Tomato 3/4
V For Vendetta (2005)
"Nothing can upgrade pulp like a bunch of plush British accents."
David Elliott
Tomato
Va Savoir (2001)
"It will amuse if you patiently merge into its minuet of blithe contrivances."
Splat 2/4
Valentin (2004)
"This is a kid even Art Linkletter would have told to shut up."
Splat
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000)
"It seems written by old hipsters with a bug-eye to the teen export market."
Van Helsing (2004)
"If you grew up on goth comics, Saturday cartoons and the endless zap violence of video games, you might hanker for this. But anyone who craves story, not just empowered pastiche, has got to tire quickly."
Vanilla Sky (2001)
"A facile, sentimental mess."
Tomato 3.5/4
Vanity Fair (2004)
"A feel-good gift to moderns, yet why not feel so good? Thackeray, and his Becky, would have relished it."
Varsity Blues (1998)
"The football action is rough, intricate and involving."
Vengo (2001)
"With its compulsive beat of drums, guitars and feet, the sometimes Moorish wailings, the lyrics of startling conviction (typical: 'My soul, it hurts so bad'), Vengo has all the fire it needs."
Tomato 4/4
Venus (2006)
"Peter O'Toole is surpassingly good in Venus."
Vera Drake (2004)
"Nobody does seamless ensemble acting so well as the British."
Veronica Guerin (2003)
"Cate Blanchett was tremendous in Heaven, Elizabeth, Oscar and Lucinda, The Gift and Charlotte Gray, and is tremendous again in Veronica Guerin."
Vertical Limit (2000)
"Camouflaged as drama, Vertical Limit is a theme park of cheap thrills. It attains a horizontal limit, flattening your mind and spirit."
The Vertical Ray of the Sun (2001)
"Tear yourself away from the hit parade that so often punishes us, and take adult time for the exquisite gratifications of The Vertical Ray of the Sun. This ray fills more than the screen."
Splat 2.5/4
A Very Long Engagement (2004)
"[The film] sabotages itself conceptually and is too busy flashing its gaudy wares to quite tell a story."
View from the Top (2003)
"The heart of it is Paltrow. She plays a regular gal with the witty panache of a star."
The Village (2004)
"[Shyamalan is] in complete command of his forces, more subtle and sustained."
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Volcanoes of the Deep Sea
"Entertaining and educative."
Eduardo Cuan
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