Splat B- |
Macbeth (2007) |
"Successful on a visual level, but fails to fully import the play into the modern era." |
Bill White |
Tomato B+ |
The Machinist (2004) |
"Bale is totally convincing, if not especially endearing, as the sleep-challenged title character. If it's true that Oscar can't resist a likable actor in a self-punishing role, this one is going to be hard to top come February." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Machuca (2005) |
"Chilean director Andres Wood sharply observes and re-creates the era." |
Bill White |
Tomato 6/10 |
Mad About Mambo (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) |
"... the real story lies in the characters, kids from all races and cultures who pair off and learn to rumba, tango, foxtrot and swing." |
Sean Axmaker |
- |
Mad Love (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato B |
Mad Love (2001) |
"... like a Spanish Elizabeth transformed into an earthy bodice-ripper." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat c+ |
Mad Money (2008) |
"Enough of it works that you leave it with a sense that it was weak, but not a complete waste of time." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Madagascar (2005) |
"... a routine story enlivened by location, color, exotic landscapes and a cascade of comic flourishes." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) |
"... rapid-fire comedy and energetic parade of sight gags, delivered with visual invention and whiplash timing..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D |
Madame Sata (2003) |
"An amateurish muddle, and a whole different kind of a drag." |
William Arnold |
Splat C- |
Made of Honor (2008) |
"If Grey's Anatomy heartthrob Patrick Dempsey is to ever fulfill his long-standing ambition of becoming an A-list Hollywood movie star, he's going to have to make much better choices of material than the annoying romantic comedy, Made of Honor." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Madeinusa (2006) |
"As roughly constructed as an earthenware jar, the meticulous pacing obstructs suspense, yet it offers an absorbing view of this cultural collision." |
Gianni Truzzi |
Splat C |
Madison (2005) |
"The sport deserves a much better movie." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
The Magdalene Sisters (2003) |
"(It) isn't subtle... but it is passionate and angry and rousing where you might expect it to become numbing and depressing." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
Magnolia (1999) |
"Dosn't stand up to any analysis, but it's filled with amazing scenes, and seems uncannily hooked into the Zeitgeist of the time." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Maid in Manhattan (2002) |
"[Lopez] is completely believable in the lead. She has a great instinct for picking roles she can embody, and she gives this one a special radiance, grace and dewy-eyed credibility." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
Maiko Haaaan!!! (2007) |
"Imagine Moe Howard of the Three Stooges as Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, and you might get an inkling of the monotone slapstick filling two long hours of Maiko Haaaan!!!" |
Bill White |
Tomato B+ |
The Majestic (2001) |
"[Carrey's] natural charisma carries the movie with just the right dose of Jimmy Stewart charm." |
William Arnold |
Splat C+ |
Major Dundee (1965) |
"The new Dundee plugs some of the story holes but, sadly, it's still a plodding affair that's low on plausible character motivation and compelling action scenes." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
Malibu's Most Wanted (2003) |
"The joke is not that this hip-hop white boy with pimp daddy ambitions is an affluent phony, but that he's genuine..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C- |
Mambo Italiano (2003) |
"Big Fat Greek wannabe set in Montreal's Little Italy..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Mamma Mia! (2008) |
"British director Phyllida Lloyd does a more than competent job of opening up the play with glorious and impossibly blue Aegean seascapes and rousing montages in bucolic settings in which the peasantry punctuate the songs like a drunken Greek chorus." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
The Man (2005) |
"The idea of casting the super-cool and street-smart Samuel L. Jackson with the clueless and impossibly nerdy Eugene Levy in an action buddy comedy is such an offbeat and inspired notion that it's impossible not to think of it without smiling." |
William Arnold |
Splat D |
A Man Apart (2003) |
"This film is so numbingly routine that Diesel is the only drawing card." |
William Arnold |
Tomato C+ |
The Man from Elysian Fields (2002) |
"Every scene is contrived to advance the film toward its predetermined end, and the characters consistently act the way people never do in real situations. Even so, the movie is relatively fun to watch, thanks mostly to the cast." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
A Man Named Pearl (2008) |
"Unlike so many documentaries that exploit stereotypes of Southern ignorance, the people of Bishopville come off as intelligent and articulate, with an acute awareness of their shortcomings in the evolution toward more equitable race relations." |
Bill White |
- |
Man of the Century (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat C+ |
Man of the Year (2006) |
"The movie's satire is fairly gutless, the bulk of it could be contained in one five-minute Williams monologue and the majority of the running time is taken up with a poorly motivated love story and a ponderous thriller subplot." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Man on Fire (2004) |
"Director Tony Scott's visual style is very jittery and more expressionistic than it needs to be, but he succeeds in creating an appropriately nightmarish, apocalyptic vision of the Third World south of the border." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Man on the Moon (1999) |
"Carrey has a seductive screen presence; he is always both surprising and entertaining." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A- |
Man on the Train (2003) |
"A boldly conceived, impeccably crafted and wonderfully enigmatic two-character study that turns out to be a most powerful showcase for its two stars." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A- |
Man On Wire (2008) |
"Director James Marsh assembles this material into an offbeat but often unbearably exciting heist movie -- a white-knuckle ride of a thriller that can stand up against such classics of the genre as Rififi, Topkapi and Robbery." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
The Man Who Cried (2001) |
"A strange and strangely unaffecting little drama." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) |
"Once you get the joke and grasp the aesthetic they're after, it's fun, and it almost works on the steam of its clever plot mechanics." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
The Man Without a Past (2003) |
"An engaging, absorbing, strangely illuminating experience." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) |
"Before it self-destructs in its convoluted final act, the film is an astute, genuinely gripping thriller that speaks shrewdly to our current corporate-phobia and post-9/11 paranoia." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Manderlay (2006) |
"... an absurdist comedy with a deadpan delivery and run through with the very hypocrisy that von Trier mercilessly ridicules." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Manic (2003) |
"The texture of "Manic" feels honest and the chemistry of the kids is well observed, but even the modest breakthroughs are dramatic conventions that favor the symbolic over the genuine." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato A- |
Mansfield Park (1999) |
"[Rozema] brings bite to the least popular of Austen's novels and allows an underscored romantic yearning to remain in this deeper work that stays true in spirit to Austen's original." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B- |
The Manson Family (2004) |
"... an acid movie flashback a la Oliver Stone." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D |
Manufactured Landscapes (2007) |
"[The filmmakers] try hard, but fail to present the Industrial Revolution, which began in the late 18th century, as something new and terrifying." |
Bill White |
Tomato B |
A Map of the World (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B |
March of the Penguins (2005) |
"Jacquet's visionary insight, aided by funding from National Geographic Feature Films, is beautiful and sensual in its compassionate handling of the penguins' plight as well as in portraying the conditions in which the birds must eke out an existence." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B+ |
Marebito (2004) |
"It's not really scary, but it reaches a level of insanity so unhinged and dispassionately wretched that it defies description." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
Margot at the Wedding (2007) |
"Shooting with a handheld camera that stays just slightly aloof from the uneasy atmosphere, [Noah] Baumbach creates a vivid and nuanced sense of this family's dynamics." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Maria Full of Grace (2004) |
"The 23-year-old actress Catalina Sandino Moreno is a revelation as 17-year-old Maria in this Sundance and Berlin Film Festival prize-winner." |
Paula Nechak |
B- |
Marie Antoinette (2006) |
"Dunst is the movie's strongest and weakest element. Her natural charm carries us through the scenery, at the same time her distinct Americanness rings false in every scene." |
William Arnold |
Splat C- |
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School (2006) |
"Not only are the shifts in time unclear, but the film lacks a stable emotional tone." |
Bill White |
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