Tomato 4/5 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"As Dick's vision matches up with our times, so does director Richard Linklater's animation technique match the story's material. A Scanner Darkly is a joyful wedding of medium and message." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 5/5 |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"Each deft stroke of Payne's pen is matched by a Nicholson flourish, transforming the film into a moving, bittersweet ballet." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato |
Adaptation (2002) |
"Consider the irony: Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich) wins best screenplay for a movie that's essentially about his failure to write a screenplay. That's worth a gold statuette on its own." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4/5 |
Adoration (2009) |
"Egoyan's pacing is careful, deliberate, as it must be, because he's pulling together a complex tale, playing with time to reveal details piece by piece." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 4/5 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"A worthy effort, several cuts above the teen comedies that came out of the era it depicts while managing to capture it thoroughly." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 4/5 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"Sure it takes place in the geeky world of spelling bees, but Akeelah has the same old-fashioned, feel-good, against-the-odds qualities as Rocky." |
Kathy Cano Murillo |
Tomato 3/5 |
Alfie (2004) |
"With Alfie, it's all about displacement." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 5/5 |
Alien: The Director's Cut (2003) |
"The movie inspired three sequels and remains undeniably frightening. It also marks a significant step in the evolution of modern science-fiction films." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4/5 |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"After a while, you feel like you're watching natural interactions rather than a scripted performance." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"Let's face it: It's really fun to watch Ben Stiller suffer." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"It's a fine-enough kids movie. Cute. Nice lesson. And better than you'd think." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 4/5 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"American Gangster shoots for epic stature and misses, but Washington hits the mark from start to finish in one of the year's best performances, the one element that earns the larger-than-life status the rest of the film so desperately seeks." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
American Hardcore (2006) |
"... an enjoyable if incomplete nostalgia trip." |
Michael Senft |
Tomato 4/5 |
American Splendor (2003) |
"Funny, poignant and vitally original." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4/5 |
American Teen (2008) |
"By the end of the film, you'll be firmly on the side of each of these kids, hoping the best for them." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 3/5 |
American Wedding (2003) |
"An energetic, raunchy comedy that's funnier and more creative than the last film." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 3/5 |
Amreeka (2009) |
"A good-hearted film about the resilience of the human spirit." |
Richard Nilsen |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
An Education (2009) |
"An Education is just what the title promises, and a delight, as well." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato |
Analyze This (1998) |
"Director Harold Ramis keeps the gangsters real and funny at the same time." |
Bob Fenster |
Tomato 3/5 |
Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides: Working With Time (2003) |
"[Goldsworthy's] art is meant to be evanescent, like the nature he reveres. We are privileged to see it documented by the filmmaker's camera." |
Richard Nilsen |
Tomato 3/5 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"Credit where it's due: Director Ron Howard, also back from Da Vinci, keeps things moving fast enough -- the clock is ticking, after all -- that you don't linger over the implausibility of the story." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 3/5 |
Anger Management (2003) |
"While it includes some funny scenes, one senses that the Nicholson-Sandler pairing could have achieved much more." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 3/5 |
Antwone Fisher (2002) |
"Denzel Washington gives a sensitive yet powerful performance as a Navy psychiatrist, and newcomer Derek Luke is a pleasant surprise as the title character." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato |
Antz (1998) |
"Antz crawling with detail, humor, Woody Allen style." |
Bob Fenster |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Apocalypto (2006) |
"Although it's a pretty good bet that much of the audience won't be beguiled by Gibson's end-of-the-world metaphors, no one can deny he made an entertaining movie." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 4/5 |
Appaloosa (2008) |
"Ambition is a great quality in a filmmaker, especially when it's realized. Yet there is something to be said for just telling a story, and with Appaloosa, Harris does a fine job of it." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 1/5 |
Appearance of A Man (2009) |
"A ufologist's variant of The Da Vinci Code, except without all the action and faux scholarship." |
Kerry Lengel |
Tomato 3/5 |
Apres Vous (2005) |
"A light, entertaining comedy with little, if any, redeeming value, other than a few good laughs." |
Richard Nilsen |
Tomato |
Apt Pupil (1998) |
"A tense, psychological study of evil!" |
Bob Fenster |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Aquamarine (2006) |
"Think of Aquamarine as an eventful day at the marine park, with plenty of bubble gum to go around." |
Kathy Cano Murillo |
Tomato 3/5 |
Arctic Tale (2007) |
"The best thing about Arctic Tale is the vivid underwater cinematography, shot with such urgency and vibrancy that one might suspect a little CGI assistance has been employed." |
Kerry Lengel |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Aristocrats (2005) |
"Let me reiterate. This movie is really, really dirty." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Around the Bend (2004) |
"This movie is too precious by half, but the smooth, unhurried performances of Caine and Walken (along with the sturdy work of Josh Lucas) allow plenty of room for forgiveness." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 3/5 |
Art School Confidential (2006) |
"It's pleasant enough, features fine acting in smaller parts, rises occasionally to laughs or plot, but its ambitions and its accomplishments are modest." |
Richard Nilsen |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) |
"This ranks as another excellent performance from Penn." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) |
"
Though Richet stretches believability near the end, action-movie fans should assault theaters for an entertaining stay at Precinct 13." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Astro Boy (2009) |
"Tenma wisely powers the boy's heart with positive energy, something that spreads to the movie as well." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Asylum (2005) |
"The makers of Asylum pretend they're making an art movie, and although the film has the trappings, the story is mostly Hollywood." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
ATL (2006) |
"Despite an occasional whiff of cheese, it's mostly a fresh, funny, coming-of-age story that feels authentic." |
Kerry Lengel |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
Atonement (2007) |
"Part highbrow British drawing-room drama, part gritty war film, all entertainment almost all the time, Atonement is a masterful study of both the hurtful and redemptive effects of imagination." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato |
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002) |
"The result plays like a series of skits, but the gags are so funny that it works anyway." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato |
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) |
"The sequel is funnier than the original because it has more silliness, more smut and more 'yeah, babies.'" |
Bob Fenster |
Tomato 4/5 |
Australia (2008) |
"If Luhrmann takes too long to tell the tale, it is at least a tale worth telling, shining a light on racism and mistreatment, folding it neatly into a crowded film that entertains us for most of the way." |
Bill Goodykoontz |
Tomato 4/5 |
Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
"When it all wraps up as neatly as the treacliest Hollywood film, we don't feel cheated, but rather enjoy the satisfaction of a story resolved, and we're happy for each of the people we have spent our hour with." |
Richard Nilsen |
Tomato 4.5/5 |
The Aviator (2004) |
"Other Scorsese films have carried more passion, but none has so brilliantly captured a lost era, or a lost American icon." |
Bill Muller |
Tomato 5/5 |
Away From Her (2007) |
"In Away From Her, four of the best actors in the world turn material worthy of their talents into the best movie of the year so far. The result is moving the way the best-written literature can be, telling us something about ourselves." |
Richard Nilsen |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Away We Go (2009) |
"Mendes, working from a script by husband-and-wife hipsters Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, ends things in a vaguely haunting way without really resolving them, which is a good thing." |
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Splat |
Abandon (2002) |
"... expands the horizons of boredom to the point of collapse, turning into a black hole of dullness, from which no interesting concept can escape." |
Bill Muller |
Splat 2/4 |
Accepted (2006) |
"It's loud and goofy, but it's sorely lacking energy, not to mention laughs." |
Randy Cordova |
Splat 3/5 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"There's a lot of great stuff here, but it just doesn't come together." |
Kerry Lengel |
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