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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       B+      The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)      "Recreating the unusual spirit of the photos is what the film does best..." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B      Friends With Money (2006)      "Holofcener has a gift for wonderfully oblivious and in-denial characters, and the subtly ridiculous situations that such characters get themselves into." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B      District B13 (2006)      "Besson's script may be formulaic crap, but he obviously still has an eye for fresh action talent, and an instinct for how to show it off." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       D      Fierce People (2007)      "Dunne weighs down a light social satire with a ponderous anthropological analogy." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       C-      Wah-Wah (2006)      "The sort of film that's obviously deeply meaningful to the filmmaker, but he fails to make it particularly meaningful to you." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       D      Manderlay (2006)      "The most self-important, heavy-handed film since...well, since DOGVILLE." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       D-      Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2006)      "A thin slice of a not-very-interesting nothing... The book they said was unfilmable turns out to be a film that is unwatchable." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B-      The Matador (2005)      "insubstantial, but fun" [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       A-      Match Point (2005)      "Thank goodness Allen has left New York and left himself out of the script." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       C-      The Ice Harvest (2005)      "Memo to John Cusack: There's a thin line between humorous unflappability in the face of strange events, and sleepwalking. " [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       C+      The World's Fastest Indian (2005)      "The *ahem* engines take far to long to rev up." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       C+      Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005)      "Just because the film starts taking itself seriously doesn't mean you have to." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B-      Ellie Parker (2005)      "While the material wears thin, every minute of this film is a tour-de-force performance." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B+      Brokeback Mountain (2005)      "An introspective film, but not, thankfully, an inert film. " [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       C+      Pride and Prejudice (2005)      "CliffsNotes version" [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B-      Proof (2005)      "A decent film that...remains married to its words and bound to its limited sets." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B+      Good Night. And, Good Luck (2005)      "Strathairn is riveting." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B-      The Constant Gardener (2005)      "Meirelles isn't interested in either character or suspense. He's interested in political issues and the scenery." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B-      Pretty Persuasion (2005)      "a dark teen comedy that tries way too hard to be a dark teen comedy" [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B+      Nine Lives (2005)      "Nine Lives does contains a few tedious acting-school-exercise moments. Yet the accumulated power of the vignettes packs a wallop." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       C+      Grizzly Man (2005)      "Herzog comes across as the worst kind of cinematic jackass—the filmmaker who doesn't trust his own work to speak for itself." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B+      Cronicas (2005)      "a gritty story about a reporter who gets carried away by his ego while he believes he is pursuing the greater good" [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B      The Devil's Rejects (2005)      "In the genre of low-budget hillbilly slasher movies, it's a masterpiece." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B-      Happy Endings (2005)      "Worthwhile for the three leads (Kudrow, Gyllenhaal, and Coogan) and for Roos's unique perspectives as a storyteller, close captioned for cognitively impaired." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B-      Pure (2005)      "PURE offers a fascinating contrast between acting talent (Molly Parker) and star quality (Kiera Knightley)." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       A-      My Summer of Love (2005)      "Despite the predictable collision course between Tasmin and Phil, this is a remarkable film." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       C+      Heights (2005)      "While Glen Close dominates the screen with effortless assurance, Elizabeth Banks lacks personality and would probably dissipate in a strong ocean breeze." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B      Unleashed (2005)      "Morgan Freeman can always peer into people's souls without needing to ask too many questions." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       C      Rock School (2005)      "Director Don Argott works with muddy, low-quality digital video, not compellingly edited, and doesn't dig as deep as he should." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       D      The Holy Girl (2005)      "Martel is determined to make an impressionistic film out of miniscule moments, fragmented sounds, and fleeting images—so miniscule, fragmented, and fleeting they never cohere." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       C-      Beowulf (1999)      "In an effort to give you, dear reader, insight into the source material from which the screenwriters reverently drew, we offer the following translation of key passages..." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B-      It's All Gone Pete Tong (2005)      "An initially hilarious mockumentary whose sense of humor goes deaf as it wears on. " [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       D+      A Wake in Providence (2005)      "A film for those people who think My Big Fat Greek Wedding is the greatest comedy of the past ten years" [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B      The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)      "Jack's realizations, particularly vis-ŕ-vis his daughter, offer rich dramatic possibilities." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       D      The Point Men (2001)      "The sort of movie you get drawn into if you're bored out of your mind in a hotel room." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       D-      North Star (1996)      "A crude straight-to-video production of a crude straight-to-video story." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B+      Layer Cake (2005)      "The [crap] may be out of control, but director Matthew Vaughn is firmly in it." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       A      Downfall (2005)      "You feel privy to mysterious secrets and a monumental unraveling... It's impossible to look away." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B-      Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)      "delivers the action movie goods [thanks to] adroit pacing...[and] a cast of extremely capable actors." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       C+      In Good Company (2004)      "Flabby." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B      Million Dollar Baby (2004)      "Though Million Dollar Baby weighs in as another solid entry on Eastwood's resume, Paul Haggis's script stages a fixed fight." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B+      Two Brothers (2004)      "I defy any animal lover not to tear up with Kumal and Sangha reunite, even if it is a little faux." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       D+      Subway (1985)      "A relic of the ‘80s best forgotten." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B      Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior (2005)      "Who needs a budget when you can do what Tony Jaa can do?" [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       A-      The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004)      "Few things are as exciting as watching a great actor successfully turn off the star wattage and don the skin of an utterly weak, insignificant person." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       A      The Aviator (2004)      "THE AVIATOR is almost impossibly fertile and rich, but always Scorsese marshals his resources to get inside Hughes' head." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       B      Nathalie (2003)      "The film's considerable eroticism is all in the atmosphere and the dialogue." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       C      Beyond the Sea (2004)      "The film winds up being more a celebration of Spacey than Darin." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       D+      Fabled      "The recurring fairy-tale narrative device might fool viewers into thinking FABLED has more of a story than is actually there." [movie review]      AboutFilm.com       A-      Hotel Rwanda (2004)      "This is an important film to see, but its “importance” does not alone make it good. It only makes a powerful film even more worthy of your time. " [movie review]      AboutFilm.com

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