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Rating Title Year Quote Author

Tomato
4/4

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

"A magical film."

Michael Wilmington

Splat
1.5/4

Eagle Eye (2008)

"For all its digitally effected chaos, the cinematic threat level in Eagle Eye never even comes close to orange."

Michael Phillips

Splat
1.5/4

Easy Virtue (2009)

"Elliott nearly turns the whole affair into a musical, with characters singing snatches of Coward and Cole Porter songs. But his sense of humor is extremely broad."

Michael Phillips

Splat
1/4

Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds (2006)

"... cheerful but one-note ..."

Michael Wilmington

Tomato
3/4

The Edge of Heaven (2008)

"The film has a bit of the overdetermined, cosmic-coincidence quality you find, for example, in a work like Babel. These are troubled people caught in the grip of fate, yet Akin, I think, has the skill and the insight to make do with a little less p"

Michael Phillips

Tomato
3.5/4

Edmond (2006)

"The most effective Mamet play adaptation I've seen since James Foley's blistering 1992 Glengarry Glen Ross."

Michael Wilmington

Tomato
3.5/4

The Edukators (2005)

"For a film that points out so much wrong with German society and shows such dubious, dangerous behavior, it leaves the audience with high spirits and a sense of crazy exhilaration."

Michael Wilmington

Tomato
3.5/4

Edvard Munch (1976)

"Brings us close to both the creator and his creations."

Michael Wilmington

Splat
2.5/4

Eight Below (2006)

"Eight Below is the Brian's Song of dog movies: schmaltzy, feel-goody, inspired-by-a-true-story-y. It's formulaic and frequently over the top, 30 minutes too long and altogether too slow."

Allison Benedikt

Splat
2.5/4

Eight Legged Freaks (2002)

"However many screaming teenagers it produces at the multiplexes, Eight Legged Freaks isn't good or funny enough to reinvigorate the style. It can't even maintain its own initial zing."

Michael Wilmington

Splat
2/4

Eight Miles High (2007)

"The attractive but bird-brained German biopic Eight Miles High brings up the question of tone, and it never comes close to answering it. The film's tone is utterly indistinct, beyond fatuous adoration of its subject."

Michael Phillips

Tomato
3/4

Eisenstein (2002)

"If you're content with a clever pseudo-bio that manages to have a good time as it doles out pieces of the famous director's life, Eisenstein delivers."

John Petrakis

Tomato
3/4

El Bola (2000)

"Mana gives us compelling, damaged characters who we want to help -- or hurt."

Robert K. Elder

Tomato
3/4

El Camino (2009)

"An existentially loaded road trip, El Camino succeeds thanks to director Erik Weigel, tackling his first full-length feature, and a talented cast that includes Elisabeth Moss of Mad Men."

Maureen M. Hart

Tomato
3/4

Election (2005)

"[Director To's] talent for documentary-style realism and navigating complex political systems sets him apart, though his nationalism puts him squarely in the mainstream."

Robert K. Elder

Tomato
2.5/4

Elegy (2008)

"Elegy is a curious example of misplaced good taste. Spanish-born director Isabel Coixet's film, adapted by Nicholas Meyer, recasts into softer, more palatable material the...third in Philip Roth's stories driven by the sensual obsessions of Roth al"

Michael Phillips

Splat
1/4

Elektra (2005)

"Devotees of awful filmmaking can't go wrong with this one."

Michael Wilmington

Tomato
3/4

Elephant (2003)

"An exercise in voyeurism and a trancelike plunge into the dark side of American teen life that can both fascinate and repel you."

Michael Wilmington

Tomato
3/5

Eleven Minutes (2009)

"McCarroll is as cocky and cantankerous as he is compelling, which leads to a glut of histrionic moments, including spectacular scuffles with his publicists and his staff."

Alexis Loinaz

Tomato
3/4

Elf (2003)

"Formulaic but lovable."

Robert K. Elder

Splat
2/4

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

"It is a silly film about serious matters, challenged by a multiple-personality disorder -- multiple multiple-personality disorders, in fact -- but more or less saved from pure nonsense by Blanchett."

Michael Phillips

Tomato
1/4

Elizabethtown (2005)

"It dares you to care about any of its people or incidents or sentiments, foisting the characters' little comic quirks on the audience like they're fenced goods."

Michael Phillips

Splat
2.5/4

Ella Enchanted (2004)

"It's glossy, shiny candy that tastes oddly familiar yet lacks sugary punch."

Robert K. Elder

Splat
2.5/4

Ellie Parker (2005)

"The premise -- someone trying to inject meaning into a necessarily vacuous existence -- is depressing, but there are moments of vaguely uncomfortable hilarity. The whole endeavor, however, winds up feeling flat and a bit dull."

Jessica Reaves

Tomato
3/4

The Embalmer (2003)

"The movie, a keen look at the way passion unravels and obsession destroys, creates a black mood, a sense of truth and an enduring chill that stay with you."

Michael Wilmington

Tomato
3/4

Emmanuel's Gift (2005)

"This film becomes memorable through the sheer force of Emmanuel's personality: his ready smile, his intent gaze, his fierce resolution and the way he keeps moving forward, against all barriers."

Michael Wilmington

Tomato
2.5/4

The Emperor's Club (2002)

"Kline gives a beautiful performance, one every bit as moving as Williams' in Dead Poets Society, Robert Donat's in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Michael Redgrave's in The Browning Version."

Michael Wilmington

Tomato
3.5/4

The Emperor's New Clothes (2002)

"A sumptuous showcase for Ian Holm, who delivers not one but two great performances."

Loren King

Splat

The Emperor's New Groove (2000)

"Obviously a movie without new ideas, born out of a certain desperation."

Michael Wilmington

Splat
2/4

Empire (2002)

"Looks and feels like a low-budget hybrid of Scarface or Carlito's Way."

Robert K. Elder

Tomato

The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

"It balances bloodshed with charm, spectacle with childlike glee. It's a near flawless movie of its kind."

Gene Siskel

Tomato
3/4

Enchanted (2007)

"[Amy Adams is] every Disney princess in one ebullient package."

Michael Phillips

Tomato
3.5/4

Encounters At the End of the World (2007)

"Werner Herzog is a magnet for obsessives, and his lovely new film, Encounters at the End of the World, takes you places an ordinary filmmaker might've gone to yet missed completely."

Michael Phillips

Splat

End of Days (1999)

"End of Days is an overblown, overspectacular, oversold movie without an original idea in its head."

Michael Wilmington

Tomato
3/4

End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones (2004)

"Does justice to the humble punk band from Queens that influenced everyone from The Clash and Sex Pistols to U2 and Green Day."

Lou Carlozo

Splat
1/4

End of the Spear (2006)

"End of the Spear is a childish and visually repetitive movie, ham-fisted, proselytizing and overtly simplified."

Allison Benedikt

Tomato

The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2001)

"Most of all, it is a salute to Shackleton himself, whose calm and grace under extreme pressure helped guarantee that not a single crew member would be lost."

John Petrakis

Tomato
3/4

Enduring Love (2004)

"Slowly, inexorably, it ties you in knots."

Michael Wilmington

Tomato
3/4

Enemy at the Gates (2001)

"Elaborate, exciting and lavishly shot."

Michael Wilmington

Tomato

Enemy of the State (1998)

"If the creation of paranoia is entertainment, Enemy of the State works."

Gene Siskel

Splat

Enemy of the State (1998)

"Watching this movie is like being wired to a TV set on permanent channel-surf mode!"

Michael Wilmington

Tomato
4/4

The English Surgeon (2009)

"Exceptionally well-crafted, this doc may appeal most to those who have a doctor in the family. But I can't imagine anyone seeing it dispassionately."

Michael Phillips

Tomato
3/4

Enigma (2002)

"Not enigmatically at all, it pleases and teases us -- in high style."

Michael Wilmington

Splat
2.5/4

Enough (2002)

"Despite a story that starts off convincingly, this movie turns into melodramatic, revenge-crazy Hollywood mush."

Michael Wilmington

Tomato
3.5/4

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

"The movie does more than entertain and enlighten you. At the end, you also realize you've been watching a classic American tale, one that we can only hope will never be repeated -- though it well might be."

Michael Wilmington

Splat

Entrapment (1999)

"A wildly expensive movie full of computers, nonsense and violence, a film where wit, romance, elegance - everything - is sacrificed on the altar of giganticism, cliche and over-the-top action."

Michael Wilmington

Splat
1.5/4

Envy (2004)

"A shaggy dog-poop story that'll make you wish you could spray something at the screen to make it disappear."

Mark Caro

Splat
2/4

Equilibrium (2002)

"The characters act like robots, and the story unfolds like a computer program."

Michael Wilmington

Splat
2.5/4

Eragon (2006)

"Eragon has the courage of its earnest, borderline-humorless convictions."

Michael Phillips

Tomato

Erin Brockovich (2000)

"One of the gutsiest, most exciting, and most satisfying courtroom docudramas ever, one that genuinely lifts the spirits as you watch it."

Michael Wilmington

  
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