Splat 2/5 |
The Tailor of Panama (2001) |
"When the revolution turns real, the film finally collapses under the burden of implausibility." |
Richard Schickel |
Splat |
Taken (2009) |
"If a movie's high points are a quick smack of carnage and a steely speech that everyone's already seen in the trailer, you know it must be January." |
Richard Corliss |
Splat |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"Lee's first total miscalculation, his first wholly inessential film." |
Richard and Mary Corliss |
Tomato |
Talk to Me (2007) |
"A very honest yet curiously affecting experience." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) |
"A comedy with horsepower to spare." |
Steven Snyder |
Splat |
Targets (1968) |
"The endlessly repetitive fusillades suggest that Writer-Director Peter Bogdanovich, in his first film, was really intent on creating the most prolific murderer in Hollywood's long history of violence. Unfortunately, it is a record made to be broken." |
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Tomato |
Tarzan (1999) |
"Disney's animators triumph by turning the ape-man into a questing kid with a surfer's agility and an identity crisis!" |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Taste of Cherry (1997) |
"The talk flows persuasively; the picture pulses with art and humanity." |
Richard Corliss |
Splat |
Taxi Driver (1976) |
"[Scorsese] seems to need scripts with well-designed humor and performers with the spirit of Ellen Burstyn to compensate for what seems to be a fundamentally depressed view of life and the belief that sobriety is the equivalent of seriousness." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Teacher's Pet (2004) |
"As CGI cartooning takes over the world Teacher's Pet finds a fresh and frisky approach to doing things the old, Walt way." |
Richard Corliss |
Splat |
The Terminal (2004) |
"A bad film. Several bad films, actually." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
The Terminator (1984) |
"As for Schwarzenegger, he nicely fleshes out the convention of a soulless gun for hire. With his choppy hair, cryptic shades and state-of-the-'80s leather ensemble, he looks like the Incredible Hulk gone punk." |
Richard Corliss |
Splat |
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) |
"A humongous, visionary parable that intermittently enthralls and ultimately disappoints. T2 is half of a terrific movie -- the wrong half." |
Richard Corliss |
Splat |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"McG knows how to slap an audience into awed submission. But at a certain point, you may feel so pummeled that you check out and begin pondering things like the time-travel question." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato |
Terms of Endearment (1983) |
"Its quirky rhythms and veering emotional tones are very much its own, and they owe less to movie tradition than they do to a sense of how the law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective." |
Richard Schickel |
Splat |
Tetro (2009) |
"The movie plays not like an old man's film but like a promising, frustrating student effort." |
Richard Corliss |
Splat |
That Thing You Do! (1996) |
"...a movie that, like many a pop tune, has a cute idea but a simpleminded lyric." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"Writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky tells [this story] with cool wit and subtle tension." |
Richard Schickel |
Splat |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) |
"... must be the worst major release in what may be the most disastrous year in recent Hollywood history." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Thelma & Louise (1991) |
"Scott has balanced action, comedy and doomy subtext to create a morally firm yet very entertaining fable that reaches out to an audience far larger than its natural feminist constituency." |
Richard Schickel |
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There Will Be Blood (2007) |
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Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
There's Something About Mary (1998) |
"There's plenty to enjoy in the performances." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006) |
"... a jazzy jeremiad that dances around the whole dilemma of ratings." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
This Is Spinal Tap (1984) |
"For all its japes and jokes, the movie is really about exhaustion of the spirit: sitting in a bleak hotel suite at 4 a.m. with the bad taste of last night in the mouth and the feeling that tomorrow will not be a better day." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) |
"It's worth a wary look before it attains midnight cult-movie status." |
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Splat |
The Three Caballeros (1945) |
"That rare event, a Disney failure." |
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Tomato |
Thunderball (1965) |
"If Thunderball's gimmickry seems to overreach at times, Actor Connery gains assurance from film to film, by now delivers all his soppiest Jimcracks martini-dry." |
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Tomato |
Time and Tide (2001) |
"The movie-est movie of the year." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
A Time to Kill (1996) |
"A likable -- maybe even lovable -- movie." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) |
"For viewers aching for a romantic drama that leaves them emotionally, honorably exhausted, this could prove a total immersion in star-crossed love, if not perfect synchronicity." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Tin Cup (1996) |
"As he always does in comedy, Costner grants an irresistible gleam of gallantry to male mulishness." |
Richard Schickel |
Splat |
Titanic (1997) |
"The regretful verdict here: dead in the water." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
To Be or Not to Be (1942) |
"To Be is a very funny comedy, salted to taste with melodrama and satire." |
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Tomato 4.5/5 |
Together (2001) |
"A sad, funny, always good-natured film." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Tom Jones (1963) |
"The film is a way-out, walleyed, wonderful exercise in cinema. It is also a social satire written in blood with a broadaxe. It is bawdy as the British were bawdy when a wench had to wear five petticoats to barricade her virtue." |
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Tomato |
Tootsie (1982) |
"It is not just the best comedy of the year; it is popular art on the way to becoming cultural artifact." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Top Hat (1935) |
"Finally, thanks more to Fred Astaire than any other single influence, the character of musicomedy in the cinema has now completely changed." |
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Tomato |
Topper (1937) |
"Signalizes [Roach's] entry into full-length sophistication." |
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Tomato |
Topsy-Turvy (1999) |
"There is a sense of real, very Mike Leighish, life in this film that darkens and transforms it. And transfixes us." |
Richard Schickel |
Splat |
The Touch (1971) |
"When a film of Bergman's does not measure up to the exacting standards he has set for himself, the disappointment may be slightly disproportionate. It is not any the less acute." |
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Tomato |
Toy Story (1995) |
"The year's most inventive comedy." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Toy Story 2 (1999) |
"Pixar's improved computer animation is up to all the demands of this excellent adventure." |
Richard Schickel |
Tomato |
Trading Places (1983) |
"Trading Places also makes Eddie Murphy a force to be reckoned with." |
Richard Schickel |
Splat 3/5 |
Traffic (2000) |
"It leaves one feeling restless and dissatisfied." |
Richard Schickel |
Splat |
Transformers (2007) |
"Divorced from reality, even movie reality, Transformers becomes an action film in traction. Its relentless product placement makes it seem like a 2hr. 22min. General Motors commercial. And the film has just enough collisions to be a crashing bore." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) |
"Treasure of Sierra Madre is one of the best things Hollywood has done since it learned to talk; and the movie can take a place, without blushing, among the best ever made." |
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Tomato |
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) |
"A sober and reasonably truthful story of life among the lowly." |
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Tomato |
The Triplets of Belleville (2003) |
"Vous guessed it by now: Triplettes is terrific." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Tropic Thunder (2008) |
"A parody of war movies and a pinprick in the helium balloon of Hollywood egos." |
Richard Corliss |
Tomato |
Trouble in Paradise (1932) |
"Trouble in Paradise is a triumph of direction and decor which could have been accomplished only by that scowling, heavy-jowled Teuton who is Paramount's chief contribution to the civilized cinema, Ernst Lubitsch." |
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