Splat 2/4 |
Cabin Fever (2003) |
"Deals more in 'arrrgh, gross!' moments than in genuine fright." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2/4 |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"Pat, contrived and entirely predictable." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) |
"Uninvolving mix of fable, anti-war lecture and star-crossed romance." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"A movie that will haunt you for months to come." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Carandiru (2004) |
"There are numerous standout performances." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Cars (2006) |
"Cars gives you plenty of time to think, some of which you may wish to use wondering why it isn't a better movie." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2/4 |
Casa de los Babys (2003) |
"[Sayles] concentrates on the six tiresome Americans ... at the expense of their Latin hosts who, to a one, are much much more interesting and worthy of our time." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2/4 |
Casanova (2005) |
"It requires imagination of a certain kind to transform the tale of the legendary lover Casanova into a bland romantic comedy." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Casino Royale (2006) |
"Casino Royale is everything you could ask for in a Bond movie, and more. Much more. Sometimes even more than is a good idea." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat |
Cast Away (2000) |
"Cast Away has a marshmallow middle that feels empty at the core." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 1/4 |
Catch and Release (2007) |
"This one isn't even worth catching. Just throw it back." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"DiCaprio gives a radiant, movie-star performance." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat |
Cats & Dogs (2001) |
"Even at a Chihuahua-sized 83 minutes, the movie begins to feel funny in the same way that having the neighbor's dog attach himself to your leg is funny. You laugh while you're wishing you could pull yourself away." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Catwoman (2004) |
"Another phony story of female empowerment." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2/4 |
Cave of the Yellow Dog (2006) |
"If you've never seen a yurt taken down, I highly recommend it. Otherwise, not so much." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton has taken the 1971 cinematic bonbon Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, based on Roald Dahl's classic book, added nuts, and created something weirdly wonderful." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Charlie Wilson's War (2007) |
"All of a sudden, Hoffman is having one of the most spectacular years any movie actor ever had." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003) |
"This movie actually feels more like a sequel to the original television show than the one that came out 2 1/2 years ago." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato |
Charlotte Gray (2001) |
"When it finally stops being exasperating, Charlotte settles into a genuinely moving tale." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2/4 |
Chasing Liberty (2004) |
"The picture is filled with Mandy Moore Moments -- approximations of recognizable human emotions, without the complicating necessity of actual feeling." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 4/4 |
Chicago (2002) |
"A piece of stagecraft so thrilling -- and spontaneously combustible -- that audiences at the two screenings of the movie I attended kept erupting into applause." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2/4 |
Chicken Little (2005) |
"Chicken Little is much too glib to make us feel what its characters are experiencing; the filmmakers would much rather explode their animated sets and vaporize their talking creatures." |
Christopher Kelly |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) |
"This Lion is king." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Chronicles of Riddick (2004) |
"In terms of idiotic, incoherent plot progression, David Twohy's spacey follow-up is in a class by itself. Think John Travolta's Battlefield Earth and then drop a couple of rungs." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato |
The Cider House Rules (1999) |
"Deliciously satisfying." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Cinderella Man (2005) |
"Cinderella Man consistently delivers less than it wants to by trying for more than it should. The movie tells the story of Braddock's life as redemptive fairy tale, fitting the fighter for a glass slipper that ends up being the movie's glass jaw." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
City by the Sea (2002) |
"Like a book you can't put down, this is one of the rare movies that simply keeps getting better and better." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 4/4 |
City of God (2003) |
"A grim, outrageous, blisteringly effective underworld thriller destined to become a classic of its kind." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Clearing (2004) |
"One of those films you end up admiring more than you enjoy." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 1/4 |
Click (2006) |
"As a comic, Adam Sandler has never had an original thought, or if he did, he probably assumed he had stolen it from somebody, he just didn't know who." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 4/4 |
Closer (2004) |
"Everything about Closer -- from its four wonderful performances to Nichols' stunning work -- looks and feels perfect." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cloverfield (2008) |
"Cloverfield is the ultimate movie for people who don't feel a cataclysm has really happened until they can videotape it, upload it and stream it live to the rest of the world." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Cold Creek Manor (2003) |
"Keeps us squirming for about two-thirds of its running length." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cold Mountain (2003) |
"It is a promontory of undeniable beauty and occasional power, but Cold Mountain remains so dark and distant on the screen -- shivering in a wintry gloom -- that it hardly casts an emotional shadow." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Collateral (2004) |
"Mann puts Collateral through its paces so elegantly that even the most predictable scenes deliver a wallop." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat |
Collateral Damage (2002) |
"Just as in real life, you don't see Collateral Damage, you suffer it." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Comedian (2002) |
"It takes us finally to the comedy clubs that for so many years we saw only at the beginning and end of Seinfeld." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat |
The Company (2003) |
"Even though the Joffrey, founded nearly 50 years ago, has powerful work in its repertory, the film emphasizes dance that is pretty and a touch vapid." |
Anita Amirrezvani |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) |
"Clooney, who on the basis of this movie has a big career ahead of him behind the camera, demonstrates a real flair for visual comedy." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2/4 |
Confidence (2003) |
"An empty house of style, written in dim Mamet Lite." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Constant Gardener (2005) |
"The director's fluttering hand keeps the ground constantly shifting beneath our feet, which is just what this beautifully wrenching adaptation for the screen requires." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat .5/4 |
Constantine (2005) |
"Keanu Reeves brings a gravity to John Constantine that makes Neo -- his cheerless character in the Matrix movies -- now appear to be the height of the actor's madcap Jerry Lewis period. Hey Hayyyy-deees!" |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato |
The Contender (2000) |
"What it lacks in credibility, it more than makes up for in energy and scandalous wit." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Control Room (2004) |
"An overdue antidote to the carefully managed news that came out of the U.S. Central Command during the war." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Cooler (2003) |
"It may be the best movie ever made about Vegas." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2/4 |
Copying Beethoven (2006) |
"A feminist fantasy that you can either embrace -- as director Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa) seems to have done with an unbecoming schoolgirl gushiness -- or repeatedly be pulled out of the story by its falseness." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Core (2003) |
"For all its predictability and cornball heroics, this adventure is as sleek and efficient as its inner-spacecraft." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Corporation (2004) |
"The Corporation is an act of intentional provocation that manages to be both enormously entertaining and an affront to the business titans who bestride the bottom line." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2/4 |
Cradle 2 the Grave (2003) |
"Cradle has everything -- except plot and a reason for Li's name-above -the-title billing." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 4/4 |
Crash (2005) |
"A gorgeous mosaic of a movie that is actually about our fears of each other, set in the bright light of Los Angeles and the dark places in our hearts." |
Bruce Newman |
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