Splat |
$9.99 (2009) |
"The story, though, rarely engrosses as it poses the old 'meaning of life' query, then dances around the subject." |
Stan Hall |
Tomato B |
(Untitled) (2009) |
"It's a testament to the movie's keen script that, until a disjointed final act, we're able to both laugh at these characters and sympathize with them." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato |
101 Reykjavik (2001) |
"Culture clashes, gender roles and political correctnesses all get their moment in this droll winner." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat |
102 Dalmatians (2000) |
"A tepid rehash." |
Kim Morgan |
Splat C |
The 11th Hour (2007) |
"While there's the requisite "you can make a difference" section toward the end, you'll still likely walk out with a sense of impending doom, which may be fully appropriate but probably not what the filmmakers intended." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato B- |
12 (2007) |
"The performances, as I say, are wonderful." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B |
12 and Holding (2006) |
"It's a lot of drama to pack into just more than 90 minutes, and Cuesta's low-key visual approach plays nicely against the film's roiling passions and over-the-top (some might say too over-the-top) final act." |
Mike Russell |
Tomato B |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"The film wins you over with its sweetness." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato B+ |
13 Tzameti (2006) |
"A stylish and unnerving thriller that sucks you into surreal scenes of horror with the chilly confidence of a nightmare." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat |
15 Minutes (2001) |
"Smothered and finally buried in dull and simplistic plotting, cookie-cutter characterizations, scattershot finger-pointing and a ludicrous, tone-deaf finale." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B- |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"16 Blocks has a sweaty, weary, often intimate feel, with the human aspect dominating the mechanistic." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B |
2 Days In Paris (2007) |
"The movie's a trifle, but an amusing one, especially for Woody Allen fans and other neurotics." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"We expect Pamela Anderson and her VIP crew to come traipsing out in their high heels and cheap props. It's a shame they don't -- the film would be significantly improved." |
Kim Morgan |
Splat C |
2012 (2009) |
"It depicts a world where no one, man or God, has much say in what happens to the planet, and where the survival of one family outweighs the deaths of billions. What does that say about us?" |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato A- |
2046 (2005) |
"The cinema hasn't witnessed such a magical effort to make its leading ladies look so gorgeous since Josef Von Sternberg invented new lighting techniques to capture Marlene Dietrich." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C+ |
21 (2008) |
"There's a gap between what we're told about its characters and what we can see for ourselves, a gap that gets larger and more frustrating as the film goes on." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B |
21 Grams (2003) |
"The acting is worthy of Shakespeare, but the writing too often feels like daytime TV." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"The sheer woolly exuberance of the picture is so transporting that it doesn't really matter how true it is." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B- |
24 Hours on Craigslist (2005) |
"As a way of saying 'people sure are wacky,' Gibson's movie succeeds, although it goes on a bit long." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato |
25th Hour (2002) |
"Lee is in pretty good form in 25th Hour, and the film, while not a thunderbolt, is a welcome surprise." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C- |
27 Dresses (2008) |
"27 Dresses is stunningly dull. And Heigl, freed from the challenges of a Judd Apatow script, does little to distinguish herself from dozens of other actresses forgotten at the cineplex." |
M.E. Russell |
Splat |
28 Days (2000) |
"A failure of form, style, content, detail, humor and emotion, the film betrays the people it hopes to portray -- workaday folks struggling to overcome addictions and start their lives anew." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"Boyle and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, a veteran of low-tech Dogme films, work wonders with a digital camera." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B+ |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"A thrilling and chilling and sometimes grisly zombie movie that occasionally loses its way in genre conventions but generally keeps you locked into a heightened tension." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B+ |
3 Extremes (2005) |
"All three offer provocative, distinct and gorgeous twists on horror and splatter conventions." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato B+ |
3-Iron (2005) |
"A thoroughly curious combination of tension and eroticism." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B |
30 Days of Night (2007) |
"30 Days of Night is a high-concept movie idea that's so good, I'm surprised we haven't seen it." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato |
300 (2007) |
"The movie swings back and forth from awesome to awful so regularly and rapidly that it's like a jai alai match." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat |
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) |
"3000 Miles to Graceland shouldn't be reviewed in an arts section but rather in that portion of the newspaper dedicated to atrocities, environmental disasters and hate crimes." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B+ |
3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
"It's a movie grounded in something like the credible realism of a John Ford Western but which also can appease the thirsts for blood, wit and tension harbored by fans of Quentin Tarantino." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B+ |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) |
"Writer-director Cristian Mungiu uses long, naturalistic shots and creates a credibly grimy atmosphere to depict life in the dying regime." |
Barry Johnson |
Splat |
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) |
"Skitters between cheap, raunchy jokes, earnest homilies about abstinence and truthfulness, overheated visuals and underbaked plotting." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) |
"It's not great moviemaking -- it isn't as accomplished or funny as the best of the Farrelly brothers' films, say -- but it's got real appeal." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C+ |
50 First Dates (2004) |
"A sweet but weightless and witless romantic comedy." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B+ |
500 Days of Summer (2009) |
"The film does a lovely job of balancing emotional clarity, formal trickery, pop sweetness, and heartfelt narrative." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato A- |
5X2 (2005) |
"The result feels like a happy memory tainted by regret." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato |
The 6th Day (2000) |
"Under the tight wraps provided by a veteran director and a generally clever script, [Arnold] has, in The 6th Day, his best picture in many years." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat |
8 Mile (2002) |
"Essentially a downtrodden-teen -makes-good film ... That's not a bad thing, but it's nothing to rap home about, either." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
8 Women (2002) |
"Although dramatically contained and almost stifling, 8 Women comes to life through each actress' pleasurable performance." |
Kim Morgan |
Tomato B+ |
9 (2009) |
"At barely an-hour-and-a-quarter in length, it's one of those very rare feature films that you wish were longer." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat D+ |
9 Songs (2005) |
"Seventy minutes of pneumatic sex without the trappings of characterization, plot or even attempted meaning can be a profoundly long time." |
Shawn Levy |
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