Splat 1/5 |
Mad Money (2008) |
"[T]he gap between [Thelma & Louise] and Mad Money resembles the abyss that Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis drove into in Khouri's earlier hit." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 2/5 |
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) |
"Easily entertained children will probably be amused enough by Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, but their parents may find themselves growing restless at this overly fussy, shticky movie and will no doubt look forward to an Escape 2 the Lobby." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 1/5 |
Made of Honor (2008) |
"It remains a mystery why viewers -- particularly female ones -- continue to flock to wedding movies, particularly ones that paint all women as despicable, pathetic and/or man-hungry." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 2/5 |
Mamma Mia! (2008) |
"On the scale of Celebrities Who Can't Sing, [Brosnan]'s a few notches above Lee Marvin in Paint Your Wagon but falls short of the vocal skills of Burt Reynolds in At Long Last Love." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 3/5 |
Management (2009) |
"Romance isn't about logic, but seriously -- the way Mike keeps popping up in Sue's life, unbidded, from a long distance, comes off as more than just a bit creepy and not at all charming." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 2/5 |
Marley & Me (2008) |
"Despite having been labored over by sharp screenwriters Scott Frank and Don Roos, Marley & Me feels like She's Having a Baby with some Marmaduke cartoons grafted onto it." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 2/5 |
Max Payne (2008) |
"Eventually, Max pieces together a conspiracy, but Max Payne spells it all out so obviously that the densest audience members will put the pieces together at least half an hour before the hero finally does." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 3/5 |
Meet Dave (2008) |
"It's a pity someone can't guide the course of Starship Murphy to a smarter, funnier universe than the one he's chosen to explore." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 2/5 |
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |
"There are a handful of funny moments -- most of which appear in the trailer -- but overall, this is a film that would have benefited from someone staring at some rewrites." |
Alonso Duralde |
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The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |
"When it comes to stardom, Clooney has smarts" |
Alonso Duralde |
Tomato 4/5 |
Michael Clayton (2007) |
"Michael Clayton definitely has its heart in the '70s." |
Alonso Duralde |
Tomato 4/5 |
Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) |
"To remember Jackson's singing voice at its finest, put his albums on; if you want to experience his breathtaking talent as a dancer and showman, in what would turn out to be the final weeks of his life, well, This Is It." |
Alonso Duralde |
Tomato |
Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) |
"Hugh Grant is at his best when, eager to be accepted as a made man, he talks tough in a voice that sounds like Elmer Fudd on helium." |
Joe Leydon |
Splat 3/5 |
Milk (2008) |
"All I know is that I can never get through Times of Harvey Milk without a handkerchief, while Van Sant's Milk left me forlornly dry-eyed." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 3/5 |
Miracle at St. Anna (2008) |
"Lee's creative passion is apparent throughout Miracle at St. Anna, but the screenplay lets him, and the audience, down." |
Alonso Duralde |
Tomato 3/5 |
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) |
"[I]f you get bored with the plot, just look at the purses and the shoes." |
Alonso Duralde |
Tomato 5/5 |
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) |
"While the jokes take a back seat to the action in the film's big climax, there are earlier moments that rank among the most fighting-for-breath funny stuff I've seen at the movies in ages." |
Alonso Duralde |
Tomato 4/5 |
Moon (2009) |
"The intelligence and care with which the movie was produced makes the script's minor deficiencies stand out in contrast, but on the whole, Moon is the sort of trippy sci-fi dystopia that's best enjoyed on the big screen." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 1/5 |
Motherhood (2009) |
"What Eliza writes, like Motherhood itself, feels like a stale collection of harried-parent material that the bland comedy duo The Mommies milked dry more than a decade ago." |
Alonso Duralde |
Tomato 5/5 |
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) |
"The trailers make the movie look like the ickiest kind of whimsy, accompanied by obstreperous special effects, but the film itself is gasp-worthy." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat |
Mumford (1999) |
"Mumford is such an instantly forgettable piece of work." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat |
The Mummy (1999) |
"No one strikes the right balance of tongue-in-cheeky spoof and go-for-broke cliffhanger." |
Joe Leydon |
Splat 2/5 |
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) |
"And in a summer when even the latest Indiana Jones movie is a pale copy of its predecessors, who wants to see a second-rate Indy rip-off?" |
Alonso Duralde |
Tomato |
Muppets from Space (1999) |
"A goofy, good-humored trek through identity crises, show-biz cliches and the timeless love of a pig for a frog." |
Stephen Whitty |
Tomato |
The Muse (1999) |
"An orgy of inside Hollywood jokes!" |
Hillel Italie |
Splat 1/5 |
My Best Friend's Girl (2008) |
"Want to spend a seemingly endless 100 minutes watching a dullard trying to decide between a douchebag and a eunuch? Then run, don't walk, to My Best Friend's Girl, a supremely irritating movie about idiots and their dull quest for unconvincing love" |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat |
My Blueberry Nights (2008) |
"But it's not the English that seems to trip up the writer-director; it's the language. Wong's script, co-written with Lawrence Block, tosses out the filmmaker's genius for non-verbal characterization and replaces it with talk, talk, talk." |
Alonso Duralde |
Tomato 3/5 |
My Life in Ruins (2009) |
"So why did I have such a good time at such a spectacularly middling movie? Nia Vardalos." |
Alonso Duralde |
Tomato 4/5 |
My Sister's Keeper (2009) |
"Given how easily the filmmakers could have cranked up the string section and gone for the quivering lip in soft focus, their restraint is admirable." |
Alonso Duralde |
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