Splat 1.5/4 |
Eagle Eye (2008) |
"Determined to remake himself into a mini-Michael Bay (replete with military hardware fetishism!), Caruso shoots primarily in shaky, glossy close-ups that obliterate any sense of spatial proportion, scale or lucidity." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1/4 |
Eagle Vs. Shark (2007) |
"Eagle vs. Shark is nothing more and nothing less than a romantic, New Zealand variant of Napoleon Dynamite." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
The Earrings of Madame De... (1953) |
"A majestic package fit for the film that would make Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris swoon in unison." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Earrings of Madame De... (1953) |
"Evanescence is an integral part of cinema, and no other director captured it as lyrically and yet as savagely as Ophüls." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato 4/4 |
Earth (1930) |
"In Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s orgiastic paean to Soviet collectivism and tractor-ism Earth there is nothing more beautiful than the untainted countryside." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Earth (1999) |
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Tomato 2.5/4 |
Earth (2009) |
"Fundamentally a condensed trailer for the BBC's portrait of the globe's myriad habitats, the film offers a skimpy but reverential portrait of the intertwined relationship between the environment and its inhabitants." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Earth Days (2009) |
"There's a bit too much of the self-congratulatory in the film, with both Hayes and population growth guru Dennis Meadows doing a fair bit of horn-tooting, but any sense of complacency is quickly undercut by the film's final act." |
Andrew Schenker |
Tomato 3/4 |
Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) |
"One of countless pieces of '50s pulp to come out of a social fabric defined equally by interest in the unknown and mounting Cold War paranoia." |
Rob Humanick |
Tomato |
Earth Vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) |
"A killer package for a lesser classic in the '50s sci-fi pantheon." |
Rob Humanick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
East of Eden (1955) |
"If you turn the sound down on East of Eden (and, by all means, do), you'll see why Dean is a legend." |
Dan Callahan |
Tomato |
East of Eden (1955) |
"Neurotic seesaw framing and James Dean's pyrotechnical debut cannot hide the fact that East of Eden's expiration date has passed." |
Dan Callahan |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
East of Havana (2007) |
"East of Havana, at its best, extols the Cuban hip-hop artist's sense of community and insistence on being heard through the rhetoric of Castro's revolution." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/5 |
Eastbound & Down |
"Eastbound & Down is myopic, but in typical HBO fashion, we get a very clear image from the high-definition source." |
Len Sousa |
Tomato |
Easter Parade (1948) |
"Jules Munshin's recipe for, ahem, tossing salad is about as compelling as Easter Parade gets." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 1/4 |
Easter Parade (1948) |
"A trifle of a musical revue." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Eastern Promises (2007) |
"Eastern Promises is a straighter version of Inland Empire, which is not to say that it isn't totally queer." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Easy Virtue (2009) |
"Stephan Elliott is determined to contemporize a playwright whose rhythms, concerns, and craft are all permanently bonded to the '20s art of British sophisticated escapism, art being short for "artifice."" |
Bill Weber |
Splat 2/4 |
Eat, For This Is My Body (2008) |
"Eat stupidly elides Fleischer's rationalist approach to the most fervently unreasonable impulses." |
David Phelps |
Tomato |
Eaten Alive (1976) |
"Despite the incongruously sexy presence of Buck, Eaten Alive doesn't f**k with your head like Hooper's Texas Chainsaw Massacre films." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Eaten Alive (1976) |
"With an enviable, well-stocked cast of character thespians and a carefully dilapidated motel set, Eaten Alive is all ingredients, no recipe." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds (2006) |
"The film relishes in capturing those fluid days of youthful abandon when everyone's sexual agency was up for grabs." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Eating Out: All You Can Eat (2009) |
"Not that nuance must be a comedy's forte, but most of All You Can Eat unravels as a series of self-conscious fragments and bitchy one-liners." |
Diego Costa |
Splat .5/4 |
Echelon Conspiracy (2009) |
"Simply a case of we've-seen-this-before-and-better (at least Sandra Bullock's The Net had camp value), Conspiracy flimsily masquerades as a ticking bomb but is ultimately sans heart-pounding jolts." |
Adam Keleman |
Splat |
Echelon Conspiracy (2009) |
"The only surprise to this by-the-numbers action thriller is that it didn't go straight to video--and that it doesn't star Jon Voight." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Eclipse (2009) |
"A much duller tale than its Irish literary festival setting would suggest." |
Bill Weber |
Tomato |
Eclipse Series 12: Aki Kaurismaki's Proletariat Trilogy (1986) |
"Kaurismaki in a high-spirited mood: "Everything's okay tonight. I don't know about tomorrow though. The weather might change."" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Eclipse Series 13: Kenji Mizoguchi's Fallen Women (1936) |
"A package of lacerating outrage from one of the greatest of all filmmakers." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Eclipse Series 14: Rossellini's History Films - Renaissance and Enlightenment (1972) |
"Rossellini's great history lessons blow the dust off textbooks." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Eclipse Series 15: Travels With Hiroshi Shimizu (1933) |
"Behold, the untold wonders of Japanese cinema. Arigato, Criterion!" |
Rob Humanick |
Splat |
Eclipse Series 16: Alexander Korda's Private Lives (2009) |
"Accuracy, schmaccuracy: Korda's horny history lessons are best taken with a grain of salt, but outshine Rossellini's fuddy-duddy philosophy portraits with pop badassitude." |
Joseph Jon Lanthier |
Tomato |
Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir (1960) |
"Any collection of Japanese thrillers in which Seijun Suzuki is actually not the nuttiest guy around is worth checking out." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 2/4 |
Eden (2008) |
"Seemingly in an effort to make up for O'Brien's anemic script, Recks energizes the slow-moving tale with nonstop distracting camerawork." |
Lauren Wissot |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Edge of Heaven (2008) |
"Akin's Head-On infused its hellish misfit romance with in-your-face violence; here even two violent deaths are rendered discreetly to the point of bloodlessness." |
Bill Weber |
Splat 2/4 |
The Edge of Love (2009) |
"The film is on far less ground when it eventually becomes yet another wartime domestic tale, with Maybury's semi-kicky style draining out slowly until mediocrity settles in." |
Jason Clark |
Tomato 3/4 |
Edge of the World (1937) |
"Michael Powell entered the golden age of his career with The Edge of the World." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Edge of the World (1937) |
"The always respectful ethnographer in Michael Powell transforms the melodrama of his own scenario into an epic death knell for a forgotten island civilization." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Edmond (2006) |
"Like Paul Haggis's Crash, the characters speak their minds so fully (or lie about their feelings so transparently) that the stuff which should be bubbling under the surface is constantly rising in fiery tirades." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat 2/4 |
The Edukators (2005) |
"A well-meaning but direly protracted German/Austrian trifle." |
Jason Clark |
Tomato |
Edvard Munch (1976) |
"Peter Watkins's Munch gives good face. New Yorker's uncharacteristically fine video transfer will have you deigning to lick his lips for him." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Edvard Munch (1976) |
"Edvard Munch, in Watkin's subjective documentary setting, is one of the penultimate cultural crusaders, a relic of a dying era in which individualism could, apparently, still conceivably be intuitive and not reactionary." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Eight Below (2006) |
"Only an extraordinarily hubristic film would declare itself "The Most Amazing Story of Survival, Friendship, and Adventure Ever Told."" |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Eight Legged Freaks (2002) |
"Arquette makes for a thoroughly boorish hero, his delirious 'They're here! They're here!' outcry suggestive of the film's failed potential." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Eight Miles High (2007) |
"If most of the film locates Obermeier's quest for freedom in a series of surprisingly drab drug-fueled hookups, then the final section generates slightly greater interest by suggesting an alternate route of exploration." |
Andrew Schenker |
Splat 2/4 |
Eisenstein (2002) |
"Eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema's directorial giants." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 4/4 |
El (1952) |
"Released at the pinnacle of his prolific Mexican period, Él (This Strange Passion) remains one of Buñuel's crowning achievements." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
El Bruto (1952) |
"Sure, El Bruto is relatively apolitical but that's because Buñuel is drunk on animal magnetism." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
El Cid (1961) |
"To say that El Cid is the most intelligent of the elephantine epics of the early '60s is to damn it with faint praise." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
El Cid (1961) |
"A deluxe DVD package to match the grandeur of Mann's admirable epic." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
El Dorado (1967) |
"Although the plot and star have been recycled, El Dorado is still a gold standard of the western genre." |
Len Sousa |
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