Tomato 3.5/5 |
D.E.B.S. (2005) |
"Something supremely silly yet slyly subversive: a gay girl-power romance in skimpy exploitation clothing." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
D.O.A. (1949) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/4 |
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"Only Ian McKellan seems to understand the profound silliness of the film in which he finds himself, and he camps it up accordingly; the rest of the cast soldiers grimly through this preposterous, 148-minute marathon looking understandably exhausted." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Daddy Day Camp (2007) |
"This terrible sequel to a bad movie was directed by Fred Savage, the now-grown star of The Wonder Years, though there's no evidence of any behind-the-scenes adult supervision." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/5 |
Daddy Day Care (2003) |
"The film seems longer than its 93-minute running time, but kids will probably enjoy its potty humor." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/4 |
Daddy's Little Girls (2007) |
"There are fewer laughs and more lectures... but there's plenty of sass and soul in between." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2.5/5 |
Dahmer (2002) |
"Renner's performance as Dahmer is unimpeachable, fascinating without being charismatic." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2/4 |
Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) |
"The character is based on a long-running BBC television series of the same name." |
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Splat 2/4 |
Daltry Calhoun (2005) |
"Contains a couple of lovely scenes that are all but smothered by a shambling mess of self-conscious eccentricity." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/4 |
Damnation (1987) |
"Tarr's uncompromisingly tragic view of the human condition is well supported by a rigorous formal approach, resulting in an austere work of art." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
A Damsel in Distress (1937) |
"Burns and Allen are reliably funny and display more than passing hoofing abilities, and Montague Love and Reginald Gardiner are properly pompous in their aristocratic roles." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Dan in Real Life (2007) |
"It's a clever idea for a romantic comedy that presents a credible obstacle for two modern, would-be lovers to maneuver around for 90 minutes." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dance Party USA (2006) |
"Dramatically simple but emotionally complex." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/5 |
Dance With a Stranger (1984) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Dance With Me (1998) |
"For every cliché embraced in its entirety, another is subverted just enough that you're pleasantly surprised." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 3/5 |
Dancer in the Dark (1999) |
"This may be a musical, but don't expect a good time; it's a grim tragedy that's deliberately drab and exceedingly painful to watch." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Dancer Upstairs (2003) |
"The actors' diverse accents clash, some are clearly more fluent than others and the sense of relief when anyone speaks a rare line in Spanish is palpable." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Dances with Wolves (1990) |
"Not a great film by any standard, this is a western for people who are completely ignorant about the genre." |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2001) |
"Contains striking moments, but never coheres." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Dandelion (2005) |
"First-time director Mark Milgard displays enormous promise and a surprisingly sensitive touch." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/4 |
Dangerous Liaisons (1988) |
"Its vernacular style allows the film to connect easily with present-day morals, sexual politics, and thirst for power." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) |
"Chris Fuhrman ... couldn't have asked for a better cast of young actors to bring his bittersweet book to life." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/5 |
Danny Deckchair (2004) |
"Lighter than helium but irresistible nonetheless." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/4 |
Dans Paris (2007) |
"This is a film for hardcore film fans and Francophiles. Everyone else may find little to sustain them beyond the pastiche and shots of Paris." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) |
"This excellent fantasy romps through the folklore world of Ireland." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Daredevil (2003) |
"A larger-than-life action melodrama, it makes clear that superhero films are the next evolutionary generation of action movies." |
Frank Lovece |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Darfur Now (2007) |
"'Inspiring' is a word often used to describe human-rights-oriented documentaries, but Theodore Braun's film about efforts to ease the ongoing genocide in Sudan's Darfur region really earns that epithet." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/4 |
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) |
"Amid all this self-conscious cleverness, the one sequence built around primal emotions feels hideously out of place, its gravity diminished by the self-consciously kooky antics that surround it." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/5 |
Dark Blue (2003) |
"While David Ayer's script lacks the deft plotting of L.A. Confidential, it has something most thrillers sorely lack: a conscience." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Dark Blue World (2001) |
"The fate of national heroes like the fictitious Franta is a fascinating subject that deserves a documentary all its own, so it comes as a surprise that Sverak pere et fils should devote so much screen time to a trite romantic triangle." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/5 |
Dark City (1998) |
"It's all about the amazing look, cobbled together from an astonishingly evocative range of sources: Nosferatu and Mad Love, Brazil and Metropolis, a haunted mosaic of bits and pieces of movie memories." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"Ledger's mesmerizingly damaged agent provocateur is the film's dark heart, a presence so malevolently unpredictable that it remains palpable even when he's not on screen." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dark Matter (2008) |
"Written by Billy Shebar and directed by opera director Chen Shi-Zheng, this visually sophisticated film has been criticized for turning a deeply disturbed individual into a "hero," but nothing could be further from the truth." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Dark Star (1974) |
"An intermittently hilarious satire on 2001." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Dark Water (2005) |
"An intelligent, brooding ghost story brimming with atmosphere, emotions and, above all else, water, but it's disappointingly short on scares." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Darkman (1990) |
"It's a darkly amusing treat." |
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Splat 2/4 |
Darkness (2003) |
"All of this, of course, would be forgivable if it added up to a scary movie or made even a lick of sense (chunks appear to have been cut out of a longer cut of the film), but Balaguero manages to disappoint on every possible front." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Darkness Falls (2003) |
"The gloomy cinematography and rapid-fire editing ensure that the tooth fairy isn't overexposed, but you can't see much of anything else, either." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
Darshan - the Embrace (2006) |
"Even if the idea of spiritual gurus and personality cults make you slightly uncomfortable, Jan Kounen's beautifully filmed portrait of Sri Mata Amritanandamayi offers enough beautiful shots of India to seduce even the least spiritual of travelers." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/5 |
Darwin's Nightmare (2006) |
"It's one of the best films about the ugly reality of the global marketplace." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 1/4 |
Date Movie (2006) |
"Nothing is actually ever satirized, just referenced, and some sequences are so badly executed they're completely incomprehensible." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/5 |
Daughters of the Dust (1991) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Dave (1993) |
"The result is the funniest, savviest political comedy to come our way in some time." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006) |
"Two years after going AWOL from his hit Comedy Central show, Dave Chappelle makes a tentative foray back into the limelight with a good old-fashioned concert film that, surprisingly, features very little of Chappelle himself." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/4 |
David & Layla (2008) |
"The road to formulaic romantic-comedy complications and ethic clichés is paved with good intentions in first-time filmmaker Jay Jonroy's cross-culture love story, which might as well be called My Big Fat Kurdish Wedding." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
David and Lisa (1962) |
"The understated charm of David and Lisa is what set the movie apart from so many other attempts at depicting the problems of the mentally ill." |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
David Hockney: The Colors of Music (2005) |
"Hockney is unquestionably a genial gent, but the film's rather shallow treatment of his art only reinforces the long-held opinion that Hockney is more a brilliant visual stylist than an artist of any great depth." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/4 |
David Holzman's Diary (1967) |
"A unique, often brilliant satire." |
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Tomato 4/4 |
Dawn of the Dead (1978) |
"Dawn of the Dead abandons easy scare tactics in favor of a darkly satirical assault on bourgeois culture, traditional notions of masculinity, and rampant consumerism." |
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Tomato 2.5/5 |
Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
"A buzzed-up gloss on the original, it's entertaining -- if fundamentally shallow." |
Maitland McDonagh |
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