Tomato 3/4 |
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) |
"The French Canadian import is also wildly entertaining in its views of Catholicism, music and especially family." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cabin Fever (2003) |
"On the surface, Cabin Fever might seem like just another ripoff of the Michigan-made cult classic The Evil Dead, but it has a style and sense of humor entirely its own." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Caché (2005) |
"One thing that cannot be argued is Haneke's ability to attract the best actors in cinema, perhaps by promising to take them places they have never been." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"A refreshing lark, made all the more enjoyable by a cast of fine actors." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Callas Forever (2004) |
"For all the devotion Zeffirelli professes to Callas' legacy, the script reduces her to a cartoon." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Camp (2003) |
"Fame may seem silly in retrospect, but Camp, with its dippy dialogue and characters revealing even less complexity than the ones from 42nd Street, arrives silly." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Candy (2006) |
"Undeniably affecting." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
El Cantante (2007) |
"Lavoe was a gifted and original singer and song interpreter, but this film is unlikely to spread the word." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Capote (2005) |
"The best movie about journalism since All the President's Men, and one of the best films about writing ever made." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) |
"Cruz probably doesn't have more than 40 lines of dialogue in the entire film, but she makes every word, every gesture, every held-back tear matter." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Captivity (2007) |
"One has to worry about a world where there is a constant appetite for films like this one." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"An experience you will never forget." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Cars (2006) |
"Its characters may be made of steel, but this movie is made of sturdier stuff: heart and art." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Casa de los Babys (2003) |
"If most of the characters seem underdeveloped, they are also convincing and interesting." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Casanova (2005) |
"Casanova finds [director] Hallstrom more inspired, or at least lively and engaged, than he has been in years, and he's in the company of the actor of the moment." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Case of the Grinning Cat (2006) |
"[Director] Marker may be windy, but he also enjoys the wisdom that comes with age. His masterful command of the camera shows that he can lecture and entertain at the same time." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 4/4 |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"This exceedingly clever reincarnation, reclamation and reinvigoration of a franchise that has had its ups and downs stands taller than ever." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
Cast Away (2000) |
"If you've seen the trailer or the commercials, you know the story, but that doesn't mean you've seen the movie." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Cat's Meow (2002) |
"More obvious than acerbic, more inane than insightful and exaggerated to the point of caricature." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"Thanks to its incisive script and the excellent performances of Luke and Robbins, its primary characters are not just black and white, literally or figuratively, but instead are shaded and multidimensional, battling demons and conflicted as hell." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Catch and Release (2007) |
"There are some interesting, if less than original, ideas stuck between all the comic banter and the unlikely romantic relationship you see coming a mile away, but the film never finds a way to marry the less-than-convincing melodrama with the melancholy." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"Mindful in many ways of Spielberg's very first feature, the good-natured fugitives-on-the run drama The Sugarland Express." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Catch That Kid (2004) |
"A misguided attempt at creating an adult-style heist movie with a pint-sized cast." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Caterina in the Big City (2005) |
"Caterina in the City is a coming-of-age story, of course, but its adult characters are also well rendered." |
John Monaghan |
Splat |
Cats & Dogs (2001) |
"Spends too much time chewing on its computer effects or purring over its animatronic puppetry and too little taming its amusing premise." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catwoman (2004) |
"Catwoman isn't really bad enough to be one of those awful movies we can't resist, nor is it incompetent enough to be the female Daredevil." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Cave (2005) |
"Is The Cave scary? Not especially, partly due to the creatures' goofy sound effects." |
John Monaghan |
Splat |
The Cell (2000) |
"[Singh's] inability to make us feel anything is more shocking than anything in the movie." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Cellular (2004) |
"So removed from reality we have to suspend even the suspension of disbelief." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cet Amour-La (2002) |
"Like its subject, Cet Amour-La has a knack for making you focus on the beauty beneath the imperfections." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Changing Lanes (2002) |
"Changing Lanes explores human behavior with unsentimentalized and uncommon directness and honesty." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Chaos (2003) |
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Splat 1/4 |
Chaos (2005) |
"Chaos will likely find an audience based on its infamy as the most brutal film ever made. Yet I don't think I'd like to meet anyone who would subject himself to this thing willingly." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"While the first Chocolate Factory was a color-mad eye-popper, this is something better: a carefully conceived and imaginatively created eye-opener." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Charlie Bartlett (2007) |
"Tone is everything in a movie like this, and director John Poll spends the entire running time trying to find it." |
John Monaghan |
Splat |
Charlie's Angels (2000) |
"I guess I'm just supposed to sit back and enjoy it, but somehow I feel exploited." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) |
"Full Throttle is self-deprecating without being smug about it, a movie that knows how not only to make a joke but to take a joke." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
Charlotte Gray (2001) |
"If this is melodrama, it's melodrama of a superior rank, and I salute it." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Charlotte's Web (2006) |
"Fans of E.B. White's elegant, droll style will be happy to know it is wonderfully faithful to the book. I know because I read it as soon as I came home from the movie." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Chasing Liberty (2004) |
"No more than a series of postcard backdrops." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Chateau (2002) |
"A culture clash comedy only half as clever as it thinks it is." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) |
"A bad sitcom expanded to 98 excruciatingly unfunny minutes of family chaos, with Martin suffering every possible indignity and stain that can be inflicted on a good-guy daddy." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Cheaper By the Dozen 2 (2005) |
"The only ones who are likely to have any investment in all this would be the on-set caterers, who probably bought their own vacation homes after preparing meals for 24." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Cherish (2002) |
"[Taylor] takes us on a ride that's consistently surprising, easy to watch -- but, oh, so dumb." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 4/4 |
Chicago (2002) |
"Chicago is my kind of movie musical." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Chicken Little (2005) |
"The originality and brightness of Chicken Little resides in its characters, whose names may be familiar from children's books, but whose personalities are unique." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Children of Men (2006) |
"Fasten your seat belt; you're in for a bumpy, provocative ride." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
China: The Panda Adventure |
"[Young] occasionally mines the IMAX cliches ... but more often he delivers unforgettable images of China." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato |
Chocolat (2000) |
"Chocolat, like Hallstrom's adaptation of The Cider House Rules, succeeds primarily through its casting." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
Chopper (2001) |
"Compelling and funny even when it is indiscriminately splattering blood." |
Terry Lawson |