Splat 2/4 |
W. (2008) |
"Oliver Stone doesn't do comedy, intentionally. But perhaps he should: The half-baked, hayseed Hamlet he's created in W. feels alive only when it ventures into the comically absurd." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Wah-Wah (2006) |
"Switching hats from actor to writer/director, Grant smoothly serves up everything you expect in a coming-of-age tale." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Waist Deep (2006) |
"Instead of tightening up its storyline, Waist Deep gets more outlandish with its plot complications." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Waiting (2000) |
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Splat 1.5/4 |
Waiting... (2005) |
"I don't doubt that McKittrick, who understands how to shape characters, will have a movie career. It's only sad he had to sell out before making it to the starting gate." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato |
Waking Life (2001) |
"As delirious, discombobulating and queasily funny as a post-pizza dream." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
"[An] erratic, but enjoyable goof from the Judd Apatow hit-making machine." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007) |
"While there is nothing here that will surprise Warhol aficionados, Robinson's interpolation of her uncle's ephemeral, slo-mo images lends a haunting authenticity to the talking heads recollections." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Walk on Water (2005) |
"Engages the emotions, but it compromises its message of personal liberation through the hokey conventions of a '40s espionage thriller." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"True to its better-late-than-never romance, Walk the Line is a swooning musical Valentine's Day card just in time for Thanksgiving." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat |
A Walk to Remember (2002) |
"Rarely has leukemia looked so shimmering and benign." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Walker (2007) |
"In this, the third in his 'lonely man' trilogy, [writer/director Paul] Schrader's reach exceeds his grasp, but his intentions are interesting, and the artifice he creates contributes to the otherworldliness of his Washington." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Walking Tall (2004) |
"As remakes go, Walking Tall exemplifies the dumbing down of stupidity." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 4/4 |
WALL-E (2008) |
"Like Charlie Chaplin's best silents -- a clear influence -- WALL-E is pure visual magic. As a bonus, it packs a wicked satirical punch." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"There is a flaccid, overextended feel to the antics, as if the characters had been stretched like Silly Putty 'til they cried uncle." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Wanted (2008) |
"Wanted demands a high level of credulity, but in exchange it offers some rewards: improbable car-chases, gritty hand-to-hand combat and the sight of Angelina Jolie poured into her pants and packing a pistol." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
War Dance (2007) |
"There isn't enough uplift, gratuitous or otherwise, in the world to make you forget the graphic testimony of children compelled by rebel forces either to watch atrocities or commit them." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"War of the Worlds reinvigorates the pulse-racing thrill and unalloyed paranoia of vintage '50s sci-fi." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 1/4 |
War Photographer (2002) |
"What [Frei] gives us ... is a man who uses the damage of war -- far more often than the warfare itself -- to create the kind of art shots that fill gallery shows." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 4/4 |
The War Tapes (2006) |
"Deborah Scranton's excellent documentary is tough going and transformative." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The War Within (2005) |
"Madly rational and persuasive political drama." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1/4 |
War, Inc. (2008) |
"This John Cusack-driven exercise in scorched-earth political comedy is neither as dark nor as timely as intended, and certainly not as funny." |
John Anderson |
Tomato |
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) |
"A tasty slice of droll whimsy." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Warrior (2005) |
"The violence is of the high-minded, self-congratulatory sort that indicates without actually showing. This enables macho-but- sensitive cineastes to revel remorselessly in the idea of decapitated heads, sliced necks and severed limbs." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Wasabi (2002) |
"Sleek, shallow, but frequently amusing." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Washington Heights (2003) |
"Story is less than revelatory, but the filmmaking is energetic and convincing." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Wassup Rockers (2006) |
"Wassup Rockers evokes some of Clark's fetishistic quirks. But you get the feeling that this time around, he's giving his appealing core cast of amateur actors more room to be human." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 3/4 |
Watchmen (2009) |
"The film still offers an arrestingly dark vision." |
Rafer Guzman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Water (2006) |
"... Deepa Mehta's controversial new epic is driven by a scorching urgency whose intensity exceeds even the previous two installments of Mehta's Elements trilogy of Indian romances." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Way Home (2002) |
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Tomato |
Waydowntown (2002) |
"A well-put-together piece of urban satire." |
John Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
We Are Marshall (2006) |
"A depressingly mechanical sports drama that seems not to have been written and directed so much as home assembled, Ikea-style, by pictorial instruction." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"Fastidious and controlled to a fault, but rewarding nonetheless." |
Jan Stuart |
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We Own The Night (2007) |
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Splat 2/4 |
We Were Soldiers (2002) |
" At its best, it's Black Hawk Down with more heart. At its worst, it's Rambo- meets-John Ford." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2/4 |
The Weather Man (2005) |
"Unlike the arrows Dave uses for his archery hobby, the movie never quite hits whatever target it's aiming for." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Wedding Crashers (2005) |
"These guys are so perfectly matched, you only wonder why it took so long." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Wedding Date (2005) |
"Dana Fox's script is all setup, skimping on the quirky character touches and comedic flourishes that could make a predictable outcome gratifying." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat 2/4 |
A Wedding for Bella (2001) |
"Despite good performances and a warm ambience, this squishy story needed more time in the oven." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Weight of Water (2002) |
"Kathryn Bigelow's attractive film version of Anita Shreve's novel is a gripping plunge but a remote one, suffering from the weight of one too many inexpressible thoughts." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) |
"Even when the movie's overplayed or undercooked, its roughhousing energy grows on you." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Welcome to Collinwood (2002) |
"Can't kick about the assembled talent and the Russos show genuine promise as comic filmmakers. Still, this thing feels flimsy and ephemeral." |
Gene Seymour |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Welcome to Mooseport (2004) |
"Mild as milk and, at times, slower than August traffic heading to L.L. Bean. Good cast, though." |
John Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Wendell Baker Story (2007) |
"The Wendell Baker Story, although good-natured, tries too hard to replicate the squirreliness of a Wes Anderson film, while declining to partake of its sadness and irony." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wendigo (2002) |
"Strongly atmospheric, intelligent and just plain scary." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wetlands Preserved: The Story of an Activist Nightclub (2008) |
"If you never twirled barefoot in the funky old club, Wetlands Preserved may be of limited interest, but it's a loving and thorough document of a small slice of rock history." |
Rafer Guzman |
Splat 2/4 |
Whale Rider (2003) |
"A portentous coming-of-age saga that weighs as much as the venerated ocean mammals at its center." |
Jan Stuart |
Splat .5/4 |
What a Girl Wants (2003) |
"An execrable and witless nonstarter that makes a potent case for hanging the Cinderella myth out to dry till the end of time." |
Jan Stuart |
Tomato 3/4 |
What Alice Found (2003) |
"It so deftly tweaks your presumptions at every turn that you feel, by the end, that you've traveled somewhere -- and not just along several southbound interstates." |
Gene Seymour |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"What Happens in Vegas contains enough unbridled silliness to salvage its lowbrow high concept." |
John Anderson |
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