Tomato C+ |
Cabin Fever (2003) |
"In an era of campy horror movies, it's a pleasure to see one that's the real thing." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"Not the one-joke affair you might have expected from the trailer but a warmhearted look at women who are fine with 1950's-type coyness." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Callas Forever (2004) |
"A handsomely mounted production that Maria Callas may or may not have liked, given her volatire temperament." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
The Camden 28 (2007) |
"While no one will mistake director Anthony Giacchino for Michael Moore, the documentarian unfolds the drama of the arrest and eventual not guilty verdict of 28 Vietnam War protesters in 1971." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Camp (2003) |
"If you liked 'Fame,' you'll find 'Camp' hugely entertaining." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
El Cantante (2007) |
"While the story is a composite of cliches, the salsa is grand--as is the chemistry between J Lo and her real-life husband, Marc Anthony." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Cape Of Good Hope (2005) |
"Fine ensemble acting, heartwarming script." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) |
"If Steven Spielberg is our country's best dramatic filmmaker, then surely Michael Moore is our best documentarian--which he proves in this sometimes hilariously entertaining broadside against the capitalist system." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) |
"Not great, but you can enjoy the beauty of a Greek island without suffering its August heat." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"Crime story and family drama are intricately woven together in this unusual tale of a household in a well-to-do suburb." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
Caramel (2008) |
"Director and principal performer Nadine Labaki juggles a series of romances but the love that shines through the most is her passion for her city of Beirut." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
Carandiru (2004) |
"Taut prison drama with a smashing climax." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 8/10 |
Carla's Song (1998) |
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Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
Carnage (2003) |
"Visually a stunner; less successful on a metaphoric level." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Splat C- |
Cars (2006) |
"As interesting as a ten-hour drive around Passaic, New Jersey." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Casa de los Babys (2003) |
"A comical & penetrating look at a diverse group of American women who want to adopt South American bebes." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
Casanova (2005) |
"Has the best quote of the year: 'Well, she's hardly a novice!'" |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"This Bond is less urbane and the screenplay is short on wit:but the stunning physical action makes up for these flaws." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Cassandra's Dream (2008) |
"A Scottish actor struggles with an Irish thesp to maintain a lower-middle-class London accent but Woody Allen succeeds in maintaining tension in mining melodrama territory." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 9/10 |
Cast Away (2000) |
"Unusual and remarkable." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Castle (1997) |
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Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Cat's Meow (2002) |
"An intense, convincing and gorgeous fictionalized recreation of a murder that took place aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Catch a Fire (2006) |
"A feelgood movie based closely on actual events in SouthAfrica's struggle for freedom from the Boer government." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"Spielberg winningly recaptures the capers of a Butch-Cassidy-style rogue whose charm earns him audience smiles." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato A- |
Caterina in the Big City (2005) |
"A young woman comes of age with the insight that two politicians ostensibly on different sides can embrace each other because at base, they're both insincere." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B- |
Catwoman (2004) |
"Entertaining, if not the cat's meow." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Caveman's Valentine (2001) |
"Mesmerizing is the word to describe Samuel L. Jackson's performance." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
Cavite (2006) |
"Shows how a movie with no budget can still thrill." |
Harvey S. Karten |
- |
The Celebration (1998) |
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Harvey S. Karten |
Splat 7/10 |
The Cell (2000) |
"While the optics are indeed bold and imaginative, they are overdone and what's more, Vincent D'Onofrio ... is not at all frightening this time around." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Cellular (2004) |
"A solid combination of tension and comic relief." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato |
The Center of the World (2001) |
"We in the audience don't lose interest, not if we have normal libidos at any rate and not if we have the capacity to care about two people who could ... be any of us!" |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 8/10 |
Center Stage (2000) |
"What a splendid diversion is Center
Stage, a Broadway musical splashed across the big screen." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 8/10 |
Central Station (1998) |
"A poignant road movie." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Chalk (2007) |
"If you're a high school teacher, you might find the funniest scenes painful to watch." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Chambermaid on the Titanic (1998) |
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Harvey S. Karten |
Splat C |
Chandni Chowk to China (2009) |
"Spectacular stunts and special effects cannot save this fusion of Indian and Chinese culture from coming across as a movie with little originality or wit." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato A- |
Changeling (2008) |
"A powerful, epic tale that marries feminism to political reform." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Changing Lanes (2002) |
"A provocative and engaging morality tale of the sort we're not accustomed to seeing at the local multiplex." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Splat C |
Changing Times (2006) |
"Considering the possibilities for passion, the pic comes across as arid as the Moroccan desert." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 3/4 |
Chaos (2003) |
"In a picture without a single sympathetic male character, Coline Serreau bitingly chastises the cultures of North Africa and her own France." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Splat C |
Chaos Theory (2008) |
"A dated, unfunny sex comedy." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 8/10 |
Character (1997) |
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Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 8/10 |
Character (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato A- |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"Colorful in both ambience and acting." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato A- |
Charlie Bartlett (2007) |
"The movie is performed so well that you come away thinking that high school years are both the worst time of one's life and the most joyful." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"Some humor, specifically the title character's womanizing, is dated and no longer shocking. Otherwise, the movie is political satire light and amusing enough." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) |
"These angels don't need wings to fly." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin (2004) |
"A delightful doc that minimizes talking heads in favor of a treasure trove of excerpts from Chaplin films." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Splat 2/4 |
Charlotte Gray (2001) |
"An amateurishly-directed war story with one of the most ludicrous finales of any picture of this genre." |
Harvey S. Karten |
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