Splat C+ |
Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
"Slicker, darker and funnier than the original films, though wall-to-wall action makes it a bit of a one-trick pony, and prevents the characters from catching their breath and displaying more than one side." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
- |
Radio (2003) |
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Steven D. Greydanus |
Splat C |
Radio (2003) |
"Purports to be a celebration of the innocence and virtue of a mentally handicapped man, but is actually a congratulatory ode to the goodness of the townspeople who embrace him… not unpleasant, just unconvincing." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A+ |
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) |
"Classic action set pieces, Harrison Ford at his swashbuckling best, Old Testament spirituality, and a satiric jab at Nazi anti-Semitism." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
Ratatouille (2007) |
"Linguini gives the best physical "performance" from a CGI character to date, virtually (so to speak) rivaling the likes of Steve Martin in All of Me and Vincent D'Onofrio in Men in Black." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B- |
The Recruit (2003) |
"Slick enough to be entertaining to the end, though it's never hard to guess what’s really going on, and despite all the twists there are few surprises." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B- |
Red Dragon (2002) |
"Not in the same league as Silence, but a worthy prelude, in contrast to Hannibal, an unworthy sequel." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Splat C- |
Red Planet (2000) |
"The film’s dearth of imagination is nowhere more evident than in the flat, tepid dialogue." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B- |
The Ref (1994) |
"The Ref has a soft heart of domesticity underneath its superficially heartless humor." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
The Return (2004) |
"A harrowing, elusively biblical account… echoes of Abraham and Isaac, the Gospel parables about fathers and pairs of sons, and the Second Coming." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B- |
Return From Witch Mountain (1978) |
"Better structured and faster-moving than its predecessor … disappointingly, Tony spends almost the whole film separated from Tia in a trance-like state, so the siblings' relationship is lost." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
Return of the Jedi (1983) |
"Among the cinema's most iconic villains — the Wicked Witch of the West; Hannibal Lecter; Nosferatu… — Vader's story arc stands strikingly alone in its climax." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Splat C |
The Return of the King (1980) |
"Works even less well than The Hobbit, which really is a children's story… overbearing folk-ballad soundtrack doesn't even gesture lyrically to Tolkien's poetry." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B+ |
Return to Me (2000) |
"Characters you can enjoy watching and will care about, places you will enjoy spending time, and a charming, hopeful look at love amid the vagaries of life." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B- |
Return to Never Land (2002) |
"Peter Pan Lite, if I can say that without conjuring images of low-fat peanut butter." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B+ |
Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B+ |
The Road Home (2001) |
"About love acutely desired in youth and fiercely remembered in old age… delicately simple and emotionally satisfying." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B+ |
Road to Morocco (1942) |
"Lighthearted and nonsensical, sophisticated but not overplotted, Road to Morocco represents the point at which the Road-movie formula had hit its stride but hadn't yet descended into self-parody." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Splat C |
Road to Perdition (2002) |
"The themes never come to life in a way that goes beyond the trailer blurbs ('Every Son... Holds the Future For His Father... Every Father... is a Hero to His Son')." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
Rob Roy (1995) |
Click here to see the review. |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
Robin Hood (1922) |
"Fairbanks is the most exuberantly athletic of Robin Hoods, for sheer physicality perhaps outdoing even Errol Flynn's definitive performance. Fairbanks's third swashbuckler… in some ways the ideal Fairbanks vehicle." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B |
Robin Hood (1973) |
"As post-Sleeping Beauty Disney animated features go, Robin Hood is a fine entry, better than Sword in the Stone or Fox and the Hound but not as good as Jungle Book or The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B+ |
Robots (2005) |
"Clever rather than heartfelt. Still, it’s a high grade of clever, and I enjoyed it a lot." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B+ |
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1964) |
"The definitive musical Cinderella [for] its fidelity to the climax of Perrault's tale, altered both in the Disney version (cleverly) and in the 1957 version (misguidedly)." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
Roman Holiday (1953) |
"Hepburn is utterly beguiling in her star-making role opposite Peck in a delightful romantic comedy about a poised young princess of an unspecified European country who spends a magical day with an American reporter playing hooky." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
Romero (1989) |
"Where Romero excels as a film is in its depiction of its subject’s gradual transformation." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B+ |
The Rookie (2002) |
"The kind of old-fashioned biopic that makes you want to go out and read the book." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B |
Rugrats Go Wild (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B- |
Rugrats in Paris (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato B |
The Rugrats Movie (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato C+ |
Rush Hour (1998) |
"Eventually, of course, Lee and Carter must learn to work together, respecting one other’s methods and abilities, blah blah blah." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato C+ |
Rush Hour 2 (2001) |
"Follows so closely in the footsteps of its hugely successful predecessor that an actual review is practically unnecessary." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Splat C+ |
Rush Hour 3 (2007) |
"A half-hour of brilliance, preceded by an hour of dreck… a roughly comparable dreck-to-brilliance ratio to the first two Rush Hour movies, I guess, and par for the course for Jackie's Hollywood films." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
Tomato A- |
Russian Ark (2002) |
"Awash in nostalgia and dreamlike passiveness, reflecting the lack of a clear way forward for contemporary Russia." |
Steven D. Greydanus |
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