Tomato 3/4 |
Hairspray (2007) |
"Hairspray proves that summer movie fun needn't be witless and/or soulless." |
Glenn Kenny |
Tomato 3/4 |
Half Nelson (2006) |
"Gosling's acting is the highlight here. He sets the bar for the rest of the cast, and those around him rise to the challenge." |
Krista Vitola |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Half Past Dead (2002) |
"[Seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year's Razzie." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"Hannibal Rising resembles an elegant historical epic, if you overlook its implausible plot, abominable dialogue, and smug bloodletting." |
Aaron Hillis |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"Ulliel's impressive facial dexterity keeps his expressions devoid of emotion, except for slowly sadistic smiles, careful enunciation, and an occasional Hopkins-worthy eye twitch." |
Jennifer Miller |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"The film is weighed down by a clunky narrative, but Feet is better than an animated romp starring singing, dancing penguins has any right to be." |
Ethan Alter |
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Hard Candy (2005) |
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Splat 2/4 |
The Hard Word (2003) |
"Odd details certainly enliven the film, but their purpose in it is not always clear." |
Alex Kranz |
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Hardball (2001) |
"Full-time gambler Keanu Reeves pays off his debts to an old friend by coaching a ragtag Little League team from a poor neighborhood in Chicago." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
"The humor and the villainy have bite, the acting has conviction, the effects look far less cheesy, and the storytelling actually conveys the imagination and emotional power of Rowling's prose." |
Howard Karren |
Tomato 4/4 |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"Even though Goblet of Fire clocks in at a robust 157 minutes, Newell handles the massive story with seeming ease, keeping the pace taut and intensifying the pervasive menace that lurked more subtly in the previous films." |
Sara Brady |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"For the most part this adaptation, scripted by Michael Goldenberg and directed by David Yates, a British television veteran, is a marvel of compression that moves along at a brisk pace without ever feeling rushed." |
Glenn Kenny |
Tomato 4/4 |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"An adaptation worthy of Rowling's marvelous creation—a chapter that spins the story to ever more thrillingly dark, treacherous heights." |
Sara Brady |
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) |
"Based on the first of author J.K. Rowling's mega-bestselling Harry Potter novels, this film is poised to launch one of the most successful cinematic franchises ever." |
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Splat 1.5/4 |
Head in the Clouds (2004) |
"The story is a vapid Casablanca-lite with all the erotic subtlety of a second-rate Joe Eszterhas..." |
Aaron Hillis |
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Head of State (2003) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
The Heart of Me (2003) |
"It's a credit to this luminous cast that their characters can behave in such despicable ways and still command one’s sympathy." |
Kelly Borgeson |
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Hearts in Atlantis (2001) |
"'We live in the age of hit-and-run movies-screaming directors, screaming producers, all action-and it's so mindlessly boring,' Sir Anthony Hopkins says." |
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Heaven (2002) |
"Finally, a trilogy that doesn't involve hobbits or Jar-Jars." |
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Heaven (2002) |
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Glenn Kenny |
Tomato |
Heist (2001) |
"Featuring charming criminal masterminds going up against more venal, not to mention foolish, operators, pulling off all manner of delightful double crosses along the way." |
Glenn Kenny |
Splat 2/5 |
Hell Up In Harlem (1973) |
"An implausible and near-uninteresting follow-up to Cohen's superior "Black Caesar."" |
Aaron Hillis |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hellboy (2004) |
"Thanks to the singular vision of director Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola’s gloriously dark source material, Hellboy is a wicked trip into the fantastic." |
Sara Brady |
Tomato 4/4 |
Hero (2004) |
"One of the most beautiful and involving films of the year." |
Glenn Kenny |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hidalgo (2004) |
"The visual effects are almost seamlessly integrated and very effective, especially in the claustrophobic brutality of the dust storm sequence. It’s brief, but terrifying." |
Sara Brady |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hide and Seek (2005) |
"Does quite well precisely what it sets out to do." |
Kevin Allison |
Tomato |
High Fidelity (2000) |
"Actually, High Fidelity is a solid, entertaining, and often very funny piece of work." |
Glenn Kenny |
Splat 2/4 |
High Tension (2005) |
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Peter Debruge |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Hills Have Eyes II (2007) |
"Rote and crass." |
Glenn Kenny |
Tomato 3/4 |
The History Boys (2006) |
"There's no one today writing English dialogue as sharp as Bennett's, and hearing it delivered expertly is a pleasure worth sitting through some dodgy montages for." |
Glenn Kenny |
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A History of Violence (2005) |
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Splat 2/4 |
Hitch (2005) |
"...a klutzy, long-winded, far-fetched and not-all-that-funny affair that somehow flashes an unobjectionable charm when expectations are kept low." |
Aaron Hillis |
Splat 2/5 |
The Hitcher (2007) |
"A good horror remake needs to either be smarter than the original in this post-Scream era or about ten times as bloody. Unfortunately, The Hitcher falls into neither one of those categories." |
Stephen Saito |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) |
"Reasonably reverent in its droll eccentricity but terribly Americanized in its comic delivery, the feature-length H2G2 is an enjoyable mess..." |
Aaron Hillis |
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The - Collector's Edition (1993) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
The Hoax (2007) |
"By all means enjoy The Hoax -- it's smart fun. Just don't buy it." |
Glenn Kenny |
Tomato 3/4 |
Holes (2003) |
"An intelligent, stylishly shot film that -- for the most part -- doesn't pander to its youthful audience." |
Kelly Borgeson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Holiday (2006) |
"The Holiday wears its Tinseltown credentials on its sleeve and provides the kind of escapist entertainment that's been so lacking thus far into the winter season." |
Stephen Saito |
Splat 2/4 |
Hollywood Homicide (2003) |
"Hollywood Homicide has the impact of a TV movie of the week." |
Addison MacDonald |
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Hollywood Homicide (2003) |
"The pairing of It Boy Hartnett and seasoned pro Ford could profitably pull in two audiences at the box office." |
Susannah Gora |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hollywoodland (2006) |
"One of the nicest surprises of the late summer lull between blockbuster seasons, a smart period mystery-cum-character study-cum-bitter parable on the lures and liabilities of life in its titular locale." |
Glenn Kenny |
Tomato |
The Holy Mountain (1973) |
"Jodorowsky's greatest and most ambitious midnight movie, a wickedly outrageous masterpiece that towers over its better-known precursor El Topo... an ingeniously overstimulated film that could never be replicated today." |
Aaron Hillis |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Home at the End of the World (2004) |
"Mayer, a theater director making his film debut, has a sure hand with the finely calibrated emotions of his ensemble, and the intricately knotted chain of love, dependence, and dissatisfaction that twines them together." |
Sara Brady |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Home of the Brave (2006) |
"In an attempt to honor the veterans of our Middle East misadventure, Winkler and screenwriter Mark Friedman wind up reducing their experiences to the stuff of bad TV movies." |
Ethan Alter |
Splat .5/4 |
Home on the Range (2004) |
"Just about everything that can be wrong with an animated movie is wrong with Home on the Range . . ." |
Sara Brady |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Honey (2003) |
"Overreaches its niche as a glammed-up music video and can't survive with everything but the kitchen sink crammed in." |
Sara Brady |
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The Honeymoon Killers (1970) |
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Hoop Dreams (1994) |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Host (2007) |
"What makes it so enjoyable is how much stuff it contains while never losing sight of its prime directive, which is to thrill and terrify." |
Glenn Kenny |
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