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 3/4 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"This is a movie about losing one's grip and like any addict's story, it's boring, ugly, sad, and terribly human. And surprisingly funny." |
Ty Burr |
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 2.5/4 |
A Tout de Suite (2005) |
"Crazy things certainly happen to Lili, but Le Besco drifts through most of the proceedings as though she were following a checklist: long face (done), three-way with lithe Athenians (yup), the occasional suggestion of zombietude (mission accomplished)." |
Wesley Morris |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"A posthumously completed step for Kubrick and a step forward for Spielberg." |
Jay Carr |
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2.5/4 |
A/K/A Tommy Chong (2005) |
"This isn't a great piece of nonfiction filmmaking, but it has its moments." |
Wesley Morris |
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1.5/4 |
Abandon (2002) |
"It can't make up its mind whether it's a serious drama, a swoony romance, or a psychological thriller." |
Ty Burr |
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1.5/4 |
The Abandoned (2007) |
"Perhaps the worst offense of The Abandoned, however, is that so little effort is made by the screenwriters to make any 'sense' of it all." |
Erin Meister |
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Aberdeen (2001) |
"An uncompromising family tale, one that's dark but lyrical and moving in its rendering of the ties that bind even the most dysfunctional families, despite valiant efforts to destroy them." |
Loren King |
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2.5/4 |
About a Boy (2002) |
"A timid, soggy near miss." |
Renee Graham |
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2.5/4 |
About Adam (2001) |
"Stembridge keeps things bustling along at a lively enough pace to deflect any introspective focus on the matchups that are never presented as relationships, only flings." |
Jay Carr |
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3/4 |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"A brutally dry satire of Middle American numbness." |
Ty Burr |
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2.5/4 |
Absolute Wilson (2006) |
"Absolute Wilson may not be original, but Wilson absolutely is." |
Louise Kennedy |
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2.5/4 |
Accepted (2006) |
"Low of brow and pure of heart, the movie plays like Animal House extra-lite, and as such it's decent indecent fun." |
Ty Burr |
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1.5/4 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"Contrary to what you may have heard, love isn't all you need." |
Ty Burr |
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2/4 |
Adam & Steve (2006) |
"For every shtick that works, there are two that don't. Adam & Steve is not the knee-slapper it wants to be, but it's endearing nonetheless." |
Bobby Hankinson |
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3/4 |
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
"Priceless." |
Wesley Morris |
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2.5/4 |
Adam's Apples (2007) |
"Jensen is an accomplished screenwriter with a knack for developing people amid comic nonsense." |
Wesley Morris |
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4/4 |
Adaptation (2002) |
"This is epic, funny, tragic, demanding, strange, original, boldly sincere filmmaking." |
Wesley Morris |
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The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland (1999) |
"The Jim Henson folks, who earlier this year gave us Muppets from Space, come up with another winner." |
Betsy Sherman |
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The Adventures of Felix (2001) |
"A thoroughly engaging road movie that's as affable and charming as its title character." |
Loren King |
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) |
"A film made with as little wit, interest, and professionalism as artistically possible for a slummy Hollywood caper flick." |
Wesley Morris |
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1/4 |
Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
"Sounds like a grand old time -- a hip fusion of Nickelodeon attitude, the wittier children's books, and retro kitsch culture. In fact, it's a nearly unwatchable combination of the worst elements of all three." |
Ty Burr |
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1/4 |
Aeon Flux (2005) |
"Thanksgiving is over, but those gluttons still hungry for turkey should enjoy picking at the carcass of Aeon Flux." |
Wesley Morris |
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The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
"The entire film seems a series of disjointed pieces, a screenful of iron filings waiting in vain for the magnet that will line them up in a unified field." |
Jay Carr |
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3/4 |
After Innocence (2005) |
"Sanders is more interested in specific human struggles than in larger political points, but she knows these men form a mosaic with a message that's unmistakable." |
Ty Burr |
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2.5/4 |
After Midnight (2004) |
"There's plenty here to delight cinephiles." |
Janice Page |
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3.5/4 |
After the Life (2002) |
"If you have committed to the entire project ... this chapter leaves you not only with a sense of completion but of an ascension to a hard-won grace." |
Ty Burr |
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1.5/4 |
After the Sunset (2004) |
"After the Sunset is content to take in the sights and ogle the ladies." |
Ty Burr |
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3/4 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"Life’s a mess, it says, but you can’t sweep up the dirt until you’ve taken a good, hard look at it." |
Ty Burr |
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2/4 |
Against the Ropes (2003) |
"Written by Cheryl Edwards, Kallen's story is pumped with artificial sweeteners, hokey inevitabilities, and denaturing oversimplifications." |
Wesley Morris |
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2/4 |
Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
"[Muniz] keeps Cody Banks watchable on energy alone but his scenes with the pallid, uncharismatic Duff are as dull as watching two actual pubescents meet at the mall." |
Ty Burr |
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2/4 |
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
"No matter how adorable you think Muniz is, it's becoming increasingly hard to buy him as a socially inept teenager/spy." |
Janice Page |
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2.5/4 |
Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World (2007) |
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3/4 |
The Agronomist (2004) |
"The film crackles with Dominique's voice and personality -- but not, unfortunately, his ideas." |
Ty Burr |
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3/4 |
Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) |
"The film stands quite chillingly as a final statement from a woman trying to fight her own commodification." |
Wesley Morris |
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2.5/4 |
Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
"The suggestion is that C-Diddy can be seen as a sort of ambassador for the 'make air, not war' sentiment. Why not? Even as real ambassadors go, we could do worse." |
Janice Page |
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3.5/4 |
AKA (2002) |
"The three-panel format gives the digitally shot picture enormous psycho-emotional layering." |
Wesley Morris |
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3.5/4 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"If Akeelah and the Bee is a generic, well-oiled commercial contraption, it is the first to credibly dramatize the plight of a truly gifted, poor black child." |
Wesley Morris |
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2.5/4 |
Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) |
"What this documentary lacks in intent, insight, and surprise it makes up for in thoroughness." |
Wesley Morris |
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2.5/4 |
The Alamo (2004) |
"A deeply compromised film, if not a broken one." |
Ty Burr |
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1.5/4 |
Alex and Emma (2003) |
"Alex and Emma is a film for people who haven't been to the movies since the silent era." |
Wesley Morris |
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2.5/4 |
Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) |
"Geoffrey Sax's filmmaking holds few surprises -- Whiz! Bang! Boom! Ha ha ha! -- but it's swift and competent." |
Wesley Morris |
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2.5/4 |
Alexander (2004) |
"Alexander is pulled in so many directions that both Farrell's performance and the character are stretched thin." |
Wesley Morris |
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3.5/4 |
Alexandra (2008) |
"Alexandra is a pleasure to watch, but it's also one of those lovely, unclassifiable movies that flourishes better with repeated or prolonged exposures." |
Wesley Morris |
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1/4 |
Alfie (2004) |
"It's a steep task to consider Alfie anything other than a Vanity Fair pictorial." |
Wesley Morris |
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Ali (2001) |
"Smith makes contact with enough of Ali's swagger, sweetness, wit, and pride to convince us that justice is being done to the boxing champion." |
Jay Carr |
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2.5/4 |
Alias Betty (2002) |
"A pleasant enough valentine to Rendell's The Tree of Hands, if a story that deals with child abuse and sexual obsession could be described in those terms." |
Ed Siegel |
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2.5/4 |
Alice Neel (2007) |
"For all the juicy storytelling, Alice Neel remains, in this film, a cipher: brash, grandmotherly, and beyond understanding." |
Cate McQuaid |
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3/4 |
Alice's House (2008) |
"Like a Brazilian telenovela unfolding in real time, the film fans its cards out slowly until we can see for ourselves the deck is stacked." |
Ty Burr |
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3.5/4 |
Alien (1979) |
"What's most unusual about the original 24 years later, though, is its elegant minimalism." |
Ty Burr |
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2/4 |
Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
"A movie based on a video game based on two entirely separate sci-fi horror series -- so whatever was interesting in the originals has long been bred out, like double-jointedness." |
Ty Burr |
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