Splat |
W. (2008) |
"W. feels poorly timed: too late to have any effect on the public, most of whom long ago checked out on the President, and too early to provide more than a schematic interpretation of who he is." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005) |
"For all its missteps, the movie powerfully suggests that Wal-Mart is capable of demoralizing a community so thoroughly that it doesn’t have the spirit to carry on its life outside the big box." |
David Denby |
Splat |
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
"Walk Hard runs down quickly, and suffers further from having the wide-eyed and weightless Reilly as its star." |
David Denby |
Splat |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"This movie is a lot less interesting than it might be. Though it's not bad -- in fact, it’s rather sweet -- it's too simple a portrait of a very complicated and calculating entertainer." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
WALL-E (2008) |
"WALL-E is a classic, but it will never appeal to people who are happy with art only when it has as little bite as possible." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"There is something for everybody here: an unholy mixture of Philip Larkin and Bruce Wayne." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Walt and El Grupo (2009) |
"This may be the first documentary that contains not a single American, living or dead, who is anything but merry of disposition. That cheer carries over to the on-the-spot gusto of el grupo’s sketchbooks -- a more accurate tribute than the final cartoons." |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
Wanted (2008) |
"What looks set to be a boyish, pop-eyed fantasy warps into a welter of bloodletting." |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"It’s as if the aliens landed and everyone died so that Tom Cruise could grow up one more time." |
David Denby |
Splat |
Watchmen (2009) |
"Incoherent, overblown, and grimy with misogyny, Watchmen marks the final demolition of the comic strip, and it leaves you wondering: where did the comedy go?" |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"Scene by scene, the movie is precise, vibrant, and, for all its turmoil, moving." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
The Weather Man (2005) |
"[Verbinski] and Steven Conrad hold their ground, sticking to their conviction that Dave’s story should play as a belated-coming-of-age movie." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Wedding Crashers (2005) |
"Sometimes ten per cent of your brain is just enough." |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
The Weeping Meadow (2004) |
"Angelopoulos does not relate the story of his country so much as linger amid the whispered backstories of its citizens, and we are somehow left to fill in the shadowy gaps." |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
The Wendell Baker Story (2007) |
"The Wilsons’ venture was shot in Austin, the global center of slackerology, and has barely summoned the energy to leave the place." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Wendy and Lucy (2008) |
"The movie, for all its morose impassivity, is beautiful and haunting." |
David Denby |
Splat |
What Just Happened (2008) |
"Levinson has assembled a fine field of actors, no question, but the going is too easy for them underfoot; movies about movies are old ground." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Whatever Works (2009) |
"This is pretty broad stuff, but Clarkson is so much more vital and amiable than anyone else that you instantly root for her." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
When the Levees Broke (2006) |
"Surely the most magnificent and large-souled record of a great American tragedy ever put on film." |
David Denby |
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009) |
"Read an Excerpt from Eggers' Wild Things Novelization!" |
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Splat |
Where the Wild Things Are (2009) |
"I have a vision of eight-year-olds leaving the movie in bewilderment. Why are the creatures so unhappy?" |
David Denby |
Tomato |
The White Diamond (2005) |
"Werner Herzog may lack heroes, nowadays, who seem adequate to his fierce capacity for wonder. When occasion demands, however, he can still turn the world upside down." |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
Why We Fight (2006) |
"It’s unconvincing and ineffective; the many patches of ideological montage, growing like kudzu throughout the film, weaken the impact of its best moments." |
David Denby |
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Wicker Park (2004) |
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Anthony Lane |
Splat |
William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (2004) |
"To quote the touching words of one correspondent, posted during an online discussion of this movie, 'I didn't like the story.' Not much to be done about that." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007) |
"Refusing the standard flourishes of Irish wildness or lyricism, Loach has made a film for our moment, a time of bewildering internecine warfare." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Woman is the Future of Man (2006) |
"Hong has a grace and stealth of his own, and his scenes tend to tilt in directions that few of us would dare to predict." |
Anthony Lane |
Splat |
The Women (2008) |
"The funniest thing about The Women is that Mick Jagger is one of the producers. There was a knowing laugh in the theatre as his name sprang up in the opening credits -- our last chance to laugh, as it turned out, for the next two hours." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
World Trade Center (2006) |
"The world may not make sense anymore, but Oliver Stone, a warrior still, celebrating courage and endurance, has, in his own way, come home." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
The Wrestler (2008) |
"What Rourke offers us, in short, is not just a comeback performance but something much rarer: a rounded, raddled portrait of a good man." |
Anthony Lane |
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