Tomato 4/4 |
Tadpole (2002) |
"An indie triumph." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato |
The Tailor of Panama (2001) |
"A hand-tailored job in a marketplace filled with off-the-rack movies." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story (2005) |
"Taj Mahal on its own terms is lavishly satisfying." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Take (2008) |
"A woefully earnest indie about a crime and its aftermath." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Take (2008) |
"John Leguizamo knocks it out of the park as an armored car driver in The Take, which is quite a bit better than you'd expect from a low-budget thriller that's getting a token theatrical release a month ahead of its DVD debut." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Take Care of My Cat (2001) |
"The episodic film makes valid points about the depersonalization of modern life. But the characters tend to be cliches whose lives are never fully explored." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Take My Eyes (2006) |
"The story isn't exactly new, but Bollain, an actress in her own right, keeps Take My Eyes from sinking into clichés." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Take Out (2008) |
"Relying on ambient sound, a handheld camera and lots of close-ups, Take Out is realistically raw and bleak." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Take the Lead (2006) |
"Like the recent Glory Road, Take the Lead tweaks a true story to sell more tickets. But at what point do movies like this one begin to fuel the racial hatred that they ostensibly deplore?" |
Kyle Smith |
Splat .5/4 |
Taken (2009) |
"Next out of the January dreg-u-lator: A Liam Neeson thriller so lacking in ambition they should have called it Paycheck." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Taking Lives (2004) |
"Taking Lives is smarter than your average serial-killer movie, thanks to unusually fleshed-out characters inhabited by a high- pedigree cast." |
Megan Lehmann |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"The new Pelham, although no classic, is a lot of fun if you're in the right mood." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Taking Sides (2003) |
"Talky but intriguing drama." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"Taking Woodstock achieves an amazing feat: It turns the fabled music festival, a key cultural moment of the late 20th century, into an exceedingly lame, heavily clichéd, thumb-sucking bore." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Tale of Despereaux (2008) |
"Somber, slow and elegant instead of frantic and dazzling. It works like a beloved fairy tale." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 1/4 |
A Tale of Two Pizzas (2003) |
"Any way you slice it, A Tale of Two Pizzas is so ineptly written and directed that it's pretty soggy entertainment." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Talent Given Us (2004) |
"Its remarkable candor is like spending a memorably hilarious, harrowing and unforgettable weekend with your wacky in-laws." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) |
"Seductive and stylish." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 1/4 |
Talento de Barrio (2008) |
"Reggaeton star Daddy Yankee holds his own in his big-screen acting debut, Talento de Barrio. Too bad he's saddled with a generic script, based loosely on his own life." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1/4 |
Tales of Erotica (1994) |
Click here to see the review. |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Talk to Her (2002) |
"Another knockout from Almodovar." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Talk to Me (2007) |
"The movie also presents '60s turbulence from a black point of view, which is not only bracing but also feels closer to the point of it all." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Talking Picture (2003) |
"The freeze-frame finale is a stunner." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) |
"Whoo, mama: Will Ferrell and NASCAR do make a purty pair. They go together like peanut butter and fried bananas in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Tamara (2006) |
"After a sly middle, the third act is just slasher-flick clichés; worse, it largely keeps Tamara offscreen. Villainy shouldn't be outsourced." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Tape (2001) |
"You never quite escape the feeling you're watching a barely adapted TV version of a somewhat gimmicky stage play." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 4/4 |
Tarnation (2004) |
"Caouette's triumph over his harrowing childhood and adolescence is itself a huge accomplishment -- but with Tarnation, he has used art, wit and a huge heart to forge his experiences into an unqualified masterpiece." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato |
Tarzan (1999) |
"Disney's Tarzan is not only the summer's most thrilling mainstream movie so far, it's also the best animated feature the studio has put out since The Lion King." |
Rod Dreher |
Tomato |
The Taste of Others (2001) |
"A comedy of manners that's as generous of spirit as it is laugh-provoking." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Taste of Tea (2004) |
"A tad too long, Tea is nevertheless touching and funny, with charming performances. You might say it's as calming as a hot cup of green tea." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tattoo (2002) |
"A very stylish variation on The Silence of the Lambs and Seven." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat .5/4 |
Taxi (2004) |
"The most embarrassing SNL vehicle since Pootie Tang." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 2/4 |
Taxidermia (2007) |
"And now a word of advice from your friendly film critic: If you go to see the Hungarian black comedy Taxidermia, don't plan to eat afterward." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Teacher's Pet (2004) |
"An entertaining treat that proves there's plenty of life left in traditional 2-D animation." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) |
"Teaching Mrs. Tingle an ugly, failed attempt to pull off a Heathers - style, teen - oriented black comedy." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 4/4 |
Team America: World Police (2004) |
"Consistently hilarious." |
Megan Lehmann |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Tears of the Black Tiger (2000) |
"What makes Tears a must-see are its day-glo colors, stylized gunfights, music that sounds as if Ennio Morricone had written it for one of Leone's spaghetti Westerns, and hyperbolic dialogue." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Tears of the Sun (2003) |
"Timely but confused Black Hawk Down wannabe." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Ted Bundy (2002) |
"A trashy, exploitative, thoroughly unpleasant experience." |
Megan Turner |
Splat .5/4 |
Teddy Bears' Picnic (2002) |
"A beyond-lame satire, Teddy Bears' Picnic ranks among the most pitiful directing debuts by an esteemed writer-actor." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Teeth (2008) |
"Debuting director Mitchell (son of Roy) Litchtenstein creates a lot of dread but not a consistent tone." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Tekkon Kinkreet (2007) |
"Somewhat resembles Paprika, another recent piece of Japanimation. But director Michael Arias, a Tokyo-based American, doesn't fuse his striking graphics to a story anywhere near as satisfying." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Teknolust (2002) |
"Fails as entertainment, being so ineptly directed and written it often has the feel of a high school production by kids with more money and ambition than talent." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 2/4 |
Tell Me Something (2001) |
"So bedeviled by plot holes and violations of common sense that by the time you get to the climax, you've ceased to buy the whole story line." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Tell No One (2008) |
"The story becomes so convoluted and contrived (pursued by police, Alex just happens to run into a patient's father, who owes the doctor a big favor) that much of the tension dissipates." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tell Them Who You Are (2005) |
"Tell them Who You Are is breezy and informative. It offers a view of the talented, opinionated man that only his son could pull off." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ten (2003) |
"Breezy, entertaining and enlightening." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
The Ten (2007) |
"Multi-segment movies tend to be notoriously uneven, and this definitely proves to be the case with The Ten." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ten Canoes (2007) |
"Jokes about flatulence, human excrement and the size of someone's manhood also come into play, but they never cheapen this lush and enjoyable film." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006) |
"If thou wouldst rock tonight, thou couldst rock mightily tonight at Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny." |
Kyle Smith |
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