Tomato 3.5/4 |
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
"An amazing story, amazingly told." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
"The film doesn't really have a plot. It's more of a premise, cartoonishly executed." |
David Hiltbrand |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"Bravo to Demme, Lumet, and three extraordinary actresses." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
Radio (2003) |
"The real Radio, and the real coach deserve better." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Rain (2002) |
"A quiet, disquieting triumph." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Raise Your Voice (2004) |
"A corny, wading-pool- deep tale about overcoming grief and enjoying a rooftop view of downtown L.A. with a cute English guy with a hedgehog coif." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Raising Helen (2004) |
"What Raising Helen doesn't offer is a competent (never mind compelling) performance from Hudson, who is as cute as lace pants and has approximately as much acting skill." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Raising Victor Vargas (2003) |
"For those sick of the tired conventions of 'rom-coms' (as Hollywood wags call romantic comedies), Vargas is a refreshing cure, frank about healthy teenage curiosity and sexuality in ways that don't make them punchlines to smutty jokes." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 0/4 |
Rambo (2008) |
"It’s not a movie. It’s an adrenaline pump and purveyor of raw carnage." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat .5/4 |
Rat Race (2001) |
"With alarmingly few exceptions ... nothing that occurs can remotely be construed as humorous." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"With Ratatouille, Bird once again delivers not just a great, witty story, but dazzling visuals as well." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ray (2004) |
"It's a shame about Ray, because Foxx is trapped in a movie that takes the music icon's unique story and turns it into cheesy, sentimental American Dream cliches." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Read My Lips (2002) |
"A sharp, inventive mix of love story and film noir." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Reader (2008) |
"With this film Daldry proves himself the screen's reigning master at showing passion thwarted or repressed, this time to a propulsive Philip Glass-lite score from Nico Muhly." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
The Real Cancun (2003) |
"Somehow the movie (which could easily have been titled Dude, Where's My Underwear?) managed to scrape up 16 college-age kids who are so callow they make this fantasy lifestyle look unattractive." |
David Hiltbrand |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Real Women Have Curves (2002) |
"What's most refreshing about Real Women Have Curves is its unforced comedy-drama and its relaxed, natural-seeming actors." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Reaping (2007) |
"An effectively unsettling mix of Southern gothic and Old Testament hugger-mugger." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato |
Recess: School's Out (2001) |
"Refreshingly subversive." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Recruit (2003) |
"Probably better than anyone else working today, Donaldson knows how to knit a thriller. Each time you think this taut yarn is about to unravel, that's when he pulls the wool over your eyes." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Red Balloon (1955) |
"A beautiful little meditation on childhood, on imagination literally taking flight." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Red Cliff (2009) |
"From landscape shots that have the serene beauty of a Han Dynasty watercolor, to its dramatic naval engagements and thundering cavalry charges, this is magnificent filmmaking, and a magnificent film." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Red Dragon (2002) |
"For all its brilliant touches, Dragon loses its fire midway, nearly flickering out by its perfunctory conclusion." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Red Eye (2005) |
"Craven, an old hand at menace, shifts gears smoothly from the slasher parodies of Scream, offering a more subdued brand of suspense." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Red Lights (2004) |
"Like Hitchcock, Kahn uses dry humor and keen observation of human character (and character flaws) to spin a compelling brand of menace." |
Steven Rea |
Splat |
Red Planet (2000) |
"Feels a lot like a B-movie from the 1950s." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
Redacted (2007) |
"DePalma's movie offers its own doctoring and processing, without delivering an ounce of real humanity -- good or bad -- in the bargain." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Redbelt (2008) |
"Redbelt's ultimate Ultimate Fight moment feels sorely lacking." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Reign of Fire (2002) |
"Directed by Rob Bowman in a palette of dark, muddy colors, Reign of Fire is often incomprehensible and hardly ever entertaining -- even unintentionally." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"Reign is a triumph for Cheadle and Sandler, whose performances strew the seeds of regeneration." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato |
Reindeer Games (2000) |
"A film noir with a bracing twist of black comedy." |
Desmond Ryan |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Religulous (2008) |
"For most of the film, Maher uses the devout as straight men to set up his jokes. Though initially sidesplitting, over the course of Religulous, Maher has diminishing comic returns." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
Remember Me, My Love (2004) |
"It's an intriguing premise executed unintriguingly." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato |
Remember the Titans (2000) |
"Emotionally affecting tale." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Renaissance (2006) |
"Renaissance is more than mere eye candy. It sneaks into deeper, darker places - a dream world of shadowy menace." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Rendition (2007) |
"Hood squanders the film's considerable starpower by failing to elicit sharp performances from his marquee names." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Rent (2005) |
"In terms of its music and lyrics Rent flickers more than it flames." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato |
The Replacements (2000) |
"Silly, diverting." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Reprise (2008) |
"Drawing inspiration from the young-artists-in-angst tales of Godard, Truffaut and the French new wave, Joachim Trier's Reprise is both a charming homage and a vibrant work in its own right." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato |
Requiem for a Dream (2000) |
"Aronofsky has fashioned a chilling vision that lives up to the caustic irony of its title and gives us a nightmare that is not lightly forgotten." |
Desmond Ryan |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Rescue Dawn (2007) |
"If Rescue Dawn isn't about heroism, then it's about something deeper, more primitive: survival instinct." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Reservation Road (2007) |
"A film of distinguished performances that rise above a coincidence-riddled and perfunctory screenplay -- without redeeming it." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 1/4 |
Resident Evil (2002) |
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Carrie Rickey |
Splat 1/4 |
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) |
"Even for one interested in bio-horror, RE:A is pretty generic stuff." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Resurrecting the Champ (2007) |
"Though sensitively acted by Jackson, this solemn sermonette from Rod Lurie struggles to get off the ropes and never quite establishes its rhythm." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Revanche (2009) |
"There's real biblical tragedy, and redemption, in Spielmann's fine, sad, suspenseful film." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003) |
"Everything's real -- the shouting, the dissonance, the worry." |
Howard Shapiro |
Tomato 3/4 |
Revolutionary Road (2008) |
"[A] devastating if flawed adaptation of the Richard Yates novel." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Revolver (2007) |
"There are quotations from Machiavelli, brainiac chess stratagems, meditations on the ego and suicide, and some of the clunkiest gangland gab this side of a Martin Scorsese parody." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Riding Giants (2004) |
"An aficionada of the saltwater documentary, I am thrilled to report that Riding Giants, Stacy Peralta's exhilarating account of the revolution and evolution in big-wave surfing, is among the best of this breathtaking genre." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) |
"The kind of film ... that even as it dissolves narratively, still makes you dissolve emotionally." |
Carrie Rickey |
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