Tomato 2.5/4 |
D.E.B.S. (2005) |
"A fun, fast-paced action comedy that makes up for most of its shortcomings with sheer enthusiasm." |
Betsy Bozdech |
Tomato |
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000) |
"Artisan's DVD offers up a good-looking full frame transfer (1.33:1) with fine color and definition.... This edition sports an MPAA 'R' rating with an extra two minutes of gory goings-on not shown on American television." |
Mark Bourne |
Splat |
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula (2000) |
"It plays hell with the facts and reduces its potentially gripping subject to cheesy soap operatic melodrama. How can hats being nailed to Turkish emissaries' heads be dull?" |
Mark Bourne |
Splat |
A Day at the Races (1937) |
"Proof of the absence of God comes when Marx Brothers gags get the scissors ... yet we still must endure a show-stopping (in the worst sense of the word) water-ballet number that's a dose of Robitussin when the movie needs a double espresso." |
Mark Bourne |
Tomato |
A Day at the Races (1937) |
"Warner Brothers' DVD edition is a beauty. The sterling print gives us a black-and-white image that's clean, clear, sharp, and well balanced. While the dynamic range of its DD 1.0 monaural audio is thin, the sound is as clear and clean as we could hope for" |
Mark Bourne |
Tomato |
Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) |
"[Fox Studio Classics edition] gets the blue-ribbon DVD treatment ... fully restored from a new 35mm print created from original elements, a labor of love that involved two fine-grain positives -- one for this DVD and a second for the Fox vaults." |
Mark Bourne |
Tomato |
Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) |
"The naivete of some of the film's thinking is trumped by the virtue that it's thinking at all, and that it asks us to do likewise." |
Mark Bourne |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
De-Lovely (2004) |
"An earnest, well-meant musical biography that never quite has enough time between numbers to delve into the details of Porter's complicated life." |
Betsy Bozdech |
Splat |
Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966) |
"... an occasionally light-hearted caper film that takes itself far too seriously to be truly successful" |
Dawn Taylor |
Splat |
The Deep End (2001) |
"As an actorly picture with gradually revealed characters ... The Deep End succeeds beautifully. It just isn't especially thrilling." |
Dawn Taylor |
Tomato |
Desire Under the Elms (1958) |
"... a rather soapy, depressing — but nonetheless impressive — 1958 film." |
Dawn Taylor |
Tomato |
Desk Set (1957) |
"Desk Set is a jaunty, spirited romantic comedy with a pair of mature leads (Tracy was 57, Hepburn 50) who light up the screen with their mutual attraction." |
Dawn Taylor |
Tomato |
Desperado (1995) |
"It's an impressive piece of filmmaking, but colder and less involving than its predecessor ..." |
Dawn Taylor |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) |
"That [the movie] still resonates today is a testament both to Stevens' filmmaking abilities and, of course, Anne's unforgettable words." |
Betsy Bozdech |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003) |
"A toothless, predictable showbiz comedy about the trials and tribulations of ... a has-been sitcom golden child who would do anything for a comeback." |
Betsy Bozdech |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Die Mommie Die! (2003) |
"There's a fine line between classic camp and trying too hard, and Die Mommie Die! tightrope-walks its way across that line very precariously." |
Betsy Bozdech |
Tomato |
Die, Die, My Darling (1965) |
"... a modern day, trapped-in-the-basement-by-a-crazy-woman thriller, offering suspense and giggles galore." |
Dawn Taylor |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Dinner at Eight (1933) |
"At its poignant heart, it's a character drama about the interwoven lives and loves of a small cross-section of 1930s upper-crust Manhattanites." |
Betsy Bozdech |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dinner Rush (2001) |
"Bob Giraldi's tight, well-paced movie is an example of what ensemble filmmaking can be when it's done correctly." |
Betsy Bozdech |
Tomato |
Dirty Dancing (1987) |
"... one of those transcendent guilty-pleasure movies that manages to be as timeless as it is entertaining." |
Dawn Taylor |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) |
"The kind of old-fashioned, lighthearted con comedy that's hard to resist." |
Betsy Bozdech |
Splat 2/4 |
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002) |
"If Hollywood is to be believed, something about growing up in the South turns women into quirky, often-hysterical drama queens." |
Betsy Bozdech |
Tomato |
Doctor and the Devils (1985) |
"Fox's DVD edition of The Doctor and the Devils offers a nearly flawless print and anamorphic transfer in this CinemaScope picture's original 2.35:1 ratio." |
Mark Bourne |
Splat |
Doctor and the Devils (1985) |
"...bloated, lifeless, and toe-tagged. D.O.A." |
Mark Bourne |
Tomato 4/5 |
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) |
"One the great R-rated movies of the 1970s, funny, tense and brutal, retaining the true story's not-at-all-happy ending and showcasing Pacino as an immense talent at the top of his game." |
Dawn Taylor |
Tomato |
Dogma (1999) |
"It's push-the-envelope coarse, thematically ambitious, and -- most dangerously -- self-consciously respectful and thoughtful on matters of faith and religion." |
Mark Bourne |
Tomato |
Dogma (1999) |
"Informal and good-natured, Smith is openly communicative and accessible to his fans ... and this DVD is clearly aimed at maintaining that relationship." |
Mark Bourne |
Tomato |
Donnie Darko (2001) |
"Donnie Darko's flaws, though, are those of a young, talented filmmaker reaching beyond his current grasp. That's a more forgivable sin than soulless excess or hubris-fueled incompetence." |
Mark Bourne |
Tomato |
Donnie Darko (2001) |
"Donnie Darko may have been shortchanged in the theaters, but it got a pretty fine DVD from 20th Century Fox." |
Mark Bourne |
Splat |
Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (2004) |
"...other additions -- most egregiously at the climax -- are just intrusive and reduce our interpretive choices by replacing them with one choice, purely science-fictional in a George Lucas 'midichlorians' sense, that's a diminishment, not an illumination." |
Mark Bourne |
Tomato |
Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut (2004) |
"All that said, Fox's edition of Donnie Darko: Director's Cut is everything a DVD should be." |
Mark Bourne |
Splat 2/4 |
Dopamine (2003) |
"While Lloyd and Livingston both turn in earnest performances ... their on-screen chemistry is never strong enough to give true legitimacy to either of their positions on love." |
Betsy Bozdech |
Splat |
Double Trouble (1967) |
"... as was the norm with the later Elvis pictures, the movie's star often seems to just be going through the motions." |
Dawn Taylor |
Tomato 3/4 |
Down With Love (2003) |
"By mixing the '60s aesthetic with a 21st-century attitude, Reed has created something much more fun ... than your average Sandra Bullock or Julia Roberts vehicle." |
Betsy Bozdech |
Tomato |
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) |
"[Image Entertainment DVD's] enjoyable scene-specific commentary by Lang expert David Kalat ... does what a commentary is supposed to do: it provides depth and understanding in an entertaining fashion." |
Mark Bourne |
Tomato |
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) |
"In Europe Mabuse is as familiar an icon of horror as Count Dracula or Frankenstein's Monster. It began here, with Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler ('...the Gambler')." |
Mark Bourne |
Splat |
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) |
"...falls prey to the familiar Curse of the Sequel -- it's a noticeably lesser, lazier work." |
Mark Bourne |
Tomato |
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) |
"'Purity of essence'.... Superbly crafted satire that's neocon fresh to this day." |
Mark Bourne |
Tomato |
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) |
"[40th Aniversary Special Edition two-disc DVD] gives us a high-definition transfer struck for the first time from a fine-grain source master, rather than from a print.... Disc Two holds this collection of new and archival supplementary material..." |
Mark Bourne |
Splat |
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968) |
"... a standard-issue Hammer flick, gorgeous to look at with deep shadows and rich colors, slow as molasses, and not especially scary." |
Dawn Taylor |
Splat |
Dreamcatcher (2003) |
"... a film so surreal in its awfulness that it transcends ordinary concepts of "good" and "bad" and becomes, instead, a fascinating, blood-soaked train wreck of a movie." |
Dawn Taylor |
Tomato 3/4 |
Drumline (2002) |
"An engaging dramedy about self-discovery and percussion instruments." |
Betsy Bozdech |
Tomato |
The Duellists (1978) |
"The film's plot contrivances and weak dialogue can be forgiven here simply because the movie is so awesome to look at." |
Dawn Taylor |
Splat 2/5 |
Dune (1984) |
"... relentlessly, painfully solemn and takes itself far too seriously -- fascinating as it is to come back to as an odd Lynchian fiasco, it's still pondering and laborious to sit through." |
Dawn Taylor |
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