Tomato |
Tadpole (2002) |
"On this tricky topic, Tadpole is very much a step in the right direction, with its blend of frankness, civility and compassion." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Tadpole (2002) |
"Tadpole would be a surprise hit with any audience anywhere that still cares about character development, good acting, careful, literate scriptwriting and stylish filmmaking on a shoestring." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004) |
"Worth seeing for its sheer otherness at a time when Americans are forced to look increasingly at the outside world for new information." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Take (2008) |
"Obscured by ugly, dark photography, a jumbled script, mumbled performances, and clueless direction that make it impossible to see or hear a lot of what’s going on even if you cared, the result is a film of monumental incompetence." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Taken (2009) |
"Taken is the kind of exploitative junk everyone expects from no-talent French hack Luc Besson." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Taking Lives (2004) |
"Screenwriter Jon Bokenkamp litters the trajectory with more red herrings than the traffic can bear in less than two hours." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Taking Sides (2003) |
"The complexities of the subject matter are deftly and intelligently handled." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) |
"On balance, The Talented Mr. Ripley is worth seeing more for its undeniably delightful journey than its final destination." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Talk to Her (2002) |
"Transcendent." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Tarnation (2004) |
"It is to be hoped that Mr. Caouette can make many more films of all kinds, but he will probably never again be able to cut to the bone of his existence with such sublime feeling." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Taste of Cherry (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) |
"I hope that every concerned moviegoer sees this film, but I doubt that many will." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Tears of the Sun (2003) |
"Deserves the bad reviews and the lackluster earnings it has accumulated thus far." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Tears of the Sun (2003) |
"Raping and pillaging and blowing things up is mainly what this movie is about, although it claims to show how the most robotic, dehumanized soldiers can be transformed by human suffering." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Tell No One (2008) |
"I haven’t enjoyed so much pleasurably intrigue-laden suspense in ages, and it is charismatically acted, too." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Ten (2003) |
"Makes maximum use of a minimalist structure to deliver some cogent observations about the status of women in contemporary Iran." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
The Terminal (2004) |
"The concept was there; the production abilities were there. It's the execution that fell apart." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Terminal (2004) |
"A feel-good film of such originality and sweetness in a summer of otherwise derivative sequels and remakes that it practically qualifies for miracle status." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"I cannot completely condemn a movie that has been very competently written, directed and acted, any more than I can blame Mr. Schwarzenegger for all the woes he has encountered while trying to govern California." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Tetro (2009) |
"Despite all its longueurs and extreme aggravations, Tetro deserves to be seen as the late work of one of the cinema’s most accomplished masters of mise-en-scène." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Thank You For Smoking (2006) |
"What makes the movie curiously timely is its emphasis on the process of spin as opposed to the moral content of what is being spun." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Cats of Mirikitani (2006) |
"Ms. Hattendorf’s is truly and profoundly a 'found film,' and it is deeply moving enough to be fondly remembered at year’s end -- and long after." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"It is a must-see, especially in this dreary movie season." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Duchess of Langeais (2008) |
"See it for the respectfully literal Balzac screen transcription. After all, I may have been wrong about Mr. Rivette all these years, and it would not be the first time." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Fallen Idol (1948) |
"The film works beautifully and reminds us of the glories of the black-and-white cinema at its peak, shortly before the beginning of its gradual demise." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
The Polar Express (2004) |
"Without a trace of real live people, you get special effects that are not special, visual talking points without personality, virtual reality that is anything but real." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Then She Found Me (2008) |
"A funny and touching story about the way we create families both by blood and by choice." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"An impressive achievement in its confident expertness in rendering the simulated realities of a bygone time and place, largely with an inspired use of regional amateur actors and extras with all the right moves and sounds." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
There's Something About Mary (1998) |
"Remarkable for all the sick and politically incorrect sight gags it gets away with in its rule-breaking romp through the supposedly sacred laws of what makes people laugh, and what doesn't." |
Andrew Sarris |
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The Thief (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"Things We Lost in the Fire is certainly not a comedy, but it is definitely mordant with its two Big Themes: Loss and Addiction, both treated in a singularly heavy-handed manner, for which I blame primarily Mr. Loeb’s screenplay." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"A welcome relief from all the war and violence we’ve been getting lately, it’s a wonderful, heartfelt experience, executed with meticulous principles and penetrating artistry." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
The Third Man (1949) |
"Seen today, The Third Man ... can be appreciated as a prophetic statement on the eventual moral bankruptcy of the one-world euphoria that clouded men's minds immediately after the second 'war to end all wars.'" |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Thirteen (2003) |
"It's a pretentious piece of Valley Girl vileness masquerading as social commentary." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Thirteen (2003) |
"Everyone in it needs a blood transfusion, and before it's over, so will you." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2002) |
"The Sprecher sisters like people enough to rejoice in their happiness and commiserate with their sorrows, and they should certainly be encouraged to keep on making movies." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
This Is England (2007) |
"This is England is a vile exercise in nihilism that goes nowhere fast." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
This So-Called Disaster (2004) |
"An unbridled orgy of uninhibited Stanislavsky." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) |
"A literally slow-moving western that plays out as laboriously as its title." |
Andrew Sarris |
- |
Three to Tango (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005) |
"Corpse Bride turns out to be a ponderous mixture of puppetry and animation that is far too technologically complex and laborious for this hopelessly Luddite reviewer." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Time (2007) |
"Time is well worth your time as a moviegoer." |
Andrew Sarris |
- |
Time of Favor (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Time Out (2002) |
"Perhaps we should treasure Time Out for what it is, and preserve it just in case there will not be many movies like it in the future." |
Andrew Sarris |
- |
Time Regained (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Time to Leave (2006) |
"Deeply touching and brutally frank." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) |
"Maybe the novel by Audrey Niffenegger, which a number of people seem to have read and enjoyed, was more convincing, but the unsatisfactory, yo-yo script by Bruce Joel Rubin, makes no real effort to explore the inner emotions of the characters." |
Rex Reed |
- |
Timecode (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Titanic (1997) |
"Titanic runs well enough in the backstretch of intrigue and contrivance to cross the finish line well ahead of all but a few of the screen's superspectacles in this century." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Titus (1999) |
"A consistently absorbing entertainment that never becomes either campy or facetious, given its inescapable exaggerations." |
Andrew Sarris |
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