Splat 2/4 |
Tadpole (2002) |
"The movie could use a few more points. Tadpole's main character remains muddled; at least one scene in his journey is missing." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004) |
"Later scenes in Brotherhood make mad, passionate love with being cliched." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato |
The Tailor of Panama (2001) |
"In the midst of that fascinating, sad setting, Panama gives us great characters." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Take (2004) |
"The reason to watch the documentary The Take is buried in an ominous comment from an out-of-work laborer: 'We are where the rest of the world is going.'" |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1/4 |
Take the Lead (2006) |
"Take the Lead, with its awkward transitions and abrupt blackouts, is the cinematic equivalent of a high school paper written in study hall the hour before it's due." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
Taken (2009) |
"I'm not sure if the title Taken refers to the kidnapping at the center of the film or the hoodwinked feeling audiences will have when it's finished." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1/4 |
Taking Lives (2004) |
"Director D.J. Caruso gives the movie some life, particularly in a stylishly energetic footrace, but there's not much he can do with this dopey script." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"It feels like Pelham is close to something interesting but never gets there because Scott doesn't give a rip." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"Taking Woodstock doesn't show anyone performing at the 1969 concert event, an intriguing choice that also works as a metaphor for the woebegone film. It never gets where it's going, either." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
The Tale of Despereaux (2008) |
"In her book, DiCamillo gracefully weaves together several plot strands, something the movie -- with less time and, I suspect, less storytelling ingenuity -- can't do." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Talent Given Us (2004) |
"It's tough to describe The Talent Given Us, which is why it's fascinating." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Talk to Her (2002) |
"A quietly reflective film, one in which the play of emotions, expressed on the actors' faces, tells us what we need to know." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1/4 |
Talk to Me (2007) |
"There is one good movie in Talk to Me and about four bad ones." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) |
"You know those comedies where all the good parts are in the trailer? Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby isn't one of them." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tangled Up in Bob (2006) |
"Dylan fans would do better with a rental of Martin Scorsese's electrifying No Direction Home, but the movie's insightful portrait of the Iron Range suggests there's no place like Hibbing." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Tarnation (2004) |
"A fluid, emotionally acute movie full of soul and raw energy." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato |
The Taste of Others (2001) |
"Jaoui ... has an unerring eye for the things men and women do to impress each other." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Taxi (2004) |
"Taxi stalls when it pretends to have an interesting story to tell but flies when it simply lets stars Queen Latifah and Jimmy Fallon loose." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) |
"Sad, important and very difficult to watch...Gibney narrates the film with admirable restraint." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Teacher's Pet (2004) |
"Instead of making you miss the lush Disney style that is now unleashed only once every couple of years, the Teacher's Pet animation makes a virtue of its dashed-off casualness." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Team America: World Police (2004) |
"Explosively funny." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
Tears of the Black Tiger (2000) |
"The goofing begins to wear thin by the end of Tears' two hours, but even its excessive length is of a piece with the movie, which takes over-the-top to a new level of overness." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Tears of the Sun (2003) |
"It's not a bad film; it's just not very enlightening." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Tell No One (2008) |
"A thriller with no missteps." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 4/4 |
Tell Them Who You Are (2005) |
"Tell Them Who You Are achieves greatness in its climax, which goes beyond the many faces Haskell Wexler shows the world and reveals yet another side, one that seems to surprise even him." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat |
The Ten (2007) |
"Many of the films have little to do with the Commandments, and none has anything provocative or profound to say about them." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ten Canoes (2007) |
"A comic mystery with a whimsical, unique tone." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1/4 |
The Ten Commandments (2007) |
"The characters' skin looks like hard plastic, so it's as if a bunch of GI Joes are trying to escape the plague of locusts, and all of the human characters appear to be lit from within, like nightlights." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006) |
"... deficient in the joke department." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Terminal (2004) |
"Hopeful but not sappy." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) |
"A summer behemoth that actually lives up to its potential." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"It's starting to look like a good summer for action movies." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
Testosterone (2003) |
"The tone-challenged movie is meant to be a dark comedy, but there are long stretches without laughs." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
Tetro (2009) |
"It would be a better coffee-table book than film." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
"So creepily obsessed with the specifics of torture and pain that it's not much fun." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1/4 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) |
"R. Lee Ermey's performance at the patriarch is impressively nutso. In every other respect, though, this is a redundant and deeply unpleasant movie." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Clone Wars (2008) |
"Call me crazy, but I liked Clone Wars more than any of the recent live-action films. It's funnier, leaner and more playful." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"It's an absorbing, humane winner." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) |
"Admittedly, the imminent destruction of Earth is not a barrel of laughs, but where Independence Day had a sense of humor, The Day the Earth Stood Still seems to have taken a vow not to crack a smile until species stop vanishing and lakes stop drying up." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 1/4 |
The Duchess of Langeais (2008) |
"Classy? Yes, is classy. Boring? Yes, The Duchess of Langeais is deeply boring." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Fallen Idol (1948) |
"Watching The Fallen Idol is like setting off one of those milelong mazes of dominoes, with ramps and loop-de-loops and sheer drops. First, every element is ingeniously set up; then, everything falls into place." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Polar Express (2004) |
"For a book with no characters or plot, The Polar Express makes a surprisingly smooth transition to the movies." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Signal (2007) |
"I really enjoyed the first hour or so of The Signal, but, whereas a movie can overcome a bad start, it's tough to overcome a bad ending." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Story of Pao (2007) |
"Pao is a visually stunning, deceptively sophisticated film." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
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There Will Be Blood (2007) |
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Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Splat 2/4 |
The Thing About My Folks (2005) |
"Reiser and Falk never stop yammering at each other, not when they're line-dancing, not when they're watching a baseball game, not when they should be trying to counter-steer their way out of the car accident they're in the midst of." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato |
Things Behind the Sun (2001) |
"Feels as surprising as the truth often does." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"Should you go? Yes, mostly because Del Toro is electrifying." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Thirteen (2003) |
"Startling and it contains moments of palpable feeling, particularly between Tracy and her supportive, distracted mother." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
Tomato 3/4 |
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2002) |
"Happiness is a topic as amorphous as it is sentimental, but 13 Conversations is grounded in the kinds of concrete emotions and images we can all relate to." |
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) |
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