Splat C |
(Untitled) (2009) |
"Right away, you wonder if the filmmakers are trying hard enough." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
10th & Wolf (2006) |
"It's an ambitious gambit, undercut by characters that stay at a frustrating arm's length." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"Essentially a facsimile, and feels throughout like a movie content to imitate and borrow." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
The 13th Warrior (1999) |
"Funny, although it doesn't mean to be." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato B- |
1408 (2007) |
"Director Mikael Hafstrom creates effective atmospherics, and for a good long while 1408 manages to avoid the crutch of F/X." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
15 Minutes (2001) |
"The characters and story develop in ways that are both unexpected and convincing." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"The movie is not likely to do much for the image of New York's finest, but it's an improbably entertaining 'B,' elevated by Willis' muted performance as the gone-to-seed cop and Mos Def's unexpectedly comic turn as the chatterbox witness." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato B- |
17 Again (2009) |
"17 Again puts Disney commodity Zac Efron into a recycled Freaky Friday plot and ends up with a surprisingly un-awful 'tween comedy." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"It's not science fiction but it argues, probably more persuasively than The Matrix Reloaded or Terminator 3, that we've already seen the rise of the machines." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
200 Cigarettes (1999) |
"More clumsy than comic." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat C |
2012 (2009) |
"Emmerich, though, is not fundamentally a funny filmmaker. He's fundamentally cheesy, and there's always something flat and phony to those few scenes meant to give his movies some modicum of humanity." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat C |
21 (2008) |
"[21] devoted to the idea that beating Vegas is man's highest purpose." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
21 Grams (2003) |
"The performances are naturalistic, but the story is melodramatic -- it's simply too bad to be true." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
25th Hour (2002) |
"Cries out for tightness, for discipline." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat C |
27 Dresses (2008) |
"I much preferred the updated battle-of-the-sexes Judd Apatow gives us in Knocked Up to this soap-ish spectacle of cat-fighting, undermining, backstabbing, and public humiliation." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"The movie works first and best as an attempt to capture what's vital and primal about horror movies, which in recent years have mostly surrendered to slickness, irony and gimmicks." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat C+ |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"Boyle is only peripherally involved in the sequel, 28 Weeks Later, which has the same stylishness and pulp energy, but none of Boyle's desire to avoid the polemical." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
3-Iron (2005) |
"It's really a point of departure, though, toward bloodier precincts." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato B |
30 Days of Night (2007) |
"You may not believe there's any more blood to suck from the shriveled corpse of the vampire movie, but you'd be wrong." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato B |
300 (2007) |
"Snyder, needless to say, is completely on board with Miller's conception of Thermopylae as one- fifth history, four-fifths something that looks cool." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) |
"The problem for the viewer is finding a reason to give a hoot about any of these people." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) |
"A young man vows to give up sex for Lent. Why? Because he's in a Miramax comedy that requires an immediately graspable premise." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
50 First Dates (2004) |
"Sandler's character never changes -- his arc goes from nice to nice, and there's no dramatic transformation." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato B- |
500 Days of Summer (2009) |
"The rest of 500 Days sets up as a bit of a mystery, and we look for clues, even as their romance is fresh, for the hairline fractures that might eventually result in a compete break." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
8 Mile (2002) |
"8 Mile is not much in the story department. Its Star is Born framework is reassuring at the expense of being original, and the movie lacks narrative drive." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
8MM (1998) |
"Everything here seems like a prop - the detective's wife, his baby, the weirdos he meets in the porn biz, everything." |
Gary Thompson |
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