Splat C- |
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002) |
"Coarse and titillating--you could well feel like referring to it
as 'Mexican Pie'...The mere fact that it's in Spanish doesn't
really make it any better." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B |
Yana's Friends |
"A small, rather unfinished gem of a movie, but one that shines rather brightly nonetheless." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C- |
The Yards (2000) |
"Lacks the pizzazz of energetic pulp, but doesn't replace it with any compensatory insight or power." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B |
The Year My Parents Went On Vacation (2008) |
"Heartwarming...This is a Year worth spending with Mauro and his friends." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
Year of the Dog (2007) |
"An extraordinary blend of the humorous and the sad...a sweetly empathetic study of society's emotional fringe-dwellers." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C- |
Year One (2009) |
"Not much more than another raunchy, adolescent boys-out-on-the-town farrago, even if the boys are dressed in animal skins and the town is Sodom." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D |
Yes (2005) |
"Both crushingly pretentious and oddly silly--rather like the cinematic equivalent of Jack Handey's 'Deep Thoughts,' but without the saving grace of intentional humor." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D |
Yes Man (2008) |
"A sad spectacle...nothing more than a series of labored sketches in which Carrey flails about trying to recapture the zaniness of his early years." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato A- |
Yi Yi (2000) |
"A beautiful, touching and memorable film." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B |
Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009) |
"Stylistically unpretentious but highly informative and enjoyable documentary [on] one of radio's great stars and a television pioneer." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B |
Yossi & Jagger (2003) |
"A minor but affecting story of men caught between their personal desires and societal expectations... distinguished by sharp writing and nicely understated acting." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato A- |
You Can Count on Me (2000) |
"By all means, seek out this jewel of a movie." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C- |
You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008) |
"Another in the string of exercises in coarse infantilism that represent the studios' idea of farce nowadays." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D+ |
You Got Served (2004) |
"About as engaging as watching a synchronized swimming meet minus the pool...if you pay to see this movie, you get snookered." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C- |
You I Love (2005) |
"Rather trite and passe, not to mention overwrought and narratively chaotic...this is one 'Love' that's easy to resist." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B- |
You Kill Me (2007) |
"If Dahl's picture won't exactly slay you, the performances make for an oddly diverting little flick." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B |
You'll Get Over It (2002) |
"Even if [it] has a slightly mustry, afterschool special message to impart...the picture delivers it with sufficient charm and complexity to escape TV-movie mediocrity." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat D+ |
You, Me and Dupree (2006) |
"One trio you should avoid making a quartet by taking a seat in the audience." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C+ |
Young Adam (2004) |
"It doesn't delve much beneath the surface; and though that surface has been drawn with considerable effect, in the end it's not enough." |
Frank Swietek |
- |
Young Adam (2004) |
"Interview with Tilda Swinton and David Mackenzie" |
Frank Swietek |
Splat C |
Young Black Stallion (2003) |
"At about half the length of the original 'Black Stallion,' it provides about 50% of its entertainment value, but the scenery is impressive in the big-screen format." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat 1/5 |
Young Einstein (1989) |
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Frank Swietek |
Tomato B- |
The Young Victoria (2009) |
"It works as an old-fashioned wallow in nineteenth-century British royal romance and parliamentary infighting." |
Frank Swietek |
- |
Young@Heart (2008) |
"Interview with Stephen Walker, Bob Cilman, Dora B. (Parker) Morrow and Jack Schnepp" |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B+ |
Young@Heart (2008) |
"Charming, exuberant and poignant documentary...you'll probabvly come out of it with a spring in your step." |
Frank Swietek |
Tomato B |
Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007) |
"A documentary that both informs and entertains, and that will invite animated debate--which is precisely what a good documentary should do." |
Frank Swietek |
Splat F |
Yours, Mine, & Ours (2005) |
"At once so bland and so frantic that it's almost unendurable...will no one save us from this plague of alternately messy and mawkish comedies about oversized families?" |
Frank Swietek |
Splat F |
Youth Without Youth (2007) |
"Errant pseudo-mystical nonsense that manages to be both ponderously pretentious and extravagantly absurd...an act of real cinematic lunacy." |
Frank Swietek |
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