Splat |
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"... it's not very good -- long (2hr.32min.) and mostly inert." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Dan in Real Life (2007) |
"Now, everybody knows that Steve Carell is lovable." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
The Dancer Upstairs (2003) |
"It is really quite wonderful, in the age of hyperkinetic thrillers, to encounter a movie that takes the time to record the play of thought and emotion in its characters, to let their conflicts develop in a natural and unforced way." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Dances with Wolves (1990) |
"As a director, Costner is alive to the sweep of the country and the expansive spirit of the western-movie tradition." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Dark City (1998) |
"...a reminder of how sensuous a visual trip movie watching can be." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"The Dark Knight is bound to haunt you long after you've told yourself, Aah, it's only a comic-book movie." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
David and Lisa (1962) |
"Deeply touching." |
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De-Lovely (2004) |
"You enter a movie with that title, prepared to be enchanted. You straggle out a couple of hours later, lost in a fog of gloom." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Dead Man Walking (1995) |
"Its final moments leave us awash in emotion." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Death at a Funeral (2007) |
"Insanely funny, if occasionally out-of-control, black farce." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
The Deep End (2001) |
"Elegantly made, romantically doomy, curiously affecting." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
The Deer Hunter (1978) |
"This excruciatingly violent, three-hour Viet Nam saga demolishes the moral and ideological cliches of an era: it shoves the audience into hell and leaves it stranded without a map." |
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Tomato |
Defiance (2008) |
"It's a pretty good movie -- a bold, uneasy mix of romance, political debate and vigorous action." |
Richard Corliss |
Splat |
Definitely, Maybe (2008) |
"It is, I suppose, a premise, of sorts, but as writer-director Adam Brooks's Definitely, Maybe galumphs along, it is not a particularly romantic or comedic one." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Deliver Us From Evil (2006) |
"It cries from and for the hearts of victims and leaves its viewers moved, shattered, outraged. And impotent in the face of the ugliness visited on the souls of good and innocent people." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Deliverance (1972) |
"Each of the four lead performances is exceptional, none more so than Burt Reynolds' beefy, supercilious Lewis." |
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Tomato |
The Descent (2006) |
"Marshall could very well be the Caravaggio of the B-movie." |
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Tomato |
Il Deserto Rosso (1964) |
"Red Desert is at once the most beautiful, the most simple and the most daring film yet made by Italy's masterful Michelangelo Antonioni." |
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Tomato |
Dial M for Murder (1954) |
"The fun of Dial M lies in its duel of wits..." |
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Tomato |
Diamonds Are Forever (1971) |
"Bond looks better than ever, partly because Sean Connery has returned to play him." |
Jay Cocks |
Splat |
Die Hard (1988) |
"In the first half of Director John McTiernan's movie, Willis wears an undershirt. In the second half he gets rid of it. And that's pretty much it for his performance." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007) |
"It is a movie born to be forgotten-except as something that against your better judgment, you had a pretty good time watching back in the summer of '07." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
District 9 (2009) |
"If you're looking for the late-summer special-effects action fantasy with big franchise potential, forget about G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. (You already forgot? Fine.) Instead, proceed directly to District 9." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
District B13 (2006) |
"Let's put the matter simply: The French thriller District B13 makes everything Hollywood has lately done in the action genre look clumsy, dull and stale." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato 4/5 |
Divided We Fall (2001) |
"A lovely movie, one that allows its characters unexpected spurts of growth and regression, darkness and grace." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) |
"[Director Julian] Schnabel has an alert, imaginative and unsentimental cinematic eye." |
Richard Schickel |
Splat |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) |
"As a writer, I admire it greatly...As a moviegoer I'm less certain about the movie's effectiveness." |
Susan Jakes |
Splat |
Do the Right Thing (1989) |
"Lee cagily provides a litmus test for racial attitudes in 1989, but he does so by destroying the integrity of his characters, black and white." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Doctor Zhivago (1965) |
"Literate, oldfashioned, soul-filling and thoroughly romantic." |
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Tomato |
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) |
"[Pacino] gives an electric performance, charged with a lunatic energy that expertly captures the weird blend of confidence and self-deprecation (if not hatred) that marks the paranoid syndrome." |
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Splat |
Dogville (2003) |
"It's a brilliant idea, for about 10 minutes. Then the bare set is elbowed out of a viewer's mind by the threadbare plot and characterizations." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Don't Look Now (1974) |
"Uses the occult and the inexplicable as Henry James did: to penetrate the subconscious, to materialize phantoms from the psyche." |
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Tomato |
The Doom Generation (1995) |
"Not every kid may be as mad and morose as Araki's lost boys... But a lot are, and in this fevered fantasy of Armageddon, he's got their number." |
Richard Corliss |
Splat |
The Doors (1991) |
"The film really proves only that Jim was a bad drunk and a worse friend, and that in no way was his life exemplary." |
Richard Schickel |
Splat |
Down With Love (2003) |
"We want to love it, but like a Rock Hudson rake, we keep finding fault in its allure. We want to hate it, but like Doris Day, we finally can't say no." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008) |
"The movie proves a funny, elevating ride that should beguile the young and keep their parents or grandparents enthralled too. For once, the G rating stands for Glorious." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Dracula (1931) |
"An exciting melodrama, not as good as it ought to be but a cut above the ordinary trapdoor-and-winding-sheet type of mystery film." |
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Tomato |
Drag Me To Hell (2009) |
"Inspired by the tone of B-movie scare epics of the '50s, they've made a slick, mostly predictable homage-pastiche that itself rates about a B-." |
Richard Corliss |
Splat |
The Dreamers (2004) |
"Grim and joyless." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Dreamgirls (2006) |
"It's great to see a movie musical with a smart sense of the genre." |
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Splat |
Drillbit Taylor (2008) |
"Given the uninventive, not to say downright repetitive nature of the narrative, about all Drillbit has going for it is Wilson's star presence. Or should we say his often agreeable lack of presence." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Driving Miss Daisy (1989) |
"Alfred Uhry's adaptation of his Pulitzer-prizewinning play aspires more to complex observation of human behavior than to simple moralism about it. Precisely because it has its priorities straight, it succeeds superbly on both levels." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Dumbo (1941) |
"Although Dumbo offers no startling innovations in animated cartooning, it is probably Disney's best all-round picture to date." |
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