Tomato 3/4 |
W. (2008) |
"W. humanizes Bush in ways that will baffle critics of both the president and the filmmaker." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Wackness (2008) |
"[It] won the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival this year and has all the variables such an honor implies and demands: naughty topic, quirky performances, hangdog sensibility and hint of redemption." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2/4 |
Wah-Wah (2006) |
"Ralph's life, at least as it's presented here, isn't all that interesting, and Grant fails to elevate the ordinary into anything more than that." |
Paul Doro |
Splat 2/4 |
Waist Deep (2006) |
"Waist Deep is a waste of time, and ankle deep at best." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 1/4 |
Waiting (2000) |
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Splat 1/4 |
Waiting... (2005) |
"So many zany characters, not a single laugh." |
Piet Levy |
Tomato 3/4 |
Waitress (2007) |
"[Writer-director Shelly's] characters are at the same time comfortably familiar and unpredictable. Her script is big-hearted and life-embracing, but still unsentimental." |
Cathy Jakicic |
Splat |
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
"Its comic riffs are simple jingles that always seem to outstay their welcome." |
Graham Killeen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Walk on Water (2005) |
"The history of this film sparkles with fresh thinking." |
Jackie Loohauis |
Tomato 3/4 |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"While the narrative toes the biopic genre line - - tragedy, addiction, redemption - - too closely to be dramatically gripping, the performances are electrifying." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
A Walk to Remember (2002) |
"A flawed, guilty pleasure, especially if you don't mind your movies extra sweet." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat 2/4 |
Walking Tall (2004) |
"A lean, mean revenge picture that works on a purely visceral level." |
Mack Bates |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
WALL-E (2008) |
"In the Pixar animation universe, all things are possible. More important, they are plausible." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"Their emotionally expressive and soulful personalities burst with the flavor of a giant vegetable." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Walt and El Grupo (2009) |
"You get a taste of what the Disney group went through and saw, and you see how that work translated into rough sketches and designs." |
Chris Foran |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Wanted (2008) |
"Wanted succeeds in making a strong impression rather than a lasting one." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"War of the Worlds is the kind of movie Spielberg can make in his sleep, which may be why it feels like we are sleepwalking while watching it." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The War Tapes (2006) |
"A painfully intimate snapshot of who they are, the damage they inflict on an unseen enemy and what they endure while doing so, in all its absurd, dehumanizing and ennobling contradictions." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
The War Within (2005) |
"A haunting portrait of how the only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the vacuum of an uncertain world is ideological certainty." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat |
The Watcher (2000) |
"Rarely has a film about a serial killer induced such a calming effect and, at times, one of downright levity, as this dull flick." |
Jackie Loohauis |
Tomato 3/4 |
Watchmen (2009) |
"The dense and complex mythology remains." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Water (2006) |
"A heartbreaking prism through which to understand the absurdity and cruelty of this practice." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) |
"Everything you want a family film to be: clever, literate, and above all, engaging." |
Mack Bates |
Splat |
The Waterboy (1998) |
"All wet!" |
Jackie Loohauis |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Way Home (2002) |
"A sentimental hybrid that could benefit from the spice of specificity." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
We Are Marshall (2006) |
"We Are Marshall is manipulative and hokey and formulaic, and, often, overly sentimental. But it is also nearly impossible to dislike." |
Paul Doro |
Tomato 3/4 |
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"By focusing on details and rituals that are the glue of our lives but which the characters leave unattended, Curran peers into the tragic heart of the mundane." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 1.5/4 |
We Own The Night (2007) |
"It somehow manages to squander an impressive roster of A-list actors on material so uninteresting and formulaic that you've seen the whole story in the trailers." |
Graham Killeen |
Tomato 3/4 |
We Were Soldiers (2002) |
"We Were Soldiers is very much like Black Hawk Down, a postmortem of a real battle that shouldn't have been fought and is pro-soldier and, arguably, anti-war in the process." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Weather Man (2005) |
"The Doppler-savvy The Weather Man may know which way the wind blows but just doesn't have the common sense to caulk the windows to keep the cold winds at bay." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Weather Underground (2003) |
"Harkens to a time when political posturing attended to stakes that were real." |
Nick Carter |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Wedding Crashers (2005) |
"The happily-ever-after result is ultimately as traditional as one of the more disappointing examples of the institution it spoofs." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Wedding Date (2005) |
"A bit like cheap champagne: It's better if you revel in its bubbly fizz and don't think about the finish." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
A Wedding for Bella (2001) |
"The movie's relatively simple plot and uncomplicated morality play well with the affable cast." |
Nick Carter |
Tomato |
The Wedding Planner (2001) |
"The perfect little confection for Valentine's Day." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) |
"Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins overstays its welcome by about 30 minutes." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Welcome to Mooseport (2004) |
"A smart but safe parable about how power can corrupt even the best of men, and how complacency is not a virtue." |
Mack Bates |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
"This is not a saccharine, Marley & Me-type tale, but a wrenchingly ordinary story, emotionally manipulative in its own way -- I know my heart was in my throat -- about poverty in the land of plenty." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
Whale Rider (2003) |
"For a better look at the sexism behind ancestral traditions, try Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi's masterpiece The Circle. But this easier-to-take film has an intoxication all its own." |
Kevin John Bozelka |
Splat 1.5/4 |
What a Girl Wants (2003) |
"What a Girl Wants isn't what everyone else wants, unless they're a preteen looking for something sweet, predictable and forgettable." |
Sue Pierman |
Splat |
What Dreams May Come (1998) |
"Muddled and confused!" |
Jackie Loohauis |
Splat 1.5/4 |
What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"What Happens in Vegas is about as bubbly as flat champagne. While aiming for an intoxicating blend of high-energy comedy, the romantic comedy's predictable story, and the lack of chemistry between stars Diaz and Kutcher, don't leave it withmuch of a kick." |
Sue Pierman |
Tomato 3/4 |
What Just Happened (2008) |
"This is the cannibal conga line that is the Hollywood food chain." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
What Lies Beneath (2000) |
"Goes with the flow rather than subverting it, using expectations to turn the smarty-pants in the audience into scaredy-cats." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato |
What Planet Are You From? (2000) |
"Perfunctorily yet competently directed." |
Duane Dudek |
Splat 2.5/4 |
What the Bleep Do We Know? (2004) |
"Matlin's dramatizations are intentionally heavy-handed... Meanwhile, many of the dozen-plus panelists grossly over-ponder the many scientific observations made." |
Nick Carter |
Splat |
What Women Want (2000) |
"The fact that normally competent women need [Gibson's] advice is as condescending as the revelation that what is on their minds is really no different from what was on the mind of his former playboy self." |
Duane Dudek |
Tomato 3/4 |
What Would Jesus Buy? (2007) |
"Obvious or not, heeding Reverend Billy's anti-Shopacolypse gospel could make your holidays a little simpler, sweeter, and saner." |
Paul Kosidowski |
Tomato |
What's Cooking? (2000) |
"An infectious film that successfully juxtaposes four seemingly different families during the most joyous and stressful time of the year." |
Mack Bates |
Tomato |
What's The Worst That Could Happen? (2001) |
"One of the funnier, well-acted comedies to come down the pike in a while." |
Mack Bates |
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