Tomato 4/4 |
Va Savoir (2001) |
"A generally wonderful experience, though it should come with a warning posted outside the theatre: Not for the impatient." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Valentin (2004) |
"As a whole Valentin is cloying, consistently overplaying its young star's pathos and cuteness." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 0/4 |
Valentine (2001) |
"In the new teen slasher flick Valentine, a public-school nerd, now grown up, seeks to systematically murder all the girls who wouldn't dance with him at the Grade 6 Valentine's dance. Or maybe that's not what happens. It ís hard to tell." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
Valentino: the Last Emperor (2009) |
"Superficial but giddily entertaining." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Valkyrie (2008) |
"It may be the same old partners but it's a better dance -- here, at least, history leads and Hollywood follows." |
Rick Groen |
Splat |
Vampire in Brooklyn (1995) |
"Neither as good as it might be nor as bad as you might expect." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Vampires (1998) |
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Splat 2/4 |
The Van (1996) |
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Splat 1/4 |
Van Helsing (2004) |
"The idea is every bit as dumb as the execution." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1/4 |
Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006) |
"Van Wilder 2's sense of numbing familiarity is not enhanced by director Mort Nathan's apparent unfamiliarity with the entire filmmaking process." |
Jason Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Vanilla Sky (2001) |
"When [Cruise is] the boss on a project, as he was here and on Mission Impossible II, his work can feel distractingly self-conscious." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
Vanity Fair (2004) |
"This might be tolerable if Nair hadn't missed the central point, that Becky Sharp isn't sharp like spice, she's sharp like a razor." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2/4 |
Vantage Point (2008) |
"The problem with Vantage Point is that the rapid-rewind technique keeps interfering with the thriller's momentum." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Varian's War (2000) |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Various Positions (2002) |
"Though Kowarsky's ambitions sometimes get the better of him, his indie drama boasts some freshness and a complex, nuanced take on both college romances and parent-child warfare." |
Jason Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Velvet Goldmine (1998) |
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Tomato |
Vengo (2001) |
"Truly arouses." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Vento di Terra (2005) |
"Marra has proved himself a director of concision and understatement who has the gift of making the familiar feel fresh again." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Vera Drake (2004) |
"Gripping film." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Veronica Guerin (2003) |
"What you expect from a feature film, especially one made seven years after her death, is the further matter of why she did so. Alas, that tricky little 'W' gets barely a mention." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Vertical Limit (2000) |
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Splat 2.5/4 |
Very Bad Things (1998) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
A Very Long Engagement (2004) |
"A Very Long Engagement is certainly long and not always engaging and comes with a predictably basic ending, yet there are unexpected pleasures, moments of beauty and tiny pockets of joy to sustain you through the journey." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
The Very Thought of You (1998) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) |
"A lightweight musing on love's infinite variety, not especially comic, and certainly not tragic, but breezing along somewhere in the meditative middle." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Victoria Day (2009) |
"It is intensely well observed, but somewhat lacking in drama. It is lightly nostalgic about its moment in history. It's probably autobiographical. And it doesn't have much of an ending." |
Kate Taylor |
Splat 1/4 |
View from the Top (2003) |
"Comedies don't come much flatter." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2/4 |
Vigo (1998) |
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Splat 2/4 |
The Village (2004) |
"Not only is The Village not credible, its shallowness makes it dislikable." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat |
Village of the Damned (1995) |
"There's nothing more static than a stalled fright vehicle." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 4/4 |
Vincere (2009) |
"An operatic tour de force." |
Mark Peranson |
Splat 2/4 |
Virginia's Run (2002) |
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Splat 2/4 |
Virtual JFK (2008) |
"The film is a seductive immersion into an early sixties zeitgeist and Cold War cool." |
Liam Lacey |
Splat 1/4 |
Virus (1998) |
"Frankly, about 20 minutes into this dud, I was rooting for the alien beasties." |
Rick Groen |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Visitor (2008) |
"The film becomes less about the suffering of immigrants who have never enjoyed the embrace of Ellis Island than the righteous indignation of a liberal intelligentsia raging against its own powerlessness." |
Jason McBride |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Vitus (2007) |
"Vitus's cool intelligence, knotty narrative and precise performances make it a pleasure to watch even when it sends mixed messages about the true nature of its protagonist." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Viva (2008) |
"Its triumph is that of style -- gloriously and revoltingly tacky style -- over substance." |
Kamal Al-Solaylee |
Splat 2/4 |
Volcano (1997) |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Volver (2006) |
"A tale of sisterhood, told with playful affection and abiding gratitude." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 4/4 |
Voyages (1999) |
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