Tomato 2.5/4 |
American Hardcore (2006) |
"Leaves little doubt that this truly was one of the wildest eras in rock." |
Chris Riemenschneider |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"One of the most disturbing antidrug public service announcements ever produced." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Tout de Suite (2005) |
"This is a film of disturbing emotional power and frank sexuality that is photographed in sensuous black and white." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Abel Raises Cain (2005) |
"An affectionate portrait of a gadfly dedicated to lampooning American society's foibles, the laziness of the media and the tendency in all of us to swallow what we really want to believe but shouldn't." |
Colin Covert |
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About Schmidt (2002) |
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Colin Covert |
Splat 2/4 |
Adam (2009) |
"Adam is a minor, tolerably enjoyable romance that doesn't add up to anything much." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adam & Steve (2006) |
"I could have done without the over-the-top cowboy line-dancing finale at which all the boy-loses-boy complications were resolved, but it's hard to begrudge such a charming cast their happy ending." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Writer/director Greg Mottola's followup to his hit Superbad is the most utterly and engagingly human youth comedy I've seen in ages." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"It's a traumatic journey peeling away those layers of secrecy, repression and regret, but the actors are equal to those hyper-emotional demands. After the Wedding is a story told with unsparing honesty and skill." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Against the Ropes (2003) |
"Almost nothing about it feels drawn from real life." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Agronomist (2004) |
"Demme's emotionally engaging salute to his fallen friend is a personal labor of love with relevance for anyone concerned with the history of our hemisphere. Or its future." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"An old-fashioned but thoroughly good-hearted tale of academics, achievement and uplift ..." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) |
"Offers a portrait of this complex man that is -- dare we say it? -- fair and balanced." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) |
"Ambitious and enjoyably silly teen thriller." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alexandra (2008) |
"Without mounting a soap box, the film makes eloquent points about the struggle." |
Colin Covert |
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Ali (2001) |
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Colin Covert |
Splat 1/4 |
Alien Trespass (2009) |
"Alien Trespass, an affectionate tribute to flying saucer movies, treats the clichés of drive-in sci-fi with touching naïveté. So why isn't it more fun?" |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Alien: The Director's Cut (2003) |
"Alien is still a classic well worth a trip to the theater." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 1/4 |
All About Steve (2009) |
"While Bullock is often cast as the kook you want to hug, here she is a nut you want to run away from." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 1/4 |
All Roads Lead Home (2008) |
"It's a film, I guess, but just barely." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 2/4 |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"All the King's Men has all the ingredients of thrilling political drama without actually being very dramatic." |
Colin Covert |
Splat .5/4 |
Allah Made Me Funny (2008) |
"No, he didn't." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Almost Guys (2004) |
"Fleming brings a feeling of loose, lively fun to the story. He writes funny characters, funny dialogue and funny situations." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 0/4 |
Alone in the Dark (2005) |
"If you took the 100 worst ideas ever conceived for a science-fiction film, rattled them around in a Lotto tumbler and spilled them out onto the screen at random, you could not produce a more asinine hodgepodge than Alone in the Dark." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 2/4 |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"It isn't fresh. It isn't special. It isn't anything." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"Rather than turn the camera away when disaster strikes, [director Cassavetes] keeps his suffering characters in close, uninterrupted focus, pushing us squarely into their pain." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 1/4 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"The original recordings of Alvin were among the lowest moments in the history of popular culture. This soulless rehash, with its fart and poop jokes, proves that even one-note wonders can be diminished." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 4/4 |
Amarcord (1974) |
"Federico Fellini's films beg to be seen on a movie screen. Their panoramic, overstuffed frames and larger-than-life characters overflow the boundaries of home theater; their exuberant, generous humor is best enjoyed in a packed auditorium." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Amateurs (2007) |
"This sort of thing was done much better by the British years ago in The Full Monty and Calendar Girls. There's really no call for an American rehash." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"A stirring and still relevant political drama with a stellar cast." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"Although Dreamz doesn't hold together as a seamless whole, most of its components are worth the price of admission on their own." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 2/4 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"A strikingly photogenic but lethargic cops and crimelords yarn, it gives us a number of formidable talents laboring on a story that never develops the headlong momentum it needs. It's a brooding, serious character study impersonating a crime thriller." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 4/4 |
American Splendor (2003) |
"The most amazing, colossal and fantastic comic-inspired movie in years." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Teen (2008) |
"The look and feel of American Teen is authentically 21st century, but the rites of passage it documents are timeless." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Wedding (2003) |
"The fastest, funniest, wildest entry in the series." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 2/4 |
The Amityville Horror (2005) |
"If they scare up enough business to perpetuate this sort of retread, that will be the real horror." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amreeka (2009) |
"Director Cherien Dabis' debut feature is a surprising, humorous, moving and very human story about a Palestinian family's emigration to Illinois on the eve of the Iraq war." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 4/4 |
An Education (2009) |
"An Education is a vibrant portrait of England on the cusp of its postwar rebirth." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) |
"Funny in a roly-poly, shapeless way. Sort of like Ferrell's gut." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
And Along Come Tourists (2007) |
"When you think 'Polish sightseeing destination,' Auschwitz probably isn’t the first place that comes to mind." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2003) |
"It's a sparkling mix of romance, comedy and drama, with gorgeous stars, breathtaking locations and a tricky story structure that eludes every effort to guess what might happen next." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
"On its own terms, the film is just about perfect. Viewers who accept it on those terms will be swept away." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 2/4 |
Angel-A (2007) |
"The strained fairy tale feels like writer/director Luc Besson's effort to move beyond the pop giddiness of La Femme Nikita and The Fifth Element to a mature statement about issues important to him, but the effort overshadows the message." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 2/4 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"Even though the sluggish Da Vinci Code is an easy act to follow. There's not a moment of inspiration on display here, but ample craft and professional technique." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Animation Show 4 (2008) |
"Mike Judge's annual compilation of independent animation gathers more than two dozen funny short subjects in a gallery of mind-blowing animation from tomorrow's top animators." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Annihilation of Fish (2001) |
"The romantic comedy avoids the trap of being cloyingly cute, winning us over to the appealingly daffy world view of its two wonderful stars." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Antichrist (2009) |
"To watch the Danish provocateur's new film is to experience unrelenting pain, shading into revulsion, while being inspired by his virtuoso command of the medium and sharp intelligence." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"It's an affectionate portrait of performers starving for applause, achingly funny as only real life can be." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Apocalypto (2006) |
"There's a savage magnificence to Apocalypto, with visuals worthy of Fellini or David Lynch, and the kind of relentless excitement that only a few filmmakers can deliver." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Appaloosa (2008) |
"Appaloosa is one of those movies that creeps up on you after the fact." |
Colin Covert |
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