Tomato |
T-Men (1947) |
"Subtext is king in Anthony Mann's noirs, with engrossing, underlying social, political, and psychological traumas compensating for caricatural dialogue, monotonous performances, and plodding plot twists." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Take (2008) |
"Oliver's climactic twist merely nullifies any engagement with the characters' prior plights." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Take My Eyes (2006) |
"Icíar Bollaín's Goya-winning Take My Eyes approaches the horror of domestic abuse from a uniquely critical angle." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Take the Lead (2006) |
"One watches Take the Lead for all the lively moments in between the dim-bulb narrative." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Taken (2009) |
"Would that Morel had infused the project with the same variety of style he brought to District B13, but the subtle insights of the script and Neeson's splendiferous range more than pick up the slack." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Taking Chance (2009) |
"Lazy filmmaking that fails to engage anyone who doesn't have a personal connection to the story. It's so well-meaning that it ultimately means nothing much at all." |
Brian Holcomb |
Splat 2/4 |
Taking Father Home (2008) |
"There's little insight to be found in Ying's presentation of even seemingly helpful citizens as fundamentally cruel and animalistic." |
Matt Noller |
Tomato |
Taking Lives (2004) |
"Four not-so-“probing” documentaries highlight this Taking Lives DVD, which should appeal only to fans of Angelina Jolie’s boobies." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Taking Lives (2004) |
"There’s a reason why the poster for Taking Lives is better than the movie itself—those lips ain’t made for talking.
" |
Joe McGovern |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"Are Tony Scott's films actually directed by Google Earth?" |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"Taking Woodstock fails to immerse us in the visceral feeling of being there." |
Ryan Stewart |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo (1945) |
"A Tale of Archery feels very much at odds with the popularly accepted view of Naruse as a stasis-minded chronicler of the modern-day Japanese working class." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Tale of Despereaux (2008) |
"In a post-Ratatouille world, an animated film about rodents and fine cuisine is the exact opposite of original." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003) |
"Unnervingly conflates fairytale lore with the angst of adolescent sexual development." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
The Talent Given Us (2004) |
"You will never see anything like it in your entire life, but I'm not exactly sure it should ever be seen outside first-time director Andrew Wagner's living room." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Talento de Barrio (2008) |
"This is a riches-to-riches story." |
Joseph Jon Lanthier |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tales from the Crypt (1972) |
"Subtly disconcerting." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Tales of Hoffmann (1951) |
"Criterion offers a superb DVD treatment that will be heaven for fans of this largely unseen Powell and Pressburger effort." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tales of Hoffmann (1951) |
"Eye candy for aesthetes.
" |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat |
Tales of the Unexpected - Set 1 (2004) |
"Unless you’ve got a soft spot for British anthologies with fine, aged hams, you’re better off buying Kiss Kiss in paperback." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Talk to Her (2002) |
"Almodovar suggests the need for spiritual invention regardless of the nature of one's crippledom." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Talk to Her (2002) |
"The director never imposes his reading of the film on the spectator, but I can’t imagine a full understanding of the film’s treasure trove of allusions without this commentary." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Talk to Me (2007) |
"Lemmons tells her based-on-real-life tale with enough enthusiasm to partially obscure both the clichés lining her plot's path as well as her cursory address of the roiling social unrest gripping the country." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato |
A Talking Picture (2003) |
"A fascinating film but Manoel de Oliveira fans may be the only ones up to its challenge." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
A Talking Picture (2003) |
"Oliveira announces A Talking Picture as a journey into aesthetic and philosophical unknowns." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Tall Target (1951) |
"As in Reign of Terror, Anthony Mann fashions a noir mini-masterpiece out of incongruous period reconstruction." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) |
"A nutty collection of features highlight this tight Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Boby DVD." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) |
"Rambunctious and synthetic, Talladega Nights boasts its fair share of inspired Ferrell riffs, even if, as a satire of the NASCAR subculture, it mostly runs on fumes." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 1/4 |
Tamara (2006) |
"Tamara fails to approximate the lascivious sadism or the campy hysteria of its forefathers." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tape (2001) |
"By film's end, the only rape that remains is that of words and memories." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Tarnation (2004) |
"A kaleidoscopic found-art project that looks to redefine the nature of documentary filmmaking." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Taste of Tea (2004) |
"A messy, heartfelt entanglement of tangential indulgences into the wild eccentricities of human behavior." |
Rob Humanick |
Tomato |
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) |
"A must! Taste the Blood of Dracula is not only one of best in the Christopher Lee Dracula series but one of Hammer’s best overall productions." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) |
"Taste the Blood of Dracula is unusual in that it keeps Dracula somewhat on the sidelines." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Splat 1/4 |
Taxi (2004) |
"The film’s labored attempts at titillating sexiness is reminiscent of a mediocre Maxim magazine celebrity-skin spread." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) |
"From Bagram to Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo, Gibney cunningly traces links up and down the chain of command, exposing how the White House has given more than tacit support to inhuman methods of detention and interrogation." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) |
"Released on DVD just in time for the presidential election, Taxi to the Dark Side should enrage even more people than it already has." |
Sal Cinquemani |
Splat 2/4 |
Taxidermia (2009) |
"Taxidermia is merely slimy biological vaudeville." |
Bill Weber |
Tomato |
TCM Spotlight: Esther Williams Collection |
"Tawny and all wet, the bare skin of Esther Williams in her earliest features probably kept up the morale (and other things) of the boys fighting overseas." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Teacher's Pet (2004) |
"You saw Brother Bear and Home on the Range in theaters but skipped the truly subversive Teacher’s Pet? Here’s your chance to fix that." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Teacher's Pet (2004) |
"Pitched somewhere between cringe-worthy Disney treacle and the sublime discomfort of “Ren & Stimpy."" |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato |
Team America: World Police (2004) |
"Don't miss the unrated puppet sex scene. It's the ****!
" |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Team America: World Police (2004) |
"The funniest, filthiest, and—as surprising as it may seem—shrewdest politically-minded film of this election year." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Tears of the Black Tiger (2000) |
"The film has an atmosphere of hallucinatory unreality as well as some choice parodies of its cowboy ancestors." |
Nick Schager |
Splat |
Tears of the Sun (2003) |
"An imminent favorite at the White House screening room, but the film is ultimately so dry and remote that one can’t imagine Chaney or Ashcroft trooping through all the exposition and moral finagling to get to the carnage." |
Chuck Rudolph |
Splat 2/4 |
Teeth (2008) |
"Though good for a few laughs, the one-note Teeth is just another trite rape-revenge fantasy." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Tekkon Kinkreet (2007) |
"The movie is a collection of disparate anime parts that never really comes together." |
Paul Schrodt |
Splat 2/4 |
Teknolust (2002) |
"If anything, see it for Karen Black, who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named Dirty Dick." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tell Me Something (2001) |
"A thriller-chiller that is as shamelessly predictable as it is memorably grim." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Tell No One (2008) |
"Hitchcock's "Wrong Man" scenario gets an invigorating French update in Tell No One, a long-winded but gripping thriller based on American author Harlan Coben's bestseller." |
Nick Schager |
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