Tomato 3/4 |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"In its best moments, All the King's Men exhorts us to sit back and reflect on the dark choices we are all capable of making in the name of power." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
All the Pretty Horses (2000) |
"The film's swift, page-turning gait carries us with it." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
All the Queen's Men (2002) |
"Let's hope -- shall we? -- that the 'true story' by which All the Queen's Men is allegedly "inspired" was a lot funnier and more deftly enacted than what's been cobbled together onscreen." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"Paul Schneider, a buoyant young newcomer from North Carolina, is the No. 1 reason to see David Gordon Green's All the Real Girls." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
Almost Famous (2000) |
"The entire movie is as consequential as the Raspberries' greatest hits." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Almost Peaceful (2004) |
"Michel Deville's heartfelt and sexy film feels stagy at moments, but the characters are so affectionately drawn and the cast is so watchable, it couldn't matter less." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Alone With Her (2007) |
"A B-picture waiting to cut loose in its final 15 minutes, when it devolves into generic stalker-thriller theatrics of the Julia-Roberts-in-distress kind." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
Along Came a Spider (2001) |
"Thoroughly surprising and far from unsatisfactory." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"If this is entertainment, the Port Authority should consider selling tickets to the washroom facilities at its New York bus terminal, where the traffic is bustling and frequently very colorful." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"Cassavetes coaxes persuasive performances from Justin Timberlake and Anton Yelchin in this flashy re-creation of a 1999 kidnapping-murder in cushy Southern California, which overdoes the seamy side of suburbia angle." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"The sight of enhanced Alvin and the Chipmunks in the movie of the same name is far less squirm-inducing than one might have feared." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
An Amazing Couple (2002) |
"Elevating all of this above the level of a French operetta libretto is our deeper awareness of the emotional back story behind Belvaux's characters." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"That rare bird: a tear-jerker about the House of Commons and the antislavery movement in England. Michael Apted's idolatrous portrait of abolitionist William Wilberforce is wall-to-wall with intriguing characters and deeply felt performances." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Amelie (2001) |
"The first half of this insistently goofy romantic comedy buzzes with the marauding ingenuity of director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, but it overstays its welcome." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
Amen (2003) |
"Costa-Gavras' political thrillers used to jab and thrust with lethal efficiency. This one just pounds against a heavy bag, huffing and puffing all the way." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1.5/4 |
America's Heart and Soul (2004) |
"Schwartzberg hears America singing, and the cacophony of sugary, inspirational sentiments would make Walt Whitman vomit in his grave." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
America's Sweethearts (2001) |
"Occasionally amusing, but also an irritating mess." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
America: Freedom To Fascism (2006) |
"[Russo] has created such an inflammatory piece of clumsy propaganda it's hard to take his best arguments seriously." |
John Anderson |
Tomato |
American Adobo (2002) |
"Really is a pan-American movie, with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
American Cannibal - The Documentary (2006) |
"American Cannibal would be interesting if it weren't so 2001." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
An American Carol (2008) |
"Is there any filmmaker alive, whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal, capable of producing a truly incisive, intelligent satire about our politically polarized times?" |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"Everybody's so good, you find yourself wondering why the movie isn't funnier -- or riskier." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"As with an earlier star who fed off career criminals, Humphrey Bogart, there is always something a bit smarmy about Washington, even in his heroic mode; the nastier his character grows, the looser his acting becomes." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
American Gun (2002) |
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Splat 2/4 |
American Gun (2006) |
"Avelino's message about America's gun-happy culture is so foursquare and what-you-see-is-what-you-get that it's possible to walk out of the film wondering if you missed the point." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Hardcore (2006) |
"Filmmaker Paul Rachman and writer Steven Blush make an impressive case for a grass-roots movement of mostly white, working-to-middle-class misfits who thought rock-and-roll needed to be rude, abrasive and somewhat scary at the dawn of the Reagan era." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
An American Haunting (2006) |
"Using alleged 'actual events' as a template, writer-director Courtney Solomon fashions a crafty mystery with a lot of joy-buzzer jolts sliding through its somber mood." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat |
American Outlaws (2001) |
"Despite the absence of karaoke cowboys in American Outlaws, there are enough anachronisms of other varieties to make it an unintentionally screwy experience." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
American Pie 2 (2001) |
"The American Pie take on teenage sexuality is far more leering and prurient in its banana-peel fashion than the in-your-face voyeurism of Larry Clark's Bully." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 4/4 |
American Splendor (2003) |
"Funny, clever, tender and wry, while always holding true to its ongoing identity crisis." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
American Teen (2008) |
"Nothing is revealed here, save for the sad fact that while young people's appetite for nonfiction film was supposed to be whetted by reality television, nonfiction film instead has turned into reality television." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Violet (2009) |
"American Violet is a justice story, with some honest justice. It's nicely reassuring that it happens to be true." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
American Wedding (2003) |
"[Dylan's] bare-bones approach may trip up along the way, but it keeps the funny stuff in the foreground." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Amityville Horror (2005) |
"The movie is a procession of unregenerate B-level goosing. But there's definitely a smirk beneath the muck." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato |
Amores Perros (2001) |
"May be the most repellent great movie you will ever see." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amu (2005) |
"Shot with remarkable confidence and an understated eloquence." |
John Anderson |
Tomato |
Amy (2001) |
"A crowd-charming contemporary fable with more than a touch of Dickens in its go-for-broke heart." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) |
"One presumes [the original's cast] had better things to do than revisit old saw-toothed friends. Unless you have some empty hours to fill with swampy slush, you may decide you've better things to do as well." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1/4 |
Analyze That (2002) |
"A moment of silence, please, for the career of Robert De Niro. Once considered the finest American screen actor alive, he has reduced himself to singing I Feel Pretty. It is anything but." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Anamorph (2008) |
"The atmosphere created by director H.S. Miller is gothic, tortured, stylized yet tinged with a classicist's sense of composition, symmetry and, yes, perspective." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Anatomy of Hell (2004) |
"Breillat, as usual, leaves us gasping." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) |
"Ron may be an idiot, but Anchorman is no dope." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2003) |
"After an erratic run of screen appearances, Irons delivers a full-blooded star turn, riding on vast reserves of charm and riddled with question marks." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
"For some of us, the phenomenal popularity of Phantom remains the greatest mystery of all, one left unsolved by this interminable screen spectacle." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (2006) |
"To say that this may well be the best biographical film we may ever get about its subject does not in any way diminish the achievement of documentary maker Ric Burns." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat |
Angel Eyes (2001) |
"The two stars have chemistry, but this romantic mystery is finally too lugubrious for a performer with the energy reserves of Lopez." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Angela's Ashes (1999) |
"There's a compelling momentum to Angela's Ashes, Alan Parker's very faithful, if poetically subordinate, version of McCourt's book, which imposed elegance on squalor and intelligence on the indolence cultivated by poverty." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"Ultimately, the film tries so hard to strike a balance that it ends up standing stock-still." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Anger Management (2003) |
"Lumpy, bumpy and uneven, but often enjoyably nuts." |
John Anderson |
Splat |
The Animal (2001) |
"There's a whole lot of stuff like The Animal to the point that there's no longer anything outrageous about its outrageousness." |
Gene Seymour |
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