Tomato 8/10
Rachel Getting Married (2008)
"A great example of a "little" movie, both in its story and its aesthetic; it's also a reminder that littleness doesn't keep a film from touching greatness."
Tim Brayton
Splat 5/10
Rambo (2008)
"The very brutal violence that opens the film casts a pall over the very movie-fake violence that follows."
Splat 6/10
The Rape Of Europa (2007)
"Renders one of the most arresting untold stories of World War II into something quite unaccountably boring."
Tomato 10/10
Ratatouille (2007)
"Simultaneously 2007's best adventure movie and its most moving coming-of-age story."
Splat 4/10
The Reader (2008)
"Emotionally inert. And that is something that no film about sex and Nazis must ever be."
Tomato 7/10
Redacted (2007)
"In all its frustrations, this might well be the first great film on the Iraq War."
Redbelt (2008)
"A David Mamet film to its bones, and that means everything is stripped down as far as it can be, to the point of being casually and unremarkably flawless."
Reign Over Me (2007)
"Pretty much a run-of-the-mill carbon copy of Rain Man."
Tomato 6/10
Religulous (2008)
"It is [funny], although much of the humor is extraordinarily cheap and obvious."
Rescue Dawn (2007)
"The key is to not think about it as a Herzog film...and just as a really top-tier war drama."
The Rescuers (1977)
"The one completely successful Disney feature produced between 1967 and the beginning of the company's renaissance in 1989."
The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
"There's only the one thing it does flat-out wrong: this otherwise delightful adventure-comedy has a completely meandering, aimless story."
Splat 3/10
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
"It is neither as clamorous nor as trashy as the first two films."
Return of the Blind Dead (1975)
"This is still a pretty good zombie movie; it just suffers for not being next door to perfect, like the first one."
Revolutionary Road (2008)
"Even though we could reasonably wonder if there had to be yet another one of these blasted suburban satires, at least Revolutionary Road is a pretty good entry in the field."
Ricky (2009)
"The first half is wholly successful, the second one is flawed... and the movement from one part to the other is handled with all the grace of a dachshund on wet ice."
Righteous Kill (2008)
"Good in the way that makes it worth catching on basic cable during the commercial breaks of something better."
The Road (2009)
"One of the grimmest end-of-the-world movies in recent memory."
Robin Hood (1973)
"Blatantly caters to a juvenile audience, without making even the slightest attempt to entertain the grown-ups unless it happens that they like Saturday morning cartoon-level hijinks."
Rocket Science (2007)
"The film isn't really laugh-out-loud hilarious - much too painful for that - but it's not supposed to be."
Role Models (2008)
"Where most mainstream comedies strain to make their jokes as zany and crazy as possible, Role Models has the unspeakable bravery to base almost all of its comedy on things that could actually happen."
Roller Boogie (1979)
"It's all but impossible to imagine a 103-minute narrative that includes a broader range of the mustiest clichés known to humankind."
Rollover (1981)
"A talented filmmaker made a thriller that was absolutely no better than it had to be, and indeed it is quite thrilling, when it is not forcing us to watch its cardboard characters."
Tomato 9/10
Romance & Cigarettes (2007)
"One of the most inventive, surprising and challenging American films of 2005. Pity that it's 2007."
Rooster Cogburn (...and the Lady) (1975)
"A sort of controlled experiment in what happens when two completely incompatible movie stars occupy the same physical space."
La Roue (1923)
"Gance's command of cinematic vocabulary is simply breathtaking...required viewing for anyone who cares about the development of movies as a form of communication."
Rudo and Cursi (2009)
"This isn't much more than a pleasant sports comedy and family drama hybrid, but it's surely entertaining. The very model of a summertime arthouse flick."
Splat 2/10
The Ruins (2008)
"There's really nothing in the film of any entertainment value, not even the inadvertent sort."
The Rules of the Game (1939)
"A film that I adore and worship with religious fervor, one of the small handful of movies that I have never been able to exhaust."
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)
"A fine work of craftspeople both in front of the camera and behind...whose chief mistake is that every one of them appears to have forgotten that it was in fact a comedy."
Rush Hour 3 (2007)
"Proves that $25 million does not buy a good, or even bearable performance."
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