Splat 1/4 |
D.E.B.S. (2005) |
"Rent Pootie Tang instead.
" |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat |
D.O.A. (1949) |
"Rudolph Maté's seminal thriller rapidly decomposes into a campy, confusing bore." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"Another distasteful Ron Howard production impeccably preserved on DVD." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is a marriage made in mediocrity." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1/4 |
Daddy Day Camp (2007) |
"The minstrelsy of Gooding Jr.'s performance is abhorrent but no more offensive than the showboating that won him the Oscar." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Daddy Day Care (2003) |
"Seems to exist solely to sedate a theater-going public’s offspring. Don’t expect The Witches." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Daddy's Little Girls (2007) |
"Kindness, graciousness, nurturing, and support is the message for couples and community, so even if it's not saying anything new under the sun, all that syrup makes the cardboard taste better." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Daisy Kenyon (1947) |
"Fairly recently, Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon has been starting to get some of the acclaim and attention it deserves." |
Dan Callahan |
Tomato |
Daisy Kenyon (1947) |
"A great Preminger movie and a solid DVD overall." |
Dan Callahan |
Splat 2/4 |
Dallas 362 (2005) |
"plays more like a vanity project from a rich kid who never got to do his share of macho posturing.
" |
Akiva Gottlieb |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun (2008) |
"This incarnation of Johnny Got His Gun is a mismatch of medium, text and talent." |
Bill Weber |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Daltry Calhoun (2005) |
"Daltry Calhoun proves to be as slight as a blade of grass—and, unfortunately, about as intoxicating as the legal kind." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
Damnation (1987) |
"In terms of creating a strong cinematic world, Tarr has few equals." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat |
Damnation (1987) |
"Warm up that espresso machine, because it's going to be a long night." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Damned (1969) |
"By the end of the opening sequence, the film has already indulged in pan-sexuality, corporate backstabbing, anti-reactionary suppression, pedophilia, and murder plots." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
The Damned (1969) |
"At the time, The Damned was considered Visconti’s “crowning achievement.” Sure, if that crown is meant to befit Italian cinema’s foremost drama queen." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Damned Don't Cry (1950) |
"Not a particularly good movie, but a damned fine yarn!
" |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Damned Don't Cry (1950) |
"Like the star in question, this diva showcase knows what it is and what it's good at." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Damned United (2009) |
"The parallel-tracks structure smoothly reveals cause-effect relationships even as it sometimes feels designed to gussy up the narrative's straightforward rise-and-fall arc." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Dan in Real Life (2007) |
"Steve Carell's pursed-lipped awkwardness and sweet buffoonery are both in fine form, but those endearing qualities aren't nearly enough to salvage Peter Hedges's incorrigibly hackneyed film." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Dance Flick (2009) |
"Aside from a half dozen salient bits that call bull**** on the white-black symbiosis portrayed in films such as Step Up, more times than not Dance Flick falls flatter than Eddie Murphy's butt in Norbit." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Dance Party USA (2006) |
"A film of easy set ups and resolutions, Dance Party, USA is best when observing how crisis is metabolized." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat |
The Dancer Upstairs (2003) |
"Feels less tantalizingly ambiguous than it does like a prologue that has somehow taken the place of the story that was meant to succeed it." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Tomato |
The Dancer Upstairs (2003) |
"The problem with many commentary tracks is that most are in direct conflict with whatever other supplemental materials have been packed into their respective discs." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Dances with Wolves (1990) |
"In the spirit of the great Sioux tradition, I dub Dances with Wolves’ Kevin Costner “Directorial One-Hit Wonder.”" |
Nick Schager |
Splat |
Dances with Wolves (1990) |
"Despite its empathy and respect for Native Americans, the film has very little going for it besides its admittedly majestic trappings." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Dandelion (2005) |
"Jodie Foster's Nell might describe Dandelion's characters as tays een da ween." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002) |
"Nuns are nowhere near as mean as Jodie Foster's one-legged Assumpta but what fun are they if they did have two legs and didn't ride around on motor scooters?" |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Danny Deckchair (2004) |
"Unevenly pitched somewhere between a straight-faced Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and a magical realist Big Fish." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dans Paris (2007) |
"Honoré's rambunctious filmmaking process is born truly in the moment." |
Paul Schrodt |
Tomato 3/4 |
Danton (1983) |
"Danton's true achievement is as elaborate period pageantry." |
Joseph Jon Lanthier |
Tomato |
Danton (1983) |
"Wajda's Danton suggests that while blood is thicker than wine, the latter might be a preferable vice for our political leaders." |
Joseph Jon Lanthier |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Dare (2009) |
"Dare is substandard fare by all accounts, plucking its characters from past (and better) teen-angst films." |
Adam Keleman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Daredevil (2003) |
"As he runs toward the tank of hazardous waste that will eventually splatter all over his face, his report card falls to the floor: straight A’s (don’t that beat all?!)." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Darfur Now (2007) |
"Its 99 minutes could have easily been about 65 if you removed all of the celebrity do-gooder filler." |
Jason Clark |
Tomato 4/4 |
Dario Argento's Tenebre (1982) |
"Tenebre is a brilliant piece of self-reflexive cinema." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) |
"The ingredients that have increasingly defined Wes Anderson's films seem, with The Darjeeling Limited, to have become something like limitations." |
Nick Schager |
Splat |
Dark Blue (2003) |
"That Dark Blue’s template roughly coincides with the Rodney King race riots reeks of a pathetic attempt to over-conceptualize what is, at heart, a superficial, obvious morality play." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat 1/4 |
Dark Blue World (2001) |
"You might remember the film's plot and character archetypes from Pearl Harbor, although Michael Bay's war turkey, in retrospect, lends itself to camp revisionism." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Dark Corner (1946) |
"No less than other noir classics, The Dark Corner is full of sadistic bits of business." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
The Dark Corner (1946) |
"Not dark enough, but a Corner still worth a stroll." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Dark Knight (2008) |
"The Dark Knight resounds with a throbbing topical undercurrent, its superficially good-versus-evil setup slowly revealed to be a complex examination of the ways in which democracies can, and must, combat zealotry." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Dark Matter (2008) |
"Aside from depicting American academia as a cutthroat environment that can inspire deadly resentment, there's not much going on." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1/4 |
Dark Streets (2008) |
"Dark Streets may only be a quasi-noir and quasi-musical, but that doesn't stop it from being a wholesale slog." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
Dark Victory (1939) |
"Even by the standards of a typical Bette Davis melodrama Dark Victory is an embarrassment of riches." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato |
Dark Victory (1939) |
"Dark Victory DVD: Prognosis Positive." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato |
Dark Water (2005) |
"A so-so J-Horror remake with an excellent performance by Jennifer Connelly." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Dark Water (2005) |
"A moldy, third-generation retread of The Ring." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
DarkBlueAlmostBlack (2007) |
"It's a well-acted soap with one too many plot lines, tied together by genteel audio-visual sutures and supported by the brittle metaphor of its title." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat |
Darkness (2003) |
"Should whet the whistle of any J-horror fan waiting for 2005's The Amityville Horror to reach DVD. Sigh." |
Ed Gonzalez |
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