Tomato |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"A Scanner Darkly looks sweet but it's scarcely penetrating." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"Even though scene for scene it sticks very close to Philip K. Dick's counterculture classic, A Scanner Darkly feels much more like the earnest theorizing of Richard Linklater in Waking Life mode." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
A Tout de Suite (2005) |
"A downward spiral of destitution...like a soul jogging in place in Purgatory." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"This is the meatiest a DVD edition can get sans director's commentary." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"A film that is as haunting as it is painfully messy." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
A/K/A Tommy Chong (2005) |
"Its dramatic thinness doesn't dilute its simultaneously ridiculous and terrifying portrait of federal prosecution run amok." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Abandon (2002) |
"Certainly not a keeper but the good news is that now you can quickly fast-forward to the best parts in the film: every scene with Melanie Lynskey as Creepy Library Girl." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Abandon (2002) |
"In burying elements of behavioral psychology below a dozen different shades of blue, Gaghan draws attention away from the fact that there's a trick pony at play here." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
ABC Africa (2002) |
"An engrossing, if flawed, first step into the digital world from a cinema master." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 3/4 |
ABC Africa (2002) |
"There is a sense here of an encroaching darkness humbly met, unburdened by one-note feelings such as fear or joy and simply experienced as a profound moment of enlightenment." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 2/4 |
ABCD (2001) |
"Its identity posturing is considerably less potent than that of Chutney Popcorn's." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2007) |
"Abduction pushes its poignant buttons while casting Megumi's kidnapping as a heinous crime, yet to its credit, it consistently does so with a deftly understated, devastating touch." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
Aberdeen (2001) |
"A strangely lyrical tale of addiction and family distance." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Aberdeen (2001) |
"A splendid package from First Run Features for a little-seen gem perhaps best savored on a rainy, introspective day." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Able Danger (2008) |
"Director Paul Krik would prefer if we all compared his feature-length debut to the practically minimalist The Parallax View, but Able Danger is really a hipster version of Soderbergh's inane The Good German." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
About a Boy (2002) |
"Kudos to Ms. Collette for bringing cheer to depression and suicide." |
Alexa Camp |
Splat |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"The film's contempt spills over into the inside of the DVD case, where a Childreach advertisement claims that you can “Meet the REAL Ndugu!” before asking you to donate money to a starving child in Africa." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"Schmidt is a credible creation yet Payne's contempt runs synonymous to that of his native son's." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Absolute Wilson (2006) |
"For the Wilson newbie, this puff piece will suffice as an introduction." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Accepted (2006) |
"It takes approximately 15 seconds for Accepted to begin showcasing Mac products, a somewhat foregone conclusion given star Justin Long's stint as the face of Apple computers' recent ad campaign." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 4/4 |
Ace in the Hole (1951) |
"Not unlike Fritz Lang’s equally misanthropic Scarlet Street, Ace in the Hole plays the squashing of one man’s human spirit for societal-weary gravitas." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Achilles and the Tortoise (2008) |
"Takeshi Kitano in a contemplative, pretty-but-is-it-art mood." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 2/4 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"Taymor's signatures are visible throughout, but she is clearly trying hard to gussy up a screenplay that plays more like The Wonder Years without the cultural insight." |
Jason Clark |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Act of God (2009) |
"The wishy-washy rotation of characters strands us in the center of the film's complex topic without much aside from useless meditation on the fierce numinousness of nature to keep us company." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Actresses (2007) |
"Fails to congeal into a heady structural puzzle, or into a particularly affecting exercise in female empathy." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Adam (2009) |
"Its maudlin, self-sabotaging audience-coddling is right out of the Zemeckis playbook." |
Matt Noller |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Adam & Steve (2006) |
"Chester cleverly conflates the personal trauma of the titular couple's 18-year-old incontinence nightmare with the national horror of 9/11." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Adam Resurrected (2008) |
"Finally, though, what do all Schrader's visual grotesqueries achieve?" |
Andrew Schenker |
Tomato |
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
"It’ll take you at least double the crummy film’s running time to get through the DVD’s genuinely cute Dukesberry interactive wonderland." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat |
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
"Sandler has made a career of playing tactless, ne’er-do-well morons, but never an animated one." |
Roxanne Blanford |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Adam's Apples (2007) |
"Go-to screenwriter for the Dogma 95 collective, Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen hits a decidedly sour note with Adam's Apples." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Adaptation (2002) |
"Watching Adaptation evolve into something profound, if not entirely complete, is certainly beautiful to behold." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Adoration (2009) |
"Egoyan is so concerned with packing as much narrative and thematic material into his film that he doesn't quite know what to do with it." |
Andrew Schenker |
Tomato |
Adoration (2009) |
"Moody, gliding filmmaking and ripples of quizzical humor save it from being a lugubrious game of therapeutic musical chairs." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Adored - Diary of a Porn Star (2004) |
"Drips with that element that has turned countless gay films into dour endurance tests: navel-gazing self-pity." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"The heart of Mottola's autobiographical paean to young male mortification lies in the one-on-one scenes between his able leads, Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart." |
Bill Weber |
Tomato |
Adventureland (2009) |
"It's no Superbad, but Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart's sterling chemistry make Adventureland worthwhile." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) |
"Making your way through the film is like eating an entire beautifully sculpted wedding cake." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato |
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) |
"See the Baron dance with Venus! See a man outrun a speeding bullet! See the beautiful, mad fiasco that is The Adventures of Baron Munchausen%u2014see it if you dare!" |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat 2/4 |
Adventures of Power (2009) |
"Gold's screenplay is a tad too ambitious for its thin comic premise." |
Andrew Schenker |
Splat .5/4 |
Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
"Sharkboy offers up a piece of sage advice when he remarks, "You snooze, you win."" |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Advise and Consent (1962) |
"Advise and Consent's near-mathematical approach to political intrigue is a great argument in favor of big government." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Advise and Consent (1962) |
"Preminger's visual savvy turns that most staid and insufferable of social terrariums, the floor of the U.S. Senate, into a vibrant, perpetually shifting Voronoi diagram." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Aeon Flux (2005) |
"It fluxes all right%u2014from bad to the total pits." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
Aeon Flux (2005) |
"An estrogen-energized companion piece to Michael Bay's The Island." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
An Affair to Remember (1957) |
"An Affair to Remember and a movie to treasure." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
An Affair to Remember (1957) |
"Often regarded (or dreaded) as the ultimate chick flick, due in no small amount to its fetish-object role in Sleepless in Seattle, An Affair to Remember deserves better than to be the receptor of Meg Ryan's crocodile tears." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Affliction (1997) |
"Overwrought metaphors abound in Paul Schrader's ham-fisted Affliction." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Afghan Star (2009) |
"Afghan Star sets out with a delectably postmodern agenda." |
Joseph Jon Lanthier |
Tomato |
After Hours (1985) |
"The back of the box calls the film a “Chinese puzzle.” Are they sure they didn’t mean “Chinese Water Torture?”" |
Eric Henderson |
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