Splat 2.5/4 |
D.E.B.S. (2005) |
"Most of the second half is taken up by the surprisingly sticky, amateurishly acted love story about desperate lovers on opposite sides of the law, and there are long stretches without laughs." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"... a crackling, fast-moving thriller that's every bit as brainy and irresistible as Dan Brown's controversial bestseller." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Daddy Day Camp (2007) |
"Daddy Day Camp, a comedy for no ages, has an amazing amount of CGI -- Cuba Gooding Incompetence." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Daddy Day Care (2003) |
"Only really little tykes will find the surplus of pratfalls and poo and fart jokes a hoot." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 2/4 |
Daddy's Little Girls (2007) |
"Perry will never get an Oscar nomination, but he has something better: an audience." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Dahmer (2002) |
"All the more disquieting for its relatively gore-free allusions to the serial murders, but it falls down in its attempts to humanize its subject." |
Megan Turner |
Splat 2/4 |
Dallas 362 (2005) |
"Dallas 362 is basically a road movie that doesn't really go anywhere." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun (2008) |
"Trumbo's dialogue is as subtle as a bayonet charge and as outdated, while McKenzie, alternately shouty and moany, is not the actor to pull it off." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Daltry Calhoun (2005) |
"Knoxville tries hard and exudes a certain likability, but can't really handle big dramatic moments at this point in his career." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Damned United (2009) |
"As the two coaches head for a faceoff in a climactic live TV interview, writer Morgan starts to seem like a rip-off -- of himself." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dan in Real Life (2007) |
"One character says she's looking for something 'not necessarily hahaha laugh-out-loud funny, something human funny,' and that's what we get." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 0/4 |
Dance Flick (2009) |
"If there exists anyone in the comedy business less funny than the Wayans clan, it's Amy Sedaris, so she's here, too." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat |
Dancer in the Dark (1999) |
"So unrelenting in its manipulative sentimentality that, if it had been made by an American and shot in a more conventional manner, it would be seen as a bad joke." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Dancer Upstairs (2003) |
"Although Malkovich has a good eye for composition and a deft way with rat-a-tat dialogue, Dancer sags in a few too many places." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 2/4 |
Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2001) |
"Mostly this is a whole lot of chain-smoking and griping about men. You'd be better off renting Demi Moore's Striptease." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Dandelion (2005) |
"Life is sad!" |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) |
"A quietly comic little gem." |
Megan Turner |
Splat 2/4 |
Dans Paris (2007) |
"Make a movie about depressed people, and what do you get? A depressing movie." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Dare (2009) |
"Dare is a high school coming-of-age film that dares to push the envelope. It doesn't always succeed, but that's not for lack of trying." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Daredevil (2003) |
"The flick misses the bull's-eye by such a length that nobody except hard-core fanboys and leather fetishists will be panting for the sequel promised at the end." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Darfur Now (2007) |
"The documentary Darfur Now proves that -- no matter how important the subject matter -- following various people around with a camera doesn't necessarily make a film." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) |
"At a stage in [Wes] Anderson’s career when he should be moving on, he is instead circling back." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Dark Blue (2003) |
"A crackling and solidly acted -- if somewhat familiar -- police-corruption thriller." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Dark Blue World (2001) |
"A Czech Pearl Harbor, minus the attack." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"Batman takes a fierce stance in favor of untruth, surveillance and (but?) the American way. Bruce Wayne says, 'Batman has no limits,' and there are two sides to that coin." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Dark Matter (2008) |
"There's little in Billy Shebar's script, the rambling direction by theater and opera helmer Chen Shi-Zheng - or Liu Ye's impassive performance as the student." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Dark Streets (2008) |
"I love musicals, but I'd be hard-pressed to recommend this curiosity." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Dark Water (2005) |
"Walter Salles' haunted-apartment thriller Dark Water doesn't sink like a stone, but for a movie with such a pedigreed director and a cast headed by Jennifer Connelly, it doesn't exactly float much above mediocrity, either." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
DarkBlueAlmostBlack (2007) |
"Director Daniel Sanchez Arévalo would have done well leaving a few subplots on the cutting-room floor. Quality almost always is better than quantity." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1/4 |
Darkness Falls (2003) |
"Could just as well have been titled Dumb Then Dumber for the way its plot makes decreasing sense even by the low standards of B horror flicks." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Darkon (2007) |
"Neel and Meyer approach their subjects with open minds. Running around Baltimore in medieval armor isn't everyone's chalice of wine, they seem to be saying -- but who are we to judge?" |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Darshan - the Embrace (2006) |
"[A] handsomely photographed but one-sided documentary." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Darwin's Nightmare (2006) |
"The documentary tries to pin Africa's suffering on capitalism, but dances around the real problem." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 0/4 |
Date Movie (2006) |
"The movie sputters along on borrowed gags without improving them." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Daughters of the Sun (2004) |
"Beautiful and bleak." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006) |
"Strictly for fans of the musical acts and those who think everything Chappelle does is genius." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
David Hockney: The Colors of Music (2005) |
"Looking at the art and listening to the music is wonderful just on its own, but hanging out with Hockney is also a treat. He's a delightful companion." |
Russell Scott Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
"The remake adds little to the genre and doesn't bother with character development." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) |
"The jaw-dropping special effects in the weather-gone- wild doomsday film The Day After Tomorrow sweep all else away -- including quibbles about bland characterization and dead-in-the-water dialogue." |
Megan Lehmann |
Tomato |
The Day I Became A Woman (2001) |
"Slight but affecting." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Day Night Day Night (2007) |
"Too much information would only get in the way and lessen this compelling film's evocation of dread." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Day Watch (2007) |
"There are many stunning special effects, including a car chase up the side of a building, as well as the sort of wild animated subtitles that turned up in Night Watch." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
A Day Without A Mexican (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Day Zero (2008) |
"Proves that even the most controversial of topics can be the basis for the dullest indie films." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Daybreak (2005) |
"By the time the sun rises and these tormented parallel lives finally intersect, they've all achieved redemption -- as has the movie." |
Debra Birnbaum |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Daydream Believer (2002) |
"The story doesn't break any new ground, but the movie has energy." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Days of Being Wild (1990) |
Click here to see the review. |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Days of Glory (1944) |
Click here to see the review. |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Days of Glory (2006) |
"Days of Glory has good intentions and a well-executed combat scene, but it could do with more originality." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
De-Lovely (2004) |
"De-Lovely twinkles and glows, but all the surface razzle-dazzle fails to mask the emptiness at its core." |
Megan Lehmann |
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