Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Machinist (2004) |
"A powerful, accomplished movie that lingers." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) |
"Wins you over with kid after kid after kid saying the darndest things about boys and girls, winning and losing, and a host of other issues." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Mad Money (2008) |
"Leaves one pondering the ways audiences abet amorality tales." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Madagascar (2005) |
"Appropriate for the wee ones, this flick promises to please parents who will inevitably be in for repeat viewings." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) |
"Emotionally and visually richer than its 2005 original." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
Made (2001) |
"I wish Made hadn't been made. And if it had to be, I wish it had been made as a silent movie." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato |
Mafioso (1962) |
"Strange, entertaining and disquieting." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Magdalene Sisters (2003) |
"Full of forceful, aching performances." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Magnolia (1999) |
"Magnolia knows that life's randomness can also produce hope, humor and love. And it shows that in ways that more calculated feelgood movies can't fathom." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Maid in Manhattan (2002) |
"Maid in Manhattan might not look so appealing on third or fourth viewing down the road ... But as a high concept vehicle for two bright stars of the moment who can rise to fans' lofty expectations, the movie passes inspection." |
Michael Booth |
Splat |
The Majestic (2001) |
"Even Capra would blanch, if he could stay awake, at Darabont's attempt to force-feed such hollow, phony and insincere sentimentality as infuses Majestic." |
Steven Rosen |
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Mala Noche (1985) |
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Splat |
Maléna (2000) |
"The film lacks a focused, compelling narrative -- perhaps because Tornatore is trying to manufacture a hit by juggling story elements more forced and manipulative than felt." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Mamma Mia! (2008) |
"Feels like a souvenir program: something to revive the feelings you had watching the stage performance." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
The Man from Elysian Fields (2002) |
"One wishes Elysian Fields gave us more." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Man of the Year (2006) |
"There's a Preston Sturges lesson in Man of the Year: Entertaining folks is its own civic duty. At times, making citizens laugh (and think) might be the most honorable profession of all." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
Man on Fire (2004) |
"Punch drunk with sadism and sentimentality." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato |
Man on the Moon (1999) |
"Man on the Moon will be especially interesting for those who like a little TV history with their movies." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 4/4 |
Man on the Train (2003) |
"It is a perfected fable flashing across a screen." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Man On Wire (2008) |
"A gift of a documentary." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Man Push Cart (2006) |
"Michael Simmond's cinematography, especially in scenes of Ahmad muscling his way amid evening traffic and early-morning delivery trucks, is wonderfully true to the moods of a city that never sleeps and seldom nods at the hard work going on before it." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) |
"I felt so thoroughly inside this environment I almost didn't need a story." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) |
"This is an intelligent and detailed work, full of fine performances." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Manic (2003) |
"Melamed and his cast provide more than a few truth-divining moments." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 4/4 |
March of the Penguins (2005) |
"A brilliant tour of nature at its most unnervingly beautiful." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Maria Full of Grace (2004) |
"This American-directed, Spanish-language movie metes out the dramatic and authentic with a measured, believable grace." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
Marie Antoinette (2006) |
"The result is a silly piece of costume jewelry called Marie Antoinette, and no, the soldering of a new-wave-revival soundtrack with 18th-century Versailles is not interesting enough to save this bauble." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (2006) |
"The film moves like a newbie following a diagram of arrows and shoes and counting out loud." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 4/4 |
Marley & Me (2008) |
"Marley & Me turns out to be the best -- and truest -- film about humans and our animals to arrive onscreen in a dog's age." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Married Life (2008) |
"Offers audiences movie pleasures, as well as emotionally authentic challenges." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
"The movie is like one of those ships in a bottle -- lovely and painstaking, as grand as it is unimportant." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 0/4 |
The Master of Disguise (2002) |
"Neither [Carvey] nor semi-competent director Perry Andelin Blake have the ability to sustain a scene or idea." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Matador (2005) |
"A tart comedy about economic duress and the mind-set of a soon-to-be downsized hit man, it's also a salty celebration of the romance and necessity of friendship." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Match Point (2005) |
"Woody Allen's Match Point is a too-rare thing: a fine film that waxes philosophical about morality, ambition and relationships." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Matchstick Men (2003) |
"From its jazz-inflected score to the screenplay's switchbacks of possibility and impending disaster, the movie seduces." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
The Matrix (1999) |
"It doesn't do anything interesting with the futuristic vision that it takes forever to explain!" |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) |
"A kinetic, digital feat." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) |
"The Matrix Revolutions leaves us with something to chew on for years to come." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
May (2003) |
"Part Carrie, part Frankenstein and still shlockier bits and pieces, May isn't seamless. But boy is it hard to avert one's eyes from this creature ready-made for the midnight-movie circuit." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003) |
"This crazy-quilted exploration of the fog of fame deserves an aesthetic that approximates a night of extreme partying." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
"First-time feature director July's success has a great deal to do with her bold embrace of childhood and its gnarly truths." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
Me, Myself & Irene (2000) |
"Zellweger, usually a superlative actress, can't catch the Farrellys' tone or match Carrey's intensity." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato |
Mean Creek (2004) |
"You could call Mean Creek a moral thriller. And the emotional currents the movie wades into are far more tricky than the gentle surface the kids' boat floats along." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
Mean Girls (2004) |
"Fey may be going for wickedly funny, but alas, she stops at wicked." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 1/4 |
The Medallion (2003) |
"Cull your backlogged e-mail, catch up on magazines, suss out the employee payroll, but take something with you to the theater -- it would be a shame to waste 1 1/2 hours of your life actually watching the movie." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Meet the Fockers (2004) |
"It is Beavis and Butt-head rewriting The In-Laws, only the scripts for Beavis were much smarter." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
Meet the Robinsons (2007) |
"A year of disappointment in American animation leads me to this advice: Write a simple story. Read your dialogue out loud and hear if it rings true. Draw nice pictures to tell it." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Melinda and Melinda (2005) |
"Overcoming the handicap of an overt, writerly device, Allen crafts a warm comedy and a painful tragedy right before our eyes." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato |
Memento (2001) |
"Destined to become a new noir classic." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) |
"... good-looking but not quite memorable ..." |
Lisa Kennedy |
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