Tomato 3/4 |
Tadpole (2002) |
"Weaver and Neuwirth are the sparks in this film, as they project a maternal sexiness and sincerity that's entirely believable." |
Loren King |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (2004) |
"Writer/director Kang Je-gyu dedicates himself to the human side of a grand tale, to people who've been uprooted by history." |
Robert K. Elder |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Tailor of Panama (2001) |
"Like a Bach toccata or a frosty drink on a sunlit veranda, a first--class movie spy thriller can offer one of life's cooler, more elegant treats. The Tailor of Panama fits that category." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3/4 |
Take Care of My Cat (2001) |
"The problems and characters it reveals are universal and involving, and the film itself -- as well its delightful cast -- is so breezy, pretty and gifted, it really won my heart." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Take My Eyes (2006) |
"An extraordinarily truthful and piercing drama about spousal abuse." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2/4 |
Take the Lead (2006) |
"The latest ballroom dance-fever picture isn't very good, but some of the dancing is fun." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Taken (2009) |
"Taken, which tells the story of how Liam Neeson blows a gasket and flies off to France and kills 75 Albanians in 90 minutes, is crisp, efficient and deeply insane." |
Christopher Borrelli |
Splat 1/4 |
Taking Lives (2004) |
"An unimaginative, protracted gore-fest that swipes from David Fincher's Seven like a cinematic pickpocket but only comes up with lint." |
Robert K. Elder |
Splat |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"Denzel Washington is that valuable paradox, the relatable supernova. [But] it's too bad the movie around him isn't better -- the '74 edition, propelled by David Shire's incredibly badass theme music, kicks the remake's behind all the way to Coney Island." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Taking Sides (2003) |
"[A] magnificent piece of theater-as-cinema, with performances so intense, backgrounds so evocative, the camera so ingeniously placed and the tempo so crisp, it's impossible to be bored." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3/4 |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"This is very light material, and, unusually for a Lee picture, not everybody in the ensemble appears to be acting in the same universe, let alone the same story. On the other hand: It’s fun." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Tale of Despereaux (2008) |
"I admired the craft more than I loved the results. But The Tales of Despereaux is still better-than-average animation." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003) |
"It's a stunningly creepy specimen of Asian horror." |
Allison Benedikt |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Talent Given Us (2004) |
"If you enjoy HBO's cult hit Curb Your Enthusiasm, you're almost guaranteed to enjoy this bawdy, heartbreaking, deeply discomfiting mockumentary." |
Jessica Reaves |
Tomato |
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) |
"The movie gives us enticing sights and sounds, brilliant scenes, gifted actors and artists and at least part of one of the all-time great nerve-jangling thriller plots." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 4/4 |
Talk to Her (2002) |
"This is a movie of great, rending compassion and artistry, and the ease with which it invites tears or laughter along with the hypnotic quality of the storytelling are the signs of a true master." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Talk to Me (2007) |
"Blessedly free of the usual biopic freight and sanctimony, the exuberant new film Talk to Me has a great subject and a great actor working in tandem." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
A Talking Picture (2003) |
"A film which, with rare eloquence, speaks to our hearts and minds about modern quandaries and eternal truths." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2/4 |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) |
"Now and then, the movie allows you to relax into its brand of stupid-smart comedy. The rest of the time your shoulders scrunch up and ask the eternal question: Why is this routine not quite working?" |
Michael Phillips |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Tamara (2006) |
"There are few words to describe the awfulness of this movie, but let's give it the old college try: dismal, depressing, embarrassing and utterly lacking in any artistic or social worth." |
Jessica Reaves |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Tarnation (2004) |
"As raw and personal as a movie can be, the equivalent of a cinematic journal or diary. But it's also artfully constructed and articulated, written, edited and musically designed with often jolting brilliance." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato |
Tarzan (1999) |
"Entertaining and spectacular!" |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato |
The Taste of Others (2001) |
"[Characters] stand revealed in subtle, unexpected ways." |
Loren King |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Taste of Tea (2004) |
"The most charming comedy in town, writer-director-editor Katsuhito Ishii's 2003 piece is a modern Japanese variation on You Can't Take It With You, with some lovely fantastical flourishes." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Tattoo (2002) |
"While Tattoo borrows heavily from both Seven and The Silence of the Lambs, it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in." |
Robert K. Elder |
Splat 2/4 |
Taxi (2004) |
"Despite some gratuitous, lingering shots of Bundchen with her scantily- clad cohorts and some equally heated, rubber-burning car chases through Manhattan, Taxi never really gets out of second gear." |
Robert K. Elder |
Tomato 3/4 |
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) |
"The most extraordinary thing about the grim Best Documentary Academy Award nominee Taxi to the Dark Side is how straightforward its interviewees are about the military prisoner they collectively murdered in Afghanistan in 2002." |
Tasha Robinson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Teacher's Pet (2004) |
"A quick and easy entry point for new viewers." |
Robert K. Elder |
Splat |
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) |
"A dull assignment." |
Mark Caro |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Team America: World Police (2004) |
"There's a guilty, infantile fun to Team America." |
Robert K. Elder |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tears of the Black Tiger (2000) |
"The result is something so old it's new, so corny it's funny. And while Tears of the Black Tiger is nothing more than entertaining, at least it's that." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Tears of the Sun (2003) |
"Flashy on the surface, Tears of the Sun is shallow at the heart." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Teeth (2008) |
"Given how thoroughly all the subtext spells out the message, then, it seems unnecessary to make the actual text so raw, grotesque and graphic. Granted, a horror movie about vagina dentata was probably never destined to be tasteful, but Lichtenstein's comp" |
Jessica Reaves |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Teeth (2008) |
"Given how thoroughly all the subtext spells out the message, then, it seems unnecessary to make the actual text so raw, grotesque and graphic." |
Tasha Robinson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tell No One (2008) |
"Under the direction of Guillaume Canet, who adapted Harlan Coben's English-language best seller with Philippe Lefebvre, this is a splendid ensemble doing its level best to keep the audience guessing all the way through an increasingly knotty narrative." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tell Them Who You Are (2005) |
"The movie gets progressively more candid until, toward the end, the two Wexlers, along with Mark's mother, collaborate on one great sequence of family sorrow and togetherness all but redeems the entire movie." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ten (2003) |
"A film made by a master, with a simplicity that is really revolutionary." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Ten (2007) |
"Where Kieslowski's work always had a goal and a sense for how real people think, nothing about The Ten suggests that the filmmakers ever thought any further than the next meager, uncomfortable titter." |
Tasha Robinson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Ten Commandments (2007) |
"There's an endearing, earnest quality to The Ten Commandments that transcends its star-studded cast and computer-generated animation." |
Lou Carlozo |
Splat 2/4 |
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006) |
"Even with Jack Black's eyebrows and a musical showdown with the devil, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny is kind of a whiff." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Terminal (2004) |
"An unabashed romantic comedy and Capraesque fable that takes Spielberg into realms he's rarely traveled before." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3/4 |
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) |
"A taut, exciting science-fiction thriller that pumps up our adrenaline without forgetting to engage our heads." |
Mark Caro |
Splat 1/4 |
Testosterone (2003) |
"This is a movie in which things happen for no reason other than that the director wills them to happen in order for something else to happen, logic be damned." |
Achy Obejas |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
"An effectively scary slasher film." |
Robert K. Elder |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Texas Rangers (2001) |
"The end result may not be a full-blown disaster, but it comes close." |
John Petrakis |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Thank You For Smoking (2006) |
"Besides being the best American comedy since The 40 Year-Old Virgin, Thank You For Smoking is the first film in a long time with a true gift of gab." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Cats of Mirikitani (2006) |
"If you're not moved by his movie, you're really a hard case." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 1/4 |
The Clone Wars (2008) |
"Clone Wars was executive-produced by George Lucas, who may be feeling a tad sheepish about the results." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"It is a mark of the filmmaking and storytelling intelligence of The Counterfeiters that Ruzowitzky neither pours on the melodrama nor plays coy with the reality of things." |
Michael Phillips |
Splat 2/4 |
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008) |
"In one eye and out the other, the sullen remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still airlifts certain story details straight from its source material." |
Michael Phillips |