Tomato B |
Alice Neel (2007) |
"Alice Neel offers a relatively objective view of a person who, seeing life as a sentence to be served, spent it doing the thing she loved." |
Bill White |
Tomato B |
Alice's House (2007) |
"In her first leading role, Carla Ribas joins the fast-growing ranks of middle-aged Latina actresses whose performances resonate with a beguiling mixture of emotional complexity and sexual maturity." |
Bill White |
Tomato A- |
Alien: The Director's Cut (2003) |
"An authentically scary movie." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
All About Lily Chou-Chou (2002) |
"... captures the pain and desperation of adolescent powerlessness and humiliation with powerful intimacy..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
All About My Mother (1999) |
"A dizzying, marvelously acted rush of a movie that may, after more than 20 films, finally give Almodovar a wider crossover appeal." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat C+ |
All About the Benjamins (2002) |
"Its generic villains lack any intrigue (other than their funny accents) and the action scenes are poorly delivered." |
Ellen Kim |
- |
All Access: Front Row. Backstage. Live! (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato B- |
All or Nothing (2002) |
"Has some appealing performances (especially from Leigh regulars Spall and Manville)." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
All Over the Guy (2001) |
"Leaves an acrid taste with the viewer who sits through its long and winding tale of tortured courtship." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat C |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"[Penn's] performance misses both the moral lesson of Willie's rise and fall, and his charisma: he's not sympathetic enough in the first act or menacing enough in the final one." |
William Arnold |
Splat |
All the Little Animals (1999) |
"The ingredients all seem to be there for a rich, emotionally engrossing movie experience, but the storytelling flair and directorial touch are not." |
William Arnold |
Splat D |
All the Queen's Men (2002) |
"Afraid to pitch into farce, yet only half-hearted in its spy mechanics, All the Queen's Men is finally just one long drag." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"Lurches toward an offbeat honesty but it also very nearly crashes in its quirkiness." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B |
Allah Made Me Funny (2008) |
"The routines are so clean they could have played on the Ed Sullivan show in the '50s -- which is refreshing and so old it seems new." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A |
Almost Famous (2000) |
"Wonderfully harkens back to Hollywood's golden age of sophisticated comedy, and in particular to the masterpieces of Crowe's filmmaking idol, Billy Wilder." |
William Arnold |
Splat D |
Alone in the Dark (2005) |
"Director Uwe Boll (House of the Dead) has made a cottage industry out of this kind of junk. Maybe it's time for him to close up shop." |
Bill White |
Tomato B |
Along Came a Spider (2001) |
"A first-rate detective story that never tries to exploit its situation for cheap thrills." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"... so familiar you may have moments of deja vu." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"For all of the credibility of the performances (or at least the teens), it all feels like recycled social commentary." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato A |
Amadeus (1984) |
"What has to stand as cinema's most successful musical epic." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
Amandla: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2003) |
"While providing a total immersion in music and politics, its ultimate effect is a whirlwind of images and assertions that leave few lasting impressions." |
Bill White |
Splat D |
The Amateurs (2007) |
"A sleazy, uninspired, pathetically unfunny sex farce." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
The Amati Girls (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
William Arnold |
Tomato A- |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"Those who take the plunge will be rewarded with an unusually satisfying and inspiring historical epic from one of contemporary cinema's best filmmakers." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A |
Amelie (2001) |
"A genuine triumph for Jeunet, and a daring change of pace." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
America The Beautiful (2008) |
"Unlike other documentarians who put themselves in front of the camera, Roberts is an affable screen presence." |
Bill White |
Tomato B- |
America's Heart and Soul (2004) |
"An enjoyable, if easily forgettable, scattershot portrait of our nation as seen through the eyes of a whole bunch of very different kinds of people who are mostly enjoying creative, fulfilling lives." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
America's Sweethearts (2001) |
"A fairly hilarious inside-Hollywood farce." |
William Arnold |
Splat |
The American Astronaut (2001) |
"Quickly becomes an endurance test: like watching an old Carol Burnett skit that's not working, or a high school play that's trying to be bad." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A |
American Beauty (1999) |
"A dynamite comedy-drama." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"It's an enjoyable and frequently hilarious lampoon of easy targets, but a stinging satire would be so much more satisfying." |
Sean Axmaker |
- |
American Experience - Daughter from Danang (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato B+ |
American Gangster (2007) |
"A heck of a ride, and the most irresistible gangster epic in ages." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
American Hardcore (2006) |
"Clips of dozens of bands, including DOA, TSOL and SS Decontrol, are as short and fast as the music itself in this informative look at one of the youth culture's last grass-roots movements." |
Bill White |
Tomato 4/5 |
An American in Paris (1951) |
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Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
American Movie (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Stefan Ulstein |
Tomato B- |
American Outlaws (2001) |
"The movie has a certain faith in itself and lack of pretension that gradually wins you over." |
William Arnold |
Splat D |
American Pie (1999) |
"A movie that gleefully panders to its audience's crudest instincts in every scene." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
American Pie 2 (2001) |
"American Pie 2 is hardly sophisticated, but it's as inspired as teen sex comedies get." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C |
American Psycho (2000) |
"The satire gradually becomes overdone and heavy-handed." |
William Arnold |
Tomato C+ |
An American Rhapsody (2001) |
"Gardos has poured her soul into the film but her story is undercut by a dramatic clumsiness." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato A- |
American Splendor (2003) |
"In the world of comic-book movies, American Splendor is the real deal, the warts-and-all adventures of the most unlikely hero on the comic stands." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
American Teen (2008) |
"Faux-doc or not, Burstein's film is funny and engaging, and it gives us an amazing intimacy and identification with these characters as it skillfully strips away the layers of their cliched teenage stereotypes to reveal the true person beneath." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
American Wedding (2003) |
"Often helplessly hilarious in its adolescent gross-out way, yet the cast periodically invests the film with sweetness." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D |
The Amityville Horror (2005) |
"So full of false beats, heavy-handed staging and unnecessarily overblown effects -- and so lacking in suspense and character involvement -- that it's about as scary as a Toyota commercial." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Amores Perros (2001) |
"An invigorating film, without a doubt." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat |
Amy (2001) |
"All over the map, not able to make up its mind whether it wants to be slapstick or a heart-wrenching drama." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat C+ |
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) |
"Its appeal is that it takes itself very seriously, even if we can't, and 90 minutes of gently laughing at it is almost worth the price of admission." |
William Arnold |
Splat C+ |
Analyze That (2002) |
"It's the kind of under-inspired, overblown enterprise that gives Hollywood sequels a bad name." |
William Arnold |
Splat C- |
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) |
"It's essentially a one-joke situation carried to a tedious length and Ferrell hardly runs away with his cliched part." |
William Arnold |
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