Splat 2/4 |
The R.M. (2003) |
"Amateurish performances and production values, pointless local cameos and a parochially exclusionary tone that penetrates all the way to the movie's title." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 4/4 |
Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) |
"[The] young actresses ... depict these girls with strength and grace, and make their fight to survive and return to their families powerfully real." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
"A gleeful throwback to the era of Disney's '70s live-action movies that aimed only to offer good clean fun." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 4/4 |
Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"Among moments of humor and heartbreaking beauty... the twinned performances of Hathaway and DeWitt shine." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Racing Stripes (2005) |
"What kills this charmless Babe knockoff is the crude humor, along with the hamfisted way [it] puts inane dialogue and movie-star voices in the [animals'] mouths." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Radio (2003) |
"The heart-tugging, done with enough torque to uproot tree stumps, even pulls in the movie's two best actors, [Ed] Harris and the semi-retired Debra Winger." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Raise Your Voice (2004) |
"[Most viewers] will be left wondering, between endless soundtrack-selling video montages, how a girl with such a wispy baby-girl voice got into a serious music program." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Raising Flagg (2007) |
"Miller's affection for the Purdys... and their rustic way of life can't compensate for the script's clunky pacing and occasional moralizing." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Raising Helen (2004) |
"With Raising Helen added to her string of bad movies, the five-year tour exemption Hudson earned for making Almost Famous is almost up." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Rape Of Europa (2007) |
"The movie's three directors sap the drama out of the story with slow pacing, a dispassionate accumulation of facts and a too-dry narration by Joan Allen." |
Sean Means |
Splat |
Rat Race (2001) |
"The filmmakers weasel their way into a happy -- and, icky poo, morally uplifting -- ending." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"Kids will giggle at Remy's antics, while the grown-ups will find in Ratatouille a feast of inventive animation with a generous portion of culinary inspiration." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Ray (2004) |
"Foxx manages to win the tug-of-war with the melodramatic material, giving a tour-de-force performance." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Real Women Have Curves (2002) |
"[America] Ferrera ... is bright, appealing, funny and downright sexy (and is that the coolest actress name you have ever heard or what?)." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1/4 |
Rebound (2005) |
"In an early scene, Roy gives his college team a pregame pep talk via a recorded message -- and Lawrence's performance has that same phoned-in quality." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Reckoning (2004) |
"That rare period drama that enlivens a historical era rather than feeling mired in it." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Recruit (2003) |
"Too often, Farrell cedes the dramatic high ground to Pacino, who grabs it with both hands and yanks the movie off its axis." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 4/4 |
The Red Balloon (1955) |
"It's the perfect little movie." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Red Dragon (2002) |
"A maddening tug-of-war between opposing forces: devotion to its cinematic mother figure, the Oscar-winning 'The Silence of the Lambs,' and a desire to break free and live its own life." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Red Eye (2005) |
"Like flying in coach, Red Eye is fast and economical, delivers its share of jolts and gets a little bumpy toward the end." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Red Road (2007) |
"Arnold's strong grip on her material and her absolute trust in her fearless actors yield rich rewards from dark psychological terrain." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Redacted (2007) |
"Has Brian De Palma ever made a movie that was about anything besides his love of his own filmmaking skill?" |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Reel Paradise (2005) |
"A funny fly-on-the-wall account of how the Piersons ingratiated themselves to the community, with uneven results." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"Regardless of [its] faults, the core of Reign Over Me, the friendship between Charlie and Alan, remains strong." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Religulous (2008) |
"In the end, Maher suffers from the same rigidity of thought - the certitude that he's right and those who disagree are wrong - that he dislikes in people of faith." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rendition (2007) |
"The movie's insistent message about the morality and effectiveness of torture packs an unexpected and politically timely punch." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Rent (2005) |
"This is a well-constructed and achingly earnest movie that should be put in a time machine and sent back a decade, when it was relevant." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Reprise (2008) |
"[Trier] sometimes lapses into the literary clichés he aims to ridicule." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Reservation Road (2007) |
"The script is overloaded with plot contrivances and eye-rolling coincidences that wouldn't happen in the smallest of small towns." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1/4 |
Resident Evil (2002) |
"Director Paul W.S. Anderson's cinematic style can be summed up in two words: 'ooh' and 'ick.'" |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Respiro (2003) |
"If the Italian Neo-Realists had ever granted themselves enough romanticism (or found a little money) to shoot in color, they might have made Respiro." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Resurrecting the Champ (2007) |
"Hartnett barely manages to carry all [the movie's] weight, only to be blown off the screen by Jackson's quiet performance as the shambling Champ." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Return (2004) |
"A claustrophobic tale of children desperately seeking a father figure, a story that stays emotionally real even through its surreal finale." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Return to Never Land (2002) |
"Disney again ransacks its archives for a quick-buck sequel." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Return With Honor: A Missionary Homecoming (2007) |
"Screenwriter Tracy Garner drops some clunky dialogue and cardboard characters..., but Tanner's portrayal of Rowe's spiritual quest earns the movie points for sincerity." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Rick (2003) |
"Wcreenwriter Daniel Handler [(a.k.a. Lemony Snicket)] employs an O. Henry-like twist of irony that first-time director Curtiss Clayton telegraphs long before it strikes." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (2006) |
"The movie's message is a little too Hallmark Hall of Fame, but Zhang's observant eye neatly captures the idiosyncrasies of Chinese life and the heartbreak in Gouichi's journey." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Riding Giants (2004) |
"A breezy and always watchable portrait not only of a sport in ascendance but a way of being." |
Sean Means |
Splat |
Riding in Cars with Boys (2001) |
"Penny Marshall's tin ear for drama prompts audience laughter at the most horrific scenes." |
Sean Means |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Righteous Kill (2008) |
"How sad that this summit of acting titans is in the service of a police-procedural drama that is at once convoluted, stupidly illogical and easily predictable." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Ring (2002) |
"A script seemingly built from pieces of other scary movies ... comes off as fresh and original." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2/4 |
The Ring Two (2005) |
"Pretty much everything in Kruger's script is recycled from the first movie, and what isn't has been pinched from other horror classics." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Rize (2005) |
"It's as if he forgot he was making a gritty documentary and found himself shooting a Christina Aguilera video." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
The Road to Guantanamo (2006) |
"A startling indictment of post-9/11 injustice [that] should anger people of all political persuasions." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Robots (2005) |
"Robots overcomes the script weaknesses like so much sand in the gears - and proves itself to be a well-oiled entertainment machine." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Rock School (2005) |
"The movie seems a little too much in love with the overbearing and self-aggrandizing Green - almost as much as Green is with himself." |
Sean Means |
Splat |
Rock Star (2001) |
"Rock Star overloads on '80s kitsch and metal-band excess without establishing why the music matters." |
Sean Means |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Rocket Science (2007) |
"Thompson is an engaging young actor who keeps things grounded when Blitz gets a little too precious with his ironic premise and self-consciously offbeat characters." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
RocknRolla (2008) |
"Ritchie still has the knack for street-tough dialogue, and there's plenty of laughs amid the gunplay." |
Sean Means |
Tomato 3/4 |
Rocky Balboa (2006) |
"We forgive a lot because Stallone - in a heartfelt and sometimes bombastic performance - reminds us why we fell in love with Rocky Balboa in the first place." |
Sean Means |
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