Tomato 3/4 |
D.E.B.S. (2005) |
"Robinson never lets her feature film debut -- expanded from a festival short after drawing raves at Sundance 2003 -- stray too far from its satiric base." |
Allison Benedikt |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"How can a film contain so many clues yet remain utterly clueless?" |
Michael Phillips |
Splat 2/4 |
Daddy Day Care (2003) |
"A likable little movie without much to offer but cute tots, recycled gags and a talented cast amiably wasting their time and ours." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2/4 |
Dahmer (2002) |
"It's difficult to feel anything much while watching this movie, beyond mild disturbance or detached pleasure at the acting." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Dan in Real Life (2007) |
"A low-key, highly agreeable charmer." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Dancer Upstairs (2003) |
"A promising film rather than a fully realized one, an ambitious but cloudy tale through which the warm rays of a luminous intelligence and sympathy occasionally glint." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2/4 |
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) |
"Care deftly captures the wonder and menace of growing up, but he never really embraces the joy of Fuhrman's destructive escapism or the grace-in-rebellion found by his characters." |
Robert K. Elder |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Danny Deckchair (2004) |
"Danny's a nice enough guy and it's a nice enough movie, if your standards aren't too strict and your tastes not too elitist -- and you don't get overly miffed about huge gaping plot holes all over a movie." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dans Paris (2007) |
"Dans Paris is limned with human stumbling, snatches of temporary joy laced with existential disquiet and the desperation of souls at sea in a sterile universe but not to be denied grasps of pleasure." |
Sid Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Daredevil (2003) |
"Daredevil is slick, expensive and filled with good-looking actors flexing muscles, but once it grabs our attention it doesn't really reward it." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 4/4 |
Darfur Now (2007) |
"This is the kind of film that doesn't end after the credits roll, and it's a gold-star example for what a documentary should do: inspire." |
Kelley L. Carter |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) |
"However irregular the beat, this one has a heart." |
Michael Phillips |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Dark Blue (2003) |
"Director Ron Shelton wants Dark Blue to be L.A. Confidential so badly that it's palpable." |
Robert K. Elder |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dark Blue World (2001) |
"It's a fitting requiem for heroes forgotten." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"Nolan paints an inky portrait of a city falling apart, and in a movie rife with two-faced masquerading freaks, the Joker is merely the least conflicted of the bunch. Ledger's work is improbably droll, impossibly creepy, meticulously detailed." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dark Matter (2008) |
"The film does a fine job of displaying the contrasts between these tense, formalized Chinese students and the faux populist American academics." |
Maureen M. Hart |
Splat 1/4 |
Dark Streets (2008) |
"Dark Streets lost me early, real early, like still-adjusting-my-eyes-in-a-dark-theater early: Welcome to the blues, growls the entertainer with the mohawk and the full-length ringmaster gown." |
Christopher Borrelli |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dark Water (2005) |
"Director Walter Salles give this shocker an added psychological/ dramatic level that heightens the shivers." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat .5/4 |
Darkness Falls (2003) |
"A lamebrained attempt at horror that is just a derivative pastiche of ideas lifted from other bad films." |
John Petrakis |
Tomato 3/4 |
Darkon (2007) |
"There are lessons to be learned here, not the least of which is that you should never trust elf mercenaries, no matter how much you pay them." |
Michael Esposito |
Tomato 3/4 |
Darshan - the Embrace (2006) |
"You may walk away from Darshan, if it moves you at all, smiling yourself. After all, we could all use a hug." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3/4 |
Daughters of Wisdom (2007) |
"Harshly beautiful." |
Maureen M. Hart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Dave Chappelle's Block Party (2006) |
"...an uplifting, funny and engaging star-studded affair." |
Allison Benedikt |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Dawn of the Dead (2004) |
"Romero's movie was both scary and satiric, but this reprise, directed by British TV-ad wiz Zack Snyder, is neither." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Day After Tomorrow (2004) |
"This often entertaining movie mixes grand, epic effects and amazing visualizations of catastrophe with a sappy family-in-crisis plot that would look hackneyed in a '60s Disney TV movie." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato |
The Day I Became A Woman (2001) |
"[Meshkini's] filmmaking debut announces the arrival of an undeniable talent that has come of age." |
Mark Caro |
Tomato 3/4 |
Day Watch (2007) |
"One hell of a movie." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2/4 |
A Day Without A Mexican (2004) |
"The movie in its extended version is frequently muddled, emotionally messy, a little heavy-handed and misses the real opportunity presented by the new format." |
Achy Obejas |
Tomato 4/4 |
Days of Being Wild (1990) |
"A triumph of movie pop poetics." |
Michael Wilmington |
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Days of Glory (1944) |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Days of Glory (2006) |
"Few [war movies] are as moving as Days, but even so, this film doesn't romanticize. It's hard, clear, full of empathy for its characters and lucid in its insight into their plight." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 4/4 |
Days of Heaven (1978) |
"Perhaps the most typical example of a '70s American art film -- daring, romantic, rebellious but also filled with longing for the beauty of the past." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3/4 |
De-Lovely (2004) |
"It's hard not be entertained by two dozen of Cole's best, sung winningly, if not always brilliantly, by a company that includes Alanis Morissette, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow and (the best, fittingly) Natalie Cole." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Dead Girl (2006) |
"A stern account of how the brutal murder of a young woman affects an array of far-flung characters." |
Michael Phillips |
Splat 2/4 |
Dead Man's Bounty (2007) |
"Summer Love is fraught with feverish moods, bold imagination and a devilishly complicated exploration of the genre's iconography. It is also maddeningly paced, often like watching paint dry, albeit paint that's the garish tones of buckets of blood." |
Sid Smith |
Splat 1/4 |
Dead Man's Shoes (2006) |
"There's a hint of Shakespeare's goriest tragedies here, sucked dry of any attendant heart, emotional depth or compelling human interest." |
Jessica Reaves |
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Dead or Alive (1941) |
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Splat |
Dead or Alive (2001) |
"Ultimately a disappointment because it refuses to take any aspect of itself seriously." |
John Petrakis |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dead Snow (2009) |
"The Norwegian Nazi-zombie movie Dead Snow is quite the jolly mountain holiday, pitting a group of medical students against a battalion of undead, unpleasant and unstoppable German soldiers hellbent on ruining a perfectly good Easter vacation." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Deadline (2004) |
"It gives you a chance to ruminate on some crucial questions of human error, justice and life-and-death." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2/4 |
The Deal (2005) |
"Epstein and Kahn might have been better off leaving the assassinations, kidnappings and cliffhangers to Grisham and made a simpler, more realistic movie about a desperate young banker juggling deals and trying to stay afloat." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Deal (2008) |
"Moving slowly these days, Burt Reynolds does less than no acting in this role, and he's still the best thing in Deal." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dear Frankie (2005) |
"Both Mortimer and McElhone stitch together this carefully modulated little character piece, with McElhone shining particularly bright as Frankie." |
Robert K. Elder |
Splat 1/4 |
Dear Wendy (2005) |
"It's a long slog, not because what the film says is provocative but because the technique is as slack as the writing." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Death at a Funeral (2007) |
"Long delayed in its release because of the summer competition, Death arrives at last as an adult tonic in a season typically abandoned to the comic book cocktail." |
Sid Smith |
Tomato 3/4 |
Death at a Funeral (2007) |
"It's sillier but funnier than Knocked Up, the summer's other notable comedy." |
Sid Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Death of a President (2006) |
"The flaw in Death of a President isn't one of morality. It's one of dramatic interest." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2006) |
"It takes a while to adjust to its rhythm, but the Romanian film The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is a rich, strange and weirdly gratifying odyssey." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Death Race (2008) |
"It's one of those vicious larks that just plain hit the spot. It hits the spot, throws 'er into reverse and hits the spot again, before machine-gunning it and ramming it head-on for the fun of it." |
Michael Phillips |
Splat 2/4 |
Death to Smoochy (2002) |
"A dark comedy that blows up like an exploding cigar, leaving nothing much behind but smoke, noise and a bad taste." |
Michael Wilmington |
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