Tomato 3/5 |
Mad Hot Ballroom (2005) |
"The dozen or so whom Agrelo and Sewell chose to emphasize are especially appealing, but nearly all of them are bright, thoughtful, confident and dedicated -- a heartening glimpse of the coming generation." |
Jim Lane |
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Mad Love (1995) |
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Mark Halverson |
Tomato 4/5 |
Mad Love (2001) |
"So vivid a portrait of a woman consumed by lust and love and crushed by betrayal that it conjures up the intoxicating fumes and emotional ghosts of a freshly painted Rembrandt." |
Mark Halverson |
Splat 2/5 |
Mad Money (2008) |
"...if it were this easy to rob the Fed, the dollar wouldn't be worth the paper [Glenn] Gers' script is printed on." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Madagascar (2005) |
"The movie has plenty of ingenuity. What it lacks -- completely -- is inspiration." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) |
"Fans of the 2005 original will find this sequel more of the same. So will the original's detractors -- it was lousy then and it's lousy now." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
Made (2001) |
"Favreau's direction is sharp and naturalistic, emphasizing the strengths of his script ... while disguising its shortcomings." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Made of Honor (2008) |
"...makes little effort to be believable..." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Madea's Family Reunion (2006) |
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Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Magdalene Sisters (2003) |
"The sadistic horror of the story fuels the film the way some World War II movies feed on the Holocaust, but the movie is dramatically stagnant, and Mullan substitutes grimness for power." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (2005) |
"It’s a stirring and persuasive plug for resuming in-person space exploration -- and it’s a lot of fun besides." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 5/5 |
Magnolia (1999) |
"A great, teeming, exhilarating and exasperating tapestry of a movie." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Maid in Manhattan (2002) |
"Even Cary Grant would have trouble bringing any conviction to Kevin Wade's script." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
The Majestic (2001) |
"Acting is good by the talented cast ... but the sentimentality is cheap and unworkable." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato |
The Major and the Minor (1942) |
"If anybody could manage a fizzy romantic comedy of sexual repression in 1942, it was Billy Wilder, already with three screenwriting Oscar nominations under his belt and making his American directorial debut, with The Major and the Minor." |
Jonathan Kiefer |
Tomato 4/5 |
Maléna (2000) |
"The subject at hand is Renato's coming of age, but we're also seeing the maturing of Tornatore himself." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Malibu's Most Wanted (2003) |
"The film runs out of steam early on." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 1/5 |
Mambo Italiano (2003) |
"It's awful." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
Mamma Mia! (2008) |
"...can't help being fun." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
The Man (2005) |
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Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
A Man Apart (2003) |
"Diesel, Larenz Tate as his partner, and Jacqueline Obradors as his doomed wife are the only things worth watching in this dreary retread from Steven Seagal-land." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Man from Elysian Fields (2002) |
"The film is hard to dismiss -- moody, thoughtful, and lit by flashes of mordant humor." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 1/5 |
Man of the House (2005) |
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Mark Halverson |
Splat 2/5 |
Man of the Year (1996) |
"...half unfunny comedy and half uncompelling drama." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Man of the Year (2006) |
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Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Man on Fire (2004) |
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Mark Halverson |
Tomato |
Man on the Moon (1999) |
"I came away from Man on the Moon feeling that it had found the essence of Andy Kaufman in a way that few showbiz biopics ever do." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
Man on the Train (2003) |
"The whole thing fairly begs to be taken for serious art, but old-fashioned star power is what really makes it worth watching." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Man Who Cried (2001) |
"Christina Ricci has top billing, but The Man Who Cried is Cate Blanchett's movie." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) |
"Delicious twists, glimmering black-and-white cinematography, and encyclopedic references to some of the classics of the genre." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Man Without a Past (2003) |
"A full-bodied, melancholy-tinged ode to the resiliency of mankind." |
Mark Halverson |
Splat 2/5 |
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) |
"The original film worked also as delicious satire, where this wannabe cousin to Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 ignites unintentional laughs." |
Mark Halverson |
Tomato |
Mansfield Park (1999) |
"O'Connor makes a fetching film debut as the patient yet resolute heroine." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
March of the Penguins (2005) |
"The original, primal charge of movies was their ability to take audiences somewhere they’d never been and show them things they’d never have seen on their own. March of the Penguins recaptures some of that long-ago wonder." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 1/5 |
Marci X (2003) |
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Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
Margot at the Wedding (2007) |
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Jonathan Kiefer |
Tomato 4/5 |
Maria Full of Grace (2004) |
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Mark Halverson |
Splat 2/5 |
Marie Antoinette (1938) |
"Subtleties of history and psychology are glossed over in deference to the movie's teenybopper sensibilities." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Marie Antoinette (2006) |
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Jim Lane |
Splat 1/5 |
The Marine (2006) |
"Cena's dialogue is held to a monosyllabic minimum..." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
Married Life (2008) |
"Once he gets out from under his influences and trusts his own gut, Sachs might become a major director." |
Jonathan Kiefer |
Splat 2/5 |
Martian Child (2007) |
"...a betrayal of the book..." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Martin Lawrence Live - Runteldat (2002) |
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Mark Halverson |
Splat 1/5 |
Masked and Anonymous (2003) |
"Watching the film is like listening to Art Bell babble about UFOs -- it seems always on the verge of making a point but never gets there." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
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Mark Halverson |
Splat 1/5 |
The Master of Disguise (2002) |
"This pathetic junk is barely an hour long. Nevertheless, it still seems endless." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Matador (2005) |
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Jim Lane |
Splat 3/5 |
Match Point (2005) |
"It all looks suspiciously like the kind of movie Allen used to make fun of 30 years ago." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
Matchstick Men (2003) |
"Unlike most con-man movies, plot takes a back seat to character, and what the film lacks in dramatic logic it makes up for in depth." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Material Girls (2006) |
"The Duff sisters are pleasant personalities, but the vapid bimbosity of their characters quickly becomes grating." |
Jim Lane |
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