Splat 2/4 |
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) |
"A thriller without a lot of thrills." |
John Anderson |
Splat |
K-Pax (2001) |
"A syrupy melange of psychobabble and extraterrestrial mystery, offering further proof that planet Hollywood is made of cheese, with lots of holes." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
Kabluey (2008) |
"Prendergast seems clueless that an excess of pure weirdness won't lead to an excess of laughs. It won't." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Kaena: The Prophecy (2004) |
"The folks who go in for this sort of Asimov-ian blather will probably contort themselves reading allegorical meaning into it all. The folks who don't will drift off to sleep." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Kandahar (2001) |
"An eloquent and unshakable obituary to a reign of terror that defies comprehension." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 0/4 |
Kangaroo Jack (2003) |
"[O'Connell and Anderson] are mere pawns in the larcenous career of Jerry Bruckheimer, who will carry on making a plethora of movies that are anathema to anyone with half a brain." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
Kate and Leopold (2001) |
"What we have in this comedy are two hoary plot conceits of ancient vintage and dubious worth." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Keane (2004) |
"Kerrigan is as interesting a filmmaker as is haunting the margins of modern life, a place that needs some light. And certainly some sympathy." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam (2005) |
"Ambitious, heartfelt and grand in both its ideas and its pride of place (the Middle East), the film suffers from its virtues." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Keeping Mum (2006) |
"Johnson isn't striving for a masterpiece, just something clever, unpredictable and human. Fun, too. And he succeeds." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Keeping Up With The Steins (2006) |
"A movie full of contrivance and confection." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Kekexeli: Mountain Patrol (2006) |
"The spirit of the hardboiled American Westerns of the 1950s wends its way through this moody, panoramic Chinese chase thriller." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Khadak (2006) |
"Khadak makes the most of Mongolia's vast horizons and swallowing space, the grandeur of emptiness, together with precisely composed pictures, making the whole thing seem like one of Bagi's visions." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Kicking and Screaming (2005) |
"Ferrell fiddles with different kinds of jokes as if he were trying on shoes." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002) |
"[Morgen and Burstein] reinvigorate the usual menu of archival footage with a 3-D cutout style that imbues inert black and white stills with a playful, camp dynamism." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Kiki Smith: Squatting the Palace (2007) |
"An edifying documentary about how one of today's hottest artists creates her memorable work." |
Ariella Budick |
Tomato |
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) |
"An eye-popping, blood-soaked, ingeniously choreographed thriller and Hong Kong homage that ultimately adds up to ... not much." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) |
"A powerhouse movie." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Kill the Poor (2006) |
"A movie with more character than narrative, it's a showcase for the actors, but the storyline could have used some urban renewal." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Killing of John Lennon (2008) |
"The only revelations in The Killing of John Lennon are those we could have picked up ourselves, assuming we cared enough to do so." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/4 |
King Arthur (2004) |
"As a primer in the thuggish territorial land grabs of the Dark Ages, it gets the adrenalin flowing and makes us want to learn more. But the sheer density of the historical material is often at odds with the cut-and-dried requirements of the action genre." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
The King is Alive (2001) |
"Sets off tentatively, but comes through with a wallop." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2.5/4 |
King Kong (2005) |
"Like Black's craven filmmaker, Jackson swells into a madman impresario, so hell-bent on topping himself that he doesn't know when to cut and run." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
King Leopold's Ghost (2006) |
"It is an indispensable treatise on Western hegemony and capitalist plunder -- as seen through the troubled history of the Congo." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
King of California (2007) |
"Good things happen when Michael Douglas exposes his edges to the elements and smudges his screen persona with thick dollops of shadow." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
King Of The Corner (2005) |
"Wry, screwy and existentially gleeful." |
John Anderson |
Splat |
King of the Jungle (2001) |
"A hard, vibrant surface can't quite cover the mossy, skimpy center of this story." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1/4 |
King's Ransom (2005) |
"With the humor in this lazy farce about as subtle as a shotgun blast to the face, it's possible to see the whole movie as an accident, the cumulative result of haphazard negligence." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2/4 |
The Kingdom (2007) |
"Screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan wants us to know that there are good Arabs and bad Arabs, but he panders to our basest 9/11 anxieties." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
Kingdom Come (2001) |
"A lukewarm African-American sitcom that forsakes the laugh track in favor of an R&B soundtrack." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) |
"Director Ridley Scott is so adept at moving crowds and engendering awe that one can easily overlook his skill with actors." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
Kinky Boots (2006) |
"Kinky Boots shoehorns what should be a fresh story into the same old pair of narrative galoshes." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Kinsey (2004) |
"A $10-million movie that looks like it was made by Hollywood's biggest spendthrift, Kinsey is full of delicately wrought moments." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) |
"Hard-boiled dialogue and drop-dead attitude rarely hit their target as hilariously as they do in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
Kiss of the Dragon (2001) |
"And in the end, you still wish there were a story somewhere worthy of Li's dynamism and elegance." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Kissing Jessica Stein (2002) |
"A sweet-yet-subtle romantic comedy that seduces you more with humor and compassion than with its kinky premise." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) |
"The overall glow remains golden, of course. But with a dash of realism and more than a little intelligence, Kit Kittredge becomes a kiddie film that's worth an adult ticket, too." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Kitchen Stories (2004) |
"An extended ethnic joke, Kitchen Stories moves with a glacial indifference to conventional comedic timing. But perhaps that's what makes it so funny and so emotionally precise." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Kite Runner (2007) |
"The film version of Khaled Hosseini's novel is so portentously sincere that you may feel like a cretin for embracing it with anything less than a full heart." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
Km. 0 (2003) |
"If Km.0 is long on logistics, it's short on logic." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
A Knight's Tale (2001) |
"Shamelessly manipulative." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2/4 |
Knockaround Guys (2002) |
"It's like a drive-by. You can drive right by it without noticing anything special, save for a few comic turns, intended and otherwise." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Knocked Up (2007) |
"Two hours and small change seems like a lot for any movie comedy to ask of its audience. But it's hard to imagine how much Knocked Up could shed from its baggy frame without diminishing its roughhousing charms." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Komediant (2002) |
"As charming, humorous and heimisch as its nomadic subjects." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Kontroll (2005) |
"One of those hip, self-consciously trippy existential thrillers that blow in from Europe every now and then to rock the world of East Village university students looking for a superficially meaningful event to legitimize their Friday night bar crawl." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 4/4 |
Kung Fu Hustle (2005) |
"If the plot elements seem like a duck soup of every Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan picture ever conceived, they are lifted into a whole other stratosphere of ingenuity by Chow and his design team's indefatigable visual imagination." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Kung Fu Panda (2008) |
"This is well-worn territory, from the cuddly slapstick to the Chinese wisdom, but the movie redeems itself with some surprisingly smart and tender moments." |
Rafer Guzman |
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