Splat 2/4 |
I Am David (2004) |
"Feig's neorealist approach to the look of the film might work better if he didn't fill it with so many coincidences and melodramatic flourishes." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
I Am Legend (2007) |
"All the effort that went into the spectacle of destroying Manhattan in flashbacks could have been better spent on developing the claustrophobic, creepy present." |
John Monaghan |
Splat |
I Am Sam (2002) |
"Wears its heart on its sleeve but keeps its brains in its pocket." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002) |
"Even if you don't know the band or the album's songs by heart, you will enjoy seeing how both evolve, and you will also learn a good deal about the state of the music business in the 21st Century." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
I Capture the Castle (2003) |
"Dollops on the usual romantic, family and class conflicts with a very heavy ladle, which pretty much smothers the whimsical mood Fywell strains so hard to attain." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
I Dreamed of Africa (2000) |
"Beautiful to look upon and handsomely produced without ever being compelling." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"You have to give everyone involved credit for mounting a joke that, if not of Dadaist proportions, should prove pretty funny to everyone except the rubes who wander in expecting to see something they can comprehend." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
I Know Who Killed Me (2007) |
"A movie as incomprehensible as it exploitive. It winds its way to a climax that is almost stunning in its stupidity." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
I Like Killing Flies (2006) |
"The security-camera visuals and intrusive button microphone jutting into the frame give the movie an appealing fly-on-the-wall quality, successfully capturing the old Shopsin's experience for posterity." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007) |
"The sad thing is that this could have been really good." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
I Spy (2002) |
"If you're looking for nostalgia, you're in the wrong place." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
I Think I Love My Wife (2007) |
"This film has no more insight, and less originality, than [Rock's] completely gag-driven comedy." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2007) |
"Cheese is such a small, endearing and well-observed piece -- sort of Curb Your Enthusiasm without the excruciating bits." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
I'll Be Home For Christmas (1998) |
"Funny only in your dreams!" |
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Splat 2/4 |
I'll Believe You (2007) |
"Cult movies have been made with a lot less, but this one, harmless enough, doesn't have enough originality or personality to get it off the ground." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004) |
"Stylish as it may be, it's as though someone has already remade Get Carter badly and Hodges is set on showing how it should have been done." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
I'm Not Scared (2004) |
"An Italian drama that restores the overused phrase 'loss of innocence' to something meaningful and memorable." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
I'm Not There (2007) |
"It willfully denies one of the sacred tenets of cinematic storytelling, that every movie -- comedy, romance or biography -- is actually a mystery, one the audience expects to see solved." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
I, Robot (2004) |
"Director Alex Proyas lays on the Tomorrowland awe of shiny metallics, techno-worship and fascist efficiency that make the future look like a nice place to visit." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 2/4 |
Ice Age (2002) |
"Although we eventually warm up to the amiable Ice Age, we still feel as if we're watching Shrek on Ice, or Mastodons, Inc., so formulaic is the storytelling." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) |
"There's something disheartening about the way the writers and director have to give so much of the dialogue double meaning, all literal for the kiddies and full of double-entendres and pop culture references for the parents." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Ice Harvest (2005) |
"... Ice Harvest does not take itself seriously and at least provides an amusing respite from the forced cheeriness of the season." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Ice Princess (2005) |
"Likable but poorly crafted." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
Identity (2003) |
"80 minutes of cliches, overacting and hackneyed coincidences." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
Idle Hands (1999) |
"A teen comedy even more wasted than its bleary-eyed heroes." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Idlewild (2006) |
"Those who do not succumb to the movie's fantasy will dismiss it as an extended music video. That's not an unfair criticism, but it doesn't make the film any less enjoyable." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Igby Goes Down (2002) |
"The kid is a bit of a twit." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Illegal Tender (2007) |
"A cohesive story is an afterthought in yet another gangster movie that pretends to denounce violence and materialism while so obviously reveling in it." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Illusionist (2006) |
"Underneath its hocus-pocus is a compelling story, very well told." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Imaginary Heroes (2004) |
"Imaginary Heroes mines the suburban tragedy of Ordinary People, The Ice Storm and American Beauty, but with only a quarter of the insight." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
Imagine Me & You (2006) |
"Parker never gets in hugging distance of the clever wittiness of Love Actually, and the screenplay makes its featherweight American predecessor Kissing Jessica Stein seem like Edward Albee." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Importance of Being Earnest (2002) |
"Parker dams the flow of Wilde's brilliant comic revelations and reversals with contrived visuals." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
Impostor (2001) |
"Looks like a nifty little sci-fi film noir but is actually a noisy mess." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 4/4 |
In America (2003) |
"An achingly intimate and beautifully observed account of the immigrant experience." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
The In Crowd (2000) |
"So generic are the actors that you'll likely have trouble telling the dark-haired, handsome guys apart." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
In Good Company (2004) |
"It is clever and thoughtful and has the added benefit of being about people you may recognize as fellow wage earners, for better or worse." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
In Her Shoes (2005) |
"It would be a terrible shame if half the population didn't see it because the film was labeled unjustly." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
In My Country (2005) |
"Ostensibly about the aftermath of apartheid, but the pain of a people serves only as a backdrop for the most contrived of love stories." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
In Praise of Love (2001) |
"Godard ceased being a voice in the wilderness and became a voice in the wind, howling against demons that refused even to acknowledge his protests." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
In the Bedroom (2001) |
"We sense from its opening minutes that we are in the hands of accomplished storytellers." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
In the Cut (2003) |
"More of a curiosity than a full-fledged movie." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
In the Land of Women (2007) |
"A sincere, smart and modest movie." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
In the Shadow of the Moon (2007) |
"It's a well-timed tribute to American initiative and courage..." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
In the Valley of Elah (2007) |
"Tommy Lee Jones gives such an amazingly nuanced, judicious, soulful and selfless performance as a military man distraught over the death of his soldier son in In the Valley of Elah that one can only wish it was in a movie that had the same virtues." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
In This World (2003) |
"Passionate but precise filmmaking that reduces impossibly enormous concepts to intimate, personal drama." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
The In-Laws (2003) |
"Everyone involved with this new version, which originally sought to avoid comparisons by calling itself The Wedding Party, is at pains to point out that their movie is only inspired by the original. But it doesn't seem very inspired at all." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) |
"Communicates the dangers of ignoring global warning with credible urgency in a way news coverage of conferences and TV news segments have never been able to do." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Incredibles (2004) |
"Another hip-but- wholesome animated family comedy from Hollywood superhero Pixar." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Independent (2001) |
"While [Stiller] and everyone else look like they're having a great time working on a shoestring, their movie too often retells the same joke." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Infamous (2006) |
"McGrath focuses on Capote's own divided soul, where massive insecurity co-exists with great courage." |
Terry Lawson |