Tomato 2.5/4 |
W. (2008) |
"W. is an engaging and sometimes revealing watch. At the very least, it's a change from the mindless Bush-bashing that has become so tedious." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Wackness (2008) |
"The Wackness exudes a vibe that is rich in emotional truth, even if some of the details get lost in a green haze." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wah-Wah (2006) |
"Deftly balancing the end of British colonialism in Africa against a family's painful disintegration, Wah-Wah marks the impressive directing debut of Richard E. Grant." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1/5 |
Waiting... (2005) |
"A puerile excuse for humour, perfectly described by one of the characters, in a rare moment of insight, as 'an exercise in retarded homophobic futility.'" |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Waitress (2007) |
"While Shelly's film trades in an especially outrageous form of girl-movie self-consciousness, she's completely sincere when it comes to making her heroine the irresistible repository of our sympathies." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
Waking Life (2001) |
"A fantastically smart attempt at creating an evocative cinematic expression for some of our most complex metaphysical conundrums." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Walk All Over Me (2007) |
"Dated and obvious." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
"Walk Hard is the kind of movie that you want to love and not just like, but liking it is good enough." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Walk on Water (2005) |
"Watching, you can't help but feel the issues, the serious as well as the fun ones, are ill-served by the perfunctory examinations offered by the filmmaker." |
Malene Arpe |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"Most Johnny Cash fans probably don't care that much about how their hero ended up with June Carter. Therein resides the main problem with Walk the Line's devotion to simple truth over cherished fable." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
Walking Tall (2004) |
"This revised Walking Tall has only kinetic energy going for it." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/4 |
WALL-E (2008) |
"The greatest of all films by Pixar Animation, the little Disney studio with the Midas touch." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/4 |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
" The cheesy puns are as thick as rabbits in the bucolic England of inventor Wallace and his loyal mutt Gromit, and that's a gouda thing." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wanted (2008) |
"[Bekmambetov] hasn't just made a thriller with Wanted, he's redefined the genre." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
War (2007) |
"All-the-way-through good, from explosive start to bloody finish, without so much as a momentary lag in the action or the story." |
Rob Salem |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
War Dance (2007) |
"'The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places,' Hemingway wrote in A Farewell to Arms. That statement might stand as the summation of this documentary, which celebrates the strength of winsome, broken children." |
Philip Marchand |
Tomato 3/4 |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"In terms of sheer spectacle alone, War of the Worlds is a winner. If this movie doesn't help stop or turn around the box-office slide of the past few months, then Hollywood really is in big trouble." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The War Tapes (2006) |
"An absolutely spellbinding first-person documentary of regular soldiers in the Iraq War, as seen through digital cameras carried into combat." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
The War Within (2005) |
"An endlessly complicated movie about the potential for terrorism among American Muslims." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/4 |
War, Inc. (2008) |
"It all adds up to a fast pace, lots of shooting, and a movie that, in its heart, is as corrupt as the politics it attempts to satirize." |
Philip Marchand |
Splat 3/5 |
Warriors of Heaven and Earth (2004) |
"Unfortunately, the two main protagonists, Lieutenant Li and Lai Xi, are too much the strong, silent type to engage us as heroes, or even characters." |
Susan Walker |
Splat |
The Wash (2001) |
"More of a missed opportunity than a movie." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Watchmen (2009) |
"Against considerable odds, Snyder has directed a movie that should satisfy fanboys while engaging adventurous newcomers." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/4 |
Water (2006) |
"Mehta has concocted a potent mix of politics, historical conflict, religion and philosophical questioning." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) |
"A tepid, CGI-enhanced family movie that should delight 6-year-olds with a lap full of popcorn." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Waterlife (2009) |
"The veteran Canuck documentarian tours the five lakes -- Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario -- and reflects upon a sad litany of abuses that man and nature have inflicted upon this fragile fluidity." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Watermarks (2004) |
"Zilberman's storytelling is a little jumpy, but his documentary is a fitting tribute to seven women whose strength of mind and character, as much as their physical prowess, was developed by the organization that ensured their survival." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 2/5 |
The Way Home (2002) |
"While certain cues, like the happy music, suggest that this movie is supposed to warm our hearts, Jeong-Hyang Lee's film is just as likely to blacken that organ with cold vengefulness." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
Waydowntown (2002) |
"waydowntown manages to nail the spirit-crushing ennui of denuded urban living without giving in to it." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
We Are Marshall (2006) |
"What's missing is any kind of insight into the lives of the dead players or the members of the Young Thundering Herd who rise up to replace them." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"If you can deal with the muddy footprints, the mess is worth it." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 2/4 |
We Own The Night (2007) |
"Highly derivative of 1970s films. Sometimes 'good enough' just isn't good enough." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 3/4 |
We Were Soldiers (2002) |
"Even those stout hearts who managed to sit through the gore of Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down will likely find it difficult to watch scenes such as the one where a soldier's face is burned away by a phosphorus grenade." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Weather Man (2005) |
"Like the chilly winds that blow throughout it, The Weather Man is cold, grim, erratic and eventually just relentless." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Wedding Crashers (2005) |
"It's a pretty lousy movie with some funny parts." |
Geoff Pevere |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Wedding Date (2005) |
"There is not a single memorable joke or line of dialogue in it, something that even the dumbest of comedies usually delivers." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/4 |
Weirdsville (2007) |
"You don't have to be stoned to watch Allan Moyle's latest small-town escapade, but it might help." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) |
"Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins reinforces the sense that movies are not about real life but about other movies." |
Philip Marchand |
Tomato 3/5 |
Welcome to Collinwood (2002) |
"This first-time feature by writer/director brothers Anthony and Joe Russo, with its light plot, short run time and derivative script, feels like a tentative trial run in film, but the Russos are clearly ones to watch." |
Daphne Gordon |
Splat 2/5 |
Welcome to Mooseport (2004) |
"Donald Petrie's movie is so over-laundered that it has completely sacrificed shape for comfort." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
"The victories and insights gained in Wendy and Lucy are hard-won and small in stature, but they linger on the mind." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato 4/5 |
Whale Rider (2003) |
"It's a film about gender empowerment in which the struggle between the sexes isn't reduced to crude stereotypes, and the lessons learned come honestly and with a sense of genuine revelation." |
Peter Howell |
Splat 2/5 |
What a Girl Wants (2003) |
"What A Girl Wants doesn't satisfy." |
Daphne Gordon |
Tomato 3/4 |
What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"Here's a romantic comedy that is goofy, highly implausible, sometimes over the top, often in bad taste, and resolutely empty-headed. In short, it's the best example of its genre to appear on the screen this year." |
Philip Marchand |
Splat 1.5/4 |
What Just Happened (2008) |
"You'd probably need a veteran Hollywood psychiatrist to explain Tinseltown's fascination with its own muck." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
What Lies Beneath (2000) |
"Zemeckis has made a horror movie for people who probably don't generally like horror movies." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato |
What Planet Are You From? (2000) |
"A testicle-tweaking satire on men trying to get in touch with feelings most of them didn't know they had." |
Geoff Pevere |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
What Remains of Us (2004) |
"Bound to raise awareness of a forgotten country wherever it is seen." |
Susan Walker |
Splat 1/5 |
What the Bleep Do We Know? (2004) |
"The film with the year's most unfortunate title also happens to be a candidate for the year's worst film." |
Peter Howell |
Tomato |
What Women Want (2000) |
"It should be called What Moviegoers Want, because it appeals to both sexes, without pandering to or demeaning either of them." |
Peter Howell |
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