Splat 1/4 |
Ma Mere (2005) |
"It could stand as Exhibit A for why French auteurs are a tough sell to the average seeker of entertainment." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
The Machinist (2004) |
"Smacks of a movie made by people who've spent a lot more time watching movies than absorbing them." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) |
"Offers a rare glimpse of what's on the minds of pre-adolescent kids." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
Mad Love (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Mad Love (2001) |
"A sumptuously-appointed account of the life of the 16th-century Spanish royal Joan of Castile." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Mad Money (2008) |
"Mad Money is small change that somehow manages to add up to a satisfying sum." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Madagascar (2005) |
"The fact is, apart from certain superficial visual distinctions, virtually all of the recent studio-produced, star-voiced computer-animated movies feel like they could have been produced on different assembly lines in the same factory." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) |
"It has everything Madagascar had three years ago, but also two things the original was woefully lacking: a good yarn and genuine yuks." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
Made (2001) |
"So miscalculated and chafingly unfunny is this movie it will leave you convinced that if the gangster comedy isn't killed off by actor-driven improv riffs like this, maybe it ought to be. Better dead than more like Made." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Made in Jamaica (2006) |
"A worthy look at a music born though turmoil with a vision that still resonates globally." |
Tony Wong |
Splat 2/4 |
Made of Honor (2008) |
"Somewhere in the shades of Hollywood, the ghost of Cary Grant is shaking his head." |
Philip Marchand |
Splat 2/4 |
Madea's Family Reunion (2006) |
"I'm just not on the guest list." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Magdalene Sisters (2003) |
"Like Phillip Noyce's recent Rabbit-Proof Fence, which exposed similar crimes of mass containment and correction against Australia's Aboriginal people, The Magdalene Sisters is social history told with anger and an agenda." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Magic Flute (2006) |
"In the end, love triumphs. In this movie, the music triumphs, proving again that a true masterpiece can survive all kinds of meddling." |
John Terauds |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/5 |
Maid in Manhattan (2002) |
"Executed by The Joy Luck Club's Wayne Wang with the professional dispatch of someone delivering room service." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat |
The Majestic (2001) |
"Mr. Carrey may go to both Washington and a version of Bedford Falls in The Majestic, but he is neither the Jefferson Smith nor George Bailey of Stewart's best-loved films." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Malibu's Most Wanted (2003) |
"Maybe in a half-hour format, the idea would stand up. But in a feature film, B-Rad's schtick seems like a one-note song." |
Daphne Gordon |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Mama's Boy (2007) |
"It's not that the movie is utterly bereft of arresting moments. It's just that each of these prominently features one of the aforementioned supporting cast and not the so-called star." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
Mambo Italiano (2003) |
"There's nothing subtle about the writing -- which relies heavily on narration -- or the acting, but interesting casting goes a long way." |
Daphne Gordon |
Tomato 3/4 |
Mamma Mia! (2008) |
"Cheese -- but what wonderfully salty, sinfully satisfying cheese it is." |
Linda Barnard |
Splat 1/4 |
The Man (2005) |
"At what point do you know that a movie isn't just bad, it's off-the-scale, surrender-all-hope, no-turning-back bad?" |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
A Man Apart (2003) |
"Although more fun than the preachy Training Day, A Man Apart never quite reaches the seedy depths of Narc." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
Man on Fire (2004) |
"Long and torturous." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Man on the Train (2003) |
"The movie is as contemplative, gentle, and subdued as it is understatedly funny." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/4 |
Man On Wire (2008) |
"This film is a celebration of human achievement; it soars with the promise that we are shackled to the ground only by lack of imagination and will." |
Peter Howell |
Splat |
The Man Who Cried (2001) |
"It's as though we're being dared not to take the movie seriously, although nothing but the pre-Holocaust setting compels you to do so." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) |
"The Man Who Wasn't There is the visual equivalent of single-malt scotch, smoky and smooth and bracing in its simplicity. At the same time, it's sometimes too clever for its own good. The humour is as much parched as it is dry." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Man Without a Past (2003) |
"That rare thing: a movie that makes you feel good by sharing some of your pain." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) |
"This one plays more like a contemporary techno-thriller with ultra-clammy '70s conspiracy thriller overtones, and Demme milks the atmosphere of pervasive, sleep-deprived dread beautifully." |
Geoff Pevere |
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Manderlay (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/4 |
Manners of Dying (2004) |
"Calculated, in the sense of contrived, the plot of Manners of Dying is like a story within a story, re-wound over and over again, each time with a slight variation." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Manufactured Landscapes (2007) |
"A work that is every bit as cogent, innovative and profoundly unsettling as its subject." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Manufacturing Dissent (2007) |
"While Manufacturing Dissent provides little that is new, it does place the controversy in the larger context of the contradictory relationship between the pursuit of fame and journalistic integrity." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/4 |
March of the Penguins (2005) |
"Children will love it, and parents will feel inclined to never again complain about such minor human complaints as 2 a.m. feedings, messy bedrooms or purloined car keys." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Marci X (2003) |
"The spoofs in Marci X are so old and dated, it boggles the imagination to think of what group might still be offended them." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Margot at the Wedding (2007) |
"There's no question Baumbach has a way with words and actors (Kidman, Leigh and Jack Black are terrific)." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/5 |
Maria Full of Grace (2004) |
"One of the most viscerally felt films of the year." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/4 |
Mariages (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/4 |
Marie Antoinette (2006) |
"The director squanders a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to film on the grounds and inside the Palace of Versailles. It's the trappings we get, in richly reproduced costumes and all-over gilt furniture, at the expense of any substance." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/4 |
The Marine (2006) |
"Such bizarre touches remind one of the appeal of WWE televised bouts." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/5 |
Marion Bridge (2000) |
"A carefully drawn portrait of family life." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Marley & Me (2008) |
"You should bring lots of Kleenex with you. It might just come in handy." |
Peter Howell |
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Marock (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/4 |
Married Life (2008) |
"It's strange how a movie with this many different things happening could be so dull." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Martian Child (2007) |
"If all this is supposed to be so life-affirming, how come I envied the dead dog?" |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
Martin Lawrence Live - Runteldat (2002) |
"He's just so damn likeable, you can't help but laugh, even when his language is littered with four-letter words and his stories draw up images you might later wish you'd never imagined." |
Daphne Gordon |
Tomato 3/4 |
Mary and Max (2009) |
"In a perverse and often immature way, it forthrightly deals with mature issues of love, friendship, forgiveness and mental health. It requires a mature audience, but an audience nonetheless." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Masked and Anonymous (2003) |
"Dylan seems content to just recycle his old ideas." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
"Considering how cinema-unfriendly O'Brian was - the author rarely went to the movies, and had to be persuaded to release the film rights -- Master & Commander manages to loosen the shackles of its dry pages." |
Peter Howell |
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