Splat 5/10 |
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) |
"Somewhat better than the original, a film which it is mainly content to clone shamelessly." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Made of Honor (2008) |
"The fact that this is not in any way original isn't really much of a problem. The fact that it's completely awful is." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
Make Mine Music (1946) |
"One of the saddest little orphans in the whole of the Disney animated features canon... though the film hits more than it misses over the course of its ten sequences." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Mamma Mia! (2008) |
"There might not be anything as utterly dispiriting as watching people pretending to have fun, and that is quite literally the only card the movie has to play." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Mammoth (2009) |
"Moodysson actually really loves his characters and wants them to be happy, rather than putting stock characters though a series of heavily predictable trials and tribulations on the way to a forced happy ending." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Man On Wire (2008) |
"A talking-heads documentary has no business working as a nerve-wracking thriller, but here we have Man on Wire....one of the most exciting movies to come out all year." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976) |
"It has lost none of its ability to startle all these years later, and for that alone it deserves respect." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Management (2009) |
"Presents characters whose behavior is the behavior of grotesques; there is no connection drawn between what happens on the page and what is recognisably human." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Manhunter (1986) |
"At the very worst an intriguing misfire, and often much better than that." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
Manufactured Landscapes (2007) |
"A film in search of a subject." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) |
"One of the most charming of all Disney features... like anyone else, when I see it I am swiftly and inexorably carried back to childhood, in accordance with the drippy clichés." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Margot at the Wedding (2007) |
"What keeps the film from treading into sour vindictiveness is how fully the characters are developed." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2007) |
"One of the most effective of the many recent agitprop documentaries." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Me and Orson Welles (2009) |
"Zac Efron and Claire Danes evince all the charisma and erotic charge of a wet sock making love to a waterbug hopped up on caffeine." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Meet the Robinsons (2007) |
"A film of terribly alienating character design (so many pinchy faces and tiny eyes!) blended with very plastic-y backgrounds." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Melody Time (1948) |
"A film much more entertaining than you'd expect, even if only two of its seven sequences individually reach classic status." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
Miami Vice (2006) |
"Perhaps the first Michael Mann film to almost completely lack a human element; or rather, the human element it possesses is thin and unconvincing." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Michael Clayton (2007) |
"When Clooney is onscreen, he is magnetic, pure and simple." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
A Mighty Heart (2007) |
"What's interesting about A Mighty Heart is not the political arena, but the individual human beings inside it." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Milk (2008) |
"As far as paint-by-numbers biopics go, Milk is unquestionably the best we've seen in years - maybe even the whole decade." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
Miracle at St. Anna (2008) |
"A messy patchwork of ideas spinning off every which way...but failing to be good doesn't mean that it's not interesting." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Mirrors (2008) |
"I suppose Offscreen Spring-Loaded Cats is in active development even as I write." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) |
"It's a little obvious that director Bharat Nalluri hasn't really worked in farce before." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Mister Lonely (2008) |
"Fails to achieve any kind of cumulative meaning outside of Korine's private amusement." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
Moliere (2007) |
"There's not a single moment that you haven't already seen in a different, better period film." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) |
"Given that the film was sold as the biggest kind of spectacle, it's disappointing though not surprising that it's so barbarically typical." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Moon (2009) |
"An exquisite gem of a science-fiction picture... pitched squarely at the patient, intelligent adults in the audience who want to have a good think." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Mother (2009) |
"Kim Hye-Ja's performance is absolutely magnificent, the kind of performance that seems to radiate straight out of the actress's body." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
The Mother and the Whore (1973) |
"Comes close to capturing the pacing of life itself, where great changes happen at great length." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
Mother of Tears (2008) |
"We come to an Argento picture for the surreal, Baroque imagery, and though much here fits those descriptions, there's a great deal of it that's also quite gaudy and goofy and, dare I say, campy." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939) |
"It competes only with It Happened One Night for the title of Capra's most entertaining film ever." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Mulan (1998) |
"What is chiefly impressive is that the appropriation of Chinese iconography in a film that was plainly made by Western animators feels ultimately so natural and successful." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) |
"Competes only with Prince Caspian for having the most inert action sequences of the summer." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009) |
"If the imagination and enthusiasm behind the gore effects set it in the top tier of slasher movies, the rest of the film is no better than any of them." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
My Blueberry Nights (2008) |
"Like the pies that give the film its title, My Blueberry Nights is really just a dessert, something sweet and mostly insubstantial." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
My Brother Is An Only Child (2006) |
"Tells a familiar story in a familiar way with conviction and no small amount of talent on both sides of the camera, though it's hardly essential." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
My Darling Clementine (1946) |
"Launched the series of masterpieces in the late '40s and 1950s that forever after defined [Ford] as the greatest director of Westerns in history," |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
My Neighbor, My Killer (2009) |
"One of the most humane things I have seen all year." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
My Winnipeg (2008) |
"It's probably [Maddin's] best work yet...his easiest, funniest and most watchable film." |
Tim Brayton |
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