Tomato 4/5 |
Cabin Fever (2003) |
"A taste for horrendously graphic effects is a must: One scene of a personal-hygiene regimen gone bad reminded me that no, my stomach has not seen everything." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
Caché (2005) |
"Filmmaker Michael Haneke has made Caché a guessing game that, unlike so many others of its ilk, actually has something to say -- and says it in a way that is utterly of the moment." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 3/5 |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"Plays like a string of minor conflicts and resolutions instead of one great, overarching crusade." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Camp (2003) |
"The plotting and performances are so rarely on the same page that the moments of motivational lucidity seem to have been arrived at almost by accident." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2.5/5 |
El Cantante (2007) |
"Unfortunately, the movie suffers from what all musical biopics tend to: clichés." |
Cole Haddon |
Tomato 4/4 |
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) |
"A film for everyone in the economic bottom 95 percent." |
Justin Strout |
Tomato |
Capote (2005) |
"What genuinely distinguishes the film ... is its willingness to ask questions -- many of which have no clear-cut answers -- about the basic decency of using true events to one's personal advantage." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"[A] jaw-dropping documentary." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 4/5 |
Carandiru (2004) |
"No matter how contrived the format seems at times, every one of the hard-luck tales is violently good pulp." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
Cars (2006) |
"The creative mind rot that was foretold by The Incredibles comes home with full, Lamborghini-against-a-brick-wall force in a dull highway opera that’s only notable for its technical achievements." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 4/5 |
Casa de los Babys (2003) |
"For most of its 95 minutes, Casa de los Babys is the John Sayles picture for people who always wished John Sayles pictures were a little bit better." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
Casanova (2005) |
"Pleasantly undistinguished, this movie rests on a handful of crowd-pleasing plot points about true love, and on a few strong supporting turns: Oliver Platt, who plays an obese Genoan fop, has now saved two movies in as many months." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 4/5 |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"There’s little to link this thrilling action flick with the clichéd redundancy that the 007 movies had become." |
Jason Ferguson |
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Casshern (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jason Ferguson |
Splat |
Cast Away (2000) |
"The choppy narrative makes Chuck's ordeal seem more brief than it is. As shown, it's merely the world's worst layover." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 1.5/5 |
The Cat's Meow (2002) |
"The acting is as shallow and tedious as the script." |
William A. Sievert |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"The narrative resists the grandiosity of Vendetta and the self-righteousness of Syriana." |
Cole Haddon |
Splat 2/5 |
Catch and Release (2007) |
"Catch and Release opens with a funeral, which is a not-so-funny way for a romantic comedy trying to pass itself off as a drama to begin." |
Cole Haddon |
- |
Catch That Kid (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato |
Caterina in the Big City (2005) |
"Subtitles that are damnably hard to read are all that gets in the way of Virzì's story, which simultaneously suffices as a teen drama and a political metaphor." |
Steve Schneider |
- |
Cats & Dogs (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 1/5 |
Catwoman (2004) |
"A cynical and taxing trip through a thoroughly artificial world of obnoxious action, empowerment cliches, R&B cross-marketing and teeth-gnashing asides." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
The Cell (2000) |
"For all of Singh's facility with visual renderings, he's chosen to hang them on a story that seldom amounts to more than The Silence of the Lambs for dummies." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Cellular (2004) |
"1/3 of a terrific thriller." |
Ian Grey |
Splat |
Center Stage (2000) |
"Unless you really have an affection for dance, you'll likely find yourself easily distracted during the soap-operatic nature of the petty infighting between students, their parents and mentors." |
George Meyer |
- |
Chalk (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jason Ferguson |
Splat 1/5 |
Chandni Chowk to China (2009) |
"Any hopes of stylistic experimentation or genre fusion are quickly dashed and it becomes evident that this is simply two films: the first half singing, dancing Bollywood and the second a middle-of-the-road martial arts flick." |
Justin Strout |
- |
Un Chant d'Amour (1950) |
Click here to see the review. |
John Thomason |
Splat |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"Once again, Tim Burton 'reimagines' a property he Just Doesn't Get. (See Planet of the Apes -- but not literally.)" |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Charlie Bartlett (2007) |
"Even when it slips into familiar John Hughes grooves, the film’s a pithy portrait of a medicated generation eagerly embracing the terrors and joys of adolescence with clear-eyed enthusiasm." |
Serena Donadoni |
Tomato 4/5 |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"Ultimately it’s a film that understands that it’s OK to insert a little T&A into the political discourse." |
John Thomason |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) |
"Sure, there's plenty of po-mo frolicking to '80s hits, and references are dropped to every cinematic nugget from Flashdance to Cape Fear. But the drawn-out action sequences show barely a trace of wit." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
Charlotte Gray (2001) |
"Compellingly depicts the hazards faced by ordinary people when hell breaks loose." |
Luisa F. Ribeiro |
Tomato 4/5 |
Charlotte's Web (2006) |
"Walden Media should be applauded for continuing on their mission to bring high-quality family-centric fare to audiences without infusing every scene with an ironic wink." |
Jason Ferguson |
- |
Chasing Liberty (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
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- |
Chasing Papi (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 1/5 |
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) |
"It's ostensibly a remake of the 1950 Walter Lang comedy, though latter-day audiences will detect a far greater kinship to an early episode of The Brady Bunch with twice the brats." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 3/5 |
Cheri (2009) |
"All the frilly hats, teasingly lit sex and delicious turns of phrases can’t inject this adaptation of Colette’s novel with enough drama to sustain its tight running time." |
Justin Strout |
Splat 2/5 |
Cherish (2002) |
"An extraordinarily silly thriller." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Chicago (2002) |
"The accolades currently pouring in for this Fosse-derived piece of claptrap only prove that American musical theater is dead as a doornail." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
Chicken Little (2005) |
"There's no real reason to watch past that calamitous departure point -- except to count how many stale '70s songs director Mark Dindal can string into an unbroken medley of banality." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
Chill Factor (1999) |
"Ineptly written, ideologically muddled and unintentionally hilarious!" |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
Chocolat (2000) |
"Often comes off as a glorified sitcom, and vastly predictable." |
Philip Booth |
Splat |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) |
"A surprisingly ordinary affair, slow to get going and only occasionally reaching the level of true spectacle." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
The Chumscrubber (2005) |
"Chumscrubber is Darko redux, albeit seen through a suburban gauze that's straight out of Desperate Housewives." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
The Cider House Rules (1999) |
"The film's energy spikes near the end." |
Philip Booth |
Splat |
Cinderella Man (2005) |
"Well-acted but textually mediocre." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) |
"Reilly's Crepsley makes both the afterlife and any sequels to come equally appealing prospects." |
William Goss |
Splat 2.5/5 |
City by the Sea (2002) |
"A markedly inactive film, City is conversational bordering on confessional." |
Steve Schneider |
- |
City of Ghosts (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
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