Tomato 3/5 |
Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
"It’s a rattling good chase movie. The young aliens have useful tricks. Johnson is the contractual comic liability. Perfect holiday nonsense." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"If anyone can claw the Oscar statuette from Kate Winslet’s eager hands, it’s likely to be Anne Hathaway for her brittle, emotionally ragged performance as a recovering drug addict." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"It’s remarkable that, given how deeply unsympathetic and self-obsessed her character is for much of the film, Hathaway manages to make her so likeable." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 5/5 |
Raging Bull (1980) |
"This savagely authentic film about flawed masculinity is worth seeking out for another viewing if the summer’s toothless blockbuster fodder is getting you down." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 1/5 |
Rambo (2008) |
"Stallone may believe that he can turn back the clock to the golden era of his career, but I'm not convinced that this kind of brutal, bellicose naivety sits so well with audiences any more." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 4/5 |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"Anton Ego, the restaurant critic of The Grim Eater, is one of the greatest performances of Peter O’Toole’s career." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Reader (2008) |
"Winslet duly earns her Golden Globe (and inevitable Oscar) nomination." |
Kevin Maher |
Tomato |
The Reckoning (2004) |
"Wraps itself around Bettany’s guilty secrets like a hot-water bottle, leaving more interesting characters in the moral cold" |
James Christopher |
Splat 1/5 |
The Red Baron (2009) |
"The Red Baron is like Le Grande Illusion remade by a German porn director. Never in the field of human film-making was so much money wasted on so little." |
Toby Young |
Tomato 4/5 |
Red Cliff (2009) |
"After 15 years expertly playing the Hollywood game, the Hong Kong director John Woo returns to his roots, and to form. And what a relief it clearly is for the world’s slickest action director to spill copious amounts of blood." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Red Lights (2004) |
"An excellent performance from Jean-Pierre Darroussin is the driving force in what could be described as a psychological drama, a road movie and a thriller" |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 1/5 |
Red Mist (2008) |
"A derivative and titter-inducingly weak slasher movie." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 3/5 |
The Red Shoes (1948) |
"Truly spectacular, and yet dull." |
Kevin Maher |
Splat 2/5 |
Redbelt (2008) |
"The discipline is remarkable. But this constipated drama, set in a blue-collar corner of Los Angeles, imparts none of the sweat-shop magic." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"It’s as if 9/11 was simply coopted to bring an extra weight to a script that couldn’t be trusted to deliver on its own." |
Ian Johns |
Tomato 3/5 |
Religulous (2008) |
"Maher crucifies the kooks. What he singularly fails to do, though, is engage with anyone sensible. By mocking the loonies he squanders the precious high ground. A real pity." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Rendition (2007) |
"http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article2678874.ece" |
James Christopher |
Splat 1/5 |
Reno 911!: Miami (2007) |
"A morass of mediocrity." |
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Tomato 4/5 |
Reprise (2008) |
"This quick-witted film is likely to be a fleeting presence on our overcrowded screens. Catch it while you can." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Rescue Dawn (2007) |
"The performances are worryingly Method. Bale eats bowls of maggots. I had to look away when he tucked into a live snake." |
James Christopher |
Splat 2/5 |
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) |
"Milla Jovovich reprises her tough-girl-in-sexy-thigh-boots role, and the survivors travel in Mad Max conveys up and down desert highways in search of fuel." |
James Christopher |
Splat 1/5 |
Reverb (2008) |
"Occult thriller Reverb soon gets bogged down in implausibility and sloppy writing." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato 3/5 |
Revolutionary Road (2008) |
"Ultimately, the performances are (rightly) more involving than the story. By the same token, the actors are more involving than the film." |
James Christopher |
Tomato |
Richard Pryor - Live in Concert (1979) |
"If Pryor's free-ranging style no longer seems quite so original, it is partly because it has spawned so many imitators." |
Clive Davis |
Splat 2/5 |
Righteous Kill (2008) |
"The plot is irrelevant because the film is utterly infatuated with the two big egos." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Ringu (1998) |
"The original retains its power to chill, although in the age of the DVD and the download, the idea of a haunted video cassette seems positively archaic." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
The Ripper (1997) |
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Louisa McLennan |
Tomato 3/5 |
Rivals (2008) |
"This being the gritty 1970s, the subtitled dialogue is as hard as nails. The Cain and Abel rivalry unfolds like a dismal episode of Minder." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 4/5 |
The Road (2009) |
"Fortunately, the rumourmongers were wrong -- Hillcoat’s vision is forthright and brutal." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
The Rocker (2008) |
"There are occasionally amusing moments, but the writing lacks the warmth that made School of Rock such a hit." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
RocknRolla (2008) |
"Ritchie has crammed RocknRolla with innumerable homoerotic lads’-mag jokes. He has probably calculated that if the film fails on the high street, he could feasibly relaunch it as late-night gay cabaret." |
James Christopher |
Tomato 3/5 |
Role Models (2008) |
"The upbeat ending is inevitable but the script’s undercurrent of scalding sarcasm keeps it fresh." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2007) |
"The film, talky, tediously overlong and crammed with kitsch, postcard-pretty country scenery, gets exponentially weirder by the minute, culminating in a cross-dressing pseudo-lesbian clinch." |
Wendy Ide |
Tomato |
Rory O'Shea Was Here (2005) |
"An uplifting buddy movie, the film aims to encourage audiences to see the person rather than the disability" |
Wendy Ide |
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Rudo and Cursi (2009) |
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Tomato 3/5 |
Rudo and Cursi (2009) |
"This is a movie enlivened by the two stars’ goofy love-hate relationship, its all-pervasive cynicism and the film-maker’s mischievous decision to keep his eye off the ball." |
Tom Charity |
Tomato 4/5 |
Rumba (2008) |
"The film combines a loony tunes cruelty with the precise comic choreography of the great movie clowns." |
Wendy Ide |
Splat 2/5 |
Rush Hour 3 (2007) |
"Amazingly enough Rush Hour 3 is as instantly forgettable as Rush Hour 1 and 2." |
James Christopher |
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