Tomato 3/4 |
V For Vendetta (2005) |
"Brutally gorgeous and seething with incendiary images, the Wachowski brothers' monumental call to revolution, based on Alan Moore's gloomy graphic novel about a masked madman who restores anarchy to the U.K., is a vivid but muddled pulp political parable." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Va Savoir (2001) |
"It's an engaging diversion from a master director who, at the ripe age of 78, appears to be once again at the top of his game." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/4 |
Vacancy (2007) |
"For a thriller about torture killing for fun and profit, there's actually very little blood compared to say, the plasma-drenched Hostel, although it's plenty scary and the videotapes are appropriately nasty." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Vacationland (2006) |
"Though Verow attended the American Film Institute and has made more than a dozen shorts and features since 1994, his low-budget gay-themed films are characterized by phenomenal indifference to framing, sound quality and performance." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/4 |
Vajra Sky Over Tibet (2006) |
"The images of gods and ordinary Tibetans that Bush captures are more eloquent that his turgid narration, and overall the film works better as a travelogue than an introduction to Tibetan Buddhist beliefs or history." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/5 |
Valentin (2004) |
"Director Alejandro Agresti badly miscalculates the appeal of his young star." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 4/10 |
Valentine (2001) |
"Blanks ... appears to be carving himself a career making slasher movies for a new generation; unfortunately, he's in no way improving on the originals." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Valet (2007) |
"The films of writer/director Francis Veber are a bracing reminder that French comedies can be every bit as broad, unsophisticated and cliched as their American counterparts." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Valiant (2005) |
"This cleverly told animated World War II adventure aims high and scores a pretty lofty goal." |
Angel Cohn |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Valley Girl (1983) |
"Insightful and genuine." |
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Tomato 3.5/5 |
Valley of Tears (2003) |
"It's a story filled with small triumphs, major setbacks and devastating personal tragedies, remarkably well told." |
Ken Fox |
2/4 |
Valley of the Dolls (1967) |
"Pure trash, based on a trashy book, filled to the brim with trashy performances, now becoming a trashy cult film." |
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2.5/5 |
Vampire Hunter D (1985) |
"...a vampire-human hybrid in a distant future that's equal parts Gothic architecture, sci-fi weaponry and the wild, wild West." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato |
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) |
"It's a must-see for horror buffs and anime fans." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Vampire's Kiss (1989) |
"What truly distinguishes the movie is Cage's performance, which is so off the wall that even if you don't like it you have to watch in awe." |
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Splat 2/5 |
Vampires: Los Muertos (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 5/5 |
Vampyr (1931) |
"The greatest vampire film ever made and one of the few undisputed masterpieces of the horror genre." |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
Van Helsing (2004) |
"A hokey monster mish-mash that plunders the richly textured histories of Dracula, the Wolfman and Frankenstein's monster." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 1/4 |
Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006) |
"The laughs are low, the breasts are high, and the film is instantly forgettable." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
Vanaja (2007) |
"Simultaneously resigned, frustrated, cautiously hopeful, angry and ravishingly beautiful, this story of an impoverished country girl who tries to better herself through Indian classical dance is a stunning debut for writer-director Rajnesh Domalpalli." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/5 |
Vanilla Sky (2001) |
"Feels enervated and logy, its energy sucked into the vacuum of Tom Cruise's star power." |
Maitland McDonagh |
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The Vanishing (1993) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Vanishing Point (1971) |
"A fairly interesting, but somewhat muddled, road movie starring Newman as an ex-cop who now drives cars from Denver to San Francisco for a living." |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
Vanity Fair (2004) |
"The main trouble with softening Becky is that after a certain point she no longer makes sense: Thackeray's plot eventually requires her to act in ways that are entirely at odds with Nair's more heroic conception of Becky." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/4 |
Vantage Point (2008) |
"At a certain point its sheer can-you-top-this excess takes over, credibility flies out the window and there's no reason to continue paying attention." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994) |
"here are moments of considerable power here but this stripped-down rendering gives us something closer to a latterday dysfunctional family than Chekhov's doomed bourgeoisie." |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Variety Lights (1951) |
"Even in this early effort the whimsical, odd world of Fellini comes dancing forth." |
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Tomato |
Varsity Blues (1998) |
"While there are some undeniable false notes, there's also quite a bit on screen that works." |
Sandra Contreras |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Vatel (2000) |
"An absolute triumph of costume and production design." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/5 |
Veer-Zaara (2004) |
"Though Chopra's film is emotionally extravagant even by the standards of India's epically unrestrained cinema, the star-crossed lovers bear the weighty metaphorical significance of their travails surprisingly lightly." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Vegas Vacation (1997) |
"It's a bad sign when National Lampoon wants its name out of the title." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
Velvet Goldmine (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Venetian Dilemma (2005) |
"Neatly outlines the serious predicament Venice faces at the dawn of the 21st century. Must this 1500-year-old city modernize in order to survive, and if so, for whom?" |
Ken Fox |
Splat |
Vengo (2001) |
"Suffers from Gatlif's apparent inability to decide whether he wanted to make a documentary-like look at the consequences of certain traditional Romany practices or a flat-out vendetta melodrama." |
Stephen Miller |
Splat 1/4 |
Venom (2005) |
"This film contains a couple of bracingly mean sequences, but it cleaves so closely to the slasher-movie formula that it can't muster up any suspense at all." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/5 |
Venus and Mars (2003) |
"Simultaneously nakedly formulaic and oddly clumsy." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/5 |
Venus Boyz (2003) |
"Marks a vast territory worthy of further exploration." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 1/4 |
Venus Rising (1995) |
"England, Wirth, and Mandylor merely pose their way through the story line like a trio of fashion-model zombies." |
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Tomato 3.5/5 |
Vera Drake (2004) |
"Staunton is phenomenal -- she barely speaks throughout the entire last third of the film, but the power of her posture and distraught expressions are enough to break your heart." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Verdict (1982) |
"Sidney Lumet directs effectively, keeping the tension strong, and unfolding David Mamet's intelligent screenplay slowly but with maximum impact." |
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3/5 |
Veronica Guerin (2003) |
"Blanchett's insouciant but steely performance alone makes the film worth watching." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/4 |
Veronika Voss (1982) |
"One of the most stylish of Fassbinder's many films." |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
Vertical Limit (2000) |
"The colorless Peter and Annie and the preposterous Wick indulge in such wince-inducing, old-movie dialogue and ''tis a far, far better thing'-style emoting that the whole thing should be in black-and-white." |
Frank Lovece |
Splat 3/5 |
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2001) |
"This slow paced, beautiful film about three sisters and their shifting relationships with the men in their lives is strangely unfulfilling." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 5/5 |
Vertigo (1958) |
"The most-discussed work of the master; despairingly sardonic and demanding of multiple viewings." |
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Splat 2.5/5 |
Very Annie Mary (2001) |
"The cast is uniformly excellent ... but the film itself is merely mildly charming." |
Steve Simels |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Very Brady Sequel (1996) |
"The sequel sniggers more but strains less..." |
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Splat 2/4 |
A Very British Gangster (2008) |
"It's all eminently watchable, but feels more like the run up to a larky crime picture like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels than a serious documentary." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Vice (2008) |
"Walker's histrionic voice-over meditations on guilt, destiny and life's fundamental injustice are painfully juvenile, but the film overall oozes an all-too-convincing atmosphere of despair, resignation and bitter self loathing." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) |
"The best thing about Vicky Cristina Barcelona is that it acknowledges the maddening complexity of desire." |
Maitland McDonagh |
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