Splat 2/4 |
'Til There Was You (1997) |
"Graceless star Tripplehorn -- who's called upon to execute a painful series of pratfalls in a high-tech restaurant -- is not a natural comedian, and overall the movie is awkward and leaden." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
'Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris (2007) |
"De Felitta's portrait of Paris -- who died in June 2004 -- isn't always flattering, but it is genuinely moving on many levels, none of which require knowledge of or even interest in jazz." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/5 |
10 (1979) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/4 |
10 Items or Less (2006) |
"It all feels like an insubstantial short that's been stretched to the breaking point." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/4 |
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) |
"Gil Junger's TV roots are revealed in his excessive reliance on close-ups and the cast's preponderance of TV actors." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
10,000 B.C. (2008) |
"Too dumb to take seriously, but just silly enough to be sort of fun." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
101 Dalmatians (1961) |
"Three hundred artists worked on this project for three years and came up with one of the best feature cartoons ever produced by Disney Studios." |
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Splat |
101 Reykjavik (2001) |
"Though the film ... has been described by some critics as 'Almodovar-esque,' actor-turned-director Baltasar Kormakur's sensibility is far less outrageous." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/5 |
102 Dalmatians (2000) |
"It's a good thing the dogs are as adorable as they are, because there's not much going on around them." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2.5/4 |
10th & Wolf (2006) |
"The narrative is cluttered with backstory -- and the endless digressions overwhelm the efforts of a generally strong cast that includes cameos by Val Kilmer and by Ligati as one of Reggio's foot soldiers." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The 11th Hour (2007) |
"Hugely effective documentary is a terrifying vision of exactly what's in store if we don't pay greater attention to what we're doing to the planet in our blind rush toward 'progress.'" |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
12 and Holding (2006) |
"When it comes to depicting the inner lives of adolescents, writer-director Michael Cuesta might be the most fearless U.S. filmmaker working today." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/5 |
12 Angry Men (1957) |
"Cinema heresy that worked." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
12 Angry Men (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 4/5 |
12 Monkeys (1995) |
"A clever, complex, and poignant success is as astonishing as it is satisfying." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
12:08 East of Bucharest (2007) |
"Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu grapples with his country's troubled recent past in this wonderfully droll, Cannes Camera d'Or winner about a local TV station owner who attempts to define the events of December 22, 1989." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/5 |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"This sprightly coming-of-age-too-soon comedy rises above its derivative concept by virtue of a well-cast ensemble and Josh Goldsmith and Cathy Yuspa's quick-witted screenplay." |
Angel Cohn |
Tomato 3/4 |
13 Tzameti (2006) |
"An icy plunge into the dark depths of the human mind." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 7/10 |
The 13th Floor (1999) |
"Feels like a bit of a rehash!" |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
The 13th Letter (1951) |
"While not nearly as good as the original, Henri-George Clouzot's Le Corbeau, Preminger's film does have some power and a great deal of suspense." |
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Splat 6/10 |
The 13th Warrior (1999) |
"Murky, all - but - impossible to follow battle sequences." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/4 |
1408 (2007) |
"It's an overblown campfire tale that doesn't know when to stop." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
15 (2005) |
"Tan connects with his dangerously disaffected youth in a way that only a truly sympathetic contemporary can." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/5 |
15 Minutes (2001) |
"This would be a more provocative cri de coeur if the ideas weren't just buzzing around like a swarm of enraged bees." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"The film's saving grace isn't that its plot is particularly unpredictable, it's that [director Richard] Donner and screenwriter Richard Wenk give the actors time to put some flesh on their characters' bones." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2.5/5 |
16 Years Of Alcohol (2003) |
"The voice-over is a touch pretentious and a few scenes play like acting exercises, but the film is filled with a real sense of hopeless poignancy." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/4 |
1900 (1977) |
"Like a delicious pasta salad, ruined with intermittent slabs of Velveeta cheese." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
2 Days In Paris (2007) |
"It's about finding someone whose assets outweigh the flaws and hoping that that person is mature enough to do the same for you. Weighty and downbeat though that sounds, [Delpy's] film is delightfully light." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
2 Days In The Valley (1996) |
"It's not that this is a bad, blackly comic slice-of-lowlife: It's just that you've just seen it all before." |
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Splat 2/5 |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"2 shallow 4 words." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/4 |
2 or 3 Things I Know About Him (2007) |
"Malte Ludin's gripping documentary about the father he barely knew is both an extraordinary exercise in family history and an example of what Germans call Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung: 'facing the past.'" |
Ken Fox |
Splat 3/4 |
20 Centimeters (2005) |
"Monica Cervera's fearless performance as the homely Marieta, whose movie-made dreams of glamour will never come true, is mesmerizing." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/4 |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) |
"One of the best Disney live action films and a classic fantasy-adventure." |
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Splat 2/5 |
200 Cigarettes (1999) |
"Trifling to the max." |
Sandra Contreras |
Tomato 3/4 |
200 Motels (1971) |
"The film is a marvelous whirl of color and visual effects, with some fine animation and Zappa's delicious wit present throughout the entire production." |
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Tomato 4.5/5 |
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) |
"A beautiful, confounding picture that had half the audience cheering and the other half snoring." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
2009: Lost Memories (2005) |
"Though it ultimately devolves into megabudget Hollywood action-movie cliches by way of John Woo, Lee's handsome blockbuster is an entertaining variation on the American formulas that have colonized world cinema." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/5 |
2046 (2005) |
"An intoxicatingly beautiful, maddeningly elliptical and utterly enthralling meditation on the fleeting pleasures and haunting aftermath of doomed romance." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2.5/4 |
21 (2008) |
"The end result is still utterly predictable, thoroughly disposable and less true than truthy." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
21 Grams (2003) |
"Inarritu can spin a good, pulpy yarn, and you're not likely to see three better lead performances in a single movie anytime soon." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/5 |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"An absolute thrill for fans of the Manchester scene." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/5 |
24th Day (2004) |
"There's something deeply troubling, not to mention cruel, about Piccirillo's willingness to use AIDS as the ultimate consequence in a scenario about truth and sexual behavior, and about a scenario in which a gay man is once again targeted as patient zero." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/5 |
25th Hour (2002) |
"Norton convincingly portrays both the good and bad side of his conflicted man." |
Angel Cohn |
Splat 2/4 |
27 Dresses (2008) |
"Light, formulaic and soft around the middle, choreographer-turned-director Anne Fletcher and Aline Brosh McKenna's 'always a bridesmaid... ' tale doesn't miss a pop-psych or pop-culture cliché en route to its fairy-tale ending." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato |
28 Days (2000) |
"Funny, thought-provoking and, yes, touching." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"This unrelenting horror tale's paranoid genius lies in equating free-floating wrath and physical sickness." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
28 Up (1984) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/4 |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"Flawed, but it knows where it's going, and it gets there in a chilling blaze of fire, blood and poisonous fog." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
3 Extremes (2005) |
"While most anthology films have one standout and one weak link, all three tales are short, sharp shockers." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/4 |
3 Godfathers (1948) |
"A wonderful, sentimental western." |
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