Tomato 3/4 |
$9.99 (2009) |
"$9.99 doesn't make any big statements, but Keret and director Tatia Rosenthal are obviously interested in how each of our lives affects the people around us and in the crazy things people do in an effort to connect with each other." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
10 Items or Less (2006) |
"10 Items or Less is a cinematic smoothie: refreshing, light, insubstantial." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
10,000 B.C. (2008) |
"10,000 B.C. is a movie of woolly mammoths and fuzzy thinking." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato |
101 Reykjavik (2001) |
"There's something deep and true beneath the humor." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato |
102 Dalmatians (2000) |
"The movie is diverting enough to keep kids and parents watching for a couple of hours." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
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The 11th Hour (2007) |
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Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
12 (2007) |
"The actors in 12 graduated from the Al Pacino Academy of Flying Spittle Theatrics." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
12 and Holding (2006) |
"The young actors are strong enough to triumph over the weaknesses of the script." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
12 Rounds (2009) |
"It's Sudoku. With corpses!" |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"It's an appealing package and, like Julia Roberts or Meg Ryan, Garner seems designed for romantic comedies because we like her and want the best for her." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
13 Tzameti (2006) |
"Takes awhile to establish where it's going, but it's powered by a kind of sick dread." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
1408 (2007) |
"Your check-in time for the Dolphin Hotel's room 1408 should be whenever the movie hits video stores." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat |
15 Minutes (2001) |
"Criticizes us for watching exploitative violence even as it foists big helpings of carnage on us." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"One of the best things about the movie is that it gets its tension from what we know and don't know about the characters, not from bashing us over the head with lame-o action sequences." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1/4 |
17 Again (2009) |
"It's as if 17 Again were conceived as a batch of three-minutes sketches. Some of them are fine, many are awful, and they don't hang together at all because the movie is so plastic and phony and willing to sell out its characters for the sake of a laugh." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
2 Days In Paris (2007) |
"I could easily spend another couple of days in Paris with the whole lot of them." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1.5/4 |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"The movie delivers on its title's promise some of the time, but there's too much dead air, so it amounts to 90 minutes of squealing tires, occasionally interrupted by yammering that might better be titled 2 Dopey 2 Believe." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato |
200 Cigarettes (1999) |
"Deft casting, boffo tunes and a snappy script provide 200 CIGARETTES with unfiltered fun." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
2009 Academy-Award Nominated Short Films (2009) |
"The collection of Oscar-nominated shorts is usually a mixed bag: a couple of losers mixed in with good stuff and one or two stunners." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1.5/4 |
2012 (2009) |
"2012 is a Roland Emmerich movie, so that means the world collapses while actors try to find a safe place to speak their inane dialogue." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
2046 (2005) |
"If you could touch 2046, it would feel soft and luxurious, like cashmere." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
21 (2008) |
"The movie is oddly structured, taking too long to set up a premise that anyone who has seen an ad for 21 already knows and that I just managed to encapsulate in one sentence." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
21 Grams (2003) |
"It's a movie where other people go through awful things and we have the privilege of trying to make sense of it all." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 4/4 |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"It gives you the privilege of feeling what it would be like to have been at the gig where Joy Division unveiled their transcendent 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' on a pogoing throng." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
25th Hour (2002) |
"An intelligent, reflective film." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato |
27 Dresses (2008) |
"27 Dresses hits the stations of the romantic comedy cross with precision and verve." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"Funnier and smarter than the average movie in which flesh-eating ghouls chow on each other." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"The opening is fantastic, and the rest of it won't bore you, even if it's a little disappointing." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
3 Extremes (2005) |
"Three Extremes would be better if it were Two Extremes." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
3-Iron (2005) |
"Their speechlessness gives this love story a ghostly, unsettling vibe, depriving us of a key way we usually get to know movie characters." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
30 Days of Night (2007) |
"It's an unusually thoughtful chiller." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
300 (2007) |
"In the end, 300's visual splendors don't give moviegoers anything to hang onto other than a batch of snappy images of extreme carnage." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato |
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) |
"An entertainingly heartless movie, made with style, energy and a modicum of humor." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
"Superb." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) |
"There's no obvious 'style' in 4 Months, unless you count utterly natural acting, brutal but compassionate storytelling and disciplined camera work as a style." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) |
"Shows that smutty and adorable don't mix." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) |
"It's hilarious, it's sex-obsessed and it's 15 minutes longer than it needs to be." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
49 Up (2006) |
"The monumental 7 Up series continues with a lesser but worthwhile chapter, 49 Up." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
50 First Dates (2004) |
"Sweet, deeply felt and funny." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1/4 |
500 Days of Summer (2009) |
"Watching (500) Days of Summer feels like being forced to sit still while someone you can't stand tries very hard to charm you." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
51 Birch Street (2006) |
"It's a fine film, and it's practically guaranteed to make you think about your own relationships." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
5X2 (2005) |
"The effect of the reverse sequencing is to make us view everything in the film -- even hopeful events like a marriage or the birth of a child -- with sadness." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat |
The 6th Day (2000) |
"Isn't much different from Arnold's other leaden movies." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
8 Mile (2002) |
"Eminem, much to the dismay of his detractors, turns in a rather fine performance in 8 Mile, a flawed film that still manages to make a powerful point." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato |
8 Women (2002) |
"All clearly had a grand time, whooping it up as over-the-top characters." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 0/4 |
88 Minutes (2008) |
"The script is a confused jumble that director Jon Avnet cannot wrestle into shape." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
9 (2009) |
"Acker is so busy making sure every animated clock and piece of fabric is just right that he loses sight of the need to tell a story." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
9 Songs (2005) |
"Maybe the Nine Songs way -- showing us how they respond to each other in intimate moments and what sort of music moves them -- is a more direct route inside their heads." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
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