Tomato 2/4 |
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
"In all, this is a watchable movie that's not quite the memorable experience it might have been." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato B |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"It's a great piece of acting -- high drama at the service of the highest talent." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat 2/4 |
Racing Stripes (2005) |
"Young kids will get hearty chuckles from its blend of mild vulgarity, goofiness, and sheer inanity. Anyone older than about 11 should probably take a pass." |
David Sterritt |
Splat 1/4 |
Radio (2003) |
"This fact-based drama is very well-meaning but also cloying, sentimental, and simplistic." |
David Sterritt |
- |
Radio Days (1986) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Sterritt |
Splat C- |
Rails & Ties (2007) |
"In the right hands, this might be the stuff of compelling cinema. Instead, Rails and Ties sinks into melodrama." |
Matthew Shaer |
Splat 1/4 |
Raising Helen (2004) |
"Great premise, but the ensuing trials and tribulations -- not to mention hapless attempts at comedy -- are ... off-key." |
Stephen Humphries |
Tomato 3/4 |
Raising Victor Vargas (2003) |
"At once sympathetic and unsentimental, this is a model of low-budget storytelling on a human scale." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 4/4 |
Raja (2004) |
"Subtle filmmaking and true-as-life acting make this an acute psychological drama with an engrossing sociological subtext." |
David Sterritt |
Splat C- |
Rambo (2008) |
"Torture, depravity, kidnap, massacre, and gore abound. You've been warned." |
M. K. Terrell |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rana's Wedding (2002) |
"Excellent acting, and a plot that combines suspense, whimsy, and political resonance make this Palestinian comedy-drama an unusual treat." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato A- |
The Rape Of Europa (2007) |
"Hitler's methodical plan to plunder and destroy Europe's great works of art gets lush treatment in this comprehensive documentary." |
Robert Newton |
Tomato B+ |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"In sequence after sequence, we are presented with visual set pieces that far exceed the imaginativeness of most live-action dramatic fare." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ray (2004) |
"It's good that Hackford and company have allowed themselves to touch so many bases in Charles's biography." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato B |
The Reader (2008) |
"The movie adaptation by screenwriter David Hare and director Stephen Daldry starts out choppy and overdrawn but develops a cumulative power." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato |
Rear Window (1954) |
"In the hands of a lesser talent, this might have become a self-conscious stunt, but in Hitchcock's it has the tightly wound perfection of a flawless sonnet or sonata." |
David Sterritt |
Splat 2/4 |
The Reckoning (2004) |
"The story never gathers much dramatic momentum despite an impressive cast and a lot of dank Middle Ages atmosphere." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 3/4 |
Reconstruction (2004) |
"The influence of Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier looms heavily over the whole film." |
David Sterritt |
Splat 2/4 |
The Recruit (2003) |
"The first half packs some clever surprises, but eventually you'll wish you'd signed up with another movie." |
David Sterritt |
Splat C |
Red (1994) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Rainer |
Splat C- |
Red (2008) |
"Begins promisingly and then swerves into absurdity." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 3/4 |
Red Dragon (2002) |
"You have enough finely tuned acting to compensate for the movie's failings." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato B+ |
Red Eye (2005) |
"Taut. Tense. Gripping. Suspenseful. This reviewer hasn't used those words in so long I think I heard the keyboard cough. Nevertheless, they all apply to Wes Craven's Red Eye." |
John Anderson |
Tomato 4/4 |
Red Lights (2004) |
"Strange, scary, and atmospheric, with a delicious Claude Debussy score." |
David Sterritt |
Splat 1/4 |
Red Planet (2000) |
"Look for Red Planet to crash as resoundingly at the box office as its heroes do on Mars." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Red Violin (1998) |
"Girard invests each episode of this production with dramatic credibility and emotional strength." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato B |
Redacted (2007) |
"The concept is audacious but the actors are too theatrical." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat |
Redbelt (2008) |
"Mamet toys with this existential dilemma but his heart -- or fist -- isn't in it." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato B |
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"This sometimes touching drama has its funny moments, but it's a rare opportunity to see Sandler in a serious role." |
M. K. Terrell |
Tomato B- |
Religulous (2008) |
"Was Maher afraid he might muddy his clownish jape if he actually brought into the mix a learned theologian?" |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato 3/4 |
Remember Me, My Love (2004) |
"Very well acted and directed, if overlong." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato B |
Rendition (2007) |
"Scenes of powerful realism alternate with melodrama." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato B- |
Rent (2005) |
"As directed by Columbus, Jonathan Larson's East Village reworking of 'La Boheme' in the age of AIDS retains its calisthenic pathos, as well as most of its original cast, but you'd have to be a real Rent-Head to envisage Academy Awards in its future." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat 1/4 |
The Replacements (2000) |
"The Replacements deserves replacement as quickly as possible." |
David Sterritt |
Splat C |
Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) |
"Like a compost of Rocky Horror and Sweeney Todd, but without the floridity or the savage wit." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato B |
Reprise (2008) |
"A Norwegian movie that often looks and feels like a resurrected specimen of the French New Wave." |
Peter Rainer |
Tomato B- |
Rescue Dawn (2007) |
"Although nothing beats seeing and hearing the real story, Herzog has done a fairly compelling job of blending staged action with docudrama authenticity." |
Peter Rainer |
Splat C |
Reservation Road (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
Peter Rainer |
Splat D |
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) |
"A mad scientist (Iain Glen), hired to domesticate the zombies with serum he derives from the blood of Alice or her clones, is actually breeding superzombies to no discernible purpose other than adding gore and mayhem." |
M. K. Terrell |
Tomato B- |
Resurrecting the Champ (2007) |
"[Director] Lurie clearly wants Resurrecting the Champ to be 'more' than a sports movie, or a newspaper movie. Ironically, he ends up with less." |
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Tomato 4/4 |
The Return (2004) |
"Enriched by allusions to biblical stories of fathers, sons, and sacrifices, subtly woven into the movie's moodily photographed fabric." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato |
Return of the Jedi (1983) |
"Every scene meets the movie's generally high standard!" |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 4/4 |
Return to the Land of Wonders (2004) |
"[Pachachi] keeps things lively by roaming far and wide with her camera, returning to the statesmanship side of the documentary often enough to let us follow relevant events as they unfold." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 2/4 |
Returner (2002) |
"Hovering between Last Action Hero and E.T., this sci-fi extravaganza is bookended with violence but has some gentle moments in between." |
David Sterritt |
Splat |
Revolutionary Road (2008) |
"What is it about the 1950s that brings out the worst in cultural historians?" |
Peter Rainer |
Splat C |
Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (2006) |
"A terribly sentimentalized account of a Japanese father's quest to understand what captured the interest and imagination of his estranged son." |
Robert Koehler |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Ring Two (2005) |
"Watts is wonderful, and the story's forsaken-child theme still has plenty of horrific power." |
David Sterritt |
Tomato 3/4 |
Risk/Reward (2004) |
"Informative, engrossing documentary about women working in high-powered Wall Street business firms where men traditionally hold the reins." |
David Sterritt |
Splat C |
The Road to Guantanamo (2006) |
"Revulsion can be an effective tool in exposing wrongdoing. But in the murky confrontation between militant Islam and the West, truth will always be the better road to freedom." |
Warren Richey |
Splat 2/4 |
Road to Perdition (2002) |
"The plot holes are big enough to hide Al Capone's illicit millions in." |
David Sterritt |
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