Tomato 8/10 |
Taken (2009) |
"A shallow pleasure at best. But oh, how very pleasurable it is." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"Scott has ratcheted back on nearly all of his bad habits." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Tarzan (1999) |
"The most legitimately touching Disney feature of the 1990s." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) |
"The strangest and most confused of the Dracula films up to that point, and the first of Hammer's vampire films where the bad elements seriously threaten to outnumber the good." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) |
"It preaches to the choir, but it preaches with overwhelming passion." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
The Ten (2007) |
"The Ten is, while not "bad," nor "unfunny," surely not as good as it had ought to be." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Tenant (1976) |
"Owing to the very same personal urgency that makes it a masterpiece, it is overwhelmingly solipsistic and ultimately alienating." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
The Terminator (1984) |
"I remain perpetually amazed by how magnificently Cameron keeps the tension up... there is not a single moment that isn't operating at 100%." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |
"It's just not as good a film as The Terminator, despite soundly surpassing it in a few areas." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"None of the ginormous action sequence carry any real weight because the filmmakers have made absolutely no effort to convince us to care about what's happening." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Tetro (2009) |
"Maddening and fascinating in a way that only a true artist could possibly manage, and piddling questions like whether or not the film "works" are completely beside the point." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) |
"It's a masterpiece, pure and simple..a smart young director summing up the basest instincts of his species." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
"Even a paint-by-numbers slasher is a novelty in this decade." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) |
"There is absolutely nothing to distract us from the sheer misery of watching oblivious clowns cracking awful jokes." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) |
"A rote latter-day slasher film with barely anything worth recommending." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 1/10 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994) |
"Not just a complete failure as a sequel, it's one of the five or ten worst films from the whole of the 1990s." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
The Clone Wars (2008) |
"Better than Episode I and Episode II. True, many of the same flaws are present - awful dialogue, contrived narrative - but at least The Clone Wars is much shorter." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"The worst you could say is that it's memorably diverting, but as worsts go, that's a pretty damning indictment of a Holocaust movie." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) |
"Just as much a remake of Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space. Which is an even more appropriate comparison when we observe that this film and Plan 9, unlike the original, are both awful." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
The End of Summer (1961) |
"The arc of the film follows the arc of Ozu's career, or really the arc of life itself." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Signal (2007) |
"It's a pity that the film isn't a little bit better, to really do the concept justice. It's not a bad movie...but it's not at all good in the ways that you'd hope." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
The Tiger's Tail (2006) |
"If there's anything about the movie that really rises above the mediocre, it's Gleeson's fantastic performance." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Then She Found Me (2008) |
"A grim, grey little affair of people who aren't interesting failing to achieve catharsis in the banal, depressing problems of their lives." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"An overwhelming experience...simple even as it is devastating." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Thief (1981) |
"Not just the best film of [Michael Mann's] career, but one of the best American films of the whole of the 1980s." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) |
"The film has a joyful sort of grandeur that's basically dead in the modern cinema." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Thieves Like Us (1974) |
"A sleepy film about a motley collection of dim, but well-meaning failures. A perfect Altman film, in other words." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Thieves' Highway (1949) |
"A savage attack on American comfort." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
This Is England (2007) |
"This Is England is a movie like a punch to the solar plexus." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Three Caballeros (1945) |
"By far the strangest feature-length movie in the history of the Walt Disney Company, with virtually every new minute bringing something more insanely creative than the last." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Tiger of Eschnapur (1956) |
"What elevates the films to the status of art-in-genre-clothing, is Lang's taste for lurid color and perfect compositions." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Timecrimes (2008) |
"You watch it, figure out how it works, and then never have to interact with it ever again." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Tingler (1959) |
"How any red-blooded American could hear 'Vincent Price's acid trip,' and not fall over themselves rushing to find a copy of the movie is beyond my comprehension." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Titanic (1997) |
"Exactly what it says on the label: a deliciously overwrought melodramatic love story, capped off with one of the greatest special effects achievements of the 1990s." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
TMNT (2007) |
"It's never, ever a good thing when the first trouble sign of a bad story comes in the opening scene." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Tokyo Drifter (1966) |
"Distills the aesthetic of the 1960s into one feature-length blast." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Tokyo Sonata (2009) |
"It is not a bad movie at all, nor is it graceful." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Tom Jones (1963) |
"A classic not just of literary adaptation, but of the last truly adventurous era in British and European filmmaking." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Tombs Of The Blind Dead (1971) |
"While nearly all of the Italian zombie films were one shade of awful or another, Tombs is a good film, even a great one: one of the highlights of 1970s Spanish cinema and among the very best examples of its oft-indefensible genre." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Towelhead (2008) |
"Towelhead is too eager to shock us, and it's therefore only stupidly offensive instead of cutting and insightful." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Toy Story (1995) |
"Time has been kind to it, and future years I imagine will still be kind; a classic is forever." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Toy Story 2 (1999) |
"Not content to simply re-create the success of its predecessor, the sequel... reveal[s] itself to be a surprisingly philosophical work." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Traitor (2008) |
"Appallingly cynical...desires to appeal to the biggest possible audience while offending nobody. Which means, inevitably, that it has something to offend everybody." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Transformers (2007) |
"A sensory attack that drives us into tiny little fetal balls on the ground, whimpering that we must have liked it because the car effects looked cool." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 1/10 |
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"Shrieking and ugly and tedious and soft-headed, not even giving the thin comfort of being hilariously bad." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Transporter 3 (2008) |
"Every bit as dumb as its predecessors, but - importantly - it is not nearly so much fun." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Treasure Planet (2002) |
"Like stepping forth, in an explosion of colors, weird body shapes and bad comedy, into somebody else's migraine." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Tropic Thunder (2008) |
"One of the nastiest American comedies in what feels like decades, taking a well-trod subject - how movies are made - and attacking with a savage gusto that calls to mind Sunset Blvd. and The Player ." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
True Lies (1994) |
"Far be it from me to say that True Lies isn't a fun lark of an action-comedy, but it could stand to be a lot more fun and a lot more larking." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Tuya's Marriage (2008) |
"What keeps the film from out-and-out miserabilism is a deadpan comic tone, a subtly brilliant command of cinematic language, and the extraordinarily gifted actress at its center." |
Tim Brayton |
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