Splat 2.5/4 |
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
"An extraordinary story is reduced to a predictable, heart-tugging issue-movie- of-the-week." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
"A couple of 10-year-old boys all hopped up on concession-stand soda would be ideal companions for Disney's latest: Race to Witch Mountain." |
Stephen Cole |
Tomato 4/4 |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"There is jagged pain, but joy too; there is love and simmering hatred, laughter and anger, feelings stripped bare and buoyed up. All these opposites compellingly co-exist in Rachel Getting Married." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
Racing Stripes (2005) |
"A hackneyed mix of sentimentality and anarchic comedy." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
Radiance (1998) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Radiant City (2006) |
"Although this National Film Board-produced film is promoted as a documentary, it's really a combination of essay and drama about that favourite bugbear, suburbia." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Radio (2003) |
"A lot better than the Muzak it threatens to be, but, ultimately, not good enough to keep our itchy fingers off the dial." |
Rick Groen |
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Radioland Murders (1994) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Rage in Placid Lake (2003) |
"An amiable film comedy that leaves you feeling good as opposed to feeling for your wallet." |
Stephen Cole |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999) |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Rails & Ties (2007) |
"Fortunately for first-time director Alison Eastwood, Rails & Ties is populated by three sensitive actors who tread carefully through Micky Levy's anachronistic script." |
Stephen Cole |
Splat 1/4 |
Raise Your Voice (2004) |
"The film suffers from a syndrome I'll call the Pop Princess's New Clothes. Hilary can't really sing, and neither can Terri, so you can't help but wonder, what's the big whoop?" |
Leah McLaren |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Raising Helen (2004) |
"As relentlessly cute as you'd expect from a Garry Marshall picture." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1/4 |
Rambo (2008) |
"Never, not even in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, has Hollywood depicted Asians with more prejudice. To what end?" |
Stephen Cole |
Splat 2/4 |
Random Hearts (1999) |
"Looks more like a case of random minds." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ransom (1996) |
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Splat 2/4 |
Rat Race (2001) |
"Take a couple of laughs here, a couple of smirks there, and the conclusion is obvious: If ever there was a movie designed with the fast-forward button in mind, Rat Race is the one." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"No sketchy backgrounds here -- Ratatouille's scenes feels like deep-focus camera shots. The textures, from the gleam of copper pans to the cobblestone streets, are almost palpable." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ratcatcher (2000) |
"In any good film, the opening shot is telling, and Ratcatcher is a very good film." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Ravenous (1999) |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Ray (2004) |
"The music is inspired and the cast terrifically committed, but Ray is still a long way from being a good movie." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Read My Lips (2002) |
"Having changed into action gear, the picture never looks back, leaving two people who seemed wonderfully unique to do things that are cinematically trite." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
The Reader (2008) |
"Intellectually scant, emotionally scant." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ready to Rumble (2000) |
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Ready to Wear (1994) |
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Splat 2/4 |
The Real Blonde (1998) |
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Splat 2/4 |
Real Time (2008) |
"The actors are good, but the dialogue only mediocre, leaning toward a kind of exasperated kookiness." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
The Reaping (2007) |
"Notable for its enthusiastic abandonment of any semblance of narrative coherence. Lately, lonely women in Hollywood movies are particularly vulnerable to attacks by multiple montages and random sound effects." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
Rebound (2005) |
"So paint by numbers it should probably come with a free brush, the movie offers no surprises." |
Liam Lacey |
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Reckless (1995) |
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Splat 2/4 |
The Reckoning (2004) |
"Overstuffed and, in its own way, preachy." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Recruit (2003) |
"Beyond the opening frames, the whole movie has an altogether musty odour, as if those up-to-the-minute lines had simply been tacked on to a mothballed script." |
Rick Groen |
- |
Red (1994) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Red Cliff (2009) |
"It's a historical war movie with impressive sweep, strong characterizations and the kind of idiosyncratic flourishes that made Woo such an irresistible storyteller." |
Stephen Cole |
Splat 2/4 |
Red Corner (1997) |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Red Dragon (2002) |
"With one exception, the performances are certainly accomplished, yet no one truly shines, not even Fiennes." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Red Eye (2005) |
"Sitting through Red Eye is like watching a master carpenter at work on a custom bookcase. No one would call the result art, but you're sure bound to admire the sheer craft of the thing." |
Rick Groen |
- |
Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (1994) |
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Splat 2/4 |
Red Green - Duct Tape Forever (2003) |
"Not much of a movie." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
Red Lights (2004) |
"Before it turns into a thriller, and goes badly awry, Red Lights paints a devastating little portrait of a marriage on the rocks." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Red Planet (2000) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Red Road (2007) |
"That devilish idea machine Lars von Trier reached into his bag of tricks and came up with the Advance Party project." |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
The Red Violin (1998) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Redacted (2007) |
"I think it's safe to suggest no other war could have produced a movie like this." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Redbelt (2008) |
"Teeters precariously between Mamet's typically noirish realm and the kick-ass commercial galaxy, looking not quite at home in either." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Reign of Fire (2002) |
"Reign of Fire never comes close to recovering from its demented premise, but it does sustain an enjoyable level of ridiculousness." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"Reign Over Me drizzles down on us for two full hours, persistently determined to prove that, if it hangs around long enough, a coherent movie will turn up. No such luck." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
Reindeer Games (2000) |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Relax... It's Just Sex! (1999) |
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Splat 2/4 |
Religulous (2008) |
"[Maher] converts 'honest doubt' into a rant against the ranters. Listening to it is like switching from Fox News to MSNBC, a different perspective but the same damn noise. My God, when will the racket end?" |
Rick Groen |
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