Splat 2.5/4 |
Haiku Tunnel (2001) |
"As 'Josh's' story wears on, so does one's patience." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Hairspray (2007) |
"This movie musical about the plus-sized white girl who shakes her way onto a segregated teen dance show and brings black high-schoolers with her is a laughing gas." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Half Nelson (2006) |
"Gosling anchors the picture, and Epps ... has a kind of grace, presence and knowingness that far more experienced actors struggle vainly to find." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"In Andrew Fleming's Hamlet 2, the laughs are wan and intermittent. There's something rotten in the state of Arizona." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Hancock (2008) |
"Thanks to Smith, it's a story about movie stars -- and why the multiplex-going humankind needs to have them kicking around, too." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Hangover (2009) |
"Phillips, with a script credited to Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (and with loads of loose-limbed interpretations from the cast), captures the amity among a group of grown men set loose without spouses, girlfriends, or sobriety to hinder them. (Or help.)" |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hannah Montana The Movie (2009) |
"For its target audience, oblivious to the film's narrative crossed wires, it's definitely three-star entertainment." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato |
Hannibal (2001) |
"Hannibal is weak kin to its Oscar-winning forebear." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"What Hannibal Rising is, mostly, is a hoot. Gong Li cautions the nightmare-plagued Hannibal that 'Memory is a knife -- it can hurt you.' And let's not forget the classic, 'They ate my sister.'" |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
The Happening (2008) |
"As for The Happening, his throwback horror flick that plays like The Birds meets The Blob, it's beyond good and evil. It's dumbfounding." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happenstance (2001) |
"A mild but engaging romance, the charms of which come at you sideways." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Happily Ever After (2005) |
"Gets bogged down in midlife-crisis cliches." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 1/4 |
Happily N'Ever After (2007) |
"Two words of advice: N'Ever mind." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato |
Happy Accidents (2001) |
"Anderson constructs a story where past and future converge to redefine present-tense romantic anxiety. And in so doing he offers a redefinition of love." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happy Endings (2005) |
"It's a challenge to keep up with the multiple character studies and story lines, which are braided, tangled and teased. But the performances are exceptional." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"Happy Feet offers dazzling cinematic family fun, and a mad medley of tunes (songs made famous by the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Earth, Wind & Fire, Queen, and Stevie Wonder, among others)." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"Oddball and ingenious." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Hard Candy (2005) |
"... icky, incoherent thriller ..." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato |
A Hard Day's Night (1964) |
"Still feels brand spanking new, and way cool." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Hard Word (2003) |
"The film has an appeal for lovers of the genre. Little else in this unpredictable thriller by first-time director Scott Roberts requires immediate attention." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
"Offers a mix of nasty toilet jokes and sex gags, but the gratuitous nudity (male and female) and crazy cannabis-ness are there to serve a greater good: to mock social and political hypocrisy, a culture steeped in prejudice and pretense." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) |
"A laugh-out-loud if not-exactly-good stoner comedy." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harrison's Flowers (2002) |
"MacDowell, whose wifty Southern charm has anchored lighter affairs ... brings an absolutely riveting conviction to her role." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Harry And Max (2005) |
"Strains to be sensitive rather than merely shocking, but winds up dull and uninvolving." |
Dan DeLuca |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
"Darker, scarier and somewhat better than Sorcerer's Stone" |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, fourth in the fantasy franchise, is the most fun and the most fraught with conflict." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"Half-Blood Prince is a bubbling cauldron of hormonal angst, rife with romance and heartbreak, jealousy and longing." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"Yates lacks a steady grip on the shape and rhythm of the film." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban offers what neither of its predecessors, for all their wand-waving and witch-brooms, had: real magic." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) |
"At its best, the film's visual dazzle equals the tasty wordplay of the novel. But it is overlong, overscored, and curiously misshapen." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hart's War (2002) |
"The cinematic equivalent of three-dimensional chess." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008) |
"Not just a great sports movie, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 captures a pivotal moment in recent history." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Haunted Mansion (2003) |
"Vivid and unimaginative." |
David Hiltbrand |
Splat |
The Haunting (1999) |
"A passable piece of summer hokum, but it underlines how difficult it has become to make an effective horror movie." |
Desmond Ryan |
Splat 2/4 |
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) |
"Good performances and an eerie atmosphere can't save the flick: I'd wait for the DVD." |
Tirdad Derakhshani |
Splat 1/4 |
Havana Nights (2004) |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2003) |
"A weird, bubbly cocktail -- effervescent charm and troubling pathology, shaken together." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) |
"The result is Woody Allen lite, with some deft observations about how the social media designed to bring singles together are actually coming between them." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Head in the Clouds (2004) |
"Catastrophically overdone." |
Steven Rea |
Splat |
Head Over Heels (2001) |
"Kerplunkingly unfunny and -- despite Potter's Julia Roberts-ish smile and ditz shtick -- charmless." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Head-On (2005) |
"Despite all its roiling melodrama, Head-On has its moments of sharply observed humor." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Heading South (2006) |
"Boasts another formidable and fine-tuned performance from the great Charlotte Rampling." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Heart of Me (2003) |
"Watching it choked me up in the way that reading Ian McEwan's Atonement did." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Heart of the Game (2006) |
"The dramas going on here, on and off the court, more than make up for any lack of flash." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) |
"The Farrellys manage to have their cake and scarf it down, disgustingly, too." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato |
Heartbreakers (2001) |
"Weaver is an enormously resourceful comedian and hasn't had so much fun since Ghostbusters and Working Girl." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Hearts in Atlantis (2001) |
"Its heart is certainly in the right place, but its head makes some misjudgments." |
Desmond Ryan |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Heaven (2002) |
"Heaven is odd, and awkward in places, but its lyricism and power stay with you." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) |
"Inventive, original stuff." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Heights (2005) |
"Heights manages to make the lives of all these beautiful people seem quite tedious. Despite their accomplishments, the only thing they seem suited for is hailing cabs." |
David Hiltbrand |