Tomato B+ |
Cabin Fever (2003) |
"What makes it so different from the usual horror knock-off (apart from the assured way Roth builds tension and tightens the frame around his alienated "heroes") is the way he plays with cinematic imagery of psycho-killer and psychobilly thrillers." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
Caché (2005) |
"... an extraordinarily taunt and suspenseful psychological thriller ..." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Cadillac Records (2008) |
"Even if the details aren't just right, the story is well told." |
Gene Stout |
Tomato B- |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"A movie that washes down without much thinking or introspection, provides some laughs and a tear or two, and dishes up a little something to mull over with its messages about friendship and loyalty in the face of naked ambition." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B |
Callas Forever (2004) |
"Fairly forgettable but Ardant blends into the sad character so completely that we lose all sense of an actress playing a role." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Calle 54 (2001) |
"Lacks history, background and cultural roots, but it's undeniably infectious." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C- |
Camp (2003) |
"For the most part, Graff ... turns the works into a spectacle that's on a par with a high school talent show." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat C+ |
Candy (2006) |
"... doesn't have anything new to say. But it takes a quieter, more intently observed approach to the usual stereotypes and the texture of their experience."" |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
El Cantante (2007) |
"El Cantante is a special film, one that refuses to package a person's life into a comfortably familiar genre." |
Bill White |
Splat C |
Cape Of Good Hope (2005) |
"... there's a temptation to call Cape a South African Crash, but it lacks both complexity and compromised characters." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
Capote (2005) |
"It has to be one of the most eerie, morbidly absorbing and psychologically compelling movies ever made about a writer in the agonizing process of creating an important piece of literature." |
William Arnold |
Splat B- |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) |
"A surprisingly empty experience." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"This is no portrait of outrage, but of ambiguity and uncertainty." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Caramel (2008) |
"It would be easy to categorize the Lebanese women's picture Caramel as a Levantine combination of Sex in the City and Beauty Shop, but it's actually a lot smarter, sharper and deeper than that." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A |
Cars (2006) |
"The buzz got it wrong: Cars has turned out to be all pleasure, one of Pixar's most imaginative and thoroughly appealing movies ever." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Casa de los Babys (2003) |
"It's a huge ensemble and a vast sociopolitical canvas with which Sayles is playing here, and, like all his movies, it's quite absorbing as it's happening." |
William Arnold |
Splat C+ |
Casanova (2005) |
"Unfortunately, the goofiness never quite finds its groove." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
Cashback (2007) |
"Certain shots evidence Ellis' skill at composing static images, but his messy staging of a soccer game, a painful piece of failed slapstick, proves he has not quite arrived as a feature film director." |
Bill White |
Tomato A- |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"This James Bond is a successful reinvention of a mythic character, an immensely enjoyable action film -- maybe the year's best -- and proof positive that, after nearly half a century, the movies' most popular series still has a lot of life left in it." |
William Arnold |
Tomato b- |
Cassandra's Dream (2008) |
"This family tragedy puts us somewhere near the edge of our seats and pulls us right along its downward spiral." |
William Arnold |
Tomato |
Cast Away (2000) |
"A technical marvel with indelible scenes that linger long after the movie has ended." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato B+ |
The Castle (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
The Cat's Meow (2002) |
"Bogdanovich strikes gold with Dunst and Herrmann." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"The film sees its characters in overly simplistic terms, with little of the perspective or ambiguity you might expect more than a decade after the end of apartheid." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"DiCaprio could hardly be better. He brings this outrageous character and his demons to life with skill, sympathy and a symphony of small, telling touches." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Catch That Kid (2004) |
"Jam-packed with action, sweaty-palm suspense and adventurous, high-tech fun effects." |
Paula Nechak |
- |
Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat C |
Cats & Dogs (2001) |
"It can't overcome an easy predictability and its humor is hit-and-miss at best." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat D- |
Catwoman (2004) |
"So much talent wasted. So much money squandered. So much opportunity missed." |
Winda Benedetti |
Splat D |
The Cave (2005) |
"A high-concept creature feature that manages to fumble the concept and the creature in its sloppy execution." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
The Caveman's Valentine (2001) |
"The film never quite shakes itself free of the tired cliché that street people are quirky, sometimes cute, and somehow privy to a spiritual purity lost to us social folk." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Cavite (2006) |
"A thrilling and scary ride through the side streets of a third world that is rarely seen in the movies, and carries a revolutionary message that is frightening in its political implications." |
Bill White |
Tomato 8/10 |
Cecil B. Demented (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D |
The Celestine Prophecy (2006) |
"... indifferent direction douses whatever conviction gave the novel its ardent following." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C |
The Cell (2000) |
"Seeing this movie is a bit like hearing a lengthy discourse on someone else's nightmare: It may mean a lot to him, but it soon becomes extremely tiresome to you." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Cellular (2004) |
"Rather schlocky but well-organized and mostly very entertaining." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
The Center of the World (2001) |
"Wayne Wang has tossed in a little technology and a lot of sex, but he hasn't anything new to bring to the conversation." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat 5/10 |
Center Stage (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Sean Axmaker |
- |
Chac: The Rain God (1975) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat C+ |
Chalk (2007) |
"[The filmmakers'] best intentions are better realized than their filmmaking ambitions." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
Chandni Chowk to China (2009) |
"Children and undiscriminating adults may enjoy the flurry of eye-catching activities that storm incessantly across the screen for its 2 1/2 hours, but the reigning stupidity of the enterprise is liable to tire anyone else in attendance." |
Bill White |
Tomato A- |
Changeling (2008) |
"The 78-year old director continues his prolific streak of directing success with yet another highly crafted, uniformly well-acted, fearlessly gut-wrenching drama that bears his personal stamp on every frame." |
William Arnold |
Splat B- |
Changing Lanes (2002) |
"By the time the dual dilemmas are neatly resolved in a contrived ending that clumsily invalidates its cynical view of American life, the movie just seems like one more Hollywood cop-out, and a waste of our original emotional investment." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Chaos (2003) |
"Wild, sometimes sickening but surprisingly hilarious ride that never lets up even if it does stack the deck and is overly obvious in its implications and sexual politics." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat C |
Chaos Theory (2008) |
"... one might expect a little runaway energy or a dash of wild spirit under the antics, but there's little punchy anarchy in this controlled experiment." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"Its heart is in the right place and it resists the temptation to junk up the story, but Depp does nothing with his character and the movie has little of the unique wit or panache that would make it appealing to an older-than-10 audience." |
William Arnold |
Splat D |
Charlie Bartlett (2007) |
"Thankfully, the film is rated R, which should theoretically bar it from most of its intended high school audience." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"Charlie Wilson's War, is a witty, literate, wryly sophisticated parable of American politics: just the kind of movie that Hollywood, in its search for the global audience, supposedly doesn't make anymore." |
William Arnold |
Splat 5/10 |
Charlie's Angels (2000) |
"The most expensive cheesecake movie ever made." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato C+ |
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) |
"... it resembles a movie so much that soon it demands something resembling motivation, character, a plot, anything to explain the seemingly arbitrary connections between the stunts and the skits." |
Sean Axmaker |
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