American Outlaws (2001)

"Not so much a real Western as an Old West-themed fashion show."

American Psycho (2000)

"Bale delivers these lectures without irony and with the same studied lack of passion with which he delivers a deadly blow."

American Splendor (2003)

"Codirectors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who have three traditional documentaries on their resume, do a good job of keeping the various Harveys and Joyces from bumping into each other."

The Amityville Horror (1979)

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Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)

"Director Dwight Little and a laundry list of writers (among them Michigan-born Jim Cash) simply deliver a generic hungry snake movie, and on those terms, Anacondas can be kind of fun."

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)

"Little more than an extended Saturday Night Live skit with better wigs, real locations and a script that sputters as soon as its one-joke premise is exhausted."

Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

"The Phantom is the furthest thing from a monster, and the movie holds no threat whatsoever, unless you have a morbid fear of gilded staircases, seductive lighting, brocade costumes and overwrought, over-orchestrated pop balladry."

Angel Eyes (2001)

"Cut through all the eerie atmospherics and ominous implications, and Angel Eyes is just another glossily romantic meditation on pain and fate."

The Animal (2001)

"Should you consider getting near it, understand that it doesn't smell so good."

Annapolis (2006)

"Wobbles unsteadily between a military recruitment vehicle and an underdog boxing picture."

Another Road Home (2005)

"Elon uses quiet and silence to great effect."

Antitrust (2001)

"The movie not only revolves around computers, it looks like it was directed by them as well."

Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)

"It is now a richer, fuller film, if still something short of the longed-for masterpiece."

Apres Vous (2005)

"A lightweight farce that remains enjoyable primarily for the time spent with Auteuil."

Aquamarine (2006)

"If there was more content in the Alice Hoffman book on which it is based, the screenwriters keep it effectively submerged."

The Architect (2006)

"Despite his obvious earnestness, first-time director and cowriter Matt Tauber is ill equipped to mine emotions this complex."

Are We Done Yet? (2007)

"The new movie is good-natured and sometimes funny. It also doesn't make a lick of sense."

The Aristocrats (2005)

"The dissection of a joke is never pretty, but it has never been nastier than it is in The Aristocrats."

Around the Bend (2004)

"When Roberts should be avoiding the potholes of sentimentality and cliche ... he drives straight at them."

The Art of War (2000)

"The Art of War keeps us reasonably entertained, if not guessing."

Arthur and the Invisibles (2007)

"Too eccentric for kids, too silly for everyone else, it floats in a Neverland of breathtaking visuals in service of a story that pilfers everything (and I mean everything) from the Arthur legends to last summer's The Ant Bully."

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

"Assassination is contemplative and quiet, a studied film that is surprisingly engrossing, not to mention so handsomely made you can hardly take your eyes off it."

Assassination Tango (2003)

"The characters and situations here are all stereotypical or undercooked."

The Astronaut Farmer (2007)

"Though there is no lack of amusement in all this, the Polish brothers and the cast play it perfectly straight. Farmer is as determined to go to space as Mister Deeds is to go to town or Mr. Smith is to go to Washington."

At Last (2005)

"At Last would work a lot better with genuine chemistry between the leads, and maybe a bit more humor."