Tomato 3.5/5 |
V For Vendetta (2005) |
"What it has for certain, and what it has in spades, are some very real ideas. And, to paraphrase this V fellow, ideas are box-office-proof." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 2.5/5 |
V.I. Warshawski (1991) |
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Steve Davis |
Tomato 3/5 |
Va Savoir (2001) |
"Its warm humor and love for its characters ultimately wins us over to its side." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Vacancy (2007) |
"Nothing in Vacancy manages to come anywhere close to the quiet and steadily mounting dread of the real thing, much less the purview of Norman Bates or his beloved mother." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 2/5 |
Vajra Sky Over Tibet (2006) |
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Josh Rosenblatt |
Tomato 3/5 |
Valentin (2004) |
"Whether you ease into the languid and semi-treacly flow of this big-hearted Argentinean import or instead scoff at the child’s-eye platitudes contained within will have much to do with your tolerance of preposterously cute moppets in dire straits." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 0/5 |
Valentine (2001) |
"Relentless in its pursuit of suspenseless mediocrity, Valentine succeeds only in boring you to death, the most horrifying fate of all." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Tomato 3/5 |
Valentino: the Last Emperor (2009) |
"The film feels as glitzy and superficial as the fashion industry itself, a bauble in full regalia, and it’s likely your interest in the documentary will depend largely on your prior interest in the subject matter." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 1.5/5 |
The Valet (2007) |
"Shot with the creative energy of a mediocre sitcom, the scenes play out predictable plot devices with minimal creativity and even less risk." |
Toddy Burton |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Valiant (2005) |
"The movie's takeoffs on old war-movie and RAF-flyboy cliches will certainly not connect with the knowledge base of America's current youngsters, which will only cause Valiant to seem that much more foreign." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 2/5 |
Valkyrie (2008) |
"Following Hitchcock's 'bomb under the desk' dictum to the bitter end just doesn't work out to anyone's satisfaction here." |
Marc Savlov |
Tomato |
Valley Girl (1983) |
"This is one of the great teen romance movies." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Tomato |
Valley of the Dolls (1967) |
"You won’t want to miss a word of the deliciously bad dialogue in this Hollywood tale of twisted sisters." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Tomato |
Valley of the Dolls (1967) |
"Rent it and howl." |
Stephen Macmillan Moser |
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Vampire Circus (1971) |
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Marjorie Baumgarten |
Tomato 3/5 |
Vampire Hunter D (1985) |
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Marc Savlov |
Tomato 3/5 |
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) |
"Gory and gorgeous bliss." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 2/5 |
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) |
"Neither all that scary nor all that hilarious, Vampire in Brooklyn falls directly between the two, into the valley of mediocrity." |
Marc Savlov |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Vampires (1998) |
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Marc Savlov |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Van (1996) |
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Marc Savlov |
Splat 2/5 |
Van Gogh (1992) |
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Pamela Bruce |
Splat 2/5 |
Van Helsing (2004) |
"The film suffers from some truly inane dialogue and pacing that will likely cause tachycardia in members of the audience old enough to recall who Dwight Frye was." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 0/5 |
Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006) |
"Penn sports little of the squirrelly charm evidenced by the original Van Wilder star, Ryan Reynolds." |
Marc Savlov |
Tomato 4/5 |
Vanaja (2007) |
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Marc Savlov |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Vanilla Sky (2001) |
"A film that you can take home and chew over later, both abrasive in its loudness and reflective in its fleeting, feminine moments of silence." |
Marc Savlov |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Vanishing (1993) |
"A good, psychological thriller that, I suspect, packs more of a wallop if you have not seen the original." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Vanity Fair (2004) |
"What it needs is more emphasis on the 'vanity' and less on the 'fair.'" |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 1/5 |
Vantage Point (2008) |
"If you can work your way past Vantage Point's goofy casting that places a bland, blank-eyed Hurt in the White House, then I suppose you can manage to forgive this Rashomon rip-off's other glaring idiosyncrasies, of which there are many." |
Marc Savlov |
Tomato 4/5 |
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) |
"The overall effect of Uncle Vanya on 42nd Street is that one has just experienced something truly timeless." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 2/5 |
Varsity Blues (1998) |
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Marc Savlov |
Tomato 4/5 |
Velvet Goldmine (1998) |
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Russell Smith |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Vengo (2001) |
"While the film isn't perfect, it nonetheless captures the dangerously emotional world of both flamenco music and the Spanish Gypsies who use it to stave off the inevitable vagaries of Romany life." |
Marc Savlov |
Tomato 3/5 |
Venice, Venice (1992) |
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Louis Black |
Splat 0/5 |
Venom (2005) |
"... even by the logistically malleable standards of the horror genre, Venom lacks even the barest rudiments of the form ..." |
Marc Savlov |
Tomato 4/5 |
Venus (2006) |
"It comes as a pleasant shock, actually, to see newcomer Whittaker holding her actorly own against the icon O'Toole." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 2/5 |
Venus Beauty Institute (2000) |
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Kimberly Jones |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Vera Drake (2004) |
"[Leigh's] best picture in some time." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 3/5 |
Veronica Guerin (2003) |
"Serviceable but hardly riveting or inspirational." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Versus (2000) |
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Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 1/5 |
Vertical Limit (2000) |
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Marc Savlov |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2001) |
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Kimberly Jones |
Tomato 5.5/5 |
Vertigo (1958) |
"Vertigo stands as one of the thrill master's most psychologically dense and twisted works in which obsession, commitment, and dual identities all merge to create a voluptuous tale of thwarted love." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Very Bad Things (1998) |
"There is a line between gallows humor and tastelessness, but Very Bad Things apparently doesn't have a clue where that might be." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 0/5 |
A Very Brady Sequel (1996) |
"Even Sherwood Schwartz would've hated this dog." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 2.5/5 |
A Very Long Engagement (2004) |
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Kimberly Jones |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) |
"Something is terribly amiss when the American actors sound like English is their second language." |
Kimberly Jones |
Splat 0/4 |
View from the Top (2003) |
"Dull as dirt." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 1.5/5 |
The Village (2004) |
"Feels as if Shyamalan is coasting." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 1/5 |
Village of the Damned (1995) |
"Carpenter's updating of the classic 1960 chiller is mediocre at best, and at times plummets into unintentional humor." |
Marc Savlov |
- |
Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others (1974) |
Click here to see the review. |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
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