Racing Stripes (2005)

"Even by the dubious standards of talking animal movies, this one is routine."

Raise Your Voice (2004)

"Like most performers who chuck TV fame for the big screen, [Duff] follows one grim vehicle (A Cinderella Story) with this even worse one just a few months later."

Raising Victor Vargas (2003)

"It is throughly involving, depicting the real and recognizable frustrations of teenagers and the grown-ups who have responsibility for them."

Rat Race (2001)

"Hollywood Squares remake of Mad World."

Ray (2004)

"It's the kind of movie in which every song or musical breakthrough has a dramatic inspiration drawn from a real-life experience, designed to make us believe a life can be analyzed through its creative expressions and successes."

Rebound (2005)

"It might as well be called refried, repeat, reworked, redone, redux, remade, regurgitated and however many other 're' terms you can come up with to describe a movie that can't be bothered to search for a single new idea."

The Reckoning (2004)

"A thoughtful, clever and well-acted diversion."

Red Dragon (2002)

"If you grew up with the original, it will remain your favorite for sentimental reasons, but if you come to the new version unbiased, it seems every bit as good."

Red Lights (2004)

"The novel from which writer-director Cedric Kahn adapted Red Lights was, ironically, set in the United States over an arid Labor day weekend. Kahn's update may be more air-conditioned, but it's just as claustrophobic, creepy and allegorical."

Redacted (2007)

"It is simply so amateurish and overacted that it makes it impossible to become invested in the documentary-like reality De Palma hopes to achieve."

Reign of Fire (2002)

"Reign of Fire is hardly the most original fantasy film ever made -- beyond Road Warrior, it owes enormous debts to Aliens and every previous dragon drama -- but that barely makes it any less entertaining."

Remember the Titans (2000)

"Director Yakin pulls all the right strings."

Rendition (2007)

"A movie whose hot-button political issues already seem too warmed and worried over."

Rent (2005)

"Too often seems like a late-season American Idol episode that's all Abdul encouragement without any Simon snarkiness."

Requiem for a Dream (2000)

"Conveys, visually, sonically and dramatically, the siren call of addiction like no other movie has."

Resident Evil (2002)

"Even in the dubious genre of movies based on video games, Resident Evil is an abomination."

Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)

"More of the same game."

Resurrecting the Champ (2007)

"In Lurie's Resurrecting the Champ, about the only cliché missing is somebody barking 'Get me rewrite!' into a Bakelite pay phone."

Return to Never Land (2002)

"A bland animated sequel that hardly seems worth the effort."

Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (2006)

"A father takes a spiritual journey from Japan to China to help mend a decades-long rift between himself and his dying son. The lessons learned en route are as profound as they are simple."

Riding in Cars with Boys (2001)

"There is a complex heroine in here somewhere, but Barrymore and director Penny Marshall are so intent on making her likable that the movie flounders in cheap pathos."

The Ring Two (2005)

"After seeing The Ring Two, you wonder if 90 minutes of skin-tingling, dream-style imagery wouldn't be preferable to the narrative here."

Rize (2005)

"Rize sees LaChapelle turning into a historian-sociologist who feels excitement and wants to share it."

Road to Perdition (2002)

"Mendes ... proves that American Beauty was no fluke, only the first stop on a cinematic journey of intelligent entertainment that should involve us for years to come."

Rock Star (2001)

"Herek ... gets an excellent performance from Wahlberg."