Machuca (2005)

"Machuca is sweet, poignant, and winningly evocative of the period, though occasionally dogged by predictable scenarios and caricatures."

Mad Money (2008)

"A likable and completely dispensable heist film."

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

"Take the flat tire that was Madagascar. Retread it with The Lion King storyline. Pump it up with air. Now you have Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa."

Made (2001)

"Favreau and Vaughn have chemistry to kill: comic, combative and engagingly goofball."

Mafioso (1962)

"Is it a droll drama? A dark comedy? Let's just say that the film's startling shifts in mood fit this movie about a man and country divided. And that it appears to be padrino to The Godfather."

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005)

"One of the astronauts describes his excitement during the lunar mission as 'like a kid playing in a sandbox.' Unfortunately, that could also sum up the film's visual content."

Maid in Manhattan (2002)

"This sparkling Cinderella tale provides the additional kick of watching the glass slipper crack through the glass ceiling."

Maléna (2000)

"Renato does not intervene to correct the false impressions of the townspeople, nor does he courageously stand for Malèna ... What happens instead is far more compelling, but no less merciful and moving."

Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)

"[Kennedy] has a pretty good I'm-lame -but-I-believe -in-myself shtick going there. However, it doesn't last nearly as long as Malibu's Most Wanted's running time."

Mamma Mia! (2008)

"By turns entertaining and excruciating, Mamma Mia!, the jukebox musical that strings together 19 ABBA hits on a narrative thread flimsier than dental floss, had me smiling and wincing, often at the same time."

The Man from Elysian Fields (2002)

"Garcia, Coburn and particularly Jagger surprise throughout."

Man on Fire (2004)

"Overblown, hyperactive."

Man On Wire (2008)

"[A] heart-stopping, knee-buckling and transcendent account."

The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

"There are goofy flourishes here, the in-jokey, left-field rummies that are the Brothers Coen's stock-in-trade. But this is altogether a quieter, more philosophical sort of endeavor."

Management (2009)

"A likably oddball romantic comedy about a traveling saleswoman and a motel night manager who won't leave her alone."

Manic (2003)

"While it neither succeeds nor satisfies as drama, it's a great calling card for the actors involved, principally Joseph Gordon-Levitt."

The Marc Pease Experience (2009)

"Consider: A bad movie about cheesy a cappella and awful musical theater. What could be more excruciating?"

Margot at the Wedding (2007)

"The defining metaphor of Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach's dysfunctional-family seriocomedy, is a battle-scarred Volvo with faulty brakes."

Marley & Me (2008)

"Marley boasts animal magnetism."

Martin Lawrence Live - Runteldat (2002)

"Lawrence plumbs personal tragedy and also the human comedy."

Masked and Anonymous (2003)

"The music is great. Dylan and his band do a half-dozen songs that crackle with energy."

The Master of Disguise (2002)

"Cruelly and brutally unfunny."

Match Point (2005)

"A story of lust, love and the lure of money, Match Point is so thoroughly compelling, and so deftly acted by all parties concerned, that it turns and churns deep in the gut."

The Matrix (1999)

"As Keanu says: Whoa!"

The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

"The sibling masterminds abandon all humor and most invention for a series of Mr. Wizard cosmic cliches."