Tomato 3.5/4 |
Eastern Promises (2007) |
"As steeped in Russian flavors as a hot samovar, this fast, compelling story is also oddly Dickensian in its shadowy corners and twists." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Eight Below (2006) |
"Eight Below can give you eight sniffles and friendly frostbite." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Eight Legged Freaks (2002) |
"Too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be truly entertaining." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1/4 |
Elektra (2005) |
"You only have to endure this package to miss Uma Thurman, and realize how superior is Tarantino's fleet hipster wit and kinetic showmanship." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Elephant (2003) |
"Nobody expects glib answers about the pathology of juvenile spree killings, but must we duck the questions in this benumbed, art-project way?" |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Ella Enchanted (2004) |
"Ella is under a spell that makes her obey all orders -- will someone please order Hathaway to stay pretty in better movies?" |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Elling (2002) |
"The script is smart, not cloying." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Emperor's Club (2002) |
"Why should Hundert ever fancy himself a blend of Mr. Chips and Dr. Ruth? The movie sets up a false ideal and then wrecks it, as if it were a noble ruin near the Parthenon." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Emperor's New Clothes (2002) |
"Holm does his sly, intricate magic, and Iben Hjelje is entirely appealing as Pumpkin." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
The Emperor's New Groove (2000) |
"One of Disney's sprightlier entertainments." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Empire (2002) |
"Victor Rosa is Leguizamo's best movie work so far, a subtle and richly internalized performance." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
The End of the Affair (1999) |
"[Jordan] has been able to convey the story’s eroticism and drama." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones (2004) |
"As fascinating as it is flawed." |
George Varga |
Tomato |
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2001) |
"Although the juxtaposition [of old and present-day footage] is jarring at first, the tale is so compelling that the film soon takes on a seamless quality." |
Arthur Salm |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Enduring Love (2004) |
"It hurts to see a director so sure-footed with Jane Austen being so bookishly conceptual with twisted identity games, and letting music build into a '50s soaper storm." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Enemy at the Gates (2001) |
"The French director Jean-Jacques Annaud, using an $80 million budget, gives us some sense of the titanic destruction and chaos, but almost no sense of the battle plans." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Enemy of the State (1998) |
"Scott loads on equipment displays, speed-drill editing and the convulsive shocks that can relieve his dead feeling for characters." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Enigma (2002) |
"Simple gratitude is a decent motive to see Enigma" |
David Elliott |
Splat 1/4 |
Enough (2002) |
"Lopez can act, but why bother in something so painfully false? You don't empower anyone with a lobotomy." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Equilibrium (2002) |
"The notion of deleting emotion from people, even in an advanced Prozac Nation, is so insanely dysfunctional that the rampantly designed Equilibrium becomes a concept doofus." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Eragon (2006) |
"Been to that galaxy, done that ring." |
Arthur Salm |
Tomato |
Erin Brockovich (2000) |
"This film takes the prolonged agony of a lot of people and turns it into a viable triumph of work, guts, indignation and, yes, sex appeal. All of them converge, beautifully, in Julia Roberts." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Eros (2005) |
"The gem is Wong Kar-wai's The Hand, one of his sultry, pensive sonatas of stylized nostalgia." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) |
"The movie's tone -- which is as naturalistic as the plot is fantastic -- heightens the tantalizing sense that maybe, finally, this is the real Carrey we're seeing." |
James Hebert |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Evan Almighty (2007) |
"There are laughs, good effects, fine beasts and a mood of goofy apocalypse." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Evening (2007) |
"Evening reaches for depth, at times plodding, never cloddish. The lessons about choice and loss and getting on in life have some decent heft, and there is a sunset magic in Redgrave's eyes." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Everybody's Famous (2001) |
"Perky but spineless." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Everyone's Hero (2006) |
"The humor and action should please kids from 5 to 10, while adults won't need to squirm." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Evolution (2001) |
"Is like Tremors on five times the budget and about one-fifth the wit." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Ex (2007) |
"Extravagantly expendable." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Experiment (2002) |
"This sado-party reeks of contrivance." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Eye (2003) |
"Despite its flaws, this occasionally creepy film possesses unusual beauty and style." |
Beth Wood |
Splat |
Eye of the Beholder (1999) |
"Narrative coherence is not only suspended but trampled." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) |
"After 2001 went to his cosmic head, Kubrick's films tended to be stillborn beauties, and to the list of the consummately moribund we must add Eyes Wide Shut." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 4/4 |
Eyes Without a Face (1959) |
"Amazingly, all the excesses and derangements of filming since that time have not muffled the dream force of Franju's vision." |
David Elliott |
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