Splat |
R-Xmas (2002) |
"It's hard to believe that something so short could be so flabby." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
"A real work of art." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C |
Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
"The Rock charms you through the worst of it, but the effects are cheap, the dialogue is about as challenging as a Hannah Montana episode, and the pace manages to be both brisk and numbing." |
Mike Russell |
Tomato B+ |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"Solid proof that a groundbreaking setup isn't necessary when intense, lived-in performances, impeccable timing and sharp, realistic dialogue are at hand." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato B+ |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"The latest effort from the effortlessly versatile director Jonathan Demme is solid proof that a groundbreaking setup isn't necessary when intense, lived-in performances, impeccable timing and sharp, realistic dialogue are at hand." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat |
Radio (2003) |
"All restraint was jettisoned when James Horner was hired to disgorge another of his tediously manipulative scores, attempting to provoke specific emotions with each note without ever bothering to hide his intentions." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato |
Rain (2002) |
"Quiet, sexual, disturbing, often beautifully melancholic." |
Kim Morgan |
Tomato B- |
Raising Flagg (2007) |
"It's slight stuff, with several conflicts settled off-screen, but it's not without its low-key charms." |
M.E. Russell |
Splat D |
Raising Helen (2004) |
"This goopy dramedy is unfunny, mentally bankrupt and makes parenthood look like a terrifying death sentence." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato |
Raising Victor Vargas (2003) |
"In every aspect of filmmaking and intent this picture is peerless, so truly real, funny, poignant and sexy that it almost feels like a watershed cinematic moment." |
Kim Morgan |
Tomato B+ |
The Rape Of Europa (2007) |
"The film is somewhat scattered in construction, but it's an eye-opener." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Rat Race (2001) |
"Rat Race isn't a stupid movie -- it's an aggressively stupid movie that journeys into realms of absurdity that are, well, aggressively funny." |
Kim Morgan |
Tomato A- |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"It should be no surprise that the best American studio film of the year should come from the only American studio never to have made a bad film." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Ray (2004) |
"You may be so pleasantly swept up in the performances and the music that Ray will send you out of the theater singing and smiling." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato A |
The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2007) |
"To find something that can make you love America in the way that was so common for so many a generation ago can seem like a miracle." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat |
Real Women Have Curves (2002) |
"It's so filled with cliches and stiff acting that it becomes hard to find anything notable except for its subject matter." |
Kim Morgan |
Splat |
Rebound (2005) |
"It's just another bland, junior-high-basketball riff on The Bad News Bears formula, one that takes every single dramatic cue from the underdog sports-movie playbook." |
M.E. Russell |
Splat C- |
The Reckoning (2004) |
"It's as if the filmmakers had a 14th-century audience in mind, one that had never seen a movie." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat |
The Recruit (2003) |
"For the most part it's a completely ordinary, completely familiar, professionally executed film." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B+ |
Red Cliff (2009) |
"Woo doesn't have Yimou's natural feel for the courtly culture, or, perhaps, his sweeping way with this type of story. But his hand is sure and his eye, as ever, finds beauty in everything, even death." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Red Dragon (2002) |
"An absorbing film, acted with real force by all parties and directed with competence and assuredness if something less than inspiration." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C+ |
Red Eye (2005) |
"McAdams and Murphy keep this air disaster just gripping enough to survive. They're two actors to watch -- although one hopes we'll be watching them in better films than this." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato |
Red Lights (2004) |
"It's admirably streamlined and spare." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato A- |
Red Road (2007) |
"It's a wonderful debut, despite all the pain you may feel watching it." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat D |
Red Trousers (2003) |
"There's plenty of material for a great movie in the lives and work of the stuntmen and women in Hong Kong's thriving action film industry. Unfortunately, this isn't that movie." |
Nestor Ramos |
Tomato B- |
Redacted (2007) |
"As a manipulator of images and emotions, De Palma has few equals, and this is his most gripping film in at least a decade." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B |
Redbelt (2008) |
"A fascinating, beautifully acted study in philosophical tension." |
Mike Russell |
Tomato |
Reel Paradise (2005) |
"You are buoyed by the purity of the islanders' responses to some of what Pierson shows them: the Three Stooges, Buster Keaton and, most delightedly, Jackass: The Movie." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Refusenik (2008) |
"One can only hope that future films about today's most pressing humanitarian crises have such unambiguously happy endings." |
Stan Hall |
Tomato |
Reign of Fire (2002) |
"A decent little futuristic monster movie with some cool moments, lots of cheesy writing and acting, and the good sense to build to a nice climax." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B- |
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"Reign Over Me has moments of truth, but also a lot of self-indulgent hooey." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato B- |
Religulous (2008) |
"Atheists should find it good for an easy laugh." |
Mike Russell |
Tomato |
Remember the Titans (2000) |
"The film is sufficiently populated with carefully drawn characters and infused with enough fire and levity to win you over even as you titter at its corniness." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C- |
Rendition (2007) |
"The film takes a matter that every American with an ounce of decency should be concerned with and handles it so poorly that the Dick Cheneys of the world will have no trouble dismissing those who take it seriously." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B- |
Reno 911!: Miami (2007) |
"If you're a fan of the show, you'll probably be a fan of the movie -- which mostly retains the Super Troopers-meets-Cops-by-way-of-Christopher-Guest-only-not-quite-as-funny vibe." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato B |
Rent (2005) |
"Rent isn't nearly as transporting a film as the Oscar-winning adaptation of Chicago, but its energies and passions compensate for a lot of its deficiencies." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat |
The Replacements (2000) |
"Is dang near the worst picture in Hackman's lengthy -- and fairly spotty -- resume." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B |
Reprise (2008) |
"Reprise is about negotiating the path from reckless youth to ambitious adulthood as much as it's about the craft of fiction." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato |
Requiem for a Dream (2000) |
"An accomplished work." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C+ |
Rescue Dawn (2007) |
"From a director known for his obsession with obsessions, it's an unfortunate smoothing out." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat C |
Reservation Road (2007) |
"...About as silly as a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode." |
Mike Russell |
Tomato |
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) |
"Good dumb fun." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato |
Respiro (2003) |
"The authenticity of its setting and its actors make this effort worth a look." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat C |
Resurrecting the Champ (2007) |
"Clumsiness follows clumsiness -- the acting, the staging, the details of the plot -- until you reach the point of cool indifference." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B |
The Return (2004) |
"Good performances and cinematography, but lack of narrative closure is a problem." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato |
Return to Me (2000) |
"If you like your sentiment layered on thick and creamy as a slab of mascarpone cheese, Return to Me is one to go back for." |
Diana Abu-Jaber |
Tomato |
Revanche (2009) |
"It can be a mite slow, but it's exquisitely crafted and deeply atmospheric, and it pays you amply for your patience." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato A- |
Revanche (2009) |
"Johannes Krisch leads an effective cast. But it's writer-director Götz Spielmann who's truly the talent to watch." |
Stan Hall |
Tomato |
Revolution OS (2003) |
"The charm of Revolution OS is rather the way it introduces you to new, fervently held ideas and fanciful thinkers." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato A- |
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (2003) |
"It's as if somebody had had a camcorder in hand when Julius Caesar was slain in the Roman Forum. History doesn't get any more real or vital than this." |
Shawn Levy |
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