Tomato 9/10 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"...like Cubism in human form, woozy and kaleidoscopic." |
Chris Barsanti |
Tomato |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"Simultaneously strange and familiar, not himself, Bob lives inside an ooky, unsolvable world that mirrors our own ongoing fears, of surveillance, loss, and forgetting.
" |
Cynthia Fuchs |
Tomato |
A Tout de Suite (2005) |
"Whether focused on Lili's face or standing back to take in her long limbs, Caroline Champetier's enthralling black-and-white camerawork is at once nimble and evocative." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
Splat |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"The film's interests are becoming exponentially Spielbergian, that is to say, sentimental and soggy." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
Splat |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"Stuffed to the gills with sacchariney melodrama meant to tug at all the requisite heartstrings and get us to contemplate 'the bigger questions.'" |
Todd R. Ramlow |
Tomato 5/10 |
The Abandoned (2007) |
"The work of a master visualist trying to walk the line between narrative and visual spectacle. The story is there, but it just sits on the side of the visual experience." |
Brian Holcomb |
Tomato |
Abouna (2004) |
"Haroun's second film is lilting and profound at once, precise and sinuous." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
Tomato |
About a Boy (2002) |
"[The boy is] thankfully, not so preternaturally 'mature' or 'cute' as the ones who have helped save Tom Cruise or Bruce Willis' souls, and more appealing because of it." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
- |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"Schmidt is suddenly feeling overwhelmed by the lack of activity in his life, where before, this seemed a right, to do nothing." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
- |
Acacia (2003) |
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Nikki Tranter |
Tomato 4/5 |
Ace in the Hole (1951) |
"Like all great Hollywood classics, Ace in the Hole reverberates with an energy that expertly compliments its material, rendering even the most ordinary sequences visceral and dramatically intriguing." |
Bill Gibron |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"You have to work so hard at forgetting everything you know about the boys from Liverpool, even as the movie constantly throws their monumental achievements directly at you, that it's frequently not worth the effort" |
Bill Gibron |
Splat |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"The romance will be painful and tumultuous, and the film will find a way to tie together all external events to this seemingly personal connection." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
Tomato |
Adaptation (2002) |
"Careens between fiction and confession, repetition and revelation." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
- |
Admissions (2004) |
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Beth Gottfried |
- |
Adrenaline Drive (1999) |
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P. Nelson Reinsch |
Tomato |
Adventureland (2009) |
"A loping comedy of displacement that snaps off dozens of easy laughs without breaking a sweat..." |
Chris Barsanti |
Tomato 6/10 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Adventureland is as tidy and predictable as it sounds. And it falls into that annoying trap that seems to plague this sort of film, relying on an unrelenting '80s soundtrack to set tones and cue plot points." |
Renie Scolaro Mora |
Splat |
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) |
"The Adventures of Pluto Nash is a whole lot of nada." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
- |
Adventures of Prince Achmed (1927) |
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Chris Robe |
Splat |
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) |
"The film, however, remains boggled in a demo-neverland, appealing only to the very zombie audience it thinks it's satirizing." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
- |
Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
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Todd R. Ramlow |
Tomato 2.5/5 |
Aenigma (1987) |
"If you took the concept of Carrie, married it to the circumstances of Patrick, ladled in copious amounts of Dario Argento's Suspiria... you'd have Aenigma in a nutty, infectious shell." |
Bill Gibron |
Splat |
The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
"Valois has the potential to be a great character -- a woman who refuses to stay in her socially prescribed feminine role, but Swank instead highlights her passive characteristics and domestic longings." |
F.L. Carr |
Tomato |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"Helene, caught like Jacob between lives, spends much of the film trying to explicate choices that now look only wrong." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
- |
Afterglow (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
Erich Kuersten |
Splat |
Against the Ropes (2003) |
"Complicated by the ways that race, masculinity, and media shape expectations and possibilities in the boxing world.
" |
Cynthia Fuchs |
- |
Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jesse Hassenger |
Tomato |
The Agronomist (2004) |
"It's easy to understand Demme's fascination with and dedication to Dominique: he's a brilliant storyteller and relentless optimist." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
Tomato |
Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) |
"As much about the culture that produces and fears, consumes and condemns, an Aileen Wuornos as it is about Aileen Wuornos.
" |
Cynthia Fuchs |
Tomato |
Aimee & Jaguar (2000) |
"What we have here is not just a story of love, loss, and discovery; it is a piece of history." |
Jennifer Bendery |
Tomato |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"Akeelah not only embodies her gift and her passion, but she also inspires new ways of thinking about intellectual activities." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
- |
Alex and Emma (2003) |
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Cynthia Fuchs |
Splat |
Alexander (2004) |
"Eventually, the movie's psychologizing of Alexander's motives turns tedious." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
Splat |
Alfie (2004) |
"Now, such resilience is less charming than it might once have been, and certainly less excusable." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
Tomato 3/5 |
Alien Nation Ultimate Movie Collection (1995) |
"While not exactly a masterpiece, the TV Alien Nation was a significant improvement over the shallow original." |
Brian Holcomb |
Splat 1/10 |
Alien Trespass (2009) |
"Alien Trespass won't let our knowledge of the stereotypes it incorporates do the work and make the critique." |
Todd R. Ramlow |
Splat |
Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
"King of the video game movies, director Paul W.S. Anderson continues to meet and resist expectations." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
Splat |
Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) |
"Again, the Aliens are slapdash in their rampaging and the Predator is relatively moral, holding to strict rules of hunting." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
- |
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece |
Tomato |
All About My Mother (1999) |
"Almodovar has finally found his groove." |
J. Serpico |
Tomato |
All About My Mother (1999) |
"Offers far more than a thesis about repressed desire; it evokes and engages such desire, seeking its release." |
Jonathan Beller |
Splat |
All Over the Guy (2001) |
"If All Over the Guy is any indication of what Hollywood has in store for gay relationships, it looks like gay men and lesbians will be receiving the same shallow treatment as their heterosexual counterparts." |
Stephen Tropiano |
Splat |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"Even when he's drinking or delirious, Willie is more appealing than Jack, whose detours into his own gothic background take the movie off rails." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
- |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Cynthia Fuchs |
Splat |
Almost Famous (2000) |
"The moments are too pat, the jokes too predictable, and the whole thing lacks the sprawl of life, the verisimilitude that would sell the story." |
Ben Varkentine |
Splat |
Along Came a Spider (2001) |
"More of the same." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
Splat |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"Decidedly unspecial." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
Splat |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"The film's most resonant insight%u2014not a new one%u2014is that the boys' mutual violence and abuse form a sort of intimacy. No matter what else they miss, they understand their own fearfulness and disloyalty." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
Splat |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"When Dave achieves such relative maturity, Claire likes him again, ensuring that you know he's appropriately heterosexual. What she thinks of mothering little furry creatures doesn't come up." |
Cynthia Fuchs |
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