Tomato 3.5/4 |
About a Boy (2002) |
"Although the plot devices that bring Will and Marcus together are complicated, they never seem strained or artificial." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 4/4 |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"About Schmidt winds up being about us all." |
Steven Rosen |
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 3/4 |
Adaptation (2002) |
"Kaufman's carefully constructed screenplay emphasizes so many layers of duality, it's beyond gimmick. It's a world view." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"It proves Mottola has a sweet sensibility for intimate grins, as well as broad yuks." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato |
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) |
"The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle is a masterpiece." |
Steven Rosen |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Tomato |
AKA (2002) |
"It's an eloquent testament to the fragmentary nature of identity." |
Lisa Kennedy |
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 3/4 |
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 |
Ali (2001) |
"It does connect solidly more often than not." |
Steven Rosen |
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 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 |
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 |
Tomato 3/4 |
All or Nothing (2002) |
"Leigh makes these lives count. And he allows a gawky actor like Spall -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range." |
Steven Rosen |
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 |
Tomato |
Amelie (2001) |
"One leaves the theater thinking, as so many Americans of past generations have, 'Ah, there's always Paris.' And there will always be Amelie, too." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3/4 |
America's Heart and Soul (2004) |
"It's pretty darn good and more than a little inspiring." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato |
American Beauty (1999) |
"Funny and highly entertaining." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 4/4 |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"American Dreamz pulls off that rare feat of shooting at dozens of big targets, and hitting so many of them that we want to stand up and cheer because someone even tried." |
Michael Booth |
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 |
American Pie 2 (2001) |
"The main characters are further developed ... and just as endearing as the first incarnation." |
Asher Price |
Tomato |
American Psycho (2000) |
"Entertaining and amusing." |
Steven Rosen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
American Splendor (2003) |
"As touching as it is achingly, hilariously prickly." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Wedding (2003) |
"If you like the formula -- Hallmark card sentiments contracted out to hardcore youth offenders -- American Wedding may be the best of the trio." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
An Education (2009) |
"The film is gentle with its judgments. Or most of them." |
Lisa Kennedy |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) |
"A lot better than a slapped-together sequel to a campy original has any right to be." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) |
"Always affectionate toward its people, especially when they are at their most ridiculous, Anchorman meticulously builds America's dimmest news team. And we root for them." |
Michael Booth |
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 |
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 |
Angela's Ashes (1999) |
"Lacks the magnificence of his book, but it is worth seeing." |
Steven Rosen |
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 |
Tomato |
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) |
"Redux doesn't redefine Apocalypse Now -- rather, it adds archival material. But it's terrific to see the film back in theaters." |
Steven Rosen |
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 |
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 3/4 |
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) |
"The always remarkable Penn infuses Sam Bicke with more originality than the plot allowed. Mueller took a real-life incident now lost in the history books and re-created a sympathetic back story for Bicke." |
Michael Booth |
Tomato 3/4 |
Assisted Living (2005) |
"Assisted Living is a remarkably moving look at the prisons in our midst that most of us manage to ignore until we need them." |
Michael Booth |
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 |
Auto Focus (2002) |
"Schrader, I think, has found an approach that suits the skewed cultural history of his material." |
Steven Rosen |
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 |
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