Tomato 2.5/4 |
D.E.B.S. (2005) |
"Even if it doesn't add up to a whole lot, the movie is content to tickle you gently more than jab you in the ribs. These days, that's saying a lot. Alas." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"All of the actors seem to be on overacting pills save for Hanks, who may yet rue the day he ever stepped off that giant piano and into big, self-important blimps like this." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1/4 |
Daddy Day Camp (2007) |
"As one might anticipate with a comedy about children and the outdoors, a lot of screen time is devoted to bodily noises and throwing up." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Daddy Day Care (2003) |
"Those wishing to contribute to the ongoing prosperity of a shamefully wasted natural resource will find a mortified movie badly in need of potty training and a star who has attained the American Dream of doing the least work for the most amount of money." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Daddy's Little Girls (2007) |
"This particular Tyler Perry movie offers some glimpses of the graceful comic talent its one-man entertainment empire can be if he turns down the volume more often." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dallas 362 (2005) |
"Caan shows with his rough-and-tumble character dramedy precisely why actors like to work for actors." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Daltry Calhoun (2005) |
"Southern whimsy, when handled delicately, can produce a precious jewel a la Junebug. In less skillful hands, it can be merely precious." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dan in Real Life (2007) |
"Dan in Real Life navigates its machinations with such laid-back assurance that it earns your attention, your respect and, ultimately, your heart." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1/4 |
Dance Flick (2009) |
"We live in desperate times. But no one's desperate enough to laugh at Dance Flick. Which is sort of encouraging, no?" |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Dancer Upstairs (2003) |
"Javier Bardem is terrific, as usual, in a film that hovers between genres, albeit with considerable grace." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Danny Deckchair (2004) |
"What starts off as a spin on The Wizard of Oz turns into one of those Frank Capra-esque excursions into candy land populism with its windy homilies about 'nobodies' like Danny finding their inner 'somebodies.'" |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Dans Paris (2007) |
"Dans Paris feels fresh and quirky enough to have been made 30 years ago." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
Daredevil (2003) |
"The dialogue is dreadful, a stale sort of hokum that wouldn't make the cut at Marvel Comics." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Darfur Now (2007) |
"Darfur Now is a worthy if inconsistent attempt at collaring a concerned audience and saying, You, too, can make a difference." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) |
"None of this is as amusing as the writers ostensibly imagine it to be." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dark Blue (2003) |
"Gritty, gripping, a bit uneven, but Kurt Russell hits all the right notes." |
John Anderson |
Tomato |
Dark Blue World (2001) |
"An engrossing, elegantly detailed, intermittently sappy dramatization of the heroism of Czech bomber pilots and the ignominious fate that awaited many of them in the years following the war." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"It's a comic-book movie, but it's also a dark and highly complex drama." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Dark Matter (2008) |
"It concludes in a way that will have you asking whether the ending was misguided, or maybe it was just the rest of the movie." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Dark Water (2005) |
"If there's such a thing as a film being too suggestive for too little, Dark Water may be its prototype." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Darkness Falls (2003) |
"If you need to be really scared of the dark, you're better off making up stuff from the shadows in your own room." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Darshan - the Embrace (2006) |
"Less National Geographic and more personal history would have added a dimension to Darshan." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Darwin's Nightmare (2006) |
"With a roving eye and an attentive heart, Sauper's film takes in everyone involved in this miasma." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 4/4 |
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006) |
"Block Party makes for a transcendent experience." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
"Gruesome, funny, everything a horror film should be." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) |
"[Emmerich] crams the film with enough digital wizardry to make you wish he had jettisoned the script altogether and simply paraded the visual effects with chapter titles such as Snow Over New Delhi and The Hollywood Sign Gets Totaled." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
The Day I Became A Woman (2001) |
"Exhilarating." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Day Night Day Night (2007) |
"[Director] Loktev provokes in her audience an involuntary shudder, because we realize that whether an act is madness or inspiration really depends on what side you're on." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Day Watch (2007) |
"With what seems to be a freer hand and a bigger budget, Bekmambetov returns with an even slicker, faster-paced and funnier take on the black magical sub-castes born in the novels of Sergei Lukyanenko and Vladimir Vasiliev." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Day Zero (2008) |
"There's very little that rings true." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 1.5/4 |
Days of Being Wild (1990) |
"Wong creates a dream state of shifting, stalling, liquid time, a kind of gauzy unreality that made In the Mood for Love so seductive." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Days of Glory (2006) |
"Just when you think you've viewed World War II from every conceivable angle, a picture like Days of Glory comes along and expands your range of vision with a stirring sense of urgency." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1/4 |
De-Lovely (2004) |
"The kind of escapist entertainment that has one hunting for an escape route." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dear Frankie (2005) |
"Never conspicuously begs for your empathy and neither does Mortimer, who carefully metes out her character's skittish mannerisms." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Dear Wendy (2005) |
"The location is nowhere, the characters' diction is beyond stylized and Novella Nelson plays Dick's maid. Miner families with maids? Maybe in Denmark." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Death at a Funeral (2007) |
"Like Altman's Gosford Park, Oz's film is an organism comprising intersecting oddballs..." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Death of a President (2006) |
"The film itself becomes its own worst enemy, subverting its attempts at subtlety in the name of ideological urgency." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006) |
"The Death of Mr. Lazarescu takes aim at the grotesqueries of the hospital experience with killing accuracy, like a mallet blow to the knee that comes down harder than anticipated." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Death Race (2008) |
"Death Race may be a loud, lowbrow piece of pulp, but it's also crackling entertainment -- the very definition of a cheap thrill." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Death Sentence (2007) |
"[An] exercise in do-it-yourself-justice-mongering." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Death to Smoochy (2002) |
"The cynicism is colossal, the casting superb: Norton may be the only actor alive who could pull off a character like Sherman, without making him either an idiot or a parody." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Decade Under the Influence (2003) |
"Christie speaks with passionate insight, Bogdanovich, Friedkin and Dennis Hopper say things you may not have heard before, and Dern is an unrelenting delight." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
December Boys (2007) |
"The movie earns its right to sentiment through its performances and gentle solicitousness toward its young heroes." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Deck the Halls (2006) |
"Deck the Halls strains to be both naughty and nice with much clamor and not much conviction." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Dedication (2007) |
"Dedication is peppered with drolly passive-aggressive supporting characters and actors equipped to do them full justice." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Deep Breath (2001) |
"If you can make it past the first five minutes (a lamb is slaughtered and disemboweled), you'll find this a bracing ride, utterly original and, at times, strangely amusing." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
The Deep End (2001) |
"A beautifully wrought suspense drama that measures the full depths of mother love." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Deep Sea (IMAX) (2006) |
"Hall has chased down a gasp-provoking array of sea creatures that are so extravagantly extraterrestrial, nothing Steven Spielberg could conjure in his special effects labs could remotely compete." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Defiance (2008) |
"Defiance comes alive in its quieter scenes and smaller details." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Definitely, Maybe (2008) |
"Reynolds provides the perfect foil for these spiky women. Quietly masculine and so relaxed in his effects that he could be prescribed for anxiety, Reynolds exudes an elusive charisma that suggests Ryan O'Neal by way of George Gobel." |
Jan Stuart |
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