Tomato 3.5/4 |
Hairspray (2007) |
"Traditionally, movie musicals are released in the 'serious' fall season. But the shamelessly exuberant Hairspray is a summer film and proud of it." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Half Nelson (2006) |
"The clash of opposite ideas, impulses and personalities is one of life's constants, and through it, change is born. And while this sounds like hollow rhetoric, Half Nelson is a quietly passionate portrait of this principle in action." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 1/4 |
Half Past Dead (2002) |
"There's absolutely nothing of value here, and it's incredibly offensive to boot." |
Paul Doro |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"The result is comparatively mild in a summer of comedies so politically incorrect that one of them earned a boycott." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Hancock (2008) |
"No one can tell a coherent story anymore, and before long no one will notice." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat |
Hanging Up (2000) |
"Cries out for a surer hand and a quicker pace." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Hangover (2009) |
"It is a situation comedy dressed in narrative clothing, and the story it tells is less amusing than the high-concept premise." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert (2008) |
"Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus is Bubble Yum for the eyes and ears. But given the demographic, that works." |
Dave Tianen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"The true treat is watching Hannibal's evolution -- and witnessing the moment when his last shred of humanity disappears." |
Stanley A. Miller II |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Happily N'Ever After (2007) |
"Originally conceived as a 2-D picture, Happily was retooled into a 3-D computer-animated film during production. Still, it still somehow feels a bit flat." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat 2/4 |
Happy Endings (2005) |
"It's easy to guess everything that happens long before it does, and the 'shocking' secrets are anything but." |
Paul Doro |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"While the songs and animation occasionally slow down the action a bit, they join nicely with the movie's understated humor to painlessly deliver its ecological lessons." |
Cathy Jakicic |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happy Times (2002) |
"A metaphor for a modern-day urban China searching for its identity." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hard Candy (2005) |
"You might feel like squirming, but you will not want to look away." |
Paul Doro |
Tomato |
A Hard Day's Night (1964) |
"More than anything else, the movie is a snapshot of how much fun Beatlemania really was." |
Dave Tianen |
Tomato |
Hardball (2001) |
"Young people in particular, whose sense of security has been shattered, might find its message of tolerance and redemption valuable, and many adults could probably use the same emotional pep talk." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) |
"Goes for cheap and easy laughs way too frequently." |
Paul Doro |
Splat 2/4 |
Harrison's Flowers (2002) |
"It's as if the complex backdrop of war could support only the most generic melodrama." |
Kevin John Bozelka |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
"Like the first film, it cleaves too faithfully to the source material, but it always fills the screen with spectacle." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"There is still some subtle and unexpected levity." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"Hogwarts now resembles just another English boarding school, and the childlike wonder that marked previous entries in the series has been replaced by a real-world sense of responsibility and looming consequence." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"This is a darker, more tormented Harry Potter than we have ever seen onscreen." |
Dave Tianen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"The literal sensibility that director Chris Columbus gave to the first two Potter films has been replaced by Cuaron's richly cinematic one." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) |
"Everything else is present and accounted for, which explains the two-hour, 25-minute running time." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Hart's War (2002) |
"[E]ventually, every idea in this film is flushed down the latrine of heroism." |
Kevin John Bozelka |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Haunted Mansion (2003) |
"With The Haunted Mansion, the second movie this year to be based on a popular Disney attraction Eddie Murphy may have finally brought his career back to life." |
Mack Bates |
Splat |
The Haunting (1999) |
"It is missing the coherent story, credible characters and literate dialogue that can make any film, no matter how outlandish the dramatic circumstances, involving." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2003) |
"A delicious creation that engages the senses with its multilayered, fluid plot." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat 2/4 |
Head in the Clouds (2004) |
"The story, setting and colorful cast should help make Head in the Clouds a winner, but the film undercuts itself repeatedly by being too heavy-handed." |
Nick Carter |
Tomato 2/4 |
Head of State (2003) |
"None of this is terribly believable, of course, but it passes as cinematic setup for Rock's best stand-up talent: socially pinpointed humor and outrage." |
Nick Carter |
Tomato 3/4 |
Head On (1998) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Head-On (2005) |
"Their performances are the heart of a film that is an often comic and raucous look at mismatched personalities, cultural dissonance, and the tender and tentative sense of optimism that keeps all of us alive for another day." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Heading South (2006) |
"... a shot of reality disguised as an umbrella drink, and is as uncomfortable an experience as having sand stuck in your swimming suit." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Heart of the Game (2006) |
"Serrill, making his feature debut after numerous short promotional films, takes a story that is seemingly about one thing, and uses it to gently explore the bigger ideas of gender, race, class, cooperation, competition and what winning really means." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) |
"This year's Heartbreak Kid isn't as on-target in either comedy or romance as the Farrellys and Stiller were with There's Something About Mary, but you'll find yourself laughing just the same." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat |
Heartbreakers (2001) |
"Is it amusing? No." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato |
Hearts in Atlantis (2001) |
"In the end, Hopkins' powerful performance elevates the movie's seen-it-before feeling. He proves to be not just the heart, but the soul, of Hearts of Atlantis." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Heaven (2002) |
"What begins as a conventional thriller evolves into a gorgeously atmospheric meditation on life-changing chance encounters." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) |
"The songs and Mitchell's 'Rock 'n' Roll Animal' performance of them are a true walk on the wild side." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Heights (2005) |
"The material isn't strong enough and the first-time director isn't experienced enough to make it work." |
Piet Levy |
Tomato |
Heist (2001) |
"Heist is satisfying in other ways, particularly seeing the terrific cast ... chew at Mamet's dialogue like Hollywood film actors starved for substance." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Hell Ride (2008) |
"Leaves little time for plot but plenty of scenes of biker gangs tooling down desert roads, with close-ups of exhaust pipes, handlebars and black leather jackets." |
Meg Jones |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hellboy (2004) |
"Hellboy is the most engaging comic-book movie character to emerge in years, and his complex personality is perfectly personified by Ron Perlman, with a prosthetic assist." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) |
"Hellboy II has the inclinations of a gas guzzler but the soul of a hybrid, and the two resist each other like partners in a loveless marriage." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Henry Poole Is Here (2008) |
"An easy film to surrender to." |
Graham Killeen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005) |
"It sounds hokey, but the nostalgic quality of the whole Herbie experience makes Fully Loaded a charming family film." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat |
Here on Earth (2000) |
"When people talk about Here on Earth -- and they will -- the kindest thing they can say will be: 'At least it was in color.'" |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 4/4 |
Hero (2004) |
"Hero is what Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon might have looked like if it had been directed by the late Japanese master Akira Kurosawa." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 1/4 |
Hey Arnold! The Movie (2002) |
"Arnold is like a Little Leaguer struggling to hit the ball. It swings high, it swings low, but it never connects or seems to establish who its target is." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hidalgo (2004) |
"An entertaining but far-short- of-epic popcorn romp that's equal parts Indiana Jones and The Last Samurai." |
Gemma Tarlach |
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