Tomato 3.5/4 |
'Tis Autumn - The Search for Jackie Paris (2007) |
"It's hard not to be moved by 'Tis Autumn -- The Search for Jackie Paris." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
10 Questions for the Dalai Lama (2007) |
"10 Questions works extremely well as an introduction to the Dalai Lama and offers a tantalizing peek at the dynamic and even mischievous personality of this influential man." |
Jennie Punter |
Splat 2.5/4 |
10 Things I Hate About You (1999) |
"The notion of a contemporary high school as a hotbed of romantic intrigue is utterly apt, and the performances almost make the update work." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 1.5/4 |
10,000 B.C. (2008) |
"If you thought 300 was silly, think of 10,000 BC as 33.333 times sillier." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
101 Reykjavik (2001) |
"Imagine, if you dare, Ingmar Bergman as a consummate slacker with a wicked sense of pop humour." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The 11th Hour (2007) |
"Consistent with the film's occasionally hippy-dippy tone, DiCaprio speaks about human beings engaging in a willed 'evolution in consciousness,' which sounds a little too desperate to be comforting." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 2/4 |
12 (2007) |
"In the end the film is too much of a piece with its topic, intensely fascinating yet seriously flawed." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
12 and Holding (2006) |
"One of those American indie films that can be filed into the diagnostic category of Facile with Delusions of Profundity." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"The lanky action star of the cult television series Alias is assigned a tired playbook in this film, but she finds room to manoeuvre in a performance that exceeds expectations." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
13 Tzameti (2006) |
"A tightly screwed shocker, a suspense tour de force that proceeds through a harrowing chain of events with alarming confidence." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The 13th Floor (1999) |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
The 13th Warrior (1999) |
"A big cathartic blast." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 1/4 |
14 Days in Paradise (2008) |
"Intended as a farcical tale of love in a tropical locale, 14 Days in Paradise is far too sloppily conceived and executed to do more than strain viewers' patience." |
Jason Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
1408 (2007) |
"You might say 1408 has a 1409 ending -- beige, humdrum, only mildly uncomfortable and, once passed through on the journey home, instantly forgettable." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
15 Minutes (2001) |
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Splat 2/4 |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"No one can dismiss 16 Blocks as a mere formula flick -- it's a mere two or three formula flicks all fighting for top billing." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
17 Again (2009) |
"Wholesome just isn't as wholesome as it used to be." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/5 |
19 Months (2002) |
"A very accomplished film." |
Ray Conlogue |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
2 Days In Paris (2007) |
"The film [has] a wonderfully natural, comfy feel. Delpy is worth watching both in front of and behind the camera." |
Jennie Punter |
Tomato 3/4 |
2 Days In The Valley (1996) |
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Splat 2/4 |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"The movie 2 Fast 2 Furious is not 2 good, but as a mental junk-food diversion, it's an occasionally stimulating jolt." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
2 Seconds (1998) |
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Splat 2/4 |
20 Dates (1998) |
"A chronicle of how aspiring American filmmaker Myles Berkowitz finally came up with an idea for selling a film: He'd combine his two areas of failure in life -- trying to break into movies and trying to find a girlfriend -- into one problem." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
200 Cigarettes (1999) |
"There's no sign of the writerly derring-do that is really essential to daisy-chain storytelling." |
Ray Conlogue |
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2001: A Space Travesty (2001) |
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Splat 1/4 |
2012 (2009) |
"As always in Emmerich's rollicking Armageddons, the cannon speaks with an expensive bang, while the fodder gets afforded nary a whimper." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
2046 (2005) |
"A beautifully flawed film." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
21 (2008) |
"Add it up and, in the game that pits your entertainment dollar against entertainment value, know this: The house wins again." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
21 Grams (2003) |
"Though not depressing, because nothing this good is, the film is haunting -- a walk on the razor's edge between life and death." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"So energized by the subject that it overflows with inventiveness." |
Ray Conlogue |
Tomato 3/4 |
The 24 Hour Woman (1999) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
25th Hour (2002) |
"25th Hour should have stopped at 24." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
27 Dresses (2008) |
"Familiarity may be the central attraction of both weddings and romantic comedies, but the creators of 27 Dresses have taken a good thing too far." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
28 Days (2000) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"[Boyle's] back on British turf here and in fine dark form." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"Only occasionally does [director] Fresnadillo rise above the mundane, but, to his credit, the exceptions are worth savouring." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
3 Needles (2006) |
"The results can be gripping, but also difficult to follow in some places -- and difficult to swallow in others." |
Kate Taylor |
Splat 2.5/4 |
3-Iron (2005) |
"What is meant to be profoundly puzzling can start to seem just theatrically silly." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
30 Days of Night (2007) |
"Like most kiddies games, this one starts out fun and then gets tired. Inevitably, that's when Slade tries to revive our interest by upping the gore quotient." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
300 (2007) |
"If the movie's neocon message is as thin as a politician's excuse, that's to be expected. But what's surprising here is that the sights are just as meagre." |
Rick Groen |
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3000 Miles to Graceland (2001) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
"The lean, cerebral swagger of the 1957 western 3:10 to Yuma is stretched out and punched up with more characters, gun-shooting and horse-riding in an entertaining remake directed by James Mangold." |
Jennie Punter |
Splat 2/4 |
4 Days (2000) |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) |
"Spare drama." |
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Splat 2/4 |
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) |
"Without the defence of teen ignorance, 40 Days is little more than soft-core sleaze." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 0/4 |
40 Is the New 20 (2009) |
"Charmless, aimless and a waste of a cast that, in other contexts, has done good work, 40 Is the New 20 is the new zero." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005) |
"If only losing it was so good for everybody." |
Jason Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
The 4th Life (2008) |
"There's a depth that is hinted at but constantly beyond Miron's reach." |
Kamal Al-Solaylee |
Splat 2/4 |
50 First Dates (2004) |
"Crude, lewd and shameless? You bet." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
500 Days of Summer (2009) |
"The movie suffers at times from a surfeit of adorableness in its two leads, as well as clumsy voiceover narration and a general sense that the subsidiary characters have about as much edge as plush toys." |
Liam Lacey |
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