Tomato 4/5 |
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) |
"By the time The U.S. vs. John Lennon is done, the filmmakers have reinforced the sense that pop music once produced prophets, as well as profits." |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 4/5 |
U2 3D (2008) |
"Transforms a great rock spectacle into something intimate, is a cultural artifact of an era when we could label a rock group 'the only band that matters' and have it mean something." |
Roger Moore |
Splat 2/5 |
The Ugly Truth (2009) |
"Butler has a funny way with a line and a natural comic virility, something Heigl's previous leads lacked. But they don't click as a couple, perhaps because they're kept apart by a wordy script overloaded with blue banter." |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Ultimate Gift (2007) |
"Funny and moving, and several steps above the Hallmark Channel pabulum that Fox Faith has mostly rolled out up until now." |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 4/5 |
Ultimate X: The Movie (2002) |
"This Imax sports documentary captures the danger, thrills, spills and sheer altitude attained by the young men and women who put it all on the line for burgeoning 'Xtreme sports' movement." |
Roger Moore |
Splat 1/5 |
Ultraviolet (2006) |
"It's not bad enough to be funny, but it's not without its moments. Most of those come when Jovovich, not the best with a catch-phrase, answers some challenge with a put-down she should have practiced more in between personal trainer sessions." |
Roger Moore |
Splat 2/5 |
Unaccompanied Minors (2006) |
"It's a holiday farce in a minor key, suitable for the not-ready-for-PG-13 crowd, too boring for anybody else." |
Roger Moore |
Splat 1/5 |
The Unborn (2009) |
"The movie's not very good, but there are ideas, good and bad, in its execution that are worth mulling over." |
Roger Moore |
Tomato |
Unbreakable (2000) |
"All I will say about it is that its overwhelming horror hit me more powerfully than a locomotive, and that, after I knew what it was, I couldn't believe I had overlooked it. Days later, I still find myself obsessed with that twist." |
Jay Boyar |
Splat 2/5 |
Uncle Nino (2003) |
"It's like sitting down for risotto al Gorgonzola at a fine restaurant, hearing the can-opener in the kitchen and realizing that your chef's named Boyardee." |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 4/5 |
Under the Same Moon (2008) |
"It's a warm drama that humanizes Americas current illegal immigration debate even as it sentimentally stacks the deck in favor of the undocumented." |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 4/5 |
Under the Sun (2001) |
"It's like an Ingmar Bergman parody of what used to be racy about Swedish cinema -- sexy and sentimental and absolutely gorgeous to look at." |
Roger Moore |
Splat 3/5 |
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) |
"[Wells] rushes the film ... from episode to episode -- some of which work and some of which don't." |
Jay Boyar |
Splat 2/5 |
Undercover Brother (2002) |
"First-time feature director Malcolm D. Lee doesn't have a feel for the material, blows one sure-thing bit after another and fails to let, or make his cast be funny." |
Roger Moore |
Splat 1/5 |
Underdog (2007) |
"It's a harmless bore." |
Roger Moore |
Splat 2/5 |
Undertow (2004) |
"Green is all surface and no depth in his effort to channel the late novelist William Faulkner." |
Roger Moore |
Splat 1/5 |
Underworld (2003) |
"Somewhere out there, Dracula is turning over in his grave." |
Jay Boyar |
Splat 1/5 |
Underworld: Evolution (2006) |
"There's nothing new under the sun -- or out of it -- as vampire movies go." |
Roger Moore |
Splat 2/5 |
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) |
"The film would all be a complete bore if it weren't for the odd sparks of wit, and the sparks set off by Sheen and B-picture queen Mitra." |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 3/5 |
Undiscovered (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 4/5 |
Undisputed (2002) |
"A terrific B movie -- in fact, the best in recent memory." |
Jay Boyar |
Splat 2/5 |
Unfaithful (2002) |
"Unfaithful ends so badly that it's impossible to recommend. At the same time, the film is impossible to dismiss because of Diane Lane's performance." |
Jay Boyar |
Splat 3/5 |
An Unfinished Life (2005) |
"It's the movie that feels incomplete." |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Uninvited (2009) |
Click here to see the review. |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 5/5 |
United 93 (2006) |
"It is a movie that takes us where we don't want to go but need to." |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 4/5 |
The United States of Leland (2004) |
"An intriguing movie about how badly we really want to know the unknowable, what makes kids kill other kids." |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 3/5 |
Unleashed (2005) |
"Not as much fun as Kung Fu Hustle, not as painterly as House of Flying Daggers or Hero, Unleashed is still a fascinating metaphor for the action star only allowed on screen to bust heads and break legs." |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 3/5 |
Unsettled (2008) |
Click here to see the review. |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Untold Story of Emmet Louis Till (2005) |
"Untold Story is a documentary of compassion and urgency, a film that cries out, as virtually every film and story on this subject does, for justice, something that didn't happen in 1950s Mississippi." |
Roger Moore |
Splat 3/5 |
Untraceable (2008) |
"From its obvious foreshadowing to Marsh's big PowerPoint presentation of the killer's cause-and-effect, Untraceable is a mite too traceable to get under the skin." |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 4/5 |
Up (2009) |
"A feather-light farce with a delicious dose of the sentimental, it isn't the animation company's biggest, most complicated or even its best. It's just a film in which most every oddball element of an odd yet familiar story works." |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 4/4 |
Up in the Air (2009) |
"Jason Reitman’s dry, moving “comedy,” based on the Walter Kirn novel, is a sly indictment of Corporate America, Marketing America and Frequent Flying America." |
Roger Moore |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Upside of Anger (2005) |
"Perfectly adult, perfectly acted and perfectly adorable, it surprises and charms for most of those 90 minutes." |
Roger Moore |
Splat 2/5 |
Uptown Girls (2003) |
"Not an especially raucous comedy, but it is an unfunny, rhythmless one." |
Jay Boyar |
Splat |
Urban Legends: Final Cut (2000) |
"There's nothing here that the Scream movies didn't do first and better." |
Roger Moore |
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