Tomato |
Haiku Tunnel (2001) |
"This story of a temp worker who panics when offered a chance to 'go perm' has a unique comic vision." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Hairspray (2007) |
"I can't recall a movie with this many flaws that I liked so much." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Half Nelson (2006) |
"[Fleck] has a gift for charging inanimate objects with meaning ... and he helps his cast create characters who throb with energy and complex life." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1/4 |
Half Past Dead (2002) |
"Dreary and misogynistic." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Halloween (2007) |
"I was hoping for greatness from Rob Zombie's Halloween, but got pretty-goodness, instead." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
Halloween II (2009) |
" Zombie is a terrific stylist -- there's a red-tinted party sequence that's nightmarishly creepy -- but he seems bored with this material." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
Halloween: Resurrection (2002) |
"Not scary but mildly satisfying anyway." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"It's not awful, but it has given itself a really tough act to follow." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Hancock (2008) |
"Hancock leaps fluidly from comedy to action to romance. And it has bigger surprises in store." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat |
Hanging Up (2000) |
"I saw three terrific actresses in Hanging Up, but I can't decide if I saw a movie." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Hangover (2009) |
"Keep your expectations low, and you'll be amused." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hannah Montana The Movie (2009) |
"Improbably entertaining." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato |
Hannibal (2001) |
"The lambs may be silent, but Hannibal Lecter is still thp-thp-thping." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"Rising is beautifully made, its rich colors emphasizing the atmosphere of decadence and waste, but it's not especially dramatic." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Happening (2008) |
"Shyamalan movies demand that you surrender to his way of telling stories. If you're up for that, you should go." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happily Ever After (2005) |
"The story in the French Happily Ever After is about as exciting as that bland, mistranslated title. But the filmmaking? Very exciting." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato |
Happy Accidents (2001) |
"Gimmick aside, Happy Accidents is driven by sharply acted characters." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happy Endings (2005) |
"Swift, multi-layered story-telling." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"The computer-animated Happy Feet gets even weirder with a late-in-the-game development that is meant to be upsetting and is." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"It feels modest while you're watching it, but the more I think about it, the more I love it." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hard Candy (2005) |
"A harrowing drama that keeps kicking up the intensity another notch until it kicks it two notches too many, Hard Candy is involving because you truly can't guess how it will end." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato |
A Hard Day's Night (1964) |
"Filled with unforgettable moments, most having to do with the music." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat |
Hardball (2001) |
"The coach is the nominal main character, not the players, and, thus, Hardball is focused on the least interesting person on the field." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
"Did I really just compare H and K to a Neil Simon comedy?" |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) |
"There are at least three very funny things in Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, and the stuff in between isn't bad." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
Harrison's Flowers (2002) |
"Traveling in Yugoslavia doesn't open MacDowell's well-rested eyes one bit, and the movie's interest in the problems of Yugoslavia is just lip service." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
"Deepening and widening an imaginative world full of cleverly detailed creatures, much as J.K. Rowling has done in her books, Chamber is a speedy, funny winner." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"Goblet of Fire is the second-best of the Potter films." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is] not the best Potter, but it is the wittiest and most romantic, and it leaves us with a doozy of an I-want-more cliffhanger." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"There are plenty of clever, magical effects in the film, but Yates zeroes in on the real stuff: the question of whether these kids can come to understand their powers in time to battle for the future of humanity." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"Everything they screwed up in the first two Harry Potter movies they fix in the new one." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) |
"A handsome, faithful, cautious film that delivers in most of the ways you'd hope it would." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harsh Times (2006) |
"...Moral extremes make for an intense, intelligent character study." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hart's War (2002) |
"A smart, complex drama." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1/4 |
The Haunted Mansion (2003) |
"A badly scripted, sloppily put-together hack job." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) |
"It's an effective, old-school haunted-house movie." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1/4 |
The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008) |
"As it races from one unlikely trauma to the next for poor Molly, the movie forgets one key thing: The devil is in the details." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1/4 |
Havana Nights (2004) |
"Whenever conflict emerges in the belated Havana, you can be sure it'll be wrapped up before you can say 'Rumba.'" |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat |
Haven (2006) |
"The movie ends up being mostly a haven for actors who want to stretch their tear ducts." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2003) |
"A great deal of the fun of the movie has to do with the casting of Tatou in a role that is more complicated than her heart-shaped face, Bambi eyes and Amelie goodwill might lead you to expect." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) |
"Despite its antecedents, He's Just Not That Into You feels fresh and observant." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1/4 |
Head in the Clouds (2004) |
"It's all very haphazard and infuriating, because the movie unerringly focuses on the least interesting aspect of its complicated plot." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat |
Head of State (2003) |
"The comedy has been dumbed-down so extensively that it's not clear what's being made fun of." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat |
Head Over Heels (2001) |
"So synthetic and sticky that I kept picturing its frames printed on strips of fruit roll-ups." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Head-On (2005) |
"Sardonic and matter-of-factly shocking, Head-On draws us in because it recognizes how inexplicable, inconvenient and inescapable love is." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Heading South (2006) |
"It's a measured, stately film, and that makes the women's behavior -- 'It's incredible how racist they can be,' says Young, ignorant of her own racism -- even more shocking." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
The Heart of Me (2003) |
"Its unwieldy structure, which pops back and forth between the 1930s and '40s, makes the movie choppy for no good reason." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Heart of the Game (2006) |
"Not a sports documentary but a being-human documentary." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) |
"It's still pretty funny to see Ben Stiller take one -- or eight -- for the team." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato |
Heartbreakers (2001) |
"The humor is relatively sophisticated (that is, no one is hurling or ejaculating), and the cast is lively." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
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