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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       A      Maborosi (1995)      "[Hirokazu's] also one of the most empathetic filmmakers, softly guiding viewers through his meditations on life and death." [movie review]      TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)       C      Mad Hot Ballroom (2005)      "The kids are cute and the intentions are good, but ultimately [the film] plays like a teacher's presentation to the school board about the importance of arts education." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       D-      Madea's Family Reunion (2006)      "If Tyler Perry worked in construction, he'd use a sledgehammer when a tack hammer would get the job done. At least that's the impression given by his didactic film." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       F      The Man (2005)      "The Man is a stale mismatched buddy comedy in which not a single interesting thing happens." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       5/5      The Man in the Moon (1992)      "Mulligan uses a delicate touch in revealing the confusion in growing up and the loss in discovering that the world isn't as simple or perfect as children believe it to be." [movie review]      TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio)       C-      Man of the House (2005)      "Man of the House is an amiable trifle that might be a guilty pleasure if it were better. " [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       C+      Margot at the Wedding (2007)      "After choking on laughs for a period, the question becomes whether Baumbach has anything to deliver beyond his misanthropic floggings." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       B+      Maria Full of Grace (2004)      "Maria Full of Grace provides an authentic and compelling view of a drug mule’s experience." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       C      Marie Antoinette (2006)      "The fashion-conscious Marie Antoinette looks great. Imagine what this attractive but empty shell of a movie might have been with something inside it." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       B      Marley & Me (2008)      "The deft touch with which it addresses spouses' and parents' professional and personal trade-offs proves this to be a more substantial and poignant picture than expected." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       A      Match Point (2005)      "Match Point is not a declaration of the value of firm belief--it denounces theodicy, after all--but a caution against the outright rejection of it." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       A-      Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)      "If Todd Solondz were a humanist, he might make something like performance artist Miranda July's winning debut feature film." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       C+      Meet the Fockers (2004)      "Mildly amusing...but joke repetition and a greater emphasis on outrageousness and vulgarity release a strong scent of the writers’ desperation." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       B-      Meet the Robinsons (2007)      "The mantra in Meet the Robinsons is 'keep moving forward', but it's in going back to traditional narrative and filmmaking values that helps set this animated romp apart from many of its contemporaries." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       F      Meet the Spartans (2008)      "At the risk of praising with faint damning, Meet the Spartans isn't the worst film I've ever seen; however, I'm not suggesting that this feature-length parody of 300 is good in any way." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       B      Melinda and Melinda (2005)      "The film feels like a summary work, as if [Allen] is reevaluating his career twenty-five years after exploring similar territory in Stardust Memories." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       C-      Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)      "Like the dolled-up women, the film is pleasing to the eyes and inscrutable. The mystery, though, is tedious rather than captivating." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       D      The Messengers (2007)      "The film's problems boil down to story. The Messengers has none, or nothing beyond the sketch of an idea: family with troubled past moves into spooky new home." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       A      Million Dollar Baby (2004)      "Million Dollar Baby is an exceptional boxing movie, but Paul Haggis’ screenplay...amounts to something greater than the familiar underdog sports tale." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       A-      Millions (2005)      "Boyle demonstrates that a family film with a moral message mustn’t necessarily be a musty affair." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       D+      Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005)      "For the sequel Bullock’s as likeable as ever, but she can only do so much when working from a mundane script that relies heavily on repeating gags from its predecessor." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       B-      Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)      "Shot in widescreen, all the better to appreciate the swanky art deco sets, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day can feel static...but the wonderful lead actresses provide the momentum that the composition and editing fail to provide." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       B-      Mission: Impossible III (2006)      "With Mission: Impossible III [Abrams] has essentially designed the most expensive episode of Alias ever made." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       C-      Monster-in-Law (2005)      "The nastier comedy that Monster-in-Law demands is a bad fit for [Luketic]." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       B      Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)      "More attention is lavished on the fight and chase scenes than the relatively superficial message, but you don’t go to a big budget summer movie in search of Ingmar Bergman." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       C-      Mr. Brooks (2007)      "Where the character cannot maintain well-adjusted behavior over sociopathic indulgences, the film fails to strike a balance between the serious and outlandish." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       D+      Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)      "Broken into storybook-like chapters...the film implies that it possesses literary roots; however, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium comes across as a quickie knockoff attempting to capitalize on a more popular title's success." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       B-      Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)      "Naked ladies may be the enticement, but the main attraction of Mrs. Henderson Presents is Dench and Hoskins squabbling like the old married couple that they aren't." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       A+      Murderball (2005)      "While it’s an effective sports film...the players and their enormous spirits take precedence over the outcome of the games." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       A      Music and Lyrics (2007)      "Like a catchy pop song you can't stop humming, the sublime romantic melody of Music and Lyrics puts a smile on your face and love in your heart." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       B-      Must Love Dogs (2005)      "For better and worse, the pieces comprising Must Love Dogs are borrowed from every other romantic comedy." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       B      Must Read After My Death (2009)      "The obvious but effective tactic of contrasting words and visuals scrapes off the veneer of domestic bliss that people put on for the world and which gets pasted in scrapbooks and hung on walls." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       C+      My Sister's Keeper (2009)      "My Sister's Keeper might have earned its weepy moments if it had played fair with its central dilemma rather than putting forward a false choice." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema       B      My Summer of Love (2005)      "Coupled with...picturesque cinematography, Press and Blunt's natural performances communicate a palpable sense of the summer's heat and the hazy days of adolescence and ardor." [movie review]      Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema

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