Tomato |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"Mr. Linklater emerges once again as the Austin auteur par excellence, even if A Scanner Darkly is set in a ratty precinct of Orange County." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
A Tout de Suite (2005) |
"Tells a seemingly familiar story, but in a daringly original manner." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"The most controversial conversation-piece to hit the dumbed-down American movie scene since heaven knows when." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
About a Boy (2002) |
"In the end, the film comes over as a messy delight, thanks to the skill, generosity and good-sport, punching-bag panache of Mr. Grant's performance." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"Both as satire and as drama, About Schmidt turns out to be a fascinating setback." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Adam Resurrected (2008) |
"I can tentatively recommend it if only because there has never been anything like it in the history of cinema as far as I can remember." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Adoration (2009) |
"As for Mr. Egoyan, he remains an auteur at the highest level of cinematic creation, and even one of his lesser films, like Adoration, deserves to be seen." |
Andrew Sarris |
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After Sex (1997) |
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Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"May be the strangest and most surprising film you’ll see this year, in that its character development runs counter to the expectations aroused by its narrative sequencing." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Aimee & Jaguar (2000) |
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Andrew Sarris |
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Alexander (2004) |
"At a reported cost of $155 million, Alexander qualifies as a super-spectacle in every respect but one -- namely in its neurotic, confused and sexually ambidextrous hero." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Alfie (2004) |
"The original Alfie was as much overrated as the remake is underrated. Split the difference." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Alias Betty (2002) |
"Ms. Khiberlain, Ms. Garcia and Ms. Seigner brilliantly play the three mothers like a dissonant string trio on a single theme: the varied agonies of motherhood." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Alice et Martin (1998) |
"Alice and Martin is not to be missed, particularly in this endless lull of summer." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
All About My Mother (1999) |
"All About My Mother, for all its self-deconstruction, is played with more sobriety and conviction than any of Mr. Almodóvar's previous films." |
Andrew Sarris |
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All or Nothing (2002) |
"For close to two hours the audience is forced to endure three terminally depressed, mostly inarticulate, hyper dysfunctional families for the price of one." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Allah Made Me Funny (2008) |
"Allah Made Me Funny: Live in Concert, from comedy material written and performed by Mohammed 'Mo' Amer, Bryant 'Preacher' Moss and Azhar Usman, strives to be both timely and funny as it confronts the problems of American Muslims in America after 9/11." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Almost Famous (2000) |
"None of the non-musical components on the screen matched the excitement of the music." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Almost Peaceful (2004) |
"This is a film of half-notes and nuances, and as a chronicle of emotional survival it is infinitely inspiring." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"Michael Apted’s Amazing Grace, from a screenplay by Steven Knight, turns out to be blessed with inspirational nobility and comic eccentricity to bring it to emotional fruition." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Amelie (2001) |
"It is overwritten and overdirected for the quaint, simple feelings it attempts to project." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Amen (2003) |
"An unusually riveting experience for a story with an inevitable, dismal ending." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
America's Sweethearts (2001) |
"Too cynically slick and emotionally shallow." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
American Beauty (1999) |
"As the latest mainstream movie symptom of our premillennial malaise, American Beauty is so brilliantly acted, written, directed and visualized that for all its despondency and despair, it is a lot of fun." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"[A] satirically unbalanced in its attempted fusion of such varied targets as George Bush, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Muslim suicide bombers, and the hosts and contestants on American Idol." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
American Gangster (2007) |
"One must applaud American Gangster as the kind of socko entertainment many people thought Hollywood filmmakers had become incapable of. It is not to be missed." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
American Splendor (2003) |
"There's a tremendous amount of cultural vitality out there in the land of the losers; American Splendor is one of the first and best films to capitalize fully on this phenomenon." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Amistad (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Amores Perros (2001) |
"One of the most honored and most expertly articulated Mexican films of recent years." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Amu (2005) |
"[Amu] is clearly a labor of love for the activist filmmaker, as she breaks all the traditional inhibitions of Bollywood to remind the world of -- and, for most of us, reveal for the first time -- one of the most shameful episodes in Indian history." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Analyze This (1998) |
"[De Niro and Crystal] would seem to be perfectly cast as this oddest of odd couples, but something has gone wrong with the comic chemistry." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Anatomy of Hell (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2003) |
"Mr. Lelouch seems to have indulged Ms. Kaas and Mr. Irons beyond any rational narrative consideration." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
"My own reaction to the current version fashioned by Mr. Schumacher is one of pure stupefaction." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Angela's Ashes (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
The Anniversary Party (2001) |
"Too formlessly turgid." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Another Day in Paradise (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Anything Else (2003) |
"Curiously, Jason Biggs and Christina Ricci come out better than I imagined after being compelled to play out the movie's sadomasochistic tag line." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Apres Vous (2005) |
"From the beginning I found the plot contrivances more than a little forced, and the behavior of the various characters improbably extreme." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Aristocrats (2005) |
"See it if you aren’t too jaded to appreciate a few laughs in these mostly mirthless times." |
Andrew Sarris |
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Armageddon (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Army of Shadows (1969) |
"A film to be seen and savored for its moral magnitude." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Art School Confidential (2006) |
"Curiously, this relentlessly cynical tone turns out sounding refreshingly original compared to the usual pieties in the genre." |
Andrew Sarris |
- |
Ashes of Time (1994) |
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Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Ashes of Time Redux (1994) |
"One feels the passionate intensity of the filmmaker in every strand of his luminously intricate narrative." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"The extraordinary expressive performers, male and female; the haunting interior and exterior conflicts; the painstaking authenticity of the period detail; and the subtly modulated mood shifts all combine to make a modern masterpiece of an old legend." |
Andrew Sarris |
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) |
"I find that I much prefer Mr. Penn as the not-so-nice cynic in Anthony Drazan's Hurlyburly (1998) or Clint Eastwood's Mystic River (2003) to his sincere, idealistic fool here." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Atonement (2007) |
"One of the most successful adaptations of a distinguished novel I have ever seen." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
August Evening (2007) |
"August Evening is infinitely more absorbing and entertaining than we had any right to expect from such simple and undemanding creatures." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) |
"It's all amateur-night vaudeville and movies within movies that degenerate into total inanity." |
Andrew Sarris |
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