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Critics / Publications / Kansas City Star

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Authors
    • Shawn Bowers
    • Robert W. Butler
    • Sharon Chapman
    • Derek Donovan
    • John Mark Eberhart
    • Timothy Finn
    • Robert Folsom
    • David Frese
    • Leah Green
    • James Hart
    • Jason Heck
    • Sharon Hoffmann
    • Steve Kobak
    • Loey Lockerby
    • Dan Lybarger
    • Brian McTavish
    • Eric Melin
    • Nell Minow
    • Steve Paul
    • Sam Sessa
    • Rasmi Simhan
    • Hampton Stevens
    • Ward Triplett III
    • Robert Trussell
    • Calvin Wilson
    • Eric Winkler

Kansas City Star

  
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Rating Title Year Quote Author

Tomato
3/4

Tadpole (2002)

"The players are clearly having a ball, never grasping for laughs but rather generating them through a keen sense of their characters."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004)

"The beauty of writer/director Je-gyu Kang's work is his ability to gloss over the dramatic deficiencies with some of the best combat footage ever."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato

The Tailor of Panama (2001)

"Worthwhile if just for Brosnan, who's having so much fun in his new smarmy skin that you can't help but get caught up in it."

Robert W. Butler

Splat
2/4

Take the Lead (2006)

"Even the dancing feels phony in Take the Lead, a movie most successful at reminding us of just how good Mad Hot Ballroom was."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
2.5/4

Taken (2009)

"Taken is a crude but effective thriller that builds tension while cooking up a full head of righteous indignation."

Robert W. Butler

Splat
2/4

Taking Lives (2004)

"The filmmakers may sense that their powers are spent because they add a nude scene with Jolie that feels more obligatory than gratuitous."

Dan Lybarger

Splat
D+

Taking Lives (2004)

"Use the title as a warning- Taking Lives takes hours of your life you can’t get back."

Shawn Bowers

Tomato
3/4

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)

"You don’t go to a movie by Tony Scott looking for subtlety and subtext. But give him a good story and Scott delivers."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
3.5/4

Taking Woodstock (2009)

"For any teenager tempted to sneer at Mom and Dad’s veneration of the whole Woodstock thing, this film explains why those three days in 1969 had such a profound effect on a generation."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
2.5/4

The Tale of Despereaux (2008)

"May be the most beautiful animated film ever...As storytelling, though, it's messy, a fairy tale that cannot decide on a tone or narrative approach."

Splat

A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003)

"A bit of cinematic showing-off that offers an intriguing puzzle but never really makes us care."

Robert W. Butler

Splat
2/4

Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

"Talladega is full of fun moments and funny performances that are more engaging as bits than as a cohesive narrative."

David Frese

-

The Tao of Steve (2000)

Click here to see the review.

Robert W. Butler

Tomato

Tape (2001)

"All three players masterfully delve beneath their characters' outer faces to examine the inner personality."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
3.5/4

Tarnation (2004)

"For all the horrors Tarnation exposes, it's ultimately a supremely uplifting experience for the simple reason that Jonathan Caouette survived."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato

The Taste of Others (2001)

"An affectionate portrait of a cross section of humanity."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
3.5/4

Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)

"An astonishingly comprehensive look at the use of torture (or whatever euphemism you prefer) in the war on terror."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
4/4

Team America: World Police (2004)

"Team America: World Police is this decade's Dr. Strangelove."

Robert W. Butler

Splat
2.5/4

Tears of the Sun (2003)

"As was the case with Training Day, which climaxed with a long slugfest that flirted with the preposterous, Fuqua can't quite finesse the screenplay's moments of heavy-handed melodrama and a couple of glaring narrative improbabilities."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
3/5

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Movie (1990)

"Honestly, when I first saw the movie, I was probably around 8 years old, but the allure of the Ninja Turtles, while faded over the years, is still hard to deny. Not for all tastes by any means, it's decent enough."

Shawn Bowers

Tomato
3/4

Tell No One (2008)

"A French thriller that teases the intellect, shocks the senses and is sometimes simply too suspenseful for comfort."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
3.5/4

Tell Them Who You Are (2005)

"In the end this is a great movie about a filmmaker. It's also a great movie about fathers and sons."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
3/4

Ten Canoes (2007)

"As much an anthropology exercise as a cinematic experience, the Australian Ten Canoes goes back nearly a millennium to immerse us in the lives of the Aborigines who survived on the land centuries before the arrival of Europeans."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
2.5/4

Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon (2009)

"It’s all very uplifting. It might even move some youngsters to start their own businesses."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato

The Terminal (2004)

"A satisfying feel-good comedy."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
3/4

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

"In the end this third entry leaves you thinking. And a little disturbed."

Robert W. Butler

Splat
2/4

Terminator Salvation (2009)

"It’s basically a cheap thrill. An expensive cheap thrill."

Robert W. Butler

-

The Terrorist (1998)

Click here to see the review.

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
3/4

Tetro (2009)

"The acting is terrific."

Robert W. Butler

Splat
2/4

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

"While the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre was genuinely creepy, this one is simply explicit."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
2.5/4

Thank You For Smoking (2006)

"A collection of good jokes looking for a plot, Thank You works best as a character study of a contentedly amoral man."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
3.5/4

The Cats of Mirikitani (2006)

"A low-budget effort with a huge emotional and intellectual payoff."

Robert W. Butler

Splat
2/4

The Clone Wars (2008)

"It's the finest 97-minute advertisement for Yoda underpants released this week."

David Frese

Splat
2/4

The Clone Wars (2008)

"It's the finest 97-minute advertisement for Yoda underpants released this week."

David Frese

Splat
2/4

The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

"This Day has a big special effects budget but has little sense and even less soul."

Robert W. Butler

Splat

The Polar Express (2004)

"Yet another case of Hollywood taking a slight, charming, deeply satisfying book (Chris Van Allsburg's Caldecott-winning title is only 29 pages long, and 26 of those are illustrations) and inflating it into a ponderous movie."

Robert W. Butler

Splat
2.5/4

Then She Found Me (2008)

"Hunt, who also co-wrote the screenplay from Elinor Lipman’s novel, scrupulously avoids anything that smacks of TV sitcom humor. This is admirable, but the result is one of the glummest romantic comedies in recent memory."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
4/4

There Will Be Blood (2007)

"Ultimately the film belongs to Day-Lewis, whose devotion to character is itself a bit mad, and Paul Thomas Anderson, who takes us places no other filmmaker dares."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
4/4

Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

"[Director] Bier steers clear of Hollywood formula. Her low-key, natural style comes by its drama honestly, with little manipulation and lots of character development."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato

Thirteen (2003)

"Every parent of a teenage girl should see Thirteen."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
B-

Thirteen (2003)

"Despite the flaws, it is worthy of recommendation for people interested in film, if for no other reason than Wood's performance."

Shawn Bowers

-

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2002)

"My sister and I had to teach screenwriting to a bunch of 8-year-olds. The first question we asked was, What's your favorite movie? Some little girl said, `Amadeus.'"

Dan Lybarger

Tomato

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2002)

"13 Conversations may be a bit too enigmatic and overly ambitious to be fully successful, but Sprecher and her screenwriting partner and sister, Karen Sprecher, don't seem ever to run out of ideas."

Robert W. Butler

-

Thirteen Days (2000)

Click here to see the review.

Robert W. Butler

-

This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006)

"Interview with Director Kirby Dick and film scholar Dotty Hamilton"

Dan Lybarger

Tomato
3/4

This So-Called Disaster (2004)

"Will appeal mostly to those who love theater and relish the opportunity to see a production being built, scene by scene."

Robert W. Butler

Splat
1.5/4

Thr3e (2007)

"It’s relentlessly mediocre and does not belong in a venue where you’ll have to pay $9 to see it."

Loey Lockerby

Tomato
3/4

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)

"Sam Peckinpah is no longer with us to stir up south-of-the-border madness, but Tommy Lee Jones has taken over the franchise."

Robert W. Butler

Tomato
3.5/4

Throw Down Your Heart (2009)

"It reminds us that, in some of the most remote places in the world, people make beautiful music not as a means to fame and fortune but for a daily source of love and nourishment, like family, food and prayer."

Timothy Finn

Tomato
3/4

Thumbsucker (2005)

"Thumbsucker is a minor-key but satisfying dramedy about a high school misfit who takes solace in his, well, thumb."

Robert W. Butler

  
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