Tomato 3/4 |
The Machinist (2004) |
"It is well worth enduring for the performance of Bale." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) |
"Mad Hot Ballroom had me at '... and go!'" |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Madagascar (2005) |
"Madagascar makes you long for a time when story was more important than cleverness; before having celebrities voicing the characters was a marketing requisite; before you needed to be thoroughly immersed in pop culture to get the gags." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
Made (2001) |
"If there is a more annoying performance than Vaughn's in a movie this year, it can only mean the real Jerry Lewis has made a comeback." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Made-Up (2004) |
"A lot like Tammy Faye Bakker; you just know it has good intentions, but it ends up as a smeary facsimile of what it wants to be." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Magdalene Sisters (2003) |
"A story like this one could easily succumb to outraged melodrama, but not only does Mullan keep the drama human-sized, he even leavens it with the humor that one can easily believe had to be summoned to endure such misguided and malicious treatment." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Magic Flute (1975) |
"Using the opera's timeless whimsy and inventiveness, the movie replicates a performance on the stage that is so good that it almost makes you forget the participants' ABBA-like hairstyles." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Magician (1958) |
"The movie has elements of Gothic horror and philosophy, along with lusty, low comedy rolls." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005) |
"It cleverly re-creates what it must have felt like to walk in the astronauts' weighted boots." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Maid in Manhattan (2002) |
"A textbook example of light holiday fare, expect it to stick with you at least as long as one of J.Lo's marriages." |
John Monaghan |
Splat |
The Majestic (2001) |
"Cloying and sticky, like the jujubes sold at the baroque movie theater that gives the film its name." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
Maléna (2000) |
"Any moral lesson the film pretends to hold is as muddled as it is misguided." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Malevolence (2004) |
"Diehard horror fans may want to weigh in. The rest can see it soon at the video store." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Malibu's Most Wanted (2003) |
"The movie sets up some potentially hilarious scenes, including an onstage rap contest straight out of 8 Mile, but the payoff falls flatter than one of B-Rad's rhymes." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Mambo Italiano (2003) |
"It may make you smile, but not enough to forget how much of this you've seen before." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
The Man (2005) |
"The Man is so slapdash that two major characters are revealed to be the same person, a move prompted more by budgetary concerns than clever scripting." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
A Man Apart (2003) |
"Should have been driven straight to video." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Man of the Year (2006) |
"No one will mistake Man of the Year for movie of the year, but it says some things worth being said without the usual straight face." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Man on Fire (2004) |
"Easily the best of the recent spate of cynical and violent revenge/vigilante dramas." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Man on the Train (2003) |
"The movie has the kind of texture and depth that will make true movie-lovers sigh with the pure cinematic, human grace of it all." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) |
"You may be surprised at how long The Man Who Wasn't There sticks around, lingering in the mind long after everyone has met his or her inevitable fate." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Man With The Screaming Brain (2005) |
"The image of Campbell slapping himself to the ground is the only gag that the movie doesn't beat to death." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) |
"As much as I love Sinatra and Harvey, I'll argue that Washington and Schreiber are more than up to the challenge, while Streep, who says she has never seen the Frankenheimer movie, has to be commended for taking the job at all." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Manda Bala (2007) |
"With a keen eye for wide-screen imagery, Kohn captures the personalities of his interview subjects." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
Manderlay (2006) |
"If von Trier can't be bothered to get out more, he should at least consider picking up a book or just using some real imagination." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Manic (2003) |
"Yes, there are the usual lessons learned, but the movie also speaks the truth about kids who need to lash out but only end up harming each other and themselves." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Manson Family (2004) |
"The Manson Family is an undeniable accomplishment, not only for Van Bebber's temerity but for his unapologetic insistence on telling this lurid tale in the lurid style he believed it deserved." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
March of the Penguins (2005) |
"Even if you have somehow managed to resist penguin charm or never given them a second thought, March will leave you amazed at the nobility of the human -- I mean, animal -- spirit." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Marie Antoinette (2006) |
"Although it is purposely devoid of substance, it is still devoid of substance." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Marine (2006) |
"These guys don't much about making movies, but they know how to stage a smack down." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Martian Child (2007) |
"The movie can also be accused of its own sugar overdose as director Menno Meyjes piles on every clichéd situation." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Martin & Orloff |
"One of the few films you could call wildly uneven and the filmmakers would still consider it a compliment." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Martin Lawrence Live - Runteldat (2002) |
"The difference between Pryor and Lawrence, aside from the obvious fact that Pryor was a comic genius, is that Pryor never put the blame for his bad publicity on the media." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Masculin Feminin (1966) |
"May not have aged any better than Godard's other films of the period, but that doesn't mean Paul and company don't continue to ask questions and spout the opinions of the newly enlightened." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Masked and Anonymous (2003) |
"A fascinating mess." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
"A rousing, intense and thoroughly convincing adventure yarn that may have even the most committed landlubber longing for a ship and a star to sail her by." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
The Master of Disguise (2002) |
"A painfully unfunny mess." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Matador (2005) |
"This comedy is as dark as it is oddly unpredictable -- and sporadically hilarious." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Match Point (2005) |
"Match Point, a film that makes us examine well-considered questions in new light, is what Woody Allen sees when he gets out of his comfort zone, we can only hope he sees the benefit of travel." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Matchstick Men (2003) |
"[An] engaging, funny and touching film." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Material Girls (2006) |
"Nonsensical from the get-go, the girls’ fish-out-of-water routine grows interminable." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) |
"Reloaded might not have the power to change the way you see the world, but it just may change the way you look at movies." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Matrix Revolutions (2003) |
"The Matrix Revolutions is not a bad movie. It's just a maddening one." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Max (2002) |
"One of the most intriguing and odd 'what if' movies ever conceived." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
Max Keeble's Big Move (2001) |
"It's as ugly and stupid as the kid is cute and resourceful." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2007) |
"Maxed Out exposes the credit card sham for what it is, and fingers the hustlers who perpetuate it." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003) |
"A sad little movie about a sad little man whom time has passed by." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
"Easily the year's most imaginative movie." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Me Without You (2002) |
"It is to Goldbacher's credit that the film, while hardly short on confrontation, never resorts to one of those melodramatic laundry-airings in which all resentments and betrayals can be traced back to a singular incident and healed with a hug." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
Me, You, Them (2001) |
"So generally downbeat that it's difficult to stay awake, let alone laugh, cry, or cheer." |
John Monaghan |
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