Tomato B- |
Haiku Tunnel (2001) |
"Sly, inspired material." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C |
Hair High (2006) |
"When Plympton's freak flag flies, Hair High delivers the same whacked-out weirdness of his shorts. The rest of the film simply stretches out the simple premise..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato A- |
Hairspray (2007) |
"The third reincarnation of Hairspray works as both a buoyant feel-good musical and a broad, goofy and totally irresistible celebration of the '60s." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Half Moon: A Musician's Last Journey (2007) |
"Director Bahman Ghobadi ices his dark parable with a light frosting of humanistic humor." |
Bill White |
Tomato B+ |
Half Nelson (2006) |
"This unflinching clash between squandered ideals and hopeful realities rises to the head of its class." |
Gianni Truzzi |
Splat D |
Half Past Dead (2002) |
"Just to clear up any possible confusion, the title actually refers to Steven Seagal's latest action film, not his gasping-for-air film career." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
Hamlet (2000) |
"Fresh, vibrant and vital, this interpretation reminds us why Shakespeare is timeless." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"Frequently amusing and consistently outrageous but ultimately tiresome." |
William Arnold |
Splat D |
The Hammer (2008) |
"Like a television show, The Hammer wields that mysterious power to keep you watching even though you know it isn't any good." |
Bill White |
Tomato B- |
Hancock (2008) |
"The most adult of the new wave of superhero dramas." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Hanging Up (2000) |
"For Ryan fans, the movie also serves as a strong star vehicle." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) |
"Performances help raise Hannah Takes the Stairs above the realm of self-indulgent cinema to something worth seeing." |
Andy Spletzer |
Splat C+ |
Hannibal (2001) |
"But [Hopkin's] character -- which the original established as the epitome of pure sociopathic evil -- really has nowhere to go here but soft." |
William Arnold |
Splat D |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"Not just a bad film, Hannibal Rising is downright dull, which is a far worse crime." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
The Happening (2008) |
"In a Hollywood summer otherwise dominated by comic-book superheroes, blazing action spectacles, snickering teen sex comedies and computer-generated fantasy, M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening is something different -- and a pleasant surprise." |
William Arnold |
Splat D |
Happenstance (2001) |
"It's charmless and as against the gentle grain of the New Wave French comedies of the past few years as it's conceivable to be." |
William Arnold |
Splat D |
Happily N'Ever After (2007) |
"All it lacks is wit, character and laughs." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
Happiness of the Katakuris (2002) |
"...for all the black humor of this deliriously bizarre fantasy Happiness is a warmhearted film about sacrifice, support and four generations of family togetherness in face of mounting corpses." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
Happy Accidents (2001) |
"Anderson is a hopeless romantic in a cynical world, and for a brief moment he makes the case that true love is the only power that can crack time and space." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Happy Endings (2005) |
"[A] comedic exercise that has its share of contrived moments but comes together as an entertaining, omnibus acting vehicle." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"Happy Feet offers the action, gags and warmth kids expect to keep them amused." |
Gianni Truzzi |
Splat C+ |
Happy Times (2002) |
"Busy urban comedy is clearly not Zhang's forte, his directorial touch is neither light nor magical enough to bring off this kind of whimsy." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Happy, Texas (1999) |
"It's a breath of fresh air to review a film that, having received an award from the Sundance Film Festival, actually deserves the accolade." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B- |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"It's rather grim, the laughs are few, and the only lesson it teaches is that, for all its sins, Hollywood is much better at making this kind of life-affirming Pollyanna movie." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Hard Candy (2005) |
"Hard Candy is not perfect, but it is a provocative piece of filmmaking with a dark and daring heart that makes it worth seeing." |
Winda Benedetti |
Tomato B |
Hard Goodbyes: My Father (2003) |
"A sublimely subjective journey from denial to acceptance as a 10-year-old boy comes to terms with the finality of death." |
Bill White |
Splat C |
The Hard Word (2003) |
"Treads too closely to Quentin Tarentino and Guy Ritchie turf to claim much original thought." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat D |
Hardball (2001) |
"Shallow, incompetent, hopelessly contrived." |
William Arnold |
Splat C- |
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
"Cho and Penn don't have the needed personality or comic identity to sustain a franchise and their non-drug humor is so crude and scatological that -- to say the least -- it leaves a very bad taste in the mouth." |
William Arnold |
Splat C- |
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) |
"Just when we thought the stoner comedy was a hazy relic of the past, along comes a new farce that has every hallmark of having been written while under the influence." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Harrison's Flowers (2002) |
"The movie operates off a core of brutal honesty." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
"Faster-paced and more chock-full of adventure than the original." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A- |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"In his scheme of things, fighting a dragon is nothing compared to the terrors of a first date." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"Once again, the series has produced a winner: an intriguingly complex, visually dazzling, multilayered fantasy-adventure of the first order." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A- |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"Fast, fluid and absorbing." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A- |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) |
"It's eye-filling, well-cast, often very funny and executed with great imagination and flair." |
William Arnold |
Splat C+ |
Harsh Times (2006) |
"... never manages to find a story in the unfocused, rambling piece, merely cautionary lessons and a scared-straight message." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Hart's War (2002) |
"The WWII drama is well plotted, visually striking and filled with enjoyably complex characters who are never what they first appear." |
William Arnold |
Splat C- |
The Haunted Mansion (2003) |
"The special effects display is so lacking in imagination it turns into so much noise, just a flashy distraction from the stiff, stock cliches of the by-the-numbers script." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
The Haunting (1999) |
"Not very scary." |
William Arnold |
Splat C+ |
Havana Nights (2004) |
"... even as the prosaic script gets lost in the intoxicating fantasy of the bloodless revolution, the hot heartbeat of the music drives the film with pure energy." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D |
Haven (2006) |
"Welcome to the tawdry end of paradise, where no melodrama is too obvious and no conflict too contrived." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato b |
He Was a Quiet Man (2007) |
"An absorbing and well-made indie drama." |
William Arnold |
Splat C+ |
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) |
"This plodding, overlong film is like an awkward first date with an attractive setup whose heart isn't in it: polite, dull and seemingly unending." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C- |
Head in the Clouds (2004) |
"An exceedingly dull retro-weepie." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Head of State (2003) |
"... undeniably inconsistent, but when Rock hits he's dangerously funny." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Head On (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Paula Nechak |
Splat 6/10 |
Head Over Heels (2001) |
"It's hard to make a romantic thriller click in the best of circumstances, and this one takes low aim at a young audience weaned on gross-out gags." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Head-On (2005) |
"Sporadically powerful, sensitively acted and full of music, used with imagination and flair." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
Heading South (2006) |
"Laurent Cantet directs his adaptation of Dany Laferreiere's La Chair du Maitre as if it were a Danielle Steele novel." |
Bill White |
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