Splat 2/4 |
Tadpole (2002) |
"Seems precious when it means to be precocious, and pretentious when it can least afford to be." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2/4 |
Taking Lives (2004) |
"Taking Lives has such a diabolically wonderful premise for a thriller that watching it sink into the abject silliness of The Silence of the Hermit Crabs is all the more disheartening." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Taking Sides (2003) |
"Though obviously the project of an older director who now chooses to work in miniature, Taking Sides never feels talky or claustrophobic." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat C |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"The characters are all representative of the period but they come off as one-dimensional, more symbols than individuals." |
Charlie McCollum |
Tomato |
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) |
"The kind of sophisticated, old-fashioned thriller Hollywood doesn't get around to much anymore." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Talk to Me (2007) |
"The movie's occasional narrative shortcomings are offset by the performances, which are uniformly fine." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) |
"Talladega Nights is very funny at times, even if the Ballad part mostly boils down to a series of comedy sketches connected by a recurring character." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato |
Tarzan (1999) |
"Disney's animation is always dazzling to the eye, but Tarzan is especially kinetic." |
Julie Hinds |
Splat |
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) |
"Insipid and thick!" |
Mike Antonucci |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Team America: World Police (2004) |
"Horribly, wonderfully offensive." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tears of the Sun (2003) |
"Propaganda doesn't get any more entertaining." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 1/4 |
Teknolust (2002) |
"It's the sort of pretentious twaddle that gives twaddle a bad name." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006) |
"Far from a hit, Tenacious D probably will do just fine on the midnight-movie circuit." |
Jim Harrington |
Splat 2/4 |
The Terminal (2004) |
"Cloying and contrived." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2/4 |
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) |
"T3 isn't so much a sequel as it is a spoof." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 1/4 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
"That it escaped the straight-to-video bin suggests that Hollywood's contempt for today's youth audience has reached a new level." |
Glenn Lovell |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Thank You For Smoking (2006) |
"Thank You For Smoking, the low-tar adaptation of Christopher Buckley's satirical novel, never feels as if it's been fully absorbed by the screen." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Polar Express (2004) |
"Barrels across the trackless landscape of our affections, arriving where no one would have thought to look for a big-budget Hollywood movie: in the terrain of the heart." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat |
The Thin Red Line (1998) |
"Viewers will get lost in the wanderings of this dreamlike movie!" |
Julie Hinds |
Splat 0.5/4 |
The Thing About My Folks (2005) |
"If you've ever wondered what it would feel like to be trapped in a '36 Ford convertible for 47 years with a Yiddish theater version of Dr. Phil and the runaway bride, this is the movie for you." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Thirteen (2003) |
"The year's most harrowing film." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat |
Thirteen Ghosts (2001) |
"Spectacularly stupid." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato |
Thomas Crown Affair, The (1999) |
"Russo on the dance floor, rumba-ing seductively with her No. 1 suspect, is a stitch." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato |
Thomas in Love (2001) |
"One of the year's small finds -- that rare art-house date movie." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) |
"It is a brave look at the distortions created when an international border bisects what natural law intended to be a cultural melting pot." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat |
Three Kings (1999) |
"Director David O. Russell, who also wrote the screenplay, couldn't separate what's visually ingenious from what's merely visually curious." |
Mike Antonucci |
Splat 2/4 |
Thunderbirds (2004) |
"Why an actor of Kingsley's stature would sign on for this hack work is a mystery." |
David Hiltbrand |
Splat 2/4 |
Till Human Voices Wake Us (2003) |
"As romance, Till Human Voices Wake Us is so passive, it inspires forgetting." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Time Machine (2002) |
"... the movie's climax is so under-explained and conveniently resolved that it leaves you feeling as if you've missed a few hundred millennia." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat |
Timecode (2000) |
"With Time Code, there is always a danger that you are watching the wrong corner." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 1/4 |
Timeline (2003) |
"This dunderheaded mix of sci-fi and medieval skull-bashing should have been called Monty Python and the Holey Time Machine." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Together (2003) |
"A modern-day fable about what it means to be young, gifted and batted around like a pingpong ball." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 4/4 |
Touching the Void (2004) |
"It's one of the all-time great high adventures, easily on a par with Deliverance and Jaws." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato |
Toy Story 2 (1999) |
"Not just matches, but actually surpasses a delightful original." |
Charlie McCollum |
Tomato |
Trained in the Ways of Men (2007) |
"Like an episode of Law and Order, the film lays out the facts of the case, allows us to get to know many of the principal characters and packs an emotional wallop." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat |
Training Day (2001) |
"This movie is so racist that it's almost possible to overlook the wholesale misogyny." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Transformers (2007) |
"As a movie, Transformers is mostly muscle car, but it has enough of a brain under its hood to know how, and when, to be funny." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Treasure Planet (2002) |
"It's a pleasant enough way to mark time, which is exactly what the rest of the Disney crew is doing -- until inspiration, like a beam from the far end of the galaxy, strikes again." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) |
"Takes a fresh and absorbing look at a figure whose legacy had begun to bronze." |
Bruce Newman |
Splat 2/4 |
Triumph of Love (2002) |
"Proves a lovely trifle that, unfortunately, is a little too in love with its own cuteness." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Troy (2004) |
"An action picture of stunning scope and stirring spectacle, with a love story between two callow nitwits that is its Achilles heel." |
Bruce Newman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tupac: Resurrection (2003) |
"Even hard-core fans will learn something." |
Marian Liu |
Tomato |
Tuvalu (2001) |
"Still in the mood for something offbeat and phantasmagoric? Check out this charming German import by Veit Helmer." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) |
"Sexier, darker and funnier, New Moon rises well above the anemic 2008 film version of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight." |
Randy Myers |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Twisted (2004) |
"A predictable, completely unsuspenseful time-killer." |
Glenn Lovell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Two Brothers (2004) |
"[A] spectacularly beautiful movie." |
Glenn Lovell |
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