Splat 4/10 |
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
"Is Fence an amazing story? Yes. Is it an important story? You bet. Is the film beautiful? Absolutely. Is it tedious? You ain't kidding." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato |
Rahtree: Flower of the Night (2003) |
"Writer/director Yuthlert Sippapak already has a couple of sequels in the works, and I can’t wait to see them." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato 6/10 |
Rain (2002) |
"Fulford-Wierzbicki ... deftly captures the wise-beyond-her-years teen." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato 7/10 |
Raising Victor Vargas (2003) |
"Never once feels false or hits a sour note, and its actors don't seem at all like they're acting." |
Jon Popick |
Splat 5/10 |
The Raspberry Reich (2004) |
"An excuse to watch smut and not feel like a perv." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato |
Rat Race (2001) |
"Everybody here is thoroughly enjoyable." |
Jon Popick |
Splat |
Ratcatcher (2000) |
"Offers nothing new except accents so thick the film had to be subtitled for those unfamiliar with the Scottish brogue." |
Jon Popick |
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Ravenous (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jon Popick |
Tomato 7/10 |
Ray (2004) |
"I haven’t seen anything quite this mesmerizing since Daniel Day-Lewis in Gangs of New York." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato 6/10 |
Read My Lips (2002) |
"Never once predictable." |
Jon Popick |
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Ready to Rumble (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jon Popick |
Splat 3/10 |
The Real Cancun (2003) |
"Cancun is our collective punishment for enjoying Jackass: The Movie so much." |
Jon Popick |
Splat |
Recess: School's Out (2001) |
"It packs the comedic punch of a devastating Third World earthquake." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato 8/10 |
Red Dragon (2002) |
"With such a great story and a stellar, star-studded cast, there is very little to complain about, other than the fact it didn't really need to be remade in the first place." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato 7/10 |
Red Eye (2005) |
"Damn entertaining and – even better – at just 85 minutes, it’s refreshingly economical." |
Jon Popick |
Splat |
Red Planet (2000) |
"Planet is the directorial debut of Antony Hoffman and, with any luck, somebody will confiscate his license to make any more films." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato |
Red Road (2007) |
"A Lynne Ramsay-esque Scottish handwringer in that it could possibly make you want to come home and take your own life. That was a compliment, in case you weren't sure." |
Jon Popick |
Splat |
Redacted (2007) |
"Poorly executed, poorly acted, and poorly imagined." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato 6/10 |
Reign of Fire (2002) |
"Good enough to make viewers a lot less leery of the whole post-apocalyptic future genre after The Postman." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato 7/10 |
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"Twelve big thumbs up for reversing the race of the roles, as we'd generally see a black actor playing the weird, homeless-looking, potentially dangerous "mystical negro" who helps Whitey figure out his life." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato |
Reindeer Games (2000) |
"Frankeheimer shows he can still make a pretty decent action flick." |
Jon Popick |
Splat |
Remember the Titans (2000) |
"After weeks of hating each other, the Titans inexplicably seem to unite over a Marvin Gaye song and a contest where they rank out each other's moms." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato |
Renaissance (2006) |
"Good enough to sit there and watch without paying any attention to the story." |
Jon Popick |
Splat |
Rendition (2007) |
"Three or four years ago, a movie about innocent citizens being pulled into secret torture prisons because of the color of their skin might have raised an eyebrow or two, but those days are long gone." |
Jon Popick |
Splat |
The Replacements (2000) |
"Reeves shows as much emotion as a baked potato." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato |
Rescue Dawn (2007) |
"Shows that good old fashioned American never-give-up-itude spirit. Except, you know -- from a German guy." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato |
Reservation Road (2007) |
"There are some really nice quiet moments, but George generally opts for the screaming and the uncontrollable sobbing one might think need accompany a film with Oscar aspirations." |
Jon Popick |
Splat 5/10 |
Resident Evil (2002) |
"Mostly, the movie is filled with scenes where the soldier people argue until somebody says, 'What's that sound?,' and then some horrible monster comes out and tries to eat them." |
Jon Popick |
Splat 5/10 |
Resurrecting the Champ (2007) |
"Another Hollywood story of a mystical negro who teaches Whitey a lesson about how to best deal with his not-so unique cracker problems." |
Jon Popick |
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The Return of the King (1980) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jon Popick |
Splat |
Return to Me (2000) |
"Return to Me isn’t as well-executed as it could have been." |
Jon Popick |
Splat |
Revolver (2007) |
"Really nice on the eyes, but this will make your brain hurt. I don't think repeated viewings will clarify anything, either.
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Jon Popick |
Splat |
Rick (2003) |
"Occasionally clever, but not nearly enough so to make it worth your while." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato |
Ride with the Devil (1999) |
"A remarkably beautiful film." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato |
Rififi (1954) |
"The half-hour heist is so detailed, it was actually banned in several countries when Rififi was first released." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Ring (2002) |
"Belief does need to be suspended to buy into The Ring's story, but once you've done that, you're in for a great ride." |
Jon Popick |
Splat 6/10 |
The Ringer (2005) |
"Other than Howard Stern, who has done more for mentally-challenged actors than the Farrelly brothers?" |
Jon Popick |
Tomato |
The Road Home (2001) |
"You don't see too many gorgeous, heartwarming romances with a G-rating slapped on them, but that's exactly what Zhang Yimou's The Road Home is." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato |
The Road to El Dorado (2000) |
"The two leads (Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh) are funny." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato 10/10 |
Road to Perdition (2002) |
"2002's best film thus far, and I'm skeptical that we'll see anything superior to it for the rest of the year" |
Jon Popick |
Tomato |
Road Trip (2000) |
"A rare film that is consistently funny with the majority of its jokes hitting the bulls-eye." |
Jon Popick |
Splat 5/10 |
Robots (2005) |
"Basically a bunch of recycled gags from Matt Groening’s woefully under-appreciated Futurama." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato 8/10 |
Rock School (2005) |
"Dewey Finn never suggested his students embrace the ways of Satan in order to play Black Sabbath covers with more gusto, but doing doesn’t seem at all out of place here." |
Jon Popick |
Splat 3/10 |
Rocky Balboa (2006) |
"Sly Stallone writes, directs, produces, and stars -- a real quadruple threat, assuming you're talking about unintelligible, monotonous, pandering, and (presumably) incontinent." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato 8/10 |
Roger Dodger (2002) |
"Other than the slightly flawed (and fairly unbelievable) finale, everything else is top shelf." |
Jon Popick |
Splat 4/10 |
Rollerball (2002) |
"If you're a WWF fan, or you related to the people who watched the robots getting butchered in A.I., you'll probably like Rollerball." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato |
Romeo Must Die (2000) |
"Li’s fight scenes are amazing and there honestly shouldn’t be anybody going to see this film for any other reason." |
Jon Popick |
Splat 6/10 |
The Rookie (2002) |
"A paint-by-numbers, cliché-riddled story that has one thing working in its favor -- it's based on stuff that really happened." |
Jon Popick |
Tomato 10/10 |
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) |
"A heartbreaking, gut-busting comedy -- one of the best this country has produced since Woody Allen was pumping out consistent classics in the '70s." |
Jon Popick |
Splat 5/10 |
Rugrats Go Wild (2003) |
"The highlight is when Stu makes like some weird love child of Gilligan and MacGyver and crafts a radio out of a coconut, a razor and a pen." |
Jon Popick |
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