Tomato |
W. (2008) |
"Stone has accomplished something I would've thought impossible: he made me feel sorry for this miserable son of a bitch." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"Conforming to every rule in the book, it's a square old-fashioned musical about a rebel who never played by anybody's rules except his own. But still, somehow it works.
" |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Walking Tall (2004) |
"...so rote it doesn't just feel like a tired genre piece--the movie actually feels like it's aspiring to be a tired genre piece!" |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"War of the Worlds makes A.I. look like it ends well.
" |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
War, Inc. (2008) |
"Any hopes you might be holding out for a smart, sophisticated political satire will immediately be squashed at the sight of Dan Aykroyd on the toilet." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Watchmen (2009) |
"Some things just defy adaptation." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"...feels like a freshly unearthed treasure from a more sophisticated era. All lingering glances and electrically supercharged silences, it's a tiny film of enormous power." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
We Were Soldiers (2002) |
"The first war picture in recent memory that owes more to John Ford than to Sony PlayStation." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Weather Man (2005) |
"It's the kind of minor-key character-driven picture you wish Hollywood made more often. You'll also wish it was better." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Wedding Crashers (2005) |
"...starts strong and finishes soft, but for a while there we're watching a refreshingly old-fashioned R-rated comedy. It's a happy, horny movie." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Welcome to Mooseport (2004) |
"The movie is a wet noodle, too timid and ingratiating to muster much interest--sort of like its star.
" |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
What Just Happened (2008) |
"De Niro puts so little into his performances lately, I think I work harder just sitting through them." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Whatever Works (2009) |
"David's human sandpaper delivery gives a full, deep voice to Allen's reckless misanthropy." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
When Did You Last See Your Father? (2008) |
"The author comes off as such a constipated, self-pitying heel, it's no wonder his old man used to give him such a hard time!" |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) |
"No [kidding], Spurlock." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Where The Truth Lies (2005) |
"The key strategic misstep should be obvious already: this is a movie that wants us to think about Jerry Lewis having sex." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) |
"What stays with you is the sadness. There's an almost unbearable undertow of melancholy in director Spike Jonze's awkward, arty adaptation of Maurice Sendak's 1963 picture book." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Why We Fight (2006) |
"...the movie everybody wanted Fahrenheit 9/11 to be.
" |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005) |
"If Clint Eastwood were a parrot, he'd be Connor." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2004) |
"What an odd accident of fate --and sad collision of dietary demands-- that the stage's most famous Jew would wind up being played so wonderfully by film's most delicious ham." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007) |
"A Gaelic cousin to Spielberg's Munich, it's haunting stuff." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
Windtalkers (2002) |
"...as lyrical as it is dunderheaded--whiplashing from brilliance to banality and then back again..." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Witnesses (2008) |
"Unyieldingly pleasant and way too fussy for its own good... so sunny and polite it makes Rent look like Cruising." |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
The Women (2008) |
"What in heaven's name has Meg Ryan done to her face?" |
Sean Burns |
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World Trade Center (2006) |
"Extolling Stone: An Interview With Oliver Stone" |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
World Trade Center (2006) |
"Are we ready for the feel-good 9/11 movie of the year? Mawkish, corny and brutally effective -- I liked it more than I feel comfortable admitting.
" |
Sean Burns |
Splat |
World Traveler (2002) |
"Shot like a postcard and overacted with all the boozy self-indulgence that brings out the worst in otherwise talented actors..." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
World's Greatest Dad (2009) |
"Brilliantly cynical in dealing with grief as a fashion statement... exposing the vanity of mourning in public and our often absurd sanctification of the dead." |
Sean Burns |
Tomato |
The Wrestler (2008) |
"Welcome back, Mickey. It's been too long." |
Sean Burns |
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