Tomato 4/4 |
A/K/A Tommy Chong (2005) |
"A very scary documentary considering the carte blanche accorded Big Brother by the Patriot Act." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
Abel Raises Cain (2005) |
"A host of hoaxes far funnier than the best of Candid Camera!" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Adios Momo (2006) |
"A tenderhearted slice of magical realism!" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"A refreshing retro comedy with depth recommended more for the message and the romance than for the shock value of its raunchy moments." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
Afghan Star (2009) |
"Simon Cowell does Kabul!" |
Kam Williams |
- |
African American Lives (2006) |
"Chris Tucker" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
African American Lives 2 (2007) |
"As moving, informative and fascinating a four hours as you can hope to find attempting to reconstruct the genealogy of black families torn asunder during the days of slavery." |
Kam Williams |
- |
African American Lives 2 (2007) |
"Henry Louis Gates on his PBS series 'Looking for Lincoln'" |
Kam Williams |
Splat 1/4 |
Afro Ninja Destiny (2008) |
"If Youtube-inspired flicks are a new trend, can spin-offs of Tay 'Chocolate Rain' Zonday and Chris 'Leave Britney Alone!' Crocker be far behind?" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"A paradoxical, if ultimately plausible, portrait of a fractured family whose emotions can not be contained when the skeletons belatedly come bursting out of the closet." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
Afterschool (2009) |
"Whatever happened to the analog days when kids found contentment by cramming phone booths, sitting on flagpoles or simply going steady?" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
Ali Rap (2006) |
"Narrated by rapper Chuck D, this bio-pic revisits Ali's career via tributes from an eclectic assortment of luminaries including Sly Stallone, Reverend Al Sharpton, Diane Sawyer and Ludacris." |
Kam Williams |
- |
All About Us (2008) |
"Boris Kodjoe" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
All About Us (2008) |
"A tenderhearted morality play, set in the Mississippi Delta Region, which offers an array of valuable insights about what really matters most in life while simultaneously delighting you for its duration." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
All of Us (2008) |
"Three cheers to director Emily Apt for making such a sobering, informative and emotionally-engaging full-length feature debut." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Allah Made Me Funny (2008) |
"A trio of Muslim Rodney Dangerfields complaining about not getting any respect on account of their religion." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"This compelling bio-pic is an overdue tribute to William Wilberforce (1759-1833), the British abolitionist who, for 20 years, tirelessly lobbied Parliament to end England's participation in the slave trade." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
America The Beautiful (2008) |
"A scathing indictment of the fashion industry which is designed to drive home the point that the airbrushed and digitally-altered standard of beauty popularized by the mainstream media is unattainable, because even the models don't really look like that." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3/4 |
An American Affair (2009) |
"A flick for Kennedy assassination conspiracy buffs which puts a whole new spin on "the grassy knoll" courtesy of the flamboyance of a nearly-naked Gretchen Mol." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Bullfighter |
"Provided you have a strong stomach for bovine torture, the film is likely to prove entertaining, for it relates an otherwise admirable overcoming-the-odds saga." |
Kam Williams |
Splat 0/4 |
American Cannibal - The Documentary (2006) |
"Not so much an examination of the tragic trajectory of an ill-fated reality-TV show but just the biggest hoax since The Blair Witch Project." |
Kam Williams |
Splat 0/4 |
An American Carol (2008) |
"Challenging authority as unpatriotic? Bah, humbug!" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
American Casino (2009) |
"A damning documentary which makes a convincing case that neither the federal government nor the corporate elite could care less about the plight of the working class." |
Kam Williams |
Splat 1.5/4 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"Feels like an overextended gangsta rap video, given its periodic graphic displays of gratuitous violence and its repeated resort to topless women as props carefully-positioned for purposes of titillation." |
Kam Williams |
- |
American Gangster (2007) |
"Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe square-off in Harlem heroin-trade saga." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
American Swing (2009) |
"A scary reminder of the potentially-disastrous physical and emotional consequences of indiscriminate mating." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
American Violet (2009) |
"A movie which earns high marks simply for being the first feature film with the guts to tackle the subject of racial profiling in such an honest fashion, especially given the similar allegations recently leveled at the neighboring town of Tenaha." |
Kam Williams |
- |
American Violet (2009) |
"Nicole Beharie on playing Dee Roberts" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Zombie (2007) |
"A cleverly-comedic, high-concept adventure, artfully-executed, and thought-provoking, too!" |
Kam Williams |
- |
American Zombie (2007) |
"Grace Lee mockumentary with mission to humanize zombies." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 2/4 |
And Then Came Love (2007) |
"Entertaining enough as a mildly amusing diversion, even though it delivers a dubious message to impressionable girls torn between dating a nerdy nice guy and a loser without much of a future." |
Kam Williams |
Splat 0/4 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"Didn't President Obama put a ban on this sort of torture?" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
Anita O'Day - The Life Of A Jazz Singer (2008) |
"Blue-eyed soul at its very best!"" |
Kam Williams |
- |
Antonia (2007) |
"Female hip-hop, Brazilian-style!" |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Arranged (2007) |
"Even if the cross-cultural camaraderie looks a little easy to achieve, here, aren't movies sometimes supposed to point towards the path of peace and reconciliation?" |
Kam Williams |
Splat 1/4 |
Atonement (2007) |
"An overly-ambitious, ultimately unsatisfying adaptation of Ian McEwen's best-selling romance novel." |
Kam Williams |
- |
Atonement (2007) |
"Strictly for the daytime soap opera crowd, its 7 Oscar nominations and sophisticated pretensions notwithstanding." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 4/4 |
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958) |
"Campy cult proves that Hell hath no fury like a 50 foot woman scorned." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3/4 |
August Rush (2007) |
"A fanciful fairytale blending elements of Oliver Twist, Ferris Bueller, Peter Pan and The School of Rock likely to entertain and enthrall preteens for a couple of hours." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 2/4 |
Australia (2008) |
"Unfortunately, between its predictably and the absence of chemistry between Kidman and Jackman, Australia amounts to little more than an amusing if just as readily-forgettable diversion." |
Kam Williams |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Away We Go (2009) |
"A rudderless road version of Juno!" |
Kam Williams |
- |
The Accidental Husband (2009) |
"Not exactly bestiality, but you won't want Isabella to get a room." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Adanggaman (2001) |
"Reaches through time and space across the planet with enormous tenderness and devotion, to 'all Africans who suffered the iron collars and chains of slavery. And their children who bear the scars.' The two continents have never seemed quite so intertwined" |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Adanggaman (2001) |
"Reaches through time and space across the planet with enormous tenderness and devotion, to 'all Africans who suffered the iron collars and chains of slavery. And their children who bear the scars.' The two continents have never seemed quite so intertwined" |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Superbad followup with superbored minimum wage recession youth in standard kid romance. But given dramatic intensity by method actress extraordinaire Kristen Stewart, as sullen side dish to flirty Ryan Reynolds' main squeeze spouse." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Superbad followup with superbored minimum wage recession youth in standard kid romance. But given dramatic intensity by method actress extraordinaire Kristen Stewart, as sullen side dish to flirty Ryan Reynolds' main squeeze spouse." |
Prairie Miller |
- |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Superbad followup with superbored minimum wage recession youth in standard kid romance. But given dramatic intensity by method actress extraordinaire Kristen Stewart, as sullen side dish to flirty Ryan Reynolds' main squeeze spouse." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Alice Neel (2007) |
"This documentary by the artist's grandson Andrew Neel, delves into the life and imagination of Alice Neel, the defiant pioneering, cutting edge, raunchy and prolific late artist." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Alice Neel (2007) |
"This documentary by the artist's grandson Andrew Neel, delves into the life and imagination of Alice Neel, the defiant pioneering, cutting edge, raunchy and prolific late artist." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Alien Trespass (2009) |
"Kooky faux blast from the past eating disorder space monster fugitives craving humans for dinner, sexpot dames with flirty libidos who would make the Hays Code censorship suits faint back then, and memory lane mayhem with humans wielding table salt." |
Prairie Miller |
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