Tomato B |
(Untitled) (2009) |
"The rare picture nowadays that takes satiric aim at the pomposity of the world of high art and hits the target, even if the blows are more often than not only glancing ones." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat 2/5 |
10 Rillington Place (1971) |
No article available. |
Frank Swietek |
Splat F |
10,000 B.C. (2008) |
"This crackpot combination of Pathfinder and Apocalypto [is] a brainless exercise in prehistoric goofiness that actually affords more laughs than Ice Age." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C |
102 Dalmatians (2000) |
"Essentially the same movie as the last time around." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C- |
10th & Wolf (2006) |
"Like every Mafia movie you've ever seen blended into one cliche-ridden package." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B |
The 11th Hour (2007) |
"Even if it becomes little more than a case of preaching to the choir, it's still a pretty sound sermon." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
12 (2007) |
"Isn't just...a curiosity; it's as genuine a reflection of the ethos of today's Russia as Lumet's picture was of the spirit of 1950s America." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
12 and Holding (2006) |
"Odd and dreamlike in the way a child's perception of the world might be, it's hardly realistic in the literal sense but remarkably real from the emotional perspective." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D |
12 Rounds (2009) |
"Even the non-stop action of this movie isn't enough to conceal how completely nonsensical it is." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"A sprightly surprise...a girl's wish-fulfillment fantasy that's engaging rather than trying, a chick flick that even their dates can enjoy." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
1408 (2007) |
"A retro joy, a Halloween Haunted House of a movie that delivers the sort of pleasurable shivers and jolts that today's exercises in torture porn don't even attempt." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat F |
15 Minutes (2001) |
"A picture that's not only thoroughly disagreeable but slovenly made as well." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B- |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"Basically an outdoor version of Assault on Precinct 13, but though it's...just a popcorn movie, it's an expertly crafted, enjoyable accompaniment to the kernels." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B- |
17 Again (2009) |
"Highly derivative but still moderately enjoyable comedy...mostly because of Efron, who's easily the best reason to see the picture." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
2 Days In Paris (2007) |
"Basically a wryly observed talkathon, the picture hits a few rough patches but is mostly a charming confection." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C- |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"'2 Fast' '2 Furious' = "4 Pity's Sake, Spare Us No. 3,' Isn't much beyond the level of a repeat episode of 'Fastlane.'" |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato 3/5 |
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) |
No article available. |
Frank Swietek |
Splat 2/5 |
2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) |
No article available. |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D+ |
2012 (2009) |
"The amount of inanity exceeds the quantity of the special effects...and the movie is filled to the brim with them." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C |
2046 (2005) |
"While 2046 looks absolutely radiant, its deliberately choppy structure and mannered style make it very heavy going...like watching a brilliant paint job dry in a storm." |
Frank Swietek |
- |
21 (2008) |
"Interview with Jim Sturgess and Jeff Ma" |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C |
21 (2008) |
"A glib, flashy reworking of a story that, shorn of the cheap formulaic frills that have been added to it in the name of merchandising, might have been fascinating." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C+ |
21 Grams (2003) |
"The picture...is technically flamboyant in a fashion that catches the eye but actually lessens its ability to touch the heart." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"Exuberant but chaotic...likely to speak to the already converted. Others will probably find the journey a rather bewildering salute." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C- |
24th Day (2004) |
"Can perhaps be commended for attempting to raise serious moral issues, but not for the ham-fisted way it does so." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
25th Hour (2002) |
"Lee's best film in years...raises essentially pulpish material to the level of moody cinematic poetry." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C |
27 Dresses (2008) |
"Even in the brainless universe of romantic comedy...goes beyond the bounds of permissible absurdity even while it's following every step of obligatory formula." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D |
28 Days (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C- |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"Relentlessly grim and gruesome, it does what it sets out to do; the problem is that apparently what it wants isn't so much to give us a pleasant scare as to disgust us." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"Even for a zombie-ghoul movie, its idiocy is beyond the pale." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
3 Extremes (2005) |
"Not a dish for the faint of heart, perhaps, but for those with a taste for cruelty with a side order of irony and a dash of gore, it will be a perversely delicious treat." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat 0/5 |
3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995) |
No article available. |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato A- |
3-Iron (2005) |
"Odd but intoxicating...an entrancing, uplifting fable that invites you to luxuriate in its hypnotic tempo and almost magical ambience." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C- |
30 Days of Night (2007) |
"Certainly bloody, but not bloody good...doesn't go the tongue-in-cheek route, but by the close it's pretty risible." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C- |
300 (2007) |
"Fanboys may embrace its wanton carnage, he-man heroics and bombastic dialogue, but 300 really belongs on a PlayStation rather than in a theatre." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat F |
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) |
"Utterly atrocious -- a long, tedious trip that leads absolutely nowhere." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
"A wonderfully old-fashioned western that works in contemporary terms--a rousing demonstration that people can make the kinds of pictures they supposedly don't make anymore." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato 4/5 |
4 Little Girls (1998) |
No article available. |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato A- |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) |
"Not a film that's easy to watch, but it is one of remarkable power...a searing indictment of a society gone wrong as well as a harrowing personal story." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat F |
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) |
"A remarkably sniggering, tawdry sex comedy...so gross and smutty
that perhaps a trenchcoat should be required apparel for every
audience member." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C- |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) |
"Also known as 'Porky's: The Mid-Life Crisis Edition.' Your reaction is going to depend on your tolerance of humor that's rude, crude and in-your-face." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato 5/5 |
The 400 Blows (1959) |
No article available. |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato 5/5 |
42 Up (1998) |
No article available. |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
49 Up (2006) |
"A reality show that transcends that now-hackneyed phrase to become an utterly unique work of 'popular history'--and of art." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B- |
50 First Dates (2004) |
"Decidedly a mixed bag--still, it has enough laughs and charm to be moderately engaging, a definite cut above the usual run of gross-out studio farces released nowadays." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C+ |
500 Days of Summer (2009) |
"An experiment you have to admire for the risks it takes even while being disappointed that it doesn't quite come off." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C |
5X2 (2005) |
"Like reading a book from which most of the connective chapters have been removed, backwards." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D- |
The 6th Day (2000) |
"It has a stale, familiar ring, as though it had itself been cloned from innumerable earlier pictures." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat F |
8 1/2 Women (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C |
8 Mile (2002) |
"Basically recycles all the old, tired cliches that abound in every story about the rise to stardom of poor but talented youngsters who overcome terrible obstacles in their drive to succeed." |
Frank Swietek |
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