Tomato 2.5/4 |
Tadpole (2002) |
"smart, funny and just honest enough to provide the pleasures of a slightly naughty, just-above-average off- Broadway play." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004) |
"I don't think I'll be the last Westerner who found it hard to sit through two hours and 20 minutes worth of melodramatic plotting, hysterical acting and brutally graphic combat sequences that are all shot in the same herky-jerky, dirt-sprayed, irritating" |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
The Tailor of Panama (2001) |
"Brosnan makes Osnard into one of the spy genre's great cynical manipulators, Bond on a bender. It's too bad the rest of the film can't quite live down to his character." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
Take (2008) |
"Charles Oliver's directing debut, Take, unfolds in sun-baked Southwestern locations, but it's a dreary affair all the same." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
Take the Lead (2006) |
"Take the Lead is one of those inspiring teachers in the 'hood tales. And it's 'inspired by a true story,' which translated means 'as Hollywood cornball as humanly possible.'" |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Taking Lives (2004) |
"It actually does have a clever twist near the end, but it's not the main twist, which is anything but terrific." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) |
"Sumptuous, sensual, stately and twisted, it's a class act all the way." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 4/4 |
Talk to Her (2002) |
"By the end of his crazy, heart-thrilling tale, Almodovar has delivered us through bawdy humor, art appreciation, specific human connections and fascinating philosophy to a state resembling spirituality." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Talk to Me (2007) |
"Greene may have known his ceiling; thankfully, Cheadle recognizes no such boundaries. The man just keeps exploring the outer limits of his talent." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) |
"NASCAR comedy finds the sweet spot between cartoonish silliness and racing culture send-up. Some good crashes, too." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Tape (2001) |
"Seems both derivative and indulgent, equal parts actors' exercise and junior-league Harold Pinter." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tarnation (2004) |
"Both nakedly revealing and irrepressibly arty, it's a therapeutic home movie made as form-redefining documentary morphed into aesthetic object." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
The Taste of Others (2001) |
"An impressive display of tough-minded humanism." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Tattoo (2002) |
"Tattoo has the same buddy-cop dynamic as the David Fincher film and, likewise, is preoccupied with beautiful lighting, rain machines and grotesque mutilations. It's watchable but it never quite rises above being a mannered knockoff." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) |
"Taxi To the Dark Side, ranks among the best and most devastating entries, a scathing indictment of government-sanctioned torture." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat |
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) |
"Despite the occasional intelligent flourish, though, the story is irredeemably dumb." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Team America: World Police (2004) |
"The funniest movie of the year." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tears of the Black Tiger (2000) |
"Who knows ... you just might love it." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Tears of the Sun (2003) |
"For all the brutal inhumanity depicted here, Tears never manages to engage its audience's emotions." |
Glenn Whipp |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Seasons 1-4 |
Click here to see the review. |
David Kronke |
Tomato |
Tell No One (2008) |
"Even when Tell No One's story gets a bit too convoluted for its own good, the cinematography, the acting and especially the action will keep you glued to the screen." |
Rob Lowman |
Tomato 4/4 |
Tell Them Who You Are (2005) |
"One of the most clear-eyed and intimate Hollywood portraits ever filmed." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Ten (2007) |
"...The Ten wields its bad taste like a blunt instrument, bludgeoning you with buffoonery that's hard to resist." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006) |
"Unless you're a longtime fan or you're coming to the theater directly from the movie's Enchanted Forest of Magical Mushrooms, you'll probably find this shaggy underdog origin story an unspectacular waste of time." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
The Terminal (2004) |
"Steven Spielberg wants to make you smile ... which should be all the warning you need to avoid this troubled film in the same way you might avoid the airport on Thanksgiving weekend." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) |
"T3 is easily the loudest film ever made. It's also the best $175 million B-movie in history, a distinction that rings as hollow as you might expect." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
Terror's Advocate (2007) |
"It's a movie that cries out for a good editor." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
"Marcus Nispel's modern take ramps up the gore, eliminates the subtext and delivers a run-of-the-mill modern slasher movie that isn't even scary, much less unsettling." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Thank You For Smoking (2006) |
"A superficial satire of spin-doctoring and political correctness that is spottily amusing but ultimately about as satisfying as a nicotine patch for a chronic smoker." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"[Director] Ruzowitzky refreshingly keeps the movie free from any pat answers, letting the audience members imagine what course of action they might take in similar circumstances." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Polar Express (2004) |
"Anyone older than, say, 10, might have trouble hearing the Christmas bells. That doesn't make you a Grinch -- just a true believer in good storytelling." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Signal (2007) |
"This is basically a David Cronenberg concept dumbed down to a bunch of sadistic jokes, lacking any of the master's humane poignancy." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Then She Found Me (2008) |
"Hunt writes, directs and stars in a rough-edged indie alternative to Baby Mama." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"If there's any moviemaker who knows the California Dream was always a devil's bargain, it's Paul Thomas Anderson." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
The Thin Red Line (1998) |
"A beautifully lyrical cinematic epic." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Thing About My Folks (2005) |
"The thing about Paul Reiser is, just when you think you can't stand another lame, vulgar, obvious scene he's written, he blindsides you with some real insight or character truth." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"Fire draws all its heat from the performance of Benicio Del Toro, who shows how one great actor can elevate and even save a movie from itself." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Thirteen (2003) |
"It's well worth seeing, even at the risk of making you want to lock your daughter in her room for the next six years." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2002) |
"Thirteen Conversations might have been as deep as it clearly aspired to be had more of its folks been designed, like Gene, to represent more than one thing." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Thirteen Days (2000) |
"Offers a rare glimpse at why, with good reason for a change, Jack and Bobby deserved to be appreciated." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Thirteen Ghosts (2001) |
"Full of logic holes, cheap narrative shortcuts and mood-wrecking attempts at ethnic humor." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006) |
" Is there a better system? Probably. But I don't hear Dick offering any answers." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
This So-Called Disaster (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat |
Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000) |
"The complex story is too much to chew for the average preschooler." |
Valerie Kuklenski |
Tomato |
Thomas Crown Affair, The (1999) |
"The closest juvenilized, modern Hollywood is going to get to a real adult caper film!" |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007) |
"It’s a mildly poignant generation-gap story." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) |
"Tommy Lee Jones has crafted a modern Western worthy of Peckinpah with a message of racial understanding that's as relevant (and subversive) as anything you'll find in movies today." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Three Kings (1999) |
"Fresh and quite marvelous." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Thumbsucker (2005) |
"Thumbsucker works, in part due to the strength of Lou Pucci's superb lead performance." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Thunderbirds (2004) |
"An action adventure that satisfies appetites for simpler times, keeping the good-vs.-evil pure and unencumbered." |
Valerie Kuklenski |
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