Splat C- |
ABC Africa (2002) |
"Better to just call it ABC Kiarostami. For AIDS and Africa are nothing more than part of the scenery." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat C |
About a Boy (2002) |
"Like its lead character, About a Boy exists in a stale vacuum of time-killing routine." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat D |
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) |
"A dreadfully unfunny hybrid of recycled science fiction and Eddie Murphy mugging." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato A- |
All or Nothing (2002) |
"The Southeast London working class housing estate of Mike Leigh's All or Nothing becomes a melting pot for issues that this most humanistic of directors has continually returned to over the years: parents, children, secrets, love, resentment..." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat D |
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) |
"Goldmember has none of the visual wit of the previous pictures, and it looks as though Jay Roach directed the film from the back of a taxicab." |
Jason Clark |
Tomato |
Auto Focus (2002) |
"Effective but too-tepid biopic" |
Jason Clark |
Splat C |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"The film is neither too cold nor too sentimental for its own good, and its ambitions remain fitfully engaging while its promise goes mostly unachieved." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato A |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"Its greatest fans will treasure it, and its detractors might even be willing to reevaluate it someday. If that isn’t the mark of a great piece of art, I don’t know what is" |
Jason Clark |
Tomato B+ |
About Adam (2001) |
"A vigorous exploration of yearning that is as liberating as it is fulfilling." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B |
The Adventures of Felix (2001) |
"I can’t even begin to imagine what a crude American director would choose to do with it, and don’t want to." |
Jason Clark |
Splat D+ |
The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
"A crass, often ridiculously misguided period drama that spells everything out in nice, big block letters so even a small child could comprehend it." |
Jason Clark |
Splat C- |
The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
"The movie borders on parody even before its utterly clueless script is taken into account." |
Joe McGovern |
Tomato short |
Ali (2001) |
"An intimate, personal film, not a lumbering, mass-market paperback distribution of dates and names." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato A- |
Ali (2001) |
"The supreme accomplishment in Mann's career." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat C |
Along Came a Spider (2001) |
"No worse than the average police thriller, a silly but inoffensively bromidic flick." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Splat |
Amelie (2001) |
"Amelie’s only major crime is how dull it can often be even while being so deliberately elaborate." |
Jason Clark |
Splat D+ |
Amelie (2001) |
"Meant to be postcard-perfect, it rings false." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat C- |
America's Sweethearts (2001) |
"A hypocritical purveyor of the same schlock nonsense it pretends to lampoon." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat |
America's Sweethearts (2001) |
"The fact that this movie contains some of the most annoying, mannered actors on film today and still remains painless is quite a feat." |
Jason Clark |
Splat D |
American Pie 2 (2001) |
"The fact that every principal cast member managed to find the time to come back is a commentary both depressing and euphoric." |
Joe McGovern |
Tomato B- |
An American Rhapsody (2001) |
"A heartfelt movie; honest and straight from the heart." |
Jason Clark |
Tomato B+ |
Amores Perros (2001) |
"Directed with energy and ferocity by eye-opening newcomer Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu." |
Jason Clark |
Tomato B+ |
Amores Perros (2001) |
"While frequently hard to watch due to the brutality of its subject matter, Amores Perros benefits nonetheless from its own rip-roaring chaos." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat D |
Angel Eyes (2001) |
"After enduring about 30 minutes of this near-deadly romantic drama, you begin to wonder where the radiant star of Selena and Out of Sight has gone to." |
Jason Clark |
Splat D |
Angel Eyes (2001) |
"More a merchandized product than an actual film, it trivializes everything it touches." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat C- |
The Anniversary Party (2001) |
"What crashes Party's potentially freewheeling sense of merriment is the choice by Cumming and Leigh to shoot it in DV." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat C |
The Anniversary Party (2001) |
"It feels like watered-down Robert Altman when it is intended to be a bitter, stiff drink." |
Jason Clark |
Splat short |
Antitrust (2001) |
"About five years behind schedule in anticipating and satirizing the stranglehold computer developers wield over the technology industry." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat F |
Antitrust (2001) |
"This movie bypasses no suspense cliché in existence." |
Jason Clark |
Splat |
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) |
"[The] additions only attempt to clarify what was already evident in the original cut" |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat D |
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joshua Vasquez |
Tomato A |
Audition (2001) |
"The violence of the finale poses troubling questions about self-denial, male dread, and cathartic suffering." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat short |
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) |
"Roger Rabbit, what did we do to deserve this?" |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato C+ |
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) |
"A movie that is certainly light and earnest enough to recommend -- but those adjectives should say more than enough to keep the die-hard fans away." |
Joe McGovern |
Tomato short |
All the Pretty Horses (2000) |
"A film of infinite possibility that somehow got reduced to tangible mediocrity." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B |
All the Pretty Horses (2000) |
"The movie's fighting spirit is still there as well as Thornton's noble intentions, and in this year of crassness, I'll take a noble intention over shady condescension anyday." |
Jason Clark |
Splat C |
Almost Famous (2000) |
"A relentlessly shallow film that approaches its subject matter with all the subtlety and grace of a sitcom." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Splat short |
American Psycho (2000) |
"Decidedly out of date." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B- |
American Psycho (2000) |
"It is entertaining and often very funny, even when you hope that director Harron will next find a subject that is truly worthy of her considerable talents." |
Jason Clark |
Tomato B |
Animal Factory (2000) |
"It confirms that Buscemi is a director that's here to stay." |
Jason Clark |
Splat C- |
The Art of War (2000) |
"All [The Art of War] forgets to throw in is a single original idea that might warrant the 2 hours this movie zaps from your life." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato short |
Autumn in New York (2000) |
"Just what it promises to be: a Love Story-style romance." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat D- |
Autumn in New York (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Rob Morlino |
Splat C |
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1999) |
"A ponderous, uneven portrait of disaffected youth." |
Jason Clark |
Splat short |
Agnes Browne (1999) |
"A rare movie that inspires no reaction whatsoever." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato B |
Agnes Browne (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joe McGovern |
Tomato B |
All About My Mother (1999) |
"With its emphasis on uniquely female relationships and conflicts, the film gives us a taste of the freshness for which we look to foreign film in the first place." |
David Nemetz |
Tomato B |
All About My Mother (1999) |
"Affecting, wonderfully acted, but oddly quaint drama" |
Jason Clark |
Splat C |
American Beauty (1999) |
"It wants to be an original beauty so much that it doesn't realize just how plain and ordinary it really is." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat |
American Beauty (1999) |
"When all is said and done, doesn't really offer anything new." |
Jason Clark |
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