Splat 2/4 |
Adam (2009) |
"Adam is a minor, tolerably enjoyable romance that doesn't add up to anything much." |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 3.5/4 |
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 |
Art & Copy (2009) |
"Art & Copy offers an intriguing -- some might say frightening -- glimpse into the world that has prompted a generation of Americans to religiously tune into the Super Bowl just to watch those short movies that sell product." |
Peter Schilling |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Away We Go (2009) |
"By my count, two episodes succeed and half a dozen fall flat. Your mileage may vary." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alexandra (2008) |
"Without mounting a soap box, the film makes eloquent points about the struggle." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 1/4 |
All Roads Lead Home (2008) |
"It's a film, I guess, but just barely." |
Colin Covert |
Splat .5/4 |
Allah Made Me Funny (2008) |
"No, he didn't." |
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 |
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 4/4 |
Anita O'Day - The Life Of A Jazz Singer (2008) |
"The incomparable songbird is finally given her due in one of the greatest music documentaries I've ever seen." |
Peter Schilling |
Tomato 3/4 |
Appaloosa (2008) |
"Appaloosa is one of those movies that creeps up on you after the fact." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
At the Death House Door (2008) |
"The directors of Hoop Dreams and Stevie turn their documentary lens on capital punishment through the experiences of Rev. Carroll Pickett, the chaplain of Texas’ Huntsville Prison, where he ministered to 95 condemned inmates in their final hours." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Australia (2008) |
"It's not Luhrmann's best work to date, but it has crowd-rousing flair to spare." |
Colin Covert |
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The Abandoned (2007) |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"A groundbreaking, rule-bending, expectation-smashing musical." |
Jeff Strickler |
Tomato 3/4 |
African Adventure: Safari in the Okavango (2007) |
"African Adventure 3D: Safari in the Okavango is ostensibly yet another eye-popping Imax travelogue, but much to my surprise it's also a treatise on how to make movies." |
Peter Schilling |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 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 |
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 |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007) |
"The film cheerfully dispenses with sanity, logic and coherence, but it's put across with irresistible energy. Once you're aboard this water slide of lunacy, all you can do is surrender to its complete, engulfing weirdness and enjoy yourself." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Arctic Tale (2007) |
"Whether you're more attuned to adorable animals or environmental issues, Arctic Tale is pretty cool." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 1/4 |
Are We Done Yet? (2007) |
"Mediocre from foundation to roof, this sequel to 2005's tepid road trip farce Are We There Yet? is the movie equivalent of a tear-down." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Arthur and the Invisibles (2007) |
"Essentially, though, the star is Besson himself, pulling out all the stops to give Pixar a run for their money." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 2/4 |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"A better title might have been Jesse James in the Age of Pop Therapy." |
Jeff Strickler |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Astronaut Farmer (2007) |
"Thornton's serene certainty that he can touch the stars all on his own has an irresistible pull. Even as the sensible part of you is hoping he won't be a dadgum fool and endanger his life, the visionary thinks, go ahead. Try." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Atonement (2007) |
"Christopher Hampton’s screenplay respects the literary focus of Ian McEwan’s novel without falling into the trap of becoming uncinematic." |
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August Evening (2007) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
August Rush (2007) |
"If Charles Dickens were alive today, he might be writing projects like August Rush, the unabashedly sentimental tale of a plucky orphan lad who falls in with streetwise urchins as he seeks the family he ought to have." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
"It may pull you into the tent with a promise of hoochie-koochie girls, but it delivers a rousing sermon on faith, hope and charity before it lets you back out again." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Away From Her (2007) |
"A wise and tender Alzheimer's drama." |
Colin Covert |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"One of the most disturbing antidrug public service announcements ever produced." |
Colin Covert |
Splat 2/4 |
Accepted (2006) |
"The rowdy college comedy Accepted will probably generate the most laughs among viewers too young to realize it's been cobbled together from Animal House and Revenge of the Nerds, with inspiration from American Pie." |
Jeff Strickler |
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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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