R.P.M. (1970)

"Pathetic attempt by Kramer to examine the difficulties hard-working college administrators faced during the 1960s when radicals tried to take over schools."

Rabid (1977)

"While Chambers does add some resonance to the film as a sexual icon, her acting ability is decidedly limited."

Racing With the Moon (1984)

"Everyone tries hard, but the movie is essentially superficial and has difficulty sustaining audience interest."

Radiant City (2006)

"[A] sublimely slippery, slightly surreal and not entirely 'just the facts, ma'am' documentary."

Radio Flyer (1992)

"The resulting film is like a travesty of a Spielberg paean to childhood innocence -- an uplifting fantasy about child abuse and suicide."

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

"Most viewers are powerless to resist the kinetic pleasures of this endlessly inventive action adventure."

Rain (2002)

"Jeff's debut feature is a small masterpiece of atmosphere."

The Rain People (1969)

"This odd odyssey was not a hit, even though over the years it has been regarded as one of Coppola's more personal pictures and has attained a limited following."

Raise Your Voice (2004)

"To be fair, the normally likeable Duff gives an adequate performance, but the poorly executed scenes in which Duff's singing voice was clearly post-dubbed and her own lack of emotional range keep the film from rising to whatever potential it may have had."

Raising Arizona (1987)

"An entertaining, energetic, and stylish comedy about a simple but loving couple who long to be parents."

Raising Victor Vargas (2003)

"With a casual brilliance reminiscent of the young Truffaut, writer-director Peter Sollett expanded his award-winning short 'Five Feet High and Rising' into one of the most welcome debut features in ages."

Ram Dass Fierce Grace (2002)

"The heart of the film is a touching reflection on aging, suffering and the prospect of death."

Rambo (2008)

"A brutal, insanely excessive successor to grindhouse pictures of yore."

Rambo III (1988)

"A mindless and uninspired effort."

Rana's Wedding (2002)

"Khoury may be a few years too old to play a minor still squirming under her father's thumb, but her performance as a timid young woman who finds strength while looking for a husband is quite affecting."

Random Hearts (1999)

"It would help if the leads weren't brittle and stone-faced."

Rashomon (1950)

"A monument to Akira Kurosawa's greatness, combining his well-known humanism with an experimental narrative style that has become a hallmark of film history."

Rat Race (2001)

"...a hit-or-miss comedic proposition."

Rated X (2000)

"The film inevitably streamlines and neatens up the Mitchell's spectacularly messy lives. But for anyone who missed the short but influential era of porno chic, it's an eye-opener, a primer on how we got here from there."

Re-Animator (1985)

"While Re-Animator fails as a faithful adaptation of Lovecraft, it is an incredibly demented movie in its own right that combines a plethora of downright disgusting grand guignol with disturbing black humor."

Ready to Rumble (2000)

"Way too dumb and clueless."

The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2007)

"Taggart Siegel's loving portrait of eccentric farmer John Peterson is an epic writ small that focuses on a life lived almost entirely on a Caledonia, Ill., farm yet encompasses six decades of changing American social mores and economic upheavals."

Real Women Have Curves (2002)

"Ana's struggles are dramatized and resolved in true Afterschool Special fashion, but the film is rescued from banality by its uniformly appealing performances."

Reality Bites (1993)

"It's often genuinely funny -- but it's still an establishment picture pretending it's not."

Rear Window (1954)

"One of the film's early ad campaigns read, 'If you do not experience delicious terror when you see Rear Window, then pinch yourself--you are most probably dead.'"