Tomato B |
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) |
"As if to prove a female director can make a movie with no soft edges, Kathryn Bigelow offers no sugar-coating or interludes of lightness. Her film is unrelentingly claustrophobic and unpleasant." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
K-Pax (2001) |
"Spacey's performance creates a spell that lingers long after the lights come back on." |
William Arnold |
Tomato 8/10 |
Kadosh (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Kamikaze Girls (2005) |
"The perfect cup of bubble tea for those struggling with philosophical issues such as 'What is happiness? Making clothes or wearing them?'" |
Bill White |
Tomato A |
Kandahar (2001) |
"Makhmalbaf's astounding and haunting imagery tells a story of devastation, desperation and poverty." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D |
Kangaroo Jack (2003) |
"The kangaroo is devoid of charm, as are the actors, who have the chemistry of fingernails on a blackboard." |
William Arnold |
Splat C- |
Kate and Leopold (2001) |
"The overall quality of Mangold's writing and direction is poor." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Keane (2004) |
"Affliction has rarely been so sensitively explored." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat |
Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (2001) |
"This thin documentary is so bent on rubbing our faces in Schneebaum's paradise lost ... that it's a fairly depressing experience." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Keeping Mum (2006) |
"The script (by Richard Russo) is solid, the performances are witty and fun, and the movie is a most agreeable way to spend an hour and a half." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Keeping the Faith (2000) |
"A gentle, even rather fluffy, Hollywood comedy with a style and sensibility that owes more to the Farrelly Brothers than Martin Scorsese." |
William Arnold |
Splat F |
Keeping Up With The Steins (2006) |
"'Why don't you just flush the money down the toilet?' asks one character. The same might be asked of the people who produced this bomb." |
Bill White |
Tomato B |
Kenny (2008) |
"The film's strongest asset is Shane Clayton, whose Kenny is the funniest thing to come out of Australia since Crocodile Dundee." |
Bill White |
- |
Kestrel's Eye (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat C |
Kicking and Screaming (2005) |
"It never quite takes off." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A- |
The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002) |
"Directors Brett Morgen and Nanette Burstein have put together a bold biographical fantasia." |
William Arnold |
- |
Kids in America (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat B- |
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) |
"With no real characters or ideas in sight, it seemed ultimately tiresome and forgettable." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) |
"Technically, it's an exhilarating piece of filmmaking." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A |
Killer of Sheep (1977) |
"Free of the ghetto clichés that fill the movies made by people who have never lived in one, Killer of Sheep is a strongly individual portrait of black, working-class America." |
Bill White |
Tomato B |
The King (2006) |
"Milo Addica's script delves into emotionally messy territory... and director James Marsh embraces the ambiguity, sometimes at the expense of the characters." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
King Arthur (2004) |
"It comes off as an uninspired remake of The Magnificent Seven in medieval dress." |
William Arnold |
Tomato |
The King is Alive (2001) |
"An especially demanding, misanthropic and nihilistic work about human nature's worst face and it, more often than not, chills despite the relentless desert heat." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato A |
King Kong (2005) |
"Remakes simply don't get any more respectful -- or more inspired -- than this." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
King of California (2007) |
"... perfectly genial and agreeably modest character piece." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
The King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) |
"Seth Gordon's portrait of obsessive classic arcade game players finds high drama and murky intrigue in the competition for the Donkey Kong world record." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
The King of Masks (1996) |
Click here to see the review. |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
King Of The Corner (2005) |
"A labor of love film where you feel love much stronger than you feel the film." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
The Kingdom (2007) |
"While it stays well short of a daring political statement, it effectively hints in just about every frame that the U.S. partnership with this greedy, family-run nation of fundamentalist Muslims is a powder keg just waiting to explode." |
William Arnold |
Splat C+ |
Kingdom Come (2001) |
"There's nothing new in this mix of family crises, marital infidelities and long-held grudges, and little satisfaction in the easy personal triumphs." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
Kingdom of Heaven (2005) |
"More than ever, Hollywood has become a cinema of fantasy and escapism. But every so often, a powerful director manages to marshal its forces to make a statement or impart a vision that's courageously relevant to what's going on in the real world." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A |
Kings and Queen (2005) |
"His scenes ripple with undercurrents of awkward emotions... creating a film both devastating and uplifting, but he passes no judgments." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Kinky Boots (2006) |
"Strives to be nothing more than a sweetheart of a little comedy with a big human heart and some genuinely funny moments. And in that, it succeeds." |
Winda Benedetti |
Tomato B |
Kinsey (2004) |
"A fascinating slice of social history and an unsettling look at our indomitable sexual natures." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Kinsey (2004) |
"Condon has fashioned his story into a fascinating slice of social history and an unsettling look at our indomitable sexual natures." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Kippur (2000) |
"Simultaneously immediate and alienated, [Gitai] captures a chaotic portrait of the war with no glory, only the confusion, fear, and fatigue of a tour under fire." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) |
"Put together well, and its numerous stunts and action sequences are imaginatively conceived and carried out with an original flair." |
William Arnold |
Splat C- |
Kiss of the Dragon (2001) |
"The movie in between the mayhem ... is incomprehensible and wildly overacted by the non-combatants -- especially Karyo." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Kissing Jessica Stein (2002) |
"There are some really wonderful moments that build beautifully, chronicling the pitfalls in bringing old baggage, traditional family and romantic love under the same roof." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B- |
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008) |
"Kit Kittredge could be primed for a series of sequels, yet as directed by Patricia Rozema, its elemental integrity seems in direct opposition to the blockbuster or sequel-mania that fuels Hollywood." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B- |
The Kite Runner (2007) |
"A qualified success." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Km. 0 (2003) |
"The bouncy, bright tune that drives the dancing credits also sets the toe-tapping tone: lighthearted, hopeful, harmless fun, with a little continental attitude." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D |
A Knight's Tale (2001) |
"The effects look phony, the supporting cast is lackluster and Helgeland's script is filled with continuity problems and characters who make no sense." |
William Arnold |
Splat |
Knockaround Guys (2002) |
"Koppelman and Levien manage nice camaraderie among their young thugs, but most of the characters are too bland, repugnant or dunderheaded -- in some cases, all three -- for viewers to invest much emotional interest." |
David Germain |
Tomato B+ |
Knocked Up (2007) |
"Apatow has an original wit and golden touch that seems to cry out for more sophisticated material: It will be very interesting to see what he does with the free rein that the enormous box-office success of this movie is likely to bring him." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Kung Fu Hustle (2005) |
"Chow packs a lot of action, a crazed cascade of comedy, a parade of characters and a non-stop barrage of loving jabs at classic martial-arts adventures into 99 minutes." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
Kung Fu Panda (2008) |
"The movie is full of exaggerated chop-socky action sequences, and most of them are clever and entertaining. The animators clearly have invested some time in studying and gleaning ideas from the Hong Kong kung-fu classics." |
William Arnold |
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