Tomato 3/4 |
Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World (2007) |
"Well-made." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Agni Varsha: The Fire and the Rain (2002) |
"Too simply plotted and, even at two hours -- Bombay exports can often run to four -- the story drags." |
Megan Turner |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Agronomist (2004) |
"Uses archival footage and music to tell a moving story that's all too common in the Third World." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) |
"The director ... makes a compelling argument that Wuornos never got a fair deal from the legal system and that she should have been spared death because of insanity." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Air I Breathe (2007) |
"Brendan Fraser is Pleasure, Sarah Michelle Gellar is Sorrow, Kevin Bacon is Love, Forest Whitaker is Happiness, and the director is Pretension." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
AKA (2002) |
"Watching three frames at once is disconcerting at first, but eventually the experience gives the film a high-tech boost." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"Akeelah and the Bee is so warm and well-meaning that you may find yourself wanting to like it more than you really do." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) |
"There is a lot of preaching to the converted in Nick Doob and Chris Hedges' Al Franken: God Spoke, an adoring and fairly haphazard look behind the scenes with the comedian and liberal gadfly." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Al Otro Lado (2006) |
"Al Otro Lado serves as a primer on a musical style that may be unfamiliar to many, while putting a human face on the problem of illegal immigrants." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
The Alamo (2004) |
"Despite Thornton's yeoman efforts and a remarkable 52-acre set, you're more apt to forget The Alamo than to remember it." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Alex and Emma (2003) |
"[The film] fails despite Kate Hudson's tinkling laugh and Luke Wilson's likably laconic presence." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) |
"This lame teenage James Bond will leave audiences neither shaken nor stirred." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Alexander (2004) |
"As huge a travesty and a bore as 1956's Alexander the Great, in which Richard Burton looked equally uncomfortable as a blond." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Alexander the Great (1956) |
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Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alexandra (2008) |
"Alexandra is a much more modest undertaking, but is just as compelling. And Galina Vishnevskaya, an 81-year-old opera singer, is wonderful as Alexandra." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Alfie (2004) |
"Law tries hard to make his Alfie likable, but he's working against the orchestrations of the narrative and merely comes off as feeble, a one-dimensional Eurotrash jerk with outmoded ideas about women and troubles that don't amount to a hill of beans." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ali (2001) |
"This overlong but sketchy biopic by Michael Mann, in which style repeatedly tramples substance, actually does the great man a disservice." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ali Zaoua (2000) |
"In its own, low-key way, Ali Zaoua is just as stirring [as City of God]." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alias Betty (2002) |
"A stylish thriller." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alice's House (2007) |
"Writer-director Chico Teixeira, who started out making documentaries, watches from afar as his middle-class characters go about their day-in, day-out activities, most of which revolve around sex." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Alien (1979) |
" Besides Weaver and Skeritt, the top-notch ensemble includes two of Britain's best actors -- Ian Holm, as the untrustworthy science officer, and John Hurt." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Alien Trespass (2009) |
"Alien Trespass, with a rating notice that mentions 'brief historical smoking,' is at least better than last year's official remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still." |
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Splat 1/4 |
Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
"One thing is certain: Nobody is going to be demanding a rematch." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Alien: The Director's Cut (2003) |
"It's worth seeing Alien, which established Scott as an A-list director, in a theater because his brilliant and often expansive visuals have always worked better on a big screen than on video." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Aliens of the Deep (2005) |
"Cameron's showmanship and his on-screen appearances make his documentaries far livelier than your usual IMAX nature documentary, and this one is no exception." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alila (2004) |
"Gitai ... records the comings and goings with a keen eye." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2.5/4 |
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2002) |
"A nearly 21/2 hours, the film is way too indulgent." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1.5/4 |
All About the Benjamins (2002) |
"The action quickly sinks into by-the-numbers territory." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
All My Loved Ones (2000) |
"Schindler's List it ain't." |
Megan Turner |
Tomato 3/4 |
All or Nothing (2002) |
"It's easy to succumb to the rhythms of this melancholic but humanistic rumination on the meaning of life." |
Megan Turner |
Splat 0/4 |
All Over the Guy (2001) |
"All four characters are obnoxious, self-absorbed Southern California clichés." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"[It] isn't going to win any awards for Law, a frantically hamming Penn or anyone else involved." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat |
All the Pretty Horses (2000) |
"It's likely to leave all but the most ardent fans of Matt Damon and novelist Cormac McCarthy shaking their heads in puzzlement -- if they don't nod off first." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
All the Queen's Men (2002) |
"Not only does LeBlanc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad, but he appears miserable throughout as he swaggers through his scenes." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"One of the few films to honestly nail the awkwardness and ardor of young romance." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Allah Made Me Funny (2008) |
"The jokes are tepid and generic, better suited to late-night Comedy Central than the big screen." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato |
Almost Famous (2000) |
"An utter delight from the first frame to fade-out, it's a love letter to the 1970s." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Almost Peaceful (2004) |
"Handsomely shot but almost bewilderingly bland." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 0/4 |
Alone in the Dark (2005) |
"It doesn't even qualify as 'so bad it's good,' although by that standard it does have its moments." |
Russell Scott Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alone With Her (2007) |
"Far superior to the generic thrillers churned out by the big studios." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat |
Along Came a Spider (2001) |
"From the very beginning of the movie, irritating implausibilities speckle Mark Moss' script." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 2/4 |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"Recycles gags from various, more successful gross-out and romantic comedies, but without any zest or imagination." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"Irresponsible, uncommercial but surprisingly watchable." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 0/4 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"For adults, it's like being hit over the head with a mallet every 10 seconds for 90 minutes. Two days later, I still had a headache." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009) |
"It's far from the most unpleasant kiddie flick I've sat through this year, although I would be misleading you if I promised you lots of laughs." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Amandla: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2003) |
"Talking heads outnumber performing heads by a roughly 3-to-1 ratio." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
An Amazing Couple (2002) |
"For the most part it's either clunky (as when Alain speaks directly to the camera) or shrill." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"Amazing Grace isn't quite an accurate title for this entertaining history lesson, but no one will ever write a song titled 'Amazing 20-Year Period of Parliamentary Maneuvering to End Britain's Role in the Slave Trade.'" |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Amelia (2009) |
"The film discreetly tiptoes around rumors of Earhart's reputed bisexuality ("Maybe at one time," she says) and her relationship with aviation pioneer Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor impersonating a department-store dummy)." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amelie (2001) |
"Fairly irresistible if you can keep your cynicism in check for a couple of hours." |
Lou Lumenick |
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