Tomato 3.5/4 |
Cabin Fever (2003) |
"Feverish political and religious allegories aside, audiences will likely be drawn more to the film’s liberal bloodletting." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (2005) |
"Interesting only for about as long as it takes to realize that Fisher has honored Weine's expressionist aesthetic but hasn't improved the original's creaky plotline." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Caché (2005) |
"After a repeat viewing Cache may make or break your opinion of Michael Haneke--which is just how the French auteur probably wants it." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 4/4 |
Caché (2005) |
"A mind-blowing modern allegory in the exceedingly persuasive guise of an art house thriller." |
Joe McGovern |
Splat 2/4 |
Cadillac Records (2008) |
"Visually and narratively flat." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Cafe Lumiere (2004) |
"A languorous rumination on the relationship between the inescapable past, hesitant present, and daunting future." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Cafe Lumiere (2004) |
"Hou doing Ozu--what more could a cineaste want?" |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Caine Mutiny (1954) |
"It's like the well-constructed house that's not meant to be distinctive, but was made to endure." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato |
The Caine Mutiny (1954) |
"This movie gives "standard" quality a good name, and would be worth watching for the trial scene alone where Bogie intensely rambles on about how he studied the wardroom icebox key with "geometric logic."" |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Cake Eaters (2009) |
"In The Cake Eaters, first-time filmmaker Mary Stuart Masterson and screenwriter Jayce Bartok attempt to pack a miniseries's worth of familial drama into an 85-minute running time." |
Andrew Schenker |
Splat 2/4 |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"Nigel Cole’s feature-length sitcom Calendar Girls reimagines The Full Monty with boobies." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Calendar Girls (2003) |
"The Full Monty with boobies. The perfect gift (or is it diet encouragement?) for Mother’s Day." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
California Company Town (2009) |
"A social and aesthetic document of promise betrayed." |
Andrew Schenker |
Tomato 3/4 |
California Dreamin' (2009) |
"The film plays out with an impressive singularity of purpose." |
Andrew Schenker |
Tomato 3/4 |
California Split (1974) |
"Adding emphasis on the homo-ness of their lucrative bond are the repeated instances where the interference of women breaks both their concentration and their hot streaks." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Callas Forever (2004) |
"Zeffirelli hides behind the closet door of the film’s gaudy Carmen scenes." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
Calle Santa Fe (2007) |
"Redundant, artless, and lacking anything approaching directorial restraint." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
The Caller (2009) |
"Sadly, The Caller, the second feature from director Richard Ledes, doesn't allow its leading men the luxury of their legacies, instead forcing a wan quasi-thriller in the space where a laidback character study should be." |
Jason Clark |
Splat 2/4 |
Calvaire (2005) |
"While The Ordeal can't pass itself off as an art-house horror about the nature of love among the cannibals, it sometimes has a sick sexual frisson that resonates." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Camden 28 (2007) |
"Anthony Giacchino uncovers a gripping lost chapter in the history of human rights activism with The Camden 28." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Cameraman (1928) |
"One of Keaton's most impressively self-reflective films and an ode to the unexpected and elusive lightening-in-a-bottle nature of filmmaking." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Camille 2000 (1969) |
"With Camille 2000, Metzger began to let his experimental impulses emerge." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Camp (2003) |
"Graff takes lessons learned from countless after-school specials and sets the resulting kumbaya queer fantasy to banal show tunes." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Camp De Thiaroye (1987) |
"Sembene never descends into the one-note shrillness of Spike Lee at his worst." |
Bill Weber |
Tomato |
Camp De Thiaroye (1987) |
"A key postcolonial work of remembrance from Africa's father of film gets proper dissemination" |
Bill Weber |
Splat 1/4 |
Candy (2006) |
"An Australian rendition of Requiem for a Dream in which pretty people live in filth, steal from their relatives, and turn tricks in order to satiate their narcotics cravings." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
Candyman (1992) |
"The Candyman is a svelte, sexual monument, far removed from the silent brutality of your average serial slasher." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Candyman (1992) |
"“Sweets to the sweet.” And societal disgrace and hot, interracial, interspatial romancing to the smug." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 0/4 |
Cannibal Holocaust (1980) |
"Most of the enduring grindhouse movies lose the residue of sweaty misanthropy through the simple, inevitable obsolescence of their hard-candied centers of shock value." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 2/4 |
El Cantante (2007) |
"The film coasts on famed salsa legend Hector Lavoe's music and Anthony's impassioned performance, but it makes way to many concessions to the Ray mode of biopic storytelling." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
El Cantante (2007) |
"It's steadily downhill after J. Lo picks up her man from the local crack house and licks coke off his ****, but it's worth sticking with it for Marc Anthony's performance." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
A Cantor's Tale (2006) |
"Effectively portrays this practice as a deeply spiritual marriage of religious commitment and artistic perseverance." |
Rob Humanick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Canvas (2007) |
"Writer-director Joseph Greco's refusal to explain the roots of Mary's madness gives John's desperate desire to summon happier days a bewitching poignancy." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Cape Of Good Hope (2005) |
"The best moments are tender but few and far between; the worst aren't eye-opening but shrill." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Capitalism: A Love Story (2009) |
"What's fascinating about this unfocused diatribe is that Mr. Moore, the liberal face of Middle America, has finally given up on the American audience." |
Lauren Wissot |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Capote (2005) |
"What's missing here is the reason anyone would want to watch a film about Capote: his writing talent." |
Dan Callahan |
Tomato |
Caprica |
"An interesting opening for what could be a unique spin on an old sci-fi trope." |
Len Sousa |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Captain Abu Raed (2008) |
"Captain Abu Raed reaches for restrained empathy but cannot hide its bald-faced emotional manipulations and squishy, sentimental core." |
Matthew Connolly |
Tomato |
Captain Blood (1935) |
"Shiver me timbers, that Flynn's got some pretty hair for a pirate." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
Captain Blood (1935) |
"Not nearly as exciting as 1940's The Sea Hawk but a sturdy first swashbuckling foray for Flynn." |
Nick Schager |
Splat |
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) |
"Madden's film amounts to dullard's comatose trip to an isle ready for political upheaval with a little help from a mandolin-playing Benigni drone." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974) |
"Today, irony has started to look more and more like the death knell for serious horror films, and so the relative straightforwardness of a Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter is a welcome throwback." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1974) |
"Quintessentially British in that it takes all the eroticism out of the vampire myth, Kronos is still suffuse with a swampy, Moorish moodiness." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
The Captive City (1952) |
"Cutting Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons definitely did Wise a few favors." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat .5/4 |
Captivity (2007) |
"A poseur Grand Guignol, artistically indefensible and rank without purpose." |
Rob Humanick |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"An oddly riveting chronicle of one family’s devastating demise and, less successfully, an attempt to shed light on the validity of pedophile witch-hunts." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"Fans of this troubling, partial work will appreciate the two hours worth of new footage amassed for this two-disc set." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Caramel (2008) |
"There's a trenchant cultural critique lurking beneath its occasionally cloying melodrama." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Carandiru (2004) |
"Carindiru is slim pickings compared to HBO’s prison drama Oz." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
The Card Player (2004) |
"Watching the online cards turn slowly (sometimes painfully so) in the film is to be reminded of how good Argento used to be when his aesthetic approach was less synthetic." |
Ed Gonzalez |
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