Tomato |
I am a Sex Addict (2005) |
"At 98 minutes, Addict demands an investment not repaid by its basic unpleasantness." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
I am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth (2004) |
"I Am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth retells the checkered history of Soy Cuba, the infamous Cuban-Soviet co-production that started out as a love letter to the Cuban Revolution but ended up a Dear Juan letter to communism." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2/5 |
I Am David (2004) |
"It's a Hallmark Hall of Fame special dressed up as a feature, one that juggles feel-good humanitarianism and oddly inappropriate stabs at whimsy." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2/5 |
I Am Legend (2007) |
"Liking Smith is one thing and praising his hollow performance here, as almost all of them have, is another." |
J.B. Mitchell |
Splat |
I Am Sam (2002) |
"Penn's method retardation [is] a cycle of muttered asides and Herman Munster guffaws that at best constitutes a bad Hoffman impression, at worst an unconscious echo of Adam Sandler's disability riffs in Bulletproof." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 4/5 |
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002) |
"By candidly detailing the politics involved in the creation of an extraordinary piece of music, [Jones] calls our attention to the inherent conflict between commerce and creativity." |
Micky Michalec |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
I Capture the Castle (2003) |
"Better on set-up than follow-through." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2/5 |
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"Too self-regarding to be madcap and too foolish to be profound, it's the sort of misshapen folly you'll stumble upon on cable (or the Internet) 15 years from now and wonder what anybody involved with it was thinking." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 3/5 |
I Love You, Man (2009) |
"Good-natured but slightly toothless and, in the end, forgettable." |
Justin Strout |
- |
I Spy (2002) |
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Tomato 4/5 |
I'm Not Scared (2004) |
"Excels at interpreting the peculiar currency of childhood." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 4/5 |
I'm Not There (2007) |
" Live, breath, sing, obfuscate, exhale: I’m Not There is a kaleidoscopic blur, a puzzle confected from muzzle flash, a tale born on the prairie but with its eyes up on the road ahead." |
Ray Pride |
Splat 2/5 |
I, Robot (2004) |
"It's a hard thing to pay attention to, as you'll be too busy analyzing the inherent impossibilities created by the plot holes and groaning loudly over the '70s-era TV-cop-show schtick." |
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Tomato 3.5/5 |
Ice Age (2002) |
"The path Ice Age follows most closely, though, is the one established by Warner Bros. giant Chuck Jones, who died a matter of weeks before the movie's release." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
The Ice Harvest (2005) |
"It's perfectly possible to enjoy The Ice Harvest, just as soon as you recognize it as Harold Ramis' willful attempt to thwart every expectation he's built up in his career as a cineplex funster." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Identity (2003) |
"One potential victim verbally acknowledges the obvious similarity of their predicament to Ten Little Indians; it's the first of several self-conscious blunders this movie makes as it seeks to escape its B-picture constraints." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 3/5 |
Idlewild (2006) |
"At a certain point, the baldly borrowed story elements go from cute to plain lazy, and you notice that Benjamin’s and Patton's characters -- introduced as friends from childhood -- share almost no scenes." |
Steve Schneider |
- |
Igby Goes Down (2002) |
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Tomato 4.5/5 |
The Illusionist (2006) |
"You don’t have to have spent more than five minutes in the presence of a professional magician to recognize that Edward Norton has their entire act down." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) |
"...it seems that Gilliam may have been so eager to cram so much into his next big gamble that he smothers what was already working." |
William Goss |
Splat 2/5 |
Imaginary Heroes (2004) |
"The morbid curiosity with which Harris pokes through their preposterously complicated affairs makes Ordinary People look like the Christmas episode of Mr. Belvedere." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
Imagine Me & You (2006) |
"The story settles for bad sitcom humor, a pedestrian romantic-comedy plot and a ridiculously sunny conclusion that belies the complexity of the situation and provides every party involved with an easy way out." |
John Thomason |
Tomato 4/5 |
IMAX - Pulse: A STOMP Odyssey (2006) |
"The film is impressive for the sights and sounds of the wondrous beats the world has to offer." |
Joseph Hayes |
- |
IMAX - The Greatest Places (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 3/5 |
Importance of Being Earnest (2002) |
"Watching this all-too-Earnest bunch, one wishes for a head tic, a stammer or any other comic mannerism that would impart a sorely lacking sense of fun." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat |
Impostor (2001) |
"There's more dramatic meat in an episode of The Outer Limits." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 4/5 |
In America (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
In Between Days (2006) |
"In Between Days is a wise and beautiful study of yearning and repression." |
John Thomason |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
In Bruges (2008) |
"As with all road movies, it all comes down to chemistry, and almost every character in In Bruges convincingly connects, selling the story’s absurd twists and turns." |
Jeff Meyers |
Splat |
The In Crowd (2000) |
"There's no way I'll be able to explain all the cheesy goings-on in this one little note." |
Philip Booth |
Splat 2.5/5 |
In Good Company (2004) |
"This is a movie for the Dans of the world, inviting them to chuckle ruefully at the monkey business those crazy kids get up to nowadays and concocting just punishments for whippersnappers who try to elbow their elders out of the way." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
In Her Shoes (2005) |
"It's still pretty engaging and at times quite poignant, bolstered by terrific acting and crisp, effective direction." |
John Thomason |
Splat 2.5/5 |
In My Country (2005) |
"An atmosphere of stilted self-importance chokes just about every scene." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
In the Bedroom (2001) |
"Field, an actor who appeared in Victor Nunez's Ruby in Paradise and Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, proves attentive to the details that separate a good director from a great one." |
Steve Schneider |
- |
In the Cut (2003) |
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Tomato 3.5/5 |
In the Land of Women (2007) |
"First-time writer/director Jon Kasdan’s witty dialogue mixed with Brody’s pitch-perfect portrayal of the lovable loser make this film different and worth seeing." |
Brett Register |
Tomato |
In the Mood for Love (2001) |
"In an act of pure cinema Wong Kar-wai intimately reveals love, longing and loss, to those who pay attention." |
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Tomato 5/5 |
In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) |
"Instead of stooping to armchair psychology, this marvelous movie trusts its fascinating subject matter to spin its own web of mystery and melancholia." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) |
"In the Shadow of the Moon tells a riveting story, even if we know how it ends." |
John Thomason |
Tomato 4/5 |
In the Valley of Elah (2007) |
"In the Valley of Elah is the first great movie about the stateside aftermath of the Iraq War and should be considered a companion piece to Hal Ashby’s post-Vietnam opus Coming Home." |
Cole Haddon |
Splat |
In Too Deep (1999) |
"Monotonous and less compelling." |
Philip Booth |
- |
The In-Laws (2003) |
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Tomato 4.5/5 |
Incident at Loch Ness (2004) |
"The movie has made us question anew our faith in 'reality' entertainment -- and visual representation in general." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato |
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) |
"The movie's impact overcomes any discomfort with Gore or his politics." |
Ralph Brave |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
"The Incredible Hulk isn’t a work of art, but director Leterrier had the sense to recognize that it wasn’t supposed to be art in the first place. His film delivers on something called 'fun'." |
Justin Strout |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
The Incredibles (2004) |
"The studio's best-ever work with humanoid forms." |
Steve Schneider |
Splat 2/5 |
The Independent (2001) |
"... a stretched-to -the-limit parody of B-movie audacity ..." |
Steve Schneider |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Infamous (2006) |
"A freewheeling, effervescent and unpredictable take on a now-predictable story, Infamous not only trumps Miller's film as a mood piece but generates plenty of oddball humor and superb period detail to make it one of the year's best movies." |
John Thomason |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Informant! (2009) |
"Damon’s portrayal is complicated, amusing and somewhat heartbreaking." |
Justin Strout |
Splat 3/5 |
The Informers (2009) |
"The result turns the novel’s cynical satire into a facile morality play, in which these privileged children want to be told the difference between right and wrong." |
John Thomason |
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