Splat |
Caché (2005) |
"Too much of the plot's machinery turns out to be a metaphorical mechanism by which to pin the tail of colonial guilt on Georges and the rest of us smug bourgeois donkeys." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Caché (2005) |
"Mr. Auteuil and Ms. Binoche are alternately graceful and scary as people pushed to the brink of madness through sheer duress, and the director does a tense job of capturing their panic as they drift from tranquility into chaos." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
The Cake Eaters (2009) |
"The Cake Eaters is a small but rewarding slice of realism that is a nice antidote to the surfeit of slasher movies that have been polluting the ozone lately." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"Amiable enough as a frothy entertainment, with darker overtones rendered with emotional effectiveness." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"Charming and sweet-natured." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
California Dreamin' (2009) |
"At its present length it sprawls shamelessly in terms of the ultimate futility of its narrative." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Callas Forever (2004) |
"You will go away devastated and raving about the great French actress Fanny Ardant as Callas. It's a titanic performance that redefines the term 'tour de force.'" |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
The Caller (2009) |
"The Caller is a loopy, talky, 92-minute two-hander with Elliott Gould and Frank Langella (on a downward spiral following his juicy triumph in Frost/Nixon), written and directed by a force to forget called Richard Ledes." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Campfire (2004) |
"Israeli films in general constitute dissenting voices against the established order by championing individual aspirations. Still, Mr. Cedar’s own background makes him an unusual candidate for the role of dissenter." |
Rex Reed |
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Can't Buy Me Love (1987) |
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Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Candy (2006) |
"There have been other movies about heroin addicts, but none more harrowing than Candy." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
El Cantante (2007) |
"J-Lo really delivers the goods. I haven’t always been a fan, but she makes this movie a must-see." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Canvas (2007) |
"Writer-director Joseph Greco makes a nice feature-film debut telling a true, disturbing story about a 10-year-old boy struggling to cope with a schizophrenic mother." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Capote (2005) |
"Miller's Capote, from a screenplay by Dan Futterman, has been rightly hailed for Philip Seymour Hoffman's uncanny reincarnation of the late Truman Capote." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Capote (2005) |
"Philip Seymour Hoffman gets it perfect in Capote, with a star turn both meteoric and mesmerizing. This is not an example of a fine actor bringing charisma to a movie. Lock, stock and barrel, he is the movie." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) |
"Despite the lush cinematography -- an intoxicating blur of blue ocean, gold beaches and green foliage that drips with natural beauty and unnatural production values -- the movie is a dense haze of ouzo, mangled beyond salvation by a ridiculous script." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"This film is not to be missed, because it is so painfully and profoundly human." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"It's fascinating because you've never seen a more dysfunctional family in broad daylight, and it's disturbing because it straddles the fine line between responsible filmmaking and callous sensationalism." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Carmen and Geoffrey (2009) |
"Linda Atkinson and Nick Doob’s Carmen & Geoffrey is one of the most revelatory dance films I have ever seen." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Carnage (2003) |
"I must admit, I've never seen a film quite like this one." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Casa de los Babys (2003) |
"I spent most of the 95-minute running time of Casa trying to distinguish between some of the actresses from my previous image of them." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Casanova (2005) |
"Overall, Casanova is silly but amusing." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"I consider Daniel Craig to be the most effective and appealing of the six actors who have played 007, and that includes even Sean Connery." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Cat's Meow (2002) |
"As it stands, The Cat's Meow is Mr. Bogdanovich's best film since Mask." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Cat's Meow (2002) |
"A lavish, lascivious, elegant and enjoyable entertainment." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"Despite Mr. Noyce’s attempt to achieve a sense of balance and restraint, the material covers an overly familiar landscape with no special insight or sense of purpose." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"That rarity of rarities, a mainstream American feel-good movie with both charm and intelligence." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"A meticulously directed, deliciously acted, humorously written work of skill, energy and imagination." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Cats & Dogs (2001) |
"After a while, the film's massive explosions make Swordfish look like a chick flick." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Catwoman (2004) |
"The kind of movie that almost guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Cet Amour-La (2002) |
"Ms. Dayan is to be commended for breathing even often-painful life into a relationship that was largely sealed off from the world outside." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Cet Amour-La (2002) |
"A film that revels in the insights of Duras' writing and the wisdom of Ms. Moreau's ripe experience as an actress -- a perfectly observed hommage to two extraordinary women of distinction, alone but never lonely." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Chalk (2007) |
"Chalk is a message from the horse’s mouth, and is thereby humorously instructive without ever becoming sarcastic or judgmental." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Changeling (2008) |
"Mr. Eastwood, particularly, with his finely honed noirish instincts, should have sprinted more and cantered less." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Changeling (2008) |
"Changeling is the real deal, as good as any film [Eastwood] has ever made, and 10 times more electrifying than most. It grabs you by the throat and never lets go." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Changing Lanes (2002) |
"In addition to gluing you to the edge of your seat, Changing Lanes is also a film of freshness, imagination and insight." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Changing Times (2006) |
"An interesting film experience, as much because of its chaotic narrative as in spite of it." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Chaos (2003) |
"As a feminist fairy tale, it provides enough grown-up pleasure to justify its convenient contrivances." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Chapter 27 (2008) |
"Even if you are only moderately curious about the events that led up to the pointless death of a musical icon, I think you’ll find it a film of arm-twisting fascination." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"I wonder if even children will respond to the peculiarly humorless and charmless stylistic eccentricities of Mr. Burton and his star, Johnny Depp." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Charlie Bartlett (2007) |
"I salute the inventiveness, imagination and cockeyed teenage humor in a delightful new movie called Charlie Bartlett. It picks up where Juno left off." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2004) |
"I urge everyone to see it." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Charlotte Gray (2001) |
"This is what they used to call a real 'movie movie.'" |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Cherry Blossoms (2009) |
"It is a seldom-told story in an essentially youth-oriented, escapist movie industry, but when it is told sublimely well, as it is by Ms. Dörrie now, and by McCarey in 1937, and by Ozu in 1953, it becomes a film for the ages." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Chi-hwa-seon (2002) |
"If you've never seen a South Korean film, or even if you have, Chihwaseon is an ideal place to start or continue." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Chicago (2002) |
"Chicago is, in many ways, an admirable achievement." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Chicago 10 (2008) |
"It wouldn’t hurt anyone, young or old, to catch up on the fascinating history lesson illustrated and embellished by Mr. Morgen and his crew in Chicago 10." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Children of Men (2006) |
"What I find particularly irksome about it is its pseudo-humanism and its calculating political correctness." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Children of the Century (2002) |
"An intimate contemplation of two marvelously messy lives." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Choke (2008) |
"I don’t know what to tell you about a dismal bucket of nauseating swill called Choke, except to warn that if you spend hard-earned money to sit through it, you deserve to do exactly what the title implies." |
Rex Reed |
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