Splat 1.5/4 |
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"... it's a thriller with a lot of explaining to do, which it does, endlessly, while we wait for an actual movie to break out." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2/4 |
Daddy Day Care (2003) |
"This is Eddie in the comfort zone, coasting on riffs and bits lifted from Mr. Mom and Kindergarten Cop." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2/4 |
Dan in Real Life (2007) |
"The sort of movie that wears down your resistance until, finally, you feel as if something must be wrong with you if you don't fall for the cheap theatrics of its story and the emotional manipulations of its characters." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato |
Dancer in the Dark (1999) |
"Such are the exquisite contradictions of this deeply affecting gem that I found myself massaging goose bumps even as I flinched in terror." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Dancer Upstairs (2003) |
"Smart, upmarket entertainment." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) |
"The film takes us into the secret world of teenage boys as if first-time director Peter Care had been issued a special password." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat .5/4 |
Daredevil (2003) |
"With the appearance in movie theaters of Daredevil, we have now officially arrived at the bottom of the comic-book pile." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2/4 |
Dark Blue (2003) |
"Speedman doesn't show much in his first big movie role, while Russell shows too much." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato |
Dark Blue World (2001) |
"An evocative, richly plotted, edge-of-the-seat war epic." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dark Water (2005) |
"Connelly and the wide-eyed Gade are so good together as mother and daughter that their performances -- along with the fine supporting work of Reilly, Roth and Postlethwaite -- carry the film. And the day." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006) |
"While the future of Chappelle's Show remains in doubt, we have his insanely funny concert film, Dave Chappelle's Block Party, to sustain us." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
"This demographic (predominantly young and male) goes to a zombie movie for one thing and one thing only: increasingly outrageous gross-outs. And Dawn, they'll be glad to hear, doesn't disappoint." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) |
"A summer snow job that produces the season's first perfect storm of pleasure." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Day I Became A Woman (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2/4 |
A Day Without A Mexican (2004) |
"Arau has expanded his satirical short from 1998 into one joke that he solemnly beats to death for 100 minutes." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
De-Lovely (2004) |
"A refreshing change from Hollywood's typical wages-of-sin sermon." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Death of a President (2006) |
"Despite the intentionally controversial depiction of the murder of a sitting U.S. president, the movie never arrives at the shocking conclusions a picture like this seems to cry out for." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 0/4 |
Death Sentence (2007) |
"As rancid as its title is lurid, an example of pulp fiction run amok." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato |
The Deep End (2001) |
"Sucks us into its vortex of sex, lies and videotape and refuses to let go -- at least for the first hour or so." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato B- |
Definitely, Maybe (2008) |
"The picture does have a certain unimpeachable charm." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Deja Vu (2006) |
"Washington has powered through thrillers like this before, always managing to make the best of dubious material." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Demonlover (2003) |
"You'll be as transfixed as you are utterly confused." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Departed (2006) |
"In Martin Scorsese's thrilling, throbbing reinterpretation of [Infernal Affairs], it is the war that rages within all of us -- between our better and our badder selves -- that transforms this tale of treachery into one of the year's best movies." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Derailed (2005) |
"As a thriller, Derailed proceeds with the same unearned swagger as a bad magic act, revealing its astonishments to the evident surprise of the filmmakers alone." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Devil Wears Prada (2006) |
"A very clever adaptation of Lauren Weisberger's bestselling novel." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2/4 |
Die Another Day (2002) |
"A meandering, over-inflated, everything -but-the -kitchen-sink attempt to one-up and wear down." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007) |
"Willis has a firm grip on what has made his character popular for nearly two decades, and maintains a firm hand on the wheel. Like almost everything he drives, he keeps the movie airborne. Yippee-ki-yay." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato |
Dinosaur (2000) |
"One Dinosaur that won't soon be forgotten." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dirty Pretty Things (2003) |
"This is one of those modest imports that can be enjoyed more for its character portraits, which are complex and poignant, than for its rather melodramatic story line." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 4/4 |
A Dirty Shame (2004) |
"Let the chant begin here. Ullman for best actress! Ullman for best actress!" |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato |
Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) |
"Disney's excessively hyped A Christmas Carol revels so richly in bringing the Dickensian details to sumptuous life that you wind up forgiving it for possessing a stop-motion soul." |
Randy Myers |
Tomato 3/4 |
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) |
"A rich, thoroughly engaging drama that is by turns funny, wistful, phantasmagorical and disturbing." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) |
"Director Julian Schnabel uses his skill as a painter to assemble a collage of fantastical images to reveal the exquisite physical wreck that Bauby has become." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2/4 |
Le Divorce (2003) |
"It isn't often that the Merchant-Ivory team ... misses the spirit of a good book this badly." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) |
"Some movies are funny because they're smart, while other movies are equally funny because they're dumb. More rarely, movies are funny because they involve watching enormous wrenches being hurled at people's groins." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Dog Days (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato |
Dogma (1999) |
"The movie manages to ask relevant spiritual questions." |
Mark de la Viņa |
Tomato 4/4 |
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002) |
"Peralta captures, in luminous interviews and amazingly evocative film from three decades ago, the essence of the Dogtown experience." |
Mike Antonucci |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dogville (2003) |
"A tenacious, brutal drama that dares you to turn your back." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat |
Domestic Disturbance (2001) |
"A slick, rerouted TV movie at best." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat |
Don't Say a Word (2001) |
"Don't Say a Word is a Michael Douglas movie that never stops feeling like a Michael Douglas movie, even when it ought to stop feeling like one." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Door in the Floor (2004) |
"[Bridges] bursts through The Door in the Floor like it was made of plywood and, in the process, delivers the year's first full-bodied dramatic performance." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat |
Double Jeopardy (1999) |
"One of the dumbest chase thrillers ever to stumble onto the big screen!" |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2/4 |
Down With Love (2003) |
"Feels less antic than frantic, semi-glossing over a 40-year-old cultural dust-bunny to create soggy, ersatz fluff." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003) |
"The movie is overproduced in every way but the most important one: Other than an occasional token rhyme, this Cat in the Hat lands flat-footed and with tin ear, drained of its essential Dr. Seussness." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato |
Dr. T and the Women (2000) |
"A shrewd, sideways glance at the incredibly dense (and darn proud of it) male of the species." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2003) |
"One of the most bizarre and extraordinary dance movies you'll ever see." |
Anita Amirrezvani |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Dreamcatcher (2003) |
"This is the kind of horror flick you'd expect from someone who doesn't respect or understand genre conventions, someone who thinks that he can reclaim an audience's lagging attention with bigger and badder shock effects." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Dreamers (2004) |
"How much you enjoy The Dreamers will depend on your threshold for flash minus dramatic depth or political subtext." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2/4 |
Dreamgirls (2006) |
"[Dreamgirls proves] again that transforming a hit Broadway musical into an equally spectacular movie is one of the most confounding tricks in show business." |
Bruce Newman |