Tomato A |
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
"Unquestionably a classic." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C |
Eagle Eye (2008) |
"A very juvenile copy of its Hitchcock-Kubrick models, efficiently made in the overwrought mold of contemporary action-adventure movies but a painfully loud--and silly--knockoff of the originals." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D |
Eagle Vs. Shark (2007) |
"Wants to be charmingly off-kilter but comes across as insufferably grating." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato 3/5 |
Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) |
No article available. |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato A- |
East Is East (1999) |
"Exceptionally funny and quite affecting." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C+ |
East-West (1999) |
"The horrifying historical background has been transformed into a conventional melodrama, and much of it has a bogus feel." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
Eastern Promises (2007) |
"A riveting drama...it's only by comparison to Cronenberg's best that it comes up slightly short." |
Frank Swietek |
- |
Easy Virtue (2009) |
"Interview with Stephan Elliott and Sheridan Jobbins" |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B- |
Easy Virtue (2009) |
"While everyone won't agree with the approach...it does result in the sort of mildly amusing, feel-good period piece with an easy-to-swallow message that appeals to today's older audiences." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C |
Eat This New York (2002) |
"The treatment is so meandering and flaccid that what might have been a spicy study of service capitalism instead proves a decidedly bland dish." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D |
Echelon Conspiracy (2009) |
"Presumably it was the fact that the DVD release schedule for the week was already filled that explains the escape of this picture to theatres--it really belongs on a video store shelf or a late-night slot on a non-premium cable network." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat F |
Echoes of Innocence (2005) |
"Though the 'religious' overtones are a new touch, ends up seeming like one of those amusingly cheesy semi-supernatural thrillers broadcast as 'originals' on the SciFi Network." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat 1/5 |
Ed Gein (2001) |
No article available. |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato 5/5 |
Ed Wood (1994) |
No article available. |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato A- |
The Edge of Heaven (2008) |
"Intricate emotionally as well as in narrative terms, poignant but not mawkish, and told in an austerely compelling style, this is a wise and absorbing drama." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C- |
The Edge of Love (2009) |
"The picture's combination of stylistic splash and pretentious turgidity makes for a long slog. It may be accurate, but by the time it drags to an end, you won't really care." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C+ |
The Edukators (2005) |
"Opts for a bland middle road...a mixture that comes across as rather a cop-out." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C+ |
Eight Below (2006) |
"It's difficult not to find the dogs strong and sympathetic creatures, but, alas, the human side lets them down in more ways than one." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D+ |
Eight Legged Freaks (2002) |
"So crummy that you might feel like squishing it underfoot when it's over." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D |
El Arte De Morir (2000) |
"Unhappily it lacks a sense of style distinctive enough to overcome its derivative quality." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat 1/5 |
Electra (1995) |
No article available. |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
Elegy (2008) |
"A mature, small-scaled drama that's both insightful and affecting." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D- |
Elektra (2005) |
"Laughably bad...a tepid, torpid comic-book movie that could accurately be described as this year's Catwoman." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato A- |
Elephant (2003) |
"The mixture of the mundane and the poetic in 'Elephant' creates a mesmerizing mood...reinforces Van Sant's position as one of the minimalist magicians of contemporary cinema." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B |
Elf (2003) |
"A cheerfully inoffensive cinematic bauble that may be no more durable than a tree ornament but should charm the parents and kids who will flock to it." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C |
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) |
"Stilted and juvenile, more Classics Illustrated than classic....the dialogue is pocked with banalities and howlers." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C- |
Elizabethtown (2005) |
"None of it seems remotely real. Elizabethtown may be an actual place, but 'Elizabethtown' seems like nowhere on earth, because Crowe's script is so disjointed and tone-deaf." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C |
Ella Enchanted (2004) |
"Note well that Ella is enchanted, not enchanting...any charm it might have possessed is buried under reams of cuteness and silly anachronism." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B |
Elling (2002) |
"By maintaining a modest stance and a gentle, affectionate tone it emerges as winning rather than wearying." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C+ |
The Embalmer (2003) |
"Despite its virtues, the picture comes across rather like something that has itself been disinterred from the fairly remote past." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C- |
The Emperor's Club (2002) |
"Both ploddingly earnest and curiously phony...the surface gloss can't disguise the emptiness of what lies within." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
The Emperor's New Clothes (2002) |
"A historical re-imagining of grace, wit and surprising poignancy, combining gentle humor, charm and a touch of whimsical melancholy in a remarkably enjoyable whole." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B |
The Emperor's New Groove (2000) |
"Uneven, especially in the first half, but it gains momentum as it goes and ends on a rousing high." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D |
Empire (2002) |
"Just a piece of flashy trash, disheartening in terms of both its empty cinematic pizzazz and its calculated amorality." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D+ |
Employee of the Month (2006) |
"Before his transformation for the love of Amy, hero Zack's motto was 'Why bother trying?' That seems to have been the filmmakers' mantra, too...a bland, formulaic rehash." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
Enchanted (2007) |
"Smart, sassy and sweet but...never vulgar or mean, it's a knowing but not condescending modern family-friendly fairy tale." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato 4/5 |
Enchanted April (1992) |
No article available. |
Frank Swietek |
Splat 1/5 |
Encino Man (1992) |
No article available. |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
Encounters At the End of the World (2007) |
"At once haunting and surprisingly engaging, a unique vision of a unique place and of the people crazy or dedicated enough (or both) to devote themselves to it." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B- |
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2001) |
"Very much the sort of thing that one finds--and enjoys--on
PBS all the time." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C |
Enduring Love (2004) |
"For all its sheen and suggestion of profundity, it winds up seeming a slasher movie with intellectual pretensions." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C+ |
Enemy at the Gates (2001) |
"Has impressive moments, but they're buried in a rubble of melodramatic excess that would have seemed corny in a film made while the war was actually being waged." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Enemy Below (1957) |
No article available. |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C |
Enigma (2002) |
"A highly polished but contrived and strangely staid spy story...the
picture offers an ounce of historical truth and a pound of dramatic
license." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D |
Enough (2002) |
"Grossly sensationalistic....Though it has a certain cheap visceral power, you'll probably
leave it feeling about as abused as its battered but
determined heroine." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) |
"At times comes off as a bit too smart itself, almost smug in its often jokey post-mortem of the company's excesses, but on the whole it acquits itself remarkably well." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat F |
Envy (2004) |
"Where's that can of Vapoorizer when you need it? Just aim it at the screen and push." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat F |
Epic Movie (2007) |
"One of those throw-everything-at-the-screen-and-see-if-anything-sticks movies...In this case, nothing does...All terrible--puerile, vulgar and unfunny." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D+ |
Equilibrium (2002) |
"A flaccid sci-fi opus slavishly modeled on 'Fahrenheit 451'...flat and antiseptic." |
Frank Swietek |
- |
Eragon (2006) |
"Interview with Ed Speleers" |
Frank Swietek |
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