Tomato |
Va Savoir (2001) |
"Once it starts to pick up, you find yourself enjoying a smart, refreshingly unpredictable romantic comedy tinged with Gallic melancholy." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Vacancy (2007) |
"Packs a lot of old-fashioned shocks into its taut 80-minute running time." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Vacationland (2006) |
"The autobiographical script meanders and the acting never solidifies. Besides, the leads look too old to be in high school -- maybe even college." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Valentin (2004) |
"A sweet, often poignant little film." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat |
Valentine (2001) |
"Blanks ... directs in almost entirely suspense-free fashion." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Valentino: the Last Emperor (2009) |
"Valentino: The Last Emperor makes no attempt at being a definitive portrait of Valentino. It is content to be a breezy look at the designer's twilight years." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Valet (2007) |
"The situation delivers less wackiness than it promises, and there aren't a lot of big laughs. Charm fills the void, though." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Valiant (2005) |
"Apart from the puns and regurgitation jokes, the story of a group of carrier pigeons on a death-defying mission in 1944 Europe will fly over the heads of actual youngsters." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Valkyrie (2008) |
"Valkyrie is a taut suspense flick for grown-ups that asks: What if ruthless German efficiency had been used against Hitler?" |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Valley of Tears (2003) |
"Perry, a longtime filmmaker, should have given the doc more urgency and punch." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat |
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) |
"The film looks nifty, but the flat and unemotional English-language dialogue lessens its impact." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Van Helsing (2004) |
"Van Helsing is more amusing and exciting than frightening." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006) |
"Dude, where are my laughs?" |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Vanaja (2007) |
"By the time Vanaja and her girlfriend ride off into the sunset on the back of an elephant, viewers will be bored stiff by this long, tedious film." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat |
Vanilla Sky (2001) |
"The end isn't satisfying enough to justify their efforts and your time." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Vanished Empire (2009) |
"[Director] Shakhnazarov came of age during the Soviet Union's Communist days and brings firsthand experience to the Brezhnev-era The Vanished Empire." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Vanity Fair (2004) |
"Shoehorning all these characters and plot threads into one film is perhaps overly ambitious, but Nair makes Vanity Fair an elegant showcase for an unforgettable heroine." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Vantage Point (2008) |
"Chugging forward and chundering back, the movie keeps promising to whip up something hellishly complicated, but what keeps the movie going for an hour and a half is not a complicated plot but a stingy way of dribbling out information." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat |
Vatel (2000) |
"Cold and uninvolving." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Vengo (2001) |
"The story ... is neither convincing nor remotely dramatic." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 1/4 |
Venom (2005) |
"Even the undemanding high schoolers the film is aimed at will experience déjà voodoo, as Venom recites the A through Z of horror clichés. All hopes for suspense and plot twists are snuffed out about as quickly as the film's black characters." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 4/4 |
Venus (2006) |
"What makes this film the perfect career nightcap for Peter the great is the nimbus of rakish doom he has always cultivated." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Venus and Mars (2003) |
"A mild cross between The Big Chill and Sex and the City, this English-language German oddity is a romantic comedy passing through on its way to video." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Venus Boyz (2003) |
"It's not uninteresting, but so much footage is given over to earnest discussion of sexual politics that the overall effect is like sitting through a semester's worth of transgender studies." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Vera Drake (2004) |
"Vera Drake confirms Leigh's reputation as one of the world's master filmmakers -- and showcases Staunton as one of its great actresses." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Veronica Guerin (2003) |
"Shamelessly schmaltzy biopic." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato |
Vertical Limit (2000) |
"One of the most thrilling - and authentic - mountain-climbing films in recent memory." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat |
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2001) |
"Its plot ... is very hard to follow, and often slow." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2001) |
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Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Very Annie Mary (2001) |
"Odd and weird." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Very Long Engagement (2004) |
"The novelty of the setting and the Hollywood-style lavishness of the production go a long way toward justifying sitting through this very long movie." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) |
"[Allen's] funniest movie in years and arguably his sexiest." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
View from the Top (2003) |
"A dire stewardess comedy that's the movie equivalent of airline food." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
The Village (2004) |
"The Village pours on creepy atmosphere, but this dud is too intent on delivering its liberal 'message' to actually deliver the kinds of scares it promises in the terrific trailer." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Violin (2007) |
"Tavira's acting is the high point of this suspenseful yet beautiful movie, which -- for a while at least -- proves that music can soothe the savage breast." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Virgil Bliss (2002) |
"Too bad Maggio couldn't come up with a better script." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Virgin (2003) |
"There are some powerful emotions coursing through Virgin, writer-director Deborah Kampmeier's raw first feature, and a tighter script would have made them even more affecting." |
Megan Lehmann |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Virgin Suicides (1999) |
"It's hard to remember a film that mixes disparate, delicate ingredients with the subtlety and virtuosity of Sofia Coppola's brilliant The Virgin Suicides." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Virtual JFK (2008) |
"Virtual JFK -- directed by Tokyo-born, US-educated Koji Masutani -- doesn't bring up Iraq per se, but the parallels are clear." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat |
Virus (1998) |
"Completely predictable and largely fright-free!" |
Rod Dreher |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Visitor (2008) |
"Best movie I've seen so far this year? Hands down, it's Tom McCarthy's superb The Visitor, which turns Richard Jenkins, one of the best character actors in the business, into a full-fledged star." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
Vitus (2007) |
"Oh, yes. I loved the music, but it's almost impossible to go wrong with Bach and Schumann." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Vivere (2008) |
"You can't quarrel with the lensing and acting, but the overabundance of coincidences keeps Vivere from reaching its full potential." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Vodka Lemon |
"He's in no hurry to tell the story, and viewers drawn in by the warm-hearted tale and charmingly eccentric characters will be in no hurry for the closing credits." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Voices in Wartime (2005) |
"A moving documentary about poetry inspired by combat." |
Russell Scott Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Voices Of Iraq (2006) |
"It's impossible to say if what the makers of this 'experimental documentary' have assembled is a representative sample of these home movies, but on balance it's vastly more flattering to the Bush administration than Fahrenheit 9/11 and its ilk." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Volcanoes of the Deep Sea |
"As IMAX nature films go, this is one of the more absorbing ones." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Volver (2006) |
"Almodóvar milks this premise for all it's worth with witty dialogue, terrific performances -- and less-flamboyant-than-usual visuals that are still a red-accented treat for the eye." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Vulgar (2002) |
"For those willing to risk being made very uncomfortable, this instant cult classic announces the arrival of a distinctive new talent behind the camera." |
Lou Lumenick |
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