Tomato |
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
"[Director Phillip] Noyce shows their awful, eventually uplifting journey without flinching, and the arid Australian wilderness is a co-star of the film." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
"Although Race to Witch Mountain is about space travelers, little soars here. The film is so by-the-book (and we don't mean Key's 1968 novel) that it's hard to recount it without reverting to blahblahblah." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"By the time you leave the theater, you feel like you were one of the guests. I, for one, was happy for the invitation." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Racing Stripes (2005) |
"Racing Stripes is hardly a Triple Crown winner. But for a Saturday afternoon with the kids, it's a safe bet." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Radio (2003) |
"The result is just as the filmmakers hoped. You'd have to hold a stubborn defensive line not to be moved by this film's heart." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Rain (2002) |
"A quietly reflective and melancholy New Zealand film about an eventful summer in a 13-year-old girl's life." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Raising Helen (2004) |
"Constantly warm and sometimes devastatingly real, showing just how hard it can be for a family to replace the early departed." |
Michael Booth |
Splat |
Random Hearts (1999) |
"Ford simply has no romantic presence." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Rape Of Europa (2007) |
"That Hitler was mad is well known. That he was mad about art, not so well." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"Writer and director Brad Bird keeps Ratatouille moving without resorting to the cute animal jokes or pop-culture wisecracking that ruined so many other recent animated films." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Reader (2008) |
"The trial's outcome leads us into a third act that continues to give renewed, rending meaning to the movie's title." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Reaping (2007) |
"Directed by Stephen Hopkins, the film begins gracefully, judiciously. Sadly, in its final 20 minutes, it throws its admirable caution to the wind." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Rebound (2005) |
"A reasonably fun family comedy." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Recruit (2003) |
"The foreshadowing is a bit heavy-handed, but the writers and director largely manage the tension and mystery tactfully." |
Ricardo Baca |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Recycle (2008) |
"Re-cycle is worth a trip to the theater for aficionados of Asian horror and its off- shoots." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1/4 |
Red Dragon (2002) |
"Manages to be both repulsively sadistic and mundane." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Red Eye (2005) |
"Briskly paced, it takes less time than a flight from Denver to L.A. It may not be a classic, but it's way more satisfying than a mini-bag of pretzels and a soda." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Red Lights (2004) |
"Red Lights blends the blind tension of Hitchcock with a French sense of inevitability, leading us back and forth between action and surrender before ending just where it should." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"A sentimental journey of solitude and friendship." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Religulous (2008) |
"Funny as it is, Religulous is too much an exercise in preaching to the happily nonconverted. You others be damned. Sound familiar?" |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Remember Me, My Love (2004) |
"I liked it; you may not. It may come down to your level of fascination with people who scream and gesture wildly in melodramatic Italian." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Rendition (2007) |
"It raises worthwhile quandaries and delivers flashes of acting prowess -- from Streep in particular." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Rent (2005) |
"Rent falls betwixt and between the odd intimacy of theater and the glorious bigness of film -- and vice versa." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
The Replacements (2000) |
"The Replacements is pretty good when it sticks to comedy. Unfortunately, it doesn't." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Reprise (2008) |
"The word 'Reprise' may mean recurrence, but Trier's fleet, joyously intellectual film comes at us like anything but a retread." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Requiem for a Dream (2000) |
"Dazzlingly high filmmaking." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rescue Dawn (2007) |
"That heart-stopping beginning tells us Herzog is again in top form, richly depicting the true story of the only American POW known to have escaped from Laotian captivity." |
Michael Booth |
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Resident Evil (2002) |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Respiro (2003) |
"There is a rough magic in the dramatic setting and the classical undertones crafted by writer/director Emanuele Crialese." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Resurrecting the Champ (2007) |
"...director Lurie displays discipline and finesse in telling a compelling tale that explores the tensions between fathers and sons, and then some. Lurie and Jackson have also given audiences a rare and striking portrait of homelessness." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Return (2004) |
"Zvyagintsev's measured pacing adds to the film's mystery. And Mikhail Kritchman's photography delivers visual verse after visual verse." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
Return to Me (2000) |
"Return to sender." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Revanche (2009) |
"The performers do terrifically understated work. Even in a scene of angry, anguished coupling, silence and stillness persist." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Revolutionary Road (2008) |
"Like its cinematic kin, Frost/Nixon and Doubt, this, too, is a delicately crafted, prestige project whose translation to screen doesn't deliver the original's amazements." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Riding Giants (2004) |
"A loving, entertaining tutorial." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Ring (2002) |
"It's far better than most gimmicky horror films." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Ring Two (2005) |
"[Nakata] spends too long reviving nightmares and location shots from The Ring, forgetting that hell must be as fresh as it is rancid." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rize (2005) |
"Clowning and krumping are urban art and art therapy in motion." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Road (2009) |
"This is a willfully, skillfully crafted film with insufficient heart to the task it undertakes. It never fully connects us to love amid its ruins." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
The Road to El Dorado (2000) |
"Did the filmmakers really know where they were going when they started on this Road?" |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Road to Guantanamo (2006) |
"Winterbottom's re-enactors do a persuasive job of depicting young men whose ad hoc decision to travel from Pakistan to Afghanistan put them solidly in the wrong-place/wrong-time category." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Road to Perdition (2002) |
"It is an impressive accomplishment on its own artful terms, with strong performances by Hanks, Newman, Jude Law, Stanley Tucci and others elevating it above an exercise in style." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato |
Robin Hood (1973) |
"Compared with modern Disney films, which are dominated by the self-absorption and eventual self-discovery of their main characters, Robin Hood offers surprisingly stark and interesting social questions." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Robots (2005) |
"Nothing but net." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Rock School (2005) |
"Succeeds as a riveting movie because it doesn't try to lead us from verse to an obvious chorus about Green, or his uniquely abusive methods." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rocket Science (2007) |
"Buoyed by a script rife with poetry, a handful of dynamic performances and Eef Barzelay's near-perfect score, Rocket Science mildly shames the potty-mouthed Superbad. And I liked Superbad." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
RocknRolla (2008) |
"A handsome ensemble of blokes and one high-heeled accountant who propel this slam-bang romp about the collision of criminal styles in the age of globalization and real estate speculation." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Roger Dodger (2002) |
"An exciting debut from promising, and fairly disturbed, young director/screenwriter Dylan Kidd." |
John Moore |
Splat 2/4 |
Role Models (2008) |
"Filth and sentimentality -- the yin- yang combo of current guy comedy -- entwine in Role Models with the naughty bits overpowering the funny." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Roll Bounce (2005) |
"There's a lot of sweetness to Roll Bounce." |
Lisa Kennedy |
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