Tomato 3/4 |
10 Items or Less (2006) |
"Granted, Freeman is essentially playing a variation of himself, while Vega is mining her spunky screen persona. But they deliver." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
10,000 B.C. (2008) |
"Hey, CG mammoths! And lots of 'em! And some raptor/dodo thingies that move exactly like Spielberg's dinosaurs. Still, looks cool enough. Could've used some more of the saber-toothed tiger, though." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
102 Dalmatians (2000) |
"The film's pacing is usually either poky or too frenetic, almost never at the right clip to make even kiddie slapstick success." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The 11th Hour (2007) |
"The 11th Hour is good-for-you cinema in content, shape and form. There are far badder things." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
12 (2007) |
"Much about the state of the Big Bear today is revealed, and it would be unfair to deny that 12 has many cogent and sardonic insights into the country." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
12 and Holding (2006) |
"A few good laughs and superb acting keep the film bearable, even intriguing in places, but these are not fun stories being told." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"Makes no emotional or narrative sense." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
13 Tzameti (2006) |
"Outside the setup of its central stunt, it's pretty forgettable." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
1408 (2007) |
"The dread is palpable in this chilling suspense thriller about a hotel room that more than lives up to its evil reputation." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat |
15 Minutes (2001) |
"Little more than a grim gross-out." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"It's a fine B-movie set-up, and for the first 45 minutes or so, [director Richard] Donner keeps things properly nerve-jangling, using a shaky hand-held camera and a cacophony of blaring sounds to put you on edge." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"The movie delivers what it should -- cheap thrills -- and serves them up with skill and economy." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 4/4 |
2046 (2005) |
"2046, at its best, is simply Wong being Wong, delivering eroticism of the highest order, working on a level that no one else can hope to match." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
21 Grams (2003) |
"A devastating look at the myriad ways that death can shake and bake us." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"Although you don't really get to know most of the players, 24 Hour does make you feel like you could have been up all night partying and puking with them." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
25th Hour (2002) |
"The whole thing is as serious as a night of partying can get, yet it fails in the end to be taken very seriously at all." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"A movie that, in the best horror tradition, leaves much to the imagination while scaring the bejesus out of you." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"There's a strange lack of momentum and suspense amid all the shaky camera work and showers of blood." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 1/4 |
29 Palms (2002) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
3 Extremes (2005) |
"More than lives up to its name." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
3 Needles (2006) |
"3 Needles, Thom Fitzgerald's globe-spanning investigation of the effects of AIDS, may ultimately be a call to unity, but there's an extreme amount of despair and misery before we get to hear that trumpet blare." |
Evan Henerson |
Tomato 3/4 |
3-Iron (2005) |
"No one has ever thought this deeply about golf as a contact sport, not even the guys who make Adam Sandler movies." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
300 (2007) |
"The stylized action, set to crunching guitar riffs, feels suffocating in its artificiality. Dialogue, taken mostly verbatim from Miller, comes cribbed from T-shirt slogans (real men wear crimson!) and Bruce Springsteen songs (no retreat, no surrender!)." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat |
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) |
"Suffers from a bloated length, a misogynistic spirit and a predominantly humorless tone." |
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Tomato |
3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
"The new 3:10 to Yuma fires about 5,000 more rounds than the dull earlier edition did." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) |
"A harrowing journey of two women made desperate by a government that puts bureaucracy ahead of the interests of its people." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 1.5/4 |
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) |
"Unrelenting in the number of ways it can get its one joke wrong." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) |
"Watching a good-hearted virgin is infinitely more enjoyable than spending time with a European gigolo." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
49 Up (2006) |
"That they were randomly chosen is probably why the series, which Apted decided to continue after working as an assistant on the first entry, remains so relevant and revealing of the human condition." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 1.5/4 |
50 First Dates (2004) |
"Neither tolerable nor fun." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
51 Birch Street (2006) |
"The movie's considerable strength lies in the evolution of Block's relationship with his father." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
5X2 (2005) |
"Marion and Gilles act in ways that rarely prove predictable but usually make a haunting kind of emotional sense." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
The 6th Day (2000) |
"A romping enough experience. But to really blast off, it should have been both creepier and kookier." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
7 Days - In September (2002) |
"The tragedy and the many responses to it come alive here in a raw, immediate way that suffers no loss of impact for its aversion to melodrama." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
7 Días (2007) |
"U2-focused film isn't even better than the real thing. Not by a long shot." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
8 Mile (2002) |
"8 Mile has the pop star of the moment, Eminem, and a hip-hop soundtrack that's as current as it is contagious, but, at its core, the movie's spirit is as old-school as it comes." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
8 Women (2002) |
"A movie that begins as something of a hoot and turns into an ever-expanding assortment of delights." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat |
88 Minutes (2008) |
"It does pull off the neat trick of making each passing minute more idiotic than the last, which is nothing short of amazing since the movie is risible from the get-go." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
9 Songs (2005) |
"More mature viewers will just shrug, and immature ones will wonder why they didn't rent something well-lit and -staged, made by the professionals in our own San Fernando Valley, instead." |
Bob Strauss |
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