Tomato 3/4 |
Hairspray (2007) |
"...Hairspray is a surprisingly effervescent ice cream soda of a musical, fizzing with sly comic performances and a bonanza of heel-thumping numbers." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 4/4 |
Half Nelson (2006) |
"Amid all the might-have-been cliches, director Ryan Fleck and his co-screenwriter, Anna Boden, give us a movie about history and destiny." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1/4 |
Half Past Dead (2002) |
"Ear-splitting exercise in formula crash-and-bash action." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Hamlet (2000) |
"Provocative!" |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"Hamlet 2 is a tour-de-force from Coogan (the director in Tropic Thunder), who's never been more wonderfully, wildly unhinged." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Hammer (2008) |
"It's no classic, but, unlike recent attempts at sports comedy (we're looking at you, Semi-Pro), The Hammer comes through by not seeming to try too hard." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hancock (2008) |
"Director Peter Berg knows the difference between cartoon violence and the real stuff, and Hancock mixes both to good effect." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Hangover (2009) |
"Surprisingly funny and smartly acted." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008) |
"Totally slick and vanilla, but you have to like a kid who works this hard." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hannah Montana The Movie (2009) |
"Director Peter Chesholm does a fine job moving Hannah out of its $14.95 Disney Channel set and onto a bigger canvas." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) |
"The fumbling banalities spouted by the characters belie the prior achievements of the actors making them up." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Hannibal (2001) |
"Not as good as you hoped, better than you feared." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"Rationalize Lecter's brand of pure, irrational evil and you take all the fun out of it." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Happening (2008) |
"The Happening wants to scare us without providing a cause -- a trick only Hitchcock has managed." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Happily Ever After (2005) |
"The repetitiveness is eased only in those sequences when Johnny Depp, Anouk Aimee and Claude Berri make cameo appearances." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2/4 |
Happily N'Ever After (2007) |
"It's at the point where if they can't find any fresh means of deconstructing or parodying fairy tales, they shouldn't bother at all." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Happy Endings (2005) |
"There is intermittent charm in the execution and, especially, in the performances." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"This isn't some overreaching Pixar wanna-be, but a rich, absorbing story that isn't content to dazzle you with effects, but rouse your spirits." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Happy Here and Now (2002) |
"Mourning and gloom weigh upon most of the characters in Michael Almereyda's convoluted and numbingly pretentious Happy Here and Now" |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Happy Times (2002) |
"Sentimentality and the comedy of deception conspire to enchanting effect." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"Writer-director Leigh, maintaining a deceptively freewheeling tone throughout, creates a comedy that's also something much more." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Hard Candy (2005) |
"As gripping as Hard Candy is, one can't quite shake away the feeling that we're the ones being exploited by its mordant blend of kinky revenge fantasy and push-me-pull-you moral vision." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato |
A Hard Day's Night (1964) |
"A comedy classic that cross- pollinated Jean-Luc Godard with the four Marx brothers." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Hard Goodbyes: My Father (2003) |
"Poignant, convincing and directed with confidence and an enchanted eye." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Hard Word (2003) |
"It takes a clumsy turn into comic-book violence a la Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Hardball (2001) |
"You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll do exactly what this formula hip-hop baseball saga wants you to do." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Harrison's Flowers (2002) |
"Shatteringly realistic action sequences lift this fictionalized treatment of the Serbian-Croatian fighting notches above its sentimental domestic framing device." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
"Ironically enough, Chamber of Secrets has more of a narrative arc, but consequently lacks much urgency. It does retain the wonderment that made the first film fun." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"Radcliffe is literally and figuratively growing into his role, while Watson shows greater fire and depth. And Grint's rubbery charm is intact." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"The movie franchise based on J.K. Rowlings' novels gets its The Empire Strikes Back moment. It's a downbeat cliffhanger that suggests its central characters are exiting their age of innocence." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"If you've read all the books and seen all the movies up to this point, you may not mind the extra weight. But a newcomer to the Potter chronicles making his or her acquaintance with this film may be forgiven for wondering where the magic is." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"Prisoner of Azkaban sustains the good vibe of Harry Potter's previous screen appearances, while also being blessed with a wand's worth of Cuaron's movie magic." |
John Anderson |
Tomato |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) |
"As it is, Harry's gotten a ride. But at a much lower altitude than his fans might have wished." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Harsh Times (2006) |
"[A] messy, exasperating, but fascinating excursion through the darker corners of neighborhoods at risk -- and of one man's mind." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1/4 |
Hart's War (2002) |
"...a sluggish courtroom potboiler about racism, murder and due process." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Harvard Man (2002) |
"By turns pretentious, fascinating, ludicrous, provocative and vainglorious." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2/4 |
Havana Nights (2004) |
"This homage-prequel wears both its heart and its self-awareness on its leotards, with such eagerness to please that it ultimately stumbles over itself trying to duplicate the original's rough magic." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Hawk Is Dying (2007) |
"There's enough worthwhile labor expended, especially by the powerful cast, to make Hawk Is Dying difficult to dismiss, even when it's hard to take." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/4 |
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2003) |
"There's an acrid aftertaste to writer-director Laetitia Colombani's cunning tale of love gone wrong." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) |
"The movie is short on narrative and long on advice, but still has a touch of sweetness." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 1/4 |
Head in the Clouds (2004) |
"A World War II-era film that has no plot, and no discernible point, until the Nazis march in, sometime during Act 73." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Head of State (2003) |
"[Rock] and Bernie Mac ... provide a furious combination of stylistically different but equally effective jabs at the status quo." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Head On (1998) |
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Splat |
Head Over Heels (2001) |
"The frosting is laid on with a forklift in Head Over Heels, an appropriately generic title for generic teen entertainment." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2/4 |
Head-On (2005) |
"Thoroughly astonishing in its twists and turns, its brutality and its angry sex, it makes the Romeo-Juliet, East-meets-West romances of our increasingly tribalized world seem more facile than ever." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2006) |
"This film's heart is not deceitful, merely obvious and overbearing." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Heart of the Game (2006) |
"The too-brisk pacing precludes any intimacy with the characters, or any depth of narrative. Heart of the Game asks very little of its audience. And it delivers in kind." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Heartbeat Detector (2008) |
"Heartbeat Detector earns its points, arriving at a potent conclusion with a stealth and meticulousness that knocks the wind out of you." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) |
"For all its lapses in grace and pacing, The Heartbreak Kid somehow manages to wear away resistance with the simple charms exhibited by its cast, including Akerman, whose sportsmanship is above and beyond the call of duty." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat |
Heartbreakers (2001) |
"There are not enough Hefty bags in all The Home Depots to contain the trash generated by this vulgar burlesque." |
Jan Stuart |
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