Tomato 3.5/4 |
Caché (2005) |
"... Hidden masterfully unfolds in Hitchcockian fashion." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cadillac Records (2008) |
"Most of the actors perform wonderful re-creations of the original song that give Cadillac Records entertainment value well beyond the hackneyed story lines." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Cake Eaters (2009) |
"With so much junk cluttering movie houses, it is a shame that it took two years for this sweet, intelligent drama to get a release before heading for DVD. But such is the sad state of the movie business." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"Calendar Girls may be boomer-baiting formula, but this ingratiating, big-hearted holiday treat is as British as plum pudding -- and the closest thing on the market to the famous Ealing comedies." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato |
California Dreamin' (2009) |
"For now at least, we have to be content with this pleasing comedy in search of an editor." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Callas Forever (2004) |
"Campy and clichéd." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1/4 |
The Caller (2009) |
"IF Frank Langella hadn't received an Oscar nomination for "Frost/Nixon," it's pretty doubtful that an opaque oddity like Richard Ledes' The Caller would have managed even a one-week vanity booking at the Quad." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Calvaire (2005) |
"Director-co-writer Fabrice du Welz has taken a clichéd premise and infused it with a stylish perversity that should have horror fans squealing with delight." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Camden 28 (2007) |
"Their story is inspiring and, all these years later, relevant." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Camp (2003) |
"Graff has drawn uniformly excellent performances from his cast of unknowns. And they can sing and dance up a storm." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Candy (2006) |
"I'm not sure there's a lot more to say about heroin addiction, but if there is, Candy doesn't say it." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
El Cantante (2007) |
"A downer of a musical biopic that leaves no cliché unturned." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Canvas (2007) |
"First-time filmmaker Joseph Greco draws on personal experience for this devastating yet honest portrait of an ordinary Florida family." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Cape Of Good Hope (2005) |
"Charming if overlong." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) |
"Isn't it Washington that took money from the taxpayers to bail out the banks? Shouldn't Moore run his yellow crime-scene tape around the White House?" |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Capote (2005) |
"Acting doesn't get much better than Philip Seymour Hoffman's acid-etched -- yet oddly poetic -- portrait of Truman Capote." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Captain Abu Raed (2008) |
"There's an aura of tension as Abu Raed helps a boy escape from his abusive father. And the location shots of Amman are impressive." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 0/4 |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) |
"We began this dismal movie season with one lethally bad World War II romance -- Pearl Harbor -- and now we're wrapping up with another howling dog, Captain Corelli's Mandolin." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1999) |
"Director Francisco de Lombardi fills his sensual film with plenty of gorgeous shots of the lush landscape and its equally exotic, miniskirted 'fauna.'" |
Megan Lehmann |
Tomato 3/4 |
La Captive (2001) |
"La Captive is so good that it makes amends for A Couch in New York, Akerman's simply dreadful 1996 English-language love story." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1/4 |
Captivity (2007) |
"Slick, sick sleaze." |
Rocco Landesman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"A remarkable and shattering documentary." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Caramel (2008) |
"Uneven, fluctuating between poignancy...and fluff." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Carandiru (2004) |
"Marks a terrific comeback for Babenco -- it's the roughest picture of life behind bars since Midnight Express." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Card Player (2004) |
"Fans of the cult helmer who expect the usual gore will be disappointed -- but there are compensations." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Carlito's Way: Rise To Power (2005) |
"Writer-director Michael Bregman (son of Martin, who produced both films) keeps things moving briskly on the way to an improbably happy ending." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Carmen and Geoffrey (2009) |
"Both subjects are interviewed at length, and the filmmakers have unearthed some rare, arresting black-and-white dance footage from the '50s and '60s." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Cars (2006) |
"Cars somewhat self-indulgently runs nearly two hours -- but overall, it's well worth the trip." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Casa de los Babys (2003) |
"A pretty dry and unengaging social treatise compared with Sayles' last movie, the underrated Sunshine State." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Casanova (2005) |
"Don't confuse the 18th-century Venetian setting in Casanova with sophistication." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Case of the Grinning Cat (2006) |
"Leave it to Chris Marker, the 85-year-old French documentarian and cineaste hero, to take an unexceptional event and turn it into an exceptional film." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cashback (2007) |
"Imagine Kevin Smith with a background in poetry and painting instead of comic books and bestiality jokes, and you'll have an idea of what to expect from an exciting new filmmaker named Sean Ellis, whose terrific debut is called Cashback." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"Back to basics, is the idea." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Cassandra's Dream (2008) |
"[Delivers] a sharply effective jolt of unease. It's a pulp story pinned to the screen with an ice pick of conscience in a manner that would have pleased Allen's idol, Ingmar Bergman." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato |
Cast Away (2000) |
"A blockbuster with the soul of an art film, Cast Away is an enormously gratifying surprise ending to a generally disappointing year at the movies." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Casuistry: The Art of Killing a Cat (2004) |
"Director-writer Zev Asher's film is a balanced examination of the incident, which caused a media stampede that blew the case out of proportion." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Cat's Meow (2002) |
"Thin period piece." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"A political thriller that thankfully sidesteps the offensive convention of exploring Africa's suffering through the eyes of a white protagonist." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat .5/4 |
Catch and Release (2007) |
"The chick comedy-drama Catch and Release may look bland, but it's not. It's worse. To rise to the level of blandness, it would need to have a few gallons of Tabasco dumped into it." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"You won't find a movie that's more fun this season -- but at 2-1/2 hours, it's probably too much of a good thing." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Catch That Kid (2004) |
"Freundlich ... directs his first big studio film on autopilot, trudging through the motions and displaying little understanding of what appeals to young 'uns." |
Megan Lehmann |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catching Out (2002) |
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V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Caterina in the Big City (2005) |
"A fluffy and fun coming-of-age-in-Rome comedy." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Cats & Dogs (2001) |
"Except for a fine slapstick chase sequence before the opening credits, every good joke in the movie is to be found in those trailers." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 1/4 |
Catwoman (2004) |
"A purr-fectly ridiculous and boring cat-astrophe." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Cautiva (2005) |
"The Argentine thriller Cautiva features a solid performance by 23-year-old Barbara Lombardo that goes a long way in making up for the telenovela script." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1/4 |
The Cave (2005) |
"A cheesy, often unintentionally funny, direct-to-video-caliber knockoff of Aliens that couldn't be more shallow." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cave of the Yellow Dog (2006) |
"The nonprofessional cast is superb, as are the images of the starkly beautiful landscape." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato |
The Caveman's Valentine (2001) |
"Jackson is so frighteningly effective, and affecting, as Romulus that you're sucked in." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Cavite (2006) |
"A last act full of reversals would have filled in the holes in Cavite." |
Kyle Smith |
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