Tomato |
W. (2008) |
"Surely this is the greatest satire of the American presidency ever made for film.... Surely this would be a horror story if it were true..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Wag the Dog (1997) |
"Wag the Dog is satire, no question about it -- the wonderful cast positively revels in the absurdness of it all." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Wagon Train: The Complete Color Season (2008) |
"[A]s slices of TV history go, this first ambitious collection of just one year of Wagon Train is a wonder." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Waist Deep (2006) |
"It's hard to figure out if writer/director Vondie Curtis-Hall... is demonstrating simple ineptitude here, or out-and-out Ed Wood-itude." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Waiting for Guffman (1997) |
"Ignorance truly is bliss, sometimes." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Waitress (2007) |
"It has a feeling of... I don't want to say secret insight about the experience of being a woman, but... the experience of half the human race is... so often simply not within the purview of the male-type people who make the vast majority of movies." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Waking the Dead (2000) |
"Anyone who craves a moving and involving romantic movie will love it." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
"[A] razor-sharp dissection of the new archetype of modern mythology -- the rock star -- and how we interact with him on a societal level..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"I... grovel at the feet of Joaquin Phoenix, with whom I've always been a little in love and to whom I now must pledge myself completely." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
A Walk to Remember (2002) |
"This isn't quite Glitter, but almost." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Walking Tall (2004) |
"[A]ll about vigilantism being Okay as long as you really, really know you’re right and there’s no one bigger than you around to stop you..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Wall Street (1987) |
"'Greed is good... greed works,' Gekko intones famously in Wall Street, and it was meant to be a shocking pronouncement at the time. That's the attitude that feels old-fashioned now." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
WALL-E (2008) |
"Wall-E is art. Hell, it's philosophy -- it's practically religion." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Wallace & Gromit - A Close Shave (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Wallace & Gromit - A Grand Day Out (1990) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
Wallace & Gromit - The Wrong Trousers (1993) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"There's a handcrafted- with-love-for -your-enjoyment quality to the W&G toons, and it's all sort of more-so and inflated here, on the big screen." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Wannabes (2003) |
"Maybe it’s a cultural thing, but this is one of the worst films I’ve ever seen." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Wanted (2008) |
"[S]imultaneously feel[s] exhilaratingly like one of the most cleverly original action scripts in years and... comfortably reminiscent of a slew of hero's-journey adventures..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
War (2007) |
"[D]enies us the simple, brainless pleasure of watching these two guys get Oriental on each other's asses. It's like someone made Gamera vs. Mothra and, oops, forgot to give us two guys in rubber suits battling to the death." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The War Bride (2001) |
"[An] unguarded tenderness makes The War Bride so heartbreakingly stirring even after multiple viewings..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
War Dance (2007) |
"These kids are amazing in the most literal sense of the word, and you will never forget them." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"[A] wonder of contemporary, big-budget Hollywood filmmaking -- it’s its own antithesis at the same time it’s a stunning example of it." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The War Within (2005) |
"This is a film to unnerve any New Yorker, as it wanders city landmarks, like Grand Central Terminal, with destruction in mind..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
War, Inc. (2008) |
"It’s as if the movie is stuck in a muddy middle, unable to go whole hog with its sending up of toxic Americana and unwilling to be serious about exploring how toxic it really is." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
War, Inc. (2008) |
"[W]eary with its own irony..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
Warriors (1994) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Watchmen (2009) |
"[P]robably the best three-hour version of the story that could be made..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Watchmen - Tales of the Black Freighter & Under the Hood (2009) |
"[A]ppropriately bleak and rife with animated horrors even more powerful than they were in the still illustrations of the graphic novel..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic (2009) |
"[D]oes indeed look very much like the graphic novel, but I don't see any reason to watch this on a TV when it's a much more pleasurable and rewarding experience to read it for myself..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Water (2006) |
"Every moment that is exquisite here... is tinged with a profound melancholy... For every beautiful moment... there is an ugly counterpart..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) |
"Snug and amiable, this is a comfy easy chair of a movie... one easy to let yourself sink into and enjoy in spite of yourself..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Waterborne (2005) |
"[S]mart, nicely acted, and it looks great, far sharper and more stylish than its reported $1 million budget would lead you to believe it could be..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
The Way of the Gun (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
We Are Marshall (2006) |
"[O]f course real people's real pain can be turned, yet again, into trite, glossy cinematic junk food. How could we possibly doubt this?" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) |
"Fans of the band may most appreciate the second disc, which features hours of music from three legendary live performances" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) |
"For the initiated, though: revel in the reminiscences of Minutemen Mike Watt and George Hurley of that brief period in the early 80s when the band astonished fans of underground music." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
We Own The Night (2007) |
"[S]o drenched in raw, ineffable male anger and love... that it howls with authenticity." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Wedding Crashers (2005) |
"The likes of the sneakily subversive Wilson and Vaughn deserve better... but this is darn close to a perfect showcase for what they can do, and how much better they do it together." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
The Wedding Date (2005) |
"Debra Messing... is a nightmarish golem-creature constructed, Frankenstein-monster style, from the worst stereotypes of modern femininity..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
- |
The Wedding Planner (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) |
"[O]ne of the absolute worst movies ever produced by the hands of humans..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Welcome to Collinwood (2002) |
"Like these Russo guys lookin’ for their Mamet instead found their Sturges." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Welcome to Mooseport (2004) |
"It’s all so idiotic as to be laughable, except that when comedies go bad... they’re painful and headache-inducing..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
West Side Story (1961) |
"Demonstrates yet again the enduring quality of Shakespeare's work." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The West Wing - The Complete First Season (1999) |
"[T]he stellar cast, one of the best ever assembled, really shines..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Whale Rider (2003) |
"There’s so much that’s right and yes-finally! about this simple and unpretentious film that even it’s predictable heartwarmingness and uplifting triumph-of-the-human spiritness seem groundbreaking." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
What a Girl Wants (2003) |
"Weirdly disturbing daddy-fantasy." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato 9/10 |
What Dreams May Come (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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