Tomato 3/5 |
The Take (2004) |
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Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Take (2008) |
"Perez and Leguizamo make an entirely believable couple, and director Brad Furman creates an intense undercurrent of intimacy between the audience and his haunted hero." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1/5 |
Take (2008) |
"It's like a full-length public service announcement." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 3/4 |
Take the Lead (2006) |
"Take the Lead is like that -- it may seem hokey, but it uses the tried and true to get a smile out of you every time." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2/5 |
Taken (2009) |
"Neeson's better than this." |
Joe Neumaier |
Splat 2/4 |
Taking Lives (2004) |
"Even with Angelina Jolie thrown in for forensic sex appeal, this dog won't hunt." |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"Like the subway itself, things move by connections, craziness and clockwork in The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, a fast and relentless hostage thriller that never stops." |
Joe Neumaier |
Splat 3/5 |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"It's great that Taking Woodstock doesn't trample on anything sacred, but it also never arrives anywhere interesting." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 2/4 |
A Tale of Two Pizzas (2003) |
"Though it bears absolutely no relation to real life, this sweetly silly modern fairy tale possesses just enough charm to endear itself to secret sentimentalists." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003) |
"Murky and pretty near incomprehensible." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Talent Given Us (2004) |
"Weird and wonderful." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Talk to Me (2007) |
"About halfway through the movie, it changes direction, becoming less a biographical drama about Petey than a maudlin buddy movie about his relationship with Dewey." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) |
"Like a 30-car pileup on the high banks at Daytona, you can't take your eyes off this mess, and it is a rambunctious entertainment." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Tamara (2006) |
"A mediocre little thriller that might have promised cheap fun on Blockbuster's direct-to-DVD shelf is instead destined to die a quick death on the big screen." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Tarnation (2004) |
"It's a riveting high-wire act by a young man on the verge." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 1/4 |
Taxi (2004) |
"We often hear about movie scenes and characters being left on the cutting-room floor. In the case of the would-be comedy Taxi, that's apparently where all the laughs were left." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) |
"By the time it's over, [director Gibney has] broadened his focus into a documentary so damning of the U.S. government, it's hard to believe he even got it made." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Teacher's Pet (2004) |
"By deftly blending silliness and sophistication, this little movie does its part to stem the technological tide." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Team America: World Police (2004) |
"Caustic fun." |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tears of the Black Tiger (2000) |
"Director Wisit Sasanatieng uses every trick imaginable to create surreal postmodern nostalgia. Has he wound up with pure camp, or a cult classic? As he clearly understands, the best B-movies are both." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Tears of the Sun (2003) |
"Will a thinking audience really buy the image of helpless, grateful people bestowing kisses and victory songs upon Willis as the representative of all things American: power, guts, compassion?" |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 3/4 |
Teeth (2008) |
"Actor turned writer-director Mitchell Lichtenstein has bitten into one of the oldest myths in human folklore with Teeth, an imaginatively demented horror-comedy." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tekkon Kinkreet (2007) |
"The dazzlingly intricate backgrounds are a marvel, and though the jam-packed story occasionally trips over its own sentimentality, it quickly rights itself every time." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Tell Them Who You Are (2005) |
"You have to put up with too much family therapy for the few insights into Wexler's brilliant work." |
Jami Bernard |
Splat 2/4 |
The Ten (2007) |
"The Ten is so proud of its own wit and irreverence that when you fail to be equally impressed, you are likely to wonder if your own sense of humor is, in some way, deficient. Rest assured it is not." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ten Canoes (2007) |
"You've never seen anything like it." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006) |
"Even if you're not a stoned adolescent, there's plenty to appreciate in Liam Lynch's loopy, cheerfully lowbrow comedy." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Tenants (2005) |
"Unremittingly bleak and hopelessly outdated." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 1/4 |
Tenderness (2008) |
"Crowe's lumbering presence is a relief from all the gothic heaviness, but director John Polson's elliptical storytelling style quickly becomes an irritant." |
Joe Neumaier |
Splat 2/5 |
Tennessee (2009) |
"The good news for Carey is that she gets to prove she's a pretty decent actress after all. The bad news, of course, is that she's done it in a movie no one has any other reason to see." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Terminal (2004) |
"Feels disingenuous and dogmatic." |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) |
"The popcorn movie of summer '03." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 4/5 |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"Between this and Star Trek, popcorn-movie reboots have hit high gear." |
Joe Neumaier |
Splat 2/4 |
Terror's Advocate (2007) |
"Talk about a hard sell." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/4 |
Testosterone (2003) |
"Slickly packaged and nicely shot, the movie is as easy on the eyes as its good-looking cast. It's also as confused as its hero." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/5 |
Tetro (2009) |
"Despite the overwrought plot and unabashed pretension, there's something admirable about the fact that Coppola clearly made this movie for himself. But he shouldn't be surprised if few others join him in watching it." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
"For the new generation of slasher fan, the remake is a true gross-out with plenty of satisfying frights. For the rest of us, it's one more chapter in a neverending story." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) |
"Jonathan Liebesman's prequel to Tobe Hooper's 1974 horror classic is just another trip down a very dusty road." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Thank You For Smoking (2006) |
"One of the most entertaining riffs on American culture in years." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/5 |
That Evening Sun (2009) |
"Director Scott Teems' film is as quiet as untilled soil -- not always a good thing -- but Holbrook has a handle on where to dig." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
That Man: Peter Berlin (2005) |
"Fortunately, Tushinski strikes the right balance throughout, interspersing old erotic photos and stills from Berlin's adult films with entertaining, current-day sound bites." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Splat 1/5 |
The Clone Wars (2008) |
"If this were a true Star Wars film, right about now somebody would say, '... I've got a bad feeling about this.'" |
Joe Neumaier |
Splat 2/5 |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) |
"The stone-faced silliness in this new TDTESS at first seems like an homage to old-fashioned '50s watch-the-skies movies, until it becomes clear it's just newfangled bad filmmaking." |
Joe Neumaier |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Polar Express (2004) |
"It's a sensation -- both a milestone in computer-animation and a likely Christmas classic." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3/4 |
Them (2007) |
"If you want an hour or so of terror, put your faith in Them." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/5 |
Then She Found Me (2008) |
"Without strong guidance, the self-conscious lines make the characters sound like, well, characters rather than actual human beings." |
Elizabeth Weitzman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"Blood does not release its grip on the audience until its last, bizarrely crazy minutes." |
Jack Mathews |
Splat 2/4 |
The Thing About My Folks (2005) |
"A talky therapy session of a comedy." |
Jami Bernard |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"Berry gives a riveting performance, but as a deeply decent man trapped in a hell of his own making, Del Toro gives the kind of career performance Berry gave in Monster's Ball." |
Jack Mathews |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Thirteen (2003) |
"One of the most honest and harrowing depictions of female adolescence ever put to film." |
Jami Bernard |
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