Splat |
W. (2008) |
"This is a familiar and facile take on the president, attributing the Iraq war to his oedipal problems with H.W. and treating him alternately as an object of fun or pity." |
J. R. Jones |
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W.C. Fields - 3 Comedy Classics (1930) |
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Tomato |
The Wackness (2008) |
"The characters are sympathetically drawn and the modest wisdom rings true." |
J. R. Jones |
Tomato |
Wag the Dog (1997) |
"Hilary Henkin and David Mamet’s script is gleefully hyperbolic without ever straying from its political target." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
The Wages of Fear (1952) |
"A significant influence on Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this grueling pile driver of a movie will keep you on the edge of your seat." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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Waiting (2000) |
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Fred Camper |
Splat |
Waiting for Guffman (1997) |
"This 1997 comedy may be amusing if you feel a pressing need to feel superior to somebody, but the aim is too broad and scattershot to add up to much beyond an acknowledgment of small-town desperation." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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Waiting for the Light (1990) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
Waiting for the Moon (1987) |
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Pat Graham |
- |
The Waiting Game (2000) |
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Ted Shen |
Tomato |
Waitress (2007) |
"The film isn't averse to reaching for Hollywood fantasies, but there's a lot of what seems to be hard-earned wisdom here about women in bad marriages." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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Wake Island (1942) |
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Splat |
Waking Ned Devine (1998) |
"Though it strives for broad humor, pushing cuteness and light irony, this bland 1998 movie isn't exactly a comedy." |
Lisa Alspector |
Splat 2/4 |
Waking the Dead (2000) |
"I can cite only one unequivocal reason for seeing Waking the Dead, and that’s Jennifer Connelly." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
Waking Up in Reno (2002) |
"Like Pabst Blue Ribbon, which the characters drink by the case, this bubba comedy about cheating spouses is good for a cheap buzz." |
J. R. Jones |
Splat |
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
"Apatow and director Jake Kasdan deliver a fair number of laughs, though nearly every good idea is pressed into service as a running gag. The biggest disappointment is their survey of rock history, which has all the depth of a Time-Life book." |
J. R. Jones |
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A Walk in the Sun (1945) |
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Walk on the Wild Side (1962) |
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Dave Kehr |
Splat |
Walking to Werner (2007) |
"[Subject] Phillips is a lot better at walking than talking, and his musings seem especially insipid intercut with audio clips of Herzog's sage observations." |
J. R. Jones |
Splat |
Wall Street (1987) |
"The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
WALL-E (2008) |
"Finding Nemo director Andrew Stanton tops himself with this adorably loopy Pixar animation that sends up consumerism, musicals, Apple computers, and 2001: A Space Odyssey." |
Andrea Gronvall |
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Waltz of the Toreadors (1962) |
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The Wannsee Conference (1987) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Splat |
Wanted (2008) |
"Timur Bekmambetov makes his U.S. debut with this big, cruel, stupid actioner about an office dweeb (James McAvoy) who gets recruited into an ancient cult of assassins." |
J. R. Jones |
Splat |
War (2007) |
"[A] routine crime thriller." |
J. R. Jones |
Tomato |
War and Peace (1968) |
"Though it can be bombastic and mind-numbing, it's often lively and eye filling." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
The War Game (1965) |
"Watkins has fashioned a scare story that really scares." |
Don Druker |
Tomato |
The War of the Roses (1989) |
"DeVito's taste for unorthodox camera angles and striking camera movements occasionally verges on overreaching but for the most part admirably serves the action." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Tomato |
The War of the Worlds (1953) |
"As the perfect crystallization of 50s ideology the film would be fascinating enough, but the special effects in this 1953 George Pal production also achieve a kind of dark, burnished apocalyptic beauty." |
Dave Kehr |
Splat |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"Spielberg's calculations turn out to be more prominent than any effects they could possibly produce, and the less pretentious 1953 version by producer George Pal emerges as more likable." |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
War Zone (1998) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
Splat |
War, Inc. (2008) |
"Like so many satires in the Strangelove mold, this never comes close to working as a story, but its lampoon of U.S. imperialism and military privatization is so bracingly obnoxious I didn't really care." |
J. R. Jones |
- |
Warm Nights on a Slow Moving Train (1989) |
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Jonathan Rosenbaum |
- |
Warning Shadows (1922) |
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Dave Kehr |
- |
Warning Sign (1985) |
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- |
Warren Miller's Beyond the Edge (1987) |
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Pat Graham |
- |
Warren Miller's Fifty (1999) |
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Splat |
The Wash (2001) |
"Two roommates start to antagonize each other after one becomes the other's superior at an LA car wash, and the conflict is played out with grittiness and flippancy." |
Lisa Alspector |
Splat 2/4 |
Wassup Rockers (2006) |
"The first half is a striking piece of photojournalism with little dramatic interest, and the second half is a highly contrived narrative that forfeits any claim to realism." |
J. R. Jones |
- |
The Watcher (2000) |
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Lisa Alspector |
Splat |
Watchmen (2009) |
"The result is oddly hollow and disjointed; the actors moving stiffly from one overdetermined tableau to another." |
Noah Berlatsky |
- |
Water and Man (1985) |
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Tomato |
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep (2007) |
"Director Jay Russell grounds the fantasy in serious drama, with enough slapstick to keep it from getting too scary for tots." |
Andrea Gronvall |
- |
Waterboys (2001) |
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The Watermelon Man (1970) |
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Splat |
Watership Down (1978) |
"A brief spark of imagination survives in a prologue sequence, designed by the great John Hubley before he was fired from the film. The rest is blandness." |
Dave Kehr |
Tomato |
Wattstax (1973) |
"It's a rich tapestry incorporating documentary footage -- the '65 riots, interviews with Watts residents talking about being black in America -- that puts its musical performances (staged by Melvin Van Peebles) in a broad social context." |
David P. Schwartz |
- |
Wave Twisters (2003) |
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Wax - Or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees (1993) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jonathan Rosenbaum |
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Wax Works (1922) |
Click here to see the review. |
Dave Kehr |
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