Tomato 3.5/5 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Adventureland is a confident return to the kind of teen comedy that’s funny without being raunchy, youthful without being juvenile, and reflective without hitting you over the head with anything heavier than an amusement-park Whac-a-Mole mallet." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Adventures of Power (2009) |
"Not even the always reliable talents of McKean and Lynch can help pull this comedy out of its ironic slump." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Tomato 3/5 |
Afghan Star (2009) |
"One of the more surreal docs to come down the pike in some time." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 2/5 |
Amelia (2009) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/4 |
American Violet (2009) |
"Movingly told and packed with powerful subject matter." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Tomato 4/5 |
Amreeka (2009) |
"Faour, in an Oscar-worthy performance, renders Muna in shades of love and hope." |
Marc Savlov |
Tomato 4/5 |
An Education (2009) |
"Everything about Scherfig’s coming-of-age story about a girl in the London suburb of Twickenham in 1961 is spot-on." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 2/5 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"The only thrill here comes from the adrenaline kick of the chase. Alas, it's an empty, Pavlovian kick at best." |
Kimberly Jones |
Tomato 4/5 |
Antichrist (2009) |
"Chaos reigns, indeed, but let's at least attempt to be as unflinchingly honest as von Trier: When has Chaos not?" |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Astro Boy (2009) |
" It's a totally serviceable reboot for young people who are just discovering the joys of manga, but I can't help but miss the raw animation and even rawer emotional aesthetics of Tezuka's original televised anime series." |
Marc Savlov |
Tomato 4/5 |
Avatar (2009) |
"It's thrilling and lovely and sad and explosive in all the right ways, and it needs to be seen -- on the big screen, in 3-D -- to be believed." |
Marc Savlov |
Tomato 2.5/5 |
Away We Go (2009) |
"See it for the performances -- they are delights from the leads on down to the characters in the episodic vignettes. But the film’s vision of Gen-Y nesting is liable to leave you up a tree." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 0.5/5 |
An American Carol (2008) |
"This movie is seriously unfunny, and it's not just my admittedly left-wing politics that are in the way of my getting the joke." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 1/5 |
American Teen (2008) |
"What her cameras capture shouldn’t be construed as truth but rather as scenarios that were cast in stone long before she came on the scene." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Tomato 3/5 |
Anita O'Day - The Life Of A Jazz Singer (2008) |
"The story of O'Day's talent and innovation is well told." |
Theresa Everline |
Tomato 3/5 |
Appaloosa (2008) |
"A suitable slow burn punctuated by sudden acts of violence; it fairly oozes off the screen like bloodied molasses, and then, heated, bubbles up and over, all smoke and fire and endless clouds of New Mexico dust." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Australia (2008) |
"Luhrmann wants it all -- comedy and tragedy, bombast and wet-eyed sentimentality. When it works, his kid-in-a-candy-store giddiness is infectious. When it doesn't, he punctures Australia's proportions down from epic to simply overwrought." |
Kimberly Jones |
Splat 1.5/5 |
The Abandoned (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 1/5 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"Across the Universe will have ardent defenders, but in the long run, it will do nothing to infuse life into the current minirevival of movie musicals and is as soft-headed as the wishful refrain All You Need Is Love." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Tomato 3/5 |
Adam's Apples (2007) |
"This Danish comedy, like most of that country's dramas, is dark, dark, dark. The film's humor offers an odd blend of subversively sly narrative mixed with bursts of sudden, sharp violence and goofy slapstick." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"Bier [is] the latest in a long line of filmmakers who have mastered the art of making movies about people we can all thank God we’re not." |
Josh Rosenblatt |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
"The film is a lovingly hilarious portrait of a bizarre and endearing pastime." |
Toddy Burton |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) |
"I can’t say for sure what the 'Requiem' in the film’s title refers to, though we can only hope it means it will be the last in the series." |
Josh Rosenblatt |
Splat 2/4 |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"This film is way more about tits and ass and drugs and guns and California muscle cars and busting up house parties with kung fu than it is about deep characterization or the epic scale of Scarface." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 1/5 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"Will true love prevail? Will Dave grow a backbone (and some real songwriting talent)? And most important, will Alvin, Simon, and Theodore survive this bland new form of chipmunk mania? They shoot rodents, don't they?" |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"What makes William Wilberforce a great man is also what makes him a bore: He's possessed of such intractable single-mindedness and confidence in the rightness of his ideals that we can’t help but wish he would lay aside saving the world for a while." |
Josh Rosenblatt |
Tomato 3/5 |
Amazon (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Marc Savlov |
Tomato 4/5 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"American Gangster does a crackerjack job at nailing the look and feel of New York City's bad old days." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 2/5 |
Angel-A (2007) |
"An ultimately dull nonaffair." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 2/5 |
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007) |
"A massive collection of absurdist non sequiturs and deadpan pauses, which, depending on your tastes (and possibly your affinity for mind-altering drugs), are either the stuff of comic genius or proof that the world has stopped making sense entirely." |
Josh Rosenblatt |
Tomato 3/5 |
Arctic Tale (2007) |
"If it's sometimes a little too pat, a little too cute, bear in mind that this film's target audience is the post-Barney, pre-Bratz set and not John James Audubon." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 1/5 |
Are We Done Yet? (2007) |
"Nothing is very funny in this movie, and everything is predictable." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 1/5 |
Arthur and the Invisibles (2007) |
"The story is just incoherent, and the faster it moves, the more frantic it seems." |
Marrit Ingman |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"...The Assassination of Jesse James grabs on to many of the classic tropes of the Western -- the meandering passage of time, the imposing landscapes, the abiding loneliness, the casual violence -- and sets about mapping their furthest edges." |
Josh Rosenblatt |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Astronaut Farmer (2007) |
"The Astronaut Farmer could almost be a relic from the golden age of Hollywood, an inspirational drama about staying true to one’s hopes and ideals no matter the social, economic, or emotional cost." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Tomato 4/5 |
Atonement (2007) |
"Imagination typically should be encouraged in children, but an excess of it leads to tragedy in this more than worthy adaptation of Ian McEwan's 2002 novel." |
Kimberly Jones |
Tomato 4/5 |
August Evening (2007) |
"This quiet, contemplative gem of a film paints a painfully accurate portrait of familial love, loss, and healing-by-degrees among the migrant communities bordering San Antonio." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 2/5 |
August Rush (2007) |
"Will his parents, through a magical, utterly unlikely yet strangely compelling of fate, come running once they hear the longing in their little maestro's edgily hip, borderline Ani DiFrancoid slap-strumming? Far be it from me to state the obvious." |
Marc Savlov |
Tomato 3/4 |
Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
"This is one of the wonders of Paris, I imagine, or at least of being rich in Paris: Even your misery plays like a fairy tale. In Avenue Montaigne, miserable souls are as common as raindrops, and each one is a portrait of privileged existentialism." |
Josh Rosenblatt |
Tomato 4/5 |
Away From Her (2007) |
"Away From Her is a phantom of a movie whose beautiful flakes fall into the deep crevices of memory long after the seasons change." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Tomato 3/5 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"As the title implies, there’s a certain opacity to A Scanner Darkly, but at times it can be as naked as the lunch on the end of your fork." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 1/5 |
Accepted (2006) |
"It’s an obvious nod to Rock 'n' Roll High School that mostly serves as a grim reminder of how far comedies about the education system have fallen." |
Brian Clark |
Tomato 3/5 |
Adam & Steve (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Marrit Ingman |
Tomato 2.5/5 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"Akeelah has lofty goals, and though it doesn’t always achieve them, it is a rewarding tale for public educators, parents, and kids with big dreams." |
Marrit Ingman |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) |
"Neither as adroitly funny as Franken's comic routines, nor as notable as his conversion to the fine art of politics, this is a 90-minute 'What If?' with no discernible answer." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 1.5/5 |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"The movie contains lots of sound and fury, but alas, it signifies nothing." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 2/5 |
America: Freedom To Fascism (2006) |
"Just as the film’s arguments start growing persuasive, Russo (who also narrates the movie) undermines his work by freefalling into a tangled web of all-out conspiracy-mongering." |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
Splat 2/5 |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"... American Dreamz is kind of all over the place from the beginning." |
Marrit Ingman |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Hardcore (2006) |
"Crammed with grainy, shot-on-the-fly mid-Eighties video footage, recent interviews, and a genuine love for its subject, American Hardcore encapsulates a largely forgotten moment in maximum rock & roll history." |
Marc Savlov |
Splat 2/5 |
An American Haunting (2006) |
"It really is fun to watch yet another oddball turn by Sutherland, and a marginally restrained one from Spacek. It's just not that fun." |
Marc Savlov |
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