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Cabaret Balkan (1998) |
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Ruthe Stein |
Splat 2/4 |
Cabin Fever (2003) |
"Cabin Fever starts small, and stays small, never reaching the transcendent Blair Witch heights of the biggest low-budget successes." |
Peter Hartlaub |
Splat 1/4 |
The Cable Guy (1996) |
"Much of it plays like a personal boob tube with Carrey trapped inside, determined to act his way out in a freak show of mugging. He's a disturbing mixture of psychopath and lonely soul. Here, as always, a little Carrey goes a long way." |
Peter Stack |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cadillac Records (2008) |
"A good general rule is that if one performance is good, credit the actor. But if everyone in the movie is doing excellent work, this is no coincidence. This is the product of superior direction." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"A charming movie." |
Ruthe Stein |
Splat 2/4 |
The Californians (2005) |
"So leaden and obvious it's too somnambulant to be funny." |
Neva Chonin |
Tomato 3/4 |
Callas Forever (2004) |
"Though campy at times, Callas Forever is a generous offering, full of flamboyant characters and grand performances." |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 1/4 |
Callback: The Unmaking of Bloodstain (2008) |
"A loopy, over-the-top comedy about indie filmmaking and impossible dreams in Los Angeles." |
G. Allen Johnson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Calle 54 (2001) |
"It is easy to imagine Calle 54 having a long shelf life on home video after its run in theaters. It can be played over and over again with increasing satisfaction." |
Bob Graham |
Tomato 3/4 |
Calvaire (2005) |
"What sells this movie is the realistic attention to detail and the bravura direction of Fabrice Du Welz, who draws a gut-wrenching performance from Lucas." |
G. Allen Johnson |
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Camilla (1994) |
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Peter Stack |
Splat 2/4 |
Camp (2003) |
"Another of those summer movies that want to pluck at our heartstrings. If it would just stop plucking for a second, it might be enjoyable." |
C.W. Nevius |
Tomato 3/4 |
Can't Hardly Wait (1998) |
"The directors get good performances from a talented cast." |
Mick LaSalle |
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Canadian Bacon (1994) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Stack |
Tomato 3/4 |
Candy (2006) |
"For all its depiction of a descent into drug addiction, Candy is filled with surprisingly sweet moments and goes down more easily than seems possible given the subject matter." |
Ruthe Stein |
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Candyman 2 - Farewell to the Flesh (1995) |
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Peter Stack |
Splat 1/4 |
El Cantante (2007) |
"Throughout El Cantante, we're told repeatedly that everybody loves Hector, though why they should love him is a mystery. For fully two-thirds of the film, there isn't enough there either to like or dislike." |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 1/4 |
The Canyon (2009) |
"The best thing about this would-be nature thriller is Will Patton's zesty performance as a cackling, crazed muleskinner, a wily old hand who exits far too soon. There's nothing much to replace him, so we're in for a long 102 minutes." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cape Of Good Hope (2005) |
"[A] warmhearted film ..." |
Ruthe Stein |
Tomato 4/4 |
Capote (2005) |
"Capote is a surprisingly effective and satisfying effort. Hoffman's success in the role goes way beyond the rightness of his casting, just as the movie's triumph goes well beyond Hoffman's tour de force performance." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
Captain Abu Raed (2008) |
"It's a simple story told with dignity and aiming for universal relevance." |
Walter V. Addiego |
Splat 2/4 |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) |
"As wartime weepers go, Captain Corelli's Mandolin has a lot of pluck." |
Bob Graham |
Splat 2/4 |
Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1999) |
"A pedestrian film that provides little more than a superficial treat." |
Jonathan Curiel |
Tomato 4/4 |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"It leaves us puzzling, long after the film has ended, about the Friedmans' strange family dynamics, about the justice system and community that condemned them, about the elusive nature of 'truth.'" |
Edward Guthmann |
Tomato 3/4 |
Caramel (2008) |
"Well-made and modestly enjoyable seriocomedy." |
Walter V. Addiego |
Tomato 3/4 |
Carandiru (2004) |
"One might expect a dreary, depressing film, and to an extent it is, but there are many flashes of lightness, not of humor so much as of simple human vividness, which keeps challenging us to see the prisoners as individuals." |
Mick LaSalle |
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Career Girls (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
Edward Guthmann |
Splat 2/4 |
Carlos Castaneda: Enigma of A Sorcerer (2004) |
"This documentary might have been better off as an audio book." |
Joe Brown |
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Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Stack |
Tomato 4/4 |
Carnage (2003) |
"Funny, ironic (in the best sense of the word), dramatic, sweet and metaphorical, Carnage never lets go of its witty mix." |
Jonathan Curiel |
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Carnivale - The Complete First Season (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Tim Goodman |
Splat 2/4 |
Cars (2006) |
"Cars might get us into car world as a gimmick, but it doesn't get us into car world as a state of mind. Thus, the animation, rather than seeming like an expression of the movie's deeper truth, becomes an impediment to it." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 4/4 |
Cartoon Noir (1999) |
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Edward Guthmann |
Splat 2/4 |
Casa de los Babys (2003) |
"Suggests a filmmaker whose vision has become reductive, motivated not by all-embracing interest but by an ultimately self-protective intent not to surrender to blind emotion in any form." |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 2/4 |
Casanova (2005) |
"Ledger is no Casanova, and the movie is not what it should be, but once that is accepted, the movie can be appreciated for the jolly, lightweight thing it is." |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 1/4 |
Casino (1995) |
"It's an ambitious film, but also a scattered, unfocused one." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 4/4 |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"The striking thing about Craig's performance is that he seems to have been able to tune out over 40 years of screen history and approach Bond as just another role." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
Casper (1995) |
"This doesn't usually happen to me, but 15 minutes before the end of Casper I suddenly realized that if I didn't take a deep breath, I was going to start sobbing." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cassandra's Dream (2008) |
"Allen is notorious for not giving his actors explicit instructions, and yet somehow this worked wonders for Farrell, who has never seemed so naked, so clear and so unencumbered as he does here." |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 1/4 |
Cast Away (2000) |
"Zemeckis is a capable director, so despite the misguided concept, the movie is anything but inept." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Castle (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Stack |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Cat's Meow (2002) |
"Bogdanovich takes a tale of old Hollywood and infuses it with velocity and enthusiasm." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"Noyce's straightforward, almost documentary style is especially effective, considering that so many incidents happened pretty much the way they're portrayed." |
Ruthe Stein |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch and Release (2007) |
"Susannah Grant's movie is rough around the edges, but once you get used to the laconic pace, the plot grooves along nicely." |
Peter Hartlaub |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"The colorful cinematography, smart performances and brisk tempo suggest a filmmaker subordinating every other impulse to the task of manufacturing pleasure." |
Mick LaSalle |
Splat 2/4 |
Catch That Kid (2004) |
"Granted this is a kids' movie and disbelief must be suspended, but director Bart Freundlich never seems to find the tone he wants." |
C.W. Nevius |
Tomato 3/4 |
Caterina in the Big City (2005) |
"A charming and wise film about a teenage girl who moves from the Italian suburbs to the pulsing metropolis that is Rome." |
Mick LaSalle |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (2000) |
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Bob Graham |
Splat 2/4 |
Cats & Dogs (2001) |
"The best way to enjoy Cats & Dogs, like puppy love, is to go into it with lowered expectations." |
Bob Graham |
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Cats Don't Dance (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Stack |
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