Splat 2/4 |
Eagle Eye (2008) |
"It all wears very thin by the third act, when The Voice really starts to grate and all remaining sense slams into a brick wall." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Eagle Vs. Shark (2007) |
"Sorely lacks is a genuine sense of humanity." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Earth (2009) |
"Think of Earth as being akin to a greatest-hits collection of a beloved rock band. The context is gone, but the reason for the renown remains." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Eastern Promises (2007) |
"Menacingly brilliant." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Easy Virtue (2009) |
"Full of gorgeous architecture and sightlines but a bit too cold for comfort and with an all-too pervasive air of tedium." |
Bruce Demara |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Edge of Heaven (2008) |
"As a director [Akin] is clearly a humanist, championing the virtues of forgiveness and relying on strong narrative and deep sympathy for his characters to drive his movies." |
Philip Marchand |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Education of Charlie Banks (2009) |
"An earnest, if romanticized, examination of the American class system in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the eternally confounding politics of acceptance and exclusion." |
Greg Quill |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Edukators (2005) |
"What is interesting to watch are the unexpected turns that occur when a jilted lover, a kidnapped rich capitalist and a pair of new lovers are cooped up in an isolated chalet." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/4 |
Eight Below (2006) |
"Providing you park your reason outside and let these amazing dogs do the work, which they appear delighted to do, Eight Below is an engaging enough way to spend an hour or two with the kids." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
Eight Legged Freaks (2002) |
"Yesterday's junk sporting today's polish." |
Geoff Pevere |
2.5/4 |
Elegy (2008) |
"The difference this time is the overall quality of the performances. Kingsley and Cruz make the most credible lovers [director Isabel] Coixet has ever paired." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/4 |
Elektra (2005) |
"The constant talk and tease of Elektra is sure to cause even more male frustration than Catwoman and Tomb Raider, where the femmes were similarly dolled up and then sexed down to appease the nanny censors." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
Elephant (2003) |
"The film is understatement at its most powerful." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Elf (2003) |
"Ferrell's stone-stupid sincerity keeps the action moving and irresistible, despite its familiarity." |
Peter Howell |
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Elizabeth (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) |
"Elizabeth: The Golden Age places its gilded head upon the chopping block right from the opening salvo, replacing its predecessor's cunning with bombast." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Elizabethtown (2005) |
"Elizabethtown isn't a refuge for the soul, it's a dead end for the senses." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Ella Enchanted (2004) |
"Hathaway plays Ella straight, but appealingly, and is the actor least suspected of being put through Photo Shop." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
Emile (2004) |
"McKellen, as one might expect, is brilliant in the role of a 60-something man re-inhabiting his earlier life on a farm in Saskatchewan and visiting the imagined life of his brother and his niece during the period when he has been living in England." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/4 |
Emotional Arithmetic (2007) |
"A piece of advice for Canadian filmmakers -- don't make movies out of dreary CanLit novels. They're easy enough to spot." |
Philip Marchand |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Emperor's Club (2002) |
"The movie may not be worthy of an Oscar, but Kline's highly nuanced performance is certainly worthy of our attention." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
The Emperor's New Clothes (2002) |
"It's a sitcom-minded working-class romance dressed in lace and buckles, a Merchant-Ivory Full Monty." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
The Emperor's New Groove (2000) |
"Funky, funny and free of ersatz Broadway cheese." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
Empire (2002) |
"Yes, we're walking those mean streets again. Good thing we're taking a few unanticipated turns." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
Empire (2002) |
"Yes, we're walking those mean streets again. Good thing we're taking a few unanticipated turns." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Employee of the Month (2006) |
"The aggrieved employee movie genre is one of the more puzzling fads of late, since it showcases every vile prejudice and low standard imaginable." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Empties (2007) |
"In Empties, father-son Czech collaborators in the Oscar-winning Kolya focus on how poorly a cantankerous high school teacher adapts to what amounts to forced retirement." |
Greg Quill |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Empty Nest (2009) |
"Burman's fifth feature is too slight and uneven to fully satisfy, even though it does have much of the same wit and insight as Lost Embrace and Family Law, two previous films that earned the director many comparisons to Woody Allen." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Enchanted (2007) |
"How refreshing it is that Enchanted gently makes fun of Disney tradition while upholding it at the same time. There are no cheap or vulgar jokes, and sentiment never turns to treacle." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Encounters At the End of the World (2007) |
"In his latest documentary, Encounters at the End of the World, Herzog -- who warns the viewer at the outset not to expect any 'fluffy penguins' -- deals with the men and women who perform scientific research in Antarctica." |
Philip Marchand |
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The End of the Affair (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
The End of the Line (2009) |
"It's hard not to feel that the vital information in The End of the Line may have been more effectively relayed by Clover's original book or by a movie whose methods were less pedantic and pedestrian." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato |
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2001) |
"Fascinatingly evokes not just the gruelling, first-person details of this particular polar expedition, but the waning moments of the entire spirit of romantic, white-European Boy's Own adventurism." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/5 |
Enduring Love (2004) |
"With a power that resonates, Enduring Love captures that sense of lives blown apart by a sudden gust." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
Enemy at the Gates (2001) |
"It's this human understanding of an inhuman conflict that gives Enemy At The Gates so much power, despite its defects." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The English Surgeon (2009) |
"A British neurosurgeon's personal humanitarian mission is the subject of this compelling, moving and often surprising documentary." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato 3/5 |
Enigma (2002) |
"Apted and his crew pull out all the stops to craft a thriller out of material that looks better on paper than it does on film." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Enlighten Up! (2009) |
"Director Kate Churchill ends up with a non-story in her feature Enlighten Up! when her subject fails to experience the changes she had been expecting." |
Greg Quill |
Tomato 3/5 |
Enlightenment Guaranteed (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/5 |
Enough (2002) |
"The picture should really have been titled Uncle, because that's what many men will feel like crying out after enduring this estrogen-fuelled freakout." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) |
"Doesn't require an interest in business affairs to be captivating. It unfolds like a Wall St. disaster movie with two eminently hissable villains presiding over the catastrophe." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/5 |
Envy (2004) |
"Envy manages the not unimpressive feat of making just about everyone in it look they wish they were somewhere else." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/4 |
Epic Movie (2007) |
"You know a movie parody is in trouble when you can't quite figure out the frame of reference for the parody." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Eragon (2006) |
"...So heavily derivative of Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings it should be ritually torched by followers of Yoda and Frodo." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
Erin Brockovich (2000) |
"Even if Erin Brockovich leaves us contemplating its many loopholes, the verdict remains: some sellouts are worth the price of admission." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) |
"Gets it more than right by stripping the science down to its laptop basics -- it's a 'simple' memory-erasing process -- and by putting greater emphasis on the humanity behind the diodes." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Eurotrip (2004) |
" As subtle as a pit-bull rally but not quite as sensitive, Eurotrip at least delivers the trash." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Evan Almighty (2007) |
"Neither biblical disaster nor heavenly treat, the underwhelming Evan Almighty can still lay claim to a superlative: it's the bravest (or craziest) movie of 2007." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Eve and the Fire Horse (2006) |
"Eve & the Fire Horse has a kind of poetry that lifts it above the typical drama of immigrant life and gives [Kwan's] characters a lasting poignancy." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/4 |
Evening (2007) |
"Evening's visual period splendour, its vivid characterizations and their comfortably clichéd relationships somehow draw us in and make us care." |
Rob Salem |
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