Splat 2.5/4 |
Caché (2005) |
"Once the lights come up plenty of question marks still are floating around, waiting for answers that will never come." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Cadillac Records (2008) |
"Chess electrified the blues, Chuck Berry electrified white audiences and after seeing this film you’re going to want to find a compilation of Chess hits, settle in with a longneck and groove to some of the best American music ever made." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"Dishes just enough laugh-out-loud jokes and female-empowerment moments to divert our attention from its threadbare script." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
Callas Forever (2004) |
"The film rises and falls on Ardant's performance and, boy, does she deliver, chewing up scenery and making it look like delicate surgery." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Camp (2003) |
"A sort of bargain-basement Fame that squeaks by on good cheer and some of the brassiest voices ever to issue from adolescent throats." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore? (2006) |
"Warm, funny, informative, breathlessly paced and inspiring." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Candy (2006) |
"Drug addiction is bad. Given the universal consensus on this topic, anyone making a movie about it needs to come up with a fresh approach." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/4 |
El Cantante (2007) |
"How are we supposed to view Lavoe? The film never makes up its mind. The man apparently started out as an innocent and quickly went to the devil." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) |
"As you watch, your indignation grows. Moore has chosen precisely the right moment to tap into the throbbing vein of anti-corporate, anti-rich anger." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Capote (2005) |
"A gut-wrencher, a sobering tale of how literary genius and moral emptiness combine to produce both great art and shattered lives." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) |
"This is one of those films where the cast seems to go through their paces without really inhabiting their roles and where everybody has a different accent." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 4/4 |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"It's an exquisitely timed and organized drama, one that regularly detonates with nuclear-strength revelations that force us to stop and reconsider everything that has come before." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Caramel (2008) |
"Labaki is so enchanting you’ll find yourself looking forward to her next appearance." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cars (2006) |
"Cars creates a world so palpably real that within minutes we accept that its only sentient creatures are automobiles." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/4 |
Casanova (2005) |
"Lasse Hallstrom’s costume comedy Casanova is pretty flat. In fact, it’s leaking air all over the place." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"After seeing this performance one can only be excited at the prospect of watching Craig’s Bond mature and change over the course of several films." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/4 |
Cassandra's Dream (2008) |
"The tone feels all wrong." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
Cast Away (2000) |
"A gripping tale of a man against the elements." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Casting About (2007) |
"Casting About is less a documentary than a lyrical tribute to women in general. Strong women, confident women, nervous women, goofy women, beautiful women and just normal-looking women. This film adores them all." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"Catch a Fire was shot in South Africa and is well-acted by Luke and Robbins, who give their characters complexity and subtlety." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/4 |
Catch and Release (2007) |
"Screenwriter Susannah Grant (In Her Shoes, Erin Brockovich) makes her directing debut by cramming every conceivable genre into one mess of a movie. It’s as if she didn’t think she’d get another chance." |
Loey Lockerby |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"A breathless, amusing caper flick anchored by strong performances from Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat |
Cats & Dogs (2001) |
"A piece of formulaic fluff that will no doubt draw lots of families to the multiplex this Fourth of July holiday." |
Brian McTavish |
Splat .5/4 |
Catwoman (2004) |
"If Halle Berry keeps this up, she's going to have to give that Oscar back." |
Loey Lockerby |
Splat 2/4 |
The Cave (2005) |
"If they had packed a little more character development and logic, "The Cave" would have felt a little less empty." |
Dan Lybarger |
Tomato |
The Caveman's Valentine (2001) |
"A novel twist on a genre that seems always to be in a process of reinvention." |
Robert W. Butler |
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Cecil B. Demented (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
The Cell (2000) |
"A curiously compelling movie." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/4 |
Cellular (2004) |
"A goofy thriller that unfolds on a planet that looks like Earth but that operates by a completely different set of rules." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
The Center of the World (2001) |
"The results seem not to have been written and rehearsed but to have erupted spontaneously while the camera was running." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/4 |
Chandni Chowk to China (2009) |
"Chandni Chowk to China is an energetic mess." |
Jason Heck |
Tomato 3/4 |
Changeling (2008) |
"The film slowly and deliberately builds a head of righteous indignation; along the way it becomes a sort of feminist fable." |
David Frese |
Splat 2/4 |
Changing Lanes (2002) |
"Brimming with ethical dilemmas, "Changing Lanes" sometimes errs on the side of convenience, the same vice it vehemently condemns." |
Dan Lybarger |
Tomato |
Chaos (2003) |
"A sort of female action/revenge fantasy whose knives are sheathed in amusement." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/4 |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"Lacks a creative spark." |
David Frese |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Charlie Bartlett (2007) |
"For all its sympathy toward adolescent angst, it turns out that Charlie Bartlett is really about reassuring and reinforcing worried adults." |
Loey Lockerby |
Tomato 3/4 |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"Though pitched as comedy with absurdist flourishes, you can’t help thinking that Charlie Wilson’s War accurately captures the less-than-kosher methods by which laws are passed and money dispersed in our nation’s capital." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Charlie's Angels (2000) |
"A film whose seductive glamour shots, over-the-top karate chops and never-ending tight spots play like a cross between the zany camaraderie of the Beatles in Help! and the high-tech martial arts barrage of The Matrix." |
Brian McTavish |
Splat 2/4 |
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) |
"Full Throttle is virtually identical to its predecessor, but with more of everything, good and bad." |
Loey Lockerby |
Tomato 3/4 |
Charlotte's Web (2006) |
"Charlotte’s Web ends on a grace note that should keep you feeling whimsical for many days after." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Che (2008) |
"Hugely watchable, practically mesmerizing." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 1/4 |
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) |
"This turkey unfolds like the worst-ever episode of The Brady Bunch, only without a laugh track to tell us when we're supposed to be enjoying ourselves." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Cheaper By the Dozen 2 (2005) |
"There is no hilarity, just a couple of veteran funnymen going through the hellishly predictable motions in this unimaginative and unnecessary sequel." |
Brian McTavish |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Cheri (2009) |
"Purportedly a tale of seething emotions, Cheri almost never registers love or anguish. It’s banal." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato 3/4 |
Chicago (2002) |
"Zellweger and Zeta-Jones provide a perfect contrast -- the former a naive child-woman who wants only to see her name in lights, the latter a been-around-the-block cynic fighting for survival." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Chicken Little (2005) |
"Chicken Little was mildly amusing at best. There was none of the explosive laughter that fuels the Pixar world. I missed it." |
Robert W. Butler |
Tomato |
Chicken Run (2000) |
"But there's something more going on here, an almost palpable joy in the ability of the animators to turn colorful clay into charming, amusing characters." |
Robert W. Butler |
- |
Chocolat (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat 2/4 |
Choke (2008) |
"The film has no pace, no style and no sense of forward momentum. Rockwell is given lots of narration in an attempt to glue it all together, but it doesn’t help." |
Robert W. Butler |
Splat |
Chopper (2001) |
"At first it's shocking. For a while it's grimly amusing. After that it gets simply repetitive." |
Robert W. Butler |
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