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T.D. Jakes - Reposition Yourself: Living Life Without Limits (2007) |
"'Live your life!' because 'This is your moment!' says Bishop Jakes. Can I get an 'Amen!'" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
The Take (2008) |
"Funny man John Leguizamo gets in touch with his furious and fiery side in The Take, and that transitional extreme mood swing is surprisingly impressive." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Take (2008) |
"Funny man John Leguizamo gets in touch with his furious and fiery side in The Take, and that transitional extreme mood swing is surprisingly impressive." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Take Out (2008) |
"Like Ramin Bahrini's coffee and donuts dirge, Man Push Cart, this tragic immigrant tale humanizes those most invisible in our midst, and with a kinship among workers that nourishes their will to endure and overcome. Take Out splendidly delivers." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Take Out (2008) |
"Like Ramin Bahrini's coffee and donuts dirge, Man Push Cart, this tragic immigrant tale humanizes those most invisible in our midst, and with a kinship among workers that nourishes their will to endure and overcome. Take Out splendidly delivers." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 4/4 |
Taken (2009) |
"This heart-stopping revenge flick written by Luc Besson is easily Liam Neeson's most memorable performance since his Oscar-nominated outing in Schindler's List." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
Taken (2009) |
"This heart-stopping revenge flick written by Luc Besson is easily Liam Neeson's most memorable performance since his Oscar-nominated outing in Schindler's List." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
Taking Father Home (2008) |
"If all the world's a stage, then resorting to just that when faced with a shoestring movie budget may be just the cure, in this delightfully heartfelt yet solemn and brutal New Market Economy China road movie to nowhere." |
Prairie Miller |
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"Denzel and Travolta at the top of their games." |
Kam Williams |
Splat |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"The movie might leave audiences feeling a lot like hostages themselves, at the hands of the director. Who seems to have a bit of a contact high with all the grating noise, grit and funk of runaway trains. Somebody needed to put the brakes on this guy too." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"The movie might leave audiences feeling a lot like hostages themselves, at the hands of the director. Who seems to have a bit of a contact high with all the grating noise, grit and funk of runaway trains. Somebody needed to put the brakes on this guy too." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 4/4 |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"Effectively employs iconic Woodstock imagery not to regenerate a numbing sense of mass nostalgia but rather as a minimalist backdrop against which to amplify the anguished, intimate ordeal of a frustrated individual who wasn't even there." |
Kam Williams |
Splat |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"This Borsht Belt turned Bacchanalian screen memoir suffers from persistent peripheral vision of a historic moment, while dulling the senses with an overload of housekeeping details. Not exactly a bad trip, but in no way a time travel contact high." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Talk to Me (2007) |
"Director Kasi Lemmons' best work since the splash she made with her spectacular directorial debut, Eve's Bayou." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
Talk to Me (2007) |
"Captures the euphoric and daring, rebel music drenched energy that fueled radio culture back then, while also tuning in to the organic intensity of the times." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Talk to Me (2007) |
"This founding father of the fouled mouthed and furiously funny on-air sit-down satirical rant was a black ex-con with a gift for ghetto gab who fired up the AM dial in DC in a style that forever changed the face of radio." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tell No One (2008) |
"An over-plotted, two-hour crime caper offering those blessed with patience a denouement well worth the wait."" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tell No One (2008) |
"An over-plotted, 2 hour crime caper offering those blessed with patience a denouement well worth the wait." |
Kam Williams |
Splat 1/4 |
The Ten (2007) |
"A blasphemous parody so painful to sit through it seems designed by the Almighty as punishment for heathens and sinners." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
Ten Canoes (2007) |
"Provided you're not Puritanical about frontal nudity, this powerful picture based on a myth is otherwise a delight, and a cinematic preservation of a so-called primitive people's oral tradition." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 2/4 |
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006) |
"While the flick has a few funny moments likely to make the general public laugh, at heart it's a Tenacious D tribute layered with asides and inside jokes scripted with the group's diehard fans in mind." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 2/4 |
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006) |
"While the flick has a few funny moments likely to make the general public laugh, at heart it's a Tenacious D tribute layered with asides and inside jokes scripted with the group's diehard fans in mind." |
Kam Williams |
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Tennessee (2009) |
"Mariah Carey discusses Precious." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
Tennessee (2009) |
"Mariah Carey is more than just the big star in this small story. She's the warm, charismatic, deliciously down home presence that fills the screen with charm to spare, though her character lacks the attention and depth lavished upon the male protagonists." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat 1/4 |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"At best, an over-stimulating concatenation of bells and whistles amounting to the cinematic equivalent of bubblegum." |
Kam Williams |
Splat |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"Endless rounds of boisterous battle scenes and eardrum annihilating explosions, until you couldn't care less which side wins. So if there's any real human passion rising to the surface amid the rubble, it's all about the guns, baby." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"Endless rounds of boisterous battle scenes and eardrum annihilating explosions, until you couldn't care less which side wins. So if there's any real human passion rising to the surface amid the rubble, it's all about the guns, baby." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Cool School (2007) |
"An art scene flick which can be readily appreciated for its valuable lesson that one need not be dependent on the New York Establishment or any Ivory Tower critics for validation." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Cool School (2007) |
"Though designed more for the devotee of the arts than your average moviegoer, the film is still apt to enthrall even the uninitiated who wouldn't know a Jackson Pollock from a Willem de Kooning." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"This richly layered allegorical clash between a criminal and a communist, pits the urge for survival despite one's debasement, against defiance, collective rebellion and martyrdom - the very impulses that advance history, but at enormous cost." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"This richly layered allegorical clash between a criminal and a communist, pits the urge for survival despite one's debasement, against defiance, collective rebellion and martyrdom - the very impulses that advance history, but at enormous cost." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) |
"While all those really scary vintage sci-fi thrillers tapped into something to scream about, however unfounded, this ho hum knockoff's source of greatest failure seems to be their biggest fear, losing at the box office." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
The Signal (2007) |
"A bloody banquet of excessive, tasteless gore, but with an odd infusion of unsavory humor that never meshes with the horror. Think fatal car crash with a laugh track." |
Prairie Miller |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005) |
"Review of 'Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston' by Anthea Kraut." |
Kam Williams |
- |
Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005) |
"Nicki Micheaux on Lincoln Heights" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3/4 |
Then She Found Me (2008) |
"Other than perhaps being a little long in the tooth to have Colin Firth's character convincingly going gaga over her, Helen Hunt has done a decent job of directing a 'chick flick' which ought to be a hit with the distaff demographic." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"The original Beverly Hillbillies, only sans the cement pond." |
Kam Williams |
- |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"Daniel Day-Lewis catches eye as Best Man of Women Film Critics Circle, The Stylishly Opinionated And Female Awards" |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"Daniel Day-Lewis does an oil maniac in this emotionally drenched gut-slicing and grueling bipolar gore, and what is surely the most grotesque screen image ever of a warped male maternal instinct." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"Daniel Day-Lewis does an oil maniac in this emotionally drenched gut-slicing and grueling bipolar gore, and what is surely the most grotesque screen image ever of a warped male maternal instinct." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat 1/4 |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"Excuse me, but wasn't this soap opera supposed to be about Halle's grieving character's loss of a husband, not about her worrying about losing her looks? It doesn't get any more shallow than this." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"The director excels in conveying a complex menu of meaningful body language and delicate emotions, beyond the usual aerobics associated on screen with sexual desire, as a full range of gestures, glances and extreme tenderness." |
Prairie Miller |
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Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"InterestAlert.com: The Halle Berry Interview" |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"Brave enough to show a cruel and angry side of grief, the film also comes with the first Oscar worthy performance this year, courtesy of Del Toro as a humble, sensitive and self-effacing man struggling to kick his habit." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"The Halle Berry Interview: 'Like when I came in the room and I saw Benicio in the shower, I was like whooo!...You know, it took my breath away.'" |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Thirst (2009) |
"This big screen guzzler has much to advise about the art of vampiring, including more efficient corpse feasting by cutting the feet of your human dispensers off at the ankles and draining them over the bathtub." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Thirst (2009) |
"This big screen guzzler has much to advise about the art of vampiring, including more efficient corpse feasting by cutting the feet of your human dispensers off at the ankles and draining them over the bathtub." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato 3/4 |
This Christmas (2007) |
"Quite convincing in conveying the feeling of a real family, and in generating the requisite chemistry or antipathy as called for by their dysfunctional characters' dire circumstances." |
Kam Williams |
- |
This Christmas (2007) |
"Loretta Devine" |
Kam Williams |
- |
This Christmas (2007) |
"Keith Robinson on Canterbury's Law" |
Kam Williams |
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