Tomato 3/4 |
'Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris (2007) |
" It gives us a glimpse back to a time when hepcats were cool and jazz was king, reminding us that the power of great music transcends time, fate, exile and even death." |
Bruce Demara |
Splat 1/4 |
10,000 B.C. (2008) |
"This much-delayed film cries out for consideration for Worst CGI, Most Annoying Narrator, Lamest Dialogue and Dumbest Action Hero." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
101 Reykjavik (2001) |
"A times as flatly deadpan as Hylner, at others as passionately eccentric as Abril's Lola, 101 Reykjavik is at least dedicatedly unexpected." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat |
102 Dalmatians (2000) |
"Moviegoers have a right to expect the sequel to be more than just a reheated serving of the same old kibble." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The 11th Hour (2007) |
"If Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was a warning, The 11th Hour is the red alert." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/4 |
12 (2007) |
"After weathering the characters' windbaggery for nearly three hours, it's hard not to feel like Mikhalkov's done the same to viewers of 12." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
12 and Holding (2006) |
"Cuesta entices extraordinary performances out of his young actors." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"A lot fresher than its premise, largely because of the terrific casting." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
13 Tzameti (2006) |
"Easier to admire than it is to sit through, the French film 13 (Tzameti) is an exercise in stylish depravity that may one day be viewed as the debut of a great filmmaker." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
1408 (2007) |
"Even as haunted hotel King movies go, 1408 is certainly no Shining. Not even the TV-movie version." |
Rob Salem |
Splat |
15 Minutes (2001) |
"Warhol's statement was just a one-liner, and a movie requires more than that to run two hours." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"No wonder the trip takes so long: 16 Blocks insists on taking only the most heavily travelled routes." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
17 Again (2009) |
"17 Again makes Xeroxes look original." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
19 Months (2002) |
"A smart script driving some intense performances." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"How could we possibly reconnect with the primal urges of speed-demon street racers, without Vin's din? The answer, in two words: Vroom. Vroom." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/4 |
2012 (2009) |
"Perhaps writer-director Roland Emmerich was hoping for a so-bad-it's-good cult status with his latest disaster flick." |
Linda Barnard |
Tomato 3/4 |
2046 (2005) |
"It is best to think of 2046 as a series of short stories, pulp fiction penned by a master mood-setter." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
21 (2008) |
"When Spacey and Fishburne really go at each other, 21 finally starts to add up to something." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
21 Grams (2003) |
"This is cinematic storytelling of a very high order, and the clear work of a moviemaker who has almost instantly established himself as a force to be reckoned with." |
Geoff Pevere |
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24 - Season 1 (2001) |
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Antonia Zerbisias |
Tomato 3/4 |
24 City (2009) |
"The boom-and-bust cycle that afflicts company towns in capitalist countries also dogs the state-run cogmakers, as Chinese auteur Jia Zhang-ke lyrically depicts in 24 City, an ode to changing times." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"Winterbottom captures the spirit of the times, although the film's camera shakes and psychedelic colour bursts may make many viewers feel like reaching for Gravol rather than Ecstasy." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
25th Hour (2002) |
"25th Hour has a lot of problems, but chief amongst them is the persistent feeling that Lee is just treading water, by trading on past glories and larding in celebrity appearances in the hope of actually selling a few tickets for a change." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
27 Dresses (2008) |
"Anyone who has the slightest doubt about where this movie is heading probably leads a full and rich life that doesn't include watching romantic comedies like My Best Friend's Wedding, which covered this same ground with a lot more verve and humour." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
28 Days (2000) |
"If I haven't said much about what actually happens in 28 Days it's because, trust me, you know what happens." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"Director Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland have rebounded smartly from the bloated Leonardo DiCaprio debacle that was The Beach, their previous collaboration." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"A fiercely effective broadening and deepening of the first movie's premise." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
3 Needles (2006) |
"The film is unfocussed and listless. Fitzgerald has the ideas; what he needs more than anything is a ruthless editor." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
3-Iron (2005) |
"Moves from a strangely spiritual reality to a really strange spirituality -- and leaves its best parts behind." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
30 Days of Night (2007) |
"It's clear the film script has gone through the standard Hollywood death-of-a-thousand-rewrites wringer to emerge as shadow of its former self, drained of much of its creative synergy." |
Bruce Demara |
Tomato 3/4 |
300 (2007) |
"It's most definitely a Spartan movie, yet it's really all about wretched excess." |
Peter Howell |
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3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/4 |
3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
"James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma, an old-school Western updated for modern mores and tastes, pays due homage to its 1957 predecessor." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/4 |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) |
"4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days unspools as dispassionately as a security camera video. There are no judgments rendered here, only truths that arise from harrowing insights." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) |
"It does nothing to challenge the self-centredness of the smug little world it depicts, and everything to endorse it." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat .5/4 |
40 Is the New 20 (2009) |
"40 is the New 20 is a day late, a dollar short and terrible in between." |
Linda Barnard |
Tomato 3/4 |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) |
"The 40 Year-Old Virgin speaks to the geek in us all, it's democratic in its ridicule, and it makes you understand why sometimes a guy just wants to stay home and talk to his toys." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The 4th Life (2008) |
"Perhaps the other three lives were better." |
Linda Barnard |
Splat 2/5 |
50 First Dates (2004) |
"If there's one thing to commend in 50 First Dates, apart from the finest walrus performances this side of Marineland, it's Barrymore, whose irrepressible cheerfulness and buoyancy at least makes Henry's motivation anything but mysterious." |
Geoff Pevere |
- |
50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
500 Days of Summer (2009) |
"Falling in love or falling out? This film offers a helpful tonic for either condition." |
Bruce Demara |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
5X2 (2005) |
"The inevitability of the conceit could wear on us, were it not for the lived-in performances of the cast, most important Bruni-Tedeschi and Freiss." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
The 6th Day (2000) |
"If replicating the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger was truly a pressing possibility, we'd get superior knockoffs of better days than this." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
7 Times Lucky |
Click here to see the review. |
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The 72nd Academy Awards (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Antonia Zerbisias |
- |
74th Academy Awards (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Antonia Zerbisias |
Splat 2/5 |
8 Mile (2002) |
"Underwhelming." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
8 Women (2002) |
"It's quite the fun group to be stranded with -- unless you happen to be male, rich and in the way." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/4 |
88 Minutes (2008) |
"This movie is Battlefield Earth bad. It's 10,000 B.C. bad. It's bad with a side of fries and a cherry cola." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
9 (2009) |
"The post-apocalyptic adventure 9 adds up to everything except an obvious audience." |
Peter Howell |
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