Splat 2/4 |
P.S. I Love You (2007) |
"Tone is everything in a movie like this, but writer-director Richard LaGravanese, working from a novel by Cecelia Ahern, can't decide between quirky indie dark comedy and laugh-a-minute TV sitcom." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
P2 (2007) |
"Even by the low standards of the horror subgenre playfully nicknamed "torture porn," P2 is scraping the bottom of the movie barrel." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
The Pacifier (2005) |
"The Pacifier falls into the same category as Are We There Yet? which gave Ice Cube a similar baby-sitting gig with equally dreadful results." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
The Page Turner (2007) |
"This must be what a French movie-of-the-week look like, deemed art here because of the subtitles." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paid in Full (2002) |
"Though filmed partly in Canada, Paid in Full has clever ways of capturing inner-city life during the Reagan years." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Painted Veil (2006) |
"This version has that element the previous films lacked: a true understanding of Maugham's belief that true love and purpose are inseparable." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Palindromes (2005) |
"A squirmer of a movie." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"It is an adult fairy tale that will lead grown-ups to eagerly await the day that their own children will be old enough to understand." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
Panic (2000) |
"Radiates quiet and calm, while simmering with tension both comic and tragic." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Panic Room (2002) |
"There is no shortage of twists and turns, but nearly all are easily maneuvered, and those that aren't only tend to test the traditional suspense-movie suspension of disbelief." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paper Clips (2004) |
"A moving experience." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paprika (2007) |
"Especially for fans who understand how movies are put together, Paprika grabs you from the get-go in a series of flowing images and transitions that follow the skewed logic of a dream, jumping from a three-ring circus to a swinging jungle vine." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paradise Now (2005) |
"A movie hardly lacking for anxiety and uneasiness." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paris, Je T'aime (2007) |
"Split evenly between the inspired segments and those that fall flat, this ambitious omnibus is still worth watching." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
Party Monster (2003) |
"There is nothing remotely affecting about Party Monster." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) |
"Few films have earned classic status more than Carl Dreyer's 1928 silent study of the 15th-Century teenager who helped lead French troops against the British only to be tried as a heretic." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"There are scenes in The Passion that will remain forever with those who see it." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Pathfinder (2007) |
"Though Pathfinder was completed before 300 and the equally artful and brutal Apocalypto, it can still do nothing but slog along in their footprints." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
Pay It Forward (2000) |
"The idea is simple, sweet and catchy, like a pop song, and Pay it Forward is almost as irresistible as Trevor's idea." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Paycheck (2003) |
"Makes little of its fascinating premise and seems to show the once-mighty Woo running out of breath and ideas." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Peaceful Warrior (2006) |
"A movie about spiritual awakening that plays like a spliced-together string of New Age fortune cookie messages." |
John Monaghan |
Splat |
Pearl Harbor (2001) |
"Most of it is just mediocre bull, the same sort of empty bluster we've come to expect from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay when the weather warms." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Perfect Crime (2005) |
"El Crimen Perfecto loses some steam in the final quarter, but still has enough style to make you want to see how it all shakes out." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
The Perfect Holiday (2007) |
"Dear Santa: Please leave better scripts under her Christmas tree." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
The Perfect Man (2005) |
"Add Heather Locklear to the list of strikingly beautiful actresses who somehow can't get a date on screen. That's the shaky premise of The Perfect Man." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
The Perfect Score (2004) |
"Simply uses the test as a reason to assemble six teen stereotypes." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Perfect Stranger (2007) |
"Everyone behaves like characters who are motivated not by emotion or logic, but the to and fro of a remote control or joystick." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) |
"Director Tom Tykwer can be commended for capturing so much of the book's mélange of pleasure, pain and longing for the impossible in Perfume, which is at least the most elegant movie yet made about the exploits of a serial killer." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Persepolis (2007) |
"More than just the first film in recent memory to be considered a must-see, Persepolis begs for a second viewing, if only to chart the way it so delicately weaves together the different stages of Marjane's life." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Personal Velocity (2002) |
"Redeemed by the fine performances and by the moody and effective digital photography of Ellen Kuras." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pete Seeger - The Power of Song (2007) |
"[Seeger] traversed decades, styles, even continents to bring the people's music to the people. This distinction is made with suitable and skillful great appreciation by director Jim Brown in Pete Seeger: The Power of Song." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Peter Pan (2003) |
"If this film is passed over for technical Academy Award nominations it would be a real oversight." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Phantom of the Opera (1943) |
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Splat 2/4 |
Phone Booth (2003) |
"Despite the film's blessed brevity -- it's only 75 minutes -- it seems as artificially padded as a Reno showgirl." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Pianist (2002) |
"The brilliance of The Pianist, a film that stands with any of the great dramas about the Holocaust, is not that its story is so unbelievable, but that it is so relentlessly matter-of-fact." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Piano Teacher (2002) |
"It is as unlikely that you have ever seen another movie like The Piano Teacher as it is that you will ever want to see another one." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2006) |
"What the movie lacks in acting and coherence, it more than makes up for through imagery." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Pieces of April (2003) |
"While pleasant enough, Pieces is more a sweet snack than a feast." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Piglet's Big Movie (2003) |
"With his typical charm and grace, Piglet proves again that great things can come in small packages." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Piñero (2001) |
"Bratt's performance is as steady and consistent as the film is frustrating." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Pink Panther (2006) |
"The Pink Panther, while hardly the disaster it might have been, renders the love as labored as the pronunciation." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Pinocchio (2002) |
"The idea of 49-year-old Roberto Benigni playing the wooden boy Pinocchio is scary enough. The reality of the new live-action Pinocchio he directed, cowrote and starred in borders on the grotesque." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) |
"I like my action movies complicated, but At World's End is less a complexity than it is a high seas bazaar with everyone and everything vying for attention. You end up going home with nothing to show for your adventure." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) |
"It's like an amusement park excursion where the entry fee is so high you feel compelled to stay until you get a stomachache to get your money's worth." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) |
"The most entertaining amusement of a summer divided between spectacles that force you to exercise your brain and spectacles that seem to suck the brain right out of your head." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
Pitch Black (2000) |
"Neither scary nor exciting nor much of anything, save eyestrain." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2007) |
"Plagues and Pleasures is simultaneously fun and creepy, best appreciated by those who enjoy similar profiles of Detroit's crumbling grandeur." |
John Monaghan |
Splat |
Planet of the Apes (2001) |
"Planet of the Apes isn't a real Burton movie; it's just another summer title in a monkey suit." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
The Pledge (2001) |
"A gripping, disturbing and deeply intelligent drama." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Pokemon - Heroes: The Movie (2003) |
"Parents, only you can prevent another Pokemon." |
John Monaghan |
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