Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Wackness (2008) |
"A deeply personal coming-of-age story steeped in heady nostalgia and all the creative myopia that too often comes with it." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Wag the Dog (1997) |
"Anyone who would be inherently interested in this kind of sendup is unlikely to be surprised by anything in this film -- overall it feels like a trifle, if an entertaining one." |
Sandra Contreras |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
The Wages of Fear (1952) |
"Excellent, but nasty stuff." |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Wah-Wah (2006) |
"Though the raw material is juicy stuff, the details and the larger picture never come together and the cast is uneven." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Waist Deep (2006) |
"Director Vondie Curtis-Hall squanders a perfectly decent cast on a corny and surprisingly dull urban thriller." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/4 |
Waiting for Guffman (1997) |
"Frequently funny -- sometimes very funny indeed." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Waiting for Happiness (2003) |
"The title perfectly captures the mood of this striking film." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/4 |
Waiting... (2005) |
"An obvious but undeniably funny mix of National Lampoon's Animal House and Clerks, writer-director Rob McKittrick's feature debut is a comedy for those without a gag reflex and for shut-ins who never plan to eat in a restaurant ever again." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Waitress (2007) |
"There no way around it: Russell's performance is spunky and just about irresistible, no matter how much you hate spunk. It's hard to imagine Waitress working without her." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/5 |
Wake (2004) |
"If you're already asking, 'Why don't these alcoholic losers just stop picking at their mental scabs and grow up?' this is not the movie for you." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 1/4 |
A Wake in Providence (2005) |
"[A] witless farce." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/5 |
Waking Life (2001) |
"Most of the film consists of talking heads that no amount of colorfully animated, lava-lamp-like undulations can make less static." |
Frank Lovece |
Splat |
Waking Ned Devine (1998) |
"Jones could have done worse than to fashion this slight entertainment, but it's also clear that he could do much better." |
Sandra Contreras |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) |
"These good people cast their votes, close up shop and then scratch their heads, wondering how something like Wal-Mart could happen in a place like America." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
A Walk in the Sun (1945) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/4 |
A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2007) |
"In her search for her uncle, [director Esther] Robinson discovered something quite unexpected: A startlingly talented filmmaker." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/5 |
Walk on Water (2005) |
"Fox falters a bit with the narrative, but offers a fascinating treatment of the issues facing the descendents of Jewish victims and their German persecutors, as well as one of the most chilling birthday parties ever filmed." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/4 |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"The draw is Phoenix and Witherspoon. Together the two are hotter than a pepper sprout." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Walk to Beautiful (2008) |
"[Director Mary Olive] Smith makes no pretense of keeping a dispassionate distance from her subject: Her film is an unabashed call to action that shines a spotlight on a problem whose intimate medical nature relegated it to the shadows." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 1.5/5 |
A Walk to Remember (2002) |
"Needless to say, the dramatics that follow are utter hooey." |
Steve Simels |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Walkabout (1971) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Walker (2007) |
"Though ultimately flawed, the film's depiction of velvet-gloved cruelty and matter-of-fact betrayal is surprisingly potent, and it's pure pleasure to watch Bacall prowling the corridors of power." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/5 |
Walking on the Sky (2004) |
"If Evans' own solipsistic characters are meant to reflect where some of us are in 2005, we're in deep trouble." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Walking Tall (2004) |
"If The Rock weren't such a fundamentally genial screen presence, this short, stripped-down revenge drama might leave a sour aftertaste." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2/4 |
Walking to Werner (2007) |
"Despite the callow, self-absorbed aspects of Phillips' undertaking, there's something endearing about his determination to recreate -- and then some -- a 30-year-old gesture that looked nutty then and only looks nuttier now." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Wall (2004) |
"The strongest moments of this remarkable film are the quietest, when Bitton simply lets the camera run." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wall Street (1987) |
"Writer-director Oliver Stone, who shows an uncanny knack for anticipating public interest in the subjects he chooses, explores the much-publicized inside trading scandals of the mid-1980s." |
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Tomato 4/4 |
WALL-E (2008) |
"It can hardly be called a children's film, but a masterpiece of feature-film animation for all ages." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"Eminently worth seeing, even if it leaves you wishing it were as consistently inventive as Aardman's first feature, Chicken Run." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Wannabes |
"DeMeo is not without talent; he just needs better material." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Wanted (2008) |
"McAvoy delivers a strikingly nuanced performance as Wesley and Bekmambatov puts a high gloss on the increasing preposterous goings on, but in the end it's an idiot fable, all sound and fury signifying nothing." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
War (2007) |
"It all looks pretty good, and delivers exactly what it promises." |
Ken Fox |
Splat 2/4 |
War and Peace (1956) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 4/4 |
War and Peace (1968) |
"Bondarchuk's film, which won a Best Foreign Film Oscar and was also serialized for British television, is certainly the definitive movie version of War and Peace, memorably impressive in its scope and ambition." |
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Splat 2/5 |
War and Peace (2003) |
"Patwardhan offers no solutions, but poses disturbing questions." |
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Splat 2/5 |
War and Peace (2003) |
"Patwardhan offers no solutions, but poses disturbing questions." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The War at Home (1996) |
"Bates is excellent, and Sheen's performance marks a high point in the actor's wayward career." |
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Tomato 4/4 |
War Dance (2007) |
"Documentary filmmakers Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine found an ingenious way to tell their story in a film that is as unflinching as it is uplifting." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 3/4 |
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2008) |
"At only 73 minutes, the documentary is nowhere as detailed as Solomon's invaluable book but see it anyway, and don't get fooled again." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/4 |
The War of the Roses (1989) |
"DeVito exerts a control behind the camera that is otherwise almost nonexistent in contemporary American film comedy." |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
The War of the Worlds (1953) |
"Though it's bogged down by a stiff cast, a yawn-inspiring conventional romance, and a sappy religiosity, it remains a landmark in the history of special effects." |
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Tomato 3/5 |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"It unfolds in the angst-haunted shadow of the 9/11 terror attacks and teeters on a thin edge of sheer panic -- the carnage is no gleeful game and the devastation is so overwhelming that human defenses crumble like sand." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Splat 1.5/5 |
The War on the War on Drugs (2005) |
"Like so much dope humor, Soling's logic is fuzzy, and you'd have to be pretty high to find any of it funny." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/5 |
War Photographer (2002) |
"Frei assembles a fascinating profile of a deeply humanistic artist who, in spite of all that he's witnessed, remains surprisingly idealistic, and retains an extraordinary faith in the ability of images to communicate the truth of the world around him." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/5 |
War Requiem (1989) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
The War Tapes (2006) |
"Homecoming is when Scranton's film gets really interesting: Having seen the soldiers' footage intercut with tapes of families and girlfriends anxiously awaiting their return, we get a good sense of just how much war has changed them." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/4 |
The War Within (2005) |
"Of all the feature films and documentaries to emerge since 9/11, few have been as bold, perceptive or as downright chilling as this thriller from co-writer/director Joseph Castelo." |
Ken Fox |
Tomato 4/5 |
The War Zone (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 2/4 |
War, Inc. (2008) |
"The trouble with this satirical take US involvement in Iraq, penned by Mark Leyner, John Cusack and Jeremy Pikser, is that the real thing is equally absurd and only marginally less funny." |
Maitland McDonagh |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) |
"Eccentric, playful and boldly erotic." |
Ken Fox |
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