Splat 0/4 |
Haiku Tunnel (2001) |
"Amazingly amateurish, the film lands wide of satirical targets that should be impossible to miss." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Hair Show (2004) |
"The story is so slight, a low-wattage hair dryer could blow it away." |
Megan Lehmann |
Tomato 4/4 |
Hairspray (2007) |
"A rousing alternative in a marketplace packed with noisy, special-effects-heavy sequels, Hairspray is the best and most entertaining movie adaptation of a stage musical so far this century." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Half Nelson (2006) |
"Mostly, we just watch the teacher get high, and his classroom talks about civil rights are nothing but filler." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Half Past Dead (2002) |
"Has the cheesy, deadened feel of a straight-to-cable film." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Halloween (2007) |
"The Batman Begins of slasher movies, and one of the more frightening stabathons of recent years." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Halloween II (2009) |
"[Halloween II] offers up a rush of fiercely imagined nightmare images." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 0/4 |
Halloween: Resurrection (2002) |
"It's so devoid of joy and energy it makes even Jason X ... look positively Shakesperean by comparison." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hamilton (2006) |
"Plot? Who needs a plot?" |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat |
Hamlet (2000) |
"Embarrassingly sophomoric." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Hamlet (2000) |
"Intelligent, well-acted, all-American version of the Shakespeare tragedy." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"I am not fond of listening to characters scream unfunny lines meant to send up the blandness of everyday people." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Hammer (2008) |
"The script depends heavily on familiar stand-up comedy bits, but it's full of sharp wisecracks and slacker charm." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Hancock (2008) |
"Leaving behind the laughs for schmaltz, Hancock chickens out at the last minute, lurching toward a cop-out happy ending that gives every indication of having been reshot at the behest of test audiences. Well, at least you won't be bored." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Hanging Up (2000) |
"A depressing, trite and mawkishly Hollywood story about the death of a creepy old man and its effect on his spoiled grown-up daughters." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Hangover (2009) |
"Memento meets Old School? It's party time." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 1/4 |
Hannah Free (2009) |
"It might be OK some early morning on an obscure cable network. But that's it." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008) |
"Miley Cyrus is not U2." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Hannah Montana The Movie (2009) |
"Thin as a flip-flop and as complicated as a scrunchy, the plot is barely enough for half a movie. At the 45-minute point, things are pretty much wrapped up." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) |
"How can a movie with such a charming cast and believable dialogue (seemingly taken from the actors' real lives) go wrong? It can't." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat |
Hannibal (2001) |
"Of the three films made from Thomas Harris' novels featuring the murderous psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, Ridley Scott's Hannibal is the least compelling or frightening." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 1/4 |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"There is no action-movie cliché too rusty to be wheeled forth." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Happening (2008) |
"No one will watch any of Shyamalan's recent films twice. A movie that features Wahlberg suggesting everyone try to outrun the wind can barely be watched once." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Happenstance (2001) |
"The ensemble cast ... is personable and the Parisian ambiance is catching." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Happily Ever After (1993) |
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V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Happily Ever After (2005) |
"There's little you haven't seen in any number of French flicks, but then, most of them didn't have Gainsbourg." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Happily N'Ever After (2007) |
"'I hate to tell you, but it gets worse,' one character promises midway through Happily N'Ever After. No kidding." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Happy Accidents (2001) |
"Anderson ... resorts to all sorts of directorial tricks to sustain this shaky premise." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Happy Endings (2005) |
"It's hard to dislike Don Roos' Magnolia-inspired triptych of interconnected comic tales about lies, sex and video." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 4/4 |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"George Miller's Happy Feet may be the 10th animated film this year with talking critters -- but, trust me, you're probably going to want to see the best feature-length cartoon since The Incredibles, no matter what your age." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Happy Here and Now (2002) |
"Michael Almereyda's muddled Happy Here and Now should have stayed on the shelf -- where it's been gathering dust for several years." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Happy Hour (2004) |
"If only its characters weren't such stereotypes." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Happy Tears (2009) |
"The 10 short films (half ani mated, half live-action) nominated for Oscars this year are a mixed bag, but it is still a public service to give them a two-week run on the big screen." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Happy Times (2002) |
"Worth watching for Dong Jie's performance -- and for the way it documents a culture in the throes of rapid change." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"Poppy, memorably played by Sally Hawkins, is one of those individuals who sees every glass as half-full." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hard Candy (2005) |
"What we have here is simply a spectacularly unpleasant horror show, or an attempt to out-outrage the trio of poison playwrights I've mentioned. And yet Nelson's imagination thunders away with such demon perversity that I eagerly await his next work." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato |
A Hard Day's Night (1964) |
"The new, cleaned-up version (with a splendid Dolby Mono soundtrack) playing at Film Forum confirms its reputation as the greatest and most entertaining rock movie, ever." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hard Goodbyes: My Father (2003) |
"Hard Goodbyes could easily have been maudlin, but isn't. Credit an adult script and realistic acting, especially by Giorgos Karayannis as Elias." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Hard Word (2003) |
"A raft of impressive performances -- and a dose of lunatic unpredictability -- float this verbose debut from writer-director Scott Roberts." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Harold (2008) |
"Harold is a genuine oddity that's more watchable than it sounds." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
"I didn't laugh anywhere near as much at this far less fresh sequel - which is broader, more vulgar, more scattershot, more overtly political and a lot less funny than it sounds on paper." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) |
"The most gut-bustingly funny movie so far this year." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Harrison's Flowers (2002) |
"It's basically a not entirely believable soap opera that would not be out of place on Lifetime if some of the violence were toned down." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Harry And Max (2005) |
"Director Christopher Munch deftly raises disturbing questions, but he fumbles badly when groping for answers." |
Debra Birnbaum |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
"Crammed full of labyrinthine plot twists, this second installment will delight Potter-crazy kids even as their parents grow restless at the 2-hour-and -41-minute running time." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"Exactly what fans are looking for, offering eye-boggling spectacle and lots of well-executed action scenes." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"Suspenseful and artfully realized." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"Brought me straight back to one of the most enduring of childhood feelings: boredom." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"A fruitcake-of-a-movie dense with exposition and woefully short on payoff." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"Harry Potter and the Wizard of Azkaban is precisely the kind of invention the franchise needed." |
Lou Lumenick |
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