Tomato 3/4 |
Eagle Vs. Shark (2007) |
"So the only real argument I can make for Eagle vs. Shark, a stupid-absurdist comedy from New Zealand, is that I laughed a lot, often despite myself, and that while I might not be able to wholly justify it, I can mount a questionable defense." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Eastern Promises (2007) |
"Eastern Promises is a straightforward, straight-up Russian gangster movie whose primary achievement is making the Russian gangster underworld feel exotic and menacing." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Eating Out (2005) |
"It's cute enough but fails to deliver." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Edukators (2005) |
"Intelligent, entertaining and, yes, educational as it looks at the nature of political activism now and then." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Edvard Munch (1976) |
"There have been countless film biographies of famous artists, but only a few can be considered major works in their own right. Place Edvard Munch at the top of the list." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Eight Below (2006) |
"It's difficult to gauge who gets stranded more in Eight Below: the team of sled dogs left at the bottom of the world or audience members forced to sludge through two hours of very human melodrama to see them reunited with their handler." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Elektra (2005) |
"Elektra the movie is a lot like Elektra the assassin. It executes its mission with considerable precision but never feels truly alive." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Elephant (2003) |
"Bold and impressionistic." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 2/4 |
Elf (2003) |
"Short and sweet." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) |
"What Elizabeth: The Golden Age finally lacks is something its subject never lacked: a sense of majesty." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Elizabethtown (2005) |
"Cameron Crowe's romantic comedy Elizabethtown is a mess, but it's such an amiable, bighearted mess that it manages to remain entertaining even as it's going hopelessly astray." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Ella Enchanted (2004) |
"A nightmarish cross between prime-time WB and a renaissance festival." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Elling (2002) |
"It's thoroughly entertaining and nonpatronizing, and occasionally even insightful." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Emperor's Club (2002) |
"Thinking about what the film might have been makes it almost impossible to enjoy the film that is." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
The Emperor's New Clothes (2002) |
"[Holm] saves this film time and again with an eagle's gaze that puts you on alert, prompting you to sit up a little straighter in that theater seat." |
John Monaghan |
Splat |
The Emperor's New Groove (2000) |
"The first Disney animated movie since The Little Mermaid that amounts to nothing more than a throwaway." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Empire (2002) |
"You never believe for a minute that the character actor and comedian from Moulin Rouge and Summer of Sam is actually a once-ruthless drug dealer trying to go straight." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
Employee of the Month (2006) |
"For a movie about taking pride in your work, Employee of the Month is on a comedy coffee break." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Enchanted (2007) |
"What could have been an epic Disney misfire is saved by the charming Adams." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones (2004) |
"Engaging documentary." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
End of the Spear (2006) |
"The production is sometimes so handsome, the scenery so compelling, that you almost forget about the melodramatic missteps and the bad wigs." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato |
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2001) |
"Those who see Endurance, however, are not likely soon to forget what they see, even if they have some difficulty imagining how it could be possibly be true." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Enduring Love (2004) |
"Though Ifans has the splashier role, Craig, last seen in Michell's previous film, 2003's equally provocative The Mother, is outstanding as a man whose philosophy cannot be reconciled with his feelings." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
Enemy at the Gates (2001) |
"If too much of Enemy of the Gates is melodramatic hokum, it is redeemed by the sniper standoffs, which are models of suspense." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Enigma (2002) |
"If the movie's plot is a rare combination of impenetrable and inconsequential, it has been laid out compellingly by director Michael Apted." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Enough (2002) |
"The movie does some traveling of its own: from sort of stupid to simply ludicrous." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 4/4 |
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) |
"Allow yourself the pleasure of being thoroughly entertained while being equally outraged by this movie." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Envy (2004) |
"A movie desperate for laughs." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Equilibrium (2002) |
"If there was a solitary new idea or actual emotion in Equilibrium, the Prozium must have rendered me oblivious." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Eragon (2006) |
"For all the promise of breathing fire and clashing swords, Eragon doesn't generate any real heat." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato |
Erin Brockovich (2000) |
"Involving and entertaining." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) |
"What's lacking is what the movie is ostensibly about: the heart that so often leads us to fall in love with the wrong people at the wrong time." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
Eureka (2001) |
"Might have made a good two-hour movie, but nearly every shot is twice as long as needed." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Eurotrip (2004) |
"Road Trip was one of the more entertaining of the post-American Pie gross-out comedies, but all Eurotrip really has in common with it is a producer and the requisite amount of semi-naked babes." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Evan Almighty (2007) |
"[Kids] will enjoy the animal antics best, especially when the critters start doing their part to help build the ark. Parents will have to settle for the few inspired bits by Carell, stuck with the Job-like task of keeping this leaky bucket afloat." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Evelyn (2002) |
"There is enough good and good-spirited about Evelyn -- beginning with the performances by Brosnan and Vavasseur -- to forgive its more treacly moments." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Evergreen (2004) |
"The movie appears to be aimed at thoughtful teenagers and indie film fans, but they'll be the first to recognize that they've seen this story done better on television." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Everyone's Hero (2006) |
"A likable, lumbering, computer-animated children's movie set during the Depression that is more entertaining than it has any right to be." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Everything is Illuminated (2005) |
"Schreiber's streamlined version may be only a sliver of the whole, but it's a thoroughly entertaining and very rewarding piece of a very tasty pie." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Ex (2007) |
"It's a comedy with a few good gags, a completely wasted cast and all the signs of a project that has undergone unnecessary emergency surgery." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) |
"Less talk. More head spinning. These are the charges against The Exorcism of Emily Rose, which delivers some creepy moments but only after endless scenes of courtroom wrangling." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Experiment (2002) |
"Das Experiment may make an obvious point, but it's still a relevant one." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Eye (2003) |
"An atmospheric and cleverly executed nail-biter." |
John Monaghan |
Splat |
Eye of the Beholder (1999) |
"Eye of the Beholder is like one of those optical cartoons that were so popular a half-decade back; the more we concentrate, the less we see." |
Terry Lawson |
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