Tomato B+ |
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"... more entertaining and satisfying than the novel." |
William Arnold |
Splat C- |
Daddy Day Camp (2007) |
"The film exercises some restraint (by today's low standards, anyway) in its deployment of poop and fart jokes. I counted only two crotch wallops (the new pratfall) and just a single incident of projectile vomiting." |
Gianni Truzzi |
Splat C |
Daddy Day Care (2003) |
"It's a formula job all the way, filled with pratfalls, flying food, much male incompetence in the face of child-rearing realities, and a cast of violence-prone children on sugar highs who somehow turn into angels by the film's last sappy moments." |
William Arnold |
- |
Dahmer (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat C+ |
Dan in Real Life (2007) |
"The cozy, lived-in atmosphere created by the ensemble and the unlikely chemistry of Carell and Binoche are so genuine that you wish the rest of the film was just as effortless and authentic." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C- |
Dancer in the Dark (1999) |
"Seeing it, one does get some sense that the Danish Emperor of Film is wearing no clothes." |
William Arnold |
Splat C+ |
The Dancer Upstairs (2003) |
"It doesn't have anything new or hopeful to say about Latin America's endless cycle of revolution and repression, and the whole thing finally gets bogged down." |
William Arnold |
- |
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat C+ |
Danielson: A Family Movie (2006) |
"From his irritating squeak of a voice to an infantile stage presence that includes dressing himself as a multifruit-bearing tree, Smith's comical incompetence wins him the adoration of adolescent misfits." |
Bill White |
Tomato B |
Danny Deckchair (2004) |
"It's pure romantic fantasy, almost too cute and naively innocent for its own good." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
Daredevil (2003) |
"Distinctly underwhelming." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Darfur Now (2007) |
"By concentrating on good people dedicated to relieving the crisis, it's almost upbeat." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Dark Blue (2003) |
"Dark Blue is another harrowingly cynical dirty-cop movie in the recent tradition of Training Day and Narc. Yet it's so much more complex, engrossing and satisfying than those films that the comparison is not entirely fair." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Dark Blue World (2001) |
"Works quite well as an eye-filling war epic." |
William Arnold |
- |
Dark Days (2000) |
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Tomato A |
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"It's the new gold standard for superhero noir." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D |
Dark Streets (2008) |
"It's atmospheric like a steaming pile." |
Travis Nichols |
Tomato B |
Dark Water (2005) |
"Salles tends to explain rather than suggest, but he connects with the anguish and abandonment to give this ghost story an emotionally haunting core." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D+ |
Darkness Falls (2003) |
"A joyless amalgam of horror movie cliches." |
Paul West |
Tomato B |
Darkon (2007) |
"This low-budget documentary by Luke Meyer and Andrew Neel spends three years chronicling Darkon, a medieval role-playing group whose members dress up in homemade costumes and chase each other around fields in suburban Baltimore." |
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Tomato B |
Darshan - the Embrace (2006) |
"Works better as a sad meditation on the spiritual hopes of a poverty-stricken people than as a portrait of a charismatic guru." |
Bill White |
Tomato B+ |
Darwin's Nightmare (2006) |
"Sauter's illustration of economic Darwinism at its most primal and unforgiving is a harrowing vision of human life as collateral damage in the modern global economy." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Daughters of Wisdom (2007) |
"Although little more than an hour long, it succeeds in telling us why some people choose the monastic life over the worldly, and what spiritual gains they hope to make in submitting to its rituals." |
Bill White |
Tomato B |
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006) |
"A state of the hip-hop nation address that should be seen by everyone who dismisses rap music as violent, misogynistic and sociopathic." |
Bill White |
Tomato B- |
David & Layla (2008) |
"A spread-thin but likable concoction that sets out to be a cross-ethnic romance, an explicit sex farce, a sober statement of the plight of the Kurdish people and, I think, a plea for world peace." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
"Romero's satire is largely replaced by a sardonic gallows humor... but otherwise it's a bloody entertaining zombie apocalypse." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) |
"There's none of the adolescent goofiness that ruined Independence Day and Godzilla." |
William Arnold |
Splat C+ |
A Day at the Beach (1970) |
"What could be one of [Roman] Polanski's trademark alienated creatures comes off as little more than a pathetic, self-pitying jerk under Simon Hesera's direction." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato A |
The Day I Became A Woman (2001) |
"Achieves its social commentary through passion and poetry." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
Day Watch (2007) |
"Just another high concept/low content entry into the blockbuster market." |
Bill White |
Splat C+ |
Days and Clouds (2008) |
"... or all the emotional integrity and observational exactness, it's more social study than character drama." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
Days of Being Wild (1990) |
"The languorous atmosphere of longing, disconnection and emotional isolation is hypnotic." |
Sean Axmaker |
- |
Days of Glory (1944) |
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Tomato B+ |
Days of Glory (2006) |
"It's an unusually engrossing World War II epic that establishes an ensemble of distinct, multidimensional characters and skillfully puts them through a gantlet of harrowing combat situations." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
De-Lovely (2004) |
"An innovative biopic, an irresistible musical (featuring some of today's top artists covering Porter standards) and a surprisingly touching heterosexual love story -- even though it doesn't shy away one inch from its hero's rampant bisexuality." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
The Dead Girl (2006) |
"The stories don't exactly add up to anything you can put your finger on, but they're absorbing as they're happening, and director Karen Moncrieff has a smooth, sure visual style." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Dear Frankie (2005) |
"Director Shona Auerbach never lets things get out of hand and keeps the action contained and intimate. As a result, the film tugs at us." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat C |
Dear Wendy (2005) |
"The message doesn't come through with any particular wit or metaphoric punch, and it makes such a strong case for the joys of gun ownership that it could serve as a recruiting film for the National Rifle Association." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Death at a Funeral (2007) |
"Although set in England with a predominantly British cast, Death at a Funeral is no stiff-upper-lipped comedy, but a lean, mean, and often crude, farce." |
Bill White |
Tomato B |
Death of a President (2006) |
"(Director Gabriel) Range is a great mimic of media reportage, but he's not above nudging the audience to note what he's not talking about." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato A |
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006) |
"Cristi Puiu doesn't pull his punches in his barbed black comedy on the state of socialized medicine in Hungary." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Death Race (2008) |
"The story gets conviction off the performances of Statham and Allen and anyone looking for an end-of-summer crunchathon has definitely come to the right place." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
Death to Smoochy (2002) |
"There are some laughs in this movie, but Williams' anarchy gets tiresome, the satire is weak." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
The Debut (2000) |
"For all its familiarity, The Debut (an unfortunately bland and vague title) is a film from the heart..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C |
December Boys (2007) |
"Sometimes the hardest movies to review are the ones that are middle-of-the-road, bland and completely uninspiring, movies like December Boys." |
Andy Spletzer |
Splat C- |
Deception (2008) |
"A bore." |
William Arnold |
Splat D- |
Deck the Halls (2006) |
"... so contrived and utterly stupid in every way that it surely must be the nadir of the genre." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Dedication (2007) |
"Crudup exhibits admirable restraint. The story would be more compelling, however, had we not seen the same thing before in As Good as It Gets." |
Gianni Truzzi |
Tomato B |
Deep Blue (2005) |
"A trip reminding us that, while we continue to explore space, we have yet to fully penetrate the mysteries of our own planet." |
Bill White |
Splat D |
Deep Blue Sea (1999) |
"A no-brainer if there ever was one." |
William Arnold |
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