Splat C- |
Aliens in the Attic (2009) |
"Like those mild old Disney comedies of the ’60s and ’70s, it seems perfectly content with being a harmless distraction." |
Tasha Robinson |
Splat F |
Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) |
"The door is left open for another sequel; if someone would kindly shut it and board it up, that would be much appreciated." |
Scott Tobias |
- |
Alila (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat F |
All About Steve (2009) |
"It’s a celebration of brazen nonconformity centered on an insufferable flibbertigibbet who makes the worst case for nonconformity imaginable." |
Nathan Rabin |
- |
All Revved Up (1997) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat D+ |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"[Zaillian] has made a movie about monsters, not men, and in 2006, it's the men we most need to fear." |
Noel Murray |
Splat C |
Allah Made Me Funny (2008) |
"Ultimately, Allah only made these guys mildly likable." |
Noel Murray |
- |
Alone in the Dark (1982) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat C |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"[Alpha Dog is] intermittently bemused or tragic, but utterly lacking a conscience or a point of view." |
Scott Tobias |
Splat C- |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"There's just not enough here for a movie. It's almost as if some ideas were meant to live for three and a half minutes each Christmas season, not to get stretched to the breaking point for 50 years." |
Keith Phipps |
Tomato B |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"Apted's unexpected crowd-pleaser is inspirational, but also surprisingly entertaining." |
Nathan Rabin |
Tomato B |
The Amazing Truth about Queen Raquela (2008) |
"A kind of postmodern, grown-up fairytale: a Cinderella story for the reality-TV age." |
Noel Murray |
Splat D |
Amelia (2009) |
"[Swank is] so constrained by mannerisms that she never gets beyond the character’s surface -- although to be fair, trying to import feeling into the movie’s stilted dialogue is like trying to fly a plane blindfolded." |
Sam Adams |
Splat D |
America The Beautiful (2008) |
"Perhaps in future exposes Roberts will uncover that ice is cold and furnaces hot." |
Nathan Rabin |
- |
America's Heart and Soul (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat D |
America: Freedom To Fascism (2006) |
"Yes, America: Freedom To Fascism gives the Michael Moore muckraking-underdog treatment to the kind of delirious conspiracy theories generally associated with mentally ill homeless people screaming at passersby to stop stealing their brainwaves." |
Nathan Rabin |
Tomato B+ |
American Cannibal - The Documentary (2006) |
"American Cannibal is ostensibly about the phony, exploitative nature of reality TV, and though documentarians Perry Grebin and Michael Nigro hit that point too hard by piling up interviews with TV experts who speak in exaggerated cautionary tones," |
Noel Murray |
Splat F |
An American Carol (2008) |
"What makes An American Carol overtly depressing rather than merely lame is its allegiance to a diseased political discourse built on crude dichotomies: Either you're a bellicose, God-fearing patriot or a troop-hating, traitorous hippie." |
Sam Adams |
Splat C+ |
American Casino (2009) |
"The film doesn’t come to life until too late in the game, when it takes the original tack of exploring the housing crisis through abandoned backyard swimming pools..." |
Scott Tobias |
- |
American Desi (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat B- |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"Great satires draw blood. American Dreamz barely nicks the surface." |
Nathan Rabin |
- |
American Drive-In (1985) |
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- |
American Farm (2005) |
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|
Tomato B+ |
American Gangster (2007) |
"Normally, Scott loves his flash-bang setpieces, but he proves equally adept at low-key verisimilitude and long-form storytelling, the kind that sprawls out over years of incidents that only gradually add up to a powerful whole." |
Tasha Robinson |
- |
American Graffiti (1973) |
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Splat C- |
American Gun (2002) |
"[It's] what happens when a director makes a movie based on what he imagines to be true, instead of what's actually so." |
Noel Murray |
Tomato B |
American Hardcore (2006) |
"American Hardcore is a raucous, relevant documentary, capturing the mood of the times and the participants' best anecdotes." |
Noel Murray |
Splat D |
An American Haunting (2006) |
"It's never an encouraging sign when a horror movie based on a true story fatally lacks the verisimilitude of, say, Alone In The Dark." |
Nathan Rabin |
- |
An American in Paris (1951) |
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Splat C |
An American Journey (2009) |
"An American Journey is short and scattered, and doesn’t follow through often enough on its “catching up with The Americans 50 years later” premise." |
Noel Murray |
- |
American Pop (1981) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Tomato B |
American Swing (2009) |
"American Swing could use the flair of similar portraits of disco-era debauchery like Boogie Nights or Inside Deep Throat, but it’s even-handed in capturing the operation’s ambition and hubris. Just don’t bring an appetite." |
Scott Tobias |
Tomato B+ |
American Teen (2008) |
"It's easy for anyone who survived (or is surviving) high school to feel twinges of identification." |
Scott Tobias |
Tomato B- |
American Violet (2009) |
"The film is more affecting than it ought to be, thanks to a loaded cast that includes Alfre Woodard, Tim Blake Nelson, Will Patton, Charles Dutton, and the rapper and sometime actor Xzibit." |
Scott Tobias |
- |
The Amityville Horror (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat C+ |
Amreeka (2009) |
"It’s one of those movies that plays to the cheap seats, making the racism bigger, the assimilation process rougher, and the family squabbles extra-broad, lest viewers miss the point." |
Noel Murray |
Splat C- |
Amu (2005) |
"The flat, pat talk is symptomatic of Amu's overriding problem: It has no sense of personal style." |
Noel Murray |
Tomato A- |
An Education (2009) |
"An Education shares with Hornby’s best work trenchant insight into the way smart, hyper-verbal young people let the music, films, books, and art they love define themselves as they figure out who they are and what they want to be." |
Nathan Rabin |
- |
And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird! (1991) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
- |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
- |
Angel (1984) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
- |
Angel 3: The Final Chapter (1988) |
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|
Splat D |
Angel-A (2007) |
"Even though it looks like art, it plays like schlock." |
Nathan Rabin |
Splat C |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"At half the length, and with half of Hanks’ sneering pretension, this would make a pretty terrific action film. Anyone up for just plain Demons?" |
Tasha Robinson |
- |
Animal Crackers (1930) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
- |
Animal Room (1993) |
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|
Splat C- |
Annapolis (2006) |
"...basically a military-recruitment commercial." |
Scott Tobias |
- |
Another Road Home (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
|
Splat C- |
The Answer Man (2009) |
"The Answer Man combines the worst of both worlds: It offers the ugly digital video, negligible production values, and manufactured grit of a Sundance loser with the pandering formula, sentiment, and romantic-comedy clichés of Hollywood pap." |
Nathan Rabin |
Splat C+ |
The Ant Bully (2006) |
"In spite of its predictability, it's a nifty story in the abstract, and Davis certainly makes the most of the opportunity to examine the world from an ant's-eye view ..." |
Tasha Robinson |
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