Tomato 3/4 |
P.S. (2004) |
"Lots of aberrant, imaginative behavior, as only an actress with Linney's virtuosity can present it." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
The Pacifier (2005) |
"Pacifying, not exciting, is this movie's unalterable mission." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Page Turner (2007) |
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Paid in Full (2002) |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Painted Veil (2006) |
"A thoroughly grown-up movie that compellingly thinks its way through the toughest matters of the heart." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Palindromes (2005) |
"Remarkably, Solondz gets a consistent character out of the numerous players. Still, the weirdness of the presentation blunts her trauma, and for the first time in a Solondz film, the movie's as well." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 4/4 |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"This isn't kids' stuff, though adventuresome teens would find plenty here to engage them. It's dark poetry set to startling images, a one-of-a-kind nightmare that has a soaring, spiritual center. It's not to be missed." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Panic (2000) |
"Probably boasts more real psychological insight per scene than any couple of weeks' worth of Sopranos episodes." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Panic Room (2002) |
"It's a pleasurable revelation to see Foster feel out a role, both emotively and physically, with the well-marshaled gusto that she does here." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Paparazzi (2004) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Paradise Now (2005) |
"[A] gripping political thriller." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paris, Je T'aime (2007) |
"Suspended rather delightfully between art film and touristy bonbon, Paris, Je T'aime is, unsurprisingly, a tribute to a city that everybody loves." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Party Monster (2003) |
"Another of those films that leaves you with the perennial question: 'Who paid for this garbage?'" |
Fred Shuster |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"Intense." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"It's as if Gibson is measuring God's love by the amount of blood he shows on the screen." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Patti Smith - Dream of Life (2008) |
"Heavy on the gabba-gabba, light on the hey!" |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pauline and Paulette (2002) |
"... a sweetly affecting story about four sisters who are coping, in one way or another, with life's endgame." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat |
Pavilion of Women (2001) |
"Ho stages most of this hothouse activity in an alternately turgid and melodramatic manner." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Pay It Forward (2000) |
"Leder (with an assist from screenwriter Leslie Dixon) bulldozes any and all attempts at nuance in favor of unadulterated bathos, proving once again that good intentions do not equal good filmmaking." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
Paycheck (2003) |
"A story that doesn't make a lick of sense, even on its own coherence-mangling terms." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Peaceful Warrior (2006) |
"It may often seem like an extra-pretentious Karate Kid for grown-ups, but Warrior's soul lessons go much deeper, to universally vital places." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Pearl Harbor (2001) |
"Remember Pearl Harbor? We will, but, sadly, for the missed opportunities and not for the reasons the filmmakers intended." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
People I Know (2003) |
"Memo to whoever dreamed up this sympathy-for -the-publicist movie trend: Bad idea to begin with, definitely time to give it a rest." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
The Perfect Man (2005) |
"Whatever's perfect about this movie starts and ends in the middle of the title." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 0.5/4 |
The Perfect Score (2004) |
"It's the movie sensitive teen-meister John Hughes would have made had he been strapped to a bench, a knife at his throat, with a pulsating garage band score on continuous loop placed two inches from his eardrum." |
Evan Henerson |
Splat |
The Perfect Storm (2000) |
"The film rarely manages to generate much in the way of suspense or terror." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 1/4 |
Perfect Stranger (2007) |
"A psychological thriller in which both the psychology and the thrills are in short supply." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) |
"For all of its eye-rolling improbability, the picture does build to an incredible and incredibly staged final meditation on the nature of genius, identity and worship in both its personal and public manifestations." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Personal Velocity (2002) |
"The three main subjects of Personal Velocity prove so vivid and haunting, they leave you wondering why other aspects of the movie don't rise to their level." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Peter Pan (2003) |
"The kind of whiz-bang extravaganza that's OK for the under-12 set but might be a something of a slog for anyone older." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Phantom of the Opera (1943) |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Phoebe In Wonderland (2009) |
"Phoebe in Wonderland introduces us to a smart new talent in Barnz and lets the more established members of its cast work at their top capacity. It's a film about kids graced with a mature aesthetic and rare behavioral wisdom." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Phone Booth (2003) |
"While director Joel Schumacher has crafted a vigorously paced and moderately efficient thriller, it's hard to imagine who will be entertained by such a sorry spectacle in our current times of trouble." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Pianist (2002) |
"Polanski has found the perfect material with which to address his own World War II experience in his signature style." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Piano Teacher (2002) |
"Anyone who's ever suffered under a martinet music instructor has no doubt fantasized about what an unhappy, repressed and twisted personal life their tormentor deserved. These people are really going to love The Piano Teacher." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Pieces of April (2003) |
"A movie that's a little too determined to find sweet forgiveness in sour attitudes." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman (2007) |
"The filmmakers fall through their own trapdoor, using the hangman's story to fashion a preachy anti-capital punishment message movie that seems at odds with the man himself." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Piglet's Big Movie (2003) |
"A warm, fun and genial movie that rates as inspired entertainment for kids." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 4/4 |
Pineapple Express (2008) |
"The funniest stoner movie ever made -- and, so far, the most hilarious comedy of 2008." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Piņero (2001) |
"With his cinematic artyness, Ichaso the director may be trying to dazzle us out of seeing the holes that Ichaso the writer has left gaping." |
Evan Henerson |
Splat 2/4 |
Pink Panther (2006) |
"Whatever franchise value the Pink Panther name may possess, it might be time to put the Clouseau character to rest." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3.4/4 |
Pipe Dream (2002) |
"Funny and also heartwarming without stooping to gooeyness." |
Evan Henerson |
Splat |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) |
"It's really not all that hard to follow the complicated story's basic outline; but it just becomes wearying." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) |
"When the scenes work and cook, they're the essence of summer moviemaking. They shiver your timbers and make you feel like a kid." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) |
"Bruckheimer and pals have cobbled together all of the pirate genre's tropes -- the cannonballs, the sword fights, the glittering treasure -- and freshened them up, throwing in a couple of nods to the Disneyland ride for good measure." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat |
Pitch Black (2000) |
"You won't waste your time watching Pitch Black. But there are better things to do." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Planet of the Apes (2001) |
"Whatever its flaws, however, the new Planet of the Apes displays an abundance of highly evolved cinematic craftsmanship at a time when that's looking more and more like an endangered species in corporate Hollywood." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Play it to the Bone (1999) |
"Play It to the Bone stumbles early and never really recovers." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
The Pledge (2001) |
"Nicholson drives the piece with an understated, quietly roiling performance that's the most natural work he's done in at least a decade." |
Bob Strauss |
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Pokemon 4Ever (2002) |
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