Splat 2.5/4 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"An impressive work of art, A Scanner Darkly, but you might need drugs to sit through it." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
A Tout de Suite (2005) |
"A Tout de Suite is less of a lovers-on-the-lam movie than a study of a passive young woman willing to do anything to be with the man she sees as her savior." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"Fascinating, frustrating, absorbing and exhilarating, A.I. is one for the ages, a transcendent movie that achieves the level of art." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Abandon (2002) |
"Just another disjointed, fairly predictable psychological thriller." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
ABCD (2001) |
"It's easy to see why ABCD has been a favorite on the film festival circuit for more than a year. Check it out while you can." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
About a Boy (2002) |
"A long way from American Pie, this. Yet the American Weitzes prove to have been inspired choices for this specifically British yet very universal comedy." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
About Adam (2001) |
"If writer-director Gerard Stembridge had been a little less concerned with making Adam so darned lovable and actually given the character some occasional shadings of darkness, the movie would be more palatable." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"Kathy Bates hijacks the whole film as Roberta Hertzel." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
Accepted (2006) |
"The point is, should the writers of Accepted, writers whose main credits encompass Country Bears, Herbie: Fully Loaded and an Olsen twins movie, be making light of anyone's career trajectory?" |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"There's brilliance in there, that's undeniable -- and if you're in the right mood, that will be all you need." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
"Don't waste your money on a movie ticket. Buy the soundtrack album instead." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adam's Apples (2007) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Tomato 3/4 |
Adaptation (2002) |
"Movies this ingenious are to be treasured, and spending a couple of hours inside Charlie Kaufman's brain will reward anyone who has the faintest passion for film." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
"Rodriguez World is a unique cinematic space that only truly inspired children, and child-men, could bring to life." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
"Feels like it's been Clintonized in order to achieve some degree of non-Gallic interest." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
After Freedom (2004) |
"Despite some solid performances (and partly because of a few lousy ones), the film is sabotaged by clunky dialogue and sequences that go on too long, often to nowhere." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
After Innocence (2005) |
"While the film is rich in fascinating, factual information, the most remarkable aspect of After Innocence is its unfailing humanity." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2/4 |
After the Sunset (2004) |
"Plays as if a goodly number of [umbrella drinks] were consumed throughout production." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"The filmmakers pile on a heap of life's complications but for all the recriminations, the movie remains involving because of its convincing compassion for its characters." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Against the Ropes (2003) |
"What either of the main characters think, or feel, about anything not directly related to their career ambitions remains wholly unexplored." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
"While lacking the zip and imagination of Robert Rodriguez's Spy Kids movies, Cody Banks is an amiable enough mixture of James Bond-lite adventure and chaste teenage romance." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 1/4 |
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
"They are evil and they must be stopped. They being studio production executives who gleefully greenlight a sequel to an OK kid-targeted adventure movie just because they are blinded by flashing dollar signs." |
Valerie Kuklenski |
Tomato 3/4 |
The Agronomist (2004) |
"A powerful look at two tragedies -- the death of a courageous and inspirational man and the unfortunate land that he loved." |
Rob Lowman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) |
"Except for the sermonizing, altogether a deeper, more interesting movie than Monster." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
"The Finns take the whole thing pretty seriously, noting that if you hold an air guitar, it's impossible to simultaneously hold a gun or rifle. (I'm sure some hombre in a Peckinpah movie would be able to pull it off.)" |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3/4 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"You expect nothing but emotional truth from Fishburne and Bassett, but it's young Palmer who wins your heart with a performance that's completely free of guile and affectation." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
The Alamo (2004) |
"Having undergone a long and presumably tortuous editing process, the new Alamo, in the end, feels thinned out." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Alex and Emma (2003) |
"One of the most boring romantic comedies ever made." |
Glenn Whipp |
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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) |
Click here to see the review. |
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Splat 1.5/4 |
Alexander (2004) |
"An absolute mess." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato |
Alexandra (2008) |
"There's not a shot fired in the film, but it pierces the heart nonetheless." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2.5/4 |
Alfie (2004) |
"As pointless as it is stylish, Charles Shyer's breezy, restrained remake of the 1966 Michael Caine hit begs not the question 'What's it all about?' but rather 'Why bother in the first place?'" |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato |
Ali (2001) |
"The fragments of Ali's life that the movie does provide manage to give us a tantalizing look at a man whose life seemingly defies summation." |
Glenn Whipp |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
Alias Betty (2002) |
"It's possible that you may never think about parenting in the same way after seeing Alias Betty." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alice's House (2007) |
"Free of the usual social pathology, intimate dysfunction proves more than capable of holding our interest, as it would anywhere." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 2.5/4 |
All About the Benjamins (2002) |
"It keeps your attention mildly engaged. But just that." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
All or Nothing (2002) |
"The movie's greatest achievement (apart from the haunting turns from Spall and Manville) is that all this unrelenting bleakness actually goes somewhere." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"There's not enough to look at here, and even less to get emotionally or intellectually invested in." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
All the Pretty Horses (2000) |
"It can't overcome the fact that Thornton never found a way to turn literary style into a compelling cinematic vision." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat 2/4 |
All the Queen's Men (2002) |
"Fails to satisfactorily exploit its gender politics, genre thrills or inherent humor." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3.5/4 |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"A love story for dorks, and I mean that in the best possible way." |
Glenn Whipp |
Splat |
Allah Made Me Funny (2008) |
"Allah may have made these men funny, but he didn't bestow much in the way of filmmaking skills." |
Evan Henerson |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Alone in the Dark (2005) |
"Some concepts are meant to stay in the gaming console." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat |
Along Came a Spider (2001) |
"Artful restraint in presentation can't counterbalance the lunacy of Along Came a Spider's content." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 1.5/4 |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"Takes the oldest romantic comedy notion that there is -- opposites attract -- and does absolutely nothing new or even clever with it." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 3/4 |
Alpha Dog (2007) |
"Whatever he observed in those true-life figures these roles are based on, [writer/director Nick] Cassavetes sure knew how to apply it to one nasty but exhilarating work of art." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 2.5/4 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"Could've been a lot worse; it's a singing chipmunk movie, for Pete's sake." |
Bob Strauss |
Tomato 4/4 |
Amadeus (1984) |
"Even a longer Amadeus feels and looks just right." |
Rob Lowman |
Tomato 3/4 |
Amandla: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (2003) |
"Amandla!s' most enduring achievement is its collection of so many of the freedom songs sung by the oppressed ... in one stirring document." |
Bob Strauss |
Splat 1/4 |
The Amateurs (2007) |
"The Amateurs has been shelved for a number of years because -- just a ballpark guess here -- it's not funny." |
Bob Strauss |
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