Tomato 7/10 |
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) |
"While the the film is representative of the absolute worst of Universal horror... it is one of the very best Abbott and Costello vehicles." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Ace in the Hole (1951) |
"Quite possibly the most Billy Wilder-ey of all Wilder's films." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"Designed to encourage appreciation of the director's visual flair and the sheer joy of the music. And such visual flair it is; and such joyful music." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"[Director Greg] Mottola and his crew seem wholly disengaged from any kind of cinematic vocabulary... But it's impeccably written, there's little doubt about that." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) |
"The most competently animated of all the package films, and for the Disney animators in their prime, mere competence was a surpassingly high mark." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Adventures of Prince Achmed (1927) |
"More than eighty years later...it still looks like nothing you've ever seen." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
The Adventures of the Great Mouse Detective (1986) |
"If the film fails to click on all the emotional levels that Disney might have wanted, at least it's a brightly-paced bit of comedy and fun." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"One of the very best films to be released in America in the first third of 2007." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Air Doll (2009) |
"Frustratingly shallow, refusing to be about anything in particular. No, that's a lie: it's about a great many things, and it is horribly superficial about every one of them." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Aladdin (1992) |
"It's awfully close to being a great story, but it keeps having to settle for pretty darn good." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
Alexandra (2008) |
"Here is what filmmaking looks like at its absolute best: a movie of bold and aggressive originality that expresses itself with the utmost delicacy." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Ali (2001) |
"More than competently mounted, with a hollowness just discernible in its core... feels like the first draft of whatever film Michael Mann set out to make." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Alice in Wonderland (1951) |
"An emotionally chilly exercise... At the same time it is gorgeous indeed, one of the most singular movies in the Disney canon visually." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
Alien Trespass (2009) |
"If the film succeeds perfectly in its aim, to recreate exactly a genre of films noted for how shoddy and boring they were, is it then fair to complain when the film is itself boring?" |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Aliens (1986) |
"Proved that James Cameron has a mind for directing action movies considerably more nuanced and plot-driven than just "find ways to blow things up"." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 1/10 |
Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) |
"A worse AVP film than the first one just couldn't be made. Except that, impossibly, it has." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989) |
"Don Bluth's second outright triumph; a film whose burial in the last 20 years is nothing short of a crime." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
All the President's Men (1976) |
"It really couldn't be better made in any respect. The cinematography, sound, editing, acting - all of them are effectively flawless." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 3/10 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"It's not that bad. It's just kind of gross and upsetting." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"An unmistakably familiar story, but something about its execution here feels fresh anyway." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 7/10 |
An American Tail (1986) |
"Its sappiness is unmissably sincere, and such aching, embarrassing sincerity is never an evil thing in a movie." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
American Teen (2008) |
"Teenagers are restless and get very worked up over interpersonal dramas. Gee willickers, I'm sure glad a film crew traveled all the way to north central Indiana to make that shocking discovery." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
An Education (2009) |
"A standard-issue coming-of-age story done well enough and without distinction." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
An Angel at My Table (1991) |
"Anyone who can make a more than 2.5-hour biopic about a New Zealand writer feel as quick and fleet as this is clearly doing something extremely right." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Angel-A (2007) |
"The film settles into a laid-back groove that is, how shall we say, endlessly boring." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"Let no man be so crude as to accuse it of its predecessor's insipidity. Let us be forgiving, and say that it is merely weak. It is the vanilla soft-serve of summer adventure movies." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Antichrist (2009) |
"It doesn't add up to more than an elaborate punking, and... I don't understand who it is that's being punked. Von Trier's detractors? His fans? Charlotte Gainsbourg?" |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 9/10 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"One of the most uplifting and inspirational movies of the year." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007) |
"The film is very, very funny; and it is very, very exhausting." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 6/10 |
The Aristocats (1970) |
"Insofar as the film has any real ambition driving it, that ambition seems to be that the Disney brand name must be kept alive until somebody could figure out what to do with it." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Ashes of Time Redux (1994) |
"Unfathomably gorgeous; perhaps even the most gorgeous film Wong Kar-Wai has yet made, which is not a bit of praise I hand out lightly." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 10/10 |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"An astounding work of mythological storytelling." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 4/10 |
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) |
"It is difficult to say whether its greatest failure is in its story, its characters, or its animation." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 6/10 |
Atonement (2007) |
"Fairly well-directed, well-written and well-acted, and it never quite gets around to answering the fundamental question...why does this thing exist?" |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Australia (2008) |
"Not just unashamedly old-fashioned, but altogether smug about it... For myself, I admire the defiant mustiness of the whole project." |
Tim Brayton |
Tomato 8/10 |
Avatar (2009) |
"It stops being a story at all and is instead just a sheer, unmitigated visual and auditory experience, two hours and forty minutes of being exposed to a brand new world." |
Tim Brayton |
Splat 5/10 |
Away We Go (2009) |
"Full-up with caricatures... fails in the most dire way to make any comments on the state of parenting and coupling in America rooted in actual observation." |
Tim Brayton |
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