Splat 2.5/4 |
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"In a marketplace rife with guides for idiots, dummies and the rest of us, this movie stands as the novel's priciest CliffsNotes." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Dancer Upstairs (2003) |
"Moving, melancholy, and, yes, political." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) |
"Recalls The Virgin Suicides, Ghost World and Waking Life. If it's not as good as those, it isn't for lack of heart or ambition." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2/4 |
Danny Deckchair (2004) |
"Like its hero, the film has nary a mean-spirited bone. Only like Danny, it's a rather slight body." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Daredevil (2003) |
"A well-crafted introductory course." |
Ricardo Baca |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"Watching The Dark Knight is like gazing into a mirror on a waning moon night: chilling and mesmerizing." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
Dark Water (2005) |
"The film's greatest mystery turns out to be: Why, with so much talent, does Dark Water never cross the tipping point?" |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1/4 |
Darwin's Nightmare (2006) |
"Becomes Errol Morris's bad dream -- a documentary apparently uninterested in any factual basis for its arguments." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Date Movie (2006) |
"Any movie that tries to parody Kill Bill and Dodgeball in the same scene is OK by me." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006) |
"It feels rangy but is also a work of expert timing." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
"Smarter, tighter and far scarier, start to finish [than the original]." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) |
"It turns out the real question director Roland Emmerich's movie raises isn't about how much this film's pseudo-science teases us, but how much bad drama it's willing to blow our way." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
The Day I Became A Woman (2001) |
"It has only fitful power as a work of art and/or entertainment." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato |
Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) |
"The Day the Earth Stood Still may at first look like goofy, outdated science fiction, but its timeless warnings about violence, nuclear confrontation and the difficulties of policing the planet have made it an enduring cultural classic." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
A Day Without A Mexican (2004) |
"Charming if amateurish farce of a movie." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Days of Glory (2006) |
"A solidly-constructed window onto an era and a culture clash many Americans never knew existed." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
De-Lovely (2004) |
"This hybrid of psychological investigation, musical celebration and period drama is a muddle." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dead Man's Shoes (2006) |
"In a swift 86 minutes, director Meadows and co-writer/star Considine give us a methodical, handsome, emotionally intelligent version of the revenge flick." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dear Frankie (2005) |
"Director Auerbach and her able cast dial down the volume on the performances." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Death at a Funeral (2007) |
"No, there aren't a lot of surprise giggles in it. But at this Funeral, the pleasure is in seeing those giggles coming." |
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Splat 1.5/4 |
Death of a President (2006) |
"There's a cowardice at work here. Playing with the powerful tools of documentary, it poses as artistically courageous when it's often little more than a muddied if familiar meditation on the sorry state of affairs the U.S. finds itself in in Iraq." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Death to Smoochy (2002) |
"This is the kind of stinker that emerges every so often from Hollywood when major 'talent' -- Danny DeVito and Robin Williams, in this case -- get it into their heads that something disastrously unfunny is hilarious." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2/4 |
Deception (2008) |
"Deception recalls the fantasies of Showtime's soft-core series Red Shoe Diaries. It's often tastefully laughable." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Deep Blue Sea (1999) |
"Director Renny Harlin uses sound well and moves that camera around with lean, mean, visceral clout." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato |
The Deep End (2001) |
"The Deep End is the year's best movie since Memento." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Departed (2006) |
"The Departed exhibits a rough-hewn, deft intelligence. Monahan has written some razor-sharp lines, and Scorsese's latest crew knows how to wield the quips." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Derailed (2005) |
"Shot without visual style, sharp dialogue or discernible logic, the movie seems to be riding entirely on the star power of Aniston, Clive Owen and the boastful Weinsteins." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Derrida (2002) |
"Exhibits a devotion to its subject that just might drive you to his books and make you wish for tea with the man who wrote them." |
Vic Vogler |
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Détective (1985) |
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Splat 1.5/4 |
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) |
"Schneider, who co-wrote the script, has succeeded in making a film that's nearly review-proof: Most of the dialogue -- packed with names for fictitious sex acts and the gigolos who perfect them -- is unrepeatable in a newspaper." |
Vic Vogler |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) |
"The Devil Wears Prada has the look of many studio movies. But if you pay heed to the craft in the details, there's satisfying quality here." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
The Devil's Backbone (2001) |
"In the end, Backbone is about showing off a horror film director's tools of trade." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) |
"Some of these problems stem from the film's leap from a theatrical production's play-to-the-rafters bigness to the screen's demands for something more finessed. There's not a lot of nuance here." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Dick (1999) |
"Priceless!" |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) |
"Yes, comedies thrive on broad strokes. But selling Americans lame images of one another as if we haven't traversed the country (if not in actuality, via television and film) is dispiriting." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Die Another Day (2002) |
"'Die Another Day's' special effects will make your eyes open so wide your contacts might fall out, but the spy caper is double-crossed by a stupid script littered with one-liners so dumb that 007 actually makes XXX (Vin Diesel) sound like he's clever." |
John Moore |
Tomato 3/4 |
Die Mommie Die! (2003) |
"How can you not like a movie where characters spout ridiculous dialogue such as, 'You can't discard me like one of your false eyelashes!' and believe every word they're hissing?" |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Diggers (2007) |
"I was rooting for the 'Diggers' clan by the time this modest film ended. A talented cast of likable actors can do that for a thin script, and Paul Rudd, Ken Marino, Maura Tierney and Ron Eldard eventually won me over." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 4/4 |
Dirty Pretty Things (2003) |
"Few movies create such perfect pitch among character, plot and setting." |
Vic Vogler |
Tomato |
The Dish (2001) |
"Makes you admire the Australian ability to make a comedy that's sincere rather than crass." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) |
"Does this entertainment achieve a timelessness beyond its exquisite source material? Not even. Yet there's pleasure to be had and relief in feeling the filmmakers didn't Scrooge it up either." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Distant (2004) |
"There is no simple sense of uplift in Distant. But there is an exhilaration to revealing the human condition, and Ceylan is ever on the lookout." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
District B13 (2006) |
"Terse, taut and willing to pack on some philosophical weight, District B13 wastes no time in shouting 'Action!'" |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Disturbia (2007) |
"Disturbia will have young people on the edge of their seat, cringing and thinking at the same time." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato |
Divided We Fall (2001) |
"An accomplished, insightful, touching film." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) |
"I never bought Vivi's life as anything real." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) |
"The film is a triumph of empathy." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Le Divorce (2003) |
"For all that talent, and the lovely source material, there is something plodding about this comedy." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) |
"More often than not, DodgeBall slings its visual and verbal humor with rapid-fire, spot-on aim without fouling." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002) |
"Watching Dogtown is like discovering a secret history of America." |
Steven Rosen |
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