Rotten 2/5
| Rotten 15%
| Sleepover (2004) |
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Rotten 1/5
| Rotten 10%
| Catwoman (2004) |
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Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones (2004) | "
[A] compelling film." — Denver Post Posted Oct 19, 2004 |
Fresh
| Fresh 95%
| The Story of the Weeping Camel (2004) | "
The most sincere and heartfelt camel movie in years, maybe ever." — Denver Post Posted Jul 16, 2004 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 85%
| Bend It Like Beckham (2003) | "
It elicits laughs and the kind of rousing, root-for-the-underdog enthusiasm that translates well in any culture." — Denver Post Posted Mar 28, 2003 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 65%
| Willard (2003) | "
[Glover] is fascinatingly, compellingly weird." — Denver Post Posted Mar 14, 2003 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 60%
| Gerry (2003) | "
An innovative and unusually artistic experiment." — Denver Post Posted Mar 7, 2003 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 89%
| The Quiet American (2002) | "
This story still seems timely and important. And there's an element of heartbreak to watching it now, with older and wiser eyes, because we know what will happen after Greene's story ends." — Denver Post Posted Feb 7, 2003 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 96%
| Catch Me If You Can (2002) | "
This breezy caper movie becomes a soulful, incisive meditation on the way we were, and the way we are." — Denver Post Posted Dec 25, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 91%
| Adaptation (2002) | "
Kaufman's carefully constructed screenplay emphasizes so many layers of duality, it's beyond gimmick. It's a world view." — Denver Post Posted Dec 20, 2002 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 85%
| About Schmidt (2002) | "
About Schmidt winds up being about us all." — Denver Post Posted Dec 20, 2002 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 76%
| Gangs of New York (2002) | "
Day-Lewis keeps you awake whenever the story loses steam during the film's 2 hours and 48 minutes." — Denver Post Posted Dec 20, 2002 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 96%
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) | "
What Jackson has accomplished here is amazing on a technical level." — Denver Post Posted Dec 18, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 69%
| Personal Velocity (2002) | "
These are complex characters." — Denver Post Posted Dec 13, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 95%
| The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002) | "
The film is insightful about Kissinger's background and history." — Denver Post Posted Dec 13, 2002 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 65%
| Tosca (2002) | "
For movie lovers as well as opera lovers, Tosca is a real treat." — Denver Post Posted Dec 6, 2002 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 27%
| Analyze That (2002) | "
Just a collection of this and that -- whatever fills time -- with no unified whole." — Denver Post Posted Dec 6, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 62%
| The Crime of Padre Amaro (2002) | "
Overall, this is a juicy movie but certainly not a trashy one." — Denver Post Posted Nov 29, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Fresh 65%
| Solaris (2002) | "
A serious movie with serious ideas. But seriously, folks, it doesn't work." — Denver Post Posted Nov 27, 2002 |
Rotten
| Fresh 69%
| Treasure Planet (2002) | "
One wants good storytelling from animated films, and Treasure Planet is working with a good one. But, like pirates hoarding gold, it gets greedy trying to wow us with too much." — Denver Post Posted Nov 27, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 92%
| Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002) | "
The movie lets us realize this Sound, still so alive and vibrant today, was created by flesh-and-blood people, each of whom has a compelling story to tell." — Denver Post Posted Nov 22, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 50%
| The Emperor's Club (2002) | "
If you stay with the story's overly familiar arc, there is an unexpected plot twist that redeems the film, and makes a valuable point." — Denver Post Posted Nov 22, 2002 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 91%
| Far From Heaven (2002) | "
It's a film that's loving toward all concerned, even when they cause each other pain. And it is overwhelmingly, refreshingly sincere even while being revisionist." — Denver Post Posted Nov 15, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 83%
| All or Nothing (2002) | "
Leigh makes these lives count. And he allows a gawky actor like Spall -- who could too easily become comic relief in any other film -- to reveal his impressively delicate range." — Denver Post Posted Nov 15, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 82%
| Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) | "
Not only are the special effects and narrative flow much improved, and Daniel Radcliffe more emotionally assertive this time around as Harry, but the film conjures the magic of author J.K. Rowling's books." — Denver Post Posted Nov 15, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 75%
| Frida (2002) | "
[The screenplay's] flatness ultimately defeats a film that's always a treat to look at." — Denver Post Posted Nov 8, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 74%
| 8 Mile (2002) | "
Making the city look grimy and lonely, dark and wasted but still alive with people who care, the film gets you rooting for the guys who want to make 'Mo' (short for Motown) a major player." — Denver Post Posted Nov 8, 2002 |
Fresh 4/4
| Fresh 92%
| Bloody Sunday (2002) | "
Bloody Sunday not only is a classic study in the way things can go devastatingly, violently wrong, but also a lesson in the importance of not letting that happen." — Denver Post Posted Nov 1, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Rotten 59%
| Siddhartha (1972) | "
Like Chappaqua, the movie doesn't live up to the legend." — Denver Post Posted Nov 1, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 15%
| I Spy (2002) | "
A casting disaster." — Denver Post Posted Nov 1, 2002 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 76%
| Comedian (2002) | "
Too bad Kramer couldn't make a guest appearance to liven things up." — Denver Post Posted Oct 25, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 96%
| Bowling for Columbine (2002) | "
At its best, which occurs often, Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine rekindles the muckraking, soul-searching spirit of the 'Are we a sick society?' journalism of the 1960s." — Denver Post Posted Oct 25, 2002 |
Rotten 2.5/4
| Fresh 79%
| Punch-Drunk Love (2002) | "
Everything about Punch-Drunk Love works in a Being John Malkovich sort of way save one. Sandler. When your star doesn't work, it's hard to get us to buy into the rest of a movie as unusual as this." — Denver Post Posted Oct 25, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 72%
| Auto Focus (2002) | "
Schrader, I think, has found an approach that suits the skewed cultural history of his material." — Denver Post Posted Oct 25, 2002 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 51%
| The Man from Elysian Fields (2002) | "
One wishes Elysian Fields gave us more." — Denver Post Posted Oct 18, 2002 |
Rotten 0/4
| Rotten 26%
| Formula 51 (2002) | "
Long before it's over, you'll be thinking of 51 ways to leave this loser." — Denver Post Posted Oct 18, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 71%
| The Ring (2002) | "
It's far better than most gimmicky horror films." — Denver Post Posted Oct 18, 2002 |
Fresh
| Fresh 77%
| Quitting (2002) | "
It further declares its director, Zhang Yang of Shower, as a boldly experimental, contemporary stylist with a bright future." — Denver Post Posted Oct 11, 2002 |
Rotten 2/4
| Rotten 20%
| Knockaround Guys (2002) | "
Tiresomely derivative and hammily acted." — Denver Post Posted Oct 11, 2002 |
Rotten 2/4
| Fresh 69%
| White Oleander (2002) | "
Too many of [Astrid's] experiences with adults ring false." — Denver Post Posted Oct 11, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Fresh 64%
| Moonlight Mile (2002) | "
Rewarding for what it attempts and often achieves." — Denver Post Posted Oct 4, 2002 |
Rotten 1/4
| Fresh 68%
| Red Dragon (2002) | "
Manages to be both repulsively sadistic and mundane." — Denver Post Posted Oct 4, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 78%
| 8 Women (2002) | "
The acting is such a delight, with each actress nailing her respective personality type with appropriate flair and finesse, that it breathes with life." — Denver Post Posted Oct 4, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 74%
| Secretary (2002) | "
It is truly original in its tone, its choices made and paths taken." — Denver Post Posted Sep 27, 2002 |
Fresh 2.5/4
| Fresh 63%
| Men With Brooms (2002) | "
It makes you believe the cast and crew thoroughly enjoyed themselves and believed in their small-budget film." — Denver Post Posted Sep 20, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 76%
| Igby Goes Down (2002) | "
This 'dark comedy' has an amazing amount of heart to go with its darkness." — Denver Post Posted Sep 20, 2002 |
Fresh 3/4
| Rotten 47%
| The Banger Sisters (2002) | "
A shrewdly observed, relatively subtle and gentle satire that exudes genuine empathy and understanding for all its varied characters." — Denver Post Posted Sep 20, 2002 |
Rotten 1.5/4
| Rotten 41%
| The Four Feathers (2002) | "
Weighted down with slow, uninvolving storytelling and flat acting." — Denver Post Posted Sep 20, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 82%
| One Hour Photo (2002) | "
A thought-provoking, artful accomplishment by writer/director Mark Romanek, who reveals a powerfully understated vision of the haunting loneliness behind the forced cheerfulness of the discount store." — Denver Post Posted Aug 30, 2002 |
Fresh 3.5/4
| Fresh 85%
| 24 Hour Party People (2002) | "
With enough verve and energy, if a not an absolute devotion to truth, to keep you dancing and thinking for days." — Denver Post Posted Aug 30, 2002 |
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