Tomato 2.5/4 |
U Me Aur Hum (2008) |
"The first half is dumb kid stuff, but the second is classic melodrama aimed straight at viewers who've experienced life's cruel caprices and taken stock of what really matters." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/5 |
U-571 (2000) |
"Straightforwardly entertaining and a genuine nail-biter." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
U-Carmen (2007) |
"[Director] Dornford-May's straightforward filmmaking neither glamorizes Khayelitsha and its residents nor plays up the contrast between the silky score and their hardscrabble lives." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) |
"Situates the violation of one U.S. resident's civil rights in the context of Nixon-era paranoia and warmongering, a mood the film suggests is once again upon us." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/4 |
U2 3D (2008) |
"Political agenda aside, U2 put on a hell of a show. And with 3-D glasses, every seat is the best seat in the house." |
Adam Schubak |
Tomato 5/5 |
Ugetsu (1953) |
"This lyrical, enchanting film by Mizoguchi is one of Japanese cinema's greatest masterpieces." |
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Splat 2/4 |
The Ultimate Gift (2007) |
"It is message filmmaking so blunt you might be tempted to root for the parasitic reprobate over the saintly old man, and that's just not right." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/5 |
Ultimate X: The Movie (2002) |
"Needs more impressionistic cinematography and exhilarating point-of-view shots and fewer slow-motion 'grandeur' shots and quick-cut edits that often detract from the athleticism." |
Frank Lovece |
Splat 1/4 |
Ultraviolet (2006) |
"Kurt Wimmer's film epitomizes just about everything wrong with post-Matrix, comic book-/video-game-inspired, Hong Kong-action-style sci-fi thrillers." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ulysses' Gaze (1995) |
"Modernist stylization has its place in narrative film, but in this case less would have meant much more." |
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Tomato 5/5 |
Umberto D. (1952) |
"Simple on its surface but actually multi-layered and complex, this shattering portrait of an old man is an indictment of postwar Italy and its treatment of the aged." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
Un Coeur En Hiver (A Heart in Winter) (1992) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/4 |
Un Flic (1971) |
"Fragile beauty Deneuve gets little more than a walk-on as the woman carrying on with both men." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Un Secret (2008) |
"Both a gripping mystery and an ever-timely reminder of the terrible power of repression and silence." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Unaccompanied Minors (2006) |
"There isn't an original moment in the mix, but it's not as crass or vulgar as much of what passes for 'family friendly' entertainment, and it keeps the precocious pop-culture references to a blessed minimum." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Unborn (2009) |
"If you're the kind of horror fan who gets your kicks from phantasmagorical imagery and shivers at the thought of supernatural forces beyond our realm of comprehension, you could do a lot worse than The Unborn." |
Jason Buchanan |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Unborn in the USA: Inside the War on Abortion (2006) |
"Filmmakers Stephen Fell and Will Thompson examine one reason the pro-life movement might be gaining so much ground: Its no-holds-barred use of disturbing images of aborted fetuses." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/5 |
Unbreakable (2000) |
"A considerable emotional investment in comic book lore is required for that to make this glum, poky picture worth watching through to the final revelation." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/5 |
Uncle Nino (2003) |
"Heartwarming is not always a bad thing. Consider this family film from writer-director Robert Shallcross: It's not only warm and fuzzy in all the right places, it's something that the whole family might actually enjoy." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Unconscious (2007) |
"Film is ultimately unsure of what it wants to say about modernity, psychoanalysis and all it liberates." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/5 |
Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004) |
"Strongly support what critics of the Bush administration's unilateral Iraq policy have claimed all along." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Undead (2005) |
"A cheerful Frankenstein's monster, cobbled together from bits of dozens of zombie gut-crunchers, plus aliens, acid rain and assorted X-Files weirdness." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato |
Under Hellgate Bridge (2001) |
"It may not be as epochal a piece of work as Mean Streets, but packs what feels like a real-life punch none the less." |
Steve Simels |
Splat 2/5 |
Under Suspicion (2000) |
"Not even the high-caliber talents of Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman can save this stagy, ridiculously over-baked psychological thriller." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 0/4 |
Under the Cherry Moon (1986) |
"The whole film plays exactly for what it is, one long essay in ego massaging." |
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Splat 0/4 |
Under the Rainbow (1981) |
"Whose idea was this anyway?" |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Under the Same Moon (2008) |
"It's an unexpectedly powerful little film that manages to say a lot of what, despite all the talk on the subject, isn't being said in the national debate on immigration." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/5 |
Under the Sand (2001) |
"Rampling, working in French, remarkably delivers what is perhaps her deepest, most effortlessly nuanced performance." |
Frank Lovece |
Tomato 9/10 |
Under the Skin (1997) |
"Adler's portrait of emotional disintegration is in many ways as harrowing as Roman Polanski's Repulsion, thanks in large part to Morton's terrifying performance." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Under the Skin of the City (2003) |
"Like many of Bani-Etemad's previous films, particularly her early documentaries, this polished, surprisingly slick drama exposes the human cost of Iran's rapid urbanization and capitalist expansion." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato |
Under the Sun (2001) |
"Nutley and his superb cast go straight for the heartstrings and give them a nice little tug." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/5 |
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) |
"Rather than converting messy, real-life experience into slick, formulaic entertainment, Well's script transforms it into a shapeless, internally inconsistent mess of artificial contrivances." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Under the Volcano (1984) |
"The result is very much worth the wait, bringing to life the mysticism of Mexico with a superb script by Guy Gallo, exquisite photography, and the unparalleled performance by Finney." |
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Splat 2/5 |
Underclassman (2005) |
"Yes, it's really silly. And no, you won't remember a thing about it the second it's over. But adults looking for fast-moving, nonviolent fun that kids might actually enjoy could do a lot worse." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/5 |
Undercover Brother (2002) |
"An amiable if inconsistent send-up of and tribute to blaxploitation flicks of the early 1970s." |
Steve Simels |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Underdog (2007) |
"If you set your expectations just low enough, or are an easily satisfied 8-year-old, you might have a bit of fun." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/5 |
Underground (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 2.5/5 |
Undertow (2004) |
"It's Lucas' slithery turn as Deel, which could easily have degenerated into an exercise in mustache-twirling villainy, that keeps you watching through the last turn in the dusty road." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/5 |
Underworld (2003) |
"Handsome though the film is ... the story is strangled by speeches about bloodlines, customs, alliances, feuds, battles and ceremonies." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Underworld: Evolution (2006) |
"True to its serial roots, this equally silly but undeniably entertaining sequel to Underworld (2003) picks up right where its high-grossing predecessor left off and offers more of the same ..." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/4 |
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) |
"The picture is really missing that vampiric bite that it should have." |
Jeremy Wheeler |
Splat 2/5 |
Undiscovered (2005) |
"Misunderstandings, hurt feelings and anguished love songs follow." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/5 |
Undisputed (2002) |
"Writer-director Walter Hill and co-writer David Giler try to create characters out of the obvious cliches, but wind up using them as punching bags." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Unfaithful (2002) |
"This fundamentally cold (and very French) conceit is muffled in fuzzy layers of (very American) soul-baring." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 5/5 |
Unfaithfully Yours (1948) |
"The last of Sturges's Hollywood films, and one of his finest." |
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Tomato 2.5/5 |
An Unfinished Life (2005) |
"Hallstrom's resolutely old-fashioned film, based on Mark Spragg's novel, is sympathetic to the internalized WASP way of grief, and enriched by Redford's and Freeman's subtle, superlative performances." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Unforeseen (2007) |
"[Director Laura] Dunn's elegant, full-length debut presents a frightening and powerful argument against the kind of reckless, profit-driven land development that not only threatens natural resources, but life itself." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Unforgiven (1992) |
"One of Eastwood's finest outings to date, an elegiac western that ironically undermines the conventions of the genre, only to deliver a finale as legendary as the shootout at the O.K. Corral." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
The Unholy Three (1925) |
"It is one of Lon Chaney's best movies and biggest hits, about a trio of sideshow "freaks" who become criminals to get revenge on "normal" society." |
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Splat 2/5 |
Union Square (2003) |
"Like its seven subjects, it can't see past the immediate demands of addiction, and the film becomes a seemingly endless string of scenes depicting shooting up, nodding out and waiting around for the next fix." |
Ken Fox |
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