Splat 1.5/4 |
W. (2008) |
"Despite a talented cast that includes James Cromwell as George H.W. Bush, a.k.a. 'Poppy', and Jeffrey Wright as Colin Powell, W. achieves the depth of a TV miniseries." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Waging A Living |
"Doing the math in hopes of gaining on the American Dream is becoming less like arithmetic and more like some advanced course in magical calculus." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1/4 |
Waist Deep (2006) |
"By teasing us with potential meaning only to embrace wanton gunplay, Waist Deep betrays thinking members in the audience." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Waitress (2007) |
"So why does it work, at least much of the time? Because of Russell, and because Shelly's uneven tone also provides hints at brilliance." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato |
Waking Life (2001) |
"To paraphrase the enduring title of a new-wave album, it is pure pop for dream people." |
Steven Rosen |
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Walk on Water (2005) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"While Cash and Carter's music gives the movie its undeniable soundtrack, it's their thwarted yet constant tale of friendship and love that makes Walk the Line a big-movie pleasure." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Walker (2007) |
"Paul Schrader directs The Walker, and the writer has a way with understatement. Like his 1992 gem Light Sleeper, this movie draws you in with its reserve." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Walking Tall (2004) |
"Does have its fair share of fun." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
WALL-E (2008) |
"His intelligence may be artificial, but his heroism is anything but superficial." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"Blessedly, Were-Rabbit is as much fun to watch as it must have been to write." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"Wow, indeed." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
WarGames (1983) |
"As tense and effective now as it was 25 years ago. The worry back then was more about Soviet missiles than about credit card identity theft, but good filmmaking techniques haven't changed." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Washington Heights (2003) |
"Deserves a wide audience hungry for sympathetic, three-dimensional people caught up in something bigger than themselves." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Watchmen (2009) |
"Watchmen is a two-hour, 42 minute ride through a dystopian scape with appropriately twisting and conflicted story lines." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) |
"The film is a triumph of empathy." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Way We Get By (2009) |
"It is straightforward work. Yet over time, it becomes clearly, steadfastly about the existential." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
We Are Marshall (2006) |
"Too bad the film doesn't sustain the mix of sorrow and hope the story requires." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"Painful, powerful adaptation of two of Andre Dubus' beautifully frank stories." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
We Own The Night (2007) |
"As flat-footed as writer-director James Gray's script often sounds, his cops-vs.-mob tale can be strangely mesmerizing." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
We Were Soldiers (2002) |
"Yet, lest one think Soldiers is rousing, be forewarned. It is patriotic in that it is loyal to its American soldiers, although it is surprisingly respectful to their enemy." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Weather Man (2005) |
"Succeeds where so few Hollywood movies even venture - it builds a believable life, adds just enough nervous laughter to relieve the realistic tension, and constantly escapes the dumbed-down expectations beaten into us by lesser films." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Weather Underground (2003) |
"The Weather Underground leaves the viewer with many questions. To the filmmakers' credit, most of them are the right and urgent ones to ask." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Wedding Crashers (2005) |
"Targeting adults means smarter material, if you get the right script, and writers Steve Faber and Bob Fisher have a nice ear for the funnier things that make us human." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
The Wedding Date (2005) |
"Why Kat must be so emotionally clueless or her sister so selfish is a mystery that invites an essay about what women think of each other these days." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Wedding for Bella (2001) |
"After sampling the crostini and extended-family love baked by the Brothers Pyzola, you might make the Biscotti Co. a second home." |
Vic Vogler |
Splat |
The Wedding Planner (2001) |
"A pastiche of secondhand ideas gleaned from watching Best Friend's Wedding." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2/4 |
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) |
"The movie ditches clever for crass: Mo'nique and Mike Epps, as opportunistic cousin Reggie, provide most of the downhome and dirty entendres. Less 'nique would have fixed much of what ails this movie." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Welcome to Mooseport (2004) |
"A soothing buddy movie." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
"Wendy and Lucy is quiet, deliberate filmmaking. See it knowing you will witness an idiosyncratic take on storytelling by a fundamentally independent filmmaker." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Whale Rider (2003) |
"Whale Rider is one of those book-me -a-ticket yesterday movies." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1/4 |
What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"Who knew the title wasn't simply clever (inviting the rejoiner 'stays in Vegas') but a dire warning of a bad movie ahead?" |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
What Just Happened (2008) |
"In some ways, What Just Happened feels like an attempt to, if not make amends for moviemaking myopia, at least show how easily the contagion takes hold." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
What Lies Beneath (2000) |
"Lies does provide its share of goose bumps." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato |
What Women Want (2000) |
"[Hunt] elevates what might have been a cute, familiarly plotted movie into a romance with real heart, sweetness and genuine emotion." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat |
Whatever It Takes (2000) |
"Falls flat with unbelievably bad scenes that are also just plain unbelievable." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Whatever Works (2009) |
"After the fiercely enjoyable Vicky Christina Barcelona, this return to New York City is a letdown, though not without a few charms." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008) |
"At its most illuminating, Morgan Spurlock's compelling if self-indulgent travelogue investigation Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? reminds us that a livelihood isn't just 'America's No. 1 issue' as CNN reminds us." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
Where the Heart Is (2000) |
"It evokes laughs and a few tears, but also groans at bad material." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato |
Where the Money Is (2000) |
"Overall, the story is more old hat than 'cool hand' for Newman. But it has its pleasures." |
Steven Rosen |
Splat 1/4 |
Where The Truth Lies (2005) |
"Every face on screen seems wrong for the part chosen." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) |
"Spike Jonze, we salute you." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Whip It (2009) |
"Barrymore's embrace of gal power is joyful. The skaters are gutsy, goofy or both. They own their own odd sexiness." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
White Chicks (2004) |
"Had White Chicks been funnier, smarter, there might have been some subversive value in seeing what the Wayans made of the absurd social rituals of white elites." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
White Noise (2005) |
"A disappointing show." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
White Oleander (2002) |
"Too many of [Astrid's] experiences with adults ring false." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Who Killed The Electric Car? (2006) |
"A spirited celebration of the deceased can honor the lost opportunity even as it challenges the living, breathing, concerned survivors to demand more from corporations, government, ourselves." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
The Whole Nine Yards (2000) |
"Lacks both the good acting and a screenplay." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Whole Ten Yards (2004) |
"A mostly funny film with occasional dead spots that does best letting the caricatures say exactly what you'd thought they'd say in next week's episode." |
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Tomato |
Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998) |
"A standout performance by Vivica A. Fox and Leranze Tate!" |
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