Splat 2/4 |
10 Items or Less (2006) |
"...Best described as an "in-betweener" -- a no-budget, often experimental project that directors and actors sneak in between real jobs." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
102 Dalmatians (2000) |
"Maybe there should be an American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Classic Movies." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The 11th Hour (2007) |
"It benefits the most by providing good advice and an abundance of well-considered ideas from forward thinkers of all stripes and persuasions who refuse to give up hope." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
12 and Holding (2006) |
"The film is as oblivious as the adults." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
12:08 East of Bucharest (2007) |
"12:08 East of Bucharest is easier to admire than enjoy, funnier to describe than actually watch." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"As fantasy-formulaic as 13 Going on 30 is, writers Josh Goldmith and Cathy Yuspa ... haven't bothered to work out the sort of details that transport us too." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
13 Tzameti (2006) |
"It may be smarter than Saw II or Saw III, but it's just selling a classier brand of sadistic voyeurism." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
The 13th Floor (1999) |
"The Thirteenth Floor is a film school project gone awry!" |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
1408 (2007) |
"You would assume that Stephen King had wrung about all the neurosis that could be squeezed from the haunted-writer theme in Secret Window, Misery and, most famously, The Shining. You would, however, be wrong -- dead wrong." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"The Lethal Weapon movies were all about charismatic actors breathing life into stock characters. That doesn't happen with Willis and Def." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
2 Days In Paris (2007) |
"Delpy does the old-[Woody] Allen thing a lot better than most, and does for Paris what Allen did for Manhattan, making it look newly romantic even to those who have lived there all their lives." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"For the DVD special edition, they might consider removing everything but the races and chases, including its Smokey and the Bandit scramble; fast-forwarding may be just too much effort." |
Terry Lawson |
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2004 Year-in-Review (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
21 Grams (2003) |
"One of the most riveting and moving experiences of the year, a movie of aching soulfulness and transforming power." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"Even if you have never heard of the Mondays, whose members swiftly self-destructed in Ecstasy and excess, or of Tony Wilson, the entrepreneur the film is about, you may find yourself drawn into the vortex created by director Michael Winterbottom." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
25th Hour (2002) |
"If there was ever a filmmaker in need of someone who could tell him where and when to stop, what to leave in and what to take out, it would be Spike Lee." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
27 Dresses (2008) |
"Sorry, Sandra. Too bad, Meg. The mantle of movie cute queen has just been passed to Katherine Heigl, starring as the romantically challenged New Yorker of 27 Dresses." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"If 28 Days Later falls short of classic horror movie status, Boyle pokes the genre with a sharp enough stick to prove it has some nasty life in it yet." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has no problem re-creating the first film's naturalistic sense of dread and lurking menace and embellishing it. It's all shot on the run, with handheld cameras, mostly in the half-light of ruins and sewers." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 3/4 |
3 Extremes (2005) |
"Three . . . Extremes will be a must-see only for fans of Asian horror, but it may also send some people looking for full-length films by these gifted filmmakers." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
3-Iron (2005) |
"3-Iron may not be a horror movie, but it is still haunting." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
30 Days of Night (2007) |
"Even when it resorts to the hoariest clichés, 30 Days of Night still chills." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 4/4 |
300 (2007) |
"For once, the Larry King quote machines who supply the advance blurbs to the studio for their marketing campaigns will be correct." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
"It remains, underneath all the decoration and heavy artillery, a good yarn." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) |
"A truly wretched sex comedy, or should we say non-sex comedy." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) |
"Such a well-balanced mix of the gross and crude with the sweet and sympathetic that it transcends its inadequacies in a way that may make even the most suspicious woman let down her guard." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
50 First Dates (2004) |
"Much of this is very sweet, even touching, but it just isn't funny." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
The 6th Day (2000) |
"The 6th Day is about as close as any of Schwarzenegger's action films have ever come to family entertainment." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
8 Mile (2002) |
"A movie that will satisfy hip-hop and Eminem fans in ways they never expected; even more significantly, it will touch people who thought they hated hip-hop and/or Eminem in ways they would have never expected." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
8 Women (2002) |
"For French film fans, this is the equivalent of Bob Dylan, the surviving Beatles and the Rolling Stones jamming in the studio with an adoring producer behind the glass." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
9 Songs (2005) |
"It is, at its (hard)core, a traditional sex movie with better music and naturalistic situations." |
Terry Lawson |
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