Tomato A- |
$9.99 (2009) |
"With all the hoo-ha over Up, the latest Pixar extravaganza, it would be a loss if the highly worthy little animated feature $9.99 got buried in the avalanche." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat C+ |
10 Items or Less (2006) |
"With a less camera-friendly duo, this movie could have been a real dud. Even so, it's nothing much. It does have the great virtue of being only 82 minutes long, though." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat C |
10,000 B.C. (2008) |
"It made me yearn to see Caveman again. At least that was intentionally funny." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato A |
The 11th Hour (2007) |
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Splat C+ |
12 (2007) |
"It's all bit wearying, especially at close to three hours. I haven't heard this much shouting in a movie since the first hour of Full Metal Jacket." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat C+ |
12 and Holding (2006) |
"Most of the time ... we are watching pathology without benefit of insight." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat 2/4 |
13 Going on 30 (2004) |
"Garner gives her all, which isn't enough to salvage the movie's early scenes, full of too-familiar situations and stereotypes." |
David Sterritt |
Splat C+ |
1408 (2007) |
"More thriller than horror flick, this could even be viewed as a really dark comedy." |
M. K. Terrell |
Tomato B |
16 Blocks (2006) |
"The one bright spot in all this is Mos Def's performance." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat 2/4 |
16 Years Of Alcohol (2003) |
"The frequent narration is a nonstop string of clichés, platitudes, and truisms that should have been flung out the cutting-room window." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato B |
2 Days In Paris (2007) |
"Much of the nattery byplay seems improvised, and the results are very hit and miss -- inspired contretemps alternate with gabfests that seem to go on forever." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat 1/4 |
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) |
"The film has enough wild driving to satisfy any French Connection fan or Bullitt buff, but there's precious little for anyone else to enjoy." |
David Sterritt |
- |
2001 Year-in-Review (2001) |
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David Sterritt |
- |
2002 Year-in-Review (2002) |
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David Sterritt |
- |
2003 Year-in-Review (2003) |
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David Sterritt |
- |
2004 Year-in-Review (2004) |
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David Sterritt |
Tomato 4/4 |
2046 (2005) |
"Filmed to perfection by the great Christopher Doyle and others." |
David Sterritt |
Splat C |
21 (2008) |
"If only director Robert Luketic and screenwriters Peter Steinfeld and Allan Loeb had not opted for glitz. As filmmakers, they're playing for very low stakes." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 4/4 |
21 Grams (2003) |
"Filmmaking so sensitive and intelligent deserves its weight in honors." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 4/4 |
24 Hour Party People (2002) |
"It's not a perfect movie, but it's the smartest excursion into pop culture in recent memory." |
David Sterritt |
- |
The 24 Hour Woman (1999) |
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David Sterritt |
Splat C+ |
27 Dresses (2008) |
"The romantic comedy 27 Dresses will work best for people who have never seen a romantic comedy. If you have, you might find it amusing to tally up the steals -- I mean, homages." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 3/4 |
28 Days Later (2003) |
"It's not a pretty picture, but it won't be soon forgotten by thriller fans with nerves and stomachs steely enough to take its violence in stride." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato B+ |
28 Weeks Later (2007) |
"Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, a Spanish director best known for Intacto, takes over for Danny Boyle this time around. He has a disconcerting gift for shock effects." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 4/4 |
3-Iron (2005) |
"Quiet, mysterious, sometimes violent, ultimately close to sublime." |
David Sterritt |
Splat C |
30 Days of Night (2007) |
"Here's a story set in a place where people are almost as impervious to cold as vampires, and roads remain plowed even after a blizzard." |
M. K. Terrell |
Splat C |
300 (2007) |
"Just about everything in this pea-brained epic is overscaled and overwrought -- it's a cartoon trying to be a towering triptych. The dissonance between the film's heroic ambitions and its grindingly coarse treatment is rather amusing." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato B+ |
39 Pounds of Love (2005) |
"Pound for pound, Ami is a heavyweight." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato B+ |
3:10 to Yuma (2007) |
"What Alfred Hitchcock once said about thrillers also applies to Westerns: The stronger the bad guy, the better the film. By that measure, 3:10 to Yuma is excellent." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato A |
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2008) |
"It may seem perverse to contend that a movie with such a harrowing subject is nevertheless revivifying. But the New Wave of Romanian cinema is the most exciting in the world right now. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days is its latest masterpiece." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato B+ |
49 Up (2006) |
"The passage of time has rarely been more forcefully conveyed in a movie, as we see clips of the interviewees not only from today but also at seven-year intervals from the past." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat 1/4 |
50 First Dates (2004) |
"50 First Dates turns a good premise into a romantic comedy that's vulgar, sentimental, and as dumb as the sea creatures the veterinarian hero cares for in a Hawaii aquarium." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato B- |
500 Days of Summer (2009) |
"What saves 500 Days from terminal shallowness are Gordon-Levitt and Deschanel, who are not the usual picture-perfect androids peopling these young-love idylls." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 3/4 |
5X2 (2005) |
"Ozon's drama is compellingly acted and rich in visual ideas, but a bit thin in its psychological approach." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 3/4 |
6ixtynin9 (2004) |
"Comically grotesque, strikingly filmed." |
David Sterritt |
Splat 2/4 |
8 Mile (2002) |
"Pop-music biopics have a great history, but 8 Mile is for Eminem fans only." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 4/4 |
8 Women (2002) |
"The secret to enjoying 8 Women is to check your analytical mind at the popcorn counter and settle back for almost two hours of cinematic mischief." |
David Sterritt |
Splat |
88 Minutes (2008) |
"Here's the thing about Pacino: He's often at his most entertaining when he's chewing the scenery.... Watching a great actor raise the roof is often more enjoyable than watching an OK actor deliver the goods." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat 1/4 |
8MM (1998) |
"Just when we thought Mel Gibson had plumbed the lowest depths of big-studio nastiness in Payback, along comes Nicolas Cage to do him one better." |
David Sterritt |
Splat 2/4 |
9 Songs (2005) |
"It's always hard to predict what Winterbottom will try next, but this experiment isn't worth repeating, the lively concert scenes notwithstanding." |
David Sterritt |
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