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Critics / Publications / Detroit Free Press

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Authors
    • Kelley L. Carter
    • Terry Erb
    • Julie Hinds
    • Terry Lawson
    • John Monaghan

Detroit Free Press

  
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Source Table
Rating Title Year Quote Author

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!"

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

  
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