Splat |
Haiku Tunnel (2001) |
"A funny movie, but like 'Josh' himself, it's too self-absorbed, and maybe too nice, for its own good." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hairspray (2007) |
"As mile-high-wig musicals go, the film version of Hairspray is less polished but more fun than Dreamgirls. Both are drag revues at heart, one funny, the other serious. I prefer the funny one." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Half Nelson (2006) |
"A wholly absorbing and delicately shaded portrait of an educator played by Ryan Gosling, a young man harboring an offstage secret." |
Michael Phillips |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Half Past Dead (2002) |
"Hip-hop prison thriller of stupefying absurdity." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Halloween: Resurrection (2002) |
"Like its parade of predecessors, this Halloween is a gory slash-fest. It can't escape its past, and it doesn't want to." |
Loren King |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"Steve Coogan is the whole show in Hamlet 2, and while director and co-writer Andrew Fleming is strictly rudimentary in terms of technique and style, his British star pockets every available laugh plus a few unavailable ones." |
Michael Phillips |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Hancock (2008) |
"In this highly superheroic summer of Iron Man and the forthcoming The Dark Knight, Hancock can offer only an A-list headliner in a D-list project." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato |
Hanging Up (2000) |
"This movie is witty, spry, even touching." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat .5/4 |
Hangman's Curse (2003) |
"We definitely could use more wholesome teenage flicks, but Hangman's Curse is just plain hokum -- not so much for the values it tries to convey, but the slipshod way it conveys them." |
Lou Carlozo |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Hangover (2009) |
"The movie smells like a hit, but honestly: Helms excepted, did it need to be quite so blandly cast, or quite so lamely raunchy?" |
Michael Phillips |
Splat 2/4 |
Hannah Montana The Movie (2009) |
"The movie's only mission is to further a brand, and it exists specifically to prop up its song list, which includes the latest dance craze, 'Hoedown Throwdown,' in which Miley exhorts us to pop it, lock it and, to the best of our abilities, 'polka-dot it." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) |
"Chop off a star if you're not up for highly experimental cinema." |
Sid Smith |
Tomato |
Hannibal (2001) |
"Both spectacular and disappointing." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 1/4 |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"Lecter is presented as a soul-dead vigilante who reserves his carnage for the truly deserving; that's a long way from the Lecter of Silence of the Lambs who kills and tortures innocent and guilty alike." |
Phil Vettel |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Happening (2008) |
"After the insufferably dense mermaid mythology of Lady in the Water, Shyamalan clearly wanted to keep things simple. He whizzed straight past simple to simplistic." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happenstance (2001) |
"Discreet, delicate and humane: a sweet butterfly of a movie that beats up a cinematic windstorm of life." |
Michael Wilmington |
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Happily Ever After (1993) |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Happily Ever After (2005) |
"Attal knows that no matter how adult we feel when we say, 'I do,' marriage is all child's play: jealousy, lies and pure, unconditional love. Perplexing, but not a bad option." |
Allison Benedikt |
Splat 2/4 |
Happily N'Ever After (2007) |
"Happily N'Ever After, with its pseudo-Shrekkeries, tries to be too many things -- and in too many styles and dimensions -- at the same time." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Happiness of the Katakuris (2002) |
"By the second hour, Miike's story fails to punctuate its powerful setup, and the work, much like the family itself, ends up a tangled mess." |
Patrick Z. McGavin |
Splat |
Happy Accidents (2001) |
"Doesn't have the negative qualities of many big-studio romantic comedies, but it doesn't quite take flight." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Happy Endings (2005) |
"Roos does an admirable job balancing the tragedy and comedy." |
Allison Benedikt |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"In a genre that relies on too many forgettable wisecracking critters who talk like out-of-work sitcom story editors, Miller's eco-musical goes its own way, defying the usual formulas." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Happy Times (2002) |
"This is a film, like City Lights, that blends darkness and light, laughter and tears -- expertly and with love." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"The new Mike Leigh film, Happy-Go-Lucky, is a real pleasure, and besides being Leigh's most buoyantly comic feature it's a marvelous showcase for Sally Hawkins, who has worked twice before with the British writer-director." |
Michael Phillips |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Hard Candy (2005) |
"Only two males working in perfectly mediocre pulp harmony would dream up an avenging teen angel like this one." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato |
A Hard Day's Night (1964) |
"No movie of the 1960s catches that era's irreverent joy and exuberance as much as director Richard Lester's Beatlemania saga." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2/4 |
The Hard Word (2003) |
"The Hard Word never steals our hearts, though it does kill time." |
Mark Caro |
Splat |
Hardball (2001) |
"Hardball remains watchable when it's not hitting you like a baseball bat with poignancy. But by the time you've endured all of the shamelessly manipulative plot turns and heart-yanking speeches that close out the movie, all you can do is cry foul." |
Mark Caro |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harmony and Me (2009) |
"In a flat, dry affect, the movie sings the breakup blues." |
Michael Phillips |
Splat 2/4 |
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
"You find yourself smiling at some of the bits, wincing through many, many others, and ultimately wondering if the pacing would've improved had either H or K developed a terrible cocaine habit." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (2004) |
"Just as Mike Judge's Office Space has become an anthem for all us Gen X cubicle slaves, Harold and Kumar will resonate deeply with anyone who attended high school in the 1990s and at least saw a joint." |
Allison Benedikt |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harrison's Flowers (2002) |
"A powerhouse of a film about modern journalism and war." |
Loren King |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) |
"It remains an expertly assembled companion piece to its source material, with charms you can't overlook. But the great Harry Potter should be casting a more powerful spell." |
Mark Caro |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"As the concerns of novelist Rowling's characters gravitate increasingly toward matters of the heart and the hormones, the Potter films are leaving childhood behind. Yet the friendship of the central trio remains the key to the magic." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) |
"The most striking aspect of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is its contrast between the hormonally and supernaturally tormented teenager at its center and the modestly well-made and easygoing picture unfolding all around him." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"Until now Harry Potter has been a great book character and a functional movie hero. With Cuaron leading the way, Harry has burst from the printed page to soar on-screen." |
Mark Caro |
Tomato 4/5 |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001) |
"If the movie Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone were released in a parallel universe in which J.K. Rowling's book didn't exist, its richly envisioned world and inventive, engaging story could be appreciated in their own rights." |
Mark Caro |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Harsh Times (2006) |
"Harsh Times is almost a good, salty urban thriller." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Hart's War (2002) |
"Katzenbach's book collapses into phoniness at the end, and the movie -- which alters that ending -- is even phonier." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008) |
"Simply by letting the onetime gridiron stars talk about the game they played and the era it was played in, the capsule cracks open and you're sucked inside and you cannot believe, even if you know the details, how that game turned out the way it did." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Harvard Man (2002) |
"Toback offers a complex, borderline campy, and oddly entertaining study of modern moral dilemmas." |
Loren King |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hatchet (2007) |
"High expectations and any discerning taste should be thrown out the window for a film of Hatchet's budget. That accomplished, audiences will find a gem of an intentionally bad movie." |
Scott Schueller |
Splat 2/4 |
The Haunted Mansion (2003) |
"While the addition of four harmonizing statues infuses some humor in the script, there's little that outshines effects in the actual Disneyland house." |
Robert K. Elder |
Tomato |
The Haunting (1999) |
"In The Haunting, the moviemakers succeed in something very difficult: creating a haunted house with real personality and terror." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2/4 |
The Haunting in Connecticut (2009) |
"The movie bumps along from low-grade scare to scare, and it's not lousy, mainly because Virginia Madsen prevents it from being so." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Havana Nights (2004) |
"Maybe I'm just a pushover. But I loved every corny, predictable minute of this sugary remake. It's called entertainment." |
Allison Benedikt |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Haven (2006) |
"The film is a fancy-pants muddle in terms of technique." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2003) |
"Though I wouldn't call He Loves Me a total success, it's smart, intriguing and quite ambitious." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 1.5/4 |
He's Just Not That Into You (2009) |
"Until a rash of ridiculous happy endings takes all the bite out of the premise, He's Just Not That Into You has some fun with its bubble gum tone." |
Tasha Robinson |