Tomato |
American Pie 2 (2001) |
"The main characters are further developed ... and just as endearing as the first incarnation." |
Asher Price |
Tomato 4/4 |
Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides: Working With Time (2003) |
"Like Goldsworthy's art, it is primal, transcendent and truthful." |
Kyle MacMillan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"Across the Universe isn't beholden to any stage incarnation. It owes its vision to the vibrant imagination of its director, who created a musical that reminds us how cultural-political events can change our tune." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"It proves Mottola has a sweet sensibility for intimate grins, as well as broad yuks." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
After the Life (2002) |
"The Trilogy's amazing partnership is Agnès and Pascal's. With After the Life's tango of enabler and addict, Belvaux finally delivers emotional resonance." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
Against the Ropes (2003) |
"In the class of American boxing movies, it's barely a welterweight." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
AKA (2002) |
"It's an eloquent testament to the fragmentary nature of identity." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Alamo (2004) |
"As talented as the cast is, not a one makes this an Alamo worth remembering" |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
Alex and Emma (2003) |
"Alex & Emma has trouble overcoming the badness of the novel at the center of its story. It doesn't help that the movie declares it a literary success." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
Alexander (2004) |
"Visually dramatic but persistently tepid, Alexander doesn't make a convincing argument for its extravagant resources." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alfie (2004) |
"Alfie is embodied -- quite nicely -- by Jude Law, who is still a cad but more of a lad than Caine ever seemed." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
Alien Trespass (2009) |
"It's comfy. It's kitschy. There are lovely enticements but also much that is simply put and beautifully, beguilingly silly." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Alien: The Director's Cut (2003) |
"What you will find is that the old mayhem is still masterful and that there is nothing like the big screen for this type of mortally wounded space exploration." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
All About Steve (2009) |
"Despite her downward-tilted head and her nattering ways, Mary really does want to connect. Watching her realize this isn't deep but it is sweet." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"No use getting sore that one art form trumps another. It's not the first time an outstanding book became a ponderous film." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
An Amazing Couple (2002) |
"This comedy built around marital misunderstanding is the weak link." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
Amelia (2009) |
"The movie is as conventional a biopic as Earhart was an unconventional woman." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"For talent, Scott couldn't start much purer. Washington and Crowe are consummate craftsmen who burrow deep into their characters." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
American Splendor (2003) |
"As touching as it is achingly, hilariously prickly." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
American Teen (2008) |
"It's a vexing mixture of agendas, one that may be engaging but brings little new to the conversation." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat |
The Amityville Horror (2005) |
"Since Scream poured irony into the mix, it has become mighty hard to write a line of dialogue that doesn't elicit winks and nods. We all know where the mayhem's leading." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
An Education (2009) |
"The film is gentle with its judgments. Or most of them." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2003) |
"A beautifully crafted meditation on memory, fate, coincidence and yearning." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
"Director Schumacher understands what he has in Rossum and often frames her with the sort of close-up that evokes a Golden Age movie star in her budding glory." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"Howard seems to count on audience goodwill toward Hanks carrying over to Langdon, filling in the hero's many blanks." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Antichrist (2009) |
"Von Trier and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle use sumptuous black-and-white photography and saturated color. Few movies are as beautifully wrought as this." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2/4 |
Anything But Love (2003) |
"To borrow a word from another American standard, Anything but Love, is hardly unforgettable. But if you're looking for the movie equivalent of comfort food, then there's something to dig into here." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 3/4 |
Appaloosa (2008) |
"Harris directs with a steady hand and sharp eye for the best in his fellow actors." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2/4 |
Arctic Tale (2007) |
"There's no Jane Goodall required. And the absence of humans proves we needn't be onscreen to make our presence known." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Are We There Yet? (2005) |
"How much sweeter Nick's heart-to-heart with Lindsey and Kevin would be if the movie was more than a clichéd journey." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Aristocrats (2005) |
"As The Aristocrats repeats its chorus of dirt again and again, one starts to weary. Call it filth fatigue." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Around the World in 80 Days (2004) |
"Is it any wonder [Chan] is aching for something different?" |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ask the Dust (2005) |
"What gives Ask the Dust its quiet vitality -- beyond Farrell's muscular yet delicate portrayal -- is the fear of failing to grasp the brass ring that appears through much of the movie." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"Awesome splendor and a striking essay on celebrity reward those who brave the 2 1/2-hour run time." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Atonement (2007) |
"Craft is everywhere in the film, in many touches that make it elegantly forceful." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Australia (2008) |
"Even more than a Western, Australia is a musical without a songbook. Its emotions are large, its rhythms bold." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Avatar (2009) |
"Cameron and his legion of CGI experts and skilled craftspeople have delivered a lovely, misty, dangerous world." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
The Aviator (2004) |
"Hughes is the conduit for a titan of moviemaking to meditate gloriously on the power of film and flight to transform a nation, a culture, a world." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Away From Her (2007) |
"Upon seeing Away From Her again, I'm content with my sense memory. I'm even more pleased with how much of this fine film's nuance and detail feel fresh." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Splat 2.5/4 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"The artiness gets in the way of thrilling plot twists; we're still trying to sort out images when we should be sorting out facts." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
"Great effort for a kid, perhaps, but not worthy of the big screen box office." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato |
After Innocence (2005) |
"Each lost face in the documentary is a burning reminder of the human toll when our justice system succumbs to its imperfections." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"You leave the movie feeling exhausted, argumentative and exhilarated, surely the sign of a powerful film in any language." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 2/4 |
Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) |
"Broomfield is too fond of himself by half, and tilts the movie too much toward his personal objections to the death penalty." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"Akeelah and the Bee carefully diagrams every cliche we've absorbed from sports movies, urban dramas, mentor flicks and precocious-children portraits. Yet it works." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alexandra's Project (2005) |
"De Heer offers a wicked twist on household secrets and lies." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Aliens of the Deep (2005) |
"Both dazzling underwater ballet and a welcome salvo for clarity in the current backlash against evolution." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 0/4 |
Alone in the Dark (2005) |
"Quite possibly one of the worst movies of the decade." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"It's a workmanlike romantic comedy that by the end has quietly added up to a little more than you expected." |
Michael Booth |
Splat 0/4 |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"I truly doubt Hollywood will produce anything this year that bottoms Alpha Dog for offensively bad filmmaking." |
Michael Booth |
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