Tomato B |
The Wackness (2008) |
"The most adventuresome element in The Wackness isn't its pop-culture skin but the unlikely friendship of Luke and Squires." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C+ |
Wah-Wah (2006) |
"Although it's based on a fount of real feeling and well-observed detail, and although a starry cast does strong work, the film is an overheated hodgepodge, clumsily staged and edited and smaller in its impact than you would wish from the sum of its parts." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C+ |
Waiting... (2005) |
"The scenes that work are really funny. But for every gag that flies there are at least one-and-a-half that don't." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato B+ |
Waitress (2007) |
"It's weird to write that a movie chock-full of adultery, stalking, spousal abuse and hatred of the unborn is the feel-good comedy of the summer." |
Mike Russell |
Tomato B- |
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) |
"It's a bill of indictment, really, more than an objective survey. Greenwald often makes his arguments with a kind of prosecutorial zeal that makes you chary of swallowing it whole." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B |
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
"Doesn't produce belly laughs so much as steady smiles of recognition over how accurately it's nailing its target." |
Mike Russell |
Tomato B- |
Walk on Water (2005) |
"Though its characters aren't terribly complex, and its plot holds few surprises, the screenplay (in English, German, and Hebrew) amounts to a worthy treatise on the need to forgo revenge." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato B |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"Unfortunately, the movie falls short of an "A" grade because director James Mangold and his co-writer Gil Dennis don't make you understand what Carter sees in Cash." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato |
A Walk to Remember (2002) |
"The film follows their gentle courtship with such old-fashioned goodness that you can become a little misty." |
Kim Morgan |
Tomato B- |
Walking Tall (2004) |
"Don't go in expecting much and you'll have fun." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato |
WALL-E (2008) |
"It may not be top-shelf Pixar, but every one of Pixar's shelves is higher than those of anyone else making movies for kids and their families today." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B- |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"At times, you can even see fingerprints on the models, a touch that curiously makes them even more magical." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B+ |
Wanted (2008) |
"Easily the most ferocious action film of the year and vindication for every Russian-vampire-movie nerd who told friends they had to see the director's earlier films." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B- |
War Dance (2007) |
"An uplifting, visually pleasing documentary." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"As powerful a filmmaker as he is, Spielberg, with approximately two dozen features under his belt, remains a work in progress as a storyteller." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B+ |
The War Tapes (2006) |
"The edited footage has an intensity and immediacy you won't find on cable news networks." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato A- |
The War Within (2005) |
"Almost everything that happens feels true and horrifying, and yet it's done so well you can't look away." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B- |
War, Inc. (2008) |
"A film that confronts the absurdity and violence of modern warfare by taking it to the surreal and goofy next level." |
Marc Mohan |
Tomato B+ |
The Warriors (1979) |
"The movie can also be enjoyed, and enjoyed thoroughly, as a mean, dirty piece of pulp mythology." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato |
Washington Heights (2003) |
"The performances are uniformly fine, with Perez showing a heavy amount of presence and complexity." |
Kim Morgan |
Splat C |
Wassup Rockers (2006) |
"Even Clark's fans probably won't be surprised to hear the result is a low-key, pervy mess." |
Mike Russell |
Tomato |
Watchmen (2009) |
"Finally, Watchmen the movie makes a really good ad for and introduction to Watchmen the book." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat |
The Way Home (2002) |
"[The kid's] just too bratty for sympathy, and as the film grows to its finale, his little changes ring hollow." |
Kim Morgan |
Splat |
The Way of the Gun (2000) |
"We understand [McQuarrie] aspires toward meaningful complications, but with all the people and words in the way nothing sticks." |
Kim Morgan |
Tomato A- |
The Way We Laughed (2001) |
"An unusual, tremendously moving film that nicely assumes we can read between the pictures." |
Kim Morgan |
Tomato B |
We Are Marshall (2006) |
"Often as not, the movie works. Here and there, it works kind of beautifully." |
M.E. Russell |
Tomato B |
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"An absorbing relational Rorschach test masquerading as a domestic drama, a sardonic examination of marriage and friendship that invites the audience to think for itself." |
Karen Karbo |
Tomato B+ |
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) |
"No band epitomized smart punk rock more than the Minutemen, and no band's legacy better captures the sense of tragedy that underlies the history of punk." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat C+ |
The Weather Man (2005) |
"A sour, deflating and ultimately unlikable black comedy about how awful life can be." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato B- |
Wedding Crashers (2005) |
"This absurd romantic comedy, about a couple of thirtysomething rakes who sneak into bridal parties to meet women, is often laugh-out-loud funny, thanks to the considerable charms of its four leads and a few gleefully tasteless sex jokes." |
M.E. Russell |
Splat C |
The Wedding Date (2005) |
"A movie of utter inconsequence -- a cinematic Listerine Strip that evaporates from the brain before you even get your popcorn tub to the trash." |
M.E. Russell |
Splat |
A Wedding for Bella (2001) |
"The plot is straight off the shelf, the performances are television- caliber and the message of providing solace through deception is a little creepy." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat |
The Wedding Planner (2001) |
"What begins as a clever sendup of the impersonal and contentious nature of matrimony devolves into a movie filled with forced tenderness." |
Kim Morgan |
Splat |
The Weight of Water (2002) |
"A well-acted movie that simply doesn't gel." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat F |
Welcome to Mooseport (2004) |
"A foul dog of a film." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Wendigo (2002) |
"Until it goes off the rails in its final 10 or 15 minutes, Wendigo, Larry Fessenden's spooky new thriller, is a refreshingly smart and newfangled variation on several themes derived from far less sophisticated and knowing horror films." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato A- |
Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
"The film is exquisitely realized, with a tremendous, naturalistic performance by Michelle Williams at its heart." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Werckmeister Harmonies (2001) |
"The kind of picture that slowly grows with such emotion and transcendence that its ultimate effect is shocking." |
Kim Morgan |
Tomato |
Westender |
"For what it is -- a debut by independent filmmakers from the central Willamette Valley -- it is astoundingly ambitious and accomplished." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat |
Wet Hot American Summer (2001) |
"A putrid, insipid, morbidly unfunny comedy." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
Whale Rider (2003) |
"It combines elements of the ancient and the modern with assured craft as it builds to a truly astonishing climax." |
Shawn Levy |
- |
What Dreams May Come (1998) |
"It's such a lavish, awesome spectacle!" |
|
Tomato |
What Dreams May Come (1998) |
"It's such a lavish, awesome spectacle!" |
|
Splat C- |
What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"You know how some movies feel like they were made by a committee? What Happens in Vegas feels like it was made by checklist." |
Mike Russell |
Splat C |
What Just Happened (2008) |
"Levinson keeps the film locked into a sort of low-key middle-age depression." |
Mike Russell |
Tomato |
What Lies Beneath (2000) |
"A chilly psychological thriller that can evoke goose pimples even if it isn't the most plausible or elegant of constructs." |
Shawn Levy |
Tomato |
What the Bleep Do We Know? (2004) |
"Overall, the film is about three-fourths intellectual substance and one-fourth hokum -- not a bad ratio." |
Marc Mohan |
Splat C |
What the Bleep!? Down the Rabbit Hole (2006) |
"The new footage adds almost nothing and feels like a lame, double-dipping cash-grab." |
M.E. Russell |
Splat |
What Time Is It There? (2002) |
"His best film remains his shortest, The Hole, which makes many of the points that this film does but feels less repetitive." |
Shawn Levy |
Splat C |
What We Do Is Secret (2008) |
"In sure hands, What We Do Is Secret could have been a fine rock'n'roll biopic." |
Stan Hall |
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