Tomato B- |
I Am David (2004) |
"It is not an especially brilliant film, nor does it execute its ideas with particular flair, and yet I cannot resist liking and being moved by it." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
I Am Legend (2007) |
"The silence, the suspense, and Smith's accessible performance draw you in for some post-apocalyptic fun." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C- |
I Am Sam (2002) |
"Rather than go the long way around to your emotions -- you know, with sympathetic characters and good writing -- it uses movie shortcuts like retarded people and cute kids." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C |
I Dreamed of Africa (2000) |
"When the characters' minds and motivations are frustratingly closed off to us, all we're left with is the dim hope that something adventurous will happen instead. And when it doesn't, there's no hope left at all." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"Quirky enough for me to recommend it, but its self-satisfied braininess diminishes what could have been a truly wonderful film." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D |
I Know Who Killed Me (2007) |
"Lurid, over-sexualized, and boring when it's not being actively unpleasant." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C+ |
I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry (2007) |
"Plays on male fears of women and homosexuality so well that you'd think the movie had been made by actual 15-year-olds." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D+ |
I Spy (2002) |
"If it sounds pretty formulaic, then I have described it accurately." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D+ |
I Think I Love My Wife (2007) |
"The problem with Chris Rock writing, directing, and starring in a film is that every character winds up talking just like Chris Rock." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C- |
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2004) |
"No, I'll go ahead and sleep NOW, thank you." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B+ |
I'm Not Scared (2004) |
"Brilliantly shows the frivolity of childhood and the joy of summertime -- an effectively contrasting background against which to set a kidnapping drama, you must admit." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
I'm Not There (2007) |
"It's not a challenge to enjoy it (assuming you know what you're in for), but it is difficult to take it all in at once." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C+ |
I, Robot (2004) |
"It's fun, sure, but uninspired. We've seen it all before... Will Smith does his old Will Smith thing again, with only the minimum level of actual entertainment to dress it up." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
Ice Age (2002) |
"You want to like it simply because it obviously is trying so hard to be liked." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) |
"Serves its target audience well enough and offers a series of pleasant smiles, if not a lot of gut-busting laughs." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) |
"The so-so dialogue is balanced by the film's often hilarious physical humor.... It's the film's brawn, not its brains, that make it a survivor." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
The Ice Harvest (2005) |
"But is it funny? Yes, for a while." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
Ice Princess (2005) |
"The only thing wrong with Ice Princess is that I am not enough of a 14-year-old girl to appreciate it." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A- |
Identity (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C |
Idlewild (2006) |
"You wouldn't think a musical would suffer from a lack of music, but here we are." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B+ |
Igby Goes Down (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A |
Il Divo (2009) |
"Even with no knowledge of Italian government, you can enjoy this hip, un-stodgy, grimly entertaining dissection of it." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C+ |
The Illusionist (2006) |
"It's a marginal story, and passionless in the way it's been antiseptically brought to the screen, but it's not unenjoyable." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
Imagine Me & You (2006) |
"A little more thought into the characters' motives and the consequences of their actions might have made the film more resonant, instead of fluffy and mildly puzzling the way it is." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
Importance of Being Earnest (2002) |
"It has neither the wit nor the timing of the play, though much of the charm has remained intact." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D+ |
Impostor (2001) |
"By the time the predictable twists present themselves, you'll be hard pressed to find anyone watching who still cares. Or anyone still watching, for that matter." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B+ |
In America (2003) |
"Sheridan's heart and soul are evident in scene after evocative scene." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B+ |
In Bruges (2008) |
"The breeziness and eventual dramatic weight of the story, along with the hilarious, snappy dialogue, help the film rise above its basic ordinariness." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D |
The In Crowd (2000) |
"The more I think about it, the more I liked this movie. Not because it's good, but because it's enjoyably bad." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A- |
In Good Company (2004) |
"Brilliantly walks the line between comedy and poignancy, being utterly funny without being shticky, and being touching without being shmaltzy." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A- |
In Her Shoes (2005) |
"I think it will ring true, at least some aspect of it, for nearly everyone who sees it." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A- |
In Memory Of My Father (2005) |
"Hand-held cameras and semi-improvised dialogue lend it realism, while the flurry of well-crafted comic situations it creates brings it to heights of hilarity." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C |
In My Country (2005) |
"I do not question the filmmaker's sincerity, but he has made a flat, uninvolving movie. The road to boredom is paved with good intentions, after all." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A- |
In the Bedroom (2001) |
"Spacek and Wilkinson are dazzling, utterly convincing. You might as well be watching a documentary, for as real as the Fowlers seem." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat D+ |
In the Cut (2003) |
"If there ever was an era when America wanted to see Meg Ryan naked -- and this is doubtful -- it surely ended 10 years ago." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C |
In the Land of Women (2007) |
"It hits all the emotional cues right on schedule, pushing an audience's buttons with dull factory precision." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A |
In the Loop (2009) |
"The sharpest, funniest political satire in years." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
In the Mood for Love (2001) |
Click here to see the review. |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A- |
In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) |
"He was child-like, his writing was unpolished and quaint, and both are preserved in this gratifying, poignant documentary." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A- |
In the Valley of Elah (2007) |
"Where 'Crash' was full of contrivances and coincidences, Elah is honest, raw, and real." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C |
The In-Laws (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B+ |
An Inconvenient Truth (2006) |
"This isn't a 'fun' film, per se, but it never ceases to be fascinating and eye-opening." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
The Incredible Hulk (2008) |
"Offers the quantity of action that many people felt was lacking in Ang Lee's more contemplative 2003 treatment." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato A- |
The Incredibles (2004) |
"A warm, funny, exciting film for which I feel more affection the more I think about it." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B+ |
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
"It feels as lively and buoyant, as effortlessly entertaining, as you could realistically want in an Indiana Jones flick." |
Eric D. Snider |
Splat C+ |
Infamous (2006) |
"even without comparisons to Capote, Infamous is not particularly good." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B+ |
The Informant! (2009) |
"It's a jaunty, goofy trip for the audience, a smart comedy about a dumb guy." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B+ |
Inglourious Basterds (2009) |
"The story is wildly, daringly imaginative, the sort of thing that very few filmmakers could even conceive, let alone execute." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B- |
Inside Deep Throat (2005) |
"Its aim is to entertain and to recount a chapter in pop-culture history. It does this reasonably well, though its winking, tongue-in-cheek attitude wears thin after a while." |
Eric D. Snider |
Tomato B |
Inside Man (2006) |
"You go home satisfied -- but not blown away -- and the movie never crosses your mind again." |
Eric D. Snider |
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