Splat |
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"You’d think director Ron Howard would remember that film is supposed to be a visual medium, but the inert Code has less dynamic content than a Sunday-school filmstrip." |
Steve Schneider |
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Daddy Day Care (2003) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
The Damned United (2009) |
"It’s too easy to dismiss Sheen’s work as basic mimicry; in fact, Sheen’s Clough is his most intricate work thus far." |
Justin Strout |
Splat 1.5/5 |
Dan in Real Life (2007) |
"The movie is called Dan in Real Life, but it’s a stretch worthy of Reed Richards to believe that anything in this tepid plate of idiocy would actually happen in real life." |
John Thomason |
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The Dancer Upstairs (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
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The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Danny Deckchair (2004) |
"A sort of children's book for adults." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2/5 |
Daredevil (2003) |
"For a lesson in how not to make a comic-book movie, look no further than this dull, derivative, sophomorically somber translation of Marvel's cult-hero strip." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2/5 |
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) |
"The pacing is gruelingly slow, with too much attention paid to needless cinematic flourishes." |
Cole Haddon |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Dark Blue (2003) |
"A better-than -expected police thriller." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"A product of these troubled times, the sequel to 2005’s Batman Begins includes nods to terrorism, domestic surveillance and even sanctioned torture. But one of its greatest feats is to capture our collective anxiety over the resurgent politics of hope." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
Dark Water (2005) |
"The difference between Dark Water and most of its forebears is the way it values emotional investment over cheap shocks." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2/5 |
Darkness Falls (2003) |
"[A] relentlessly derivative horror cheapie." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
Darwin's Nightmare (2006) |
"Steel yourself for 105 minutes' worth of proof that 'survival of the fittest' is a less reliable model than survival of the luckiest -- or the whitest." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
Date Movie (2006) |
"This is a movie that thinks a hit in the gut is a perfectly suitable punch line; as such, watching it often feels like enduring repeated blows to your own solar plexus." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006) |
"What keeps it entertaining is Chappelle's rapier wit and God-given talent for impromptu mischief." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 3/5 |
Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
"Instead of blood-soaked social commentary, it settles for a mischievous mélange of popcorn-flick set pieces -- a few of them admittedly brilliant." |
Steve Schneider |
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004) |
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Tomato 3.5/5 |
Day Watch (2007) |
"The pretentious plot aside, this is a highly stylized film that effortlessly blends brilliant imagery with heart-pounding action sequences." |
Brett Register |
Splat 2/5 |
De-Lovely (2004) |
"Being in the hands of folks who think that what worked for Fosse should work for Porter means that we're in for some seriously tacky melodrama. And that's what we get, mostly." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Dear Frankie (2005) |
"The movie hinges on whopping coincidence, but the actors all tread carefully with their emotions, giving the film the necessary credibility to make the tender moments honest and smart yet still handkerchief-worthy." |
Clare Pfeiffer Ramsey |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Death at a Funeral (2007) |
"Screenwriter Dean Craig and director Frank Oz are not at all shy about possibly offending midgets, the elderly or the dead. From a hilariously insipid rambling eulogy to a naked man on the roof, this funeral turns into a demented upper-class riot." |
Adam Bregman |
Tomato 4/4 |
Death of a President (2006) |
"Death of a President is important and provocative. It should not and cannot be ignored, no matter how much the holier-than-thou bastions of moral clarity and good taste try to dismiss it as reprehensible snuff." |
John Thomason |
Tomato 4/5 |
Death to Smoochy (2002) |
"This is not a crew to say 'no' to." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
Deep Blue Sea (1999) |
"Strangely monotonous, with distressingly few chuckles." |
Philip Booth |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Deep Water (2007) |
"Deeply researched and compellingly presented, Deep Water is as much about one man’s misadventures on the ocean as it is about loneliness, desperation and the danger of dreams." |
Jason Ferguson |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Delirious (2007) |
"A victim of its own vitriol." |
Eric Kohn |
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Deliver Us From Evil (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Ian Grey |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Departed (2006) |
"The Departed is a bloody, nihilistic, intelligent, pulpy epic filled with avant-garde techniques." |
John Thomason |
Tomato 4/5 |
Departures (2009) |
"There is nothing so sparkling to this film at first glance. It’s a film about man’s mortality and how he handles it, but death is not cleverly hidden inside a bigger story. It’s a wake-up slap in the face about the gritty part of dying: the bodies." |
Rob Boylan |
Splat |
Derailed (2005) |
"Don't expect to find escapist relief in the big narrative twist, which is easy to spot coming as the commuter train on which our paramours meet." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2/4 |
The Descent (2006) |
"Aside from its high concept -- instead of Snakes on a Plane, it's Chicks in a Cave (with monsters!) -- place-setting is almost all Marshall does." |
Ian Grey |
Splat |
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) |
"Deuce Bigelow has far too many sagging scenes that rely on tired gags." |
George Meyer |
Splat 2/5 |
Deuces Wild (2002) |
"A rather tired exercise in nostalgia." |
Philip Booth |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) |
"The Devil Wears Prada is to the cutthroat world of chic glossies what Swimming With Sharks is to the movie business: a satirical indictment of its industry, with naive lackeys serving as the spectator’s surrogates through the glitzy abyss." |
John Thomason |
Tomato |
The Devil's Backbone (2001) |
"Satisfies every requirement of its graveyard genre while remaining anchored in real danger, pain, frailty and human dignity." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
The Devil's Rejects (2005) |
"This follow-up unwisely pretends to seriousness." |
Ian Grey |
Tomato |
Diamond Men (2001) |
"There's too much genuine affection at work here -- between the salesmen and for them -- to resist." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2/5 |
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) |
"Be forewarned that writer/actor Tyler Perry's cross-dressing turn as same only accounts for a meager portion of this cynical exercise in manipulation." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
Dick (1999) |
"A mean little motion picture. Count me in!" |
Steve Schneider |
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Die Mommie Die! (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 5/5 |
DIG! (2004) |
"Frequently jaw-dropping doc, which exposes rock for the hilarious and harrowing undertaking it is." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
Dinosaur (2000) |
"Groundbreaking!" |
Philip Booth |
Tomato 4/5 |
Dirty Pretty Things (2003) |
"In the grand tradition of visceral fiction, a physical response to a spiritual injustice." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2/5 |
A Dirty Shame (2004) |
"Amounts to little more than a locker-room recitation of carnal euphemisms and supposedly bizarre practices." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
The Dish (2001) |
"A charming, evocative look back at events surrounding Neil Armstrong's stroll on the moon 32 years ago." |
Rob Sitch |
Tomato |
Disney's The Kid (2000) |
"A sugary-sweet, diversionary summer treat." |
Philip Booth |
Tomato 4/5 |
District 9 (2009) |
"The standard action plot demotes District 9 from a potential game-changer to simply a very good film. And considering the painful summer movie season we’ve endured thus far, you can’t ask for much more than that." |
Justin Strout |
Splat 1/5 |
Disturbia (2007) |
"A pre-Scream horror film, wearily trudging through all the clichéd genre tropes Wes Craven gleefully deconstructed, but with a straight face and a shrill soundtrack." |
John Thomason |
Tomato 3/5 |
Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath (2007) |
"While Kaur expends entirely too much of Divided We Fall’s energy in expounding upon her feelings and her journey and her questions, when she does manage to make it about someone besides herself or her cousin, she emerges with riveting film." |
Jason Ferguson |
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