Tomato |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"Ponders the inherent doom of Slacker transgressors" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) |
"Well-constructed and satisfyingly low" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Ace in the Hole (1951) |
"A prophetic scald" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"A baby-boomer masturbatory center" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Act of Violence (1948) |
"Fred Zinnemann's best movie" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
An Actor's Revenge (1963) |
"There's a visual slash every minute" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Observant, soulful, often achingly attuned to clashing emotions" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Alexandra (2008) |
"Eccentric and tender, it is a picture out for grace rather than polemics, and it finds enough to make one see emotional intimacy anew" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Alexandria... Why? (1978) |
"Chahine's Alexandria is as fervidly distinctive as Fellini's Rome" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Alice, Sweet Alice (1977) |
"Every composition is more ornate than at first expected" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"Static and dreary, drained of juice and drenched in "respectable" lighting" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Allegro Non Troppo (1979) |
"Bozzetto's satire serves both Darwin and Genesis." |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
Amelia (2009) |
"Smotheringly conventional" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"The pieces are all in place for a slashing Preston Sturges jamboree. All that's missing are balls" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
American Gangster (2007) |
"Flattened by Scott's cardboard evocation of New York in the '70s, Zaillian's shallow criticism of corrupting power, and weirdly bloodless performances" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
The American Soldier (1970) |
"The phantoms of Old Germany are everywhere" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
The Amityville Horror (1979) |
"An astonishing number of fumbled frissons" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
An Education (2009) |
"The old "stay in school" adage has rarely been trotted out to such cop-out effect" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
And Then There Were None (1945) |
"A tightly self-winding contraption" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Android (1982) |
"Erudite, low-tech sci-fi" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
The Andromeda Strain (1971) |
"Disquieting" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Angel-A (2007) |
"A better grubby guy/hot chick fable than Knocked Up, certainly much more honest about its male-fantasy status" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
Angels & Demons (2009) |
"Glum adaptation" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Annie Oakley (1935) |
"George Stevens amply appreciates the showbiz synergy of performers and audiences in the carnival arena" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Antichrist (2009) |
"A hoot" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Apocalypto (2006) |
"Nothing if not visceral" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Art School Confidential (2006) |
"Messy, squalidly funny" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Arthur and the Invisibles (2007) |
"A candy-colored fusion of Dahl, Dr. Seuss and the director's own mischeviousness" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Artists and Models (1955) |
"Nothing beats Jerry's face on TV, simultaneously the poster boy for pop culture and a warning sign of its fallout" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
As Tears Go By (1988) |
"The pinwheeling, phosphorescent spirit is undiluted Wong Kar-wai" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
Ask the Dust (2005) |
"Airless, joyless" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"Cinematic aerophagia" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
The Astronaut Farmer (2007) |
"Self-fondling Americana" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1963) |
"The birth of Brazilian horror as a direct act of blasphemy" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
At the Circus (1939) |
"Beguiling" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Atom Age Vampire (1960) |
"Wretched dubbing and chainsaw edits can't dim Anton Giulio Majano's assorted cinematic aperçus" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
Atonement (2007) |
"Figurines in a teacup set, shipped over in boxes labeled 'For your consideration'" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
Australia (2008) |
"Luhrmann just piles quotation mark on top of quotation mark" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Autumn Leaves (1956) |
"Irresistible and perverse" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
The Avenging Conscience (1914) |
"One of Griffith's most experimental films" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Awakening of the Beast (1969) |
"An Artaudian cyclone, replete with genius" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Tomato |
Away From Her (2007) |
"Too content with its own "maturity" and "restraint," yet it invaluably offers Christie for audiences in delicate contemplation, and chaste consummation" |
Fernando F. Croce |
Splat |
Away We Go (2009) |
"Away you go" |
Fernando F. Croce |