Tomato B- |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Captures the uncertain feelings certain teens have in becoming young adults." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Afghan Star (2009) |
"It's an upbeat film, though hardly a convincing one, that shows there's more to the popular TV show than entertainment." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
All About Steve (2009) |
". . . really all about Sandra Bullock." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Amelia (2009) |
"Never takes off." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"A lurid conspiracy murder tale that's decent for the first hour and then moves into the realm of the ridiculous." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A- |
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"Its touching human interest story about survival hit me in the gut." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
Away We Go (2009) |
"The chatty film was like so much white noise." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Adam Resurrected (2008) |
"It offers little justification for a viewer to sit through such a depressing film." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A+ |
Alexandra (2008) |
"An unusual masterpiece atmospheric anti-war film that is an example of cinema as pure feeling." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B+ |
Appaloosa (2008) |
"No ordinary oater." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
Australia (2008) |
"A strictly 1940s vintage Hollywood florid spectacle melodrama." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"Misses by the size of the Atlantic Ocean in getting to what the Beatles were about." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Alice Neel (2007) |
"Directed with great feeling and in a nonjudgmental way." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
American Gangster (2007) |
"It all seemed like the usual big-budgeted and star-packed middlebrow liberal Hollywood gangster film veering between being serious and nonsensical." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Après Lui (2007) |
"If Deneuve wasn't in it, the film would be unwatchable." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"Stylized like a Ken Burns documentary." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C- |
The Astronaut Farmer (2007) |
"About as subtle as a brick thrown through a bank window." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Atonement (2007) |
"Assuredly directed PBS type of arthouse film." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat D |
August Rush (2007) |
"Seems to want to wear its schmaltz on its breast pocket as if it were a medal of honor." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C- |
Avenue Montaigne (2007) |
"Filled with sentimentality, pretensions, unfulfilled ambitions and a host of dull characters faced with life threatening problems that verge on the ludicrous." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B+ |
Away From Her (2007) |
"If the Oscars were really looking for Best Actress, it couldn't go wrong looking this way." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A- |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"Linklater somehow makes coherent Dick's incoherent visions." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
Absolute Wilson (2006) |
"A good introduction to those unfamiliar with the artist, while it should also be pleasing to his fans." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Apocalypto (2006) |
"It's all Shock and Awe, but for what?" |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
Art School Confidential (2006) |
"An inspired work." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
A Tout de Suite (2005) |
"Stylish but pointless and bland romantic thriller." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C- |
Apres Vous (2005) |
"This dumb romantic comedy is not in the same class with Jean Renoir's masterful Boudu Saved From Drowning,
though it toys with the same plot line." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat D |
The Aristocrats (2005) |
"Everything about the film felt slight." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
Asylum (2005) |
"A troubling psychological drama about illicit passion leading to tragedy." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
Ab-Normal Beauty (2004) |
"It's a highly stylized voyeuristic tormented artist shocker of a horror thriller that is more gruesomely enigmatic than entertaining." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A |
The Agronomist (2004) |
"John Demme is the right filmmaker for assembling the truth about the subject-matter of Haitian
freedom." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
The Alamo (2004) |
"Forget The Alamo, that is this tedious movie and not the historical event!" |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat D |
Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
"Unwatchable!" |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
Alila (2004) |
"Suggesting that the strain of the Arab conflict has gotten to the Israelis and that peace might only
be a pipe dream." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) |
"It's a dumb pic, but it does what these type of escapist summer films are supposed to do--provide
some silly thrills." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C- |
Around the Bend (2004) |
"There's not much happening even when the viewer eventually gets around the bend." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) |
"Gets stuck using as its messenger such a wacko." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
The Aviator (2004) |
"Highly entertaining." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"The characters were so real." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Amandla: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2003) |
"The music is the thing to take away from this historical film." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B |
Amen (2003) |
"Though Costa-Gavras brings nothing new to the table about the Holocaust, he puts another nail down in the
argument that the world could have acted but didn't because of indifference." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A- |
American Splendor (2003) |
"I found both Harvey Pekar and the film to be the genuine article." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato A |
Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides: Working With Time (2003) |
"It's a film for those who want to see an artist unobtrusively seeking enlightenment." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat D |
Anger Management (2003) |
"No one in this film exits without some egg on their face." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
Anything Else (2003) |
"Oy! Another Woody comedy about a neurotic making the Manhattan scene." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B+ |
Assassination Tango (2003) |
"I loved this film for what it didn't try to do." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B- |
At Five in the Afternoon (2003) |
"Didn't enlighten me too much about contemporary Afghanistan." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C+ |
Abandon (2002) |
"Lacked an emotionally endearing story." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Tomato B+ |
ABC Africa (2002) |
"An upbeat personal film telling in an amiable touristy way the story of the Ugandan orphans." |
Dennis Schwartz |
Splat C |
About a Boy (2002) |
"If the film has anything going for it, it's Nicholas Hoult's marvelous performance as the young boy." |
Dennis Schwartz |
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