Tomato 3/4 |
I Am Legend (2007) |
"Director Francis Lawrence alternates cleverly among scenes of high tension, ferocious scares and moments that bring home Neville's feeling of abandonment and solitude." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
I Am Sam (2002) |
"Sometimes beautiful and sometimes bogus, often moving but almost always manipulative, undoubtedly sincere yet jaw-droppingly shameless." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
I Dreamed of Africa (2000) |
"Like the star's acting, the movie is bland, full of good intentions and generally as stiff as a fireplace poker." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"I came out of the film sure of only two things: It will divide audiences more than any comedy this year, and it will reward a second viewing." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
I Love You, Man (2009) |
"This fluffball is as toothless as an octogenarian lion." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007) |
"A film that spends much of its time laughing at gay people can't redeem itself by laughing hollowly with them in the end." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
I Think I Love My Wife (2007) |
"The movie completes the trilogy of middlebrow ineptitude that began with Earth and continued through Head of State to Wife, the weakest of these puny pictures. It proves conclusively that a comically castrated Rock is useless." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
I'm Not There (2007) |
"If [this movie] sounds high-faluting and hard to imagine -- well, that's true to the film. But it's also a lot of chaotic fun." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 3/4 |
I've Loved You So Long (2008) |
"The movie's fascinating when it tracks Juliette's tentative, almost unwilling progress back into society." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3/4 |
I, Robot (2004) |
"A summer action movie that has a brain and doesn't let it atrophy? Fan me, I'm fainting!" |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
Ice Age (2002) |
"... generically, forgettably pleasant from start to finish." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) |
"A sequel with more humor, topicality, intelligence and appeal [than the original]." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 1/4 |
The Ice Harvest (2005) |
"This Harvest yields nothing but chaff." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Identity (2003) |
"The writer gets as tangled in his own explanations as a puppy in a 30-foot leash." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Illusionist (2006) |
"Writer-director Neil Burger doesn't realize you can hold an audience in suspense for only so long with one illusion." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 2/4 |
Imagine Me & You (2006) |
"The film flirts with emotional honesty much of the way, until Parker realizes he might have to leave a character or two sad, angry, lonely or unfulfilled. Then the script turns to cotton candy, invalidating the honest first half." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
IMAX - Ocean Oasis (2002) |
"If you prefer nature films to be unprovocatively handsome, Oasis will be your cup of soothing tea. It may be especially useful for little folks who are getting a first view of oceanography." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
Impostor (2001) |
"Sinise wears a permanent grimace of anxiety, as if wondering how he let himself be trapped in a science fiction film even sillier than Mission to Mars." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
In Dreams (1998) |
"A confused, atmospheric horror knockoff!" |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
In Good Company (2004) |
"What does it say that a family like this one now seems to be a novelty onscreen?" |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato |
In the Bedroom (2001) |
"Extraordinarily satisfying directorial debut." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 2/4 |
In the Land of Women (2007) |
"Kasdan's script mines familiar ground without finding gems. That's too bad, because it's blessed with honest, unflinching performances from three leads." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
In the Valley of Elah (2007) |
"The movie Haggis made and the movie Elah could have been are as far apart as Washington, D.C., and Baghdad." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
In This World (2003) |
"Your heart will go out to [the characters], especially if your family made an arduous effort to reach America among the waves of immigrants over the last 130 years." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato |
In Too Deep (1999) |
"Epps comes off best!" |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
The In-Laws (2003) |
"Director Andrew Fleming and writers Nat Mauldin and Ed Solomon credit the original Andrew Bergman script without paying attention to it. Nor do they worry much about continuity, story structure or characterization." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
"A sentimental mixture of thwarted romance, military conniving and brute-on-brute action at the end, as Hulk takes on spike-spined Abomination. If the movie's nowhere near as ambitious as the last Hulk, that's probably to the good." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Incredibles (2004) |
"Bird has made a traditional action movie full of chases, crashes and stunt work." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
"Both the good and bad remind us that the most special thing about Skull is the man wearing the fedora and the rakish grin. He has never worn out his welcome, and this valedictory -- it can be nothing else -- is a fitting one." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 2/4 |
Infamous (2006) |
"Writer-director Douglas McGrath can't decide whether to maintain a comic or tragic tone and falls on his face halfway between them." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato |
Innocence (2001) |
"I'd applaud Australian writer-director Paul Cox ... just for showing two people of about 70 who are emotionally alive, sexually connected and mentally vibrant." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Inside Man (2006) |
"Go with the flow, and it remains a taut and well-engineered thriller. Poke at plot incongruities, as I was doing literally on the way to the parking lot, and it starts to unravel." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Insomnia (2002) |
"How often can you say a remake is better than the original, especially a Hollywood remodeling of a quirky foreign film?" |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato |
Instinct (1999) |
"Two terrific performances!" |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato |
Intacto (2002) |
"Like a sprinter competing in his first distance race: It bursts forth with tremendous energy, sustains itself for quite a while, loses steam near the end but finishes ahead of most of the pack." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Interpreter (2005) |
"The film went through various writers, and script revisions led to contradictions and improbabilities." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) |
"Zeta-Jones dominates the movie. She has never looked so radiant, and acting is almost beside the point." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Introducing The Dwights (2007) |
"Short on credibility, characterization, humor and honesty." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Invincible (2006) |
"A conventional Disney story of an ordinary guy striving to achieve his sports dream, full of uplift and warmth. (Think of The Rookie and Miracle.)" |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato |
Iris (2001) |
"People around [Iris] show so much love, helping her go gently into that cruel night of mental blankness, that you come away feeling no kindness can ever be wasted." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato |
The Iron Giant (1999) |
"Sweet-natured, exciting and funny!" |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Iron Man (2008) |
"It breaks no new ground, but it plows the old ground vigorously." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato |
Irreversible (2003) |
"The acting, especially from the feral Cassel and self-possessed Bellucci, is good." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Island (2005) |
"Michael Bay has directed a movie worth seeing." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
Italian for Beginners (2002) |
"A dramatic comedy as pleasantly dishonest and pat as any Hollywood fluff." |
Lawrence Toppman |
Splat |
The Italian Job (2003) |
"A crime caper that not only repeats history -- it's based on a 1969 British film starring Michael Caine -- but repeats itself when it runs out of ideas." |
Lawrence Toppman |
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