Tomato 3.5/4 |
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) |
"The subject matter may be deep and the family conflicts serious, but Vallée leavens his story with gentle satire and outright humour." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
Cabin Fever (2003) |
"You've got to love a horror movie that wears its bloody influences so happily on its sleeve, and then proceeds to roll it up and start swinging the axe in a different direction." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Caché (2005) |
"Austrian director Michael Haneke regularly makes films that provoke and disturb, but this is his first one in memory to work as a genuinely engaging thriller instead of an existential statement about violence or the absurdity of life." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Cadillac Records (2008) |
"Perhaps there were insurmountable legal restrictions. But the movie still serves as a dandy primer for rediscovering a lot of great music." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Caiman (2006) |
"[Director Moretti] wraps his political agenda with an affecting story about a fading filmmaker whose dreams and beliefs aren't weathering the storms of middle age. If the politics don't get you, the life empathy will." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 3/4 |
Cake (2004) |
"Cake is under-baked and underwhelming." |
Tony Wong |
Splat 2/5 |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"There's a terrific comedy buried somewhere here about moral hypocrisy and community panic, but it never fully emerges." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
Calle 54 (2001) |
"As much a thrill to watch as it is to listen to, a rare combination for a concert film." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Camp (2003) |
"Writer/director Graff doesn't give the kids much to work with, lumbering them with a script overloaded with gay clichés ... and lazy rip-offs." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Campfire (2004) |
"Driven by sharply drawn characters and quietly observed incident." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/4 |
El Cantante (2007) |
"This may be one of the very few biopics in which the subject is marginalized to the point of irrelevance." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Canvas (2007) |
"Though Canvas may not deviate much from the formula followed by so many other movies about families imperiled by health crises, it's unusually perceptive about the ways that loved ones process (or fail to process) the resulting stress." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) |
"The result is a film that stands as one of Moore's finest arguments. It's also one of his funniest, if you accept that the jokes are all of the gritted-teeth variety." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Capote (2005) |
"The almost perfectly realized Capote -- stumbling only in the lack of shading it gives Keener's and Greenwood's characters -- offers a sobering glimpse at what the author had to give up of his soul to achieve his success." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) |
"The film's linguistic problems might be overlooked, where it not for the complete lack of believable romance between the pouty Cruz and the frisky Cage." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/4 |
Captivity (2007) |
"The real horror here is how anyone, especially a two-time Oscar nominated director, could be this hard up for work." |
Tony Wong |
Tomato 4/5 |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"Without a doubt a disconcertingly engrossing, difficult-to-shake experience." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Caramel (2008) |
"[Writer-Director] Labaki writes and directs with a sure hand for capturing universal truths." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
Carandiru (2004) |
"Despite its structural flaws, Carandiru presents more interesting characters than you'd see in a dozen other prison movies." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cars (2006) |
"Cars made me want to hop in my jalopy and to head out to Route 66, bypassing the boring interstate highways that made the Mother Road redundant." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
Casa de los Babys (2003) |
"In this single film, [Sayles] includes more vividly drawn female characters than I've seen in a year's worth of major releases." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Casanova (2005) |
"The movie contains so little sexual content, it seems pre-edited for viewing on airplanes, or perhaps balloon rides like the fake one taken high above Venice by stars Heath Ledger and Sienna Miller." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/4 |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"Gone or reshaped are most of the conceits that have made Bond movies seem like an exercise in parody and nostalgia." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Cassandra's Dream (2008) |
"Farrell and McGregor bring much to their roles...to make Cassandra's Dream an effective and chilling ride." |
Linda Barnard |
Tomato |
Cast Away (2000) |
"The scenes of Hanks' complete isolation on the island, where barely a sound is heard for minutes at a time, are the best thing about Cast Away." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Cat's Meow (2002) |
"[Dunst] brings genuine humanity to a role that could have been little more than a vampish gold digger." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"Catch a Fire is really a story of tangled loyalties, rather than the political thriller it is being dubiously sold as." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Catch and Release (2007) |
"Were it not for [Kevin] Smith's mildly amusing antics, it might have been necessary to attach a warning to the movie about the dangers of watching it whilst operating heavy machinery." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"[Spielberg's] frothiest and most fun movie in years." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
Catch That Kid (2004) |
"Everything about Catch That Kid is contrived." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 1/5 |
Catwoman (2004) |
"Get out the kitty litter." |
Peter Goddard |
Splat 1/4 |
The Cave (2005) |
"Somewhere deep beneath the Carpathian mountains, something unholy stirs: It's an unspeakable stinker of a movie called The Cave." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat |
The Caveman's Valentine (2001) |
"Burdened by sloppy plot turns and unbelievable characters." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
The Cell (2000) |
"Like a dream, an advertisement or a music video, it simply isn't built to withstand the pressure of logical scrutiny." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
Cellular (2004) |
"An absurdly concocted car chase and rescue operation predicated on the marvels of modern telecommunications." |
Susan Walker |
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The Cemetery Club (1992) |
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Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
Center Stage (2000) |
"The dance sequences in his film make the most exciting footage." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/4 |
Chandni Chowk to China (2009) |
"The first-ever Bollywood kung fu comedy qualifies as deliriously and endearingly bizarre." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Changeling (2008) |
"Changeling reminds us that the veneer of civilization is thin and made of quicksilver." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Changing Lanes (2002) |
"Although dampened by intermittent preachiness and an unconvincingly pat and uplifting resolution ... Changing Lanes nevertheless taps into emotions so convincing it elevates the movie above its own shortcomings." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
Chaos and Desire (2003) |
"With a smile halfway between seduction and a smirk, and an intensity that speaks of dark secrets and longing, Bussières has the duality needed to play Alice, a seismologist from sleepy Baie-Comeau." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Chaos Theory (2008) |
"Reynolds goes through his emotional paces with conviction and is developing a trademark wounded look that is quite effective." |
Philip Marchand |
Tomato 3/4 |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"Opulently entertaining." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Charlie Bartlett (2007) |
"The characters remain halfway between genuine comic creations and realistic individuals, and the whole narrative feels artificial, stuck in the tension between being a morality play and a freewheeling comedy." |
Philip Marchand |
Tomato 3/4 |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"Tom Hanks delivers another of his patented good-guy roles." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
Charlie's Angels (2000) |
"It beats the similar opener to this year's Mission: Impossible 2 and it could make you wonder if Bond has ever done it better." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) |
"[A] seizure-inducing extreme fashion show." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
Charlotte Gray (2001) |
"Have that bottom-scraping feeling of being the final story to be told about the great conflict." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Charlotte's Web (2006) |
"It's a movie so modest and gentle, you'll hear your neighbour's popcorn crunch. But you may also hear your heart beating. And there's nothing wrong with that." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Chasing Liberty (2004) |
"Chasing Liberty is strictly vanilla-flavoured, status quo entertainment." |
Geoff Pevere |
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