Tomato 4/4 |
Hairspray (2007) |
"At the risk of sounding as manic as Corny Collins, Baltimore's answer to Dick Clark, this latest screen incarnation is guaranteed to flip your wig." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Half Nelson (2006) |
"Beneath the familiar veneer is a film of profound depths and churning undercurrents, and the result is a stark portrait of a world where nothing comes easy but just giving up." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/5 |
Half Past Dead (2002) |
"Divertingly ridiculous, headbangingly noisy." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/4 |
Halloween (2007) |
"Trick or treat? Rob Zombie's "re-imagining" of John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic Halloween must sadly be consigned to the former category and it's not even a very interesting, suspenseful trick at that." |
Bruce Demara |
Splat 2/5 |
Halloween: Resurrection (2002) |
"While the production values here are more cool than crappy, there's nothing really new about Resurrection." |
Daphne Gordon |
Splat 1/5 |
Ham & Cheese (2004) |
"An abject failure." |
John Terauds |
Splat 2/4 |
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"If promotional hype of Falstaffian proportions has you convinced that Hamlet 2 is a Shakespearean romp or a musical involving a rocking sexy deity, some elucidation is in order." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hancock (2008) |
"Hancock is still worth seeing, if only for a glimpse of what might have been a truly innovative idea." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
Hanging Up (2000) |
"It's hair that matters most here, and it's hair that rises above everything." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Hangover (2009) |
"A strong cast, a quirky script with some unexpected twists and a steady hand from the director's chair make this a desert ride on the wild side a worthy road trip." |
Bruce Demara |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hannah Montana The Movie (2009) |
"Who cares if it gives anyone over the age of 12 a headache? The state of Hannah Montana is little-girl paradise." |
Linda Barnard |
Splat |
Hannibal (2001) |
"Bears many of the wounds of the book's confusion." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/4 |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"Tilting his elegantly aquiline features downward while hoisting one eyebrow over a dark orb, curling his lips with Grinchian deliberation, he seems to be determined to kill people on the strength of his cologne alone." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
The Happening (2008) |
"Shyamalan seems to have lost his sense of the fine line between the disturbingly grotesque and the outright ridiculous. The film even seems to be a parody of the scientific method." |
Philip Marchand |
Splat 2/4 |
Happenstance (2001) |
"It strives mightily to convince us that the Chaos Theory rules us, yet everything in it feels preordained." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Happily N'Ever After (2007) |
"'As Grimm as it gets,' says the promotional tag for Happily N'Ever After. Make that grim." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Happy Endings (2005) |
"Roos's movie is so aggressively pleased with itself it leaves you feeling it doesn't even need an audience." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"Imagine March of the Penguins with a pop soundtrack. Or maybe An Inconvenient Truth with Al Gore doing his best Donald O'Connor impression. It's quite the mash-up, as intended, and it's cooler than a South Pole skinny dip." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Happy Times (2002) |
"A bittersweet contemporary comedy about benevolent deception, which, while it may not rival the filmmaker's period pieces, is still very much worth seeing." |
Malene Arpe |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"Coming from the man who made his name as a director of often grim social-realist films such as Vera Drake, All or Nothing and Secrets & Lies, Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky strikes one as a film fantasy." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hard Candy (2005) |
"It's well worth seeing, because it is well made -- apart from a few gaps in logic -- and well acted." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
A Hard Day's Night (1964) |
"Has survived the years like a Disney cartoon classic." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
Hardball (2001) |
"There's nothing wrong with a good cry, or a good cliche, and Hardball offers both by the barrel." |
Norman Wilner |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
"This is one of those rare pictures that can gross you out and make you think at one and the same time." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) |
"If it's possible for a movie to be sly and full-on raunchy at the same time, Danny Leiner's p.o.v.-shifting stoner-buddy comedy is it." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harrison's Flowers (2002) |
"Remarkable for its power to immerse us in the terror, panic and sheer adrenalized rush of the photojournalist's existence." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
"Much of what made the first film so enchanting remains firmly in place, from the strong ensemble performances through Stuart Craig's magnificent production design." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"Screenwriter Kloves deserves a tip of the wizard's hat for cutting Rowling's immense tome (636 pages) down to size, and for keeping the story moving despite a surfeit of characters and incidents." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"There is still magic, but it all has dramatic purpose -- and much of it points to the final two films." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"A movie much more in the mode of a conventional thriller than previous Potter outings." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"While I confess to being almost utterly lost within the narrative within about 20 minutes, I couldn't take my eyes off the screen." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) |
"I doubt that most Harry Potter fans will mind a film that attends to their wishes so splendidly." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Harsh Times (2006) |
"Harsh Times is so into its own nihilism, it sometimes forgets the humanity beneath the hurt." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Hart's War (2002) |
"As an actor's showcase, Hart's War has much to recommend it, even if the top-billed Willis is not the most impressive player. As a story of dramatic enlightenment, the screenplay by Billy Ray and Terry George leaves something to be desired." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Hate Crime (2005) |
"First-time director Stovall renders all with the kitchen-lit, squarely composed aesthetic of timid prime-time TV, and his moral schema is no less ordinary." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
The Haunted Mansion (2003) |
"The story is so flimsy, could it possibly have been ghostwritten by Goofy?" |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) |
"Director Peter Cornwell and writers Adam Simon and Tim Metcalfe set up their version of the Connecticut haunting with remarkable efficiency and credible atmospherics." |
Greg Quill |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008) |
"If you get past the retro Nancy Drew title, this is a worthwhile effort." |
Tony Wong |
Splat 1/5 |
Havana Nights (2004) |
"Charmless, clumsy and culturally offensive all at the same time." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) |
"A few truly profound statements emerge from the swirling hormones." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Head in the Clouds (2004) |
"The passion barely simmers, let alone rages, which may vex some viewers and will certainly confound the tabloids." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Head of State (2003) |
"It's fast and funny and easily the smartest thing Rock has done in a long while." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Head-On (2005) |
"The power of Akin's film, which is considerably aided by the two lead performances ... comes from the spectacle of people developing feelings for each other even through numbing layers of mutual narcissism, self-loathing and raging terror of intimacy." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Heading South (2006) |
"Cantet never finds the keys to his characters in Heading South and fails to give them life beyond the politicized representations imposed on them by Laferrière." |
Susan Walker |
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Heart (2001) |
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Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
The Heart of the Game (2006) |
"It dribbles more often than it scores." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) |
"Strip away the appalling gross-out gags and you'd be left with a movie worth seeing." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
Hearts in Atlantis (2001) |
"All atmosphere and no action." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
Heaven (2002) |
"While we'll never really know what Kieslowski might have made of this ... we can be reasonably certain even he would be moved by what this unlikely young German filmmaker has made of it." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Heaven on Earth (2008) |
"A less assured filmmaker would have trouble reconciling reality with magic realism, but writer/director Mehta turns kitchen-sink drama into soaring metaphor." |
Peter Howell |
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