Splat 2/4 |
10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (2007) |
"[Director] Ray interjects observations about his own travels like a backup musician who thinks he's the frontman. A little less cowbell, please." |
Graham Killeen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
10,000 B.C. (2008) |
"The characters may speak English, but the narrative is gibberish." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
101 Reykjavik (2001) |
"The director wisely resists the temptation to treat slackerdom as just a blase counterpoint to the craziness of the world." |
Kevin John Bozelka |
Splat |
102 Dalmatians (2000) |
"Director Kevin Lima tries relentlessly to create a manic feel that never quite comes off." |
Jackie Loohauis |
Tomato 3/4 |
The 11th Hour (2007) |
"As depressing as the first two-thirds of the film is, the last third is surprisingly empowering and hopeful." |
Cathy Jakicic |
Tomato 3/4 |
12 and Holding (2006) |
"From the parents to the children, the cast is uniformly excellent. Weizenbaum and Renner deserve special mention for handling a potentially unsettling relationship with care." |
Michele Kenner |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"Like the song ['Thriller'], the movie strikes an overly familiar chord. But it's an infectious one." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat |
The 13th Floor (1999) |
"This atmospheric and elaborately knotted tale is wrapped in a pretext that is more preposterous than mysterious and not very involving." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat |
The 13th Warrior (1999) |
"It neither follows a trend nor sets one." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
1408 (2007) |
"Neither viscerally compelling nor emotionally satisfying." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"16 Blocks is carelessly executed and dramatically contrived, but, like Willis, is determined to get the job done." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
17 Again (2009) |
"Has enough fresh charm to make up for the lack of originality." |
Cathy Jakicic |
Splat 2.5/4 |
2 Days In Paris (2007) |
"All in all, Delpy has a good time mocking national identities and gender issues, but she doesn't make a case for Marion and Jack to stay together. If she doesn't care about them as a couple, why should we?" |
Michele Kenner |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"Still as high-octane the second time around, even if it's firing on a few different cylinders." |
Mack Bates |
Splat |
200 Cigarettes (1999) |
"As funny as a dark spot on your chest X- ray!" |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
The 2007 Academy Award Nominated Animated Shorts (2008) |
"For almost every nominee, the medium is part of the message." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 1.5/4 |
2012 (2009) |
"There are fates worse than death, and 2012 is one of them." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
2046 (2005) |
"The result is almost fetishistic, come-hither doodling of Wong's own making. He is a craftsman mumbling to himself in a language only he understands." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
21 (2008) |
"[It's] not unlike feeding one nickel after another into a slot machine in search of a modest payoff." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
21 Grams (2003) |
"The uniformly fine performances infuse the evanescent film with gravity." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"It speaks for itself in the language of its kinetic subject matter, and challenges viewers with a strongly held and distinctive point of view rather than reassuring them with paint-by-numbers familiarity." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
25th Hour (2002) |
"A well-executed link between the abyss separating doom from freedom." |
Nick Carter |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
27 Dresses (2008) |
"It's not as funny or original as Knocked Up, but it has its moments." |
Cathy Jakicic |
Splat |
28 Days (2000) |
"The result is a hard-knocks movie whose edges are smoothed away to please an addiction to happy endings." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"28 Days Later is either perfectly timed or unfortunately so, but is chilling in either case." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"[The] focus on effects and action comes at the expense of creating engaging characters and meaningful situations." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
30 Days of Night (2007) |
"A frightening genre offering, raising the bar on raising the dead." |
Jackie Loohauis |
Tomato 3/4 |
300 (2007) |
"Neither history nor cinema is especially well served by 300, which is, nonetheless, a remarkable intersection of technology and imagination." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
"If the original overplayed its naiveté, the update of 3:10 to Yuma overplays its cynicism only to sell it out at the end." |
Dave Tianen |
Tomato 3/4 |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) |
"Like another recent streetwise Cannes prize winner, the Belgian film L'Enfant, it is stripped of sentimentality and pretense. It is visually static, glacially paced and dramatically unvarnished." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) |
"Highly flawed but crudely funny." |
Gemma Tarlach |
Tomato 3/4 |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) |
"The 40 Year-Old Virgin is a kooky kaleidoscope of a film, where right is wrong and smart is stupid." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
50 First Dates (2004) |
"50 First Dates probably will give couples a few laughs but nothing to remember in the morning." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 3/4 |
500 Days of Summer (2009) |
"(500) Days of Summer is clever, thoughtful and well-acted, and it manages to refresh a genre grown stale through repetition." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat |
54 (1998) |
"The new disco era film 54 is Fame on drugs, a low-grade Saturday Night Fever." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
The 6th Day (2000) |
"There are enough wild car chases, cool explosions and funny moments to keep your attention, and some of the stunts will make you flinch." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
8 Mile (2002) |
"Reactions to 8 Mile may be tempered by predispositions for or against the rapper, but the film cannot be faulted for lack of trying and may seduce skeptics with its energy and tone." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
8 Women (2002) |
"Like all things sweet, 8 Women is an acquired taste, a feast for the eyes but less of a treat for the ears." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 1.5/4 |
88 Minutes (2008) |
"I won't bother to catalog the movie's lapses in logic. Actually, it's misleading to call them lapses, because I'm hard-pressed to recall any logic to lapse from." |
Cathy Jakicic |
Splat |
8MM (1998) |
"About as entertaining as an autopsy" |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
9 (2009) |
"Earnest, inspiring and far from perfect, 9 is the kind of animated experience that defies traditional sensory logic." |
Graham Killeen |
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