Tomato 3/5 |
Taken (2009) |
"Still, if you're willing to hold your nose to the political subtext of Taken, it's one rousing moment after another." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 2/5 |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"Scott seems not to trust the cat-and-mouse maneuverings of Washington and Travolta to carry the film, instead sucking away the claustrophobic intensity with car chases and other superfluous frills." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 2/5 |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"Eliot is conceived as something of a blank-slate character, and [Demetri] Martin isn't engaging enough to give anything but a blank-slate performance." |
Alonso Duralde |
Tomato |
Tarzan (1999) |
"An entertaining, satisfying extravaganza that artfully balances excitement and sentiment, hokum and heroics, low comedy and high adventure." |
Joe Leydon |
Tomato |
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) |
"Kevin Williamson’s revenge fantasy rests upon the reasonable assumption that everyone has entertained homicidal fantasies about some especially obnoxious teacher." |
Joe Leydon |
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Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"The stars may leave, but sequels keep coming" |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 3/5 |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"The machines, as the movie keeps reminding us, must be stopped. Especially the machine that sucked the lifeblood out of this franchise." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 2/5 |
The Clone Wars (2008) |
"Very young kids, Star Wars completists and Lucas apologists may find themselves compelled to attend; anyone else would have a better time going to the Toshi Station to pick up power converters." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 1/5 |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) |
"If you're looking for chuckles this holiday season, bypass the miserably unfunny Four Christmases and go where the real comedy is -- The Day the Earth Stood Still, a clumsy, moronic remake of Robert Wise's brilliant 1951 classic." |
Alonso Duralde |
Tomato 5/5 |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"[I]t's a movie that people who love movies will discuss, argue over, and rewatch for years to come." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 3/5 |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"Where the film's ambitions crumble is in its avowed refusal to make its audience too uncomfortable." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat |
Thomas Crown Affair, The (1999) |
"Not quite as pleasurable, or guilt-inducing, as the first telling of the same story." |
Joe Leydon |
Tomato |
Three Kings (1999) |
"George Clooney solidifies his status as a full-fledged feature-film leading man with his effortlessly authoritative performance." |
Joe Leydon |
Splat |
Three to Tango (1999) |
"Trouble is, they’re trying so hard and missing the mark by so much that they end up being more irritating than appealing." |
Judy Gerstel |
Splat 2/5 |
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) |
"I can only imagine that the scenes of a 40-something man getting chummy with his 6-year-old bride-to-be must have played better in the book. On film, it feels like To Catch a Time-Traveling Predator." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 2/5 |
Traitor (2008) |
"All you'll learn about the War on Terror from this movie is that one exists." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 1/5 |
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"A cinematic avalanche in which Michael Bay eschews anything resembling plot or characters and instead screams at the audience's eyes for two and a half hours." |
Alonso Duralde |
- |
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"Whatever happened to grownups on film?" |
Alonso Duralde |
Tomato 4/5 |
Tropic Thunder (2008) |
"If only for making Tom Cruise and Matthew McConaughey funny for the first time since 1994 or so, Tropic Thunder would already qualify as an impressive comedic achievement." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 2/5 |
Trucker (2009) |
"Were it not for Michelle Monaghan's convincingly dirt-under-the-fingernails performance in the title role, there would be absolutely nothing about the film to distinguish it from dozens of other movies." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 3/5 |
Twilight (2008) |
"Hardwicke has shrewdly made a film that will appeal to the audience that could make or break it. But there's little here to win over those of us without dog-eared copies of Twilight under our beds." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 2/5 |
Two Lovers (2009) |
"If you've been searching for a non-addictive, non-chemical cure for insomnia, Two Lovers may be the answer to your prayers." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 2/5 |
Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) |
"Ultimately, we wind up with another Tyler Perry movie in which a wayward woman must learn to submit to two patriarchies: the nice blue-collar guy who's going to solve her problems, and Jesus." |
Alonso Duralde |
Splat 2/5 |
Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail (2009) |
"Tyler Perry knows how to push his audience's buttons. It's just disappointing that the most successful African-American filmmaker of this generation refuses to try any harder than that." |
Alonso Duralde |
Tomato |
Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008) |
"Meet the Browns is lots of fun -- light on the Jesus-ifying and heavy on showcasing some very talented African-American performers whom audiences don’t get to see often enough. You’ll be glad to have been introduced." |
Alonso Duralde |
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