Tomato 8/10 |
Hairspray (1988) |
"The Waters film for your grandma, who will probably be only a little bit freaked out by it." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
Hairspray (2007) |
"One of those stage-to-film adaptations that leave very little doubt that as good as everything is in the film, it was consistently better on stage." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Halloween (1978) |
"Virtually perfect. It is the one horror film that I would beg each and every lover of movies to watch, if I could pick only one." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
Halloween (2007) |
"If it wasn't a remake of Halloween, Halloween might have been pretty awesome." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Halloween 3: Season of the Witch (1982) |
"There are more than enough giant logic holes, stilted characters and idiotic developments to make sure that it is bad for reasons transcending its simple poorness as a sequel" |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) |
"Though it is a slasher movie at all points, it's an atypically intelligent example of the form...a quantum leap better than its two immediate predecessors." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) |
"Completed the transition to full-fledged brainless slasherdom begun in Halloween 4 at at time when the brainless slasher film was at its very worst." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 1/10 |
Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers (1996) |
"The series' nadir...nothing but a delivery system for murder and half-glimpses of naked women." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Halloween II (1981) |
"Does the worst thing any sequel can ever do: it retroactively taints the original and makes it less interesting." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Halloween II (2009) |
"Moments here and there are extremely well-made, but on the whole the movie seems to consist of nothing but a whole lot of disjointed, underlit scenes of a big dude stabbing people." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Halloween: H2O (1998) |
"It's somewhere around minute 58 - that's in a film that runs 80 minutes before credits, folks - before anything particularly interesting happens." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 1/10 |
Halloween: Resurrection (2002) |
"Provides the Halloween franchise with a clear, objective Worst Movie Of The Series...a virtually flawless collection of all the things that can make a slasher film unwatchable." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"Collapses, despite a game and talented cast, and a brilliant concept. Well, concepts don't make movies." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Hancock (2008) |
"Feels like they shot the story treatment without ever bothering to turn it into a screenplay....the film is full of empty patches: not plot-holes exactly, but spots where it seems we aren't getting a full movie." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Hangover (2009) |
"Stands up as a motion picture in addition to working as a delivery system for gags... as fine a mystery and character study as it is a comedy." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Hannah Montana The Movie (2009) |
"The film is absolutely functional, and deserves no praise greater than "it's no worse than it ought to be"." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 2/10 |
The Happening (2008) |
"Other than its ripe possibility for mockery, I cannot think of anything that makes the film really worthwhile." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"Leigh finally discovers the entire other half of human experience that he's always ignored, and in the process directs his best film since Secrets & Lies." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
"Insightful this film may not be, but that's never its aim. It's about making us laugh at the silly antics of a couple of dudes we met before and pretty much like." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"The peak film in the franchise... from the acting, to the writing, to the production design to the cinematography, which is so unbearably lovely that I can't even quite stand it." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"The good outweighs the bad by a wide margin, but just not quite enough to make this the best Harry Potter movie ever." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) |
"Every individual element is either tremendously good or completely horrible, with virtually nothing left hanging in the middle ground of straight-up mediocrity." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
He Walked by Night (1948) |
"One of the most nasty-minded, brutal dramas in a genre noted for - practically defined by - its overwhelming nihilism." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Heat (1995) |
"A slow-moving, overburdened, well-meant and at times quite entertaining slog." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Hell Ride (2008) |
"Having a properly slimy bit of modern exploitation filmmaking isn't something to scoff at, but I do wish that the experience had even a bit of fizz to it." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) |
"An essentially unending parade of some of the most visionary images ever to grace a fantasy movie." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Hercules (1997) |
"The most flat-out childish film of the Disney Renaissance: this is both its great triumph and ultimately the reason that it's so hard to care about it all that much." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) |
"It isn't Bad any more than it's Good, for it is a business venture after all, and Disney can rightly assume that their target audience won't care." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
The Hills Have Eyes II (2007) |
"There is not any plot worth discussing: people go into a desert, some die. The end." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Holy Smoke! (1999) |
"A profoundly generous treatise on how men and women misunderstand and torment one another." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Honeydripper (2007) |
"The scenes involving musical performances...are the best parts of the movie, and it would be much enriched if there were more of them." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Horror of Dracula (1958) |
"There will never be a greater vampire film than Nosferatu or Vampyr, not ever. But Hammer's Dracula puts up a strong fight to come in at third place." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Host (2007) |
"A rather tender-hearted, often sorrowful, more often hilarious view on the familial conflicts between generations and between siblings." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Hostel: Part II (2007) |
"Hostel, Part II is bad, but it's not the most objectionable torture porno by any conceivable yardstick." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Hot Fuzz (2007) |
"It's a movie that is literally, painfully funny, insofar as I occasionally laughed so hard that I thought my chest was about to collapse." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
The House Bunny (2008) |
"Anna Faris gives one of the best performances of the year thus far in a movie that never comes within swiping distance of deserving it." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
House of Dracula (1945) |
"At least the weirdness gives it a surprising, fresh edge that might as well pass for good by this point in the cycle." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
House of Frankenstein (1944) |
"71 incomprehensible minutes of the very worst Universal had to offer." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
The House of the Devil (2009) |
"Start[s] to add up after a while to a faintly unbearable level of dread." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
How She Move (2008) |
"The film does the right things well enough that it's a satisfying, if hardly earth-shattering experience." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) |
"If not for some hopelessly incompetent and wasted attempts to lighten the mood... it might well be able to compete with Beauty and the Beast as the best film of the Disney Renaissance." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Hunger (2008) |
"One of the most brutal, devastating things I have seen in long time, and I cannot imagine that a more seasoned director would have been able to improve upon it." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Hurt Locker (2009) |
"Extremely good whenever characters keep their mouths shut; when there's dialogue, it's usually heavy-handed and leading." |
Tim Brayton |
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