Tomato |
12 (2007) |
"It is well worth seeing if only for the insights into contemporary Russian society. The acting of all 12 jurors is exemplary, in both versions." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
12 and Holding (2006) |
"The glum losers of all ages in Twelve and Holding are too miserable and loopy to arouse much interest -- or to hold an audience's attention for a running time of 94 minutes." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
13 Tzameti (2006) |
"Get the picture? I didn’t." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
1408 (2007) |
"Regardless of how long you last in 1408, the logic to which you are entitled never comes." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"Idiotic, for sure, but what saves 16 Blocks is Richard Donner’s slick direction and the occasional flash of humor you get in most Bruce Willis flicks, whether it’s in the script or not. He can scarcely say a line without smirking." |
Rex Reed |
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1998 Year-in-Review (1998) |
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Andrew Sarris |
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1999 Year-in-Review (1999) |
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Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
2 Days In Paris (2007) |
"Ms. Delpy and Mr. Goldberg are clearly talented and versatile enough to make a more plausible and convincing couple, but the helter-skelter view of Paris in this film never gives them the chance." |
Andrew Sarris |
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2001 Year-in-Review (2001) |
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Andrew Sarris |
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2002 Year-in-Review (2002) |
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Andrew Sarris |
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2003 Year-in-Review (2003) |
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Andrew Sarris |
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2004 Year-in-Review (2004) |
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Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
2012 (2009) |
"2012 is reminiscent of yesteryear ’80s shlock-tastic blockbusters -- total popcorn entertainment with ridiculous dialogue and impossible situations and special effects that will boggle the brain for a good two-plus hours." |
Sara Vilkomerson |
Tomato |
2046 (2005) |
"Quite simply an incomparably sublime work of art, a triumph of lyricism over narrative in the cinema, and the most exquisite homage to the beauty of women it has ever been my privilege to witness on the screen." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
21 Grams (2003) |
"Confounded my high expectations by being much too depressing for my taste." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
21 Grams (2003) |
"A sad movie about the irony of inescapable destiny, it left me captivated and trembling." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
24th Day (2004) |
"Scott Speedman and James Marsden, two talented and attractive actors who know how to hold attention, perform with depth and range." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
25th Hour (2002) |
"I still think that Mr. Lee has come closer than he ever has before to making the great film about New York City that David Thomson hoped from him in a favorable mini-bio in The New Biographical Dictionary of Film." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
25th Hour (2002) |
"See it for Edward Norton, who does his usual job of turning sackcloth into satin." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"In the old days, a feverish programmer like 28 Days Later would end up on the bottom half of a double bill." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"There isn’t much acting here, but there is entirely too much vomiting, and the prose turns laughably purple, too." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
3-Iron (2005) |
"An uncanny spiritual exploration of the unlikeliest of great loves." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
300 (2007) |
"300 was as pathetically puerile as I had expected." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
"The performances of Mr. Crowe and Mr. Bale alone are worth the price of admission." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
4 (2006) |
"The picture finally bogs down in a seemingly endless spectacle of grossness and ghoulishness." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) |
"There is no escape from desperation in this not-so-long-ago Romania, but 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days is striking, original and memorable." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) |
"Nothing more than a lame vehicle for teen heartthrob Josh Hartnett." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) |
"Count me among the naysayers." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
49 Up (2006) |
"Michael Apted’s 49 Up continues and possibly concludes the most remarkable chronicle of a slice of humanity in the history of cinema." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
50 First Dates (2004) |
"Stupid, coarse and abysmally unfunny." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
500 Days of Summer (2009) |
"Thanks to two wonderful, offbeat performances by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel, this movie has charm to spare. It looks you right in the eye and tells the truth." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
5X2 (2005) |
"With his convoluted narrative, Mr. Ozon has avoided some of the sentimental pitfalls of his subject, but only at the expense of much of its suspense." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
5X2 (2005) |
"Stripping away the extraneous details that etch great screen characters in our minds forever, Mr. Ozon pinpoints key moments in the life of a pair of married Parisians that leave the viewer paralyzed with boredom and confusion." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
8 Mile (2002) |
"I have to go back to James Dean in Elia Kazan's East of Eden and Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause in 1955 to find a comparably jolting piece of male aggressiveness coupled with bottled-up vulnerability." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
8 Mile (2002) |
"O.K., so I'm the wrong audience for this teenage junk." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
8 Women (2002) |
"Simply to name the eight actresses ... is to indulge in an iconic incantation that has less to do with traditional film criticism than with spiritual speculation on the eloquent intimations of immortality in the ageless cinema of faces." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
88 Minutes (2008) |
"88 Minutes will add a little more luster to a career that has not been adequately appreciated perhaps because of the suspiciously seductive power of a little man with an outsize talent." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
9 (2009) |
"One wonders, in fact, if 9 should have stuck with its original short format." |
Sara Vilkomerson |
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