Splat 2/4 |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"Cassavetes starts to lose the plot at the precise moment he starts keeping exact track of it." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"Me, I want a hula hoop." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 4/5 |
Amadeus (1984) |
"Like the composers the film so wondrously depicts, Amadeus: Director's Cut is a divine work in need of a little earthly restraint." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Amal (2008) |
"There is nothing obvious about the story, which moves carefully and unpredictably, taking us through the streets of Delhi with a view from the back of a rickshaw." |
Linda Barnard |
Tomato 4/5 |
Amandla: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2003) |
"The sound of liberation, set to the beat of human destiny." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"It is to be hoped that Amazing Grace is not the only, or the last, cinematic celebration of 200th anniversary of abolition, for there are more stories to tell, more imaginatively." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/4 |
Amelia (2009) |
"Courting Oscar with unseemly lust, while also promoting Earhart as an early feminist, the film strives too hard to be profound and not enough to be merely human." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
Amelie (2001) |
"The sunniest face and the greatest acclaim belong to Audrey Tautou, who is new to these shores. A delight in the title role, she's like a young Audrey Hepburn, making us laugh and feel empathy without feeling manipulated." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
America's Sweethearts (2001) |
"Not so much a terrible movie as a tryingly bland one, the star-stuffed America's Sweethearts actually manages to make Entertainment Tonight seem dangerous by comparison." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/4 |
An American Carol (2008) |
"Utterly asinine, sophomoric, tasteless, the movie has much in common with Zucker's Airplane!, The Naked Gun 2 1/2 and Scary Movie sequels, minus the laughs." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2.5/4 |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"Like a commander-in-chief who's too good-naturedly dumb to be dangerous, the writer-director is ultimately too forgiving to do much bruising. (Or maybe too calculating, which kind of blurs into the same thing.)" |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"Ridley Scott's listless Big Statement is a wheezy, hot air-inflated dud." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
American Hardcore (2006) |
"A reverential but knowledgeable documentary about an aggressive offshoot of punk that flourished on the Left Coast from 1980-86, with outposts in such far-flung locales as Washington, D.C., New York, Boston, Detroit, Chicago and Austin, Tex." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
American Outlaws (2001) |
"Ol' Jesse James has sure seemed a lot of things in a lot of movies: crazy, heroic, desperate, psychotic, villain and victim. But dadburnit if he's ever been this cute." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
American Pie 2 (2001) |
"Still seems fresh, despite using the same ingredients of the first one." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
American Psycho (2000) |
"By no means a crowd pleaser, but it uses intelligent satire to make a pungent statement about the shallowness of modern society." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
American Splendor (2003) |
"The humour is dark but frequently funny." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
American Teen (2008) |
"A moving and engrossing slice-of-life documentary about teen life in small-town Warsaw, Ind." |
Bruce Demara |
Splat 2/4 |
American Venus (2007) |
"Never settling on a consistent tone or establishing a convincing context for its central character, the movie ultimately seems to grow bored even with itself." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
American Wedding (2003) |
"At this wedding, you can have your cake and barf it, too." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
The Amityville Horror (2005) |
"Brevity is the single best thing about it." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
Amores Perros (2001) |
"Stylishly gritty." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amreeka (2009) |
"Amreeka makes its points with gentle humour and engaging performances -- especially Faour, who makes Muna so likeable it's impossible not to cross your fingers and hope her luck is about to change." |
Linda Barnard |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amu (2005) |
"[Director] Bose embeds her history lesson in a drama with authentic emotional mother-daughter conflict." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 4/4 |
An Education (2009) |
"The point here is not to judge past missteps by modern standards, but rather to point out how easy it is to allow dreams to overtake reality." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/5 |
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) |
"'There's a way in. There's a way out.' He's right. It's behind you, right below the sign that says Exit. Just follow the stampede." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
Analyze That (2002) |
"An offer we can most definitely refuse." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/5 |
Anatomy of Hell (2004) |
"The movie strongly suggests that to be gay is to be a misogynist, that all men wish to do violence to women and that being female is the same as being miserable." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) |
"Like most of these sofa-spud comedies, Anchorman bears its attention-deficit disorder proudly, as it shifts tone and abruptly sidetracks." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2003) |
"One minute, the film is funny. The next it's romantic. For a few seconds, it's suspenseful. Other times, it's philosophical. But mostly, it's just confusing." |
Daphne Gordon |
Splat 1/5 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
"The film overflows with overkill, from the amped-up orchestra that constantly threatens to submerge the singers to the ornate silliness of each and every scene involving the Phantom." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
Angel Eyes (2001) |
"Angel Eyes is really nothing more than a love story between two people who could save a lot of money by moving in together." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Angel-A (2007) |
"It seems Besson can be sentimental about Paris but he's still not ready to get too romantic with people." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
Angela's Ashes (1999) |
"Visually immaculate but unaffecting." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"Like its predecessor, Angels & Demons manages the miraculous feat of seeming to plod while racing at breakneck speed, the tempo set by Hans Zimmer's blusterous score." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Anger Management (2003) |
"The promise of Anger Management lasts for all of about 15 minutes." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
The Animal (2001) |
"A lunkheaded, sorta gross-out comedy that manages to be likeable and funny." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
Anna and the King (1999) |
"A winning performance by Chow Yun-Fat!" |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Annapolis (2006) |
"The movie plays out with the same martial drumbeat inevitability of a parade march." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat |
The Anniversary Party (2001) |
"Badly organized and self-indulgent." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Ant Bully (2006) |
"Bright visuals, snappy dialogue and a smart plot make The Ant Bully a welcome summer treat." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Antichrist (2009) |
"Antichrist ends up being more unnerving than it is terrifying, and a lot funnier than it's supposed to be." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
Antitrust (2001) |
"A movie which is too stone-dumb serious to realize that it would have played much better as a satire of digital-era corporate paranoia." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Ants (2006) |
"Stand[s] out with exceptional force." |
Philip Marchand |
Splat 2/5 |
Antwone Fisher (2002) |
"Earnestly inspirational, conservatively moralistic and little on the bland side." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"An alternately humorous and heartbreaking film." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Anything Else (2003) |
"It's as locked in ritual as Monday nights at Michael's Pub, Central Park walks or afternoons at Village record stores." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Apocalypto (2006) |
"If, as a filmmaker, the obviously soul-stricken former movie star is an unabashed red-meat primitivist, he's also become an undeniably polished one." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Appaloosa (2008) |
"Harris follows his strong helming debut Pollock with a contribution to the western movie revival that looks and sounds like a classic." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Aquamarine (2006) |
"Aquamarine's modest charms make it an agreeable diversion for its intended demographic." |
Peter Howell |
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