Tomato C+ |
The R.M. (2003) |
"Witty and highly polished, if very forgettable, satire that pokes self-deprecating fun at the church while strongly reaffirming its values." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
"Noyce ... finds the dignity within a piece of hidden history he wisely tells as a courageous story about survival over adversity rather than a political statement." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat B |
Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
"Smarter than it trusts itself to be." |
Andy Spletzer |
Tomato A |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"... the resolution is neither neat nor expected. True to [director Jonathan] Demme, it's honest and generous and very human." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C- |
Racing Stripes (2005) |
"Racing Stripes is oddly torn in tone: is it an old-fashioned family drama, a coming-of-age story or a crass comedy? Live action or animation? Unlike Babe, it fails to integrate its conflicting personalities." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B |
Radio (2003) |
"It's really Harris' movie, and he brings to it just the right blend of engaging affability, gruff strength of character and transcendent nobility of spirit to make it a genuinely enriching experience." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Rain (2002) |
"Captures all the longing, anguish and ache, the confusing sexual messages and the wish to be a part of that elusive adult world." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat C- |
Raise Your Voice (2004) |
"Both truly wholesome and wholly uninteresting." |
Winda Benedetti |
Tomato B- |
Raising Helen (2004) |
"Pulls out all the stops to make [Hudson] adorable, and only the hardhearted will be able to resist her self-deprecating charm and light-up-the-world smile." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Raising Victor Vargas (2003) |
"A wonderfully refreshing slice of urban ghetto life." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Ram Dass Fierce Grace (2002) |
"Aimed at a New Age audience, but its subject's sincerity and gentle, self-deprecating nature translate well to a general audience." |
William Arnold |
Splat |
Random Hearts (1999) |
"It resembles the wreckage of the downed plane more than a tale of redemptive romance." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B+ |
The Rape Of Europa (2007) |
"(T)his dense, dynamic documentary... takes on the high drama and difficult moral quandaries of Adolf Hitler's campaign to plunder the great artworks of Europe..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C- |
Rat Race (2001) |
"There are a few clever moments, but the movie is nothing at all special and a pale, pale, pale, pale imitation of its model." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A- |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"... hearty and tasty, created from fresh ingredients and cooked up with unexpected flavors and dashes of spice, and it leaves a satisfying and inspiring warmth when it's done." |
Sean Axmaker |
- |
Ratcatcher (2000) |
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|
Tomato A |
Ray (2004) |
"With a relatively small budget to recover, Oscar nominations and year-end critical accolades a strong possibility, and Ray Charles' death this past June giving the film a special timeliness, it's hard to see how it can miss being a major hit." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Read My Lips (2002) |
"Cassel -- son of French star Jean-Pierre Cassel -- is brutally appealing and Devos is just achingly sympathetic." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A- |
The Reader (2008) |
"With its probing script by David Hare, painterly camerawork by Chris Menges and Roger Deakins, confident direction by Stephen Daldry and impeccable supporting performances, every frame of the movie screams filmmaking excellence." |
William Arnold |
Splat 5/10 |
Ready to Rumble (2000) |
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Sean Axmaker |
- |
The Real Cancun (2003) |
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|
Tomato B+ |
The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2007) |
"A triumph of baby boomer ideals, that work and art can and ought to coexist." |
Gianni Truzzi |
Tomato B |
Real Women Have Curves (2002) |
"[Ferrera and Ontiveros] are the best things about a film that relies upon our suspension of disbelief over incongruous plot points and formulaic story." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat C+ |
The Reaping (2007) |
"The movie is not terribly scary, its plot stumbles over at least one huge nonsequitur and it's never clear why CNN, Oprah and People magazine aren't all over these miracles." |
William Arnold |
Tomato A |
Rear Window (1954) |
"One of the most elegant entertainments ever made in Hollywood, and also one of the boldest and most personal of the Hitchcock films -- a work that's almost perverse in its giddy celebration of the thrill of voyeurism." |
William Arnold |
- |
Rebels with a Cause (2000) |
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|
Splat |
Rebound (2005) |
"An abysmal movie." |
William Arnold |
Splat C- |
Recess: School's Out (2001) |
"Wears thin by taking fodder fit for TV episode and stretching it over a long 83 minutes." |
Paula Nechak |
Splat C |
The Reckoning (2004) |
"The mystery is never very compelling, Paul McGuigan's direction tends to be obvious and flat, many of the characters are stagy and unconvincing." |
William Arnold |
- |
Reconstruction (2004) |
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|
Splat C+ |
The Recruit (2003) |
"It's just never as gripping as it needs to be." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
Red Dragon (2002) |
"It's so familiar and repetitive that it doesn't have much ghoulish impact." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Red Eye (2005) |
"[The film] goes painfully traditional in its last act, but until then it's an extraordinary exercise in claustrophobia: a movie Hitchcock might have made about our 9/11 paranoia." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B+ |
Red Lights (2004) |
"A splendid evocation of its literary inspiration." |
William Arnold |
Splat 6/10 |
Red Planet (2000) |
"The smartly engineered story may be enough to satisfy cerebrally starved science-fiction fans, but sadly Red Planet fails to engage on almost every other level." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B |
Red Road (2007) |
"An impressive debut that is orchestrated with a deep, underlying tension that never lets us guess what will come." |
Paula Nechak |
Tomato B- |
Red Trousers (2003) |
"A loving tribute to Hong Kong stuntmen by one of their own." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B- |
Redacted (2007) |
"Redacted is as much a cinematic experiment as a movie, a deconstruction of our ideas of objectivity, subjectivity, and the way we relate to screen characters." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat D |
Reel Paradise (2005) |
"Pierson is a high-powered egotist with appalling tastes and a great-white-father complex, and his whiny family is about as much fun as fingernails on a blackboard." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Refusenik (2008) |
"What is revealing here is the heretofore unseen civil-rights movement, small but dedicated, that began in the 1960s behind the Iron Curtain." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato C+ |
Reign of Fire (2002) |
"The screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a "Dungeons and Dragons" fantasy with modern military weaponry..." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato B+ |
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"The cast could hardly be any better and, for a guy-buddy movie, it's packed with memorable female supporting performances by Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler, Melinda Dillon, Paula Newsome and especially Saffron Burrows." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B- |
Reindeer Games (2000) |
"A high-octane performance from Sinise, and an even better one from Theron, who is magnetic and credible in every scene." |
William Arnold |
Tomato B |
Religulous (2008) |
"It's an unstructured, scatter-gun attack, with Maher's cynical wit piercing the pretensions of one true believer after another, and director Larry Charles punctuating the encounters with cuts to Maher's vintage stand-up routines." |
William Arnold |
Tomato |
Remember Me, My Love (2004) |
"For such a downbeat story, the film is full of humor and vivacity. The characters, though frustrated and delusional, are fully realized by the exceptional cast." |
Bill White |
Tomato B |
Remember the Titans (2000) |
"The script is very good in convincingly portraying the way the teammates learn to trust one another, overcome their prejudices and even laugh at the absurdity of racism." |
William Arnold |
Splat C |
Renaissance (2006) |
"It's the novel side that fails, a convoluted, futuristic detective thriller." |
Sean Axmaker |
Splat C+ |
Rendition (2007) |
"The movie is not exciting, original or instructive enough to justify the unpleasant experience." |
William Arnold |
Splat C+ |
Reno 911!: Miami (2007) |
"... it probably cost less than the catering budget of average Adam Sandler comedy and, in its own hit-and-miss scattershot fashion, it's about as funny. At least when it hits." |
Sean Axmaker |
Tomato A- |
Rent (2005) |
"Despite many flaws, all the energy, emotion and generation-defining power that made it such a phenomenon on stage comes through on celluloid." |
William Arnold |
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