Splat 1.5/4 |
V For Vendetta (2005) |
"Portman reminds one less of Falconetti and more of a Paris Hilton-esque socialite who accidentally wandered into Supercuts." |
Keith Uhlich |
Splat |
V: The Complete TV Series (1984) |
"Until MacGyver and Alf season box sets hit stores, Gen Xers will get a nostalgia kick out of this V: The Complete Series DVD." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Va Savoir (2001) |
"Va Savoir is a relatively labored offering from Nouvelle Vague auteur Jacques Rivette." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Vacancy (2007) |
"A fierce little spooker with screwy notions of how to salve a wounded relationship." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Vacancy (2007) |
"Antal's array of sleek cinematographic arrangements succinctly link his villains to his viewers as likeminded voyeurs turned on by scenes of torture and mayhem." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Vacationland (2006) |
"The film aspires to the splendor of The Living End and Totally F***ed Up, but Verow's passion and talent, unlike Gregg Araki's, is not equal to his ambition." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2/4 |
Vajra Sky Over Tibet (2006) |
"[A] reverential act of bearing witness to a culture and religion being systematically erased..." |
Nick Schager |
Splat |
Valentin (2004) |
"I love the color blue on the DVD cover but were the haloes—not to mention the tagline “Cupid Just Turned Eight”—really necessary?" |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Valentin (2004) |
"Valentín sometimes feels less like a film than a really good sitcom that isn’t afraid to leave things a little untidy." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
Valentino: the Last Emperor (2009) |
"Now is not the time to venerate kings." |
Henry Stewart |
Splat 2/4 |
The Valet (2007) |
"After the vaporous whimsy of Avenue Montaigne and now the drippy antics of The Valet, Paris really could use more Gaspar Noé leather infernos." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
Valiant (2005) |
"Valiant is the DVD of the year for parents who hate their children." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Valiant (2005) |
"The slapdash construction and narrative inconsistencies, however, aren't nearly as damaging to this aerial adventure as the general mediocrity of its animation." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Valkyrie (2008) |
"Incongruous vocal intonations aren't even the most significant problem plaguing Bryan Singer's film." |
Nick Schager |
Splat .5/4 |
Valse Sentimentale (2007) |
"Director Voulgaris puts considerable effort into making Valse Sentimentale as aesthetically hideous as possible." |
Nick Schager |
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Vampire Ecstasy (1999) |
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Tomato 3.5/4 |
Vampyros Lesbos (1970) |
"a pyscho-sexadelic celebration of soft-core lesbianism and vampire lore." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Van Helsing (2004) |
"The video is good but the audio is spectacular. Beware though: You may need a hearing aide when you’re done." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
Van Helsing (2004) |
"Perhaps the loudest summer film of all time, Van Helsing's apt to provide more migraines than nightmares." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (2006) |
"Defines pedestrian filmmaking on every conceivable level, yet this embracement of mediocrity lends a surprising amount of legitimacy to its juvenile subject matter." |
Rob Humanick |
Splat 2/4 |
Vanilla Sky (2001) |
"A masturbatory pop culture thriller that only services Cameron Crowe's fondness for rock n' roll." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Vanilla Sky (2001) |
"Vanilla Sky, Cameron Crowe's trip down pop culture lane, gets the kind of ethereal DVD treatment it so deserves." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
The Vanished Empire (2009) |
"The lost-world aura of the film's clumsy youths provides an inexorable dig into Brezhnev-era diffidence." |
Bill Weber |
Splat 2/4 |
Vanity Fair (2004) |
"Mira Nair mistakenly makes the conniving Becky a symbol of modern feminist pluckiness." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1/4 |
Vantage Point (2008) |
"It's mind-numbingly tedious, perhaps because the rhythm, the plot, even the seemingly indestructible veteran secret service agent Barnes seem lifted wholesale from any random episode of 24." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Vegas: Based on a True Story (2008) |
"The film's scenario unavoidably devolves into a treatise that, though timely, feels a tad too on the nose." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 4/4 |
Velvet Goldmine (1998) |
"Repeat viewings will allow one to piece together the fragmented montage as a melancholic ode to freedom, and those who fight for it through art." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Vengo (2001) |
"Tony Gatlif's Vengo whets the soul with its gypsy moans and lucid imagery." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat |
Venom (2005) |
"Venom begins as a promising vision of small-town discontent only to succumb to the worst tendencies of the slasher teen genre." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat .5/4 |
Venom (2005) |
"After The Skeleton Key, another lifeless Deep South horror movie charting the myriad frights of costumed black people performing defense rituals." |
Paul Schrodt |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Venus (2006) |
"A cleverly written but somewhat muffled paean to sensual appetite." |
Dan Callahan |
Tomato 3/4 |
Vera Drake (2004) |
"Like any good Leigh film, Vera Drake is about the nature of family, which is the same thing as the nature of humanity." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Veronica Guerin (2003) |
"Why is Blanchett so red on the DVD cover? Is it because of all the blood on everyone’s hands, or is it because Guerin used to drive a red car? You decide." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Veronica Guerin (2003) |
"The film’s laughably hokey and naïve coda leads us to believe that, as a result of Guerin’s efforts, drugs were forever banished from Dublin." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 4/4 |
Veronica Mars: The Complete Third Season (2006) |
"Unlike the overrated "Brick", Veronica Mars wasn't Hammett in high school attire but the real thing, Hammett in high school himself, late for class and with a hangover." |
Brian Holcomb |
Splat 2/4 |
A Very British Gangster (2008) |
"Takes great pains to tart up its mildly intriguing subject matter." |
Andrew Schenker |
Tomato |
A Very Long Engagement (2004) |
"The image is gorgeous, the sound is astonishing, and the supplemental materials are solid." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
A Very Long Engagement (2004) |
"Enjoying the film depends on how much one can stand visionary carnival barker Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s brand of impatiently imaginative, aggressively artificial filmmaking." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Very Young Girls (2008) |
"Delivers less insight into the psychology of why young girls turn to prostitution than HBO's Hookers." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Vice Squad (1982) |
"Squad's vices are its virtue." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato |
Vice Squad (1982) |
"Manna for sleaze movie fans, Wings Hauser's performance as Ramrod will take his cut now, along with a piece of your heart." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 1/4 |
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) |
"Vicky Cristina Barcelona is basically the most arrogant film of the year, an occasion for Allen to feign interest in challenging heteronormic ideals when all he's doing is advancing a simplified view of female sexual agency." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Vidas Secas (1963) |
"Like Ford's The Grapes of Wrath, another oft-misread seditious text, the film seems primed for a revolution." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Vidas Secas (1963) |
"Extras may be as arid as the backlands, but Santos's poetically stark journey toward awareness is an essential one." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
View from the Top (2003) |
"Anyone annoyed by the film’s faux-feminist message should be equally annoyed by the interactive menus straining to give the fluffy, bare-bones features collected here an airport-themed context." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
View from the Top (2003) |
"This blasé hodgepodge can’t decide whether it wants to be a romantic comedy or an absurd send-up of believe-in-yourself inspirational dramas." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 0/4 |
The Village (2004) |
"A high-camp mélange of Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Skinner’s Walden Two, The Village may be the year’s worst film." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Vincere (2009) |
"If Bellocchio's film were nothing but a recreation of a forgotten historical footnote, it would stand as an accomplished bit of work and the discussion would end there. But crafting a skillful period drama is only the beginning of the filmmaker's ambition" |
Andrew Schenker |
Tomato |
Violent City (1973) |
"Keep your eyes off the sparrow and on the road ahead." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Violent City (1973) |
"Charles Bronson gets screwed over in Violent City. In fact, he gets screwed over so many times that the film loses track of its internal timeline." |
Eric Henderson |
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