Tomato 3/4 |
W. (2008) |
"Some of the best moments occur in fantasy and/or dream sequences in which Bush faces his darkest fears, and Stone gets across his most secret theories." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Wackness (2008) |
"After all this window dressing, it's a standard-issue coming-of-age story. It's wack, all right." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
- |
WADD: The Life and Times of John C. Holmes (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Wag the Dog (1997) |
"I doubt it will age as well as Network, but it is close to that realm of brilliance." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Waiting for Happiness (2003) |
"A moving picture that does not move." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Waitress (2007) |
"Using a style that faintly echoes Hartley's, Shelly beautifully balances deadpan humor, pathos and heartbreakingly lovely moments of happy truth." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato |
Waking Life (2001) |
"Even without the animation, Waking Life remains a living, breathing entity, full of real thought, conversation and ideas." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Waking Ned Devine (1998) |
"You'll love Waking Ned Devine." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
- |
Waking the Dead (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
"A sharp parody worthy of MAD Magazine. [It] runs through every tired showbiz biopic plot point with a shiny new skewer." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
- |
A Walk On the Moon (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
Walk on Water (2005) |
"Now with a bigger budget and a much longer running time, Fox has opted instead to use long stretches of talk to do the job for him." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Walk the Line (2005) |
"Mangold falls prey to the old biopic formula. He stretches and dilutes the core story until it resembles less a great man's life than a TV movie of the week." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
WALL-E (2008) |
"[The] first 60 minutes ranks with the best work Pixar has ever done." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato |
Wallace & Gromit - A Close Shave (1995) |
"The third and final of the "Wallace & Gromit" shorts is perhaps the most exciting" |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato |
Wallace & Gromit - A Grand Day Out (1990) |
"This is the first, and my favorite, of the three clay-animated "Wallace and Gromit" shorts." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato |
Wallace & Gromit - The Wrong Trousers (1993) |
"Takes a far more conventional, three-act Hollywood approach to its story." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"Park and Box don't necessarily break any new ground here, but their sense of pace and comic timing is still impeccable -- not easy when working in stop-motion." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Splat |
Walled In (2009) |
"It throws in nightmares, hallucinations, red herrings and other sinister developments that seem to leapfrog one another more than they actually add up to something." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Walt and El Grupo (2009) |
"The trouble is that there's no real drama here; Walt is painted as a kind, benevolent soul whose very presence gave a lift to the poor citizens and their dreary lives below the equator." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Wanted (2008) |
"Director Timur Bekmambetov can't decide on a tone, and the film feels by turns ridiculous and dead serious." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato |
The War Game (1965) |
"A horrifying and insidiously effective propaganda piece." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Splat 4/4 |
The War of the Roses (1989) |
"The film just keeps getting darker and more claustrophobic, like sliding down the center of a spiral." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato |
The War of the Worlds (1953) |
"This version has more soul than the remake." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
War of the Worlds (2005) |
"[Spielberg is] in absolute visual, physical command of this material, presenting the complete chaos and destruction with frightening clarity." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
War Photographer (2002) |
"A worthy tribute to a man and his colleagues who risk their lives to bring us the true story of the world." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato |
The War Tapes (2006) |
"It's definitely a bipartisan film, one that may open the eyes of those that have chosen one side or another." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
The War Within (2005) |
"Nervously reduces its characters to symbols and its plot to contrivances." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
- |
The War Zone (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
War, Inc. (2008) |
"The hilarious jokes and one-liners make take two viewings to fully absorb, but the movie also has an almost off-putting cynicism." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) |
"I suspect many viewers will be disoriented and put off by Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, but if you let go and enjoy the ride, you'll find a sly comedy and a clever poem that's worth cherishing." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Warrior of Light (2003) |
"A powerful film." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 5/5 |
The Warriors (1979) |
"One of the great cult films of all time." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wasabi (2002) |
"Reno himself can take credit for most of the movie's success. He's one of the few 'cool' actors who never seems aware of his own coolness." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Watchmen (2009) |
"The combination of slick and smart works blazingly well." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Splat 1/4 |
Water (2006) |
"Here's yet another example of people confusing an honorable message with a good movie." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Splat 1/4 |
The Way Home (2002) |
"The best recent argument for sterilization." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
- |
The Way of the Gun (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato |
Wayne's World (1992) |
"Though it appears to be a brain-dead comedy, it at least has a little something to say about American suburbia in the 1990s -- a specialty of director Penelope Spheeris." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato |
Wayne's World 2 (1993) |
"No one was more surprised than I was that not only did this "Saturday Night Live" sketch work as a film, it worked twice, and uproariously both times." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Wayward Cloud (2005) |
"The Wayward Cloud is indeed a unique experience... sometimes shocking and often funny." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Splat 1/4 |
We Are Marshall (2006) |
"Swings wildly between somber and stupid." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Splat 2/4 |
We Don't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"It could have pulled back the rock to reveal the squirmy things living underneath, but instead all we get is the rock." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato |
We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen (2005) |
"One of last year's finest documentaries, and one of the greatest rock movies I've ever seen." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
We Own The Night (2007) |
"Gray includes three truly breathtaking action sequences, the equal of any action blockbuster made this year." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
- |
We're No Angels (1989) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
- |
We're No Angels (1989) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Weather Man (2005) |
"Cage applies his lifetime reservoir of droll anxiety and twitchy pain, deepening the role far beyond the written page." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
Tomato 3/4 |
Wedding Crashers (2005) |
"The smoothly anarchic first ten minutes of Wedding Crashers sets the tone for a cheerfully sleazy tale." |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
- |
The Wedding Date (2005) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jeffrey M. Anderson |
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