Tomato |
V For Vendetta (2005) |
"The hero/antihero of Vendetta,... is -- thrillingly -- Batman and the Joker all at once; he's Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
V-Day: Until the Violence Stops (2003) |
"Lots of famous faces put in appearances... but the power of the film comes from the women whose voices have yet to be fully heard..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
V: The Complete TV Series (1984) |
"[A]ll 19 episodes are a chore to sit through, their occasional camp appeal aside." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Valentine (2001) |
"Frankly, the killer here is doing all of us a favor: eliminate the slow and stupid before they reproduce." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Valiant (2005) |
"[E]xactly as cozily silly and as charmingly touching as you'd expect from a nation that gives medals of valor to birds." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Valkyrie (2008) |
"I love how Singer plays the whole damn thing like the greatest suspense comic-book story ever told..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Valley Girl (1983) |
"It’s a measure of how, like, totally influential this little film was 20 years ago that there seems to be nothing special about it today." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 6/10 |
Valley of the Dolls (1967) |
"Oh, it's a bad movie, but in a good way." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
Vampires (1998) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Van Helsing (2004) |
"[A] disaster of gothic proportions..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Vanaja (2007) |
"[S]tunning both visually and emotionally, impressive as a first film and surely a harbinger of great things to come from Domalpalli..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Vanaja (2007) |
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MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Vanity Fair (2004) |
"Nair... revels in Thackeray’s lampooning of genteel class warfare..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Vantage Point (2008) |
"It's insane, and preposterous, yet not unentertaining, in its own uniquely goofy and ridiculous way." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Vengo (2001) |
"Spare and beautiful visually, lush and bracing aurally..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Venus (2006) |
"Peter O'Toole so completely throws himself into the role of Maurice... that the only response is to suspect that he is letting us see the real man behind the actorly mask..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Venus Boyz (2003) |
"Often funny and frequently profoundly thought-provoking..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Vera Drake (2004) |
"[A]bout nothing if not how the realities of women’s lives don’t always intersect with men’s... understanding of reality." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Veronica Guerin (2003) |
"My god, the talent. This [Blanchett's] bestest, stunningest, most remarkably surefooted performance ever..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
Vertical Limit (2000) |
"Isn't so much a man- versus- nature story as it is an idiots- versus- nature story." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Very Annie Mary (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 6/10 |
Very Bad Things (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
A Very Long Engagement (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) |
"Mostly what you need to know about VCB is this: Cristina is Woody. Vicky is Mia. They have the same conversations we've heard a million times before in Allen's movies." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
View from the Top (2003) |
"[It’s] as if the script had either been sitting around for 40 years... or was written recently by someone whose entire experience of airline travel was gleaned from movies of the 1960s." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Village (2004) |
"[F]rustrating and tedious and then -- bam! -- slams the audience with the knowledge that they’ve been had, and maliciously so." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Village of the Damned (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 6/10 |
The Virgin Suicides (1999) |
"I am tired of seeing male adolescent sexual fantasies as deeply symbolic of life, the universe, and everything. But these are the themes The Virgin Suicides wants so desperately to present to us as fresh and new." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 6/10 |
Virginian (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat 3/10 |
Virus (1998) |
"It's so unmemorable that I couldn't recall what movie I had seen while the credits were rolling." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Vital (2005) |
"Beautiful and disturbing, this Asian horror art film explores the intersection between madness and grief with a serene calm that belies the psychological turmoil under its silken surface." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Volcano (1997) |
"It's your basic disaster-movie scenario: tragedy strikes, an adorable dog is placed in danger's path and rescues itself at the last moment, humanity triumphs over the awesome powers of nature, blah blah blah." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Volver (2006) |
"I'm not supposed to say this, as a woman, as a film critic, and particularly as a woman film critic, but I'm not a fan of Pedro Almodóvar." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Voyagers (1982) |
"I never watched it as a kid... and my first exposure to it on this new DVD set will gladly be my last." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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