) |
"A lush indulgence...big, classy, Oscar-bait World War II dramas don't really get much better." |
Karina Longworth |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Adam Resurrected (2008) |
"Goldblum's performance as Adam is complex and engrossing to watch ..." |
Kim Voynar |
Tomato |
Adoration (2009) |
"Some find [Egoyan] obtuse and overly intellectual; I like the chances he takes with his films, and his unique way of examining the mundane and tying it to larger issues, and he does that very well in Adoration." |
Kim Voynar |
Tomato 3/5 |
An American Crime (2007) |
"(Catherine) Keener, always a versatile actress, takes on the challenge of portraying perhaps one of the most unlikable villains in the history of true crime, and tries to find the humanity buried somewhere within her." |
Kim Voynar |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Americanese (2006) |
"Byler doesn't rush his storytelling; this is a deliberately paced, thoughtful meditation on racial issues and relationships ..." |
Kim Voynar |
- |
As the Shadow (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Martha Fischer |
Tomato |
America The Beautiful (2008) |
"For every unsubtle moment ... there are two or three that forcefully resound." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) |
"I can't recommend it as a good movie on its own merits, stocked as it is with cardboard cutout characters and a barely coherent plot, but it's miles more interesting than the last Alien vs. Predator film" |
Ryan Stewart |
Tomato |
Alone With Her (2007) |
"What sets the film a notch above standard genre fare is its ability to ask bigger questions about a stalker like Doug." |
Ryan Stewart |
Tomato |
Atonement (2007) |
"Chalk up another stunning achievement for Joe Wright, who must now be recognized as an auteur with few equals of his age and experience in world cinema." |
Ryan Stewart |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Abandoned (2007) |
"This is coming from a guy who really enjoys a "slow burn" ghost story: The Abandoned is a grade-A snoozer." |
Scott Weinberg |
Splat 3/5 |
Adrift in Manhattan (2007) |
"Throw a rock into any year's Sundance guide and you're guaranteed to hit at least two or three multi-pronged grave and oh-so-earnest weep-dramas like this one." |
Scott Weinberg |
Splat 1/5 |
Adventures of Power (2009) |
"A pretty agonizing affair." |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Auteur (2008) |
"If you don't mind a lot of smutty gags mixed with a strange concoction of wit, warmth, and (yes) melodrama, I'm betting you'll become a fan of The Auteur." |
Scott Weinberg |
Tomato |
Avatar (2009) |
"Cameron's latest is scary and exciting and entertaining as hell, even if it's far too early - and too conventional in too many ways - to herald it as any kind of masterpiece." |
Todd Gilchrist |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Afterschool (2009) |
"When not downright creepy, it's quietly damning of an administration willing to point all the wrong fingers and play up all the wrong angles before brushing the matter aside." |
William Goss |
Splat 1.5/5 |
An American Carol (2008) |
"It is hard to believe that a comedy this singularly inept and downright unfunny came from one of the minds behind one of the funniest comedies of all time, Airplane!." |
William Goss |
Splat 3/5 |
Astro Boy (2009) |
"A feature-length adaptation of the classic Japanese manga, Astro Boy now comes equipped with a recycling message, both in its story and with its screenplay." |
William Goss |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Away We Go (2009) |
"Nails the melancholy state of being both unsure about living in this world and essentially hopeful about it." |
William Goss |
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