Tomato 3.5/4 |
'Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris (2007) |
"This entertaining and passionate documentary about the obscure jazz singer Jackie Paris tells the tale of an extraordinary voice and a self-destructive genius." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
10 Items or Less (2006) |
"A partially successful attempt at deflating Freeman's avuncular late-career image." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1/4 |
10,000 B.C. (2008) |
"An epic adventure of such towering testosterone counts and ceaseless tedium, you can almost feel the hair growing on your chest as the bags collect beneath your eyes." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
102 Dalmatians (2000) |
"This thing yips and whimpers like an indolent, egregiously cute Chihuahua." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The 11th Hour (2007) |
"If you still need an argument about global warming, the documentary -- makes a good one." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
12 and Holding (2006) |
"Loss is a big part of 12 and Holding. So is identity. But its scope is much larger, and its echoes far more resonant." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
12 Rounds (2009) |
"The future of vacuous action movies is clearly with the likes of Cena, humans who resemble characters from video games, albeit without the acting chops." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
12:08 East of Bucharest (2007) |
"A bleakly hilarious movie." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"Unlike Hanks in Big, there's little consistency to [Garner's] character." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
13 Tzameti (2006) |
"By the end ... audiences will need mass manicures." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
1408 (2007) |
"1408 is not quite interesting enough to linger long in the mind, but it has enough jack-in-the-box chills to mollify those who feel it's been all downhill since The Uninvited." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
15 Minutes (2001) |
"The filmmaker tries to eat his cake and have it as well, giving his audience ample servings of what we presumably want while slapping our wrists for it at the same time." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"The show really belongs to Willis, who brings a hangdog authority to the midlife action pose of paunchy, hungover, yet ready to rock and roll." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
17 Again (2009) |
"Efron, as a teen with the brain of a father, ably carries this featherweight movie." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
2 Days In Paris (2007) |
"Delpy's script is less a tale than it is a series of character-revealing snapshots, so the personalities are all we have to work with. And they are not personalities that wear well at feature length." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"2Fast 2Furious has everything you want -- especially if what you want is 2Fast 2Furious." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
20 Centimeters (2005) |
"Director Ramón Salazar, in only his second feature, distinguishes himself from others who so less effectively bend genres, and genders." |
John Anderson |
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2004 Year-in-Review (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
John Anderson |
Splat 1/4 |
2046 (2005) |
"The editors of Mad Magazine could have had a ball satirizing Wong Kar Wai's gaseous cavalcade of pretentiousness, 2046, if the filmmaker hadn't gotten there first." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
21 (2008) |
"Under Luketic's flaccid direction, 21 is another two-faced moralistic entertainment that shows us how much fun it is to live large, then punishes its characters for acting out our fantasies." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
21 Grams (2003) |
"The three leads are superb, as are Melissa Leo and Charlotte Gainsbourg in supporting roles." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"The rare film about rock that actually captures the anarchic essence of its subject matter." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
25th Hour (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/4 |
27 Dresses (2008) |
"Under Anne Fletcher's mechanistic direction, 27 Dresses ticks along as briskly and transparently as a clock with a see-through face." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"It's no Night of the Living Dead, but it's almost as scary and just as smart." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/4 |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"A screeching and wearyingly hyperbolic exercise in film-school nihilism that finds buried meaning in the term overkill." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
3 Needles (2006) |
"Provocative and ambitious." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2.5/4 |
3-Iron (2005) |
"Artful and engrossing, but the hero's insolent silences get to be a pain." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
30 Days of Night (2007) |
"The film moves from truly creepy to truly inane." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
300 (2007) |
"Put bluntly, the movie's just too darned silly to withstand any ideological theorizing. And 'silly' is invoked here, more or less, with affection." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat |
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) |
"Too much of the film is pure filler, visuals manipulated for onanistic purposes." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1/4 |
39 Pounds of Love (2005) |
"Menkins use of the soundtrack as a blunt instrument, his exploitation of his subject, the stagey conversations between family members and the squeezing of any emotional moment by the throat until it stops moving, are what make this film almost unwatchable" |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
"Moves like a barn on fire." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 4/4 |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) |
"Harrowing and heart-stopping." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) |
"The underpinning misogyny of 40 Days and 40 Nights is only exceeded by its cynicism." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) |
"Those looking for the coarse, sometimes cheap laughs promised by the movie's attention-getting title won't be disappointed." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 4/4 |
49 Up (2006) |
"To the extent that it opens a window into the puzzling business of growing older and affirms - with touching reflectiveness and exuberant humor -- the suspicion that we are all in the same boat, 49 Up is priceless." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
50 First Dates (2004) |
"Sticky but ingratiating." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
51 Birch Street (2006) |
"Doug Block's very moving, honest and even suspenseful autopsy of his parents' marriage is the kind of film audiences leave the theater talking about, and which keeps them talking days later." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
5X2 (2005) |
"Bruno-Tedeschi has one of those alert, off-kilter screen faces that burn with light and intelligence even as their characters slide into darkness: a tragedienne of the first order." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
The 6th Day (2000) |
"Taking anything too seriously in a movie as cretinous as The 6th Day is a big mistake: Each time you think someone's actually done some thinking, they'll prove you wrong." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
8 Mile (2002) |
"8 Mile is among the best studio films of the year 2002." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
8 Women (2002) |
"Who did it is less important to Ozon than a lampooning of the Sirkian aesthetic of pure artifice, but there's too much irony in the air for him to spin anything but the most brittle of confections." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
88 Minutes (2008) |
"If you lower your expectations and keep a sense of humor, even that large popcorn will seem worth the money." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
9 (2009) |
"Fans of sophisticated, adult-oriented animation may savor Acker's elaborate visuals. Younger children, however, might wonder why they sat through all the terror." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2/4 |
9 Songs (2005) |
"9 Songs is one of those vaguely forged ideas that never stops being vague." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2/4 |
95 Miles to Go (2006) |
"95 Miles to Go comes across as a second banana's unwitting bid for sympathy and attention." |
Jan Stuart |
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