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The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"Howard takes a strangely respectful approach to the overheated mysticism of the novel, turning the film into that most boring of genres: the pious blockbuster." |
Dana Stevens |
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Daredevil (2003) |
"Kind of lousy." |
David Edelstein |
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The Darjeeling Limited (2007) |
"Maybe Anderson needs to shoot someone else's screenplay, to get outside his own head for a while and into another's sensibility. It's telling that his funniest and liveliest recent work was a commercial for American Express." |
Dana Stevens |
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Dark Blue (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Edelstein |
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The Dark Knight (2008) |
"Slate's Movie Club Looks Back at 2008" |
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The Dark Knight (2008) |
"For all The Dark Knight's occasionally bombastic excess, it sort of does top them all, and not only in star power and sheer number of things blown up." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Dark Water (2005) |
"This is an eerie, relentlessly grim, invasive little movie -- a tone poem of despair that seeps into you like the damp." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Darkon (2007) |
"Joins the ranks of movies like Hoop Dreams and Murderball as one of the great documentary dissections of how Americans play." |
Grady Hendrix |
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004) |
"It's just so very bad." |
David Edelstein |
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Days of Glory (1944) |
Click here to see the review. |
Dana Stevens |
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Deadwood - The Complete First Season (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Matthew Feeney |
Tomato |
Death & Texas (2004) |
"[A] magnificent piece of agitprop." |
Bryan Curtis |
Tomato |
Death Defying Acts (2008) |
"All a 'what if' movie needs to win me over are some lush costumes and production design, a smart casting choice or two, and a really ridiculous basic idea. Death Defying Acts obliges on all fronts." |
Dana Stevens |
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Death of a President (2006) |
"Just as the ducks get lined up in a row and we're ready for the movie to reveal its true purpose -- Political satire? Paranoid dystopian fantasy? Apologia for the Bush administration? -- we suddenly realize it has none." |
Dana Stevens |
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Death Proof (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Dennis Lim |
Tomato |
Dedication (2007) |
"It leaves you wishing the oddball couple well." |
Dana Stevens |
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The Deep End (2001) |
"Has a cool, glassy appeal -- but then, so does a fish tank." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Deliver Us From Evil (2006) |
"It's a howl of rage and a keen-eyed study of a subject that, unfortunately, never stops being news: the way institutional power acts as a shield under whose cover the strong can abuse the weak." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
The Departed (2006) |
"It's a stylish head rush of a movie that flies by, even at two-and-a-half hours, and keeps turning the knife (and your stomach) up to the final scene." |
Dana Stevens |
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Desperate Housewives - The Complete First Season (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Matthew Feeney |
Tomato |
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) |
"The Devil Wears Prada is a movie that revels in pleasure: the pleasure of fashion, of luxury, of power and ambition. It's also a tremendous pleasure to watch." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Diamond Men (2001) |
"Cohen doesn't fall into the Mamet trap of equating crafty salesmanship with macho flim-flam." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Dick (1999) |
"This modest movie offers a convincing vision of Nixon White House operations as a sordid buffoon show undone by a couple of painfully earnest innocents." |
David Edelstein |
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Dick (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Sasha Issenberg |
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Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003) |
"Just a platform for Spade to tell smutty jokes to kids, fall off bicycles, puncture waterbeds, and, oh yes, learn the real meaning of family." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Die Another Day (2002) |
"That this Bond will be smarter is clear from its title sequence, which leaves you both shaken and stirred." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007) |
"It has enough mind-blowing stunts to leave audience members walking out and inventing obscenity-laced catchphrases of their own." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
DIG! (2004) |
"The movie has become a kind of highway-safety film for the rock community." |
James Barber |
Tomato |
Dinner Rush (2001) |
"A marvelously nasty comedy." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Dirty Pretty Things (2003) |
"Dirty Pretty Things doesn't quite cut to the bone, but it gets as far as a couple of vital organs." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) |
"How they made it into this Disney adaptation unprettified is a Christmas miracle in itself." |
Dana Stevens |
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District 9 (2009) |
"As an allegory of racial conflict and mass immigration, District 9 never really goes anywhere: The appealing premise fades into the background before 20 minutes have elapsed." |
Daniel Engber |
Tomato |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) |
"With the help of brilliant French actor Mathieu Amalric, Spielberg's longtime cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, and screenwriter Ronald Harwood, Schnabel has made a marvelous film that uses images with as much grace and flair as Bauby used words." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) |
"Just watching grown-ups get bombarded by rubber balls, you know? Makes me feel 12 again." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Dogma (1999) |
"Supremely moving!" |
David Edelstein |
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Dogville (2003) |
"The politics of Dogville are on par with a third-rate gangster picture: cheap, opportunistic nihilism, with no enlivening sense of humor." |
David Edelstein |
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Domestic Violence (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005) |
"It's a good, thoughtful horror picture -- and thiiis close to being a very good one." |
David Edelstein |
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Domino (2005) |
"Manages the feat of literally spelling things out and being utterly incoherent." |
David Edelstein |
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Don't Say a Word (2001) |
"A big, noisy mess, with a howler at its center." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Doubt (2008) |
"Cinematically, Doubt is something of a dud. But if it remains a play, it's an ingeniously structured one, with smart, thought-provoking words spoken by fabulous actors." |
Dana Stevens |
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Down to Earth (2001) |
"The makers of Down to Earth were faced with a dilemma nobody would have anticipated: Boosting their star's screen time kills the comedy." |
Matthew Feeney |
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Down With Love (2003) |
"After 10 minutes of getting poked in the ribs with every shot, I thought, 'Is it going to be like this for 90 minutes?'" |
David Edelstein |
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Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003) |
"One of the most repulsive kiddie movies ever made." |
David Edelstein |
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Dreamcatcher (2003) |
"King is dreamily free-associating, which doesn't mean he's plumbing his unconscious in search of new nightmare archetypes; it means he's recycling bits of old horror and sci-fi flicks and even setups from his own novels." |
David Edelstein |
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The Dreamers (2004) |
"It's possible that the NC-17 has never been used to such PG-13 ends." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Dreamgirls (2006) |
"Watching Dreamgirls on the big screen feels like an event somehow. Maybe it's the conviction and passion that the actors bring to their roles." |
Dana Stevens |
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Drillbit Taylor (2008) |
"In Drillbit Taylor, produced by Judd Apatow, co-written by Seth Rogen and Kristofor Brown, and starring Owen Wilson, the career trajectories of three comic talents converge to dispiriting effect." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005) |
"A decent-enough rambunctious Southern-drive-in sort of time-waster." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Duma (2005) |
"I like it. Maybe not as much as those other pictures, but enough to bemoan a system in which family films have been so geared to kids (and their parents) with a kind of attention deficit disorder that it's inhospitable to a measured piece of storytelling." |
David Edelstein |
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