Splat 1/4 |
Abandon (2002) |
"Abandon would be almost forgivable as the stupidest movie of the year if it weren't the most boring as well." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Accepted (2006) |
"Like a mediocre high school transcript, the movie has the foundations, but it skimps on the extracurriculars." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Acts of Worship (2001) |
"Has all the hallmarks of a high-quality independent production, where real-life texture and genuine emotion more than compensate for lack of polish." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adam & Steve (2006) |
"[Chester] and the goofy Gets make a likable comedy team." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
"If a lump of coal was once the symbol of a worthless holiday gift, it's now a ticket to Eight Crazy Nights." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Adrenaline Rush (2004) |
"Despite the lip service given to the nature of adrenaline and the risks we all take daily, the movie plays a lot like Jackass with a master's degree in science." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
After the Sunset (2004) |
"After the Sunset promises Hitchcock-style sophistication then delivers Heist Movies for Dummies instead." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Against the Ropes (2003) |
"While Ryan's performance has the proper blend of confidence and cleavage, the movie succeeds only in producing more fight flick cliches than a Rocky movie marathon." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
"So slick and preprogrammed that even its preteen audience may dismiss it as formula." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
"Director Kevin Allen offers a lot more gadgets in Cody 2, but surprisingly little in the way of memorable action." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
"Sure, there is an infectious goofiness in watching a grown man in a red robe and Hello Kitty breastplate rock out on an imaginary ax. But the gag is spread pretty thin." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
"Paul Simon and Bob Dylan. Elton John and Billy Joel. Alien vs. Predator is just another contrived combination of two former chartbusters who perform their greatest hits before coming together for a duet at the end." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
All About You (2001) |
"It deals with complex emotional issues on only the most superficial level." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"It's a beautifully realized and assured work packed with the kind of raw emotions that rarely make it to the screen." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
Alone in the Dark (2005) |
"It's tempting to call Alone in the Dark one of those movies so bad that it's almost good. But that might send the wrong signal to Hollywood." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"Young viewers will enjoy the slapstick, while parents will relate to Lee's amiable frustration as the trio's surrogate dad." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
America's Heart and Soul (2004) |
"Essentially a feature-length TV commercial featuring glossy images of people at work and at play." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
American Chai (2002) |
"[It's] difficult to get beyond the overall blandness of American Chai, despite its likable performances and refreshingly naive point of view." |
John Monaghan |
Splat |
American Outlaws (2001) |
"Not so much a real Western as an Old West-themed fashion show." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
The Amityville Horror (2005) |
"The latest in a long line of cheap horror film remakes that combine familiar names and stories with slash-cut editing and computer-generated effects." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) |
"Director Dwight Little and a laundry list of writers (among them Michigan-born Jim Cash) simply deliver a generic hungry snake movie, and on those terms, Anacondas can be kind of fun." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Annapolis (2006) |
"Wobbles unsteadily between a military recruitment vehicle and an underdog boxing picture." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Another Road Home (2005) |
"Elon uses quiet and silence to great effect." |
John Monaghan |
Splat |
Antitrust (2001) |
"The movie not only revolves around computers, it looks like it was directed by them as well." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007) |
"The movie is warped, to be sure, but even fans will have to admit that the laughs are stretched pretty thin over nearly 90 minutes." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Aquamarine (2006) |
"If there was more content in the Alice Hoffman book on which it is based, the screenwriters keep it effectively submerged." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
The Architect (2006) |
"Despite his obvious earnestness, first-time director and cowriter Matt Tauber is ill equipped to mine emotions this complex." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Are We Done Yet? (2007) |
"The new movie is good-natured and sometimes funny. It also doesn't make a lick of sense." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 1/4 |
Are We There Yet? (2005) |
"Worse than the crude humor is the movie's forced sentiment." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 4/4 |
Army of Shadows (1969) |
"Place it squarely in the category of overlooked gems." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Around the World in 80 Days (2004) |
"Despite all the audience-pleasing laughs and derring-do, it fails to take us anywhere we haven't been before." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
Arthur and the Invisibles (2007) |
"Too eccentric for kids, too silly for everyone else, it floats in a Neverland of breathtaking visuals in service of a story that pilfers everything (and I mean everything) from the Arthur legends to last summer's The Ant Bully." |
John Monaghan |
Splat 2/4 |
At Last (2005) |
"At Last would work a lot better with genuine chemistry between the leads, and maybe a bit more humor." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
ATL (2006) |
"ATL may fail to wow on the skate floor, but it still makes decent melodrama." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Aura (2006) |
"The voyeuristic focus and camera acrobatics may remind you of Hitchcock, but The Aura is also highly original." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Autumn Spring (2003) |
"Worth a look for anyone in the mood for a story about an old man who lives by Dylan Thomas' advice about not going gently into the night." |
John Monaghan |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"Although the story is greatly enhanced by the mesmerizing visual design, it is also involving because of the duplicity and duality of the characters." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"The boldest go-for-broke film released by a Hollywood studio since Apocalypse Now." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
About a Boy (2002) |
"Some credit for that deservedly goes to Grant. To his credit, he doesn't stoop to his puppy-dog pander." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"There is a casual courage and dignity, and no small amount of obliviousness, in Nicholson's Schmidt that will remind many younger people of their parents, and many older people of their brothers and friends -- and themselves." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"Most of the songs are performed in such saccharine style and staged so literally that they almost seem like they belong in a Broadway show. That's a very bad thing." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Adaptation (2002) |
"It's the most original, exhilarating and hilarious movie of the year." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato |
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) |
"This may be the funniest, most faithful adaptation of any classic television series ever." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
"It's not just that this fable about a picked-on kid whose dreams come true is an excruciatingly dumb kids' movie. It's that it returns us to the bad old days of 3D, when the images were rendered too murky to appreciate." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat |
The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
"Little more than sexed-up soap opera in powdered wigs." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
After Innocence (2005) |
"After Innocence is, without making it overly obvious, anti-death penalty on the grounds that a just society cannot afford to make any mistakes that we cannot attempt to rectify." |
Terry Lawson |
Tomato 3/4 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"Mikkelsen, Lassgard, Knudsen and Christensen seem to burrow into the deepest parts of their hearts and souls to turn the stuff of soap opera into a search for the real self." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"Akeelah and the Bee is not short on inspiration, emotion and uplift, but would go down better without all the refined sugar." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 2/4 |
The Alamo (2004) |
"An ambitious mix of history lesson, politically correct speculation, character sketches of American icons and pretty scenery, but it winds up without much of a point of view." |
Terry Lawson |
Splat 1/4 |
Alex and Emma (2003) |
"You'll leave Alex and Emma feeling as if you've spent a couple of decades interned in a gulag." |
Terry Lawson |
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