Splat 2.5/4 |
P.S. (2004) |
"P.S. never gives satisfactory answers to the questions it raises." |
Mary F. Pols |
Splat C |
P.S. I Love You (2007) |
"P.S. I Love You is manipulative, too long and loaded with the bizarre stereotypes of so-called women's movies... Yet I can't deny that some tears were jerked." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Painted Veil (2006) |
"Solid as this Painted Veil is, there's also a predictability to its Puritanism. To succumb to it, you have to really be in the mood to watch a good man teach a foolish woman a lesson." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Panic Room (2002) |
"We should be so lucky if all popcorn movies starred Jodie Foster and had the delicious interplay of psychological will, strategic cunning and reasonably watertight plausibility." |
Vera H-C Chan |
Splat C |
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"Even though it is relentlessly intense, at times even deeply moving, The Passion ultimately leaves you numb." |
Karen Hershenson |
Splat |
Pavilion of Women (2001) |
"Poor Pearl Buck deserved better." |
Mary F. Pols |
Splat |
Pay It Forward (2000) |
"It's a bit like the class showoff, raising its hand to answer every question. And like the class showoff, it's admirable, but there's something about it that makes you roll your eyes." |
Mary F. Pols |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Peaceful Warrior (2006) |
"This 'wake up and smell the roses' philosophy is sweet, but in Warrior, it comes across as trite and manipulative." |
Randy Myers |
Splat |
Pearl Harbor (2001) |
"Apparently, screenwriter Randall Wallace is oblivious to what constitutes triteness." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato B |
Penelope (2008) |
"Behold the mysterious ways of Hollywood; a charming fairy tale with a heartening message of self-acceptance, something truly an entire family can enjoy, languishes while dreck like Over Her Dead Body gets rushed into theaters." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Perfect Man (2005) |
"It's always heartening when a movie for teens addresses issues beyond the basic quandaries of finding a prom date or fighting off the mean girl cliques." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato B+ |
Peter Pan (2003) |
"It succeeds because it goes back to the roots of the original -- there's none of that modernizing that made Hook so tedious -- and ventures bravely into some of Barrie's more subtle subtexts." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Pianist (2002) |
"A triumphant return for a director who has not lived up to his potential in the past two decades." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Piano Teacher (2002) |
"Haneke challenges us to confront the reality of sexual aberration." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato A- |
Pieces of April (2003) |
"A movie that manages to be darkly funny and touching at the same time." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) |
"[Special] effects pale in comparison to Depp himself. He is, as ever, the heart and soul of the franchise." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) |
"The loaded-to-the-gills carnival ride, the second in what's shaping up to be a wildly successful trilogy, is almost as good as the first voyage." |
Randy Myers |
Splat C |
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) |
"Given the film's origins, it seems fitting that by the time the movie is two hours old, Pirates becomes a ride one desperately wants to get off." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato |
Planet of the Apes (2001) |
"As we've come to expect from Burton, Planet of the Apes is a movie of unusual beauty and spooky visual qualities." |
Mary F. Pols |
Splat |
Pokémon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back (1999) |
"Movies like this make me cringe." |
Karen Hershenson |
Splat |
Pokémon the Movie 2000 (2000) |
"Dreary animation, mindless plot, foolish dialogue." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato |
Pollock (2000) |
"Ed Harris' filmmaking deserves praise despite the story's glitches, and Marcia Gay Harden stands out in a star turn as the artist's wife." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato |
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy (2001) |
"A hilarious film in places, paced perfectly for laughs, but it's also a poignant portrait of a guy who just wants to be a more conventional kind of movie star." |
Mary F. Pols |
Splat C- |
Poseidon (2006) |
"Poseidon traps us in an upside-down ship of fools, where the risk of sinking fails to matter because we don't care about the fate of anyone aboard." |
Randy Myers |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Possession (2002) |
"It's a tossup as to which love story is more compelling, since all four romantic leads are excellent." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato B+ |
A Prairie Home Companion (2006) |
"The latest gem from iconoclastic director Robert Altman (The Player, Nashville) mirrors much of his greatest work; another wise, observant multicharacter study that saunters rather than speeds from extended scene to extended scene." |
Randy Myers |
Splat 1/4 |
Premonition (2007) |
"A thrill-less psychological thriller." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Pride and Prejudice (2005) |
"Let's get the most pressing questions out of the way from the get-go. Yes, the latest version of Pride & Prejudice is quite good. No, it's not great, in that 1995 A&E miniseries sort of way, but it's very good nonetheless." |
Randy Myers |
Tomato B |
Primer (2004) |
"This movie manages to be effective about a topic as complex and difficult to render as time travel." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato |
The Princess Diaries (2001) |
"Pack the girls into the minivan and rest assured that you and your offspring will leave the theater with a rosy, cheery glow." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Producers (2005) |
"Life would be a whole lot sweeter if every grouchy person were sent to watch the high-spirited The Producers." |
Randy Myers |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Promise (2005) |
"It's impossible not to be bowled over by the magnificent costumes, the atmospheric otherworldly sets and the lush cinematography. The tragic, nearly operatic love isn't nearly as impressive." |
Randy Myers |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Proof (2005) |
"Somehow the formula fails. Almost everyone involved in this production seems to be off their game." |
Randy Myers |
Tomato |
Proof of Life (2000) |
"It's a thoughtful movie that deliberately defies Hollywood conventions." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Proposition (2006) |
"The Proposition isn't single-mindedly cruel just to be cynically chic. Cave accomplishes much more, exposing this period's racism, classism and imperialism, then making it seem particularly prescient." |
Randy Myers |
Splat 1/4 |
The Protector (2006) |
"A wearying spectacle of unpleasant crunching sound effects (enough to put us off soft shell crabs for years), bad editing, hideous cinematography and spectacularly confused plotting." |
Mary F. Pols |
Splat 2/4 |
Provoked (2007) |
"In the end, Provoked is not provocative enough." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) |
"The lasting value of the movie, the element that confirms Anderson as the most provocative and excitingly aggravating of young American filmmakers, is the way it clambers inside you and punches away at the walls of whatever box you live in." |
Mary F. Pols |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) |
"Smith has never been less showy, or more effective, than he is here." |
Mary F. Pols |
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