Tomato 3.5/4
Macbeth (1971)
"a bloody, rip-roaring good time"
Jay Antani
Tomato 2/4
The Machinist (2004)
"The Machinist, in terms of its gimmicky, save-the-conceit structure, is a bit like the self-consciously clever Memento but not even half as fun."
Tomato 2.5/4
Man on the Train (2003)
"Laconte's direction is calculative all the way, but his telling fails to register very much"
Tomato 4/4
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
"With spry editing and camerawork, [Frankenheimer] fuses together a documentary-like realism and more expressive stylizations to create a hybrid thriller-satire"
Splat 1.5/4
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
"This humorless and nonsensical so-called thriller--a total misread of Frankenheimer's classic original--never quite engages..."
Tomato 3/4
March of the Penguins (2005)
"plays like a high-end Discovery Channel special, but it's compelling and beautiful just the same"
The Matador (2005)
"Brosnan's sleazy, broken-spirited hitman Julian Noble nabs the spotlight in Richard Shepard's generally pleasing comic thriller"
Match Point (2005)
"There's no ground here that Allen hasn't gone over before, but...as a thriller, it's compulsively watchable and generally well acted"
Mean Streets (1973)
"showcases Scorsese's artistic strengths and weaknesses as they stood at the outset of his career"
Medium Cool (1969)
"a quintessential late-60s time capsule piece"
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
"An entertaining and penetrating look at the creative process"
Splat 2/4
Munich (2005)
"Spielberg described Munich as his 'prayer for peace,' yet his movie strangely lacks the eloquence and yearning of a prayer."
Murderball (2005)
"a triumph of filmmaking: of structure, character development, and pacing"
Murmur of the Heart (1971)
"a gorgeously filmed exercise in smug depravity"
My Life to Live (1962)
"truly exhilarating"
Mysterious Skin (2005)
"a bizarre, beguiling coming-of-age drama"
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