Splat 2/4 |
I Am Legend (2007) |
"Even with Smith acting up a storm, what starts out as a potentially fascinating picture about an apocalyptic plague soon devolves into yet another special-effects laden zombie movie." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato |
I Am Sam (2002) |
"Penn's mentally retarded Sam Dawson will melt your heart and leave you chanting, 'Oscar! Oscar! Get this guy an Oscar!!'" |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart (2002) |
"Jones has crafted a natty narrative that, enhanced by Erin Nordstrom's editing, is filled with payoffs." |
Mark de la Viņa |
Splat 2.5/4 |
I Capture the Castle (2003) |
"Flat and suspenseless." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat |
I Dreamed of Africa (2000) |
"So disjointed and confusing one can only surmise it fell prey to poor preview screenings and some major last-minute tinkering." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 1.5/4 |
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"An ambitious but disjointed spoof of New Age quirks and quacks that attempts to simultaneously put down and lift up. But, despite the A-list ensemble, it accomplishes neither." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2/4 |
I Spy (2002) |
"Apparently the Hollywood studios can no longer be bothered to actually watch the old TV shows they are ripping off." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 4/4 |
I Vitelloni (1953) |
"Besides being the film that most influenced Martin Scorsese's breakthrough Mean Streets, this 1953 release remains the last word on friendship and disillusionment." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2/4 |
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004) |
"I always sleep when I'm deadly bored." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
I'm Not There (2007) |
"Tiresome and plodding." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2/4 |
I, Robot (2004) |
"A movie that never stops feeling like an advertisement for itself." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ice Age (2002) |
"... a lesson in prehistoric hilarity." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Identity (2003) |
"Takes the 'nothing is what it seems...' conceit to clever new extremes." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
In America (2003) |
"From its first frame to its final fade-out, In America is about her family's passage into the land of dreams, a place where wishes do come true, but only if you understand how to make them." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
In Bruges (2008) |
"It somehow manages to never stop being brutally funny, while also becoming tragically bleak." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2/4 |
In Good Company (2004) |
"If the rest of the movie were as good as Scarlett, we might give a damn." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
In Her Shoes (2005) |
"As it was winding down, I remember thinking I wasn't ready for this movie to end. These were people I liked, and I wasn't ready to give them up." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
In Praise of Love (2001) |
"At once dreamy and acrid, startlingly beautiful and numbingly polemical." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato |
In the Bedroom (2001) |
"This is the kind of restrained, deeply human relationship picture that Hollywood -- in its rush to keep us from ourselves -- has forgotten how to make." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
In the Cut (2003) |
"My advice is to ignore the plot holes and zero in on Campion's meticulous, non-judgmental direction and Ryan's searing performance." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
In the Valley of Elah (2007) |
"Elah uses a slightly plodding police procedural format as an opening to a discussion about the effect the war is having on returning soldiers. It's a lot to ask of one movie." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Incredibles (2004) |
"Pixar has delivered its first pure action picture, while still managing not to lose sight of its preoccupation with family." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat |
Innocence (2001) |
"Because the script has them lovey-dovey from beginning to bittersweet end, their story is fatally lacking in dramatic conflict." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Inside Deep Throat (2005) |
"If their new film never quite makes the case that one dirty movie set off the culture war that rages across America today, it is a highly entertaining and informative look back." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Inside Man (2006) |
"The geometric precision with which this clever puzzle is laid out produces a picture whose sum exceeds its sometimes wayward parts." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato |
The Insider (1999) |
"The right balance of style and story." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Insomnia (2002) |
"Proves the best (read: most unsettling) of its type since The Pledge." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat |
Inspector Gadget (1999) |
"A scrap heap of jokes and sight gags lifted from half a dozen super-sleuth spoofs." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat |
Instinct (1999) |
"The result is so artificial." |
Julie Hinds |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Intermission (2004) |
"There are some genuinely funny moments... There also are some genuinely horrifying ones. The problem is, they never really mesh." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Interpreter (2005) |
"The picture gets so bogged down in inconsistencies of plot and improbabilities of character that it begins to look as if it were shot not at the U.N. but in Congress." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato |
Intimacy (2001) |
"What makes it worth seeing isn't the sin but the scintillating acting." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Into the Wild (2007) |
"In its expansive spirit of investigation and embrace of life as a creative act, Into the Wild comes as close as any picture ever made to capturing the America that Jack Kerouac discovered half a century ago." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) |
"There are obvious Coen touches, comic Post-it notes from the underground that have a 'Kilroy was here' feel. But mostly, killjoy was here." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Iris (2001) |
"Demonstrates the catastrophe of disintegration by putting us first in the full thrall of the character's intellect." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato |
The Iron Giant (1999) |
"It's very serious without ever being overwrought, and it's visually lush." |
Mike Antonucci |
Splat |
Iron Monkey (1993) |
"The action here is peerless. But seen after Crouching Tiger -- in which Yuen's martial-arts mastery was equaled, and balanced, by the story -- you might find yourself wishing for a little Hidden Monkey." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 4/4 |
Irreversible (2003) |
"Once the shock wears off and feeling returns to the extremities, Irreversible is unmistakably life-altering and affirming." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Isle (2002) |
"There is little question that this is a serious work by an important director who has something new to say about how, in the flip-flop of courtship, we often reel in when we should be playing out." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Italian Job (2003) |
"The Minis rule the road for 14 minutes in The Italian Job, and not a second of it is anything but screeching fun." |
Bruce Newman |
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