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H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds - The War to End All Wars (2005) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Hacks (2004) |
"[R]efreshingly aggressive and offensive... to say 'it lacks a sense of political correctness' would be a massive understatement..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Hairspray (2007) |
"[C]ouldn't be more charming and joyous, more get-up-and-dance toe-tapping, more simply agreeable..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Halloween (1978) |
"It's boring. It's not scary. There. I said it." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Hamburg Cell (2004) |
"Karim Saleh's performance as Jarrah is elegant in its simplicity, all tiny, concentrated steps that move him from indifferent to infuriated..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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The Hamburg Cell (2004) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
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Hamlet (1948) |
"While I don't know if Olivier's is the best (I'm inclined to go with Branagh's), it certainly bears the indelible stamp of its director/star's personality." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"[B]rilliant British satirist Steve Coogan... is actually hard to watch at times, he's so raw and honest in how he strips Dana of all dignity in the teacher's search for meaning and feeling in his life..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Hancock (2008) |
"There are many joys to be found in Hancock, not the least of which is Smith's effortless performance..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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The Hangover (2009) |
"[T]hinks it's edgy and envelope-pushing, but there's nothing terribly risque or dangerous about it... [H]int[s] at possibilities far more dangerous than it ever dares go near..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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Hannibal (2001) |
"As pointless an exercise in bloodletting." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"The scariest thing about Hannibal Rising is that this seems to indicate that there will have to be another movie, in order to explain the explanation of Lecter's evil..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Happening (2008) |
"Maybe Shyamalan didn't mean for The Happening to be exciting and dramatic: perhaps the writer-director intended the film to be an exercise in sucking all the life and emotion out of fictional characters." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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Happily N'Ever After (2007) |
"[F]ails to rise even to the level of cute but silly: it's just dumb." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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Happy Accidents (2001) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
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Happy Endings (2005) |
"[S]ing[s] with truths about how we define love today and why we embrace chaos over order in personal relationships..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"Succeeds spectacularly. In a way that makes me want to say this may be the greatest animated movie ever made." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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Happy Here and Now (2002) |
"The film is resolutely committed to its affectations of deepness and meaningfulness, but all it imparts is a sense of tediousness." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
Happy, Texas (1999) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"I want to believe in someone like [Poppy]. I want to believe life can be approached from such an uncompromisingly joyous perspective." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Hard Candy (2005) |
"I was floored and stunned and shocked and dismayed and I thought, Yeah, men and women are gonna have a lot to say to one another about this movie." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
A Hard Day's Night (1964) |
"Captured forever here in a filmic bottle is pop-culture lightning, not only Beatles magic and energy but the spirit of the early 60s that sustained it." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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Hard Pill (2005) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Hard Pill (2005) |
"[A] heartrending drama about the biological, emotional, and social structuring of human sexuality..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Hard Word (2003) |
"A little triffle from Down Under that... does a pretty bang-up job without the big bikkies Hollywood woulda spent but with some damn fine Aussie star power to make up for the lack of moolah." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew Mysteries - Season One (1977) |
"The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew helped make me the nerd that I am today..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) |
"[S]tarts out gross... and descends into the utterly moronic." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 90/100 |
Harold and Maude (1971) |
"Probably the most charming movie about death that's ever been made." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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Harrison's Flowers (2002) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
"If the kids are more serious in their play this time around, then the grownups are just having a blast." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"There is a level of horror operating here that raises this beyond escapist family fare and into the realm of cutting -- heh -- metaphor for teenhood: the agony of adolescence." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"[Offers a] surprisingly complementary chirpy sense of humor and bleak sense of horror... [N]arrow[s] down the hugeness of the novel into a diptych depicting the choices of adolescence..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"[T]his may be the best straight-up horror movie of the year -- I was riveted by the sinister sophistication of it." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"Cuarón is... having fun with the neverwhere between childhood and adolescence in a deliciously metaphoric way that Chris Columbus wouldn’t or couldn’t venture near..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) |
"I envy kids the discovery they’re about to make, about the power of movies to dominate the imagination, to air our secret fears and desires, to become cornerstones of our psyches." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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Harsh Times (2006) |
"Before Harsh Times I would have sworn that there was no role that could trip up Christian Bale... But even he seems flummoxed by... Jim Davis, ex-Army Ranger, wannabe cop, and homeboy from the dangerous streets of South Central Los Angeles." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Hart's War (2002) |
"If you haven't seen the trailers and commercials, you'll likely find Hart's War a good waste of ten bucks." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Harvey Birdman: Attorney At Law - Vol. 1 (2000) |
"[A] loving and outrageous homage to the toons that warped our tiny minds as children..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Haunted Mansion (2003) |
"Nathaniel Parker and his delectable deliciousness is all I can seem to remember about the film." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
The Haunting (1999) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) |
"[R]ote haunted-house flick, which telegraphs its obvious scares, even the ones it has shamelessly stolen from far superior scary movies..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Havana Nights (2004) |
"I can’t recall a single [movie] that crashed and burned as badly as Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights does in its last 15 minutes." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
He Knew He Was Right |
"It's soapy as all get out and kinda tediously dull..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe - Volume 1 (2002) |
"By the power of Numbskull!" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Head Over Heels (2001) |
"Not only an insipid and distasteful attempt at comedy but also an awkward and completely unsuspenseful go at a thriller." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2006) |
"[H]as a sucker-punch power more potent that what most movies specifically designed as 'horror' can muster..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Heart of Me (2003) |
"[An] enjoyably morose and tragic tale of love and betrayal and tea." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Heart of the World (2000) |
"Exhilarating." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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Heartbreak Hospital (2002) |
"Desperately unfunny when it tries to makes us laugh and desperately unsuspenseful when it tries to make us jump out of our seats." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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The Heartbreak Kid (2007) |
"[B]ased on the 1972 movie... much in the same way that a breakfast of Pop Tarts and Mountain Dew is based on a petit dejeuner of fresh-baked croissants and cafe au lait." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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