Tomato 2.5/4 |
A Stone's Throw (2006) |
"Beautiful cinematography and a fine ensemble cast make A Stone's Throw well worth catching." |
Jennie Punter |
Tomato 3/4 |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"Happily, the beauty shows up before the frustrations set in." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Abandon (2002) |
"Credit this picture with an ambitious effort to dramatize an ineffable yet recognizable mood -- even if its ambition isn't quite fulfilled." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Abel Raises Cain (2005) |
"Highly entertaining, in a casual, home-movie way." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
About a Boy (2002) |
"A flick about our infantilized culture that isn't entirely infantile." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"The movie isn't just about Schmidt as a personality, it's a portrait of his world, and Payne and co-writer Taylor show a rare compassion for the superficially comfortable." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"Yes, this is tour de force stuff, and yet, just like a good pop tune, the premise is all boy-meets-girl simplicity." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 2/4 |
Adam (2009) |
"Were it not for the fine engaging performances of both Dancy and Byrne, Adam would be sickly sweet." |
Jennie Punter |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Adaptation (2002) |
"A comic gem with some serious sparkles." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adoration (2009) |
"Once again, Egoyan has created a film that descends from ideas rather than experience, driven by theme rather than character, and he does both very well." |
Kate Taylor |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adoration (2009) |
"Though the plot borders on the abstruse, it's also the director's best film in a decade." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adrift in Tokyo (2009) |
"Beautifully shot, Adrift in Tokyo offers an enchanting, revelatory ground-level experience of the city." |
Jennie Punter |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"[Director Mottola] coaxes a set of uniformly credible performances from his ensemble cast, and makes effective use of a soundtrack that's as eclectic as the characters." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1999) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
An Affair of Love (2000) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Affliction (1997) |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
"Kids attending Agent Cody Banks won't need candy. The film itself is a 90-minute sugar rush." |
Stephen Cole |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Agronomist (2004) |
"Not an extraordinary portrait, but it does portray an extraordinary man." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
"It's no small feat to film a documentary like this with the right balance of reverence for the craft of air guitar and good, old-fashioned shooting at an easy target, but Lipsitz pulls it off." |
Liz Clayton |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"Akeelah is derivatively entertaining in a feel-good sort of way." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alexandra's Project (2005) |
"Buday is coolly persuasive in the seesaw role of an unbalanced housewife who jerks from despair to anger." |
Stephen Cole |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ali (2001) |
"[Mann] manages to dissect the sport visually, transcending the brutality cliché to reveal how speed and power and courage combine with fatigue and desperation and fear." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alias Betty (2002) |
"A dashing and absorbing outing with one of France's most inventive directors." |
Ray Conlogue |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alien Resurrection (1997) |
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Tomato 4/4 |
All About My Mother (1999) |
"This self-styled 'screwball melodrama,' a dance of grief, comedy, coincidence and resilience -- has a genuine emotional impact unlike anything Almodovar has done before." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
All About Steve (2009) |
"Bullock, easing into her mid-40s with box-office mojo intact, remains the star attraction as the annoyingly endearing Mary. You simply can't imagine another actor of her stature pulling it off." |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
All About the Benjamins (2002) |
"In this refreshingly shameless celebration of money and expensive stuff, director Kevin Bray grabs every retro action-film cliché." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
All or Nothing (2002) |
"Everything you've come to expect, and cherish, in a Mike Leigh movie." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2009) |
"Director Jonathan Levine's film displays an intelligence lacking in most teen slasher pics." |
Mark Medley |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"It's a love story stripped of trite narrative conventions and made to feel searingly honest." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"Alpha Dog is a commanding ensemble piece." |
Stephen Cole |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amadeus (1984) |
"The principal additions ... are more Amadeus, but not better." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amal (2008) |
"Most of the actors invest their characters with enough warmth to render them fully human." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amandla: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2003) |
"A pleasure -- musically, intellectually and emotionally." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amelie (2001) |
"A feel-good flick with artsy ambitions." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
America's Sweethearts (2001) |
"The kind of flick that gives fluff a good name." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
American Beauty (1999) |
"This is definitely a knife-to-the-heart movie -- the kind whose potent effect is easy to feel yet hard to describe." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
American Buffalo (1996) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"As an entertaining cops-and-crook procedural -- it's not half-bad, jacked up by strong performances, a couple of bravura action scenes and a generous attention to period detail." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
American History X (1998) |
"What partly redeems American History X from its most preachy excesses -- and makes it worth seeing -- is a brilliant, career-high performance by actor Edward Norton." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Movie (1999) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
American Perfekt (1997) |
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Tomato 3/4 |
American Pie 2 (2001) |
"Hollywood may treat us comedy fans like we're idiots, but we know a good super-glue joke when we see it." |
Jason Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
American Splendor (2003) |
"It's an inventive, mind-expanding exercise in heart and soul." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Wedding (2003) |
"A better film than anyone should normally expect in this genre." |
Ray Conlogue |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amores Perros (2001) |
"Inarritu's talent may be derivative, but it's applied to a setting he knows well and whose vibrancy he's keen to convey." |
Rick Groen |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amreeka (2009) |
"A feel-good comedy about a Palestinian mother who moves to rural Illinois with her teenaged son, Amreeka is a kind of stealth political film that confronts issues of ethnic tension and American xenophobia." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Amu (2005) |
"Good intentions do eventually trump mediocre drama and the climactic flashbacks of the riots, as Sikhs are torn out of homes and trains by murderous mobs, are the stuff of nightmares." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 4/4 |
An Education (2009) |
"An Education is, as the title suggests, about Jenny exploring her own desires and shortfalls, and it's too smart a film for easy answers." |
Liam Lacey |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides: Working With Time (2003) |
"A beautiful, probing art documentary." |
Liam Lacey |
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