Tomato |
Take Out (2008) |
"A remarkable film...Baker and Tsous simple narrative feels like a richly authentic documentary." |
Shauna Lyon |
Splat |
Taken (2009) |
"[Neeson's] performance is the most perturbing thing in the film, even more so than its electrical-torture sequence or its revelations about sex-trafficking." |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009) |
"Can a director be arrested for the attempted hijack of our emotions?" |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
Taking Woodstock (2009) |
"You can’t deny the smiling mood that wafts through the film like incense, and to that extent it honors the original three days; but not once does a character’s show of feeling stir you, send you, or stop you in your tracks, and the loss is unsustainable." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
The Talent Given Us (2004) |
"The notion that there is no escape from one's family is elevated—and ameliorated—by the inkling that the Wagners' story is, in fact, real." |
Shauna Lyon |
Tomato |
Tarnation (2004) |
"A daunting blend of head trip, cinéma verite, music video, and auto-therapy." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) |
"Along with No End in Sight, this movie is one of the essential documentaries of the ongoing war." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Tell No One (2008) |
"We know the material is artificially -- even deviously -- constructed, and we enjoy being manipulated by people who know what they’re doing. But it’s Cluzet’s intense performance that makes this genre piece a heart-wrenching experience." |
David Denby |
Splat |
The Terminal (2004) |
"Even in the desolation of an airport lounge at midnight, Viktor is too pure, we realize, to entertain the ghost of a dirty thought." |
David Denby |
Splat |
Terminator Salvation (2009) |
"Terminator Salvation is a confused, humorless grind, with nobody, from the stars to the set designers, prepared to prick its self-importance." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Thank You For Smoking (2006) |
"Eckhart, in a sure-handed performance, holds the picture together." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
The Counterfeiters (2008) |
"The Counterfeiters is a testament to guile. [Director] Ruzowitzky scored the picture with tangos, and the tangos are meant to be Sally’s music -- seductive, insolent, triumphant." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
The Duchess of Langeais (2008) |
"In Jacques Rivette’s remarkable The Duchess of Langeais, romantic devotion becomes a perverse kind of warfare, in which a lover who admits that he’s in love loses the campaign." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Then She Found Me (2008) |
"With the screenwriters Alice Arlen and Victor Levin, Hunt adapted the story from a 1990 novel by Elinor Lipman, and has turned the material into a fine, tense, unpredictable comedy of mixed-up emotions and sudden illuminations." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"As astounding in its emotional force and as haunting and mysterious as anything seen in American movies in recent years." |
David Denby |
Splat |
This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006) |
"Like a Michael Moore broadside, it can’t stop ducking and darting between dimly related topics, hoping that the sheer momentum of scorn will see it through." |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) |
"What, exactly, is the devil in Mr. Jones?" |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Thumbsucker (2005) |
"The movie never reaches much of a dramatic climax, but there are many surprises on the way to nowhere, and Mills’s refusal to rush brings out the humor and the hidden tensions in material." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Tokyo Sonata (2009) |
"For all its oddities, this movie does carry weight, and, with more than eight per cent of Americans out of work, the timing of its release here could not be more acute." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Touching the Void (2004) |
"The facts drop away, and it becomes impossible not to read the movie symbolically -- as a journey to the center of the earth, or farther still." |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
Traitor (2008) |
"The filmmakers, I think, got in over their heads and couldn’t decide whether they were making an action thriller or a drama of conscience; they wound up flubbing both." |
David Denby |
Splat |
Transformers (2007) |
"Bay's movie is the grandest proof so far that, when it comes to movie characterization, flesh and blood have had their chance. From here on, it’s up to metal and plastic." |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) |
"The movie rages on for a hundred and fifty minutes and then just stops, pausing for the next sequel." |
David Denby |
Splat |
The Treatment (2007) |
"Who wants to behave well in bed?" |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006) |
"One trouble with the current vogue for meta-cinema is that its practioners, such as Winterbottom and Charlie Kaufman, underestimate the extraordinary difficulty of telling a good story straight." |
David Denby |
Splat |
Tropic Thunder (2008) |
"After the dazzle of the early scenes, something droops and flags in Tropic Thunder." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Trouble the Water (2008) |
"Trouble the Water, along with Spike Lee’s extraordinary four-hour epic, When the Levees Broke, remains one of the most eloquent records we have of a tragedy that brought out some of the most impressively alive men and women in New O" |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Troy (2004) |
"Harsh, serious, and both exhilarating and tragic, the right tonal combination for Homer." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Turn the River (2008) |
"Skip the coda to this movie, with its tiny upswing of hope, and remember the days at the tables, as dim and endless as nights, and the click of the dialogue." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Turtles Can Fly (2005) |
"It hits and hurts the eyes (the rainy days are lousy enough, but the skies of royal blue, above such grief, feel especially insulting), and it also seems to bleed straight out of the headlines." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
The TV Set (2007) |
"The satire is unrelenting but not too broad; it stays close to common observation." |
David Denby |
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Twentynine Palms (2004) |
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David Denby |
Tomato |
Twilight (2008) |
"Twilight, the first movie adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s series of best-selling teen novels, is going to be a big hit with young girls, and deservedly so -- the picture delivers." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Two Lovers (2009) |
"However moody, Two Lovers didn’t strike me as a downer, for the simple reason that it wells with sights and sounds that are guaranteed to lift, not sink, the spirits." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Tyson (2009) |
"Those who were furious at Tyson will be made even angrier by Toback’s film, for here is a fresh provocation—an attempt to restore to Tyson the human dimensions that have been taken from him (by himself, of course, as well as by others)." |
David Denby |
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