Tomato |
W. (2008) |
"I recommend it to everyone, but I am afraid it will end up as a seedless sermon for the already converted to Bushophobia.f" |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Wackness (2008) |
"A remarkable cast supplies subtlety and balance to the mostly downward spiral of the narrative." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
The Wackness (2008) |
"A mutton-headed waste of time that is every bit as moronic and meaningless as its title." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"I advise you catch up with Walk the Line, if only for Ms. Witherspoon’s transcendent joyousness as a still-growing legend within a legend." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"It’s the curious fact that for a man so revered, a movie about his life should be so unexceptional." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
A Walk to Remember (2002) |
"So boring that even its target audience talked all the way through it." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
The Walker (2007) |
"The Walker is not a polished or coherent film. It’s more like a work in progress. Casting Woody Harrelson was a tactical error from which the overall concept never recovers." |
Rex Reed |
- |
Walking and Talking (1996) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"Despite its vocal distractions, this clay-animation comedy adventure managed to dazzle me with its sheer audacity and inventiveness." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Wannabes |
"On the whole, the movie lacks wit, feeling and believability to compensate for its incessant coarseness and banality." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"Overall, the film is too lacking in feeling to provide a recognizably human experience." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"There's stuff to make you go 'Wow!' but nothing you'll remember the next day." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
War, Inc. (2008) |
"War, Inc. was non-directed by Joshua Seftel, who is to film direction what Marvel Comics is to classical literature. It was filmed in Bulgaria -- and they should never have allowed it out of the country." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) |
"Combines a comically dismal social realism with a farcically bawdy fantasy of redemption and regeneration." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Wasabi (2002) |
"The funny thing is, I didn't mind all this contrived nonsense a bit." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Washington Heights (2003) |
"Mr. De Villa seems to have the talent to do better, if only he can find stronger characters and story lines than he has at his disposal here." |
Andrew Sarris |
- |
Washington Square (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Watchmen (2009) |
"It wasn’t that I wasn’t engaged in some of the (many) story lines, it’s just that there was never enough time spent with any particular one to so as to become emotionally involved … which seem strange to say about a movie 165 minutes long." |
Sara Vilkomerson |
Tomato |
Water (2006) |
"Quite possibly the best picture of the year thus far, with no fewer than three of the most luminous female performances I have ever seen onscreen." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Water (2006) |
"Although Water is easily Ms. Mehta's richest and most complex film, it is still the work of a humanitarian, made with incredible tenderness and real concern for the plight of her female characters." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Waydowntown (2002) |
"Dilbert without the right-on satiric humor." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"I was fully absorbed in the characters and their casually outrageous behavior." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
We Were Soldiers (2002) |
"As I settled into my World War II memories, I found myself strangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
We Were Soldiers (2002) |
"After suffering through We Were Soldiers, I think I've seen all the war movies I care to endure for quite some time." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Wedding Crashers (2005) |
"The most exhilarating entertainment to emerge this year from the failed, forlorn factory town of Hollywood, largely because of Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, the best high-low comedy team since the hey-hey days of Paul Newman and Robert Redford." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
The Weight of Water (2002) |
"In old-fashioned screenwriting parlance, Ms. Shreve's novel proved too difficult a text to 'lick,' despite the efforts of a first-rate cast." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Welcome to Mooseport (2004) |
"It's a snooze on every level." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Wendigo (2002) |
"Fessenden has nurtured his metaphors at the expense of his narrative, but he does display an original talent." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Wendigo (2002) |
"The two leads are almost good enough to camouflage the dopey plot, but so much naturalistic small talk, delivered in almost muffled exchanges, eventually has a lulling effect." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
"To her credit, Ms. Reichardt never allows her camera to become a voyeuristic witness to a young woman in distress. Instead, it remains focused on a largely indifferent American landscape of strangers in perpetual motion to nowhere." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Whale Rider (2003) |
"Unexpectedly touching, generous with its insights, and offers an exceptionally human glimpse into the heart of a land as exotic as it is remote." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
What Alice Found (2003) |
"Sandra, Bill and Alice emerge not as a newfound family exactly, nor as villains and victims, but as three ever-vulnerable human beings doing the best they can to survive." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
What Goes Up (2009) |
"Without a trace of tempo or one shred of narrative pacing, What Goes Up is not really a movie; it’s the cheapest kind of amateurishness that looks like it was shot with a cell phone." |
Rex Reed |
- |
What Planet Are You From? (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
What Time Is It There? (2002) |
"Mr. Tsai is a very original artist in his medium, and What Time Is It There? should be seen at the very least for its spasms of absurdist humor." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
What To Do In Case of Fire? (2002) |
"Interesting, but not compelling." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Whatever Works (2009) |
"Whatever Works is a dubious idea at best, but when nothing works, it’s time to throw out the script and move on to omething that does." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008) |
"I have never really seen anything quite like it, and I must therefore wholeheartedly recommend this wondrous work for its magnificently moving father-son performances by Mr. Broadbent and Mr. Firth." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
When the Sea Rises (2006) |
"When the Sea Rises remains a strangely sad love story of rare poetic power." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
When Will I Be Loved (2004) |
"Mr. Weller's Ford Welles attains a new extreme of self-loathing on Mr. Toback's part: This compulsive chain-talker has even less charm, substance, dignity or wit than any of his self-hating predecessors." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Where The Truth Lies (2005) |
"The solution to the 'mystery' ... becomes anticlimactic." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) |
"Something doesn’t quite jell, and no matter how gorgeous each set piece is, it doesn’t always entirely add up to a complete and satisfying narrative. I couldn’t help but think, from time to time, how on earth were these guys allowed to make this movie?" |
Sara Vilkomerson |
Tomato |
While She Was Out (2008) |
"The spectacular ending will make every harried housewife in the world ecstatic." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
White Countess (2005) |
"The film is well worth seeing for its performances, and for the aptness of Mr. Ivory’s Sternbergian mise-en-scène." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
White Noise (2005) |
"Too silly to describe, much less analyze." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Who is Cletis Tout? (2002) |
"The skills of a calculus major at M.I.T. are required to balance all the formulaic equations in the long-winded heist comedy Who Is Cletis Tout?" |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Wicker Park (2004) |
"A shapeless mess." |
Rex Reed |
- |
The Widow of St. Pierre (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2004) |
"Ms. Scherfig and Mr. Jenson have fashioned one of the most exquisitely life-affirming and love-affirming cinematic experiences of the year." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2004) |
"Promises more than it delivers." |
Rex Reed |
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