Splat |
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"If there’s anything to be learned from this dud, it’s that when you decide to adapt an explosive property like The Da Vinci Code, playing it safe isn't safe ..." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Damned United (2009) |
"Quite enjoyable, even for those of us who don’t follow British “football.”" |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Dancer in the Dark (1999) |
"It's not just that the numbers are berserkly bad; they also don't seem to have any emotional connection to this bedraggled, Dickensian waif." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
The Dancer Upstairs (2003) |
"Bardem, the star of The Dancer Upstairs, is that rare modern performer who personifies heroism." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Darfur Now (2007) |
"The depressing subtext is that even with detailed proof of ongoing genocide, it takes movie stars to get to the movers and shakers, and to get worthy movies like this one into theaters." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) |
"Hit and miss, but its tone of lyric melancholy is remarkably sustained." |
David Edelstein |
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Dark Blue (2003) |
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Peter Rainer |
- |
Dark Days (2000) |
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Peter Rainer |
Splat |
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"The Dark Knight is noisy, jumbled, and sadistic." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Dark Matter (2008) |
"Director Chen Shi-Zheng is inconsistent from one scene to the next, alternating clichés with convincing, specific details. The film never quite earns its whopper of a finale." |
Logan Hill |
Splat |
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) |
"Many of the clichés in this movie predate the last Ice Age." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
A Day in the Country (1936) |
"Along with The Postman segment from Satyajit Ray's Two Daughters, it is, I think, the greatest short film ever made." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Day Night Day Night (2007) |
"I’m frankly flummoxed about what Day Night Day Night adds up to, but its 'You Are There' allure is potent." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Day of Wrath (1943) |
"Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1943 masterpiece begins as a film about seventeenth-century witch hunts in Northern Europe, but it’s really a psychological thriller about the pull of evil on weak souls." |
Sara Cardace |
Tomato |
Days and Clouds (2008) |
"Italian director Silvio Soldini’s engrossing marital drama chronicles the growing divide that develops between a well-to-do, long-married couple when the money evaporates." |
Sara Cardace |
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Days of Glory (1944) |
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David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Days of Glory (2006) |
"A stupendous work." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
De-Lovely (2004) |
"The results ... are staid, with re-creations of Paris in the Jazz Age and Hollywood in its Golden Age that are like waxworks in motion." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008) |
"Dear Zachary earns its right to engage us on a primal level, but it comes on the heels of so many films that don’t, movies that...prey on modern fears and inflate third-rate material to the plane of tragedy." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Death at a Funeral (2007) |
"Death at a Funeral is a dark British farce whose conventionality should not be held against it -- old-fashioned farces are murder to bring off." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Death In Love (2009) |
"A pretentious and stilted but weirdly compelling blend of sins-of-the-parent saga and horror movie." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Death of a President (2006) |
"What’s missing is shapeliness, suspense, narrative cunning, visual flair -- in short, art. Are we really to believe that a network of the future would broadcast such a barbiturate?" |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006) |
"This Romanian movie defies categorization -- it's halfway between a black comedy and a Fred Wiseman documentary. And it haunts you like the ghost of any dead person you've ever ignored." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Decomposition of the Soul (2007) |
"A hushed, poetic meditation on the life of Stasi prisoners." |
David Edelstein |
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The Deep End of the Ocean (1999) |
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Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Defiance (2008) |
"Occasionally schmaltzy, to be sure, but Schreiber makes a surprisingly awesome Rambo stand-in." |
Miranda Siegel |
Tomato |
The Departed (2006) |
"The Departed has enough tension to keep you engrossed, and enough color for ten crime pictures. Scorsese obviously adores his expensive, expansive ensemble." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Departures (2009) |
"Departures needed a little more work in the morgue -- like cutting to the bone." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2006) |
"I found the documentary surprisingly diverting as a case study." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) |
"If there’s any drama here, it’s slender -- maybe a size 2." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Devil's Backbone (2001) |
"[Del Toro] understands how war can bring out the strangeness in people's perceptions; fear, as the patriarch played by Federico Luppi says, makes you see things." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Dinosaur (2000) |
"If studios are going to be paying out hundreds of millions of dollars for these films, shouldn't some of that money go to writers whose imaginations match the visuals?" |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
A Dirty Shame (2004) |
"It's impossible to scandalize audiences anymore with scenes of shocking bad taste." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) |
"Take a look again at its dream sequences, especially the nocturnal one involving the young man in the side street, and you will see a master disturber still at work." |
Peter Rainer |
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Disney's The Kid (2000) |
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Peter Rainer |
- |
The District (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Bilge Ebiri |
Tomato |
District 9 (2009) |
"To call this the best shrimp-from-outer-space South African apartheid allegory ever made does not begin to do it justice. But it’s a start." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Disturbia (2007) |
"One way you know that D.J. Caruso is a resourceful director is that he scares you silly with a minimum of violence and a few smears of blood." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Diva (1981) |
"This is style as a force of nature." |
David Edelstein |
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Divided We Fall (2001) |
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Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) |
"In Divine Secrets, there's nothing much to discover: Everything is right up-front, all fluttery and yowling." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) |
"The film is a masterpiece in which “locked-in” syndrome becomes the human condition." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Doc (2008) |
"Pieces together Doc’s phenomenal, wayward life and pays him unsentimental tribute." |
Sam Howard |
Splat |
Dogma (1999) |
"Smith is a spirited jester, and parts of Dogma are bright, icon-busting fun, but most of it is a god-awful mess." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Dogville (2003) |
"There's nothing static about [Von Trier's] technique, but everything else about the movie is dreary and closed off." |
Peter Rainer |
- |
Domestic Violence (2002) |
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Peter Rainer |
- |
Don't Say a Word (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
The Door in the Floor (2004) |
"Since when are dullness and realism synonymous?" |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Doubt (2008) |
"John Patrick Shanley’s film of his every-award-under-God-winning play Doubt is a heavy slab of dramaturgy, dark-toned and somber, yet intense as hell." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Down in the Valley (2006) |
"The purity of Norton’s madness is a wonder." |
David Edelstein |
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