Splat 2.5/4 |
Adam (2009) |
"Adam wraps up the story in too tidy a package, insisting on finding the upbeat in the murky, and missing the chance to be more thoughtful about this challenging situation." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adoration (2009) |
"Why does Egoyan weave a tangled web? Because his characters are caught in it." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Director Greg Mottola, who made the rather wonderful Superbad, is back now with a sweeter story, more quietly funny, again about a hero who believes he may be a virgin outstaying his shelf life." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 2/4 |
Alien Trespass (2009) |
"Here is a movie more suited to ComicCon or the World Science Fiction Convention than to your neighborhood multiplex." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 1.5/4 |
All About Steve (2009) |
"An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amelia (2009) |
"Amelia is a perfectly sound biopic, well directed and acted, about an admirable woman." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Violet (2009) |
"A docudrama that may have an outcome we already know, but is a loud lesson about truth, justice and the Texas Way." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Amreeka (2009) |
"Does it occur to xenophobic Americans that almost all immigrants, like their own ancestors, came here because they admire the United States? Someone please explain that to Lou Dobbs." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
An Education (2009) |
"[Mulligan] makes the role luminous when it could have been sad or awkward. She has such lightness and grace, you're pretty sure this is the birth of a star." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"This kind of film requires us to be very forgiving, and if we are, it promises to entertain. Angels & Demons succeeds." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 2/4 |
The Answer Man (2009) |
"How much more interesting is a film like (500) Days of Summer, which is about the complexities of life, in comparison with this one, which cheerfully cycles through the cliches." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Antichrist (2009) |
"Von Trier, who has always been a provocateur, is driven to confront and shake his audience more than any other serious filmmaker -- even Bunuel and Herzog." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"Anvil! The Story of Anvil is a documentary about the moderate rise and long, long fall of their band, where musicians in the two other slots came and went, but Lips and Robb rocked on." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Astro Boy (2009) |
"Astro Boy is better than most of its recent competitors, such as Monsters vs. Aliens and Kung Fu Panda." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Audition (2009) |
"As a documentary, The Audition isn't cutting edge. As an introduction to a new generation of American opera stars and an opportunity to hear them sing, it is splendid." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
Avatar (2009) |
"There is still at least one man in Hollywood who knows how to spend $250 million, or was it $300 million, wisely." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Away We Go (2009) |
"Sam Mendes’ Away We Go is a film for nice people to see." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Alexandra (2008) |
"Remarkable, how little Sokurov tells us, while telling us so much." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
America The Beautiful (2008) |
"Carries a persuasive message, and is all the more effective because of the level tone that [Director Darryl] Roberts adopts." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Teen (2008) |
"American Teen isn't as penetrating or obviously realistic as her On the Ropes, but Burstein (who won best director at Sundance 2008) has achieved an engrossing film." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Anita O'Day - The Life Of A Jazz Singer (2008) |
"Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer chooses from all the existing materials, and is invaluable." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 1/4 |
Another Gay Sequel (2008) |
"Here is a film as bad as the recently released Disaster Movie. In a way, I guess this is progress; even gay filmmakers are now able to make very, very bad movies." |
Misha Davenport |
Tomato 3/4 |
Appaloosa (2008) |
"What is seductive about Appaloosa is its easygoing rhythm." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Australia (2008) |
"What a gorgeous film, what strong performances, what exhilarating images and -- yes, what sweeping romantic melodrama." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 3/4 |
The Axe in the Attic (2008) |
"This is a shattering documentary." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"The experience of the movie is joyous." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"Sounds like a soap opera. But Danish director Susanne Bier builds a high-minded melodrama from this plot material." |
Bill Stamets |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"The movie's biggest surprise is Timberlake, who finds the heart and soul of the not-so-tough Frankie and makes him the film's most complete character." |
Miriam Di Nunzio |
Splat 2/4 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"I was also grateful that Alvin wears a red sweater with a big 'A' on it as an aid to identification, since otherwise all the chipmunks seem to be identical, like Mutant Turtles or Spice Girls." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"The film is inspiring. When Wilberforce finally achieves victory, Lord Fox makes a speech, in which the opening words, sadly, still ring true today: 'When people think of great men, rarely do they think of peaceful men.'" |
Teresa Budasi |
Tomato 4/4 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"This is an engrossing story, told smoothly and well, and Russell Crowe's contribution is enormous." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 2/4 |
Angel-A (2007) |
"The movie doesn't aspire to be anything but a lightweight pastiche that rehashes your memories of other, better movies." |
Jim Emerson |
Splat 2/4 |
Arctic Tale (2007) |
"Despite its sad scenes, it sentimentalizes. It attributes human emotions and motivations to its central animals. Its music instructs us how to feel. And the narration and overall approach get in the way of the visual material." |
Roger Ebert |
Splat 1/4 |
Are We Done Yet? (2007) |
"'I can fix that,' Nick says each time a new problem arises in the house. How are we supposed to believe that when the filmmakers couldn't fix this poorly constructed sequel from its prefab origins?" |
Teresa Budasi |
Splat 2/4 |
Arthur and the Invisibles (2007) |
"There are too many things out of whack here, and too many unanswered questions." |
Teresa Budasi |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"The movie has the space and freedom of classic Western epics." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Astronaut Farmer (2007) |
"One of the loopiest inspirational-dreamer movies you'll ever see. This is the kind of film where you're watching some strange madness transpiring and you're thinking, 'I'll bet this is a dream sequence' -- only it's not, it's just more cheery weirdness." |
Richard Roeper |
Tomato 4/4 |
Atonement (2007) |
"This is one of the year's best films, a certain best picture nominee." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
August Rush (2007) |
"I dislike sentimentality where it doesn't belong, but there's something brave about the way August Rush declares itself and goes all the way with coincidence, melodrama and skillful tear-jerking." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
"Avenue Montaigne is a bon-bon for culture tourists." |
Bill Stamets |
Tomato 3/4 |
Awake (2007) |
"Accuracy is not the point. Suspense is. And from the moment Clay realizes he is not fully under anesthesia and can hear and feel everything that is happening, the movie had me." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Away From Her (2007) |
"Away From Her isn't just a portrait of Alzheimer's. For a generation that doesn't have a lot of marital role models, it's also a lyrical portrait of what it means to stick with a person for the long run. There are no easy answers." |
Paige Wiser |
Splat 2/4 |
Adam & Steve (2006) |
"There is an underlying story here, and some comic ideas, that in the hands of a better director (or more ruthless editor) could have become an entertaining romantic comedy." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 4/4 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"The story of Akeelah's ascent to the finals of the National Spelling Bee makes an uncommonly good movie, entertaining and actually inspirational, and with a few tears along the way." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) |
"Often entertaining." |
Bill Stamets |
Splat 2/4 |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"All the King's Men is miscast. The soundtrack is awful. The storyline is confusing. The cinematography is too slick and pretty, when we should be bathed in a sultry, sweaty, sticky, gritty atmosphere." |
Richard Roeper |
Splat 1.5/4 |
America: Freedom To Fascism (2006) |
"As if anticipating bad reviews, Russo ends his scattershot assault with a preemptive strike against the media: 'It's just the Federal Reserve System trying to save itself.' If you buy that line, then I'm the great-grandson of a 1913 conspirator." |
Bill Stamets |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"American Dreamz looks like a sitcom, plays like a sitcom and is a sitcom -- and also the riskiest political satire since Wag the Dog." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3/4 |
American Gun (2006) |
"[Avelino] shows an almost tender restraint in his story-telling, not pounding us with a message but simply looking steadily at how guns have made these lives difficult." |
Roger Ebert |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Americanese (2006) |
"[Director Eric] Byler deals with characters who have lived their years, learned from them, and try to apply their values to their lives. Their romances are not heedless but wary, and involve a lot of negotiation." |
Roger Ebert |
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