Splat |
The Cable Guy (1996) |
"If I'd known beforehand that Ben Stiller directed The Cable Guy, I might have been more excited by the prospect of seeing it. And I'd have been all the more disappointed in the end." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Caddyshack (1980) |
"This nearly plotless, angry class comedy is more a barrage of traded insults and slights than anything else, and it refreshingly recognizes that class has nothing to do with money or lack of it." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"It’s all more bittersweet and tangier than you’d expect, saturated with a bracing Yorkshire humor..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Candy (2006) |
"[T]here's a lot of cinematic pleasure to be had in Heath Ledger's thoroughly un-self-conscious performance..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Canvas (2007) |
"[A] must-see for its honesty and its fine, graceful performances..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Capote (2005) |
"[A] grimly riveting unpeeling of Capote’s psyche..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"Shocking and heartbreaking... a portrait of a family falling apart, squeezed dry from without and within." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Caramel (2008) |
"[A]s smart and heartfelt as it is observant about the universalities of the lives of women..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie 2 (2003) |
"I'm not sure I could tell you what this trippy anime fantasy was about if threatened with torture." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Care Bears: Journey to Joke-a-Lot (2004) |
"Oh dear lord, the hearts and the rainbows and the giggling and the hard plastic candy-colored CGI bears singing -- someone make it stop!" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Carnage (2003) |
"Delphine Gleize achieves a mastery of the visual, the metaphoric, and the dramatic that few other veteran filmmakers could pull off." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 6/10 |
Carnosaur (1993) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Cars (2006) |
"[T]hey're cars! But they're people! But they're cars! Huh?" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Casablanca (1942) |
"This is the ultimate movie. This is the purpose for which Hollywood invented itself. This is how good a film can be." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Casanova (2005) |
"[A] frantic farce that shows off [Ledger's] comic charms to glorious effect.... he's got Casanova's gift of seduction, no question." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Casi Casi (2006) |
"[A]ll that distinguishes this slight, awkward teen comedy from the slew of Saved by the Bell knockoffs that populates cable TV aimed at kids is its Latino cast and Spanish-language dialogue..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"[E]xactly what I was hoping for, and everything I was expecting from the first Generation X James Bond... It's Bond's superhero origin story reconsidered from a perspective that respects and understands the authority and the intensity behind the character" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Cassandra's Dream (2008) |
"This no-fuss, bare-bones crime drama is old-fashioned in a way that's crisp and refreshing..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Cast Away (2000) |
"An unforgettable film." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Casting About (2007) |
"[O]ne of the most striking [documentaries] I've ever seen..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Casting About (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
The Cat's Meow (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"When someone makes a movie, a quarter of a century from now, about the American occupation of Iraq, it's going to look like Catch a Fire, and it's going to be enraging." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Catch and Release (2007) |
"[B]eautifully crafted... creates an aching loveliness of psychic empty space..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"[Spielberg] achieves a retro hipness, an early-60s, skinny-ties-and-martinis, Pink Panther kind of cool." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Catch That Girl (2002) |
"Good fun." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Catch That Kid (2004) |
"It’s almost identical, in terms of plot and character, to the delightful Danish film it’s a remake of, so why does it fall flat and leave a slightly greasy aftertaste?" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Catherine Tate Show - Season One (2004) |
"I used to love the old Tracey Ullman show, but I don't think even she, goddess of comedy, quite approached the astonishing range of ingenious characters the way that her heir apparent, Catherine Tate, does." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Cats & Dogs (2001) |
"I started to wonder if beating a joke to within an inch of its life constitutes cruelty." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Catwoman (2004) |
"Eww, it smells like cats in here. Not that I don't love cats, but I don't want my supposed-to-be sleek and stylish comic-book movies reeking like that." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Cavalcade (1933) |
"[A] delightful, passionate drama." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Cave (2005) |
"Shades of Moria, Batman!" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 6/10 |
Celebrity (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
The Cell (2000) |
"Carl's fantasies are fairly dazzling visually and frequently pretty gross, but they're never scary." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Cellular (2004) |
"[O]ne of those movies that succeeds partly by not being anywhere near as bad as you were expecting it to be -- by being, really, not so bad at all..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
The Center of the World (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Changeling (2008) |
"[Jolie]'s oozing that mysterious charisma that's half dazzling intelligence and half riveting talent and half the magic of the gods of Hollywood smiling on her, and through her." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Changing Rooms: Trust Me, I'm a Designer (1997) |
"There is a kind of sadistic pleasure to be had, if that’s your thing..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Chaos (2003) |
"A delicious antidote to moviedom’s typical characterization of women as simpering victims." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Chariots of Fire (1981) |
"This is quite possibly the most lyrical, most spiritual sports movie ever made." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"I hate what the changes in tone and attitude from the 1971 flick say about how we’ve changed as a culture over the last 30 years..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Charlie Bartlett (2007) |
"22 years after Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- the definitive Gen X high school movie -- comes the next great, generation-defining high-school hero..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"[I]t's funny, it's actually funny... all rapid-fire snark... Imagine if C-SPAN produced a modern screwball comedy..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
Charlie's Angels (2000) |
"Vapid and self-consciously kitschy, these gals are a 13-year-old boy's fantasy of a strong woman. This is Hollywood aiming T&A at little girls, but I wouldn't let any little girl I cared about see this film." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Charlie's Angels - Angels Under Cover (1976) |
"[A] lot of camp appeal for 30somethings..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) |
"Appears to be an experiment to discover exactly how incoherent a movie can be before even girls in bikinis... are not enough to keep the audience’s attention." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Charlotte Gray (2001) |
"This is a long-lost classic from The War that fell through a time warp and landed at our feet today." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Charlotte Sometimes (2002) |
"It’s all arty and jazzy and people sit and stare and turn away from one another instead of talking and it’s all about the silences and if you’re into that, have at it." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Charlotte's Web (2006) |
"Happy happy, joy joy... This is a wonder of gentle humor, tender sentiment, and uplifting philosophy about the joys of friendship, the marvels of nature, the circle of life." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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