Splat 2/5 |
I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) |
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James Kendrick |
Splat |
I Am Curious (Blue) (1968) |
"Droll and creaky." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2/4 |
I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) |
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James Kendrick |
Splat 2/4 |
I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967) |
"It’s too shapeless and loose, and it’s easy for one’s attention to drift until the screen is once again filled with the infamous sexual interludes." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/5 |
I Am Legend (2007) |
"For everything that is good about it, though, I Am Legend struggles against two primary problems." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2/4 |
I Am Sam (2002) |
"In a case of attention-deficit- disorder-style filmmaking, Nelson consistently undermines every moment of honest drama by drawing undue attention to the camera." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
I Bury the Living (1958) |
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James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
I Bury the Living (1958) |
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James Kendrick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
I Dreamed of Africa (2000) |
"In the film, it feels more like Gallmann is simply tolerating her life in Africa rather than embracing it, and the disparity between those two positions makes all the difference in the world." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2/4 |
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"the kind of original, clever, off-kilter filmmaking that's easy to appreciate, but hard to like" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
I Know Where I'm Going! (1946) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
I Know Where I'm Going! (1946) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
I Love You, Man (2009) |
"finds room to celebrate the inner caveman without discarding all of the refinements" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 1.5/5 |
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007) |
"The makers of Chuck & Larry probably think they've accomplished something meaningful, but what they've really done is make a gay Soul Man." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
I Spit on Your Grave (1978) |
"stark, simpleminded, and direct" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
I Spit on Your Grave (1978) |
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James Kendrick |
Splat 1/4 |
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (1998) |
"About as dull and unoriginal as the title suggests." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
I, Robot (2004) |
"Proyas succumbs to the inane post-Matrix tendency to pump up action sequences with sudden moments of slow motion gymnastics that are almost laughable" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
I, Robot (2004) |
"all kinds of fascinating philosophical and logical conundrums swimming frantically amid a sea of CGI-created mayhem" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
I, the Jury (1982) |
"The central fault in this updating is Mike Hammer, whose character was lost in the shuffle while updating from the fifties to the eighties." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ice Age (2002) |
"funny and sweet and often clever, but it sometimes feels a little too formulaic" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) |
"The jokes don't always hit like they should, but there is a pleasant familiarity that mixes well with the sense of adventure to underscore the film's warm-n-fuzzy proclamations about the nature of family and togetherness." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) |
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James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/5 |
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Ice Storm (1997) |
"Lee infuses the film with just enough humor to keep it from becoming unremittingly bleak, but the overall impact is harsh and caustic." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Ice Storm (1997) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
An Ideal Husband (1999) |
"An Ideal Husband is, at its heart, a romantic comedy of mix-ups." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Identity (2003) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/5 |
Idiocracy (2006) |
"Politically correct? Not even close. Hilarious? Undeniably." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 1/4 |
Idle Hands (1999) |
"When it's over, you may feel like cutting off your own hand for having paid good money at the ticket counter." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/5 |
Idlewild (2006) |
"You'll probably come to Idlewild for the musical excitement, but you may just find yourself leaving with a surprisingly bittersweet lump in your throat." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Illusionist (2006) |
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James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/5 |
The Illusionist (2006) |
"'Nothing is what it seems,' goes the film's tagline, but it eventually shows that everything can be explained." |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) |
"Asquith, an expert in comedy ..., knows just how to let Wilde's drawing-room farce play out to maximum effectiveness with a minimum of intrusion" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Importance of Being Earnest (2002) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Importance of Being Earnest (2002) |
"Shot in lavish Technicolor but restricted to a few well-designed sets, The Importance of Being Earnest is a small cinematic gem." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Impostor (2001) |
"tension developed in the movie's impressive first 15 minutes gradually dissolves as the plot lumbers forward with little purpose other than to fill time until the twist ending" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
In America (2003) |
"Sheridan manages to maintain the delicate balance between the gritty realities of the story he’s telling and the almost fairy-tale-like mysticism" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2/4 |
In Dreams (1998) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3/4 |
In Good Company (2004) |
"certainly intends for lessons to be learned, but it doesn't condescend in simple fashion" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
In the Bedroom (2001) |
"It speaks to broadly defined themes that are staples of literature and art ... yet it is done intimately, always with an eye on the people who are affected" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
In the Company of Men (1997) |
"Despite our feeble attempts to delude ourselves into thinking Chad and Howard could never exist in real life, their words and actions still haunt us after the credits roll because, deep inside, we know they're real." |
James Kendrick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
In the Cut (2003) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
In the Heat of the Night (1967) |
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James Kendrick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
In the Heat of the Night (1967) |
"Poitier and Steiger have such strong chemistry together and they act so well in their respective roles that their relationship comes alive and grabs you on a gut level" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
In the Mood for Love (2001) |
"an elegant, poetic exploration of romantic yearning, repressed emotions, and the age-old conflict between tradition-bound behavior and emotional longings" |
James Kendrick |
Tomato 4/4 |
In the Mood for Love (2001) |
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James Kendrick |
Splat 2/4 |
In the Realm of the Senses (1976) |
"quickly becomes as monotonous as bluenoses accuse it of being prurient" |
James Kendrick |
Splat 2.5/5 |
In the Valley of Elah (2007) |
"It's harder to tell if In the Valley of Elah is critical of the war in Iraq or what America itself has become." |
James Kendrick |
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