Tomato B+ |
Cars (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A+ |
Casablanca (1942) |
"The world’s favorite Hollywood love story is all the more romantic because it doesn’t exalt romantic love above all." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
Cast Away (2000) |
"Chuck has flashes of ingenuity that filled me with the thrill of discovery and invention, and stretches of failure that I felt just as acutely." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"Breezy and entertaining… essentially a celebration of the career of a con artist, [but] it celebrates his cleverness and panache rather than his dishonesty, and ends on a satisfyingly redemptive note." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B- |
Cats & Dogs (2001) |
"Cats and Dogs may be playing the same game as Spy Kids, but it isn't in the same league. What it does have is a comparable level of rollicking energy…" |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Splat F |
The Cell (2000) |
"Gives imaginative and visual shape to as it were the very soul of misogynism, perversion, depravity, sadism, and the supreme nihilism and egotism of the damned." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Splat C |
Changing Lanes (2002) |
"Neither Gipson nor Banek makes much of a poster child for the danger of civilized behavior devolving into savagery, since neither of them seems quite stable from the outset." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
Charade (1963) |
"Often described as “the best Hitchcock movie Hitchcock never made,” Charade stars Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in a sparkling thriller with overtones of screwball romantic comedy — or is it the other way around?" |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A+ |
Chariots of Fire (1981) |
"A period piece that explores timeless themes of temporal ambitions and higher purposes, of commitment and sacrifice, of ability and spirit." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B- |
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005) |
"Enough to make any fan of the book cry — with delight at all the film gets so magically right, and with frustration that the film is still nearly ruined." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B- |
Charlotte's Web (2006) |
"Fair family entertainment… the basic appeal of White's story is sturdy enough to survive the filmmakers' more dubious choices." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B+ |
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003) |
"Life in the Baker house is as chaotic as life in the original 1950 Cheaper Gilbreth house was well-ordered and organized. I think I like the in-name-only remake better." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Splat C |
Chicago (2002) |
"Are we meant to be appalled by the way the film’s merry murderesses play the system, or are we merely meant to be entertained and titillated?" |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
Chicken Run (2000) |
"May not maintain quite the same frantic level of invention as the Wallace and Gromit shorts, but it has more heart." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B |
Children of Men (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
A Christmas Story (1984) |
"With much affectionate humor, A Christmas Story recalls vividly what it was like to be a kid at Christmas in a more innocent era." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Splat D |
Christmas with the Kranks (2004) |
"Makes the colossal mistake of making Luther's obsession seem almost a valid protest against conformity -- then lets the neighbors not only win but claim the moral high ground." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B- |
The Chronicles of Narnia - The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (1988) |
"Among the most spiritually significant of Lewis's tales… Unfortunately, the BBC's first stab at Narnia is also the most limited and flawed." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B+ |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) |
"More inspired by the book than adapting it, Caspian is most likely to appeal to those not especially attached to the book, which is after all a lesser work flanked by two more popular tales." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
- |
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) |
"Filmmaker interview with Douglas Gresham, Mark Johnson, Ben Barnes, Will Moseley and Peter Dinklage" |
Steven D. Greydanus |
- |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) |
"'In animation, as a director, you have to think about everything,' Adamson noted. 'In live action you get that stuff for free. There's a certain thing that just happens where you put a boy in armor with a sword on a horse and he's going to feel noble…" |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B+ |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) |
"One of the most magical effects… isn't rippling computer-generated fur, ice castles, or battle scenes. It's the wide-eyed wonder and delight on the face of little Lucy Pevensie (Georgie Henley) as she passes beyond the wardrobe…" |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato |
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005) |
"Narnia Filmmakers Hype the Fantasy, Hedge the Faith" |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B |
Cinderella (1950) |
"Represents, alas, the early stages of Disney-itis… follows the fairy-tale template [but] doesn't do much to elevate the material the way [Disney's] earlier features did." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B+ |
Cinderella (1957) |
"Julie Andrews as Cinderella is a no-brainer, and the 1957 version is worth seeing for her performance and singing alone." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
Cinderella Man (2005) |
"A rousing picture and a genuinely inspiring one… one Cinderella story that goes the distance without turning into a pumpkin, and fully earns its happily ever after." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A+ |
Citizen Kane (1941) |
"A cinematic perfect storm of technique and sophistication, widely hailed as the apotheosis of all the innovations and advancements of the sound era." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A+ |
City Lights (1931) |
"The quintessential Chaplin film — both the most perfectly crafted and the most representative of all the different textures and tones for which he is remembered." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato C+ |
Clifford's Really Big Movie (2004) |
"Just okay. My kids enjoyed it, although my daughter said she wouldn't mind not seeing it again." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato 3/4 |
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (2009) |
"When in movie history has the girl ever revealed her true self and become more attractive to the hero by putting on spectacles and pulling back her hair?" |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B |
Come to the Stable (1949) |
"Sweet, pious entertainment of a sort that “they don’t make like that anymore.”" |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Splat C+ |
Confession (2005) |
"Reverent, well directed, and well acted… Confession's weakness is also its promotional gimmick: Meyers directed the film at 24, but wrote the screenplay ten years earlier." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Splat C |
Constantine (2005) |
"Muddled to say the least… although at least it's more interesting than anything in Hellboy or Van Helsing." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Splat |
Constantine's Sword (2008) |
"Riddled with historical distortions, at least some of which seem agenda-driven, perhaps even more or less deliberate." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B+ |
Coraline (2009) |
"With its dark tale of changeling parents and imprisoned souls, Coraline comes closer to the bracing spirit of the traditional European fairy tale than perhaps any other film, animated or otherwise, in recent memory." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) |
"The best swashbuckler since The Mask of Zorro." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A+ |
The Court Jester (1956) |
"See Errol Flynn in Robin Hood — and then see Kaye in Court Jester. The former is the ultimate swashbuckler; the latter the ultimate swashbuckler spoof." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B |
Crash (2005) |
"Filters every scene… through the prism of race, but keeps turning the prism around and around until the colors no longer matter and we see only what the characters do." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (1999) |
"A firebrand of a movie, bold, dramatic, and haunting." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
- |
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (1999) |
"Embraces a gently romantic humanism that is more life-affirming than the esoteric way of detachment and denial characteristic of Eastern thought." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
Cyrano de Bergerac (1990) |
"There are better love stories, but Cyrano is arguably the ultimate celebration of the romantic spirit… Depardieu makes the part forever his own." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
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