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Hairspray (1988) |
"When Divine’s Edna Turnblad is on-screen in the sleeveless dresses she’s partial to, the movie has something like the lunacy of a W. C. Fields in drag." |
Pauline Kael |
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Hairspray (2007) |
"Hairspray is perfectly pleasant -- I smiled to myself all the way through it -- but it’s not as exhilarating as the show." |
David Denby |
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Hancock (2008) |
"Hancock suggests new visual directions and emotional tonalities for pop. It’s by far the most enjoyable big movie of the summer." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
The Hand of Fatima (2009) |
"Succeeds in shedding kaleidoscopic light on both the man and the music." |
Ben Greenman |
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The Happening (2008) |
"The Happening is an awful letdown, yet it leaves you with something new, as a gently waving tree -- that classical image of pastoral tranquillity -- mutates into a harbinger of doom." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"Happy-Go-Lucky is triumphant proof that a creative middle way is always possible." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
"Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay, a loosely strung-together collection of sex, race, and stoner jokes, is, by any rational standard, a terrible movie, yet I kept laughing at it, and I came out of the theatre in a good mood." |
David Denby |
Splat |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) |
"[Newell] cannot do much about the slightly tired sadism that is creeping into the cracks of the Potter franchise." |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) |
"All in all, despite the verve that drives the grander set pieces, it’s hard to avoid the sensation of a film toiling overtime to convince itself of its own solemnity." |
Anthony Lane |
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Head On (1998) |
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Anthony Lane |
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Head-On (2005) |
"This is not just pliable filmmaking; it is an exercise in worldliness, in a feel for the cracks and warps of circumstance, which is all the more startling when you learn that the director is thirty-one." |
Anthony Lane |
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The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2006) |
"A dutiful course in degradation, complete with a roster of villains as well established as those of any soap opera." |
Anthony Lane |
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Hearts and Minds (1975) |
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Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
High School Musical 3: Senior Year (2008) |
"Its winning formula is driven not by narrative but by what isn't there: no sex, no drugs, and no rock and roll-- unless you count the logjam of thundering power ballads." |
Anthony Lane |
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The History Boys (2006) |
"The History Boys is alive on the screen." |
David Denby |
Splat |
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) |
"The problem is not that the film debases the book but that movies themselves are too capacious a home for such comedy, with its tea-steeped English musings and its love of bitty, tangential gags." |
Anthony Lane |
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The Hoax (2007) |
"So sure is Hallström’s pacing that you barely notice the withering moral of the tale: when the money is big enough, everyone is a mug." |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
A Hole in My Heart (2005) |
"The question is: do we need to be hauled through scene after scene of drab, dehumanized behavior so that we may see, or at least hear, humanity restored at the end?" |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Hollywoodland (2006) |
"For every Burt Lancaster, there have been thousands of George Reeveses, and Affleck pays them the kind of fond homage -- an offer of limelight -- that they otherwise never get." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Honeydripper (2007) |
"Moviemaking seems to have become almost magically easy for this independent writer-director." |
David Denby |
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The Host (2007) |
"A perfect mixture of the silly and the grave." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Hot Fuzz (2007) |
"The movie duly quickens into pursuits of every speed, and the homage to action thrillers is there in the smallest detail; the clicking of a ballpoint pen, say, is amplified to sound as menacing as the cocking of a gun." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Hotel Rwanda (2004) |
"I can hardly think of another movie in which sheer intelligence and decency have been made to seem so attractive or effective." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
House of Flying Daggers (2004) |
"Zhang could not shoot an unbeautiful scene if he tried." |
Anthony Lane |
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House of Sand and Fog (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Denby |
Tomato |
How She Move (2008) |
"How She Move was shot on the cheap in 16-mm. film, and some of it is a little drab-looking, but it has energy and bravado." |
David Denby |
Splat |
Hunger (2008) |
"In the end, even though I recognized the need to be reminded of Guantánamo and of crimes carried out there, I was awed but not moved by Hunger." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
The Hurt Locker (2009) |
"The Hurt Locker is a small classic of tension, bravery, and fear, which will be studied twenty years from now when people want to understand something of what happened to American soldiers in Iraq." |
David Denby |
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Hustle & Flow (2005) |
"When Brewer, Howard, and Ludacris stick to the bitter texture of South Memphis failure and success they produce a modest regional portrait that could become a classic of its kind." |
David Denby |
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