Tomato |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"All this music and movement lends the movie a shaggy, Altman-esque texture, a sense that its scope is wider than any one character's story." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Rambo (2008) |
"Rambo combines an unapologetic return to the grand action-movie tradition of blowing **** up with a Saw-era interest in close-ups of human viscera. The problem is that the moral meaning of the gore keeps changing." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"Ratatouille is Brad Bird's best movie yet, and from the writer-director who made two of the best American animated features of the past decade, The Incredibles and the sadly neglected Iron Giant, that's something." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
The Reader (2008) |
"A titillating romance that suddenly morphs into a suspense-free courtroom drama, then trickles off in a wan coda of hand-wringing." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Recount (2008) |
"It grovels for the approval of political junkies while flaunting the shallowest interest in politics, and everything flows from there in the most silly fashion." |
Troy Patterson |
Splat |
The Recruit (2003) |
"A conjurer's trick that delights for about an hour, then spirals into idiocy." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Red Dragon (2002) |
"The beats are the same, but the eerie vibe has been lost in translation." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Red Eye (2005) |
"A minimalist exercise in maximalist suspense." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Reel Paradise (2005) |
"Overlong at nearly two hours but still a sharp and amusing and subtle piece of filmmaking." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Rendition (2007) |
"Rendition's worst flaw is its political deck-stacking, with its willingness to win the viewer's sympathy by showcasing the least defensible instance of extraordinary rendition imaginable." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Rent (2005) |
"It's real -- and, on screen, it's really cringe-worthy. Not quite Phantom of the Opera cringe-worthy, but not as much fun to blow raspberries at, either." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Reprise (2008) |
"As crisp and cool as a swig of Champagne." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Rescue Dawn (2007) |
"If you're looking for a weekend movie that's heart-stoppingly suspenseful and inspiring, as well as brainy, funny, and strange, seek out Rescue Dawn." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Reservation Road (2007) |
"...You resent the manipulative mechanics of the story." |
Dana Stevens |
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Reservoir Dogs (1992) |
Click here to see the review. |
Dennis Lim |
Splat |
Revolutionary Road (2008) |
"Why does the movie feel as pleasantly deadening as the midcentury Connecticut suburb where it takes place?" |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) |
"The way that the screenwriter, Morgan Upton Ward, has shaped the material, Donofrio seems a bystander in her own life, a passive (if seething and resentful) victim of forces beyond her control." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Road (2009) |
"Unless you're far better at walling yourself off from identification than I am, you walk out in a state of untreated shock. Rather than thinking about the movie afterward, you wait for it to wear off." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
The Road to Guantanamo (2006) |
"[An] occasionally murky but always engrossing film." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Robots (2005) |
"The visuals have so much intrinsic motion that it's too bad Robots is oppressively rollercoasterish." |
David Edelstein |
- |
Rocky (1976) |
Click here to see the review. |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Roger Dodger (2002) |
"Even at its grimmest, the movie hums along, thanks to the edgy, hand-held, on-the-fly cinematography and the snappy performances." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Role Models (2008) |
"Like any formula, it can work if done well, and Role Models is strewn with enough serendipities to make it a worthy variation on the dudes-grow-up genre." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) |
"Apart from Hackman, the actors look more trapped by Anderson's rigid framing, color scheme, and enforced deadpan." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
Rudo and Cursi (2009) |
"I won't tell you who wins the Rudo/Cursi showdown, but when it comes to the Cuarón brothers, my money's on Alfonso." |
Dana Stevens |
Tomato |
Run Lola Run (1999) |
"Run Lola Run is more than the sum of its gimmicks: It has a real worldview." |
David Edelstein |
Tomato |
Runaway Jury (2003) |
"In spite of its cheesy plot twists, thoroughly second-rate direction, and criminally wasted ensemble, Runaway Jury adds up to a nice little gotcha! courtroom melodrama." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
The Rundown (2003) |
"The Rundown, like many recent action movies, is aggressively adolescent." |
Michael Agger |
Tomato |
Running with Scissors (2006) |
"By turns cruel, self-pitying, and mordantly witty, [Bening] makes living with a delusional psychotic seem like the adventure of a lifetime." |
Dana Stevens |
Splat |
Rushmore (1998) |
"What I wanted was a larger perspective, something more insightful than the one-thing-after-another existential whimsy." |
David Edelstein |
Splat |
RV (2006) |
"RV is another disturbing entry in the dark cycle of movies that began for Robin Williams with One Hour Photo and Insomnia. I look forward with queasy dread to what he'll do in Mrs. Doubtfire 2." |
Grady Hendrix |
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