Splat 2/4 |
P.S. I Love You (2007) |
"Shifts between earnest melodrama and zany comedy without making much of an imprint as either...In all of her frequently breathtaking talent and depth, Hilary Swank deserves better than what P.S. I Love You has to offer." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
P2 (2007) |
"Routine but skillful, P2 takes a bare-bones premise and uses it to string up a series of escalatingly tense situations." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
The Pacifier (2005) |
"A lame-as-lame-can-be bust." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Palindromes (2005) |
"Palindromes is Todd Solondz's first significant cinematic failure, a pitch-black fable twice as shallow and trite as it is intriguing." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Pan's Labyrinth (2006) |
"Is (1) a victim of its own hype, and (2) nothing like what it's being marketed as, but there is an audience involvement writer-director Guillermo del Toro manages to work up all the same." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Pandorum (2009) |
"By the time one of the creatures tosses a character a pipe and they proceed to martial arts fight, it's safe to presume that a shark has been jumped and there is no turning things around." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Panic Room (2002) |
"A superb exercise in eliciting suspense out of simple, progressively sticky situations." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Paparazzi (2004) |
"At no time does it work, providing cheap thrills, bad writing, and a particularly nasty side that tries to pass itself off as popcorn entertainment." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paper Heart (2009) |
"One of the sweetest cinematic confections of the year. Charlyne Yi is a new star in the making." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paranoid Park (2008) |
"Yet another accomplished, stylistically courageous work from a filmmaker whose willingness to take chances and pull them off is his finest attribute." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Paranormal Activity (2009) |
"The viewer walks out of Paranormal Activity wishing there was more to it, while acknowledging all the same that the film's cumulative impact is formidable, permeating long after the lights have come up." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Party Camp (1987) |
"A mindnumbingly brainless comedy." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Passengers (2008) |
"With a storytelling sensibility more common in foreign films than mainstream ones, Passengers is a compact, thought-provoking tale that challenges the viewer while shedding light on one's own life, and how he or she has chosen to lead it." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"How anyone could call Gibson's filmic account anti-Semitic is mindboggling in its confused narrow-mindedness." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Patch Adams (1998) |
"A little too conventional and predictable for my taste. However, when the ending came, the whole effect of the movie was pretty much ruined." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Patriot (2000) |
"No better than anyone should have expected, which is to say that it isn't any good at all." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) |
"Boring and predictable in both its narrative and its aesthetics, Paul Blart: Mall Cop is dumbed-down, low-rent slapstick with stereotypes galore and a violent undercurrent that doesn't sit well." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pauline at the Beach (1983) |
"One of those small, deliberately paced, but charming foreign films in which not much happens plot wise, but a lot happens to the characters emotionally." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Pay It Forward (2000) |
"An already-flawed motion picture that could have added up to so much more than it ultimately does." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
Payback (1999) |
"Payback is not, in any way, an entertaining film." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Paycheck (2003) |
"While the tautly paced Paycheck succeeds at keeping your attention, it offers nothing at all to think about or even remember once its two hours have run their course." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Pearl Harbor (2001) |
"Pearl Harbor is a difficult movie to review. It is in no way a great movie, but it also is far from bad." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Penelope (2008) |
"With some fine-tuning, Penelope might have been transformed into a winning little fable about accepting and loving oneself. As is, it only serves to remind of what could have been." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Perfect Blue (1997) |
"A wildly inventive creation that is just about as adult as an animated film can get, and at times, I even started to forget that it was, in fact, animated." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
A Perfect Getaway (2009) |
"For the promise it held at the onset and the foolishly inane places it opts to travel to, this is a particularly arrogant letdown, a thriller with a rancid bite." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 0.5/4 |
The Perfect Holiday (2007) |
"About as appetizing as a candy cane laced with arsenic." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Perfect Man (2005) |
"Amidst the troubled waters are some bright spots that lift the picture above being a painful experience; as is, it is merely disposable." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
The Perfect Score (2004) |
"In the fleeting third act, The Perfect Score hints at what could have been. Unfortunately, its improvements arrive too little, too late." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Perfect Storm (2000) |
"The most realistic and horrifying storm ever put to celluloid." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Perfect Stranger (2007) |
"Straddles the line between intrigue and blandness until it decides it's had enough and just sort of peters out." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) |
"Difficult to resist even when its allure is only surface-deep." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Permanent Midnight (1998) |
"Constant sequences of drug taking, one after the other, does not a good film make." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Personal Velocity (2002) |
"Delia, Greta, and Paula rank as three of the most multilayered and sympathetic female characters of the year. As each of them searches for their place in the world, Miller digs into their very minds to find an unblinking, flawed humanity." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 4/4 |
Pet Sematary (1989) |
"Haunting, sorrowful and reverberatingly eerie. Above all, Pet Sematary is a remarkably mature and thought-provoking look at the mysterious nature of death and the complexity of the grieving process." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Pet Sematary II (1992) |
"A needless sequel, but a pretty good one all the same." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Peter Pan (2003) |
"If it's family fare you're seeking, see this and skip the dreadful, condescending Cheaper by the Dozen. You can thank me later." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Phat Girlz (2006) |
"Chooses contrivances over naturalism and sickeningly saccharine sermonizing over lighthearted moralizing." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Phoebe In Wonderland (2009) |
"A small movie in size, but large in heart and enthusiasm. Global warming be damned, Elle Fanning's smile alone could melt the polar ice caps." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Phone Booth (2003) |
"More of a stunt than a fully-developed motion picture, but it is nonetheless pulled off with an engrossing flair." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Pieces of April (2003) |
"Plays like a sitcom that just so happens to feature characters infinitely more real and complex than the genre usually permits...[Katie Holmes] is a joy to watch." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Pineapple Express (2008) |
"Begins as a been-there-done-that stoner romp before turning into an outlandishly silly and graphically violent action-thriller. The tone may be schizophrenic, but the sheer, unabashed showmanship of the whole thing warrants praising." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Pink Panther (2006) |
"A ninety-minute movie containing two or three big laughs, another two or three small ones, and eighty surrounding minutes of lazy, misguided, laughless tripe." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
The Pink Panther 2 (2009) |
"Desperate and dreary, The Pink Panther 2 is an empty-souled star vehicle that hasn't a clue what actual wit and comic timing entail." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) |
"Bloated beyond comprehension, overplotted to the point of aggravation, and about as soulless as a ship captain specter, [the film] is a total mess." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) |
"A grand-scale train wreck." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) |
"By the end, the film has gone from being a cheesy delight to an aimless, tired smorgasbord of empty action scenes." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 1/4 |
Planet 51 (2009) |
"Do anal probe gags sound like fine family entertainment? How about multiple scenes depicting ugly gay panic? Not to worry; a penis joke referring to a male member as an 'antenna' is right around the corner." |
Dustin Putman |
Splat 2/4 |
Planet of the Apes (2001) |
"The most uneven motion picture Tim Burton has ever made." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Playing By Heart (1998) |
"An always-entertaining and fairly thoughtful film on the subject of love, and how everyone hopes for it in one way or another." |
Dustin Putman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Pleasantville (1998) |
"The film is a magical experience." |
Dustin Putman |
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