Tomato 4/4 |
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002) |
"Raunchy, smart, ebullient, melancholy, insightful, surprising, funny, frank and sexy as all get-out." |
Mark Caro |
Tomato |
The Yards (2000) |
"A rare and often quite good try at making a thriller with real people and believable contemporary backgrounds." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Year My Parents Went On Vacation (2008) |
"This 1970-set tale of a 12-year-old shaped by three driving forces--his country's brutal dictatorship, his left-wing parents' disappearance and a nation's obsession with the World Cup--pulls you into a well-observed world and its characters." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Year of the Dog (2007) |
"It's enjoyable in a dry but fervent way that most American comedies aren't." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Year of the Yao (2005) |
"Should be a natural for NBA fans and please non-enthusiasts as well." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Year One (2009) |
"Ramis' challenge in Year One, which he wrote with Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg, is to keep the vibe loose while delivering the laughs. They come in fits and starts." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Yella (2007) |
"The German offering Yella begins with an utterly gripping first 15 minutes, follows with a passable drama and ends with a big disappointment." |
Sid Smith |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Yes (2005) |
"This is the kind of movie that nice people call ambitious." |
Allison Benedikt |
Tomato 3/4 |
Yes Man (2008) |
"Yes Man starts out wobbly but ends up quite nicely, primarily because Carrey has a wonderful acting partner in Zooey Deschanel, the singer-actress with the saucer eyes and unpredictable, behind-the-beat comic timing." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Yes Men (2004) |
"They'll make you hoot. They'll make you think. And they'll make you wonder how often you drink the Kool-Aid." |
Allison Benedikt |
Splat 2/4 |
Yes Men Fix the World (2009) |
"When a British Channel 4 interviewer upbraids Bichlbaum for providing massively false hopes to countless Bhopal residents, I found myself siding with the interviewer, not the prankster with the alleged higher moral purpose." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato |
Yi Yi (2000) |
"An amazing experience: as if a TV soap opera, packed with the usual catastrophes, were done with unaccustomed depth and real storytelling genius." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009) |
"Born Tillie Edelstein, Berg honed her talent writing skits at her father's resort, Fleischmann's, in the Catskill Mountains. But Molly's kitchen belonged to the nation." |
Michael Phillips |
Tomato 3/4 |
Yossi & Jagger (2003) |
"Levi and Knoller are so natural, so unconcerned with mugging for the camera, that what could have been a corny love story on paper is utterly sincere and touching on screen." |
Allison Benedikt |
Tomato |
You Can Count on Me (2000) |
"Lonergan shows us what our movies rarely do: real people suffering real pains and joys -- in the small, cluttered ways that real life mostly brings." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2/4 |
You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008) |
"The ideas and some of the individual bits in Zohan work, but the crudeness of the execution undermines the results." |
Michael Phillips |
Splat |
You Got Served (2004) |
"Commits a variety of cinematic sins, none fatal individually but collectively enough to pull an audience under." |
Robert K. Elder |
Splat 2/4 |
You I Love (2005) |
"To say the epilogue strains credibility is a kindness. The filmmakers seem set on a happy ending, no matter what the story itself is telling them." |
Achy Obejas |
Tomato 3/4 |
You Kill Me (2007) |
"When Leoni's character learns what Frank does for a living, her look of puzzlement is marvelously subtle. You Kill Me has a lot of little moments like that." |
Michael Phillips |
Splat |
You've Got Mail (1998) |
"The whole movie goes bland and flat as a fast-food knish or a blank computer screen." |
Michael Wilmington |
Splat 2.5/4 |
You, Me and Dupree (2006) |
"The end product feels less funny than formulaic. Not to mention profoundly disheartening." |
Jessica Reaves |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Young Adam (2004) |
"It's a movie drama with a surface so bleak and an interior so hot with eroticism that it twists your guts to watch it." |
Michael Wilmington |
Tomato |
Young Girl and the Monsoon (2001) |
"Kinney is solid, as usual, but it is young Muth who gobbles up the screen." |
John Petrakis |
Splat 1/4 |
The Young Unknowns (2003) |
"There is nothing to redeem this movie, and no real reason to see it." |
Kevin M. Williams |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Young@Heart (2008) |
"A chorus (average age 80) prepares for a springtime tour, putting their signature spin on classics--classics like The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go."" |
Jessica Reaves |
Splat |
Your Friends & Neighbors (1998) |
"LaBute's characters are just cold, pretty figures striking art film poses while spouting corrosive but predictably theatrical dialogues." |
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Splat 1.5/4 |
Yours, Mine, & Ours (2005) |
"Yours, Mine & Ours isn't so much a movie as it is scene after scene of [Dennis] Quaid getting pelted with paint, food and other associated goo. But even as slapstick, it's a major snoozefest." |
Robert K. Elder |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Youth Without Youth (2007) |
"Too much of the film is a muddle, and it feels like work, not play." |
Michael Phillips |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Yu-Gi-Oh: The Movie (2004) |
"Shallow and repetitive." |
Ellen Fox |
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