Splat |
I Am Legend (2007) |
"A big part of the reason for this movie's nose dive around the one-hour mark is that, seen up close, the Infected just aren't that scary." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
I Am Sam (2002) |
"On one level, I Am Sam is a crock, but on another, more vital one, it's very, very sweet." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"The movie fails, I'm convinced, because it approaches the problem philosophically instead of psychologically." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
I Love You, Man (2009) |
"Though the script doesn't always rise to their level, I Love You, Man is more than worth seeing for the chemistry between the shambling Segel and the endlessly inventive Rudd." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
I Think I Love My Wife (2007) |
"The most shocking thing about I Think I Love My Wife isn't the language, the sex, or the racial humor. It's the fact that it's not a funny movie. At all." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2007) |
"There's a genuine (and distinctly un-Larry Davidesque) sweetness to his [Jeff Garlin's] quest for love." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
I'm Not There (2007) |
"Even if you're one of those viewers who finds Haynes an overly cerebral director (I'm not), [the] music provides an emotional scaffolding that sustains the film." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
I, Robot (2004) |
"Ring-a-ding dull." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Idlewild (2006) |
"If, like me, you like OutKast just fine but staggered out of Moulin Rouge reeling from the quick-cut-induced nausea, you'll leave Idlewild tapping your toe and scratching your head at the same time." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
The Illusionist (2006) |
"It's an exquisitely crafted period picture that keeps promising more and more as it goes along -- smarter ideas, richer themes, spookier plot twists -- and keeps delivering on every promise, right up until the rug-pulling and overly hasty final sequence." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
In America (2003) |
"Not everything is possible in Sheridan's America. But with this cast, In America, everything is beautiful." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
In Bruges (2008) |
"Overplotted, choppy, and contrived, it nonetheless has a curious vitality that makes you wonder where McDonagh will go next." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
In Good Company (2004) |
"It manages to be funny and charming while capturing a lot of disturbing things about the way we live now: our deepest fears about our place in a system that could force us to clean out our desks (if we even have desks) at the drop of a stock point." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
In My Country (2005) |
"See In My Country anyway, because it's doubtful we'll get another movie too soon that raises the issue of vengeance versus forgiveness -- and endorses the latter in the name of a nation's spiritual well-being." |
David Edelstein |
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In the Bedroom (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
In the Company of Men (1997) |
"A dazzling, repellent exercise in which the case against men is closed before it's opened." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
In the Loop (2009) |
"The first successful satire inspired by the Iraq war comes not from the country that started it, but from the sceptered isle that was our most important ally." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
In the Valley of Elah (2007) |
"This is no doubt the first of many movies that will struggle to tell the stories of a war that's far from over, and even if the tale is imperfectly told, it commands our attention." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
"Why remake a crappy movie five years later if it's only going to be marginally less crappy?" |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
The Incredibles (2004) |
"Made with so much wit, such cinematic savvy, and such a brilliant instinct for the way real bodies move through space, that it has more ontological authenticity than a lot of films featuring people who actually exist." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
"Expecting Brando-esque menace or Dreyfus-ian uplift from the Indiana Jones tetralogy is like going to the candy counter at the mall multiplex and asking for some goat cheese and a nice cabernet." |
Dana Stevens |
- |
Infernal Affairs (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
The Informant! (2009) |
"Mark's collection of bizarre behaviors doesn't add up to a character." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Inglourious Basterds (2009) |
"Tarantino's signature nastiness and his juvenile delight in shocking the audience undercut the movie's larger purpose." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Inland Empire (2006) |
"The effect, after an hour or two, begins to resemble a very anxiety-fraught session of watching music videos on MTV." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Inside Deep Throat (2005) |
"It's extremely entertaining." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Inside Man (2006) |
"Inside Man is adult, contemporary, and completely relaxed." |
Grady Hendrix |
Splat |
The Interpreter (2005) |
"Too bloated with its own significance to deliver the requisite thrills." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Into the Wild (2007) |
"Penn performs one bit of sleight-of-hand on the book that's borderline unforgivable." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) |
"No different from most of the other dumb slapstick spoofs that pass for screwball comedy these days." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Invasion (2007) |
"It falls far short as an effective sci-fi thriller, not to mention the brainy political allegory it's determined to be." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
The Invention of Lying (2009) |
"Despite the ambitious scope of its premise, this confounding, disappointing and, in the end, depressing movie is content to devote 80 percent of its screen time to wondering who gets to kiss the girl." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Invictus (2009) |
"Freeman-as-Mandela is an actor all dressed up with no place to go -- at least, nowhere we didn't already know he was headed." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
The Invisible Circus (2001) |
"The film is overnarrated and in spots overwritten, but Brooks ... does well with actors, and he has coaxed an extraordinary performance out of the young Jordana Brewster." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Irma Vep (1996) |
"Irma Vep's director, Olivier Assayas, evinces a love of the process that's nearly as palpable as Truffaut's." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Iron Man (2008) |
"This middle section, in which the newly energized Tony tinkers with his emerging superpowers like a kid in shop class, is the movie's finest and funnest hour." |
Dana Stevens |
- |
Iron Man (2008) |
Click here to see the review. |
Grady Hendrix |
Tomato |
Iron Monkey (1993) |
"A rollicking, comic-book Robin Hood plot and more furiously entertaining fight scenes than the ones in Ang Lee's solemn martial-arts art movie." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Irreversible (2003) |
"There is nothing moral about Irreversible -- only sneeringly superior and nihilistic, like Johnny Rotten at his most fatuous." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
It's Complicated (2009) |
"Beneath this movie's gleaming high-end surfaces beats the heart of a classic screwball comedy." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
The Italian (2007) |
"The Italian is an aesthetic gem, but a moral muddle." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
The Italian Job (2003) |
"A pandering, debased, generic little nothing of a movie. And I'm still trying to figure out why I loved it so inordinately." |
David Edelstein |
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