Splat 2/5 |
I Am Dina (2002) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
I Am Legend (2007) |
"'Nothing worked the way it was supposed to work!' Will Smith rages from his solitary hell in I Am Legend, yet this remarkable sci-fi thriller works a lot better than anyone could have expected." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
I Am Sam (2002) |
"The kind of movie so punishingly sweet -- and intellectually vapid -- it should come with a blood sugar alert." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002) |
"If you aren't already a fan of Wilco, a critical darling led by the talented and wily songwriter Jeff Tweedy, the film does little to enlighten or recruit." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
I Can't Think Straight (2008) |
"Buildings and their interiors fare a lot better in this sumptuously lensed and set-designed film. That's because they don't have to talk or act." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
I Capture the Castle (2003) |
"A compelling and emotionally rich coming-of-age drama." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat |
I Dreamed of Africa (2000) |
"I Dreamed Of Africa turns authentic experience into the stuff of high cliché." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"It's like a screwball comedy written by the existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009) |
"Even the least discerning fans of lowbrow comedy will need to start digging in order to reach the level achieved by this American indie comedy about three Texan friends on a pre-wedding bender." |
Jason Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) |
"With its painfully awkward shifts between pat sentimentality, hackneyed teen-movie tropes and parent-baiting raunchiness, there's little to love about I Love You, Beth Cooper." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
I Love You, Man (2009) |
"It's a one-joke pony, but director John Hamburg and his screenwriters manage to stretch it to nearly two hours of hilarity and quasi-profundity." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007) |
"Chuck and Larry remains something close to remarkable: an Adam Sandler movie that manages to be crude and caring in equal measure. In the multiplex, this is called progress." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
I Served the King of England (2008) |
"Most movies of this kind would lead towards redemption of sorts. Menzel prefers quiet introspection to loud conversion, and that's both a strength and weakness of this movie." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/5 |
I Spy (2002) |
"The time has come to offer thanks to Owen Wilson." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
I Think I Love My Wife (2007) |
"Saddled with the weight of an unfocused, cliché-ridden script, a tiresome voice-over narration that drones on and on, and acting by Rock that's as wooden as Pinocchio, I Think I Love My Wife staggers in predictable circles for 94 long minutes." |
Linda Barnard |
Tomato 4/4 |
I'm Going Home (2002) |
"If that old bromide about the universal power of simple storytelling seems to bear repeating, it's because every powerful story simply told seems new in the telling." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
I'm Not Scared (2004) |
"Makes bland international entertainment out of specific historical trauma." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2.5/4 |
I'm Not There (2007) |
"How does it feeeel? Like a rolling shambles, much of it, and even a second viewing doesn't erase the sensation." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
I've Loved You So Long (2008) |
"Like a good book, I've Loved You So Long unfolds in chapters. And when it ends, you close the cover with emotion and reluctance." |
Linda Barnard |
Tomato 3/5 |
I, Claudia (2004) |
"A filmed document of a theatrical experience. And that's perfectly fine, considering that it's such an incredible theatrical experience." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/5 |
I, Robot (2004) |
"A CGI-laced action movie cum merchandising opportunity, warped into insensate silliness by the pop-iconic demands of Smith's megabucks macho action-hero persona and peppered with stock cop-on-the- edge action-movie situations." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
I.O.U.S.A. (2008) |
"I.O.U.S.A. is a clear, cogent and compelling primer on contemporary American economics and the not-so-small matter of how we ended up at the edge of a precipice." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Ice Age (2002) |
"... ranks up there in the highest class of animated features." |
Daphne Gordon |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) |
"This third trip to the Ice Age cooler should delight families with its amusing new dino buddies, even as it risks terrifying tots." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) |
"The Meltdown is at least faithful to its predecessor in the sense of being equally as underwhelming." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Ice Harvest (2005) |
"... a thriller that's not very thrilling but is as violent as the best of them." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ice Princess (2005) |
"Watching this week's world figure skating championships in Moscow, one wonders why the scriptwriters went to such artificial lengths. There's drama enough in the sport as it is." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/5 |
Identity (2003) |
"Assorted examples of artificially flavoured humanity ... proceed to panic, bicker and run with the customary perversity that characters in situations like this do toward their gory destinies." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Idiots and Angels (2008) |
"Even without a word of dialogue, Plympton's dark fable about the almost unnatural redemption of a lost soul content in its damnation is easily understood, and neatly told." |
Greg Quill |
Splat 2/4 |
Idlewild (2006) |
"A series of pretty-good pop videos wrapped around a confusing tale of Chitlin' Circuit striving and conniving." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
If By Chance (2002) |
"Tommaso and Stefania's relationship turns out to be a tender and wise reminder of what we all already know about love: It's beautiful. And it's damned. But we must do it anyway." |
Daphne Gordon |
Splat 2/5 |
Igby Goes Down (2002) |
"Holden Caulfield did it better." |
Daphne Gordon |
Splat 2/4 |
Igor (2008) |
"Igor, like the Frankenstein's monster at the centre of its tired plot, looks like something cobbled together out of used, very used, parts." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Il Divo (2009) |
"We may not know the man, but we know the dance, as seen in the highly diverting and hugely controversial Il Divo, a biopic as wly as its subject." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Ill Fated (2004) |
"Canadian writer-director Mark A. Lewis's first movie cranks up the quirk but keeps the style strictly TV." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Illusionist (2006) |
"This terrific romantic thriller, set in 1900 Vienna, is an outstanding example of frugality in the service of art." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/4 |
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) |
"Parnassus continues Gilliam's decade-old habit of sabotaging his work by piling on wild images without regard to character development or storytelling." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Imaginary Heroes (2004) |
"Weaver pretty much keeps Imaginary Heroes aloft." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Imagine Me & You (2006) |
"As nice as it is to imagine popular movies depicting lesbian relationships without guilt or trauma, Imagine Me&You ultimately trips over its own daft enthusiasm." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Imagine That (2009) |
"Here's a summer movie that kids will laugh at and parents can take them to without worrying about sex, violence, language or projectile vomiting jokes." |
Linda Barnard |
Tomato 3/5 |
Imelda (2004) |
"Makes up for what it lacks in political and historical depth by providing a stunning study in the sheer imperviousness of the unchecked and over empowered ego." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2/5 |
Importance of Being Earnest (2002) |
"There are moments of hilarity to be had." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
Impostor (2001) |
"In the transition from prescient work of fiction to pummelling popcorn flick, Impostor seems to have had its soul hijacked." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
In America (2003) |
"Too sweet to ever worry us that things might not pull together in the end, and yet too odd to be overly lulling, In America keeps itself just on the far side of familiar." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
In Bruges (2008) |
"A rude and riotous laugher." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 3/5 |
In Good Company (2004) |
"There are two movies vying for top management position of In Good Company, and the wrong one gets the promotion." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
In Her Shoes (2005) |
"Forsaking all art and subtlety, something he used to display in abundance, Hanson has chosen to adapt a Jennifer Weiner novel that is so light, it should come with weights attached to keep it from floating away." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
In My Country (2005) |
"Need[s] to be seen, as essential history and as demonstration of a form of social reckoning where compassion triumphs over passion, and the olive branch over the gun." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
In Praise of Love (2001) |
"Heartbreaking, elegiac, contentious and mordantly funny." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
In the Bedroom (2001) |
"Lingers in the mind, suffusing melancholy with the fateful pall of dread that hangs over all of life's pleasures." |
Peter Howell |
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