Splat 2/4 |
Hadewijch (2009) |
"Ultimately seems just as calculated and mechanical a pose as Dumont's previous efforts." |
Nick Schager |
Splat |
Hail Mary (1985) |
""What is flesh alone?" Godard's supernal meditation sublimely surveys the body while reaching for the heavens." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato 4/4 |
Hail Mary (1985) |
"Hail Mary is limpid, serene, and, for all the pubic hair on display, glowingly chaste." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 2/4 |
Hair High (2006) |
"The taste meter on Hair High gets turned off somewhere around the halfway mark." |
Brian D. Schiller |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hairspray (2007) |
"In doing some constructive nip/tuck and staging the musical numbers in splashy old-musical style, Shankman has put some of the bang back into the genre." |
Jason Clark |
Tomato 3/4 |
Half Moon: A Musician's Last Journey (2007) |
"Balancing earthy humor and scarring tragedy, Bahman Ghobadi's portraits of Kurdish wanderers are particularly expressive of Iranian cinema's sense of hope within instability." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 2/4 |
Half Nelson (2006) |
"More nuanced than your average Sundance character study, Ryan Fleck's carefully observed Half Nelson still doesn't overcome its origins as a padded-out expansion of the filmmaker's 2002 short Gowanus, Brooklyn." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Halloween (2007) |
"Rob Zombie's gut understanding of what makes '70s horror so great is unfortunately glimpsed in only short, sporadic bursts in Halloween." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Halloween II (2009) |
"Without a new path for its central trio, Halloween II merely rehashes in quick, distracted swipes." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Hamilton (2006) |
"Porterfield finds the rhythms of everyday life well enough, but he rarely grasps the key moments that make them art." |
Paul Schrodt |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"Hamlet 2 belongs firmly to Steve Coogan, which is fortunate since none of the film's supporting players prove to be the least bit memorable." |
Andrew Schenker |
Splat 1/4 |
The Hammer (2008) |
"Remaking Rocky Balboa as a comedy isn't a half-bad idea; remaking it as a comedy starring Adam Carolla, the dreadfully unfunny former host of Loveline and The Man Show, most certainly is a terrible one." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Hancock (2008) |
"Sheds essential exposition in a mad, foolish dash to the finish line." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
The Hand of Fatima (2009) |
"It'd be tempting to call it ambitious if the large emotions felt by its subjects were transmitted in terms other than the increasingly common tropes of the family-therapy doc." |
Bill Weber |
Tomato |
The Hands of Orlac (1924) |
"Like his more famous The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene's The Hands of Orlac is ponderous but indelible." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
The Hands of Orlac (1924) |
"Conrad Veidt is the original innocent with dirty hands in this memorable bit of Germanic arcana." |
Fernando F. Croce |
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The Hands of Orlac (1960) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato |
Hands Over The City (1963) |
"The walls of urban corruption come tumbling down under Rosi's muckraking gaze." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hands Over The City (1963) |
"For the most part, however, the film remains rigorous in its refusal to draw tidy conclusions." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Hanging Garden (1997) |
"It would be a lot easier to dismiss The Hanging Garden if its fetishized details weren’t so naked and boldly autobiographical." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat |
Hanging Garden (1997) |
"Queer without being sexual, and quirky without being particularly congenial, The Hanging Garden is a game of “Truth or Dare” without ambition." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Hangover (2009) |
"Director Phillips wrings his scenario for consistent semi-dark humor, letting his odd-couple leads go for broke and wielding mystery as a comedic spur that keeps the proceedings from dragging." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
Hannah Free (2009) |
"A beautiful but stiltedly put-together tale of two women who love." |
Diego Costa |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Hannah Montana The Movie (2009) |
"It's all in good fun, even if it isn't actually much fun." |
Ryan Stewart |
Splat 2/4 |
Hannah Takes the Stairs (2007) |
"At what cost, naturalism?" |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"An origin story that, sadly, has less in common with Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs than it does with Hannibal and Red Dragon." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
Hannibal Rising (2007) |
"The more we learn about the bogeyman, the less terrifying he becomes." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Happening (2008) |
"Shyamalan is far better at setup than payoff, and the Sixth Sense director's latest once and for all cements that reputation." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Happenstance (2001) |
"Firode's drones aren't so much victims to fate than they are passive believers in chance." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Happily Ever After (2005) |
"It's French, it's sexy, and Johnny Deep makes a cameo. Your female roommate will love it. Mine did!" |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Happily Ever After (2005) |
"Bereft of the meta elements that characterized the filmmaker’s previous My Wife Is An Actress." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Happily N'Ever After (2007) |
"Happily N'Ever After exists to reward anyone who's delighted in the destruction the Shrek franchise has waged against our fairy-tale memories." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happiness of the Katakuris (2002) |
"Though uneven, this genre-defying creation's spectacle is still never less than awesome to behold." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Happiness of the Katakuris (2002) |
"Happiness of the Katakuris is probably the film best equipped to fill that black-camp-karaoke-musical-horror-claymé-domestic-dramedy void in your DVD library." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 1/4 |
Happy Endings (2005) |
"Even more irritating than the film's third act triumphs is its lack of faith in moviegoers' intelligence." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"The disc's extras are, umm, featherweight, but the film remains darling." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happy Feet (2006) |
"George Miller, who hasn't made a movie since the brilliant Babe: Pig and the City, allows the behaviors of emperor penguins in deepest Antarctica to reflect our contemporary political anxieties." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Happy Here and Now (2002) |
"A rich kaleidoscope of sights and sounds that sing out in their vitality." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Happy Hour (2004) |
"This is the kind of tripe that wouldn’t get past a junior editor at a publishing house." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"This gangly brunette is bananas, and the music on the soundtrack is perfectly in sync with her kooky mode of social expression, so that she suggests Mary Pickford as well as Polly Jean Harvey." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"A bit lean on the extras (some deleted scenes would have be nice), but Hawkins and Marsen's performances still make this Happy-Go-Lucky DVD worth every penny, don't they?" |
Sal Cinquemani |
Tomato 4/4 |
Hard Boiled (1992) |
"A master stylist, Woo is similarly brilliant at examining the moral and social hierarchies of his patriarchal crime worlds." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Hard Candy (2005) |
"Hard Candy's calculated intimations of bloodshed are, like everything else about this faux-grrrl power fiasco, just phony posturing." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Hard Goodbyes: My Father (2003) |
"Goes from being appropriately child-like to simply childish." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat |
The Hard Word (2003) |
"Writer/director Scott Roberts builds his off-kilter caper with spare parts from every crime film made by the Tarantinos and Guy Richies of the world." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Hardball (2001) |
"Proves that wise-*** minority kids are far cooler than potty-mouthed white kids." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Hardball (2001) |
"Since Hardball will play better with younger audiences, the disc's meaty extras might go unsung by their little ears." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Harmony and Me (2009) |
"A mumblecore-ish debut feature from writer-director Bob Byington that's far less interested in oblique conversational navel-gazing than in dry humor." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Harold (2008) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 1.5/4 |
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
"An amplification of scale and subject matter that isn't, alas, accompanied by an upgrade in humor." |
Nick Schager |
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