Tomato 3/4 |
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006) |
"Entertaining, and a history lesson in hysteria (both on the side of Nixon and the protest movement) for people who were not there." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
Ultraviolet (2006) |
"The special effects simply thrust Ultraviolet in an Xbox 360 for action set-pieces that are kinetic and colorful but surprisingly unexciting. Do we really care if she dies when she’s just going to be regenerated anyway?" |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Unaccompanied Minors (2006) |
"Though [director] Feig has said he was aiming for the spirit of films by John Landis (Animal House), Unaccompanied Minors more closely resembles the lesser movies of director-producer John Hughes." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
Unbreakable (2000) |
"As slack and languid as The Sixth Sense was tense and deliberate." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004) |
"Uncovered has no interest in explaining the Bush administration's case for war for them: This is the prosecution's argument, and it is extremely well-made." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Undead (2005) |
"The film's genre-merging cleverness works against it, and releasing it in the wake of George Romero's zombie knockout Land of the Dead invites comparisons that may be unfair but inevitable." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Under the Skin of the City (2003) |
"Sometimes fuzzy in structure, the movie is also uncompromisingly realistic, taking us into Tehran offices and factories and onto construction sites." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) |
"It may be a fairy tale, but it's one worth believing in." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Underclassman (2005) |
"Underclassman is squarely aimed at a teen audience, but will be best appreciated by those who have never seen a TV cop show or, better yet, never attended school." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Undercover Brother (2002) |
"Feels like one of those movies lifted from a Saturday Night Live skit and then stretched way thin." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Underdog (2007) |
"Serious movie standards aren't necessarily required in an entertainment like Underdog. Still, as with most movies, it's frustrating to watch Hollywood undercut the intelligence of its target audience." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 2/4 |
Undertow (2004) |
"Undertow, which is well worth seeing for the performances by Bell and Lucas, is obviously a transitional film, but where Green wants to go remains unclear." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Underworld (2003) |
"Rather than a clever horror hybrid, the movie spends most of its energy channeling The Matrix." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Undiscovered (2005) |
"Although it's all but forgotten before the fade-out, you don't rush to turn it off, either." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Undisputed (2002) |
"After a string of mediocre summer B movies like XXX and Blue Crush masquerading as big deals, it's refreshing to see an action-drama that doesn't pretend to be anything other than what it is." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Unfaithful (2002) |
"Diane Lane's performance in Unfaithful is so good we can only wish it were in a movie that deserved it." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
An Unfinished Life (2005) |
"There is never much doubt how An Unfinished Life will finish, yet it is kept dramatically and emotionally involving by the actors, who approach the characters and the story honestly and sincerely." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
The United States of Leland (2004) |
"It simply mopes along to one of those joyless alt-rock soundtracks that have thankfully started to fall out of fashion since the film was produced, leaving vague unpleasantness in its wake." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
Universal Soldier: The Return (1999) |
"Further proof that the international star once destined to challenge Schwarzenegger and Stallone at the box office is again stuck scraping the bottom of the action-movie barrel." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Unknown White Male (2005) |
"The engrossing and irresistible documentary Unknown White Male is apparently a true-life tale of mystery and suspense." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Unleashed (2005) |
"It was only after [Li] came to America to do his high-flying thing that he was stripped of his personality. Here he gets stripped of his dignity as well." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
An Unreasonable Man (2007) |
"It can't help but remind us that the man Nader prevented from becoming president has since been more instrumental in the war on environmental pollution than any other public figure. Irony abounds." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Untold Story of Emmet Louis Till (2005) |
"Beauchamp, who worked on his film for nine years, dutifully reinterviews the surviving witnesses, and more effectively than any previous documentary or return look at the case, re-creates the atmosphere of a 1950s Mississippi." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Upside of Anger (2005) |
"Allen, who is without doubt one of the best actors of her era, gets to go places she has never before gone, while Costner gets to remind us exactly what it was we were drawn to in Bull Durham." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Uptown Girls (2003) |
"Gives chick flicks a bad name." |
John Monaghan |
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