Splat 2.5/4 |
Tadpole (2002) |
"It lacks the lushly romantic sensibility that made Woody Allen's similarly themed (and unfortunately prophetic) Manhattan seem plausible." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
The Tailor of Panama (2001) |
"Like a nice, if unassuming, suit tailored by a team of craftsman." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Take the Lead (2006) |
"A dramatized, sometimes compelling retelling of the beginnings of the program depicted in Mad Hot Ballroom." |
Mack Bates |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Taking Lives (2004) |
"[A] generic pulp thriller." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Taking Sides (2003) |
"A captivating and worthy endeavor." |
Paul Doro |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Tale of Despereaux (2008) |
"It's charming, with gorgeous, painterly animation and a heartfelt story." |
Meg Jones |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003) |
"Fans of the genre will find much to savor with A Tale of Two Sisters." |
Paul Doro |
Tomato |
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) |
"Minghella's warm Italian landscapes, passionate jazz music subplot and noose-tightening techniques heighten this tale but do not transform it." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Talk to Her (2002) |
"Talk To Her manages to be female-centric even as it explores the lives of men." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Talk to Me (2007) |
"Has a distinctive and original voice that is rarely heard today." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) |
"It's a briskly paced, reliably funny and surprisingly sweet portrait of a colorful subculture, and its improvisational impulses strain against the hood of a sturdily designed storyline." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
Tape (2001) |
"A quick-paced, visceral and smartly acted psychodrama." |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Tarnation (2004) |
"A hopscotch through the looking glass in whose shards Caouette has chosen to define and explain himself." |
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Tomato |
Tarzan (1999) |
"Tarzan offers glimpses of Disney emotional storytelling at its finest." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
The Taste of Others (2001) |
"With keenness, subtlety and unexpected twists, The Taste of Others reveals all. And makes us smile at the revelations." |
Jackie Loohauis |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Taxi (2004) |
"The meter's running but the fare is flat-rate." |
Jackie Loohauis |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) |
"[Director] Gibney posits that reliable but time-consuming interrogation techniques, which required skill and patience, have been replaced by procedures one person describes as 'this side of the Marquis de Sade.'" |
Duane Dudek |
Splat |
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) |
"Current events outraced it in ways that Williamson, who usually anticipates trends, was apparently unable to incorporate in his narrative." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Team America: World Police (2004) |
"Clumsy, clunky puppets turn out to be a brilliant comedy delivery system." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Tears of the Sun (2003) |
"The movie is smothered by wooden characters, one-dimensional performances, a flawed story line and unforgivable cliches." |
Nick Carter |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tell Them Who You Are (2005) |
"Anyone who has been either a parent or a child will understand the push-me- pull-you, love-and-hate dynamic the film captures, and the attempt at reconciliation that it represents." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ten (2003) |
"Whatever the film lacks in physical lyricism, it makes up for with a claustrophobic flair that leads you to conclude that Ten can be the loneliest number." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Ten Commandments (2007) |
"Likable enough without being extraordinary." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat 2/4 |
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006) |
"Some of the bits work; just as often, they don't. Black and Gass' appealing rapport masks those problems for a while, but eventually, they, too, wear out their welcome." |
Mack Bates |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Terminal (2004) |
"Sweet but disjointed film." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) |
"There are spectacular car chases and countless firefights, but they feel perfunctory, predictable and devoid of context." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"Viscerally intense and marginally entertaining while being narratively incomprehensible and simplistic." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
"All we really get is a Chainsaw that sputters before it splatters, leaving the sleepy audience anxious to saw logs." |
Jackie Loohauis |
Tomato 3/4 |
Thank You For Smoking (2006) |
"The comic conceit and a star-making turn by Eckhart, a star in the making since In the Company of Men in 1997, are their own reward." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Clone Wars (2008) |
"[Lucas] created an empire out of his own imagination and then squeezed the life out of it." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"Writer-director Stefan Ruzowitzky creates an atmosphere devoid of color or light, in which the desperate need to survive is balanced against the guilt and shame for doing so. But it is the performances that are the most effective." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) |
"The new Earth is both too dumb and not quite dumb enough to be any fun at all." |
Graham Killeen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Polar Express (2004) |
"Most parents and children will be enthralled and enchanted by the positive themes it promotes." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Then She Found Me (2008) |
"Resembles a heartfelt but out-of-tune karaoke version of 'I Am Woman'." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 4/4 |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"The dense, elegiac and extraordinarily mature character study There Will Be Blood is such a departure in tone, theme and execution as if to seem by a different filmmaker entirely." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"Beautifully shot." |
Paul Kosidowski |
Tomato 3/4 |
Thirteen (2003) |
"What I know about being a teenager has been lost in a fog of time and denial. What I know about being the parent of a teenager can be found in each gray hair. The new film Thirteen seems to accurately service both sides of that equation." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2002) |
"A work of intricate elegance, literary lyricism and profound common sense." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
Thirteen Days (2000) |
"A sober and sobering film." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat |
Thirteen Ghosts (2001) |
"A B-grade Scream wannabe." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat 2/4 |
This Christmas (2007) |
"As inert as an artificial tree and as pointless as eggnog without brandy." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006) |
"Dick combines comic investigative stealth with documentary film shoe leather for an exposé that is as compelling as it is entertaining, about a group rife with conflicts of interest, whose competence is debatable and whose authority is dubious." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
This Is England (2007) |
"This Is England grabs you by the scruff of the neck and yanks you into the Thatcher 1980s with brute force." |
Michele Kenner |
Tomato |
Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000) |
"Eye-popping wardrobe makes for a tasty visual treat." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat |
Thomas Crown Affair, The (1999) |
"A supporting role by a formidable Dunaway, 58, as Brosnan's shrink, is not just a nice distraction, but a reminder that she and McQueen could chew these new kids up and spit them out." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Thr3e (2007) |
"Thr3e is far short of Se7en." |
Jackie Loohauis |
Tomato 3 |
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) |
"A brooding, narratively brusque tale of the modern West, as unvarnished and stripped of pretense as bones bleached by sun, wind and drifting sand." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Three Times (2006) |
"Carefully crafted and bereft of dialogue, Three Times sets the bar high with its opening salvo but can't sustain the momentum." |
Michele Kenner |
Splat |
Three to Tango (1999) |
"The journey is so arduous and lackluster you feel like Lawrence crossing Arabia." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Throw Down Your Heart (2009) |
"It's a journey long on affecting songs and musical passages, and short on scholarship -- and that works just fine for Fleck's intentions." |
Michele Kenner |
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