Tomato |
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) |
"Time has not blunted the hard-edged anger of Fugitive." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) |
"The prison scenes are blatantly manipulative—and effective—but Fugitive really takes off during an intense escape sequence." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat 2/4 |
I am a Sex Addict (2005) |
"Were the articulate director a less obnoxious presence, he might have just pulled off his audaciously self-conscious endeavor." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
I Am Because We Are (2009) |
"Madonna's mother died when she was six. But you knew that already. The rest you probably didn't know, but should." |
Sal Cinquemani |
Tomato 4/4 |
I Am Cuba (1964) |
"I Am Cuba is a cinephile's wet dream, a collage of Herculean feats of technical wizardry that would be easy to dismiss if it wasn't so humane." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
I Am Cuba (1964) |
"The only thing that's missing from what may be the DVD release of the year, which comes to us inside a makeshift cigar box, is an actual Cuban cigar." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
I Am David (2004) |
"Hinges on a rather unbelievable characterization of fascist kindness." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
I Am Legend (2007) |
"Unwise use of CGI is eventually no more debilitating a defect than I Am Legend's wayward third act, which begins with Neville cornily reciting lines from Shrek." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
I Am Sam (2002) |
"I Am Sam is the green eggs and ham rendition of the custody battle melodrama" |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat .5/4 |
I Can't Think Straight (2008) |
"Homophobia in Muslim families and communities is a topic ripe for exploration, but as its eye-rollingly lame titular pun makes clear, I Can't Think Straight isn't the film to do it." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 4/4 |
I Confess (1953) |
"I Confess suggests Hitchcock’s experimental urge to incorporate less overt artificiality into his vision." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
I Confess (1953) |
"Hitchcock’s sexiest cipher is put to the test in one of his most undervalued masterpieces." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
I Don't Want To Sleep Alone (2007) |
"Despite his films' frequently static compositions, Tsai's cinema flows ever forward with ambiguous, multivalent purpose." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 3/4 |
I for India (2007) |
"I for India acts as a ravishing film-on-film commentary." |
Rob Humanick |
Splat 2.5/4 |
I Have Never Forgotten You (2007) |
"At times one clamors for a slightly more creative, probing investigation of the consuming forces that drove Wiesenthal." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"If you’re an I Heart Huckabees fan you’re probably not even going to bother with this DVD and go straight for the two-disc DVD edition." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"David O. Russell's I Heart Huckabees is content to wallow in obscurantist quirk and flash." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat .5/4 |
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (2009) |
"Underlit and generally shot with an eye toward unattractiveness, Beer in Hell also goes for ugliness in its dialogue." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
I Just Didn't Do It (2007) |
"Righteously infuriating in its comprehensive portrait of a system that values public approval ratings and a high conviction rate above the truth." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 0/4 |
I Know Who Killed Me (2007) |
"Between its garish digital photography and borderline incomprehensible narrative, I Know Who Killed Me at times suggests a hack's attempt at a Lynch film." |
Rob Humanick |
Tomato 3/4 |
I Like Killing Flies (2006) |
"Matt Mahurin's I Like Killing Flies utilizes extreme close-ups (sometimes with microphones in clear view) to create an appealingly informal aesthetic of proximity." |
Nick Schager |
Splat .5/4 |
I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009) |
"There's something almost pathetic about a movie this useless; you could feel sorry for it if it weren't such an unholy torture to sit through." |
Matt Noller |
Splat 1/4 |
I Love You, Man (2009) |
"A drearily tame learning-and-growing homosocial comedy." |
Bill Weber |
Tomato |
I Love You, Man (2009) |
"At the very least, I Love You, Man warns us of the risks of telling someone to clean up their dog's ****." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
I Love Your Work (2005) |
"When Ricci's dreamgirl, finally fed up with Gray's insanity, chastises him with "You're obvious," it's a sentiment also applicable to the film itself." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007) |
"The film is pro-gay but it's less interested in collapsing straight-male hang-ups about gay men than is in putting on a surprisingly mawkish show of political correctness." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
I Sell the Dead (2009) |
"The cerebral horror of Wendigo and The Last Winter is nowhere to be found in Glenn McQuaid's meandering 19th-century supernatural gothic tale." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
I Served the King of England (2008) |
"Dite's limited awakening is neither tragedy nor the kind of bitter, fatalistic farce seen in Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties." |
Bill Weber |
Splat 1/4 |
I Spy (2002) |
"File the film and Murphy's performance under Motion Sickness." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
I Think I Love My Wife (2007) |
"Just because this union of artist and material isn't a complete mind-bender doesn't mean that it works." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2007) |
"Nothing more than the type of casual diversion an agreeable TV star might make with his friends during his primary show's summertime hiatus." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
I Want to Go Home (1989) |
"I Want to Go Home has a splenetic oddball quality at odds with the evanescent tendencies of Alain Resnais' later films." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
I Want to Go Home (1989) |
""I much prefer Daffy Duck to Donald Duck." Finally a pensée I can get behind." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) |
"A prime object of study for Susan Hayward scholars." |
Dan Callahan |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) |
"In the '40s, Hayward had a distinctive and rather bitchy sex appeal and clear hunger for stardom that gave way in the '50s to a weary but still authoritative command of frank self-pity and tough-broad defiance." |
Dan Callahan |
Splat |
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004) |
"The bleak I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead may be the year’s nastiest noir, but its low profile won’t improve via this perfunctory DVD." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 4/4 |
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004) |
"Hodges, working from a bleak Trevor Preston script, is fascinated by the aspirations, desires, and base compulsions that propel society’s murderous fringe population." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
I'm Going Home (2002) |
"The transfer doesn’t do the film justice, but cinephilles will have a hard time coming by another recent DVD release of a crucial film accompanied by an equally crucial commentary track." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
I'm Going Home (2002) |
"Oliveira seems to pursue silent film representation with every mournful composition." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
I'm Gonna Explode (2009) |
"What are these two privileged teens doing besides recreating scenes from Jean-Luc Godard's canon?" |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
I'm Not There (2007) |
"An intellectual whirligig lacking depth or soul." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
I'm Reed Fish (2007) |
"Sundance homilies and truisms are encased in a meta frame in I'm Reed Fish." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
I've Always Loved You (1946) |
"The film is redeemed, finally, through the sheer, crazy belief in romance that Frank Borzage imbues in the film as it goes on." |
Dan Callahan |
Tomato 3/4 |
I've Loved You So Long (2008) |
"Much will be written about Kristen Scott Thomas's performance...most of it justified." |
Aaron Cutler |
Tomato |
I, Robot (2004) |
"Finally, I can say that Will Smith and I have something in common: We’re both allergic to bull****." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
I, Robot (2004) |
"Androids may dream of electric sheep, but I, Robot’s multi-million dollar machines are remnants of summer films gone by." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
I.O.U.S.A. (2008) |
"It's too bad Creadon breezes through potential solutions to the problem and ends his film with what basically amounts to a Rock the Vote ad." |
Sal Cinquemani |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Ice Age (2002) |
"Leguizamo's motor-mouth sloth has more punch n' bite than Eddie Murphy's ***." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Ice Age (2002) |
"There's plenty here to keep kids entertained but what's with the Papa John's advertisement inside the DVD case?" |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) |
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