Splat |
U-571 (2000) |
"One-dimensional acting." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) |
"What gives the film its spine is the presence of Lennon himself as an articulate, earnest and magnetic social conscience." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
U2 3D (2008) |
"U23D only just begins to tap the potential of performance film in three dimensions, but the possibilities are thrilling to contemplate." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
The Ugly Truth (2009) |
"The film's central romance flips and flops like a dying fish." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Ultimate Gift (2007) |
"Well-meant, but impossibly obvious." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Ultimate X: The Movie (2002) |
"These self-styled athletes have banged their brains into the ground so frequently and furiously, their capacity to explain themselves has gone the same way as their natural instinct for self-preservation." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Ultraviolet (2006) |
"Whether Six is a blessing or a boon to mutants or humans is one of the many things that are not clearly explained through all the flying bodies, flashing steel and grinding metal." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2/4 |
Unaccompanied Minors (2006) |
"The dialogue is truly painful. The situations are so contrived they make "SpongeBob" seem like a nature documentary. But what's more annoying about Minors, is the calculation behind it." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Unborn (2009) |
"If the use of Nazi atrocities as a MacGuffin for cheap thrills offends you, The Unborn isn't your movie. If, however, you appreciate the sight of a half-naked beauty being terrorized by potato bugs, look no further." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion (2006) |
"Unborn doesn't really add or detract from the debate -- you wish the directors had asked a hard question or two." |
John Anderson |
Splat |
Unbreakable (2000) |
"Mind-bogglingly sophomoric." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Unconscious (2007) |
"Are the Spanish the only ones these days able to make movie comedies that are smart, sexy, wacky and graceful all at once?" |
Gene Seymour |
Splat |
Under Hellgate Bridge (2001) |
"Energetic, earnestly performed and short on nuance." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Under Suspicion (2000) |
"For all the unnecessary flash, Under Suspicion manages to be a seductive entertainment." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Under the Same Moon (2008) |
"A drama of mother-son love that lunges for the heart from its pulsating curtain raiser to its leap-for-joy fade out." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Under the Sand (2001) |
"Rampling shows a veteran's craftsmanship in evoking her patented compound of icy reserve and skittish disquietude." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Under the Skin of the City (2003) |
"Rakhshan Bani-Etemad's social melodrama has a grim, eye-opening fascination in its details of inner-city Iran, but tends to beat us over the head with a sense of mission." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) |
"What Lane makes you do is wonder why she hasn't been making more movies over the years." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1/4 |
Underclassman (2005) |
"Screenwriters David T. Wagner and Brent Goldberg don't have tin ears, exactly; they've just recycled every movie quip they've ever overheard." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Underdog (2007) |
"Underdog, putting it mildly, lacks the sleekness and cunning of other, better kids' flicks, though it gains points for respecting, while modifying, its source material." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Undertow (2004) |
"Hamstrung by a feeling that its director was striving for oddity, purely for oddity's sake." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Underworld (2003) |
"Pure hooey, but it certainly has a sense of humor (at least it seems like humor)." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Underworld: Evolution (2006) |
"... this Underworld sequel has only piled on the things that made its predecessor annoying: Heavy-handed backstory and aimless, affectless mayhem." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1/4 |
Undiscovered (2005) |
"Here, unplugged, unremorseful and unfathomably bad, is Undiscovered, a 'romantic comedy with a big heart' (that's publicity-speak) and a very small brain." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Undisputed (2002) |
"Coy but exhilarating, with really solid performances by Ving Rhames and Wesley Snipes." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Unfaithful (2002) |
"Looking for a laugh? Unfaithful, a study of adultery, murder, guilt and unresolved endings, provides more than a few." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
An Unfinished Life (2005) |
"An inspirational family drama for the terminally uninspired." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 4/4 |
United 93 (2006) |
"United 93 is a shattering, yet effective tribute to men and women who, when faced with unimaginable terror and all-but-certain death, dared to resist their fate using whatever they could get their hands on." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Unknown (2006) |
"It's not nearly as risky or as inspired as the movies it borrows from. But it keeps its audience's collective head in the game, thanks in large part to an impressive cast enacting the sometimes ludicrous proceedings with conviction." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Unknown White Male (2005) |
"A fascinating example of how nonfiction films these days are investigating issues of the self." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
An Unreasonable Man (2007) |
"An Unreasonable Man wears away at preconceived notions, reminding you that, whatever conventional politicians may promise, they don't move anywhere unless uncompromising people such as Nader keep pulling their lapels and prodding their consciences." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Unscrewed (2003) |
"As Shearing and company poke fun at our national anxiety over sexual dysfunction, they also send up our perverse eagerness (exemplified by courtroom television and show-all documentaries) to let it all hang out for public consumption." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Untold Story of Emmet Louis Till (2005) |
"There is a patchy quality to the film that leaves us roiling with more questions than it is prepared to answer." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
Untraceable (2008) |
"Untraceable wants us to deplore the amoral voyeurism of the cyberspace mobs, yet feeds off it at the same time." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
Unveiled (2005) |
"[A] serious and well-paced drama." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Up (2009) |
"A whimsical story that taps into the magical relationship between the young and the old." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Up and Down (2005) |
"One of the more humane and more despairing comedies you'll find about race and class in contemporary society." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat |
Up at the Villa (2000) |
"The story line, full of malevolent fascists and romantic entanglements, isn't particularly invigorating." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Up for Grabs (2005) |
"Director Michael Wranovics does a deft job of keeping things moving, eccentric and nutty: After all, where else, and under what other circumstances, could someone say 'he caught it' about Popov in a singles bar and have women flock around him?" |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Upside of Anger (2005) |
"The movies haven't rewarded Allen's formidable talent with a star turn that cuts her loose and unfurls her resources. Until now." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Uptown Girls (2003) |
"Uptown Girls lacks the urban specificity that helped to make The World of Henry Orient such an uptown-girl classic, but it works up a sentimental tug that should moisten the eyes of many a moppet and mom." |
Jan Stuart |
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