Splat 0/4 |
The Amityville Horror (2005) |
"Anyone who would enjoy this garbage probably delights in pulling the wings off flies." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Amreeka (2009) |
"Director-writer Cherien Dabis drew the story from life..., and the script is brimming with tiny details that lend it authenticity." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
An Education (2009) |
"Mulligan perfectly balances on the line of girlhood and womanhood, shifting naturally from schoolgirl innocence to Audrey Hepburn-like sophistication just by putting up her hair." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) |
"The only surprise in this unintentionally funny scarefest is learning that the characters you hope get eaten first, darn the luck, make it to the finish." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Analyze That (2002) |
"The leads are reduced to their worst shtick -- Crystal doing funny voices, De Niro looking silly, and the usually warm and funny Kudrow coming off as shrill and spiteful." |
Sean Means |
Splat 0/4 |
Anatomy of Hell (2004) |
"Breillat reduces sexuality to the basest coupling of body parts, and Anatomy of Hell reduces film to freak-show voyeurism." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
And Now Ladies and Gentlemen (2003) |
"Lelouch's aimless storyline... is as sad and slow as Kaas' love ballads." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
"Rossum's inner fire shines through Lloyd Webber's oppressive melodrama and Schumacher's overwhelming set design, giving this Phantom what life it possesses." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides: Working With Time (2003) |
"A documentary that introduces us to an artist whose work is full of contradictions -- contradictions that spill over into the act of watching the movie." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
Angel-A (2007) |
"Besson... cribs heavily from Wings of Desire and Heaven Can Wait. If he had thought of it, he would have dressed someone in an Anaheim Angels jersey to elbow your ribs that much further." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"It's true that Angels & Demons is a better movie than its predecessor, The Da Vinci Code. That's not saying much." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Anger Management (2003) |
"Funniest when it's still repressing itself, and only the maniacal Nicholson is allowed to let his emotions flow." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Animation Show 2005 (2005) |
"The batting average isn't perfect for these 12 shorts, ... but the best stuff is worth the ticket price." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Another Road Home (2005) |
"[The filmmaker] veers into self-indulgence, but Obeidallah's drive to give his kids a better life - even at the risk of abandoning their homeland - is touching." |
Sean Means |
3.5/4 |
Antwone Fisher (2002) |
"Washington's compassion as an actor comes through in his directing, as he gives his movie the time and space to let the characters breathe." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Anything Else (2003) |
"You wouldn't want a long-term relationship with Amanda, but for two hours she's the woman of your dreams." |
Sean Means |
Tomato |
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001) |
"What has not changed with Apocalypse Now Redux -- and the reason to go see it again -- are the visceral body blows it still delivers." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Apocalypto (2006) |
"Whatever you may think about Gibson the man, Apocalypto shows he's determined to lay all his art and sweat and blood up there on the screen." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Appaloosa (2008) |
"Harris' easy byplay with Mortensen, his economical dialogue and his stately camerawork of the New Mexico landscape combine for a smart, dynamic Western." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
Apres Vous (2005) |
"Auteuil... finds himself in Antoine's situation, helping out a hapless wreck and being dragged down in the process." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Aquamarine (2006) |
"Only on DVD will the movie achieve its true destiny as the perfect slumber-party rental for 12-year-old girls." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Ararat (2002) |
"Exploring the fluid nature of history ... [is] a fascinating conceit, but one Egoyan has trouble executing." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1/4 |
Are We Done Yet? (2007) |
"Let me, a UW alumnus, assure you that no one would have Husky purple and Cougar crimson in the same closet. The fact that Nick wears both shows how top-to-bottom brainless this movie is." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Aristocrats (2005) |
"The Aristocrats is not just funny, it's instructive about what people find taboo - and how comedians test those limits." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Army of Shadows (1969) |
"Melville stages riveting set pieces, tense little nuggets of men striking in the dark and dealing out death." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
Around the Bend (2004) |
"Roberts lets his actors run loose, leading to such embarrassments as Caine's unidentifiable accent or Glenne Headly's turn as Henry's Danish * nurse.
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Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
Around the World in 80 Days (2004) |
"Coraci makes every location -- London, Paris, Istanbul, wherever -- feel like the same cheap backlot, and has trouble getting laughs out of the most surefire jokes." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
Arthur and the Invisibles (2007) |
"Nothing in this movie works. Maybe all that tweaking helped, but I'm not betting on it." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Ask the Dust (2005) |
"The overwrought performances by Farrell and Hayek, in a no-holds-barred duel of eyebrows, turn this heat-drenched drama into unintentional comedy." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
Assassination Tango (2003) |
"If Duvall wanted to celebrate his hobby, he should have made a documentary." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) |
"The [movie's] visual signature ... is the sight of a bullet wound in the head - which, one imagines, might feel similar to the head-pounding felt after watching [it]." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
Assisted Living (2005) |
"There is a tender, poignant story in here... worthy of a great 20-minute short, not enough to fill writer-director Elliot Greenebaum's rambling mock-documentary." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Astro Boy (2009) |
"The cheap '60s Japanese TV cartoon series... is updated into a cheap and sometimes unsettling computer-animated adventure." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Astronaut Farmer (2007) |
"The Polish brothers... never make the indie-filmmaker mistake of condescending to these characters or their small-town setting." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
Asylum (2005) |
"Richardson's no-holds-barred performance captures Stella's rekindled passion and despair when things go to hell. Alas, the story goes to hell with her." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
ATL (2006) |
"The script of ATL may take a well-worn path, but the view out the window is a new one." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Atonement (2007) |
"[Director Joe] Wright and cinematographer Seamus McGarvey move us gracefully and jarringly from the gorgeous English countryside to the horrors of war." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Aura (2006) |
"A startling psychological drama with plenty of unexpected twists, a worthy follow-up [to] Fabian Bielinsky['s] riveting debut Nine Queens." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Auto Focus (2002) |
"Schrader, with the same clear-eyed view of lurid behavior he brought to American Gigolo and Hardcore, gives an unvarnished (not to mention unerotic) view of Crane's misadventures." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Autumn Spring (2003) |
"A movie that chooses not to mourn the elderly prematurely but rather celebrate the possibilities available to anyone with cunning, a wrinkled face and a lot of free time." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
"The ensemble cast is wonderful, especially Lemercier as the bipolar actress trying to impress Pollack's director but failing spectacularly." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Aviator (2004) |
"Scorsese is the director who can get more of Hughes into one movie than anybody else alive." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Away From Her (2007) |
"The revelation is Pinsent..., who has the tougher acting job - to react to Christie's performance and carry the plot as well - and delivers beautifully." |
Sean Means |
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