Tomato 3/4 |
Hairspray (2007) |
"A goofy bouffant of a movie primped with rich '60s atmosphere and held together by the gloss coat of Marc Shaiman's swinging music." |
James Hebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Half Nelson (2006) |
"Too smart a film to plod along the rutted trail of the standard drug flick." |
Arthur Salm |
Splat 2/4 |
Hancock (2008) |
"This superhero saga fizzles." |
Lee Grant |
Tomato |
Hanging Up (2000) |
"Nobody acting today could do a '30s society comedy better than Meg Ryan." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Hannibal (2001) |
"The first film was clammy and vile, the new one has more pedantic manipulations." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"The film's ugliness is less in its 'artful' death rituals, by now deeply generic, than in asking us to feel for Lecter because of his horrid, warping youth." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happily Ever After (2005) |
"This is a fetching piece of work, both comical and savvy, and Gainsborough's brisk, forward intelligence rescues Gabrielle from snags of marital self-pity." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Happy Accidents (2001) |
"Happy Accidents is out on a limb, almost airborne, and it feels good to go out there with it." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Happy Times (2002) |
"There is so much plodding sensitivity." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
A Hard Day's Night (1964) |
"Finally, I know what a feel-good movie is." |
Jessica Yadegaran |
Splat |
The Hard Word (2003) |
"It's way below Jackie Brown and even Trainspotting, though the cast has that Aussie Thing down." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Hardball (2001) |
"Minor league actor could use pinch hitter." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) |
"This is Dude, Where's My Script?" |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
"While one of 2001's most generous pleasures might merit a less industrially mounted successor than this, a vivid link is forged to No. 3 in 2004." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, fourth in the string, has a heated darkness." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"Half-Blood wavers between dizzying and dry -- it's half-bloodless." |
Zachary Woodruff |
Tomato 4/4 |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"J.K. Rowling has a spirit of plenty. On page and screen, her vision is a deliciously human (not just mythic) triumph of fancy, a spreading of soulful wings to lift us high." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 4/4 |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"A big, marvelous entertainment we can feel proud to love." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harsh Times (2006) |
"A buddy movie shot with artless rawness, yet highly implicative about the wastage of modern street males and the sort of men cultivated by state agencies to be disposable killers, Harsh Times is a B-film with A-level morsels." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hart's War (2002) |
"Handsomely shot by Alar Kivilo for rough textures under leaden skies, this is one of those unusual films that can be macho yet not mindless." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
The Haunted Mansion (2003) |
"A movie that, while consistently amusing, plays like a hackneyed effort to stretch a few minutes of ride into a coherent, hour-and- a-half story." |
Andrew Fu |
Tomato |
The Haunting (1999) |
"This is as far from the Poverty Row gasps of The Blair Witch Project as you can get, and more fun." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Havana Nights (2004) |
"Garai and Luna, both appealing, never achieve combustion in the dance or elsewhere, and only very naive viewers will feel the itch so keenly scratched by Swayze and Grey in 1987." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Haven (2006) |
"This end-of-summer screen filler has, despite some blatancy, force of conviction and some sharp, whippet style." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Head in the Clouds (2004) |
"Capacious wax museum." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Head Over Heels (2001) |
"There is something especially embarrassing about a brainless film trying to be sophisticated and sophomoric at the same time, sort of like making souffles from mud pies." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Heading South (2006) |
"In a humid story that doesn't dip too far into voyeurism, and gives us a deep sense of Haiti as a volcano where visitors picnic on the slope, [Young] is a flood of complicated feelings." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Heart of the Game (2006) |
"Few athletic films, factual or dramatized, have given so keen a sense of how a team builds and changes, and how acutely the grind and elation of a fast, complex sport can shape character and lives." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) |
"In this remake of the 1972 film, the Farrellys -- proud perpetrators of Dumb and Dumber, There's Something About Mary and other jolly assaults on good taste -- turn Neil Simon's script inside out and flog it like a piņata." |
James Hebert |
Splat |
Heartbreakers (2001) |
"Crippled by tedious pacing and buckles under its more than two-hour length." |
Arthur Salm |
Tomato |
Hearts in Atlantis (2001) |
"This is a good movie to pass through." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001) |
"[Mitchell's] biting wit is offset by the tender insights he brings to Hedwig." |
George Varga |
Splat |
Heist (2001) |
"A swift, busy and almost preeningly generic crime movie." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Held Up (2000) |
"In this disjointed comedy, Foxx is just a Murphy clone." |
Dennis Hunt |
Splat 2/4 |
Hellboy (2004) |
"It's a movie for people (the guy kind) who can't stop turning the pages of comic books, who want life to be serialized." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Hero (2004) |
"Your eyes may widen even as you yawn." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hidalgo (2004) |
"Delivers great-looking people and animals and action to stir your most youthful blood." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Hide and Seek (2005) |
"It becomes rather soggy pulp, without a core of deep sense." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2.5/4 |
High Crimes (2002) |
"[Morgan], Judd and Franklin can't save the script, rooted in a novel by Joseph Finder, from some opportunism." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
High Fidelity (2000) |
"In the face of maniacal opposition, the people behind the movie have done the near-impossible. They have turned a witty cult novel into a witty mainstream film." |
Karla Peterson |
Splat 2/4 |
His Secret Life (2002) |
"Despite some gulps the film is a fuzzy huggy." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
A History of Violence (2005) |
"This beautifully crafted film has the [Norman] Bates smile, and the subtle irony of a crowbar cleaving a skull." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Hit and Runway (2001) |
"Both adroitly contrived and naggingly blatant." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hitch (2005) |
"Smith, with one tweak or twinkle too much, could become too smug, too princely, but is almost totally appealing." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) |
"It's a pure mood picture -- in the mood and you may love it, out of the mood and you might want to scratch your eyeballs with toothpicks." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Holes (2003) |
"The target audience may be satisfied that the book is being respected, and the adventures of Caveman and Zero have a rootable, Hardy Boys interest." |
David Elliott |
2/4 |
The Holiday (2006) |
"Winslet, Black, Law and to some extent the others are often swell. But the script limits are still there, knots in the weave, and you need to be a goner for manipulation not to notice." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Hollow Man (2000) |
"Paul Verhoeven's exceedingly violent, surprisingly pointless invisible-man tale nearly warrants a trotting-out of the Union-Tribune's dreaded 'dog' designation." |
James Hebert |
Splat 2/4 |
Hollywood Ending (2002) |
"Hollywood Ending seems the latest installment of a long retreat." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1/4 |
Hollywood Homicide (2003) |
"Hollywood Homicide reeks from its slumming, cynical exploitation of Hollywood as a junky old tart." |
David Elliott |
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