Tomato 3.5/4 |
American Violet (2009) |
"Nicole. Beharie. Remember the name, for if her stunning lead turn is any indication, huge things are in the future." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Away We Go (2009) |
"Sam Mendes's most welcome departure from stodgy Oscar bait is a decidedly lower-scale project, but its rewards are definitely not small." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Teen (2008) |
"Damn, I really do not miss high school." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
Australia (2008) |
"Never quite locks together into the sweeping cinematic journey Luhrmann clearly set out to create." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"The actors all do considerable justice to the Fab Four's classics, but they are ultimately failed by Taymor's neglect of actual story." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato |
The Astronaut Farmer (2007) |
"What could easily have come off as preposterous or, worse yet, downright corny is made rather poignant and genuinely uplifting and inspiring." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"Linklater creates an eerie, mysterious, menacing hyperreality that engulfs the mind and senses." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) |
"What doesn't quite work are the more overtly jokey bits." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
The Ant Bully (2006) |
"While the animation, particularly in the action set pieces, is indeed well done, it's nothing revolutionary nor imaginative that stands out from the rest in this CG-feature-a-week marketplace." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato |
ATL (2006) |
"Not exactly something that can boiled down to an easy sell, but then that's also part of its appeal and charm." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
Azumi (2006) |
"The raw visceral pleasures are enough to carry the film past some clunky melodrama that bloats the film to a two-hour-plus run time." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 0/4 |
Alone in the Dark (2005) |
"Has just about everything a snarky bad movie lover could want--that is, except a guy and two robots sitting in the bottom right hand corner." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amor Real (2005) |
"Spectacle can only take a serial so far, and Amor Real, for all its epic trappings, has an irresistible basic hook." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 1/4 |
Are We There Yet? (2005) |
"What does Brian Levant have against the stars of Boyz N the Hood? First Cuba Gooding Jr. in Snow Dogs, now Cube and Nia Long in one fell swoop." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato |
Alias - The Complete Fourth Season (2004) |
"While Alias looks to never break out beyond cult status, Buena Vista deserves major credit for consistently giving fans high-quality preservations of the series.
" |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
"The once-promising project was doomed to disaster, going back to the very moment Paul W.S. Anderson was awarded directing and screenwriting duties." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"The blame for this remarkably stillborn romantic/gross-out comedy falls squarely on its writer/director, John Hamburg.
" |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
"Conjures up this unexplainable spell that leaves audiences sad, sentimental, swooning, smiling--in some way transported and moved." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Against the Ropes (2003) |
"An inoffensively average, formulaic entertainment with a marketing-problematic point of view." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"A poetic, powerful work." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Wedding (2003) |
"One last helping of good, dirty--and surprisingly sweet--fun." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Anger Management (2003) |
"Nicholson wears his devilish grin from his first scene to last, and one has to assume that's his reaction to the enormous size of his paycheck and not the material." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/5 |
Animatrix (2003) |
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Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/5 |
Animatrix (2003) |
No article available. |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
Armaan (2003) |
"There's an appealing and highly unusual understatement to writer-director Honey Irani's execution that keeps the proceedings involving without coming off too sudsy." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 1/4 |
Abandon (2002) |
"A flimsy and tedious thriller." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
About a Boy (2002) |
"Will warm your heart without making you feel guilty about it." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"A simple, silent, static shot of Nicholson's face is one of the most beautiful, powerful, indelible images of the 2002 movie year." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
"Sentimentality and secretions, with a generous helping of blatant product placement, do not make for the most graceful of holiday entertainments." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 4/4 |
Adaptation (2002) |
"Thanks a lot, Charlie Kaufman. Thanks to you, I and millions of others can no longer use writer's block as a valid excuse for the sh*ttiness of our writing." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
All About the Benjamins (2002) |
"One of those films that seems tailor made to air on pay cable to offer some modest amusements when one has nothing else to watch." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
All or Nothing (2002) |
"It's all quite tough going, but the actors make it difficult to look away." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 4/4 |
Amadeus - Director's Cut (2002) |
"Such a wonderful mix of sight and sound, of humor and drama, of love and hate, of ugliness and beauty." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
Analyze That (2002) |
"The end credit outtake reel feels like a desperate bid to rescue the dud ending and make the moviegoers leave with a smile." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) |
"Myers and Roach are running dangerously close to empty as far as new and genuinely funny ideas, and they would be best off quitting before they fall any farther behind." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
Auto Focus (2002) |
"A repetitive and disappointingly shallow look at what is in fact an intriguing Hollywood mystery." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"The most astounding effect of all is not mecha, but orga: Haley Joel Osment's transcendent performance." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Aberdeen (2001) |
"Miraculously manages to sidestep easy manipulation." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ali (2001) |
"Smith's towering performance can only be fully appreciated on a suitably large screen." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
All Or Nothing (2001) |
"If this sounds like boilerplate urban drama to you, you wouldn't be mistaken." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Along Came a Spider (2001) |
"Sinks the fledgling franchise to new depths--and quite possibly past the point of no return." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 4/4 |
Amelie (2001) |
"Cynics can scoff all they want, but why, when it's simply easier to just surrender to the magic?" |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
America's Sweethearts (2001) |
"Coming out the loser in the mess is Joe Roth, who shows that heading movie studios hasn't done any favors for whatever directorial ability he may have once had." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
The American Astronaut (2001) |
"McAbee deserves much credit for not letting the obvious financial limitations constrain his imagination." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 1.5/4 |
American Outlaws (2001) |
"So lifeless that it's enough to turn the Generation Y demographic off to the western genre completely." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Pie 2 (2001) |
"There's no shortage of overbaked sex gags--and laughs--in this follow-up." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Amores Perros (2001) |
"Inarritu and his cast are able to make the audience care for these deeply flawed characters and share their often intertwined feelings of pleasure and pain." |
Michael Dequina |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amour Infinity: A Brooklyn Love Story (2001) |
"The emotions it elicits are true and wholly earned." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Animal (2001) |
"The premise is a single-note joke that is hardly sturdy enough to support a 90-minute feature." |
Michael Dequina |
Splat 2/4 |
The Anniversary Party (2001) |
"Such an array of acting talent is trapped in such a mess of a movie." |
Michael Dequina |
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