Splat 2/5 |
P.S. I Love You (2007) |
"[Hilary] Swank's raw, genuine performance stands out -- like an emerald on a compost heap -- against the canned warmth..." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 1/5 |
P2 (2007) |
"Cheesy, cheap and laughable..." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 1/5 |
The Pacifier (2005) |
"Diesel has amply shown his star presence already, and he may even have a flair for comedy (if Hulk Hogan did, why shouldn’t he?), but he gets no chance to prove it here." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Page Turner (2007) |
"...the chilly atmosphere of carefully plotted revenge is the movie's main drawback as well as its chief appeal." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Paid in Full (2002) |
"The story is familiar from its many predecessors; like them, it eventually culminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pay." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Painted Veil (2006) |
"Performances are superbly textured..." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"...as repellently fascinating as watching a snake devour a rabbit." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
Panic (2000) |
"It’s almost a surprise to find the villainy so real and three-dimensional." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
Panic Room (2002) |
"The film is pitiless and efficient, and it's certainly effective, but it isn't really a lot of fun to watch." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
Paparazzi (2004) |
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Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
Paradise Now (2005) |
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Jonathan Kiefer |
Tomato 4/5 |
Paranoid Park (2008) |
"It’s a movie worth seeing." |
Jonathan Kiefer |
Tomato 3/5 |
Paris, Je T'aime (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jonathan Kiefer |
Splat 2/5 |
Party Monster (2003) |
"Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, who wrote and directed, think the way to make a movie about shallow, aimless lives descending into chaos is for the movie itself to be shallow, aimless, and to descend into chaos." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"A powerful, wrenching experience that makes all previous films on the subject, from The King of Kings (1927) to Jesus Christ Superstar (1973), look like Sunday School pageants, and it's not for the squeamish or the immature." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Passionada (2003) |
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Mark Halverson |
Splat |
Patch Adams (1998) |
"The picture takes too many emotional shortcuts and ends on a heavily sentimental note it dooesn't earn." |
Mark Halverson |
Splat 1/5 |
Pathfinder (2007) |
"It's all a mess, but the scenery is nice." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 4/5 |
The Patriot (2000) |
"Robert Rodat’s script is specious and false on every level." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
Pauline and Paulette (2002) |
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Mark Halverson |
Splat 1/5 |
Pay It Forward (2000) |
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Bob Grimm |
Splat 2/5 |
Paycheck (2003) |
"It's hard to imagine Dick ever writing anything as empty as this." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 1/5 |
Pearl Harbor (2001) |
"A bloated, waterlogged catastrophe that looks and feels phony in every detail, from the mossy clichés of Randall Wallace's script to the gleaming computerized perfection of its curiously bloodless battle scenes." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
Penelope (2008) |
"...it's enjoyable, thanks mainly to Ricci's sweetly poignant performance..." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
The Perfect Holiday (2007) |
"...a clumsy mess of silly contrivances and musty sight gags..." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
The Perfect Man (2005) |
"Many scenes from the previews aren’t in the film -- a telltale sign of desperate last-minute tampering." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Perfect Score (2004) |
"The script ... is chock full of callow teenybopper deep-think about how unfair the SAT is, but it's more interesting for the different ways the students justify their foray into high-tech burglary, and for the way they pull off the heist." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Perfect Storm (2000) |
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Jim Lane |
Splat 1/5 |
Perfect Stranger (2007) |
"...limp and perfunctory." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jonathan Kiefer |
Tomato 4/5 |
Persepolis (2007) |
"A lively, feminist, first-person animated account of Iran's Islamic Revolution." |
Jonathan Kiefer |
Splat 1/5 |
Personal Velocity (2002) |
"Ventimiglia yammers constantly about what the characters did, why they did it, and what they thought at the time and later." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 5/5 |
Peter Pan (2003) |
"One of those rare films that can be enjoyed over and over again." |
Mark Halverson |
Splat 1/5 |
Phat Girlz (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
Phone Booth (2003) |
"It's far-fetched, yes, but so expert and swiftly-paced that we don't notice the holes until it's long over." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Pianist (2002) |
"A near masterpiece." |
Mark Halverson |
Splat 2/5 |
The Piano Teacher (2002) |
"Haneke's script (from Elfriede Jelinek's novel) is contrived, unmotivated, and psychologically unpersuasive, with an inconclusive ending." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 4/5 |
Pieces of April (2003) |
"Screenwriter Peter Hedges makes his directorial debut with the best entry to date in the burgeoning Thanksgiving Day-from-hell genre." |
Mark Halverson |
Splat 2/5 |
Piglet's Big Movie (2003) |
"There's no story here, just a progression of too-cute adventures told in a complicated flashback structure that will probably bore and confuse the preschool target audience." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Piñero (2001) |
"A movie of attitude that -- much like its main character -- consumes itself." |
Mark Halverson |
Tomato 3/5 |
Pink Panther (2006) |
"For now, though it’s a mixed blessing, this seems like the movie Martin deserves." |
Jonathan Kiefer |
Splat 1/5 |
The Pink Panther 2 (2009) |
"Devoid of laughs or suspense..." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 1/5 |
Pinocchio (2002) |
"With Danilo Donati's witty designs and Dante Spinotti's luscious cinematography, this might have made a decent children's movie -- if only Benigni hadn't insisted on casting himself in the title role." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
Pirate Radio (2009) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jonathan Kiefer |
Splat 1/5 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) |
"The story is either incoherent or nonexistent (take your pick)..." |
Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) |
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Jim Lane |
Splat 2/5 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) |
"An overly long adventure that, with some tinkering and editing, could have been more akin to such classics as The Crimson Pirate rather than just a reminder that they exist." |
Mark Halverson |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything - A Veggietales Movie (2008) |
"...harmless fun for small kids..." |
Jim Lane |
Tomato 3/5 |
Place Vendome (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Mark Halverson |
Splat 2/5 |
Planet 51 (2009) |
" ... characters are as thin and unengaging as the animation is sleek and shiny." |
Jim Lane |
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