Tomato 3/5 |
P.S. (2004) |
"Linney and Grace play off one another beautifully, her reticent better judgment collapsing in equal proportion to his ironic detachment." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
P.S. I Love You (2007) |
"It's the sort of movie that no man will ever go to unless dragged by a woman. His sole reward will be the sight of Swank in sexy underwear." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 1/4 |
P2 (2007) |
"P2 feels like a vehicle lost in an after-hours parking facility, constantly backing up, shifting gears and generally speeding around in circles in a vain attempt to get somewhere." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Pacifier (2005) |
"[Diesel's] funnier here than he was in The Chronicles of Riddick, and that one wasn't even billed as a comedy." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Page Turner (2007) |
"[Director] Dercourt's manipulation of his characters and his imagery can be a little heavy-handed, but there's nary a wrong note in the performances of his exceedingly fine cast." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Painted Veil (2006) |
"The Painted Veil recalls an earlier era of film direction, when movies moved rather than manipulated and craft superseded special effects." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Palindromes (2005) |
"The movie's oppressive atmosphere of flatly rendered, all-consuming determinism leaves it sparkless, pointless and ultimately not very funny." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"It's not every day that you see a movie that not only references both Victor Erice's creepy modernist classic Spirit of the Beehive and Ray Harryhausen's Seventh Voyage of Sinbad with equal reverence." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Pandorum (2009) |
"The long middle portion does get tedious, obvious and downright laughable, but sci-fi fans probably won't regret the experience." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Panic Room (2002) |
"It feels less like a suspense movie than a video-game spinoff of a suspense movie." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Paper Heart (2009) |
"Only intermittently engaging and too timid to be satisfactorily funny or insightful." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paprika (2007) |
"As a showcase of the limitless power of the imagination, Paprika never fails to delight the eye and engage the mind. We are never sure exactly whom we should be cheering for, or even if we're rooting for real characters or their avatars." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Paradise Now (2005) |
"Viewers of all persuasions can find a human perspective on an aspect of terrorism that, no matter how often it occurs, is beyond imagining for most of us." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Paranormal Activity (2009) |
"The people most scared by Paranormal Activity may be the makers of high-priced special effects, who will have to explain to studio bosses how a kid with $15,000 and one or two cameras can create such effective terror." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paris, Je T'aime (2007) |
"It's not sexy or stylish or glamorous or any of the things you might assume Paris would be before going there. But of all the segments that comprise the film, it comes the closest to depicting honestly what it feels like to fall in love." |
Christy Lemire |
Splat 2/4 |
Partition (2007) |
"[Director] Sarin was aiming for an epic and arrived at episodic. That might have been okay if the episodes weren't so partitioned from each other, the flashbacks failing to illuminate the present action." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/5 |
Party Monster (2003) |
"There are many ways of depicting an innocent's descent into hell, but the camp approach is surely the least advisable." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
Passchendaele (2008) |
"Passchendaele hearkens back to war films of decades past, when patriotism, valour and integrity were presented without irony. But it is infused with the stoicism of people who know it is their job to try to find meaning within an insane situation." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Passenger (1975) |
"The Passenger is a marvel of quiet insight in many ways, not least of which is the chance to view Jack Nicholson before he became JACK NICHOLSON." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/5 |
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"What graphic sex is to the use of the body in hardcore porno, graphic violence is to destruction of the body of Christ in this Passion." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Pathfinder (2007) |
"As dim and dank as a power failure in a peepshow, Pathfinder is Apocalypto without the laughs or 300 without the muscular visuals and elevating dialogue." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Patti Smith - Dream of Life (2008) |
"Patti Smith: Dream of Life, fashion photographer Steven Sebring's impressionistic study of the most influential of punk poets, disarms and charms with its honesty." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) |
"It's surprisingly okay, in a January kind of way." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pauline and Paulette (2002) |
"The acting in Pauline And Paulette is good all round, but what really sets the film apart is Debrauwer's refusal to push the easy emotional buttons." |
Peter Howell |
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Pavee Lackeen (2005) |
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Pay It Forward (2000) |
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Splat 2/5 |
Paycheck (2003) |
"A bloated thriller that runs out of steam long before its final interminable chase." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Peaceful Warrior (2006) |
"You're in the moment all right, experiencing every passing minute ticking off in slow motion until the blasted thing comes to a merciful end." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat |
Pearl Harbor (2001) |
"It blows up as good as anything movie technology has yet detonated, and it leaves you feeling absolutely, incontrovertibly numb." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Penelope (2008) |
"The semi-satirical treatment of celebrity culture, as Penelope is treated first as a tabloid sensation then a media darling, is lame and dated." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/5 |
People I Know (2003) |
"Watchable but dramatically scattered." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Perfect Crime (2005) |
"A story that begins as farce but that evolves into something approaching satirical profundity." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Perfect Getaway (2009) |
"What is surprising about this effective little thriller is how cleverly writer-director David Twohy toys with the conventions of the genre as they exist today." |
Jason Anderson |
Splat 1/4 |
The Perfect Man (2005) |
"In the cautionary dystopian science-fiction parable The Perfect Man, we are offered a terrifying vision of a possible future: a world ruled by Hilary Duff." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/5 |
Perfect Pie (2002) |
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Splat 1/5 |
The Perfect Score (2004) |
"Is there not something just plain wrong with a movie about cheating on exams that's less fun than taking one?" |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat |
The Perfect Storm (2000) |
"A marvellously evocative volume of nonfiction storytelling has been reduced to the phoniest kind of computer-generated images." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Perfect Stranger (2007) |
"Its shiny plastic glamour serves to endorse the very phoniness it ought to be warning us about." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) |
"[The filmmakers] render a portrait of Paris that both delights and overwhelms the senses. This is a movie where eyes turn into noses, which may run at the many ghastly sights presented." |
Peter Howell |
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Persepolis (2007) |
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Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
Personal Velocity (2002) |
"A movie that sets certain strict parameters for itself in terms of time, dramatic focus and technique, and then works modest but striking wonders within those self-imposed limitations." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
Peter Pan (2003) |
"A tribute to the power of good storytelling." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Phat Girlz (2006) |
"The cast is likeable, although they deserve a better movie, and at a lean 99 minutes, at least the plot hasn't been padded. But there's only so far you can go with fat jokes, as plus-sized comic Mo'Nique is discovering." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Phil the Alien (2004) |
"Less than satisfying and frustrating to think of how great this could have been." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Phone Booth (2003) |
"Anyone inclined to argue with the logic of the story -- and there's certainly much to argue about -- is advised to just sit back and watch how Farrell's Stu unravels before our eyes." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Pianist (2002) |
"This is the story of someone who lived to tell an unspeakable tale, told by someone with stories enough to do justice to its integrity." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Piano Teacher (2002) |
"The Piano Teacher is not an easy film. It forces you to watch people doing unpleasant things to each other and themselves, and it maintains a cool distance from its material that is deliberately unsettling." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
Pieces of April (2003) |
"It's in the cross-cutting between April's disaster-prone preparations and her family's turbulent journey that Hedges's movie finds its lively and likeable rhythm." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2007) |
"The very title of this movie seems to message its doom. What could possibly be dramatic enough about Britain's last hangman to carry our interest over a 90-minute film? A whole lot, it turns out." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Pineapple Express (2008) |
"Apatow and Green are just throwing whatever they can at the screen, to see what will get either a laugh or a grimace. More likely the latter, since you'll likely leave the theatre wondering if you saw a comedy or a Sam Peckinpah movie." |
Peter Howell |
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