Tomato |
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
"Spielberg's movie effectively shows adults a world as seen from the point of view of a excited boy." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 8/10 |
Earth (1999) |
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Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Earth (2009) |
"A well-made doc that will prompt the viewer to think, 'Is a vulnerable animal better off safe in a zoo or with risks in the jungle?'" |
Harvey S. Karten |
Splat C+ |
Earth Days (2009) |
"A well-meaning film about environmentalism is marred by pounding music and a lack of humor." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 8/10 |
East Is East (1999) |
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Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 8/10 |
East-West (1999) |
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Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Eastern Promises (2007) |
"Cronenberg comes through once again with a stylized, original look at relationships within a mafia family and between its driver and a nurturing woman." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Easy (2003) |
"A date movie whose unresolved conflicts allows us in the audience to discuss possible scenarios for the future." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Easy Virtue (2009) |
"This cinematic opening of Noel Coward's play should inspire Broadway and Hollywood alike to tackle some more of the playwright's output." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Eat This New York (2002) |
"Entrepreneurs are what the U.S. is all about: This doc provides a nice take on what it takes to risk all for a business vision." |
Harvey S. Karten |
- |
Eden (1997) |
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Harvey S. Karten |
- |
The Edge (1997) |
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Harvey S. Karten |
Splat C |
The Edge of Love (2009) |
"Striking performances from Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller fail to compensate for the film's lack of narrative clarity." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B- |
Edmond (2006) |
"The title character, played with bravura by William H. Macy, leads us down the path to hell in an absorbing but ultimately sophomoric drama." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 7/10 |
EdTV (1999) |
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Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato A- |
The Edukators (2005) |
"Politically charged yet immensely funny and enjoyable." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 9/10 |
The Eel (1997) |
"Effectively emotional, quiet, and leisurely paced." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
Eight Below (2006) |
"Lacks the idiosyncracies of the wonderful 'Grizzly Man,' but carries a solid story line." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Splat C- |
Eldorado (2008) |
"This slight, road-trip of a movie could qualify as the Belgium Tourist Office's anti-product-placement picture of the year." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 9/10 |
Election (1999) |
"Terrific!" |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato A- |
Elegy (2008) |
"Philip Roth should be overjoyed at this adaptation of his novella 'The Dying Animal' about a professor obsessed about old age and mortality." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Splat C |
Eleven Minutes (2009) |
"Some would call the rotund designer charismatic, but I say that this documentary should have gone on only as long as its title." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Elf (2003) |
"The joys of Elf come in small packages and also in economy-sized ones six feet three inches tall." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 7/10 |
Elizabeth (1998) |
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Harvey S. Karten |
Splat C |
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) |
"Bombastic music and lavish costumes cannot disguise the film's coming across as a ho-hum high-school lesson in historical fiction." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Splat C- |
Elizabethtown (2005) |
"There's little romance in Bloom." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
Ella Enchanted (2004) |
"Delightfully subversive." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 3.4 |
Elling (2002) |
"What 'Dumb and Dumber' would have been without the vulgarity and with an intelligent, life-affirming script." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
Elsa & Fred (2008) |
"Convincingly proves even to teens (not likely to be in the audience, unfortunately), that you're never too old for romance." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
The Embalmer (2003) |
"An artfully toned-down story of thwarted desire." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Emperor and the Assassin (1999) |
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Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Emperor's Club (2002) |
"A well-acted, sincere antidote to the season's cynical, mindless and computer-aided films." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Emperor's New Clothes (2002) |
"A delightfully whimsical sample of historical revisionism." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 3/4 |
Empire (2002) |
"Compellingly reinforces the adage, 'Never forget where you came from.'" |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
Employee of the Month (2006) |
"This may be a silly comedy, but the affable character playedby Dane Cook makes it worthwhile viewing." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 6/10 |
The Empty Mirror (1999) |
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Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
Empty Nest (2009) |
"A generally absorbing Walter Mitty fantasy, Argentine style." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Enchanted (2007) |
"Amy Adams looks and sounds as if she indeed emerges from a fairy-tale land." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
Encounters At the End of the World (2007) |
"There's nothing barren about Werner Herzog's landscape." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 7/10 |
End of Days (1999) |
"More watchable than some critics would have you think." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B+ |
The End of Poverty? (2009) |
"Though sorely in need of Michael Moore's humor, this leftist documentary successfully skewers the idea that poverty is strictly the fault of the poor nations." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Splat 7/10 |
The End of the Affair (1999) |
"Too literary, too uncinematic, too darn old-fashioned for a contemporary audience." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
End of the Spear (2006) |
"A crowd-pleasing entertainment based on the true story of missionaries who ultimately persuaded an indigenous tribe in the Ecuador jungles to stop spearing one another." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato |
The End of Violence (1997) |
"If Wenders does not succeed in condemning the role of violence in movies (which was not his intention), he does unfold a work of intricate texture." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 8/10 |
Endurance (1999) |
"A movie which makes up for its relative deficiency of conflict and setbacks by its bold, stirring meditation on the lives of people in one of the world's poorest countries." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato A- |
Enduring Love (2004) |
"A dramatic pic showing how an insane stalker turns about the life of a cynical professor." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 3 |
Enemy at the Gates (2001) |
"While the women around me said that they couldn't take their eyes from Jude Law, Ed Harris is the real prize with a controlled performance as a Nazi major." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 8/10 |
Enemy of the State (1998) |
"It's a popcorn thriller with a wonderful performance by the warm-and-fuzzy Will Smith who proves that you don't need big muscles, a large piece, or even military training to be an uncommon hero." |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato B |
The English Surgeon (2009) |
"Good to know that there are still doctors around who do not spend all their waking hours thinking of $$$. (OK, maybe only in England, but that's a start.)" |
Harvey S. Karten |
Tomato 3/4 |
Enigma (2002) |
"An intelligent person's World War 2." |
Harvey S. Karten |