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Madagascar (2005) |
"After you see Madagascar, you start to think that the movies are being dumbed down even for small children." |
David Denby |
Splat |
Mamma Mia! (2008) |
"The legal definition of torture has been much aired in recent years, and I take Mamma Mia! to be a useful contribution to that debate." |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) |
"The first version was acidulous and brazenly absurd; this one is doggedly, wretchedly earnest." |
David Denby |
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Manderlay (2006) |
"I am glad that [Von Trier] exists, to decry our sins, but, with another sequel to come (Manderlay is the centerpiece of a trilogy), I am even gladder that he is one of a kind." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
March of the Penguins (2005) |
"A perfect family movie, a perfect date movie, and one of the most eye-ravishing documentaries ever made." |
David Denby |
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Margot at the Wedding (2007) |
"Margot is sensually as well as dramatically impoverished." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Maria Full of Grace (2004) |
"One of the emblematic migration stories of our time." |
David Denby |
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Marie Antoinette (2006) |
"The one, transfixing virtue of Marie Antoinette is its unembarrassed devotion to the superficial. There is no morality at play here, no agony other than boredom, and, until the last half hour, not a shred of political sense." |
Anthony Lane |
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The Matador (2005) |
"The Matador teeters between comedy and moral inquiry but doesn’t quite make it either way." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Match Point (2005) |
"[Allen's] new movie, Match Point, devoted to lust, adultery, and murder, is the most vigorous thing he’s done in years." |
David Denby |
Splat |
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) |
"Matrix Reloaded is, unlike the first film, a conventional comic-book movie, in places a campy conventional comic-book movie, and in places a ludicrously campy conventional comic-book movie." |
Adam Gopnik |
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The Matrix Revolutions (2003) |
"The directors Larry and Andy Wachowski have made the intricacies of the original Matrix ... secondary to the main events of spectacle, fighting, and stunningly wooden dialogue." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Me and Orson Welles (2009) |
"Quippy, fast, and enjoyably corny, Welles is like a musical comedy without songs." |
David Denby |
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Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005) |
"Not just creepy and unsavory at such moments, but pleased to be so." |
Anthony Lane |
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Mean Girls (2004) |
"I would be more amused if the topic of rich material girls had not been worn to a thread elsewhere." |
Anthony Lane |
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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005) |
"There is spectacle enough in Marshall’s movie -- rows of geisha trainees aligned in formation like Rockettes, acres of low, cedar-and-bamboo buildings with mountains in the distance -- but nothing that comes close to lyricism." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Men in War (1957) |
"War on the ground has rarely been done much better than this." |
David Denby |
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The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) |
"Clooney gives it everything, but what does he get in return? A void where the story is meant to be." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
The Messenger (2009) |
"This is a fully felt, morally alert, marvellously acted piece of work. Despite the grim subject, it’s a sweet-tempered movie, with moments of explosive humor -- an entertainment." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Miami Vice (2006) |
"This Miami Vice is a grim genre exercise -- fascinating, certainly, and impressive at times, but only intermittently enjoyable." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Michael Clayton (2007) |
"Clooney looks a little worn, and the shagginess becomes him. He gives a beautiful, modulated performance, and he’s never been more likable. Nor has he ever had better lines." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
A Mighty Heart (2007) |
"The movie, directed by Michael Winterbottom, lies about as far from the trials of Lara Croft as is cinematically possible." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Milk (2008) |
"Giving himself utterly to the role, Penn takes an actor’s craft and dedication to soulful heights, making a demand for dignity that becomes universal." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Million Dollar Baby (2004) |
"Joins the honor list of great fight films." |
David Denby |
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Miss Potter (2006) |
"A grave disappointment." |
Anthony Lane |
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Mission: Impossible III (2006) |
"The grand finale? A fistfight, after which somebody gets run over. Listen, if I want to see that kind of action, I don’t go to Shanghai. I don’t even go to the movies. I go to the South Bronx and stand outside a bar." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Mister Foe (2008) |
"Mister Foe flirts too often with the unlikely and the foolish, yet there is something to admire in the nerve of its reckless characters, so uneasy in their skins." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Moliere (2007) |
"This is the sort of period movie -- that would leave a modern audience with faces of stone. Yet the film, directed by Laurent Tirard, has something. To be exact, it has Fabrice Luchini and Laura Morante..." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Monika (1952) |
"Bergman would be no more adept a pornographer than he would be at filming hip-hop, but his camera did stare at the human surface with an intentness unmatched since von Sternberg rhapsodized over Marlene Dietrich." |
Anthony Lane |
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Monster (2003) |
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David Denby |
Splat |
Monster-in-Law (2005) |
"I know Monster-in-Law is just a slapstick comedy, but is it too much to expect the characters to exhibit routine intelligence?" |
David Denby |
Splat |
Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) |
"As I took off my gray-lensed 3-D spectacles at the end of Monsters vs. Aliens, I felt not so much immersed as fuzzy with exhaustion." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Monty Python's Life of Brian (1979) |
"The Pythons are enlightened jesters, whose scorn is reserved for those who persist in walking in darkness." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009) |
"The movie is an act of hero worship, but it inadvertently suggests that, without a necessary touch of grandiosity, Ellsberg might never have acted as bravely as he did." |
David Denby |
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The Motorcycle Diaries (2004) |
"The insertion of documentary rigor into something as ravishing as The Motorcycle Diaries smacks, I fear, of the picturesque." |
Anthony Lane |
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Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) |
"When you see this movie, you can understand why the rest of the world thinks Americans are crazy. Mr. and Mrs. Smith are both assassins who work for rival 'companies.' We’re not supposed to ask whom they kill or why." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Mr. Brooks (2007) |
"The movie is so well made, and so compelling as a portrait of a man at war with himself, that, right up until the end, many people will probably be entertained by its intricately preposterous story." |
David Denby |
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Munich (2005) |
"What a curious arc this movie has described: starting in terror, and ending up on the very brink of kitsch." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
My Name Is Albert Ayler (2007) |
"A cause for rejoicing." |
Richard Brody |
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