Tomato B+ |
Waitress (2007) |
"The movie finds a real hook in Jenna, and a real elegance in its simple, direct message: take look at the choices you've made, and start making the right ones. Start fresh. It's never too late." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B |
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
"I'm glad the artform that Zucker-Abahams-Zucker brought us in the 1980's survives. It's gotten raunchier, meaner, maybe rougher, but it lives on." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"Top-shelf, middle-brow Hollywood." |
Eugene Novikov |
Splat C+ |
Walking Tall (2004) |
"Goes to hell in its second half, getting bogged down in cop movie nonsense and a stunningly retarded romantic subplot." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato A- |
WALL-E (2008) |
"The fact that Wall-E's not merely adorable, but central to a serious, thoughtful, adult story is still another illustration of Pixar's downright heroic commitment to the craft." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"Surely it must be easier to just let computers do it." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B |
Wanted (2008) |
"Summer '08 has been full of decent, largely predictable rollercoaster rides, but here's one that's a little off-kilter, and kind of unique." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato A |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"People will nit-pick at the plot and the script... but you can't look at what Spielberg has put together in the first two-thirds of this film and not be humbled and amazed." |
Eugene Novikov |
- |
The Watcher (2000) |
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Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B |
Water (2006) |
"Compelling in the way it gradually opens up, beginning as the story of a little girl's plight, wedging in some supporting characters, expanding to add some cultural perspective, and finally encompassing no less than the future of India and its people." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B |
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) |
"a small, personal film spruced up with a touch of the marketable. 'Lovely' is the best word to describe it." |
Eugene Novikov |
Splat D |
The Waterboy (1998) |
"God knows, it tries, but most of the jokes fall flat, and the movie never gets off the ground." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B |
The Way Home (2002) |
"As a tearjerker this works pretty well, though long before it gets to work on your tear ducts, it starts to eat away at your nerves." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B+ |
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"Striking in the way it evokes tension from ordinary conversations and relationship details." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B+ |
We Own The Night (2007) |
"So meticulous, observant and generous in the details, that I was almost saddened to see the story start up in earnest and inevitably limit the film's scope." |
Eugene Novikov |
Splat C+ |
We Were Soldiers (2002) |
"The movie is clearly diluted for mass consumption." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B |
Wedding Crashers (2005) |
"Exists to let Wilson and Vaughn perform their schtick, and they get plenty of opportunity to do so." |
Eugene Novikov |
Splat C |
The Wedding Date (2005) |
"There's a bizarrely Republican message, asserting that "every woman has the exact love life she wants," which strikes me as kind of unsympathetic." |
Eugene Novikov |
Splat D+ |
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) |
"Each year, I happily endure much at the movies that most people are smart enough to avoid, and I am telling you that watching Lawrence here is a punishment." |
Eugene Novikov |
Splat D |
Welcome to Mooseport (2004) |
"Not since Death to Smoochy has a comedy underachieved so pathetically." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B+ |
Wendigo (2002) |
"A dizzying digital video oddyssey through the snowy woods of upstate New York." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B |
Whale Rider (2003) |
"How interesting to see a movie about a young woman who doesn't want to escape the sexist, ostensibly antiquated culture of her family but instead commits herself to changing it for the better." |
Eugene Novikov |
Splat D+ |
What a Girl Wants (2003) |
"The film wants so badly to craft her into something universally appealing, when all it had to do was just let her be herself." |
Eugene Novikov |
- |
What Dreams May Come (1998) |
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Eugene Novikov |
Splat D |
What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
" I am so tired of these miserable things that pass for romantic comedies these days, thoughtless assembly-line products that recycle the same components in ever-dumber packaging over and over again." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B- |
What Just Happened (2008) |
"It's esoteric, and its audience is small, but if you're part of it, you know who you are." |
Eugene Novikov |
- |
What Lies Beneath (2000) |
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Eugene Novikov |
Splat 7/10 |
What Planet Are You From? (2000) |
"The film's set-up fits a Saturday Night Live sketch better than a full-length movie." |
Eugene Novikov |
- |
What Women Want (2000) |
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Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B- |
What's The Worst That Could Happen? (2001) |
"I can't ask much more of a movie from which I expected so much less." |
Eugene Novikov |
- |
When a Man Falls in the Forest (2007) |
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Eugene Novikov |
- |
Where the Money Is (2000) |
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Eugene Novikov |
Splat |
Whipped (2000) |
"The comedy is slim, and the promised sex is disinfected to a Clearasil standard of stringency." |
James Bennett |
Tomato B- |
White Oleander (2002) |
"It's worth mentioning that any movie that ends with the phrase "I know my mother loves me" already has two strikes against it in my book." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato 8/10 |
The Whole Nine Yards (2000) |
"The Whole Nine Yards tackles its plot with such unapologetically cheerful gusto that you can't help but like it." |
Eugene Novikov |
Splat D- |
The Whole Ten Yards (2004) |
"None of it is funny. At all. Not even a little." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato A- |
Wicker Park (2004) |
"McGuigan has a superb sense of wild romanticism, sometimes blending it with thriller-style tension and other times just reveling in it." |
Eugene Novikov |
Splat 2/4 |
Wild Wild West (1999) |
"I wasn't prepared to see such inanity from Will Smith." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato A- |
Willard (2003) |
"A rare gem, a character study of considerable subtlety aside from being a helluva fun time." |
Eugene Novikov |
Splat C+ |
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004) |
"A failure, but an interesting failure, blessed with a cast filled not with name-brand behemoths but with prodigiously talented, engaging semi-newcomers." |
Eugene Novikov |
Splat C |
Windtalkers (2002) |
"Something we'd never expect from a guy like John Woo: dull, lifeless, unexciting filmmaking" |
Eugene Novikov |
- |
Wing Commander (1999) |
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Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B |
Winged Migration (2003) |
"Look, birds flying, pretty!" |
Eugene Novikov |
Splat C |
Winnie the Pooh - The Tigger Movie (2000) |
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Eugene Novikov |
- |
The Winslow Boy (1999) |
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Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B+ |
Winter Solstice (2005) |
"As haunting and memorable as it is quiet and unassuming." |
Eugene Novikov |
- |
With a Friend Like Harry (2001) |
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Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B |
Wolf Creek (2005) |
"A fine, gritty, suspenseful, and yes, enjoyable genre piece." |
Eugene Novikov |
Tomato B |
Wonder Boys (2000) |
"A quirky little comedy, eccentric almost to the point of inaccessability." |
Eugene Novikov |
- |
Wonderland (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Eugene Novikov |
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