Tomato |
MacGyver - The Complete First Season (1985) |
"The aw-shucks charisma of Richard Dean Anderson’s unorthodox freelance secret agent is obvious right from the get-go..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Machinist (2004) |
"[A] powerful evocation of guilt, anxiety, and incipient insanity..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Mad City (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Mad Money (2008) |
"[W]orks... as bright, cheery, satisfying fantasy, if a mere trifle of a passing fancy. And it works, too, as a celebration of female don't-ignore-us indignation..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Madagascar (2005) |
"[I]mmensely witty and deeply poignant, a fiercely humanistic [story] that, for all that it’s ostensibly about animals, is really about us..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) |
"[S]o gorgeous... that it took me a while to realize that the heart and the soul of the first Madagascar, the aspect that made it so special, is missing here..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Made (2001) |
"Avoids any kind of crime-movie cliche, mining new comedy from its unique characters and their impossibly low standing in the mob." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Made of Honor (2008) |
"What had been a charming if undaring story about two friends who might be able to fall in love stops trusting itself -- and stops trusting the audience to stick with it without being dragged along by the nostrils." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Made-Up (2004) |
"Mockumentaries aren’t hard to come by, of course, but none of them have ever turned back on themselves like this one does." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
Mafia! (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Magnolia (1999) |
"Groundbreaking innovations in how filmed stories are told." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Maid in Manhattan (2002) |
"This is the stuff of bread and circuses, a feel-good movie to surprise no one and yet give all us working-class saps a sliver of hope." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Mail Order Wife (2005) |
"[A] hilarious black comedy... all about puncturing balloons of self-importance..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Majestic (2001) |
"It's like a hope thing, you know, it's... hope. It's... Look, there's a lot of dead boys, so there's heartbreaking photos in shop windows all over town, handsome young men in uniform, and bunting and flags." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Mamma Mia! (2008) |
"[N]one of the nonsensicalness would matter if the movie would let me get caught up in it, but that hardly happened, much as I wished it would..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Man (2005) |
"[A]n unholy stew of gastrointestinal distress, ethnic stereotypes, and gloopy sentiment..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
A Man Apart (2003) |
"Ugh. Him Vin Diesel. Him big lug. *grunt*" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 6/10 |
A Man for All Seasons (1966) |
"A Man for All Seasons is a handsome production. In other words, it is staid, stern, plodding, and precise, with about as much passion as your 11th-grade history textbook." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Man of the House (2005) |
"[O]ne... wonder[s] exactly what Jones has done to believe his soul requires the scouring power of a Mel Gibson-style self-flagellation." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Man of the Year (2006) |
"[L]acks all conviction in its would-be insurgent attitudes and lacks any courage in seeing through to a tough conclusion the political realities it pretends to attack." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Man on Fire (2004) |
"[T]he definitive sign that we have entered a new era of harsh vigilante brutality passing for entertainment." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Man on the Train (2003) |
"Piquant and poignantly humorous." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Man Push Cart (2006) |
"If you've forgotten -- or never known -- the rhythm and grace that cinema can sing with, then please, for your own sanity, see Man Push Cart, and rediscover how achingly lovely a film can be." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Man With The Screaming Brain (2005) |
"This movie -- how you say? -- it suck." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Management (2009) |
"[C]an't even be bothered to consider its concept from the perspective of the female protagonist it would like us to like..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) |
"[T]he film’s overabundance of preposterous pop-corny-ness and simultaneous and surprising naivete defang it." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Manhunter (1986) |
"MANHUNTER whispers rather than shouts, and is all the more effective for it." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Mansfield Park (2007) |
"Pretty, but dull." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Marathon Challenge |
"[T]echnically fascinating and pesonally inspiring..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
March of the Penguins (2005) |
"[T]hese odd birds... have a story, as a species, that’s weirder and more wonderful than you could ever have imagined." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Marci X (2003) |
"A more blithe display of astonishingly clueless anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, and sheer bad taste has not been seen since probably ever." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Margaret Cho - Assassin (2005) |
"We're told she's 'controversial,' but honestly, all she does is lob obvious cheap shots that do nothing but sanction her audience's status quo. Where's the controversy in that?" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Margaret Cho - Revolution (2004) |
"[S]he’s preaching to a particular choir... but even some of the choir will find her sermon tedious." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Margot at the Wedding (2007) |
"Margot's carelessness is Kidman's genius here: the actress makes no attempt to ingratiate herself with us, which ends up making Margot thoroughly unlikeable but totally fascinating, in a rubbernecking-a-car-crash-on-the-highway kind of way." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Maria Full of Grace (2004) |
"[C]oncerned with laying out what is, with a clear-eyed realism that’s devastating and mesmerizing in its simple, unembellished authenticity." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Marie Antoinette (2006) |
"This is no stuffy historical drama but an off-kilter novelty, opulent and spare at the same time, isolating the viewer as Marie herself was isolated from the harsh reality outside the palace walls." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Marley & Me (2008) |
"[D]oesn't have to force any of its sentiment because all the emotional moments... spring from an honest assessment of how wonderful and upsetting and frustrating and surprising life can be." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Married Life (2008) |
"The performances from this extraordinary cast are as sumptuous as you'd expect, but they disappear into a wisp of insignificance." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Married...With Children - The Complete First Season (1987) |
"[A] vicious rejoinder to the domestic tranquility that ruled the primetime sitcoms of the era..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Martha, Inc. (2003) |
"Cybill Shepherd throws herself into the domestic diva with a hammy, scenery-chewing panache..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Martian Child (2007) |
"This is, wonderfully, a smart and snappy -- never sappy -- portrait of a budding parent-and-kid romance, and a lovely ode to nonconformity, to being your own person even if the rest of the world has some issues with that." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Marty (1955) |
"A compelling and thoughtful film, its strong performances by Borgnine and Blair alone would make it a must see." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Mask of Zorro (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
"[A]n immersive experience, one that trusts the audience’s intelligence while it mines drama and suspense from the intricacies of 19th-century naval strategies." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Master of Disguise (2002) |
"In a big corner office in Hell, Satan is throwing up his hands in surrender, is firing his R&D people, and has decided he will just screen The Master of Disguise 24/7." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Masterpiece Theatre - Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen (2005) |
"Now, this is what history should be, full of passion and intrigue and drama!" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Masterpiece Theatre - Kidnapped (2005) |
"[P]lenty of swashbuckling, scoundrelry, and heroics to go round..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
The Matchmaker (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Matrix (1999) |
"Amazingly deep and cool!" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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