Tomato 4/5 |
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
"A movie of adventure, courage and spirit, revealing the best and worst in human nature and introducing terrific new talent." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
"It's a fast, funny, frightening and family-friendly movie, an affectionate tribute to the original, and a vintage thrill ride enhanced by modern visual trickery, crazy characters -- and a soupçon of skepticism." |
Greg Quill |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"Rachel Getting Married is a lot like life: always moving, forever unpredictable and forever getting in the way of best-laid plans." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Racing Stripes (2005) |
"There's much to laud in Racing Stripes." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 3/4 |
Radiant City (2006) |
"Radiant City is a movie about communities that offer everything prospective citizens might want or need, save this: a human reason to live there." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/5 |
Radio (2003) |
"Rarely have good intentions been wrapped in such a sticky package." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Rage in Placid Lake (2003) |
"Watching this movie is a bit like going to a dance where the drummer can't keep a steady beat. You think you should be laughing, but you just can't quite bring yourself to." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Rails & Ties (2007) |
"[Director Alison] Eastwood has the advantage of two very fine actors, Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden, who have the ability to lift the most mediocre of material into another realm." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Raise Your Voice (2004) |
"The music in Raise Your Voice ... manages to bring home what the uninspired script doesn't: Something in you dies if you don't express your musical talent." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/5 |
Raising Helen (2004) |
"Even those who seek the undemanding entertainment of life troubles being bravely dealt with might end up wishing they were given more than just sitcom resolutions." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
Raising Victor Vargas (2003) |
"A marvel of closely observed, intimately captivating moments." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
Rambo (2008) |
""So they send in the devil to do God's work," says a hulking Australian mercenary, part of the rescue attempt. "It's ironic, isn't it?" Highly ironic. The implications of that irony are not explored in the movie." |
Philip Marchand |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Rape Of Europa (2007) |
"There is a heart-rending feeling to this documentary, in part due to its sense of irretrievable loss." |
Philip Marchand |
Splat 2/4 |
Rare Birds (2001) |
"With Rare Birds, as with The Shipping News before it, an attempt is made to transplant a Hollywood star into Newfoundland's wild soil -- and The Rock once again resists the intrusion." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
Rat Race (2001) |
"It's a mad mad mad mad world, all right, and Rat Race makes it seem all the zanier." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/4 |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"Had Bird gone the safe route, he would have robbed us of a great new cartoon figure in Remy, who like the rest of the film is rendered with animation that is at once fanciful and life-like. It's also my pick for Pixar's best." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
Ratcatcher (2000) |
"Ramsay tells much of the story through a series of images, each more marvellous than the last." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Ray (2004) |
"A sometimes wobbly blend of the ordinary and the amazing, Ray is nevertheless entirely engaging because of a remarkable central performance and a smartly lived-up-to promise." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 4/5 |
Read My Lips (2002) |
"Audiard has created one of those rare, commercially released movies that trades in actual, honest-to-god surprise." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Reader (2008) |
"Like a good book with missing pages, The Reader seems stripped of essential meaning." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/5 |
The Real Cancun (2003) |
"Hardly qualifies as a movie." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Real Time (2008) |
"Watching Baruchel and Quaid is the payoff in Real Time. But the repetitive, occasionally banal script lets them down." |
Linda Barnard |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Rebound (2005) |
"With the bounceless Rebound, Martin Lawrence has managed the feat of transforming from razor-tongue Bad Boys comic into a cuddly Bill Cosby clone." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Recipes For Disaster (2008) |
"Director John Webster takes an unconventionally personal and highly engaging approach to the subject of climate change." |
Jason Anderson |
Splat 2/5 |
The Reckoning (2004) |
"The fascinating issue of the secularization of theatre is reduced to mere whodunnit pretext." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/5 |
The Recruit (2003) |
"The Recruit manages to be almost utterly without innovation apart from its heroic determination to make matinee idol material out of a spy agency that pioneered the process of extra-legal bureaucratic sociopathology known as 'black ops.'" |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Red Cliff (2009) |
"What remains is still plenty rousing, especially to moviegoers eager to see Woo regain his footing after an increasingly dismal series of outings in Hollywood." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato 3/5 |
Red Dragon (2002) |
"It's highly entertaining, fast-paced and ultimately without deeper meaning, just like most other Hollywood blockbusters these days." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Red Eye (2005) |
"An airborne suspense thriller that terrifies with a smile." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Red Green - Duct Tape Forever (2003) |
"A pretty solid movie ... one that should amuse casual admirers (present company included) while delighting the rabid fan." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Red Lights (2004) |
"Puts a tense, deteriorating marriage on a highway-bound collision course with a killer." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat |
Red Planet (2000) |
"Atrocious dialogue, gross clichés, absurd plot twists and ludicrous orchestral flourishes." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Red Road (2007) |
"Like the Peeping Tom-paranoia of similar recent films Disturbia and Civic Duty, this finely crafted debut feature by Scottish writer/director Andrea Arnold packs a wallop." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Redacted (2007) |
"Where Casualties of War had the swooning formal elegance of an opium dream, Redacted adopts the fractured fitfulness of a seizure." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Redbelt (2008) |
"The glue that holds it together is Ejiofor's muscular performance as a man whose principles may be about to feel the brass knuckles of reality." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/5 |
Reign of Fire (2002) |
"It's hard to imagine a better futuristic flying dragon movie than this, if one can imagine such a thing at all. However, while we wait for such a comparison, we could probably do a lot worse than Reign Of Fire." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"At the very least, it puts a whole new spin on Billy Madison." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat |
Reindeer Games (2000) |
"The chief idiocy of this movie, even allowing for its modest 'B' flick intentions, is its car-wreck of coincidences and contrivances." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Religulous (2008) |
"We need skeptics. They infuriate, but they also illuminate, and anybody whose faith can't take the knocks that Maher dishes out probably has deeper spiritual issues to deal with." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rendition (2007) |
"It's one thing for a thriller to be timely, quite another for it to function as Rendition does, a gripping piece of entertainment with a clear head on its shoulders." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Reno 911!: Miami (2007) |
"The actors behind this show are far more talented than this movie suggests -- many of their funniest quirks haven't made the final cut -- and there's no excuse beyond simple quick-buck greed for such a sloppy effort." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Rent (2005) |
"Director Chris Columbus has done what any smart filmmaker would do with a musical and let the songs dictate his movie." |
Susan Walker |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) |
"As it has evolved from a 10-minute cabaret piece, through a short film Bousman made in Toronto, to the big screen, Repo! The Genetic Opera has gained in both guts and gusto." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/5 |
The Republic of Love (2003) |
"A quaintly uncomplicated romance that struggles to keep up with the quality of its acting." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Rescue Dawn (2007) |
"Workmanlike and watchable, Rescue Dawn is nonetheless a disappointment in its depiction of a hero with plenty of scars but little depth or substance beyond an iron will." |
Bruce Demara |
Splat 2/4 |
Reservation Road (2007) |
"The major failure here is fear of the very emotions the movie purports to be about." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1/4 |
Resident Evil (2002) |
"A derivative collection of horror and sci-fi cliches." |
Peter Howell |
Splat .5/4 |
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) |
"If ever a movie was made for a quick in-and-out engagement at the multiplex, this is it." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/5 |
Respiro (2003) |
"A quietly disarming drama by Emanuele Crialese that tugs at family ties and calls into question the conventional definition of 'normal.'" |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Resurrecting the Champ (2007) |
"While Resurrecting the Champ seems to be just what you expect, it's only when you've let your guard slip that you realize it's hiding something altogether more forceful in its glove." |
Geoff Pevere |
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