Tomato 3.5/4 |
Caché (2005) |
"... a riveting movie." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Callas Forever (2004) |
"Achieves some briskly intimate entertainment on its odd terms." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Calle 54 (2001) |
"Calle 54 could make you feel hot, nostalgic and possessive about this music." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 4/4 |
Capote (2005) |
"It is the finest portrait of an American author dramatized on film." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) |
"Nicolas Cage is such a fine, human actor that he can play a pure Italian stereotype in Captain Corelli's Mandolin and make him a man, not a caricature. The film, though, is beyond what Cage can do for it." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (1999) |
"Francisco Lombardi's film is a bit long, but upholds comedy and jungle sensuality on a very amusing tripod." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"A fascinating and rather repulsive dossier of interviews, old family films and videos that David obsessively taped after the legal nightmare erupted." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Carandiru (2004) |
"This absorber falls below Babenco's Pixote and Fernando Meirelles' churning City of God as a biopsy of Brazilian despair, so carnal in its desperation, yet is well above being a stew of sensations." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Cars (2006) |
"Cars is up-to-date computer animation of unusual swank, but it wears a weary heart on its long chrome sleeve." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Casanova (2005) |
"Ledger, if less memorable than Donald Sutherland in Fellini's Casanova or Mastroianni's old rake in La Nuit de Varennes, is a virile, enjoyable addition to the Casanovan collection." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Cast Away (2000) |
"Zemeckis does a sturdy, absorbing job with the island and ocean scenes." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Cat's Meow (2002) |
"Jolting into Charleston rhythms, the story has the sizzle of old news that has finally found the right vent (accurate? Who cares?)." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Catch and Release (2007) |
"Calling this a chick flick is maybe too easy. The film is for people who want to leave the house but watch TV without going to a bar or hotel. Bring along a remote and you can be fully comfortable." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"The most free-spirited and pleasingly adult entertainment Steven Spielberg has made in decades." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Cats & Dogs (2001) |
"Some of the animals are simply fake, and even when they're real, their actions are so fakey that they might as well be toys." |
David Elliott |
Splat 0/4 |
Catwoman (2004) |
"Halle Berry's Catwoman is a dog. And no amount of tight black leather outfits, nauseating CGI effects and good-looking actors and actresses is going to change that." |
Jerry McCormick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cave of the Yellow Dog (2006) |
"[Byambasuren Davaa is] a sure talent, slipping into the life he observes unobtrusively." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
The Caveman's Valentine (2001) |
"Debut director Kasi Lemmons staged each scene with a fierce purity of excess, as if this elaborate joke is not only a career step but a vision." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cavite (2006) |
"Gamazon is a capable actor for this hard tour. He and Dela Llana filmed with the kind of brave hustle and bustle that plows vividly through glib touches, repetition, razzle effects and shocks that whomp us hard." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Cecil B. Demented (2000) |
"Those of us who crave some relief from multiplex conformity and studio imperialism can laugh at some of the jibes in this silly film, but we know that Waters is not an alternative, just an ancillary attraction." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
The Cell (2000) |
"It depends on viewers falling into a gazing stupor so tranced that they can duck moral issues of whether we should be slumming this way." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Cellular (2004) |
"Ellis, up from stunt work (but not very far), hangs onto the whopper moments for dear life, even if cheap laughs outweigh a mother's pain." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Center Stage (2000) |
"It's hard to imagine who might be seduced by this predictable, sugary ballet cartoon." |
Jennifer de Poyen |
Splat 1/4 |
Chalk (2007) |
"Demeaningly patronizing to educators, cheaply dismissive of students, Chalk is a dunce. Erase it." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Changing Lanes (2002) |
"A good lane to change into." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Chaos (2003) |
"It's all too convenient, but has eclat and two appealing stars." |
David Elliott |
Splat 0/4 |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"The movie has visual morsels and a showboat budget, but its truest words are spoken by one of the kids: 'What's the point of all this?'" |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"The movie's energizing strength is intelligence. It is so entertainingly adult." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Charlie's Angels (2000) |
"Charlie' s Angels is the kind of empty-calorie good time you can enjoy in the moment and forget about on your way to the parking lot." |
Karla Peterson |
Splat 0/4 |
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) |
"Meant to be a lark, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle is a dodo begging for extinction." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Charlotte Gray (2001) |
"There is nothing gray about this heroine." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Charlotte Sometimes (2002) |
"Capably shot and acted, with a fine feel for loneliness, Eric Byler's film is a mood sonata with little concern about being Asian; it is only PC in the sense of 'painfully coy.'" |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Charlotte's Web (2006) |
"In this crafty version of the E.B. White classic, critters say the darndest things, humans are often marginal (and mom frying bacon is darn tactless), humor and warmth keep bubbling up." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Chasing Liberty (2004) |
"This is 2004's first airball of goo." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Chasing Papi (2003) |
"A simple-minded mishmash that could more aptly be called Chasing Pap." |
Beth Wood |
Splat 2/4 |
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) |
"The film is simple and obvious and plastic, but diverting." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Cherish (2002) |
"Both improbable and absorbing." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
The Cherry Orchard (2002) |
"A sometimes tedious film." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Chicago 10 (2008) |
"Chicago 10 is a movie for parents and grandparents to take their older children and grandchildren. It's worth a field trip for high school and college American history classes." |
Lee Grant |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Chicken Little (2005) |
"Nothing truly fell from the sky of inspiration here, nor did imagineering rise to potential." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Chicken Run (2000) |
"There's hardly ever a lull in the action." |
Nina Garin |
Splat |
Chill Factor (1999) |
"The plot is rigged to disintegrate if a moviegoer's IQ nudges above 70." |
James Hebert |
Tomato |
Chocolat (2000) |
"Despite a certain patness build into the fabulist plot, Chocolat is succulent and fun, and its munchy heart has rich veins of chocolate." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Choke (2008) |
"Based on the nifty book by Pacific Northwest author Chuck Palahniuk, who also wrote Fight Club, the movie is an examination of obsession, male friendship and mother love." |
Lee Grant |
Tomato |
Chop Suey (2001) |
"Even when it turns pensive or deals with a death, it has the compulsive charm of a bright, gossiping diary you have to keep reading." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Chopper (2001) |
"If not quite pornography of violence, it comes sniffingly close." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Christmas with the Kranks (2004) |
"Christmas With the Kranks has the special blend of dumb ideas and vulgar sentimentality that Hollywood likes to dispense at this time of year." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) |
"How fab you find The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe may depend on how far you prize the religious fable inside it. Or, you can be an entertainment agnostic and just savor the spectacle." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Chronicles of Riddick (2004) |
"The dense visuals are the entire story and the only reason to attend." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
The Cider House Rules (1999) |
"The Cider House Rules is often sweet, effervescent cider, though not a cola for chumps." |
David Elliott |
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