Tomato 2.5/4 |
Cabin Fever (2003) |
"A clever and bloody romp over the turf of friendship and fear." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Caché (2005) |
"Contrarian that he is, Haneke does a much finer job forcing questions than providing an answer." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Cadillac Records (2008) |
"Etta's story will be better told in another film, surely." |
Ricardo Baca |
Tomato 3/4 |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"A lovely romp." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Camp (2003) |
"Restraint and exuberance, joy and tenderness, and a cameo by the patron saint of musical theater, Stephen Sondheim." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
El Cantante (2007) |
"El Cantante never nails the ecstatic moment of musical collaboration we crave from this genre. Where is the scene that gives us a fly-on-the-wall view of salsa's creation?" |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Capote (2005) |
"Hoffman and company make Capote well worth seeing. What makes the movie important is the way Capote exposes the work of journalism." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"The MPAA doesn't have a rating for queasy-making and heartbreaking. If it did, then Capturing the Friedmans would carry an advisory." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Carandiru (2004) |
"Babenco's side trips into the prisoners' lives give the movie a complicated integrity." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Carmen and Geoffrey (2009) |
"One doesn't have to be a dance aficionado to be drawn to this film, but if you are, Lavallade's observations about the difficult work of dance -- and choreography -- are as poetic as they are illuminating." |
Lisa Kennedy |
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Carnage (1984) |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Carnage (2003) |
"Carnage has some narrative messiness. But the beautiful thing here - besides Gleize's fabulous eye - is that not a single one of her solutions for the healing that takes place in her characters' lives is predictable." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cars (2006) |
"Cars idles at times. And it's not until its final laps that the movie gains the emotional traction we've come to expect from the Toy Story and Nemo crews." |
Lisa Kennedy |
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Casa de los Babys (2003) |
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Splat 1/4 |
Casanova (2005) |
"There's less sexiness in the awful Casanova than in the downbeat, doomed gay love story featuring Ledger in Brokeback Mountain." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"You don't need a weatherman to tell you the 21st installment in the franchise brings an invigorating chill to the air." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Cast Away (2000) |
"Beautifully crafted." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato |
The Cat Returns (2002) |
"[Director] Morita has a slightly cruder, more realistic sense of the world and its looniness than does Miyazaki, and you can see where The Cat Returns moves on a different track even as it pays homage to Japan's current animation master." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Cat's Meow (2002) |
"In the end, it's an amusing diversion. But it should be more." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"The remarkable South African story Catch a Fire is more than capable of raising and exploring resonant political questions in a Western world obsessed with terrorism." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Catch and Release (2007) |
"A romantic comedy-drama with little comedy, no drama and less romance than your average YouTube video." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 4/4 |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"This breezy caper movie becomes a soulful, incisive meditation on the way we were, and the way we are." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2/4 |
Catch That Kid (2004) |
"A miniaturized action pic." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
Cats & Dogs (2001) |
"While the flatness of characters may bore grownups, it's an entertaining flick for kids." |
Aaron Price |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Catwoman (2004) |
"[A] laughable disaster." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
The Center of the World (2001) |
"It comes off as contrived." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato |
Center Stage (2000) |
"A pleasant little fantasy film masquerading as real life." |
Glenn Giffin |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Chalk (2007) |
"The movie offers some modest, amusing and true lessons about an honorable profession." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
The Champ (1979) |
"A three-alarm, three-hanky movie of the highest order, perfect for your kids who don't get to see many truly sad films." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Chandni Chowk to China (2009) |
"Chandni has martial- arts montages and Bollywood song-and-dance numbers. As tacky as the latter are, they're the sweet -- and only? -- draw of the movie. They also give this slight comedy-adventure its epic and unearned length." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Chaos (2003) |
"The men, filled with brutality and neglect, make for rather obvious targets, yet we come to care about the women in their lives beyond any agenda Chaos might have." |
Vic Vogler |
Tomato 4/4 |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"Is it sweet? Sure. But Charlie is so much richer than that." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Charlie Bartlett (2007) |
"It's risky business championing an adolescent protagonist who thrives on the illicit. But the appointments Charlie holds in the men's room make an argument most can get behind." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"Highly entertaining -- and mildly uncomfortable." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Charlie's Angels (2000) |
"This would have made a great summer movie." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) |
"The goodness of Full Throttle resides not in its being good but in the joyous spirit with which its stars go at playing Angels." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
Charlotte Gray (2001) |
"While Blanchett's presence is surely felt in virtually every scene of the movie, her acting isn't. We don't connect with her at all." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Charlotte's Web (2006) |
"Some will bristle at liberties taken. Cows do indeed break wind. Yet the movie's use of flatulence is less a nod to rural truths than a reliance on what has become a go-to gag in movie's made for the booster-seat set." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Chasing Liberty (2004) |
"[A] happy trip." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) |
"Hollywood has tried too hard, attempting to re-create organic family life through excessive artificiality." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 2/4 |
Cheri (2009) |
"With nothing truly at risk of being lost, we're left to ask, why are we here?" |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Cherish (2002) |
"The film turns so ludicrous even Tunney can't save it." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 4/4 |
Chicago (2002) |
"Much more than one of the best movies of the year, Chicago is destined to become the most popular screen adaptation of a stage musical since Grease." |
John Moore |
Tomato 3/4 |
Chicago 10 (2008) |
"A vibrant, unconventional documentary about the conspiracy trial of the so-called inciters of the riots that occurred during the 1968 Democratic National Convention." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Chicken Little (2005) |
"More than a loving, clever riff on a fable, Chicken Little is a grade-school primer on the language of movies with a capital M." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Chicken Run (2000) |
"Julia Sawalha gives Ginger a brave, smart, you-go-hen! attitude." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Children of Men (2006) |
"Based on a novel by British mystery writer P.D. James, Children of Men is a filmmaking feat. In the midst of mayhem, director Alfonso Cuaron delivers subtle and jarring images, while exploring complex emotional rhythms." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Choke (2008) |
"Gregg's adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk's novel has a fluid grasp of the impossible and possible, not to mention the profane and sacred." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Chop Shop (2007) |
"Bahrani deftly walks a tightrope toward insight, never falling into safety nets of judgment or unearned sentiment." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Chorus (2005) |
"Thanks to a pitch-perfect performance by Gérard Jugnot as the teacher who brings music to a cacophonous school, the familiarity of The Chorus never breeds contempt -- or boredom. Far from it." |
Lisa Kennedy |
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