Tomato |
Adam (2009) |
"[T]oo-earnest, underemotional... [but Dancy] and Byrne are what make this a movie worth seeing, for their delicacy and tentativeness in coping with one another..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Eisenberg has a quirky, sensitive cool that distinguishes him from the slew of teen or almost-teen movie ranks of the moment..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Aliens in the Attic (2009) |
"Five minutes into the film, I already was hating these monsters. The kids, I mean, not the aliens..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
All About Steve (2009) |
"Plopping a 45-year-old actress... into a role clearly intended for, at best, a 23-year-old is a bizarre way to deal with the role shortage [for older women]." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Amelia (2009) |
"[A] quiet, reflective film... Earhart is not an icon or a symbol: she's a human being... [T]he assumption of autonomy... is a luxury rarely accorded to women in our pop culture, and it is wonderful to see here." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
An American Affair (2009) |
"It's all presented so earnestly... that you barely realize at the time how preposterous it all is. Intrigue! Cubans! The Bay of Pigs! JFK! It's the coming-of-age tale filtered through the mind of Oliver Stone," |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
American Violet (2009) |
"[A]n angry, old-fashioned, and very, very welcome polemic..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
An Education (2009) |
"Someone once said that perfect movies are boring and only flawed movies intriguing... And then along comes a movie like An Education, about which the number of things that are absolutely perfect is impossible to measure... and it's thrilling and ca" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"[A] ridiculously entertaining night at the movies.... [I]t's as completely ludicrous as the book it's based on, of course, but it moves so fast and with such confidence that you barely have time to notice." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"I'm still not 100 percent convinced that this wonderfully bittersweet documentary isn't entirely a put-on." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Armored (2009) |
"Skeletal in its characters and its plot... [C]an't decide what it wants to be..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Astro Boy (2009) |
"It's creepy, and it's weird, and it's something like a mecha minstrel show, particularly in how the film pretends to a 'robots are people too' theme yet fails itself to treat them as such." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Avatar (2009) |
"[T]he closest I will ever come to visiting another planet, and it was an exhilarating trip..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Affairs of the Heart - Series 1 (2008) |
"[A] bit of a mixed bag: some work better than others..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
An American Carol (2008) |
"Oh dear. Oh oh oh dear. It's so much worse than I could have imagined." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
American Teen (2008) |
"[I]ntimate and incisive... a peek into the horrors of adolescence that most of us have tried to forget, and shouldn't..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Anglo Saxon Attitudes (2008) |
"[E]xpect the blackest, snidest, most unfunny application of the concept of satire you've ever seen..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Australia (2008) |
"[U]nabashedly old-fashioned and proudly romantic... sincere and straight-up... embraces its own sentimentality without ever dipping into perilous levels of sappiness...." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"[C]hock full of embarrassing baloney that tries to dress up the inherent crude B-movie-ness of itself..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"Tiny furry nut-gathering mammals trying to cheer you up via song turns out to be surprisingly merry." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
American Gangster (2007) |
"[B]rings together Crowe and Washington, both of whom stalk the screen, as they always do, as if The Movies were invented for them, and how freakin' explosive can it be to smash these guys into each other?" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Angels Fall (2007) |
"Finally, what we've all been waiting for: a romantic suspense movie that doesn't muck about with any of that tedious romance. Or suspense." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Antonia (2007) |
"[T]riumphs over other similar movies with its dedication to authenticity and its refusal to accede to sentimentality..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007) |
"There isn't 'getting.' You don't 'get' Aqua Teen Hunger Force. You either accept its insanity, or it makes your head explode. It's, you know, a faith thing." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Arctic Tale (2007) |
"[P]owerfully moving..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Are We Done Yet? (2007) |
"[A]n utter disaster of filmmaking as even the most rudimentary kind of brainless entertainment..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Arthur and the Invisibles (2007) |
"Imagine the Smurfs meeting Troll dolls in the world of The Dark Crystal..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"A measured, brooding meander through dreams of loyalty, shadows of treachery, and the particular psychoses of celebrity for those on both sides of stardom..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Astronaut Farmer (2007) |
"To say that they don't make movies like this anymore -- splendidly, quietly angry in a folksy, old-fashioned kind of way -- is to prove its point..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Atonement (2007) |
"Knightley is exquisite shouldering... old Hollywood glamour... McAvoy positively simmers with the kind of emotion... that old Hollywood trained us to love in romantic heroes..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
August Rush (2007) |
"[A] joyful movie -- so joyful, in fact, that its soul and heart triumph over the many flaws of some of its separate parts." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"[O]h, yes, the evil cleverness, the deep and seriously profound wit of casting... Keanu Reeves... with his melancholy insolence that everyone mistakes for lethargy, with his irony so deadpan it goes all the way back around to something like calculated sel" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Accepted (2006) |
"This is almost like a lost movie from my teenhood, a forgotten relic of the late 70s, early 80s, when even summer comedies came with a touch of social commentary and a bit of class consciousness -- when they ate the rich instead of aspiring to be one of t" |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Adam & Steve (2006) |
"Cheap-looking, amateurishly written, and badly acted..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Adventures of Chico and Guapo - The Complete First Season (2006) |
"Frantic and frequently fierce under its laid-back facade, this is some quality funny business." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"[P]retty darn wonderful: uplifting without being sappy, inspiring without being unrealistic. I confess I got a bit sniffly at the end, even though I saw the ending coming..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Alex Borstein - Drop Dead Gorgeous (2006) |
"Smartly, tartly feminist..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"[A] sharply incisive zinger that condemns the American people for... being perfectly willing to be manipulated by their leaders and their entertainers..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
American Gun (2006) |
"[T]his is no bit of cheap exploitation created merely to rake in some dough. But purity of motives aside, the film simply isn't very good." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
An American Haunting (2006) |
"[F]rightfully dull..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Annapolis (2006) |
"[T]this is solid B-movie stuff right outta the time when 'B movie' wasn't an insult but more a mark of quality craftsmanship..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
The Ant Bully (2006) |
"Bruce Campbell... and Paul Giamatti... are hilarious even when they have only their voices to work with..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Apocalypto (2006) |
"[A] thrilling tale of survival and love and dedication in a world we've never seen on film, produced with a lavish respect for and attention to honoring that world..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
Apollo 11: A Night To Remember (2006) |
"[T]he British-eye view on the momentous lunar mission, combining rare archival news footage from the BBC with 40-year-old tutorials from BBC science reporter James Burke..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Archangel (2006) |
"Even diehard Craig fans may want to give this a pass..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Art Show Down (2006) |
"The goofy attitude and quick play is momentarily diverting, but the implied satire on the contemporary art market and artist subculture is one-dimensional, at best." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
As You Like It (2006) |
"[A]nyone who thinks that Shakespeare is a chore to be suffered needs to see how fresh and refreshing and sweet and enlightening and simply pleasant his wicked-sharp words can be..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Tomato |
ATL (2006) |
"[P]retty darn involving and pretty darn smart for a teen flick -- there's a genuine affection among Rashad's gang of adolescent misfits..." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
"[L]ooks and sounds and feels as if it were... made by kids who’d broken into Dad’s toolshed and borrowed his filmmaking toys." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
Splat |
Aeon Flux (2005) |
"This could have been, maybe, a rich and fascinating invented place to explore and hang out in, but instead it feels like exactly what it is: a bulls**t Hollywood excuse for science fiction." |
MaryAnn Johanson |
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