Tomato |
Adventureland (2009) |
"What makes the movie such an unexpectedly potent little number is that Adventureland comes to stand for Stagnationland; the real roller coaster (i.e., life) is just outside the park." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Amelia (2009) |
"It’s all so glancing and superficial that the movie doesn’t seem to have a present tense. It goes by like coming attractions. It is, however, a treasury of bad biopic dialogue." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
An American Affair (2009) |
"The reason to see An American Affair is Gretchen Mol." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
American Casino (2009) |
"You'll never hear an economist explain derivatives again without thinking of the woman who walks away from the camera, weeping, as her mortgage broker refuses her check, or children's dolls splayed out on the floors of empty homes." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
American Violet (2009) |
"You can laugh at American Violet, but most defendants are scared into pleading guilty and need all the poster girls they can get." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
An Education (2009) |
"Lone Scherfig’s direction is glum. We’re so clued in to what’s really going on that we never share Jenny’s authentic excitement at being introduced to art, music, and exotic locales." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"The streets of Rome haven’t run this red since the Inquisition." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Antichrist (2009) |
"Von Trier has said he wanted to make a genre horror picture, but he couldn’t even come up with a decent metaphor: The climax is out of a Grade C hack-’em-up with people chasing each other through the woods with axes and knives." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"If you can forget Spinal Tap (hard), it’s rather touching the way these 50-year-olds still have the forged-in-fire fortitude." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
American Teen (2008) |
"The movie does get under your skin, but the way it has been put together reminds me of those animal shows where the crew nudges the gazelles in the direction of the lions with multiple cameras standing by." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Australia (2008) |
"Jackman has musical-theater chops and knows how to sell material this ham-handed; Kidman isn’t quite as deft." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Alone With Her (2007) |
"... this low-budget horror flick builds some claustrophobic tension out of modern anxieties, but it won't scare the bejesus out of you." |
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Tomato |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"Michael Apted’s Amazing Grace is a beautifully chiseled blunt instrument. No, it’s not subtle, but how subtle was slavery?" |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
American Gangster (2007) |
"Their ambition is out there. But for all the sprawl, American Gangster feels secondhand. It’s like Scarface drained of blood, at arm’s length from the culture that spawned it." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Atonement (2007) |
"The film is absorbing and evocative." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
"Avenue Montaigne would be difficult to stomach if it weren’t so light and uninsistent, and if its actors weren’t so charming. I still rolled my eyes -- but sometimes I do that when I get a really good croissant." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Away From Her (2007) |
"A twilight-of-life love story, one that harshly demolishes our romantic notions of love and loyalty, then replaces them with something deeper and, finally, more consoling." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"It’s a pity it doesn’t have more oomph, because the book is arguably Dick’s masterpiece, and as brain-rattling today as when it came out in 1977." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) |
"The film is worth seeing for footage of Bill O’Reilly seeking sympathy from Ann Coulter, who makes maternal noises with a mischievous glint in her eye." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"Sean Penn demonstrates how a great Method actor can make the world’s most unconvincing rabble-rouser." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
American Cannibal - The Documentary (2006) |
"Reality TV has rarely cared much about truth -- and maybe this is the doc it deserves. The crass truthiness here is far more apt than any of the glossy satire in American Dreamz." |
Logan Hill |
Splat |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"Its shallow cynicism combined with its faith that everything will turn out okay can even be said to breed complacency -- the opposite of what satire needs to do in these increasingly dark days." |
David Edelstein |
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Apocalypto (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Art School Confidential (2006) |
"Possibly there has never been a movie about the art world that’s as much of an eyesore as the coming-of-age oddity Art School Confidential." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
The Aristocrats (2005) |
"... The Aristocrats proves that sometimes you don’t have to be a great filmmaker to make a great documentary." |
Ken Tucker |
Tomato |
Ask the Dust (2005) |
"Something is missing, though. The themes are all there, but the movie doesn’t cross the blood-brain barrier and rev you up." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) |
"Fishburne even manages to make crass violence witty." |
Ken Tucker |
Tomato |
The Agronomist (2004) |
"Free speech isn't merely a shibboleth in The Agronomist. As embodied by Dominique, it's a fire-breathing force." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Alexander (2004) |
"Stone rises to his own challenge." |
Logan Hill |
Tomato |
Almost Peaceful (2004) |
"The characters in Almost Peaceful are pulled between a longing for what is lost and a fierce desire to live. Deville's plangent sympathy for them keeps the sentimentality honest." |
Peter Rainer |
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Logan Hill |
- |
The Aviator (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Logan Hill |
Splat |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"Green recycles hoary clichés by poeticizing them and setting them in a kind of timeless present." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
American Splendor (2003) |
"It would be a mistake to regard American Splendor as an anthem for the common man. It is the uncommon that is being celebrated here." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Anger Management (2003) |
"This is the kind of coarse comedy where a fart serves as a punch line." |
Peter Rainer |
- |
Anything Else (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
About a Boy (2002) |
"About a Boy is sophisticated and nuanced, and every character is bursting with emotional contradictions." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"These filmmakers have a feeling for the isolation of blasted lives, but they also can't resist putting them down." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Adaptation (2002) |
"Few recent movies have conveyed so forcefully how people can feel shut out by their own lack of passion, how they yearn to end the emptiness." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Alias Betty (2002) |
"It's a solid movie about people whose lives are anything but." |
Peter Rainer |
- |
All or Nothing (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Rainer |
- |
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Auto Focus (2002) |
"Schrader really isn't interested in Crane except as the straw man for his moral lessons about sin and sexuality and the nature of celebrity." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"Temperamentally, Spielberg and Kubrick are such polar opposites that A.I. has the moment-to-moment effect of being completely at odds with itself." |
Peter Rainer |
- |
The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Ali (2001) |
"Ali is a far more complex creature than this movie allows for." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Along Came a Spider (2001) |
"Even at half speed, Freeman excels: He knows how to whip out his badge at a crime scene and make it seem as if he had been doing it his whole life." |
Peter Rainer |
- |
Amelie (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat |
America's Sweethearts (2001) |
"Both harmlessly cynical and deeply fatuous." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Amores Perros (2001) |
"It's a truly prodigious piece of work, resembling a career summation far more than a maiden voyage." |
Peter Rainer |
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