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10 Items or Less (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat |
101 Reykjavik (2001) |
"The film is almost too successful in its depiction of Reykjavík as the most boring spot on the planet." |
William Arnold |
Splat 6/10 |
102 Dalmatians (2000) |
"Harmless and thoroughly unmemorable." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
The 11th Hour (2007) |
"... a compelling and sobering lesson in the devastating effect of human industry on the planet. But a lesson nonetheless." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C |
12 and Holding (2006) |
"Cuesta ... has a weak grasp on the behavior of contemporary youth." |
Bill White |
Tomato B |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"Garner's performance is uplifting. She's been touted recently as yet another possible heir to Julia Roberts' throne, and her attainable girl-next-door quality makes it's plain to see why." |
Ellen Kim |
Tomato B- |
The 13th Warrior (1999) |
"Banderas creates a sympathetic hero, the script is remarkably free of '90-isms, the Viking characters are engaging, and The 13th Warrior offers some of the rousing retro pleasures of a good '50s cavalry - and - Indians B-movie." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
1408 (2007) |
"Stephen King can be counted on to put the fun back into a ghost story. He did it with The Shining, and again in 1408, a short story that is the basis for this suspenseful chiller about a writer's hallucinogenic night in a haunted room." |
Bill White |
Splat C+ |
15 Minutes (2001) |
"So flamboyant and overbearing that it comes perilously close to being a classic awful." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"... a satisfying piece of genre filmmaking." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
2 Days In Paris (2007) |
"Vanity project? Maybe. Anybody who writes, directs, edits and stars is called auteur or vain, sometimes depending upon their sex, but Julie Delpy's directorial debut, if derivative, is gutsy enough too." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat D |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"Plays like an unusually bad, overblown episode of Miami Vice, and has virtually none of the pleasures of the original." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
20 Seconds of Joy (2009) |
"Jens Hoffmann's perceptive portrait of Norwegian base jumper Karina Hollekim." |
Bill White |
Tomato A |
2046 (2005) |
"... rich, lush -- simply exquisite" |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat |
21 (2008) |
"It’s the old Hollywood game of payback in place of amends, which makes for short-term satisfaction but a hollow payoff." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
21 Grams (2003) |
"21 Grams is a punch in the stomach of a movie." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B- |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"Winterbottom grafts fact and fiction (for comedic and artistic license) to good effect." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B- |
25th Hour (2002) |
"[Lee's] vision of the anomie behind the glitzy New York nightlife is almost as vivid and potent here as it was in Sam, and he builds a lively ensemble of characters around Norton with mostly believable relationships." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
27 Dresses (2008) |
"Anne Fletcher, a dancer/choreographer turned director, moves the film along smoothly, hitting the marks and timing the jokes right. It's connect-the-dots filmmaking by a talented tracer." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat |
28 Days (2000) |
"Its effort to be both a rollicking farce and a dark drama of alcoholism doom it to a certain failure from the get-go." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"[Boyle] gives us some truly harrowing sequences and a succession of images that stick in the mind like a bad dream." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"Delivers enough chills to do its job. The mayhem is presented sparingly enough to be suspenseful, some of the sequences are genuinely terrifying." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
3 Extremes (2005) |
"Don't expect scary from this trilogy of short horror films from a trio of Asia's most interesting directors, which are not so much extreme as twisted." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato |
3-Iron (2005) |
"An original and stylish film that is nothing if not in a class of its own -- call it a Zen thriller." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat C+ |
30 Days of Night (2007) |
"With such a good concept for a vampire movie, it's hard to believe it turned out to be this boring." |
Andy Spletzer |
Tomato B+ |
300 (2007) |
"Wholesale human slaughter never looked so pretty as in this heavily stylized rendering of the battle of Thermopylae in ancient Greece." |
Gianni Truzzi |
Splat D |
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) |
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William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
"If you don't know that first and infinitely better movie, you likely will find this an OK but instantly forgettable retro-Western, with few dull moments, carried by Crowe's charisma in his role of sly bandit king." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A+ |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) |
"... a grueling and deeply affecting human drama." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) |
"Mostly fun to watch, buoyed by some strong dialogue and performances by the supporting cast." |
Ellen Kim |
Splat C- |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) |
"If you're an 18-year-old male and have recently consumed a six-pack of beer, you probably will think this is the funniest thing you have ever seen." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
49 Up (2006) |
"As always, [Apted] intercuts footage from the previous age levels and provides enough history to make each chapter a fascinating sociological examination in itself." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat C- |
50 First Dates (2004) |
"The writing and direction is nowhere near smart enough to get this thing off the ground." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A |
51 Birch Street (2006) |
"51 Birch Street, like the best of the recent wave of personal documentaries, is both a compelling story and an eye-opening bit of social history." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato A |
5X2 (2005) |
"These aren't puzzle pieces that fit snuggly together but fragments of character in revealing moments when weakness or pettiness overcome calm and affection." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
6ixtynin9 (2004) |
"Ingeniously engineered, self-consciously clever and directed with snazzy style, it's played as a violent black comedy with often-gruesome punch lines." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato 8/10 |
The 6th Day (2000) |
"Spottiswoode and Schwarzenegger deliver a clever and colorful conspiratorial thriller with high-energy action scenes, car crashes a go-go, spectacular technology and big explosions, packaged with ferocious glee and spoofing humor." |
Sean Axmaker |
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8 1/2 Women (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato B+ |
8 Mile (2002) |
"8 Mile does everything it's designed to do." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
8 Women (2002) |
"A frothy and deliriously enjoyable souffle." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat D |
88 Minutes (2008) |
"At 68, Pacino still has the chops to give a scene a moment of raw power. But it's clear he could care less about this story, his performance has no conviction, and he's mostly emitting sparks of self-parody." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
9 Songs (2005) |
"it's really about the absence of emotional intimacy, which is telling but hardly compelling..." |
Sean Axmaker |
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