Tomato 3/4 |
W. (2008) |
"More of a hastily executed charcoal sketch than a portrait, Oliver Stone's W. is nonetheless an often compelling, tragicomic psychological analysis of Dubya, viewed through the prism of his relationship with an allegedly disapproving father." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Waging A Living |
"Weisberg is nonjudgmental, allowing his subjects to deliver the message that, for far too many people, the American dream is more of a nightmare." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1/4 |
Wah-Wah (2006) |
"The story lacks focus. The senses blur as wives and ex-wives come and go, and Harry regularly falls off the wagon, only to reform the next day." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1/4 |
Waist Deep (2006) |
"All of the familiar urban stereotypes and clichés are out in force." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat |
Waiting for Dublin (2009) |
"An agonizingly amateurish WWII rom-com." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Waiting for Happiness (2003) |
"Manages to delight without much of a story." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1/4 |
Waiting... (2005) |
"The sophomorically crude comedy Waiting... confirms your worst suspicions about both the staff in chain restaurants -- and indie filmmakers desperate to be noticed." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Waitress (2007) |
"In the end, Shelly's script for Waitress has a pleasingly tart undertone that balances out what could have been an overly sugary confection. And she directs with a skill that makes me wish we could look forward to many more films from her." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Wake (2004) |
"Strictly straight-to-video fodder." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Waking Life (2001) |
"Worth seeing because of its groundbreaking animation style." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) |
"Wal-Mart's home office in Bentonville, Ark., can rest easy: Greenwald, as usual, is hysterically preaching to the choir." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
"In a season filled with so many feel-bad movies, don't underestimate the appeal of something as silly as Walk Hard." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007) |
"We'll probably never know what became of Williams, but his short life and mysterious disappearance make for diverting viewing." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2/4 |
Walk on Water (2005) |
"Fox can't decide if Walk on Water is a terrorist thriller or a gay buddy story, and neither can the viewer." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 4/4 |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"Walk the Line is the only movie I've seen three times this year -- and I'd happily watch it again and again." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
A Walk to Remember (2002) |
"The bland leading the bland." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Walker (2007) |
"Like Richard Gere in [American Gigolo], Harrelson's Carter Page is as superficial as he is entertaining - at least, until he gets mixed up in a murder case." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Walking on the Sky (2004) |
"Six Lower Manhattan thirty somethings ponder the suicide of a mutual friend in Walking on the Sky, a tediously self-absorbed variation on The Big Chill and The Return of the Secaucus 7." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Walking Tall (2004) |
"Exciting stuff in its primitive, predictable way." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 1/4 |
The Wall (2004) |
"[A] tedious left-wing documentary." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 4/4 |
WALL-E (2008) |
"Some day, there will be college courses devoted to this movie." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit demands more than a single viewing to catch everything -- and audiences of all ages won't mind one bit." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Waltzing Anna (2006) |
"Excruciating as it is well meaning, Doug Bollinger's Waltzing Anna is a vanity production that turns serious issues about the aging into a schmaltzy dramatic comedy." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Wannabes |
"In the era of The Sopranos, it feels painfully redundant and inauthentic." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wanted (2008) |
"A 12-armed heavy-metal drummer of a movie, kicking and flailing through two hours of impossible. The car chase of the year." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
War Dance (2007) |
"Even in support of the noblest of causes, manipulation is manipulation." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2008) |
"Conventional and one-sided." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2.5/4 |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"This disappointing War of the Worlds limps to a conclusion that mercifully insures there will not be a sequel." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 0.5/4 |
The War on the War on Drugs (2005) |
"The War on the War on Drugs strings together 60 amateurish short films to tell us drugs are cool, man." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
War Photographer (2002) |
"A gripping documentary about James Nachtwey, a New Yorker who's a longtime and much-honored chronicler of the world's misery." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The War Tapes (2006) |
"A gripping documentary that takes embedding pretty much right inside the soldiers' brains." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
The War Within (2005) |
"Chillingly realistic but deeply repellent, The War Within is a film that should not have been made." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 0.5/4 |
War, Inc. (2008) |
"I love John Cusack, but I can't imagine what he was thinking as the star, producer and co-writer of the mind-boggling Iraq satire War, Inc." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) |
"There's not enough here to justify the almost two hours." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Warrior (2005) |
"The Warrior may be mighty of sword but he is exceedingly limp of writing." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Warrior of Light (2003) |
"Heartbreaking film." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wasabi (2002) |
"The spaniel-eyed Jean Reno infuses Hubert with a mixture of deadpan cool, wry humor and just the measure of tenderness required to give this comic slugfest some heart." |
Megan Turner |
Splat 0/4 |
The Wash (2001) |
"Boring and desperately unfunny." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Washington Heights (2003) |
"Washington Heights hits a few false notes -- Eddie's vicious put-downs of his son's professional goals seem extreme, and the tragic denouement is slightly melodramatic -- but De Villa has created a truthful representation of a colorful community." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Wassup Rockers (2006) |
"Wassup Rockers could have been a spiky culture clash. When it tries to shock us with its alleged realism, though, it is entirely a bore." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat |
The Watcher (2000) |
"A crass, mechanical attempt at a thriller that should have gone straight to video." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 4/4 |
Watchmen (2009) |
"Other fantasy movies are playing checkers. This one plays chess, with grandmaster panache." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Water (2006) |
"... the incessant references to Gandhi keep gumming up the class-war love story." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) |
"The average 12-year-old will find it slow and predictable." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Water Lilies (2007) |
"The original French title of this flick translates as Birth of Octopuses, and it's a more accurate description of the complicated relationships in this well-acted coming-of-age story, the impressive debut of filmmaker Céline Sciamma." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Watermarks (2004) |
"A moving, poignant tale about triumph in the face of the unthinkable." |
Debra Birnbaum |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Way Home (2002) |
"The film is worth watching if only for Kim, who before this had never seen a movie, let alone acted in one." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat |
The Way of the Gun (2000) |
"Where The Way of the Gun falters seriously is its too-leisurely pacing." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Way We Get By (2009) |
"Although it has affecting moments, the film can't quite decide whether it's about aging or about the effects of war on the home front, and its modest scale is more appropriate for TV than the big screen." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Way We Laughed (2001) |
"A longwinded, slow-starting but moving film." |
Jonathan Foreman |
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