Rachel Getting Married (2008)

"The dramatic moments do make an impact, and the tears they draw from you will scald."

Radio (2003)

"What could have been an all-occasion Hallmark card turns out to be an emotionally genuine love letter to a young man who transformed the town of Anderson, S.C., in the 1970s."

Ratatouille (2007)

"Pixar has a habit of finding voice talent in unexpected places, and she's just part of the shrewd casting. Oswalt and Romano make an ideal team, assertive and nervous, while the almost unrecognizable Holm spits out disgust with glee."

Read My Lips (2002)

"The crime matters less than the characters, although the filmmakers supply enough complications, close calls and double-crosses to satisfy us."

The Reckoning (2004)

"It's made with seriousness, intelligence and craft, and filmgoers who aren't put off by the slow pace of life in 1380 should see it."

Red Dragon (2002)

"A straight-ahead thriller that never rises above superficiality."

Reign of Fire (2002)

"Credited writers Gregg Chabot, Kevin Peterka and Matt Greenberg took their dialogue from every action movie you've seen, and characterizations don't amount to a hill of dragon dung."

Reindeer Games (2000)

"As leaden as a Civil War fruitcake."

Rendition (2007)

"or all these faults... the film has many plusses: n unsubtle emotional power that comes through in Abasi's fear and Isabella's rage, an honest view of the political machinery in Washington, and an outrage about the way we [can] behave."

The Replacements (2000)

"Seems longer than a rainy Super Bowl."

Resurrecting the Champ (2007)

"...Jackson has never done subtler, more powerful work."

Revolutionary Road (2008)

"Director Sam Mendes, who covered similar ground in American Beauty, evokes the Eisenhower years in every detail and sets a reasonable pace for the script. Yet the path is so familiar that not a step along it takes us by surprise."

The Ring Two (2005)

"As rings go, I'd sooner spend another two hours watching the one around my bathtub than sit through any continuation of this tale."

The Road to El Dorado (2000)

"Teachers won't accept such disconnected slackness from students, and you shouldn't accept it from movies."

Road Trip (2000)

"In the summer of 2000, are we really still supposed to be laughing at pimps and hos?"

Rock Star (2001)

"Its familiar story has pleasing quirks."

Roger Dodger (2002)

"Starts as a tart little lemon drop of a movie and ends up as a bitter pill."

Rollerball (2002)

"The editing is chaotic, the photography grainy and badly focused, the writing unintentionally hilarious, the direction unfocused, the performances as wooden."

The Rookie (2002)

"The film reminds us of the gentler era of the late 1950s and early '60s, when Hollywood offered role models for kids."

Rugrats Go Wild (2003)

"It's an uncoordinated, flailing hodgepodge of music videos, chases, crashes and moronic plot twists."

Rules of Engagement (2000)

"Tommy Lee Jones can be a sleepwalker when he's not emotionally invested in a project; here he's in high gear."

Runaway Bride (1999)

"The film has a lot of sweetness, some honest emotion and one scene between Cusack and Roberts that can stand with the best drama Hollywood produces nowadays."

The Rundown (2003)

"While the first half of The Rundown is a satisfying buildup, the second half is a tiresome letdown."

Russian Ark (2002)

"The most dreamlike film I've ever seen."