Tomato B- |
I Am Legend (2007) |
"I Am Legend, despite its glumness, ultimately feels like a watered-down version of more thoughtful doomsday movies like Children of Men, or Sunshine or 28 Days Later. Or 28 Weeks Later." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
I Am Sam (2002) |
"Shades of Regarding Henry, which advanced the appalling idea that you could improve a man as a father/husband by doing a Hannibal on his brain." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"Russell ... is so preoccupied with his western philosophy and eastern religion that he neglects the people in his film, and their thinness starts to grate after at time." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat D |
I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) |
"Almost diabolically unfunny." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato B+ |
I Love You, Man (2009) |
"While some are pigeonholing I Love You, Man as just another bromantic comedy set in the smelly recesses of the man-cave, it has a fresh spin." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat C+ |
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007) |
"The movie skates by because it attaches gay-bashing to ignorance, but it doesn't always employ this tactic as deftly as, say, the Farrelly brothers." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
I Spy (2002) |
"Thanks to Cosby's precedent-setting presence on the show, TV's I Spy seemed to represent progress of a sort. This movie, on the other hand, feels backward, more interested in preserving tired stereotypes than busting them up." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
I Think I Love My Wife (2007) |
"Its source is not Rock's own material -- it's actually taken from a French New Wave movie called Chloe in the Afternoon, whose director, Eric Rohmer, had a knack for character that eludes Rock." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
Ice Age (2002) |
"Ice Age is the first computer-generated feature cartoon to feel like other movies, and that makes for some glacial pacing early on." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat C |
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) |
"I never thought I'd get tired of watching Scrat, but Ice Age 3 proved me wrong." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato B- |
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) |
"The animated work is generally first-rate, which is good, because some of the one-liners date to the ice age and beyond." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
The Ice Harvest (2005) |
"[T]here is no center in Ice Harvest, only Cusack's character, a man whose disinterested surface conceals nothing." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
Identity (2003) |
"A Ten Little Thespians murder-rama that gets a bit of a lift from thespians who aren't so little, in terms of ability." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
Idlewild (2006) |
"[Director] Barber seems to share with his OutKast stars an abundant sense of humor and an artistic restlessness -- the movie never sticks to a single tone for very long and seems to function best when it's delivering comedy or action." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
The Illusionist (2006) |
"There's enough creepy/chilly imagery to keep you interested in this offbeat story of a magician, circa 1900, who becomes a sensation in Vienna for his apparent ability to conjure the actual spirits of the dead." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
Imaginary Heroes (2004) |
"It's the kind of movie that's not meant to be seen by suburbanites. It's an arthouse special, trading in the kind of petrified caricatures that never seem to weary downtown audiences." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat C+ |
Imagine Me & You (2006) |
"Parker has a weakness for the outrageous narrative coincidence." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
Impostor (2001) |
"An unpleasant physical experience." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
In America (2003) |
"In a season full of movies about families and tragedy, this is the class of the bunch." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
In Dreams (1998) |
"One rotten apple!" |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
In Good Company (2004) |
"This may be a sitcom conceit, but it's handled perfectly." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
In Her Shoes (2005) |
"Something funny happens. Just when In Her Shoes threatens to become a movie of bold-faced hysterics, it morphs into a quiet, thoughtful picture marked by subtle acting and good character work." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat C |
In the Cut (2003) |
"Given the sophistication of the rest of the movie, it's almost hard to believe how lame the thriller mechanics are, how dumb the ending is." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat C |
In the Land of Women (2007) |
"The movie seemed to be getting along fine without the melodrama. At times, it seems to be getting along just fine without Carter, but maybe that's just me." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato B |
In the Loop (2009) |
"In the Loop has nothing inventive to say about Iraq-war politics. In its better moments, it shows how careerism, power trips and office politics contribute to (or pollute) actual politics." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
The In-Laws (2003) |
"So what does the new version add? Aside from an expanded budget for stunts, not much." |
Gary Johnson |
Tomato |
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) |
"Even if Gore is polishing his own image in advance of a run for president (he denies it), he lays out the basics of the case for global warming in a way that is lucid and mostly fair." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato B+ |
The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
"A potent mix of testosterone and adrenalin and action fans of all ages should be happy to hand over their green." |
Howard Gensler |
Tomato |
The Incredibles (2004) |
"Entertaining from start to finish." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
The Independent (2001) |
"This one is cute, and full of amusing cameos but when the clips of Morty's films end, so do the laughs." |
Dan Gross |
Tomato B- |
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
"In the end, though, Crystal Skull feels too much like a retrospective." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat C |
Infamous (2006) |
"If Woody Allen is right and 90 percent of life is showing up, then the other 10 percent is showing up on time. Which brings us to the badly timed Infamous." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato B+ |
The Informant! (2009) |
"Soderbergh is infamous for his will to experiment, and his movie is a radical departure from genre convention..." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
Inside Deep Throat (2005) |
"A bubbly but superficial documentary that tells you what you already know -- there was a sexual revolution in the '70s, and its influence on society was both liberating and corrupting." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato B |
Inside Man (2006) |
"It's a solid piece of work, likely to result in what could be Lee's biggest Hollywood payday." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
Insomnia (2002) |
"A pretty good thriller, with three Oscar winners doing good work, especially Pacino." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
Inspector Gadget (1999) |
"Broderick's natural sense of humor adds a twist to Gadget." |
|
Splat |
Instinct (1999) |
"In Instinct, the back-to-nature business takes on a misanthropic tone and a nasty malignancy." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
Intermission (2004) |
"It's a fine bit of writing and directing from Mark O'Rowe and John Crowley, who also gets good work from their cast." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat C |
The International (2009) |
"The movie's theory of insidious capitalism is mildly interesting, but there are no interesting relationships to make it meaningful." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
The Interpreter (2005) |
"It would help to have sparks of attraction between Penn and Kidman, but there's really nothing there. Penn is strangely numb and expressionless in the movie." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
Intimacy (2001) |
"The movie is so groundbreaking ... as to be distracting." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat |
Into the Blue (2005) |
"A brave departure for Jessica Alba, who appears for the first time without her frequent co-star, spandex." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato B |
Into the Wild (2007) |
"There's a lot to like about this offbeat, evocative travelogue." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) |
"The camera's feelings for Zeta-Jones almost seem to warrant a restraining order." |
Gary Thompson |
Splat C+ |
The Invention of Lying (2009) |
"The problem with "Invention" is that it ultimately rests not on critiques of religion or evolution, but the nuts and bolts of romantic comedy." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato B |
Invictus (2009) |
"With apologies to William Ernest Henley, one might say that under the bludgeonings of Clint, Invictus emerges a little boring, but unbowed." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
Invincible (2006) |
"The unsinkable sports-underdog formula, legendary Eagles folklore, the crackerjack visuals of NFL Films -- all add up to just enough in Invincible." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato |
Iris (2001) |
"In the end, the disparate personalities of the movies cede influence to the actors, who do the hard work of giving human dimension to the stories of extraordinary people." |
Gary Thompson |
Tomato B+ |
Iron Man (2008) |
"You can enjoy Iron Man (under two hours, if you skip the credits) without being one." |
Gary Thompson |
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