Splat |
I Am Sam (2002) |
"Nothing quite matches the puerile, gummy awfulness of I Am Sam." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002) |
"Jones gives the faithful a surprisingly intimate portrait of the guardedly vulnerable Tweedy, along with a wealth of potent performance footage that captures Wilco in all its battered and unbowed glory." |
Karla Peterson |
Tomato 2/4 |
I Capture the Castle (2003) |
"A page-turning soaper." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"It's a spray of dots that never connect, like a Pointillist painting that never forms a picture." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007) |
"The writers and director Dennis Dugan conspire to be gutsy in a gutless way." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
I Spy (2002) |
"Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson have a cute partnership in I Spy, but the movie around them is so often nearly nothing that their charm doesn't do a load of good." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
I Think I Love My Wife (2007) |
"The movie lays on gag situations that smack of fillers." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004) |
"Ace noir title, OK noir movie." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
I'm Not Scared (2004) |
"The primal intensity of emotions and settings takes the story well beyond generic elements." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
I, Robot (2004) |
"The film goes where you expect, with the rather programmed feel of a 'classic' revisited with both money and zeal." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Ice Age (2002) |
"Ice Age will probably get enough kids smiling to earn its big cost back, and then some. And yet there is a safeness here, a corporate sameness, a sense of throwing the public a prehistoric bone, smack into the multiplex cave." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) |
"Fire and freeze, flames and ice, it's all primal. And fairly prime as getaway entertainment." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1/4 |
The Ice Harvest (2005) |
"In my movie fridge, The Ice Harvest packs in far beneath Iceman, The Ice Storm and The Iceman Cometh. It suffers freezer burn even below Ice Palace and Ice Station Zebra." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ice Princess (2005) |
"Jokes are simple, crises soft, payoffs insanely predictable, and physics is left in the dust where theorems count their quarks. But Trachtenberg rules as lovable princess." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Identity (2003) |
"The dense rain that falls throughout Identity is no natural rain -- it's runoff from the Hollywood bilge tank of bad ideas." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Idlewild (2006) |
"Easy to peel apart for flaws, Idlewild is also easy to enjoy if you go with its jived earthiness." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Igby Goes Down (2002) |
"Saved from being merely way-cool by a basic, credible compassion." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Illusionist (2006) |
"After you've seen a humongo dork like the Pirates of the Caribbean sequel, exuding effects like a bulimic whale, it can be more satisfying to view CGI touches more selectively used by The Illusionist." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Imaginary Heroes (2004) |
"With an eager urgency full of risk, [director] Harris piles on emotional layers and keeps winking back-stories at us." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Imagine Me & You (2006) |
"When weak British comedies imitate bad American ones, all we get is mediocrity with more verbal velocity." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
IMAX - Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees (2002) |
"There's enough science to make it count as educational, and enough beauty to make it unforgettable." |
Arthur Salm |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Importance of Being Earnest (2002) |
"'Opening up' the play more has partly closed it down." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Impostor (2001) |
"Little more than a flash-edited 96-minute chase flick." |
Arthur Salm |
Splat 2/4 |
In America (2003) |
"It's too pat." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
In Her Shoes (2005) |
"In Her Shoes draws charm and power from the fresh, soup-stirred cast, notably in MacLaine's flinty and rueful good sense." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
In My Skin (2003) |
"This gripping (or nauseating) film has power beyond its ideas." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
In the Bedroom (2001) |
"Field directed Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek, Marisa Tomei and others to performances of true distinction." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
In the Mood for Love (2001) |
"In the Mood for Love is a lovely, almost handmade object that I find frustratingly coy, almost coquettish." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
In Too Deep (1999) |
"The film never falls into any kind of rhythm." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
The In-Laws (2003) |
"Screenwriters Nat Mauldin and Ed Solomon, and director Andrew Fleming, miscalculate badly by putting the best stuff up front." |
Arthur Salm |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Incident at Loch Ness (2004) |
"Penn seems caught up in some sort of blogger/TV-cable vanity trip." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 4/4 |
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) |
"This movie will shake you, especially if you have kids. The central facts are piling up in a way that disturbs anything but indolent complacency." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
"Variety wins the day: You might see Hulk fighting in an airy green pasture or a nighttime metropolis, and the villains change and develop throughout the film, rendering it redundancy-free." |
Zachary Woodruff |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Incredibles (2004) |
"A real banshee of zip and zoom (and often terrific design), The Incredibles takes off excitingly whenever it moves fast." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
The Independent (2001) |
"It's cute and amiable, maybe easier to cherish if you don't recall Russ Meyer or Matinee or Ed Wood." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Infamous (2006) |
"In this truth game, Capote is an ace and Infamous is a compelling queen, both in play for high stakes with In Cold Blood and Richard Brooks' scary 1967 film of it." |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Innocence (2001) |
"What hurt Innocence for me is its needlepointed explicitness." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Inside Man (2006) |
"As a Spike Lee joint, this heist-and-hostage yarn blows some vivid rings but it lacks kick." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
The Insider (1999) |
"Crowe is superb, but Al Pacino is not far behind him." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 3/4 |
Insomnia (2002) |
"A fairly classy thriller." |
Arthur Salm |
Splat |
Inspector Gadget (1999) |
"Almost entirely devoid of story, wit, style and character development!" |
David Elliott |
Splat |
Instinct (1999) |
"Most unconvincing!" |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Intacto (2002) |
"It's a film for those whose wits have been sharpened by endless reruns of The Twilight Zone, and filmed with a slick posh that foolishly passes for style." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Intended (2004) |
"Levring and an excellent cast are lost in the shadow of Conrad and other masters, and their sex-money theme requires a genius of hopelessness like Erich von Stroheim." |
David Elliott |
Splat 1/4 |
Intermission (2004) |
"We have more than sufficient junky, cynical entertainment of our own, so why import this?" |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
The Interpreter (2005) |
"As political thriller, it colludes with absurdity. And as human drama, it just breathes heavily on glass, bustling through its riffs of surveillance and hot pursuit." |
David Elliott |
Tomato |
Intimacy (2001) |
"The movie is gutsy and involving yet frustrating." |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Intimate Strangers (2004) |
"As it works out its pattern in an airy carpet of confession and omission, you may find the film adroitly involving. Or, simply, boring." |
David Elliott |
Splat 2/4 |
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) |
"Yes, there are some funny moments here and there, but the movie never has the point of a real farce." |
David Elliott |
Tomato 2/4 |
Invincible (2002) |
"One of [Herzog's] least inspired works." |
David Elliott |
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