Tomato |
R-Point (2006) |
"[A] subtle and sneakily unsettling film that builds slowly to its unique idea of what constitutes scary." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
"[Noyce] focuses on the literal heart of the issue and brings it to sad, authentic life in a way that transcends race, gender, and nationality." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
"[C]hock full of too many rote car chases and bad guys who spout clichés... Don't bother with the film at all if you're not a fan of [Dwayne] Johnson, or of the woefully underappreciated Carla Gugino..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Radio (2003) |
"[GoodingÕs] bumbling performance... makes one wonder if we canÕt retract [his] Oscar..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Raging Bull (1980) |
"The true story of championship prizefighter Jake La Motta, this is unmannered, unpretentious filmmaking that tells its story with startling authenticity, but it's a movie that leaves you feeling as beat up as one of La Motta's opponents." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Rain Man (1988) |
"A sharp drama." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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The Rainmaker (1997) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Raise Your Voice (2004) |
"Oh, the comparisons just come so easily: Like Coyote Ugly, only sillier. Like Crossroads, only sickening-sweeter." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 5/5 |
Raising Arizona (1987) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Rambo (2008) |
"Spare is good: so spare that essentials are missing is not." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
Random Hearts (1999) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 6/10 |
Ransom (1996) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Rappaccini's Daughter (1980) |
"[P]lays like an 18th-century episode of The Twilight Zone, exuding an enigmatic romanticism..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"Oh, but there is joy in this movie... It fills you up... with just the simple yet profound connection it's possible to make with another creature, even it that creature is merely a cartoon rat." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Ratcatcher (2000) |
"This is often a stunningly, grimly beautiful film, but one that leaves a bitter aftertaste." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Ravenous (1999) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Ray (2004) |
"[Foxx is] astonishing... using his whole body... to express himself eloquently..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Reader (2008) |
"Kate Winslet is extraordinary as a woman who is both brusquely adult and childishly vulnerable at the same time..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Reading Room (2005) |
"[S]implistic to the point of banality..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Reaping (2007) |
"Forget a plague of boils -- how about a plague of boredom followed by a plague of oh-my-god-is-it-really-this-bad-for-women-in-Hollywood?" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Rebecca (1940) |
"A masterpiece of style and substance, an extended meditation on how the dead haunt the living." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Reception (2005) |
"[P]uts the greatest emphasis and care into the one aspect that no budget in the megamillions could have fixed: the script...." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Reckoning (2004) |
"[A] terrific little film, a very contemporary-feeling detective story set amongst the squalor and the misery of the middle ages..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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Recount (2008) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Recruit (2003) |
"Unlikely to be the only example of slam-bang popcorn fluff with so despairing a demeanor we’re likely to see in the near future. It’s pre-cynicized for your protection." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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Red Corner (1997) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Red Eye (2005) |
"[T]horoughly enthralling and completely rip-rousing..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
Red Planet (2000) |
"A soulless and charmless film that desperately hopes we won't see the stitches that barely hold its disparate pieces together." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Red Road (2007) |
"This prickly sketch of a vengeance born out of loneliness and alienation carries the weight of horror of the everyday..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Redbelt (2008) |
"The longer you trust... Mamet... the more you'll be crushed when the film, which is always teetering on the edge of preposterousness, finally tumbles over that edge." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Reign of Fire (2002) |
"Full of tantalizing hints of the fascinating mythopoeic movie this could have been." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"Sandler is one monotone note here: dead-eyed hollowness standing in for grief..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
Reindeer Games (2000) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Renaissance (2006) |
"Visions of Blade Runner and 50s noir were clearly dancing in the head of the talented... Volckman..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Rendition (2007) |
"[The torture] scenes are pretty graphic... but every American should be forced to watch this movie... in order to see what is being done in our name, and in the name of, supposedly, freedom and justice." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Repo Man (1984) |
"Deadpan humor, throwaway visual jokes, and oblique political and social satire may have doomed this way-cool flick to the neverland of sci-fi cultdom." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Requiem for a Dream (2000) |
"If Aronofsky set out to make Trainspotting look like Teletubbies, he succeeded. Recommended only for those with extremely strong stomachs." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Reservation Road (2007) |
"[P]owerful and pitiful performances... make it a must-see for fans of stars Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Resident Evil (2002) |
"*Yawn.* Here's another ridley- scott- alien movie." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) |
"When postapocalypse movies like this one seem to be striving to advance the idea that the human race is too stupid to survive, why not just let us die already?" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Resurrecting the Champ (2007) |
"It's not exactly the stuff that feel-good movies are made of -- it's the stuff that hey-chew-on-this movies are made of." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Return to Paradise (1998) |
"Discovering that his father's opinion of him is as low as his opinion of himself, Vaughn conveys his dismay and a new self-awareness with a furrow of his brow and a kind of panic in his eyes, an economy of physicality that nevertheless speaks volumes." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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Reunion (2002) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Revelations - The Complete Mini-Series (2005) |
"Apocalyptic cheese... a finely calculated mercenary attempt to get all those consumers of The Da Vinci Code back in front of the boob tube, where they belong." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
Revolution (1985) |
"Even the characters in the movie don't know what's going on." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Revolution No. 9 (2002) |
"Appropriately cynical social commentary aside, #9 never quite ignites." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Rhinoceros Eyes (2004) |
"Utterly wrongheaded and indistinctly creepy, in that yawn-inducing way of pretentious twaddle..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Rhythm Thief (1994) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Rhythm Thief (1994) |
"[A] take on punkish independence on New York's Lower East Side... reminiscent of Scorsese's early work..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Rick (2003) |
"[M]alicious, ironic cruelty dealt with a deft and subtle hand..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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