Tomato |
E-Dreams (2002) |
"The film delivers what it promises: A look at the "wild ride" that ensues when brash young men set out to conquer the online world with laptops, cell phones and sketchy business plans." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/4 |
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
"One of the most popular movies ever made." |
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Splat 1.5/4 |
Eagle Eye (2008) |
"Noisy, derivative and thoroughly preposterous even by the standards of 21st-century action movies." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
Eagle Vs. Shark (2007) |
"With an often very funny story line that eventually touches on parental disappointment and suicide, it's clear that, his debt to Hess and Wes Anderson notwithstanding, Waititi has learned a thing or two from fellow antipodean Jane Campion as well." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Earrings of Madame De... (1953) |
"For the five-year period from 1950-55 (shortly before he died), Max Ophuls was arguably the world's greatest filmmaker creating La Ronde, Le Plaisir, Lola Montes, and this masterful study of a tragic, three-cornered romance." |
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Tomato 4/4 |
Earth (1930) |
"The tragedy of Dovzhenko is that of a gifted cineaste stymied and almost maddened by the demands, actual and implicit, of his ultra-repressive state sponsors." |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Earth Girls are Easy (1989) |
"Silly, sexy, and filled with music." |
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Tomato 4.5/5 |
East of Eden (1955) |
"Overwrought, often splendid Kazan version of the Steinbeck novel. The movie's chief distinction is the amazing debut of rebellious, romantic James Dean." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Easter Parade (1948) |
"Pretty, deft, and tuneful but, given the top-rate talent involved, not particularly inspired." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Eastern Promises (2007) |
"An icily seductive parable about family, power, unconventional justice and the perils of answered prayers." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Easy Living (1937) |
"Preston Sturges's imaginative script is one of his best, adroitly mixing his customary satire of capitalism and the class system with some dazzling dialogue and hilarious slapstick." |
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Tomato 4/4 |
Easy Rider (1969) |
"Slack but powerful, sentimental yet scathing, experimental but predictable." |
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Splat 2/4 |
Easy Virtue (1927) |
"Coward's strength was sparkling dialogue, which makes his work a poor fit for the silent cinema." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Eat Drink Man Woman (1994) |
"A remarkably assured comedy-drama of domestic life in Taiwan." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Eat This New York (2002) |
"Entertaining documentary about the odds against making it in the New York City restaurant business." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Eating Out (2005) |
"A tasteless comedy that nevertheless leaves a nasty flavor on the tongue." |
Ken Fox |
Splat |
Eban and Charley (2000) |
"[Bolton] undermines his own carefully balanced presentation of the situation by making 29-year-old Eban (Brent Fellows) so creepy." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Eclipse (1962) |
"One watches -- and, perhaps more importantly, hears -- the modern world through his rendering of emotion, architecture, chaos, boredom, silence, and incommunicability." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Ecstasy (1933) |
"The simple story is told with invention by director Gustav Machaty, who seems especially influenced by the editing techniques of Eisenstein." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ed Wood (1994) |
"Typically, Burton's storytelling is sometimes erratic, but his emphasis on humanizing marginal characters -- a project that seems central to his artistic agenda -- is as strong as ever." |
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Splat 2/4 |
Eddie (1996) |
"A blessedly obscure little movie that you won't be finding on Whoopi's career highlights reel." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Edge Codes.com: The Art of Motion Picture Editing (2005) |
"Solid, if hyperactive." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Edge of Heaven (2008) |
"Akin achieves a peaceful balance here -- alongside the death and seemingly senseless tragedy, there’s also a kind of reassuring equilibrium." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/5 |
EdgeCodes.com (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Edith and Marcel (1983) |
"Had these stories not existed, director Lelouch would surely have invented them." |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Edmond (2006) |
"Mamet's paranoid rant...is as bilious as ever, but time has overtaken and defanged it." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Edukators (2005) |
"While openly acknowledging the failures of the past, Weingartner and cowriter Katharina Held hold out hope, even in an age when rebellion itself has become a cheap commodity." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/4 |
Edward Scissorhands (1990) |
"Fine performances all around, particularly from Depp and the immensely sympathetic Wiest." |
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Tomato 4.5/5 |
Effi Briest (1974) |
"One of the finest films to come out of postwar Germany." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Eight Below (2006) |
"[A] top-notch survival adventure that will reduce the coldest heart to a puddle of warm slush." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/5 |
Eight Legged Freaks (2002) |
"While it occasionally drags a bit, the film captures the same tone -- knowing without being overtly jokey -- that made Tremors so entertaining." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
Eight Men Out (1988) |
"Sayles not only depicts the circumstances that led to the fix (most notably Sox owner Charles Comiskey's legendary tightfistedness), but he also re-creates the games in great detail, making the best possible use of an athletic cast." |
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Tomato |
Eisenstein (2002) |
"It may not be entirely reliable in historical terms, but it offers an intriguing impression of the man, his art and his times." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
El (1952) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
El Bola (2000) |
"Though uniformly well acted, especially by young Ballesta and Galan (a first-time actor), writer/director Achero Manas's film is schematic and obvious." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
El Bonaerense (2003) |
"Trapero again proves himself a master of mood, evoking the gritty, workaday world of contemporary Argentina that helped establish him as one of the most important young directors of the new Argentine cinema." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/4 |
El Carro (2003) |
"Writer Dago Garcia and director Orjuela are less interested in a comedy of sexual manners than in exploring the ties that connect husbands and wives, parents and children, and brothers and sisters." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
El Cortez |
"Director Stephen Purvis and writer Chris Haddock never rise above the material's inherent pulpiness, but they keep the twists coming until the very end." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
El Dorado (1967) |
"EL DORADO addresses the standard Hawks themes of group loyalty and professionalism, but is also a poignant meditation on the passing of the old and the coming of the new." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
El Leyton (2002) |
"The story unfolds like a particularly juicy bit of small-town gossip, one that's told by a particularly vivid storyteller." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
El Mariachi (1992) |
"The unrelenting tempo is bolstered by Rodriguez's camera work and editing: nearly every frame seems to have been shot with a careening, handheld camera, and they're cut together in a skillful, fluid fashion that enhances the tension and pace." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
El Norte (1984) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/4 |
El Topo (1970) |
"A mass of indecipherable symbols combined with obvious self-indulgence on the part of a writer-director-star Alexandro Jodorowsky make what could have been an entertaining western into one of the more pretentious films ever made." |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
The Electric Horseman (1979) |
"Horseman falls far short of what it might have been, starting out smart but getting sloppier and more sentimental as it goes along." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Electric Shadows |
"Xiao's bittersweet film is superficially a swoony love letter to the cinema. But her valentine has a hidden sting, rooted in some hard truths." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Elegy (2008) |
"This melancholy mediation on aging and desire hangs on an exquisite performance from Penelope Cruz as a young woman who becomes the love object of a man twice her age. It's easily her finest English-language performance to date." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/5 |
Elektra (2005) |
"Garner looks as terrific in Elektra's trademark scarlet bustier as Halle Berry did in Catwoman drag, but pinup appeal alone does not a compelling movie make." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Elena and Her Men (1956) |
"This is a fantastic film. It is filled with patented Renoirisms, from the utter sincerity of the emotions to the exceptional impressionistic composition." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
Elephant (2003) |
"What at first appears to be a random arrangement of long takes is actually the slowly mounting and excruciatingly suspenseful prelude to an apocalypse." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/4 |
Elephant Boy (1937) |
"Although it has not aged well, there is still a great deal of merit to the story, the style and the stars, and any young person cannot fail to love it." |
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