Tomato 2.5/4 |
P.S. (2004) |
"The movie can't find its center, but Linney nails hers. She alone makes this worth a night out of your life." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/4 |
P.S. I Love You (2007) |
"A mostly overheated farrago of sentiment, self-help and romantic cliche." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2/4 |
P.S. Your Cat is Dead! (2002) |
"It is, inevitably, an actorly exercise -- not off-puttingly so, perhaps, but at no time do we have a sense that we've transcended the stage. Or, for that matter, 1970." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Pacifier (2005) |
"[A] frenzied, cumbersome tangle of potty jokes." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Page Turner (2007) |
"The schematic requirements of the setup, combined with the tight-lipped demeanor of the two lead characters, makes for arid moviegoing. Eighty-five minutes can seem much longer than it really is when you spend the entire time waiting for a shoe to drop." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Paid in Full (2002) |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Painted Veil (2006) |
"It's really the Norton-Watts show, and they make The Painted Veil resonate with love and regret." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Palindromes (2005) |
"However brazenly it challenges audience expectations, Palindromes contributes little to such dialogue except more unfocused rancor." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 4/4 |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"The horrors of both the realistic and surrealistic worlds are woven into the beautifully aligned narrative structure of del Toro's story. This is fabulous filmmaking in every sense of the word." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Panic Room (2002) |
"Taut and forbidding, enough so that you won't mind the implausibilities." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Paprika (2007) |
"That the supposed bad guys are actually intent in preserving the sanctity of dreams adds to the disorienting exhilaration of Kon's best work yet." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paradise Now (2005) |
"It is in no way an apologia for terrorism. But it's a character study that subtly nudges the viewer toward greater understanding." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paris, Je T'aime (2007) |
"It manages to leave you feeling buoyed and grinning; sort of like what an easygoing week's vacation in Paris might induce -- along with occasional torpor, frenzy, melancholy and surprises." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Party Monster (2003) |
"[Culkin and Green's] assortment of vocal tics, nervous laughs and over-the-top 'nancy-ness' often are very funny and appropriately giddy." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Party's Over (2003) |
"If it accomplishes anything at all -- and it's dubious -- The Party's Over proves what a fragmentalized, incompetent and inarticulate thing the Left in this country has become." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"Mel Gibson shows once again that he's skilled at depicting violence. But you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of 'tolerance, love and forgiveness' that the producer-director-co-writer insists he's trying to communicate." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pauline and Paulette (2002) |
"Tart, smart and satisfying." |
John Anderson |
Splat |
Pavilion of Women (2001) |
"All the peripheral drama in the world can't generate interest in a film with so little sense of melodramatic proportion." |
John Anderson |
Splat |
Pay It Forward (2000) |
"Keeps zigging and zagging between plots and subplots that don't really matter." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Paycheck (2003) |
"Paycheck's no breakthrough, but it's the tightest John Woo movie since his Hong Kong heyday." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2004) |
"While their methods are a bit pedantic -- the narration is monotone, the structure of the film resembles a lesson plan -- they provide a wealth of evidence that the media game is rigged against Arabs." |
John Anderson |
Splat |
Pearl Harbor (2001) |
"A starchy, overpowering helping of red, whiete and blue kitsch served up with piping-hot bombast." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2/4 |
Penelope (2008) |
"If only Penelope knew what it truly wished to be and how to go about it." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
People I Know (2003) |
"Al Pacino gives a career-crowning performance under Dan Algrant's perceptive direction." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Pepe Le Moko (1937) |
"A milestone of prewar French cinema and fun picture under any circumstances." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Perfect Crime (2005) |
"Director Alex de la Iglesia has much to teach the world-at-large about making smart, lively social satire that bows to past masters without being hobbled by self-consciousness." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato |
A Perfect Getaway (2009) |
"A Perfect Getaway is smarter than it looks and more fun than it has a right to be." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 1/4 |
The Perfect Holiday (2007) |
"Ostensibly a Christmastime comedy about romance, The Perfect Holiday manages to be none of the above." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Perfect Man (2005) |
"Boys get Batman and Luke Skywalker. Girls get Little Suzy Matchmaker. If I had to subsist on a steady diet of Hilary Duff and Amanda Bynes, I'd be looking into sex-change specialists." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Perfect Score (2004) |
"Obvious, broad and burdened by leaden lines of dialogue that are dropped here and there like demented coconuts." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Perfect Stranger (2007) |
"The murder clues are trotted out in dishonestly protracted fashion by screenwriter Todd Komarnicki, who plants red herrings as malodorous as a fish market at 5 in the morning." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) |
"Perfume may be one of the most sumptuous serial-killer movies of all time. Between those tumultuous opening passages and a stunner of a climax, however, it's also a bit of a drag." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Perlasca (2005) |
"Perlasca epitomizes the kind of soft-core Holocaust porn that people point to as evidence of how survivor memory can be vulgarized and diminished through dramatization." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 4/4 |
Persepolis (2007) |
"Persepolis provides an achingly intimate view of how one young girl's hopes and fantasies come under siege by events beyond her control." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Personal Velocity (2002) |
"Woefully pretentious." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Persons of Interest (2004) |
"Powerful, anger-provoking documentary." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pete Seeger - The Power of Song (2007) |
"Pete Seeger: The Power of Song could have been called Pete Seeger: The First Punk. As the film traces the singer's long life, it also, inevitably, tracks the evolution of American countercultures through much of the 20th century." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Peter Pan (2003) |
"Bring back Mary Martin and her spot-the-wires flying routine." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Petits Freres (2001) |
"The kids are fascinating to watch throughout." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Phantom of the Opera (1943) |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Phat Girlz (2006) |
"Likké should be applauded for tackling a subject that's bristling with socio-political thorns and raises some provocative questions, particularly about what we find attractive in other people and why." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Phone Booth (2003) |
"Nothing about Stu, in the end, is really important enough to justify the Sturm und Drang of Phone Booth or its tempest in a telecommunications teapot." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Pianist (2002) |
"Cartoonish in some parts, ham-handed in others and very un-Polanski." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Piano Teacher (2002) |
"A disconcertingly riveting anti-love story." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2006) |
"That something as elusive as this gothicized, imagist romance from the curious Quay brothers should be considered their most accessible film might be considered odd. But so might they." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pieces of April (2003) |
"Funny-sober, high-brow situation comedy, about family, holidays and the perils of uncooked poultry, unpaid utility bills." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2007) |
"The movie hits its message a little too emphatically, and its narrative unwinds a little too schematically. But Spall's performance, along with that of Juliet Stevenson as his devoted and sometimes credulous spouse, keeps things grounded." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Piglet's Big Movie (2003) |
"Speaking as someone who has not visited the planet of Milne in decades, I was pleased to return to a place where words such as 'eureka' and 'aha' are central to the vocabulary: expressions of discovery and affirmation." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pineapple Express (2008) |
"An uneven but entertaining action-comedy that answers a question you've probably never asked: What if someone gave Cheech and Chong a shot of testosterone and a couple of Uzis?" |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat |
Pińero (2001) |
"You get the feeling Ichaso is trying to bluff us into becoming believers." |
John Anderson |
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