Tomato |
I Am Legend (2007) |
"And as for that ending... sigh. I guess two thirds of a great movie is better than nothing." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"A manic, screwball battle of Being vs. Nothingness -- and yet Russell's sweet, almost revolutionary optimism and goodwill shine through the cacophonous proceedings." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007) |
"The movie is trying to tell you that gays are people too. Sure they're icky, embarrassing people, but you should still be nice to them." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2007) |
"Somehow Garlin maintains a buoyant, humanistic tone throughout the parade of lonely humiliations. It's an endearing little movie with a great big heart." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
I'm Not There (2007) |
"A full-frontal formalist assault on the very concept of celebrity bio-pics... drifting and riffing on contradictions, drop-dead funny, and easily the most go-for-broke, energizing movie I've seen all year." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
I've Loved You So Long (2008) |
"Locked into a scheme of formal rigor and peek-a-boo screenwriting, the film is too busy calling attention to its own cleverness to allow any room for emotional connection." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
I, Robot (2004) |
"...feels like a promising (if brazenly derivative) sci-fi actioner that was at some crucial point hijacked by the ego of a desperately needy superstar." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Identity (2003) |
"Donald Kaufman did not die in vain. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Igby Goes Down (2002) |
"Steers has an unexpectedly adamant streak of warm-blooded empathy for all his disparate Manhattan denizens--especially the a**holes." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
In Bruges (2008) |
"McDonagh breathes new life into moldy pulp fiction tropes with a heavy-duty helping of Irish Catholic angst, mixing the sacred and the blisteringly, side-splittingly profane." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
In Good Company (2004) |
"A bit of a fantasy, but it's heartening to see a studio entertainment that's at least willing to acknowledge some of the real-life problems currently faced by its audience." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
In Her Shoes (2005) |
"Boys, you're missing out. Hanson is one of our most unobtrusive directors, and his work is exactly the kind of rock-steady craftsmanship movies are missing these days.
" |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
In My Country (2005) |
"High-minded and tin-eared, it finds one of our greatest blood-poets staggering around "forgiveness," unable to suss out a visual vocabulary for this strange, new language.
" |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
In the Cut (2003) |
"A fascinating, invasive little movie... it tries to flip misogynist masturbation fantasies on their backs and into woman-on-top affirmations." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
In the Mood for Love (2001) |
"A masterpiece." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) |
"For a doomsday lecture, it's shockingly entertaining. Well, on second thought maybe 'entertaining' isn't exactly the right word..." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
"Leterrier's reboot might be a tighter, more coherent movie than Ang Lee's freaky-deaky, artsy-fartsy 2003 Hulk. But it's also way less interesting." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
The Incredibles (2004) |
"As in Spider-Man 2, crime-fighting and derring-do take a backseat to domestic drama and our connections with these larger-than-life yet down-to-earth characters." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
"What a relief that Crystal Skull turns out to be a serviceable little nostalgia piece. I'm not sure there's any compelling reason for it to exist, but it's a fun night out at the movies. No more than that -- and certainly no less." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) |
"In retrospect, there's something hateful about this picture that's energizing. It's a f**ked Freudian funhouse of freakishly personal divorce anxiety." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
The Informant! (2009) |
"The sublime Damon has a ridiculous moustache, a bad toupee and carries himself with the supreme confidence of a man who has no idea he's acting like an imbecile." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Inglourious Basterds (2009) |
"As is often the case with Tarantino's post-1990's output, great scenes are adrift in an undisciplined sea of ugly-spirited, juvenile self-indulgence." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Inside Deep Throat (2005) |
"It's a treasure trove of kicky archival footage-- and a pointed look back at the opening salvo in a culture war that still rages today." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Inside Man (2006) |
"An almost absurdly pleasurable and well-crafted entertainment..." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Insomnia (2002) |
"Even with all those rough edges safely sanded down, the American Insomnia is still pretty darned good." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Intermission (2004) |
"A kicky hopefulness obscures any misery. Once everyone's done screaming F-bombs in each other's faces, they reach out again... it's Love Actually for drunken a-holes." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The International (2009) |
"Howard Hawks once said that the key to making a good movie was "three good scenes and no bad ones." The International has a bunch of bad scenes... but the good one is downright amazing." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Interpreter (2005) |
"Illogical, dour, humorless...and Penn played a smarter character in I Am Sam." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Interview (2007) |
"For starters, Buscemi is woefully miscast. The movie needed Anthony Quinn, not Peter Lorre." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Intimate Strangers (2004) |
"...provided a lovely, if thoroughly predictable, afternoon at the movies -- it hasn't crossed my mind once since leaving the theater." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Into the Wild (2007) |
"It throbs with color, possibility and hope, fueled by an un-ironic adolescent yearning as plaintive (and only occasionally embarrassing) as the mega-earnest Eddie Vedder tunes that fill the soundtrack." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Invention of Lying (2009) |
"All the dazzling, limitless comedic potential here, and we're stuck waiting for the hot younger girl to wise up and learn to love the homely guy who wrote the movie?" |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Invincible (2006) |
"This is mopey, paint-by-numbers filmmaking. One of the year's most woefully underwritten screenplays takes a terrific true story and dulls it down into morose, formulaic slop." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Irreversible (2003) |
"It feels less like a movie and more like a violation... Noe subverts cheap satisfactions of the genre and questions how we look at revenge pictures in the first place." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Island (2005) |
"Is Michael Bay the world's worst living filmmaker? Evidence continues to mount..." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Italian Job (2003) |
"...shamelessly prefabricated and so thoroughly lacking in any flavor or nutritional value, it's sort of like a McDonald's cheeseburger, only with car chases." |
Sean Burns |
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