Tomato |
Adam (2009) |
"A touching and engaging film about a likable and attractive young man who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome." |
Rex Reed |
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 |
Tomato |
Amelia (2009) |
"It has beautiful cinematography, a star performance that is shocking in its authenticity, a careful eye for nuance and detail and an irresistible blend of action and romance that should spell automatic success." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
American Violet (2009) |
"A harrowing, compelling and profoundly true story that dares to tackle an important but too rarely exposed issue of the abuse of power in the American criminal justice system." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
An Education (2009) |
"Captivatingly written, directed and acted with sensitivity and nuance, this is one of the best films of the year. It lives up to its title in more ways than one." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
The Answer Man (2009) |
"The improbable romance between the two stars is a stretch, but their chemistry is undeniable. Unfortunately, much of the film is too implausible to forgive." |
Rex Reed |
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 |
All of Us (2008) |
"Ms. Abt brings out the best in her subjects: Tara and Chevelle and their partners are fully realized, not just poster children for the cause." |
Sara Vilkomerson |
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 |
Tomato |
American Teen (2008) |
"Ms. Burstein has infused her film with an ever-rare authenticity and manages to see beyond each kid’s stereotype to the complicated screwed-up adolescent they are (and we were)." |
Sara Vilkomerson |
Splat |
Appaloosa (2008) |
"Ed Harris reunites with Viggo Mortensen, his co-star in A History of Violence, and the chemistry is easygoing and understated. But he should have left the direction to someone else." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
August (2008) |
"The direction by somebody called Austin Chick gives the appearance of being phoned in from an Internet bar in another town." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Australia (2008) |
"I must confess that I might have been harder on Mr. Luhrmann’s film if I had not remained entranced by Ms. Kidman." |
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 |
Splat |
The Air I Breathe (2007) |
"For rock-bottom nasty, with no social relevance, there is The Air I Breathe, a load of amateurish bilge so silly I thought I was watching a screening at Comedy Central." |
Rex Reed |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Tomato |
The Astronaut Farmer (2007) |
"In boots, spurs and bow-legged jeans under his homemade Stanley Kubrick space suit, Billy Bob makes dreamers of us all." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Atonement (2007) |
"One of the most successful adaptations of a distinguished novel I have ever seen." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Atonement (2007) |
"Atonement is everything a true lover of literature and movies could possibly hope for. It is unquestionably, without any reservations, my favorite film of the year." |
Rex Reed |
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 |
Tomato |
Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
"The film serves as a timely reminder of the tastefully sybaritic terrain that our own mainstream moviemakers have largely ignored in the commercially driven thirst for blood and gore." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Away From Her (2007) |
"I have seen few films in recent years as emotionally engrossing and edifying. It is not to be missed by any moviegoer professing to be looking for something different." |
Andrew Sarris |
Tomato |
Away From Her (2007) |
"A heartbreaking and memorable cinematic experience." |
Rex Reed |
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 |
Splat |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"A sorry and misguided rehash of Robert Penn Warren’s famous 1946 novel." |
Rex Reed |
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 |
Splat |
An American Haunting (2006) |
"Call it The Exorcist Meets Poltergeist, and head for the shelves at Blockbuster, where it will undoubtedly turn up soon." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Apocalypto (2006) |
"Blood pours from every orifice in what looks like a terrible waste of Smucker’s raspberry sauce." |
Rex Reed |
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 |
Tomato |
A Tout de Suite (2005) |
"Tells a seemingly familiar story, but in a daringly original manner." |
Andrew Sarris |
Splat |
Alone in the Dark (2005) |
"A violent and incomprehensible piece of gibberish." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
The Amityville Horror (2005) |
"A few lines get laughs, but the horror is standard fare, without a shred of innovation." |
Rex Reed |
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 |
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 |
Splat |
Ask the Dust (2005) |
"Despite fine performances and occasional moments of fascinating visual beauty, Ask the Dust is long, lazy, plotless, formless, overwrought, hysterical, unconvincing and very, very boring." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Asylum (2005) |
"A leanly structured, richly detailed and artistically thrilling work that is one of the most important films of the year." |
Rex Reed |
Tomato |
Asylum (2005) |
"Powerful, haunting and beautifully crafted, Asylum deserves attention, praise, respect, admiration and Oscars." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
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 |
Splat |
Alexander (2004) |
"A lunk-headed train wreck that looks like a tag sale in a 323 B.C. supermarket in old Peking." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Alfie (2004) |
"The original Alfie was as much overrated as the remake is underrated. Split the difference." |
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 |
Splat |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"Like the rest of today's alleged comedies that are never funny, this one pretends to be hip, but lacks every semblance of intelligence and depends on the basest common instincts in the kindergarten I.Q. for laughs." |
Rex Reed |
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Anatomy of Hell (2004) |
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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 |
Splat |
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 |
Splat |
The Aviator (2004) |
"Mr. Scorsese is a great director who often fails, but you have to give him credit for always being on the prowl for new and demanding subjects, even when the results are disastrous, and for remaining true to his own vision, even when it is not shared." |
Rex Reed |
Splat |
Alex and Emma (2003) |
"It has no tempo, energy or pulse." |
Rex Reed |
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