Tomato 3/4 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"A Scanner Darkly doesn't quite live up to the promise of its opening sequence, but it's still an audacious offering during a season of brain-dead blockbusters." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 2/4 |
A Tout de Suite (2005) |
"French director Benoit Jacquot is fascinated by American crime drama, but pays homage to the form by removing most of the drama and nearly all the crime." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"The combination of genres -- science fiction with fairy tale -- often triumphs but sometimes misfires." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
A/K/A Tommy Chong (2005) |
"How the feds inadver tently resurrected the performing career of stoner comic Tommy Chong by busting him is the ironic subtext of Josh Gilbert's one-sided documentary a/k/a Tommy Chong." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Abandon (2002) |
"Gaghan ... has thrown every suspenseful cliché in the book at this nonsensical story." |
Megan Turner |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
ABCD (2001) |
"Compassionate, funny and honest." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2007) |
"Abduction uses interviews, vintage photos and re-creations to tell the sad story of love and hope in riveting, suspenseful style. So powerful is this film, it brought tears to my eyes." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Aberdeen (2001) |
"Intelligent, moving and often beautifully photographed." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 2/4 |
Abouna (2004) |
"Suffers from largely rudderless direction, relying for any sense of profundity on the breathtaking beauty of Abraham Haile Biru's cinematography." |
Megan Lehmann |
Tomato 3/4 |
About a Boy (2002) |
"Hilarious, acidic Brit comedy." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato |
About Adam (2001) |
"A moderately beguiling date movie." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
About Baghdad (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"A must-see for Nicholson's mesmerizing performance, which would probably hold interest even if the sound were turned off." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat .5/4 |
Accepted (2006) |
"A campus comedy that's as dull as bong water, Accepted is like the product of a community college filmmaking class, remedial division." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"An interesting failure, not a fascinating one." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Acts of Worship (2001) |
"Rosemary Rodriguez makes a worthy debut with this troubling tale of a young druggie struggling to survive on the streets of the East Village." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Adam & Steve (2006) |
"Often charming and funny, though sometimes quite gross." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Adam Resurrected (2008) |
"A semi-unbearable attempt at profundity set in a mental institution 15 years after WWII." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
"There are a handful of genuinely comical moments in Eight Crazy Nights, but the whole thing reeks of a super-indulgent, cobbled-together vanity trip by a star whose ego obviously leads him to believe he can put anything on screen." |
Megan Turner |
Splat 1/4 |
Adam's Apples (2007) |
"I'm sure there's a decent black comedy in the material, but Adam's Apples, by Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen, isn't it." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Adanggaman (2001) |
"Uneven but undeniably powerful." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Adaptation (2002) |
"Features what is surely the funniest and most accurate depiction of writer's block ever." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Adoration (2009) |
"Adoration, which hinges on a number of coincidences, contains some really fine performances, including a surprising one from Canadian utility player Scott Speedman as the student's rough-hewn uncle and guardian." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1/4 |
Adored - Diary of a Porn Star (2004) |
"Not only is Adored amateurish and mawkish even by the standards of American 'gaysploitation' cinema, it's weirdly shy about showing nudity and sex." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 2/4 |
Adrift in Manhattan (2007) |
"...overall, his [Alfredo De Villa's] latest flick is dramatically tepid." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Adventureland (2009) |
"Adventureland isn't as clever as Kicking, and not nearly as hilarious as Superbad, but it's still a sweet little memory ache, a Proustian cookie co-flavored with semiotics and Whitesnake." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland (1999) |
"The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland won't tickle anyone much above the age of 6." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat |
The Adventures of Felix (2001) |
"On the dull side overall." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 0/4 |
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) |
"So unremittingly awful that labeling it a dog probably constitutes cruelty to canines." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato |
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) |
"The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle is no Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but it has it own goofy charms." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
"You can't get this kind of full-on sensory-jolt anywhere else, not legally anyway." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 0/4 |
Aeon Flux (2005) |
"Aeon Flux is by far the year's worst movie, a most dubious achievement." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 0/4 |
The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
"Hokey, embarrassing costumer." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Afghan Star (2009) |
"British filmmaker Havana Marking's entertaining first feature documentary." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Afghan Stories (2002) |
"An informative work that puts a human face on the calamity in Afghanistan." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Afraid of Everything (2004) |
"Shot for practically nothing by first-time director David Barker, it delivers more bang for its minimal bucks than many a Hollywood blockbuster does for its multimillions." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 2.5/4 |
After Innocence (2005) |
"The film cuts away from such personal stories too quickly, eager to sell us on airy, unjustified claims." |
Kyle Smith |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
After Midnight (2004) |
"Charming if slight." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
After the Apocalypse (2004) |
Click here to see the review. |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
After the Life (2002) |
"The fine performances by Blanc and Melki give Belvaux' whole clever undertaking some needed weight." |
Jonathan Foreman |
Splat 2/4 |
After the Sunset (2004) |
"A slick if hyper-predictable comic caper." |
Lou Lumenick |
Tomato 3/4 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"[Director] Bier has lots [of] surprises up her sleeve to keep After the Wedding humming for two solid hours." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Against the Ropes (2003) |
"This lethargic, pseudo-feminist biopic is barely a notch above a bad TV movie, with one-dimensional characters, cliché-ridden dialogue and fight scenes that are badly choreographed and edited." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 0.5/4 |
Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
"Illogical, thrown-together claptrap." |
Megan Lehmann |
Splat 0/4 |
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
"Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London should have been stopped at customs -- as family entertainment, it constitutes child abuse." |
Lou Lumenick |
Splat 1.5/4 |
The Aggressives (2005) |
"It's just a loose collection of interviews about its subjects' feelings and back stories." |
Kyle Smith |
Splat 2/4 |
Agnes and His Brothers (2006) |
"About halfway through, however, the story takes on more than it can handle, turning contrived and unbelievable in the process." |
V.A. Musetto |
Tomato 3/4 |
Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World (2007) |
"Well-made." |
V.A. Musetto |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Agni Varsha: The Fire and the Rain (2002) |
"Too simply plotted and, even at two hours -- Bombay exports can often run to four -- the story drags." |
Megan Turner |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Agronomist (2004) |
"Uses archival footage and music to tell a moving story that's all too common in the Third World." |
Lou Lumenick |