Splat 2/4 |
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006) |
"You leave a viewing with a sense of utter defeat. I can envision a future DVD special edition that comes with a razor blade, to facilitate wrist slashing." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"As fascinating and intelligent as the movie is, A Scanner Darkly leaves you wishing it might have actually been less faithful in word, and more in spirit, to Philip K. Dick's universe of bugged-out paranoid weirdness." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
A Stone's Throw (2006) |
"Strong performances across the board help smooth out the bumps. A Stone's Throw is a welcome sign that environmental concerns need not be consigned to the realm of documentary film." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"The real joy of the movie for me, and why I recommend it despite everything, was watching Spielberg salute Kubrick, his friend and mentor, while at the same time defy him." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Abandon (2002) |
"The title helpfully offers the most succinct review of it you'll read anywhere." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
About a Boy (2002) |
"About A Boy measures out its redemption, but it's keenly felt all the same, and very much enjoyed." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
About Adam (2001) |
"Townsend ... makes quite an impression in the title role." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"A road trip of self-discovery, by turns hilarious and poignant, for a man unexpectedly at odds with the tiny world he has so laboriously made." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Accepted (2006) |
"Here's the final mystery about Accepted: Why title a movie that so readily invites the headline Rejected as a critical riposte?" |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"You'd have been better off sampling the brown acid at Woodstock than risking brain cells on Across the Universe, the bizarrely ornate nail Julie Taymor hammers into the Beatles' coffin." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Adam (2009) |
"The film rides on Dancy's wonderfully authentic performance." |
Bruce Demara |
Splat 2/5 |
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
"Sandler is remaining true to his own traditions, although it remains to be seen whether anyone will thank him for that once they've seen the movie." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
Adaptation (2002) |
"What Adaptation nails about writing is the soul-splitting duality of it: The combination of arrogance and neediness, of ego and insecurity, of the writer's lonely inertia with the romantic grandiosity of what they create." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adoration (2009) |
"Egoyan draws strong performances from the entire cast, including a solid performance from Scott Speedman, sporting a heavy beard, as the uncle raising the orphaned Simon, a sort of everyman embodying Western liberalism who is flawed by his own insularity." |
Bruce Demara |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adrift in Tokyo (2009) |
"It takes a while to get to its destination, but the journey is a memorable one thanks to the film's charmingly odd sensibility and the affable rapport between our two travelers." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Adventureland is what you might call stealth comedy. The laughs are few but they sneak up on you and really deliver." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/5 |
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) |
"There is nothing redeeming about this movie." |
Daphne Gordon |
Splat |
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) |
"The Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle is yet another flawed attempt to turn an ancient TV cartoon into a contemporary live-action movie." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
"Shark Boy and Lava Girl have about as much appeal as a dogfish and a melting Barbie doll." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/5 |
After the Sunset (2004) |
"One of the most lackadaisical Hollywood projects of the year." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"Even when [Bier's] movie ventures in deepest contrivance it pulls you along like a willing puppy on a gently tugged leash." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
Against the Ropes (2003) |
"Bathos wrapped in a formulaic screenplay bolstered with cliches, not only about the boxing world but about tough women and the men who hate them." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 4/5 |
Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
"Agent Cody Banks provides the kind of high-quality entertainment one would expect in an adult action adventure that is expected to rake in major bucks." |
Daphne Gordon |
Tomato 3/5 |
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
"Here's just about everything a 6-year-old spy would hope to find in a kiddie-espionage flick, with just a twinge of romance, but nothing serious to interrupt Cody's undoubtedly continuing career." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Agronomist (2004) |
"A portrait of an optimist in a time of despair." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
"As dumb as the idea of grown men dressing up and pretending to play guitar may be, there's no arguing that some of these grown men do so with a truly awesome degree of energy and flair." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"The latest spelling bee movie is a Starbucks Entertainment product, and it has a made-to-order feel about it, kind of like a compilation album." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/5 |
The Alamo (2004) |
"Although handsomely mounted, and boasting some historically immaculate dressing and impressive battle sequences, it's a movie that ultimately can't convincingly get behind the idea of sacrifice." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
Alex and Emma (2003) |
"A movie within a movie that proves two halves don't always make a whole." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) |
"With all the charm of the early James Bond movies and all the heart-stopping chase scenes of the contemporary spy series ... Alex Rider heaves into view as a reluctant, but thrilling young spy." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 1/5 |
Alexander (2004) |
"Not just a bad movie but a bad movie of truly epic proportions." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
Alexandra's Project (2005) |
"It's a movie that will leave few men unrattled and many women vicariously satisfied." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
Alfie (2004) |
"Back in the mid-1960s, Alfie Elkins was one of the reasons a women's liberation movement was necessary. Today, he's just another bad date with a surplus of personal grooming products." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
Ali (2001) |
"A movie that, at its best, is as brashly eloquent in cinematic expression as Ali was with his fists." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/5 |
Alias Betty (2002) |
"While laterally propelled films like this are often exercises in structural cleverness, Miller's movie makes organic use of its incidental associations." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Alice's House (2007) |
"Nothing much happens in Alice's House, and a turning point in the plot is terribly contrived, but as sociology and maybe even a pilot for a soap serial, the movie is worth a look." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/5 |
Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
"The film equivalent of a deep-fried Mars bar: an interesting combination that results in a gloppy mess." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Aliens in the Attic (2009) |
"A forgettable bit of fluff that will zip out of your orbit as soon as the credits roll." |
Linda Barnard |
Splat 2/5 |
Alila (2004) |
"It's a bit of a mess." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 3/5 |
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2002) |
"For all of its insights into the dream world of teen life, and its electronic expression through cyber culture, the film gives no quarter to anyone seeking to pull a cohesive story out of its 2 1/2-hour running time." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
All About the Benjamins (2002) |
"Goes a long way on hedonistic gusto." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
All Hat (2007) |
"The plot is reasonably convincing, the pace tight, the laid-back score of jazz guitar and harmonica suitable to a film about country living, in which blood and gore are conspicuously absent." |
Philip Marchand |
Splat 1.5/4 |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"All the King's Men was suspended in editing limbo for nearly a year, and the final result only makes the mind reel at what it could have been carved from." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat |
All the Pretty Horses (2000) |
"Lovely but disengaging, mysterious but uninvolving, physical but strangely remote." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/5 |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"Green confirms his status as the most atmospherically distinctive American movie director since Paul Thomas Anderson." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
All Together Now (2008) |
"All Together Now enthrals. It also makes you want to fly to Las Vegas immediately and buy a ticket to LOVE." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato |
Almost Famous (2000) |
"The message is as stillwater clear as it is irresistibly romantic. By virtue of its transcendent graces, music pulls us above the din of our own pettiness." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/4 |
Alone in the Dark (2005) |
"Alone in the Dark is so awful, anyone who spends 10 bucks seeing it ought to get 11 bucks change and a written apology from the director and cast." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
Along Came a Spider (2001) |
"Gets tangled in its own web of absurdities." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"A lighthearted, lead-footed romantic comedy of the post-Farrelly sentimental yuckfest school." |
Geoff Pevere |
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