Tomato 2.5/4 |
After Hours (1985) |
"Scorsese's showmanship ends up enhancing the film’s dreamlike, surrealist sense of encroaching hysteria." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
After Innocence (2005) |
"After Innocence doesn't inspire much confidence in the American legal system." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
After Stonewall (1999) |
"Six years after it attempted to bring gay rights to an uplifting, if bittersweet denouement, the Bush years have now given After Stonewall its sense of urgency." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
After Stonewall (1999) |
"“Lesbians! We’re everywhere! Lesbiana! Yo soy lesbiana!”
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Eric Henderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
After the Apocalypse (2004) |
"Bleak, minimalist science fiction reminiscent of Chris Marker via Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
After the Life (2002) |
"Even if you refuse to play Belvaux’s Choose Your Own Adventure, do not ignore these performances." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
After the Storm (2009) |
"The kids themselves drop in and out of the movie, their personal conflicts briefly raised and left unresolved, which is a shame, because the few bits of their home lives post-Katrina that we discover are intriguing." |
Aaron Cutler |
Tomato |
After the Sunset (2004) |
"Kudos to Brett Ratner for at least acknowledging that the film’s gay jokes are cheap—doesn’t make him any less of a ****, but still." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
After the Sunset (2004) |
"After the Sunset has the audacity to con audiences with a script seen a million times before." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"The wunderkind Jensen's scripts are all schematic and prone to stock characters, but they are soap operas after all, and After the Wedding is beautifully performed by its eager cast." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Afterschool (2009) |
"This ain't Elephant, even if it looks like one." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Against the Ropes (2003) |
"In Charles S. Dutton's Against the Ropes, corny clichés and metaphors square off in a 12-round battle of linguistic idiocy." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Age of Stupid (2009) |
"Communicates something of the massive global impact of our careless, though officially encouraged, consumption, even if Armstrong's outsized ambitions threaten to dissipate some of the movie's force." |
Andrew Schenker |
Splat 2/4 |
Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
"Agent Cody Banks reimagines your average James Bond flick as kiddie porn." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
"Anyone looking for a “woodwind buddy”? Look no further than Agent Cody Banks, who can’t play the clarinet but is only to happy to learn." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat .5/4 |
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
"The John Wayne Gacy of films." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 2/4 |
Agnes and His Brothers (2006) |
"Just as the characters are underthought, the storylines are incongruently pieced together." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World (2007) |
"A multi-layered demonstration of living in almost perfect harmony." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Agony: The Life and Death on Rasputin (1975) |
"Suffice to say that Elem Klimov's biopic of the mad monk Grigori Rasputin more than lives up to its title." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Agronomist (2004) |
"As if in answer to Haiti's continuing cycle of violence, [Jonathan] Demme proposes through [Jean] Dominique a new cycle of hope." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat |
The Agronomist (2004) |
"A heartfelt human testament from one of our greatest directors." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 4/4 |
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973) |
"A saga of adventurers driven headlong into annihilation by their own hubris and desire for immortality." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) |
"The only reality here is that truth is slippery, and that’s something Broomfield understands more than most documentary filmmakers working today." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
"Air Guitar Nation plays less like a feature-length documentary than it does a poorly thrown together behind-the-scenes supplement to the real thing." |
Rob Humanick |
Splat .5/4 |
The Air I Breathe (2007) |
"A breathtakingly bad Altman rip-off that seems like a wholly unintentional parody of multi-narrative films." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
Airplane! (1980) |
"Sustains a single premise for its entire running time, and does so without lagging or going limp." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Airplane! (1980) |
"Once the film's fanatics find out that the "Don't Call Me Shirley" edition of Airplane! is mostly a gussied-up replay of the previous edition, the ****'ll really hit the fan." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"A sentimental attempt to piggyback on the continued popularity of Spellbound." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) |
"A better, less passé film about Al Franken's wife Franni forming the backbone of her husband's career lies dormant here, as does the man's rebel spirit." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Aladdin (1992) |
"Its ethnic "white" noise is really just an excuse for Robin Williams to put on the most elaborate, narcissistic circus act in the history of cinema." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Aladdin (1992) |
"If you’re addicted to crack, you don’t want to miss Robin William’s shrill performance in this 1992 Disney monstrosity. It’s a great deterrent." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
The Alamo (2004) |
"“I remember…the Alamo,” says Pee-Wee in Tim Burton’s Big Adventure. Now Comes Hancock’s The Alamo to destroy the man-child’s memory." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat .5/4 |
The Alamo (2004) |
"The Alamo is further, sobering proof that every dog(gerel) has its day and every generation gets the movie it deserves." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat |
Alex and Emma (2003) |
"Director Rob Reiner describes the film’s past as a “rich kind of Gatsby world.” Yeah, riiiiiiiiight." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Alex and Emma (2003) |
"The overall effect is not unlike watching a film with the DVD commentary track already incorporated into the script." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Alexander (2004) |
"This half-cocked creation is ostensibly about the Macedonian king but doubles as an allegory for both George W. Bush’s political career and Stone’s own struggle with history." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Alexander the Last (2009) |
"Part of that restless, productive team of mumblecore savants, Swanberg allows his actors to do what they do best: act." |
Adam Keleman |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Alexandra (2008) |
"Disappointingly uncharacteristic of Sokurov, the humanist moments that pass between them lean toward token sentiment, and the moments that pass between Alexandra and the grandson she traveled so far to see feel inconsequential." |
Kevin Lee |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Alexandra's Project (2005) |
"I Spit on Your Grave gets to the nitty gritty. The equally problematic Alexandra’s Project is simply glib." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Alfie (2004) |
"Strictly for women who complain about being treated badly by men but don’t care if they’re as cute as Jude Law." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Alfie (2004) |
"Jude Law turns on the caddish charm in Alfie, but there’s little swing to this toothless update of the minor late-60s film." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Ali (2001) |
"A flawed film about boxing's greatest heavyweight gets a lightweight DVD treatment." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Ali (2001) |
"Ali is an avant-garde Pay-Per-View boxing match, but where's the soul?" |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 4/4 |
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) |
"Ali’s terse speaking matter is ripe with aphorisms, but it’s also another way for Fassbinder to evoke the suspended animation of his character’s lives." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Alibi (1929) |
"Alibi is awkwardly suspended between the gliding camera of silent cinema and the stagnant medium-shot of early talkies." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
Alibi (1929) |
"An alternately arresting and creaky curio for students of the gangster genre." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Alice in Wonderland (1951) |
"Disney was and is a studio with an impenetrably inflated sense of quality control." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Alice in Wonderland (1951) |
"Did we mention that Carol Channing’s performance in Through the Looking Glass is one of the three or four greatest performances ever caught on film?" |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Alice's House (2007) |
"The sense of realism Chico Teixeira brings to his first feature-length fiction is fussy and unilluminative of character when it should be spontaneous." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Alice, Sweet Alice (1977) |
"Possibly the closet American relation to an Italian giallo." |
Ed Gonzalez |
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