Splat 2/4 |
W. (2008) |
"W. offers a failed mix of political satire, psycho-biography, SNL-style mimicry, and Shakespearean tragedy." |
Steven Rea |
Splat |
Waist Deep (2006) |
"What really sinks Waist Deep is the fact that the action scenes and car chases are poorly handled, and that the climactic confrontation takes place far too early, leaving the characters to lumber around for 20 minutes in a dull daze." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Waitress (2007) |
"Shelly left her daughter -- and her audience -- a wonderful gift, this movie about the transforming effects of motherhood." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Waking Life (2001) |
"A smart, sensuous and sensory mind trip that caroms around a universe of thought." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
"Reilly is recklessly funny." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Walk on Water (2005) |
"A compelling thriller that manages to incorporate a seemingly impossible bundle of disparate elements -- Jewish-Arab animosity, homophobia, the haunting aftershocks of the Holocaust, and the repercussions of suicide." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"It's a celebration of the good times and bad times shared by a man and woman who found each other in the middle of some historic craziness, and it rocks." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Walk to Remember (2002) |
"An idealistic love story that brings out the latent 15-year-old romantic in everyone." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Walking Tall (2004) |
"A dull, drab and pointless rehash, Walking Tall ironically manages to diminish the Rock's stature as both a leading man and an action star." |
David Hiltbrand |
Tomato 3/4 |
WALL-E (2008) |
"The attention to detail -- always a Pixar hallmark -- is amazing, and Stanton and his crew incorporate surprising elements that mix vintage sci-fi with old musicals with a meta-cartoon rendering of the future." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wallace & Gromit Gift Set (1990) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"All in all, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a comic blessing." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Wanted (2008) |
"Wanted is an assaultive roller coaster of a movie that would be more fun if the violence weren't so nasty, and if the script made any sense." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
War Dance (2007) |
"The joyous song and vibrant dance of the schoolchildren uplift all who see them. They are war orphans, casualties of Uganda's civil strife, healing physical and psychic wounds by performing ancient tribal rites in a national competition." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2008) |
"Makes a strong case that when it comes to military action, the American public has been deceived by presidents from Lyndon Johnson on down the line to the current occupant of the White House." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"Urgent and pungent." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The War Tapes (2006) |
"No matter where one stands on the political map, no matter what one's views of Operation Iraqi Freedom and its aftermath, this film is compelling, troubling and illuminating." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Warrior (2005) |
"There's a pinch of Akira Kurosawa, a sprinkle of Clint Eastwood, and heaps of originality in this." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato |
Washington Heights (2003) |
"Director de Villa captures the rhythms and colors, the sounds and flavor of the neighborhood that gives this movie its name." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wassup Rockers (2006) |
"This rollicking day in the life of a band of skateboarding Latino punk-rockers doesn't exude the voyeuristic smarm of previous Clark forays." |
Steven Rea |
Splat |
The Watcher (2000) |
"It's a mystery why anybody -- the director, the cast -- would want to devote a significant chunk of their lives to this murky tale." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
Watchmen (2009) |
"This movie will shake your windows and rattle your walls. At least it will for a couple of hours, before 40-odd minutes of draggy, comic-book exposition smother the wild, subversive superhero business that came before." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 4/4 |
Water (2006) |
"Profound, passionate and overflowing with incomparable beauty." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) |
"...the film looks grand. A little too grand for the sappy proceedings." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Way Home (2002) |
"Jeong-Hyang Lee's film is deceptively simple, deeply satisfying." |
Steven Rea |
Splat |
The Way of the Gun (2000) |
"Like his characters, McQuarrie's film has two faces: It is overplotted and it is crisply directed." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
We Are Marshall (2006) |
"The film is emotionally affecting without being particularly distinguished." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"A crackling, claustrophobic chamber piece." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
We Own The Night (2007) |
"At times solid and suspenseful, at times dopily implausible and woefully familiar." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2.5/4 |
We Were Soldiers (2002) |
"... as directed by Wallace, We Were Soldiers is not a lightning-paced, emotion-filled war movie but a turgid, platitudinous work of calendar art." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
The Weather Man (2005) |
"A gloomy, self-serious picture." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Weather Underground (2003) |
"What's forceful about The Weather Underground is how effectively the filmmakers convey the violent zeitgeist of those years." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wedding Crashers (2005) |
"Hopelessly raunchy, helplessly romantic, and wickedly, wickedly funny." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
The Wedding Date (2005) |
"Mulroney, best known as the title character in Roberts' comedy My Best Friend's Wedding, is by far the best thing about this gaggingly unromantic comedy. His character's bio, divulged in a thumbnail, is the least convincing thing." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato |
The Wedding Planner (2001) |
"The film is particularly good at lampooning wedding kitsch, especially the practice of choosing a wedding song to give a theme to a couple and their troth." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
The Weight of Water (2002) |
"The Weight of Water uses water as a metaphor for subconscious desire, but this leaky script barely stays afloat." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) |
"Roscoe Jenkins labors too hard to wring too-few chuckles." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Welcome to Collinwood (2002) |
"Sometimes this modest little number clicks, and sometimes it doesn't." |
Steven Rea |
Splat 2/4 |
Welcome to Mooseport (2004) |
"It plays like six subplots in search of a sitcom." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 4/4 |
Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
"Thanks to an extraordinary performance from Michelle Williams and an exceptionally deft hand from her director, this low-budget and loping little film is a genuine heartbreaker." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Whale Rider (2003) |
"The rhythms of Whale Rider are hypnotic as the ebb tide, haunting as the song of the humpback sea mammal, bracing as the ocean spray." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
What a Girl Wants (2003) |
"Clueless without a clue." |
Karen Heller |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"What Happens in Vegas . . . boasts the not inconsiderable appeal of good-looking people having a good time -- even while having a bad time." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
What Just Happened (2008) |
"There are cutting laughs along the way, and Keener plays the hard-nosed studio chief with an insider's acumen, but, really, Entourage is better than this." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
What the Bleep Do We Know? (2004) |
"As an entryway into new ways of thinking about the self, the universe, and the vast infinite whatnot of whatever (you know what we mean, oh wise one), this little movie is big." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
What Time Is It There? (2002) |
"While its careful pace and seemingly opaque story may not satisfy every moviegoer's appetite, the film's final scene is soaringly, transparently moving." |
Carrie Rickey |
Splat 2/4 |
What We Do Is Secret (2008) |
"Despite a terrific performance from Shane West, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Crash, Secret is a chronology, not a biopic." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato |
What Women Want (2000) |
"A seductive conceit, a stellar comedic turn, a chance to plow the terrain of sexual politics with humor and intelligence … What Women Want is a winner." |
Steven Rea |
Tomato 3/4 |
What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) |
"WWJB? encourages viewers to think outside the big box of super stores such as Wal-Mart." |
Carrie Rickey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Whatever Works (2009) |
"Allen and David do stuff in Whatever Works that shouldn't work but does." |
Steven Rea |
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