Tomato 2.5/4 |
Y Tu Mama Tambien (2002) |
"As playful and politically scatterbrained as Truffaut's overrated Jules and Jim, Tambien has the raunchier upper hand." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Yaji & Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims (2005) |
"Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims is a trip--a mashup of aesthetic sensibilities and attitudes old and new." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Yakuza Graveyard (1976) |
"There are more than enough corpses to fill a cemetery once the smoke clears in Yakuza Graveyard." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Yakuza Graveyard (1976) |
"Still no honor or humanity in Fukasaku's battles--a scalding entry in the director's gallery of raw yakuza bulletfests." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 2/4 |
Yang Ban Xi - The Eight Model Works (2006) |
"The social and political upheavals of the Cultural Revolution are glanced over to make way for a series of ineffectually meta-movie counterpoints to the great abundance of talking head footage." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Yasukuni (2009) |
"Writer-director Li Ying should be commended for the complexity he's given a subject as controversial as the Yasukuni shrine." |
Simon Abrams |
Splat 2/4 |
The Year My Parents Went On Vacation (2008) |
"The director's understatement is married to a story that's frustratingly unexceptional." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Year of the Dog (2007) |
"Minor but moving, it's a story about, and for, outsiders...and PETA members as well." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Year of the Fish (2008) |
"HBO's 1990s cartoon series Happily Ever After multiculturalized traditional fairy tales, and Year of the Fish may as well be a live-action episode of the now-defunct program." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Year of the Yao (2005) |
"Fashioned with all the objectivity and insight of a promotional special on NBA TV." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Year One (2009) |
"Year One is a slapdash film in desperate need of more authoritative stewardship." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 4/4 |
Yearning (1964) |
"It is best to begin a discussion of Mikio Naruse's Yearning by focusing on its concluding image." |
Keith Uhlich |
Tomato 4/4 |
Yeelen (1987) |
"It’s a sign of true genius that a director can summon the rise, fall and subsequent rebirth of the cosmos with such a profound understanding and respect for the shape of things." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Yella (2007) |
"Far less concerned with character development than with bludgeoning clues to the drama's true nature." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Yes (2005) |
"It's meant as a beacon light into the souls of life's invisibles, but it's time for Potter to stop deconstructing her liberal guilt." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat 2/4 |
Yes Man (2008) |
"That stink emanating from the vicinity of Yes Man is desperation." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Yes Men (2004) |
"It’s amazing what people will swallow when guys in suits and ties are cracking the whip." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Yes Men Fix the World (2009) |
"Even more so than in the previous film, The Yes Men Fix the World indulges in faux-naïve disappointment." |
Bill Weber |
Tomato 4/4 |
Yi Yi (2000) |
"A humanistic masterwork." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Yi Yi (2000) |
"A one and a two with Yi Yi if you haven't already." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Yiddish Theater: A Love Story (2007) |
"The film's candid personalities provide plenty of memorably off-the-cuff moments." |
Rob Humanick |
Splat |
Yom Yom (1998) |
"Gitai's questioning rigor, unexpectedly seasoned with some wry humor, makes his ode to uneasy multiracial union worth at least a rental." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Yom Yom (1998) |
"Yom Yom, the second chapter in Amos Gitai's "City Trilogy," boasts a wry buoyancy absent from Devarim and Kadosh, the more dour pictures bracketing it." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat 2/4 |
Yonkers Joe (2008) |
"Yonkers Joe confirms that writer-director Robert Celestin knows his way around a local cash-stakes game of craps. It also proves, unfortunately, that his scripting skills need substantial honing." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009) |
"Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg benefits from a charismatic if elusive biographical subject that has all but faded from public view." |
Joseph Jon Lanthier |
Tomato |
Yossi & Jagger (2003) |
"Films that have gained immeasurably from their star’s eyes: The Wind, Sunset Boulevard, The Fury and now Yossi & Jagger." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Yossi & Jagger (2003) |
"In the film’s spare running time, director Eytan Fox strips away almost anything that doesn’t present a dichotomy of conflict." |
Eric Henderson |
Splat 2/4 |
You and Me (2006) |
"Too reserved to be funny and too trivial to be moving." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
You Can Count on Me (2000) |
"Some of its best moments are so painfully familiar that their overall theatricality is easily forgiven." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
You Don't Mess With The Zohan (2008) |
"Zohan is, against all odds, Sandler's funniest effort in close to a decade. Not exactly a monumental feat given the junk he's recently made a mint foisting on the American public, but still." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
You Kill Me (2007) |
"Even when he's worked with escalated budgets, John Dahl has retained his playful noir side." |
Jason Clark |
Tomato |
You, Me and Dupree (2006) |
"The film's DVD cover begs one important question: Is this Lesley Nagy person the new Earl Dittman?" |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 1/4 |
You, Me and Dupree (2006) |
"The most clever aspect of You, Me and Dupree is its rhyming title...after that, it's one long, steep decline into suffering." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
You, the Living (2009) |
"Dreams figure prominently in You, the Living, which posits reveries as articulations of--or refuges from--deep-seated fears." |
Nick Schager |
Splat 2/4 |
Young & Restless In China (2008) |
"Williams succumbs to one of the most odious habits of the documentary filmmaker by having Western voices translate the words of her talking heads." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Tomato |
Young Adam (2004) |
"Don’t be fooled by the R rating on the back cover of the DVD, Ewan McGregor’s penis is still uncut." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2/4 |
Young Adam (2004) |
"Lacks both the dystopian allure of Tropic of Cancer and the walking-on-eggshells existentialism of Crime and Punishment." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat |
Young Man With a Horn (1950) |
"Young Man With a Horn casts Kirk Douglas as a selfish artist who gets his comeuppance, but it's a theme that smacks of bull****." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Splat 2/4 |
Young Man With a Horn (1950) |
"Dramatically contrived and thematically feeble." |
Jeremiah Kipp |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Young One (1960) |
"Poets have said that eyes are the windows to the soul, but Luis Buñuel believed that our legs and feet revealed more about us than any other parts of our bodies." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Young Rebels (2005) |
"Feels like a lecture you'd expect to hear at a liberal arts college." |
Ed Gonzalez |
Splat |
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) |
"Now that the film is back in the stores, perhaps it can be rediscovered. Too bad that's all one can positively say about this feature-less DVD." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Tomato 3/4 |
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) |
"There is something about Holmes's elegant, haunting, and whisperingly melancholic distance, his analytical remove from the world, that inspires a desire for glimpses of the baroque corridors of labyrinthine interiors." |
Joshua Vasquez |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Young@Heart (2008) |
"Young@Heart's worst enemy is its director, Stephen Walker, whose incessant pushing and prodding strives to manipulate in ways both needless and trite." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 3/4 |
Your Mommy Kills Animals (2007) |
"What feels like a lack of propaganda makes the film all the more cogent, intelligent, and powerful." |
Sara Schieron |
Splat .5/4 |
Yours, Mine, & Ours (2005) |
"Stocked with enough Nickelodeon-owned kid stars to qualify as the public result of an intensive, mandatory summer acting camp." |
Eric Henderson |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love (2009) |
"It becomes gratingly obvious fairly early on that N'Dour's faith and nationality reside within the many nebulous blind spots of occidental awareness, to the point where filmed rituals virtually demand a glossary." |
Joseph Jon Lanthier |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Youssou N'Dour: Return to Goree (2008) |
"Unlike Maria Bethania: Music Is Perfume, Youssou N'Dour: Return to Goree is a documentary that actually has something on its mind beyond pandering to a singer's fan base." |
Matt Noller |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Youth Without Youth (2007) |
"The director treats his material as if it were Last Year at Marienbad, yet his story's particulars are too goofy and too incompatible to result in something haunting or beguiling." |
Nick Schager |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Yumeji (1991) |
"Yumeji ultimately emerges as less an expression of a worldview than of a restless prankster still delighting in pulling the rug from beneath his audience's feet." |
Fernando F. Croce |
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