Tomato |
About Schmidt (2002) |
"About middle-aged angst; about an American malaise; about an American original; about Shmidt" |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato 4/5 |
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat 2/5 |
Anna and the King of Siam (1946) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat 1/5 |
Beaches (1988) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat 1/5 |
Blind Fury (1990) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
"Capturing the Friedmans captures a time when greed was good, mullets were cool, and hysteria was everywhere." |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato 3/5 |
Carrie (1976) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"The modern master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to end all chases" |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Chicago (2002) |
"Chicago glorifies murder, glamorizes sex & death -- in other words it is just right for today's unsunny times." |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat 1/5 |
Dances with Wolves (1990) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat |
Down With Love (2003) |
"A not-so-innocent romp that is part Mills & Boon and part Hustler." |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat |
The Eye (2003) |
"Oh yeah, I was scared -- scared that I'd wake up before the credits rolled." |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat |
Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003) |
"Born liar or windbag? Either way, Fellini clearly likes telling women to spread their legs. Wider." |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat |
Final Destination 2 (2003) |
"The most well-rounded character in this movie is Death himself." |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"A clown fish without a punchline, a blue tang without a memory, a scarred prison hero fish, and a stoner dude sea turtle make for this summer's tallest fish tale." |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Frida (2002) |
"The canonization of St Frida informs and diminishes the movie." |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
The Good Girl (2002) |
"An unlikely black comedy where the humor is relentless, the satire is grim and the jokes are born out of inertia." |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
The Hours (2002) |
"Where suicide is a heroic act rather than a permanent solution to a temporary problem" |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
How to Draw A Bunny (2002) |
"How do you make a movie about the most famous unknown artist in the world?" |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat |
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) |
"How to lose an audience in 10 ways" |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat 2/5 |
Hud (1963) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat 0/5 |
I Love Lucy - Season 1: Vol. 1 (2002) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Igby Goes Down (2002) |
"Salinger meets the heroine chick with the heroin chic" |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
In Praise of Love (2001) |
"Waiting for Godard can be fruitful: 'In Praise of Love' is the director's epitaph for himself." |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Invincible (2002) |
"The invincible Werner Herzog is alive and well and living in LA" |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Lilya 4-Ever (2003) |
"Repeatedly hammers home the message that this is a vile world filled with vile men and women; and that children are the main victims of their perpetual evil." |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat 1/5 |
Living Out Loud (1998) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat 1/5 |
The Magnificent Seven (1960) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat |
Masked and Anonymous (2003) |
"Even a stone Dylan fan -- and I've been one since my early teens; I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now -- would find it difficult to sit through this moldy exercise in evasion and bloat." |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato 5/5 |
Minority Report (2002) |
"Spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry." |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat 1/5 |
Oh, God! (1977) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat 2/5 |
Paper Moon (1973) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
The Pianist (2002) |
"Roman Polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'Shindler's List' - it is more than merely a Holocaust movie." |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Possession (2002) |
"Throwing it all away for the fleeting joys of love's brief moment." |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat 2/5 |
S1m0ne (2002) |
"Simone tells us about the sweet opium of movies and how much we crave it." |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Secretary (2002) |
"I have seen the future and her name is Maggie Gyllenhaal." |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat |
The Shape of Things (2003) |
"Little more than a clever undergrad thesis gone awfully wrong, it turns on the less than shocking proposition that women are as unlikable as men." |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat |
Signs (2002) |
"Shyamalan should stop trying to please his mom." |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Solaris (2002) |
"If Steven Soderbergh's 'Solaris' is a failure it is a glorious failure." |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato 3/5 |
Soylent Green (1973) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Spider (2003) |
"Spider owes everything to its two British stars, Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Richardson, whose sexually charged ballet is its centre, as is the question: Mother or whore?" |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato 3/5 |
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Spun (2003) |
"A white-knuckle ride to the edge of town, I liked it in a sick and twisted sort of way." |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
The Stone Reader (2003) |
"Stone Reader is the story of a Quixotian quest by a man who is more than an ideal reader. Mark Moskowitz is the sort of reader writers live for." |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Sunshine State (2002) |
"Edie Falco sparkles as a mermaid on dry land" |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato |
Talk to Her (2002) |
"Call him twisted. Call him sick. But call Pedro Almodovar a master. And call 'Talk To her' a masterpiece." |
Jeet Thayil |
Tomato 3/5 |
The War Room (1992) |
No article available. |
Jeet Thayil |
Splat |
XX/XY (2003) |
"An empty passion play with the sort of druggy glamour you would expect from a movie about growing up privileged and stoned in NYC." |
Jeet Thayil |
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