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	472 Reviews by A. O. Scott 472 Reviews by A. O. Scott of New York Times Movie: Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The Release date: 5/16/2008 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/0) So Prince Caspian is quite a bit darker than The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, both i... 13 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bee Movie Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/0) The real fun is the insect shtick. 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/0) Leaves behind a surprising afterglow and allows you to appreciate Joe Strummer’s warmth. 28 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dan in Real Life Release date: 10/26/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/0) ...neither wildly farcical nor mockingly cruel, but rather, for the most part, winningly gentle a... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rendition Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/0) ...a well-meaning, honorable movie. Which is not to say that it is a very good one. 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/0) ...curiously exhilarating. 15 other reviews of this movie Movie: We Own the Night Release date: 10/12/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/0) ...a bloody, passionate melodrama... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Kid Could Paint That Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/0) He (director Amir Bar-Lev) has made an excellent documentary, but it would have been better if he... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Heartbreak Kid, The Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/0) If you haven't seen the 1972 version of The Heartbreak Kid, you're missing a minor classic. I... 119 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Darjeeling Limited Release date: 9/29/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/0) ...celebrates a sensibility at once cliquish and inclusive. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kingdom, The Release date: 9/28/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/0) ...a slick, brutishly effective genre movie... 107 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good Luck Chuck Release date: 9/21/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/0) ...even lowbrow comedy requires skill and intelligence. 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Into the Wild Release date: 9/21/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/0) ...the filmÂ¿s imperfection, like its grandeur, arises from a passionate, generous impulse that i... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Brave One Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The Brave One, though well cast and smoothly directed, is just as crude and ugly as you want it t... 143 other reviews of this movie Movie: The Brave One Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The Brave One, though well cast and smoothly directed, is just as crude and ugly as you want ... 143 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Valley of Elah Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Underneath its deceptively quiet surface is a raw, angry, earnest attempt to grasp the moral cons... 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: In the Valley of Elah Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Underneath the deceptively quiet surface of In the Valley of Elah is a raw, angry, earnest attemp... 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eastern Promises Release date: 9/14/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...an intriguing, not always stable mixture of moods and attitudes. 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: 3:10 to Yuma Release date: 9/7/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...a serviceable addition to the current western revival. 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shoot 'Em Up Release date: 9/7/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...a worthless piece of garbage... 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: 3:10 to Yuma Release date: 9/7/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/0) Russell Crowe and Christian Bale are the main reasons to see 3:10 to Yuma, a serviceable addition... 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Balls of Fury Release date: 8/29/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...terrible... 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cantante, El Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Whenever Marc Anthony takes the stage as Hector Lavoe in El Cantante, he unleashes his charisma a... 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hot Rod Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Hot Rod might be called the poor man’s Eagle vs. Shark. Poor certainly describes the quality of t... 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hot Rod Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...poor certainly describes the quality of the filmmaking. 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cantante, El Release date: 8/3/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) It may be best to approach El Cantante less as a movie than as a two-hour promotional video f... 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Simpsons Movie, The Release date: 7/27/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...full of the anarchic, generous, good-natured humor that is the show's enduring signature. 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Simpsons Movie, The Release date: 7/27/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The Simpsons Movie is full of the anarchic, generous, good-natured humor that is the show's endur... 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Moliere Release date: 7/27/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, better known as Molière, wrote more than 30 plays, every one of them... 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: No End in Sight Release date: 7/27/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...exacting, enraging... 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Best Friend Release date: 7/13/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...a sweet comic fable... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Best Friend Release date: 7/13/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) My Best Friend is a sweet, sentimental tale of a kind that would be insufferably maudlin if made ... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Talk to Me Release date: 7/13/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...offers uplift without phoniness, history without undue didacticism and a fair number of funny,... 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Release date: 7/11/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...a sleek, swift and exciting adaptation... 179 other reviews of this movie Movie: Introducing the Dwights Release date: 7/4/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...a funny-sad, icky-sweet comedy of family dysfunction... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Introducing the Dwights Release date: 7/4/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) A funny-sad, icky-sweet comedy of family dysfunction. 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: License to Wed Release date: 7/3/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) It is only the latest attempt by a Hollywood studio to pander to prurience and piety in a single ... 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: License to Wed Release date: 7/3/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) If the beloved with whom you see License to Wed can't stop talking about how great it was, yo... 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ratatouille Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Displaying the usual meticulousness associated with the Pixar brand, Ratatouille is a nearly flaw... 152 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ratatouille Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...a nearly flawless piece of popular art, as well as one of the most persuasive portraits of an ... 152 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sicko Release date: 6/29/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Michael Moore has never before made a film that stated his bedrock ideological principles as clea... 150 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ghosts of Cite Soleil Release date: 6/27/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (4/3) Asger Leth's Ghosts of Cité Soleil offers a tour of a notorious, hellish slum in Port-au-Prince, ... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Evan Almighty Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Evan Almighty in which Steve Carell is commanded by God (Morgan Freeman) to build an ark, is a mo... 142 other reviews of this movie Movie: Black Sheep Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...odd, amusing film. 68 other reviews of this movie Movie: Black Sheep Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Black Sheep is essentially a silly, grisly elaboration of a simple idea: What if sheep started fe... 68 other reviews of this movie Movie: Evan Almighty Release date: 6/22/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...a movie far less interesting than its premise. 142 other reviews of this movie Movie: Eagle vs. Shark Release date: 6/15/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...a small, intermittently charming, sometimes tiresome celebration of quirkiness... 9 other reviews of this movie Movie: Nancy Drew Release date: 6/15/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...(sacrifices) the sturdy mechanics of a decent thriller in order to pursue tired jokes and seco... 104 other reviews of this movie Movie: 12:08 East of Bucharest Release date: 6/6/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Though it is modest, almost anecdotal, in scale, 12:08 East of Bucharest is also characterized by... 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: Knocked Up Release date: 6/1/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) It may be a bit, um, premature to say so, but Judd Apatow's Knocked Up strikes me as an instant c... 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Knocked Up Release date: 6/1/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...an instant classic, a comedy that captures the sexual confusion and moral ambivalence of our m... 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Golden Door Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...(a) beautiful dream of a film... 65 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shrek the Third Release date: 5/18/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...more energetic and more relaxed (than Shrek 2)... 149 other reviews of this movie Movie: Once Release date: 5/16/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The formula is simple: two people, a few instruments, 88 minutes and not a single false note. 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Once Release date: 5/16/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Once makes a persuasive case that the real future of the movie musical may lie not in splashy gra... 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Georgia Rule Release date: 5/11/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) It's an interesting, maddening mess -- not a terrible movie, and by no means a dull one. 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: 28 Weeks Later Release date: 5/11/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) It is brutal and almost exhaustingly terrifying, as any respectable zombie movie should be. It is... 134 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lucky You Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...sometimes dull and generally thin... 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Waitress Release date: 5/2/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...blends familiar elements into something both satisfying and surprising. 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jindabyne Release date: 4/27/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...the movie's best features -- the aching clarity of its central performances -- threaten to be ... 71 other reviews of this movie Movie: Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The point of Aqua Teen Hunger Force is not South Park-style topical satire, but rather en... 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Disturbia Release date: 4/13/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) There are no big surprises, but the jumps and jolts are well timed and the overall mood is at onc... 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Grindhouse Release date: 4/6/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Grindhouse is soaked in bloody nostalgia for the cheesy, disreputable pleasures of an older form ... 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Grindhouse Release date: 4/6/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...exuberant, uneven... 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: TV Set, The Release date: 4/6/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) When telling behind-the-scenes tales about network television, thereÂ¿s not much exaggeration nee... 56 other reviews of this movie Movie: Meet the Robinsons Release date: 3/30/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...surely one of the worst theatrically released animated features issued under the Disney label ... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Reign Over Me Release date: 3/23/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...maddeningly uneven. 113 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Think I Love My Wife Release date: 3/16/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...smart and likable... 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wind That Shakes the Barley, The Release date: 3/16/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...as alive and as troubling as anything on the evening news, though far more thoughtful and beau... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Exterminating Angels Release date: 3/7/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) A date that begins with the salacious movie Exterminating Angels is likely to end up either in be... 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Exterminating Angels Release date: 3/7/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...blends a frank appeal to the audience's nether regions with some teasing attention to its mind... 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Black Snake Moan Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) For all its willful, shaking-and-shouting intensity, Black Snake Moan never lives up to its s... 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wild Hogs Release date: 3/2/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...the main source of the movie's fumbling attempts at humor -- is that they're not gay. Really. ... 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Astronaut Farmer, The Release date: 2/23/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...a disarmingly sincere follow-your-dreams fable... 115 other reviews of this movie Movie: Abandoned, The Release date: 2/23/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/1) ...why didnÂ¿t this go straight to DVD? 24 other reviews of this movie Movie: Music and Lyrics Release date: 2/14/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...aspires to nothing more than the competent dispensing of mild amusement and easy emotion. 156 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lives of Others Release date: 2/9/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The suspense comes not only from the structure and pacing of the scenes, but also, more deeply, f... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Because I Said So Release date: 2/2/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...a mild exercise in deliberate mediocrity... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Epic Movie Release date: 1/26/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The humor is coarse and occasionally funny. 20 other reviews of this movie Movie: Smokin' Aces Release date: 1/26/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...may not only be dumb in itself, but also the cause of dumbness in others. 133 other reviews of this movie Movie: Great Yokai War Release date: 12/31/2006 11:01:32 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Takashi Miike's excursion into extravagant and demented fantasy combines folkloric elements with ... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pan's Labyrinth Release date: 12/29/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...it balances its own magical thinking with the knowledge that not everyone lives happily ever a... 160 other reviews of this movie Movie: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Release date: 12/27/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...the only smell produced by these long, breathy close-ups is a metaphorical one, a foul, stale ... 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Venus Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) A modest, diverting, touching tale... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Letters From Iwo Jima Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Another masterwork from Clint EastwoodÂ¿s astonishing late period, and one of the best war movies... 152 other reviews of this movie Movie: Breaking and Entering Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) A schematic exercise in liberal, privileged guilt... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Breaking and Entering Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Breaking and Entering climaxes in a welter of apologies. Everyone in London, it seems, has cause ... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlotte's Web Release date: 12/15/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Gary WinickÂ¿s film may not be perfect, but it honors its source and captures the key elements th... 111 other reviews of this movie Movie: Unaccompanied Minors Release date: 12/8/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...this movie may be too much for sensitive parents to bear. Send your kids alone. 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fountain, The Release date: 11/22/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...tries to replace the prose of narrative cinema with a poetic language of rhyming images and vi... 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fast Food Nation Release date: 11/17/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...Mr. Linklater and Mr. Schlosser have really undertaken a much deeper and more comprehensive cr... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stranger Than Fiction Release date: 11/10/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The ending is a nicely executed bit of metaphysical farce, in which all the strands of Harold's f... 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Flushed Away Release date: 11/3/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The picture relentlessly picks up speed, zooming from drollery to anarchy to complete -- albeit b... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Volver Release date: 11/3/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...full of surprises and reversals, unfolds with breathtaking ease and self-confidence. 67 other reviews of this movie Movie: Death of a President Release date: 10/27/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...neither terribly outrageous nor especially heroic... 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Babel Release date: 10/27/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The sheer sensory exuberance of the film at once subverts the fatalism of its story and lends it ... 99 other reviews of this movie Movie: Prestige, The Release date: 10/20/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...an intricate and elaborate machine designed for the simple purpose of diversion. 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: Running With Scissors Release date: 10/20/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...a showcase of high-quality acting (especially from Annette Bening) without much in the way of ... 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Infamous Release date: 10/13/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...quick-witted, stylish and well acted. 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Man of the Year Release date: 10/13/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The two plots converge in a multigenre pileup that wrecks whatever comic momentum the movie might... 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Children Release date: 10/6/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Todd Fields' superb film adaptation of the novel by Tom Perrotta result is challenging, accessibl... 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Children Release date: 10/6/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...balances tenderness with satire. 103 other reviews of this movie Movie: Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, A Release date: 9/29/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...so full of life and feeling that the screen can hardly contain it. 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Science of Sleep, The Release date: 9/22/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...so profoundly idiosyncratic, and so confident in its oddity, that any attempt to describe it i... 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Science of Sleep, The Release date: 9/22/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Michel Gondry's beguiling new film is so profoundly idiosyncratic, and so confident in its oddity... 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: Last Kiss, The Release date: 9/15/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...while not quite a good movie...at least deserves credit for its honesty. 100 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wicker Man, The Release date: 9/1/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...Mr. LaBute, never much of an artist with the camera, proves almost comically inept as a horror... 88 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sherrybaby Release date: 8/25/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...what distinguishes the film from its many peers is the quality of Ms. Collyer's writing...and ... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sherrybaby Release date: 8/25/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) What distinguishes the film from its many peers is the quality of Ms. Collyer's writing -- which ... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: World Trade Center Release date: 8/9/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Mr. Stone has taken a public tragedy and turned it into something at once genuinely stirring and ... 215 other reviews of this movie Movie: World Trade Center Release date: 8/9/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Mr. Stone has taken a public tragedy and turned it into something at once genuinely stirring and ... 215 other reviews of this movie Movie: World Trade Center Release date: 8/9/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Oliver Stone has taken a public tragedy and turned it into something at once genuinely stirring a... 215 other reviews of this movie Movie: Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Release date: 8/4/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) As a cultural artifact, Talladega Nights is both completely phony and, therefore, utterly aut... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monster House Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) One of the spooky archetypes of childhood imagination the dark, mysterious house across the stree... 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: Clerks II Release date: 7/21/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...what makes Clerks II both winning and (somewhat unexpectedly) moving is its fidelity to th... 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Release date: 7/7/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Although there are memorable bits and pieces, the new Pirates of the Caribbean is a movie wit... 186 other reviews of this movie Movie: Devil Wears Prada, The Release date: 6/30/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) With her silver hair and pale skin, her whispery diction as perfect as her posture, Ms. Streep's ... 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Strangers With Candy Release date: 6/28/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...does not quite rise above its spoofy, basic-cable origins. 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Great New Wonderful, The Release date: 6/23/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The moments in The Great New Wonderful that feel truest are the ones that reveal how habit at... 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: Great New Wonderful, The Release date: 6/23/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Danny Leiner's film offers a collection of quiet, tidy vignettes that occur simultaneously in New... 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: Road To Guantanamo, The Release date: 6/23/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...a wrenching and dismaying account of cruelty and bureaucratic indifference, a graphic tour of ... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Break-Up, The Release date: 6/2/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...the whole movie feels dull and trivial. 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: Break-Up, The Release date: 6/2/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston play a couple on the splits in a desultory modern version of th... 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lower City Release date: 5/26/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The movie turns out to be a predictable and somewhat sentimental lower-depths love triangle, but ... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Poseidon Release date: 5/12/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...a reasonably well-executed throwaway... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Just My Luck Release date: 5/12/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Just My Luck is a bit of lukewarm cappuccino froth confected to float Lindsay Lohan to the next s... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Release date: 1/27/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) ...swift, funny and surprisingly unpretentious. 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Glory Road Release date: 1/13/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Glory Road is satisfying less for its virtuosity than for its sincerity, and also because it ... 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dear Wendy Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:29 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Thomas Vinterberg and Lars von Trier take another step toward intellectual bankruptcy with a pret... 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Constant Gardener, The Release date: 8/31/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Fernando Meirelles's excellent adaptation of the novel by John le CarrÃ© is likely to linger in y... 128 other reviews of this movie Movie: Honey Release date: 12/5/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Honey brings out the wholesome, affirmative side of the hip-hop aesthetic without being overly pr... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Triplets of Belleville, The Release date: 11/26/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) A tour de force of ink-washed, crosshatched mischief and unlikely sublimity. 96 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shattered Glass Release date: 10/31/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) An astute and surprisingly gripping drama not only about the ethics of magazine writing, but also... 118 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Life Without Me Release date: 9/26/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The performances are determinedly low-key, and Ms. Coixet directs even the most charged scenes in... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: I Capture the Castle Release date: 7/11/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The evident affection that the filmmakers bear toward Smith's novel, and toward the odd, spirited... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Swimming Pool Release date: 7/2/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Mr. Ozon's first English-language film, is simultaneously a thoroughly mannered, mischievously ar... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: In-Laws, The Release date: 5/23/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) It's as if the director, Andrew Fleming, and the screenwriters, Nat Mauldin and Ed Solomon, set o... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: X2: X-Men United Release date: 5/2/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) It succeeds pretty well in rising to the challenge that most sequels face: how to give the audien... 179 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bulletproof Monk Release date: 4/16/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The lighting is bad, the editing of the action sequences sometimes messy, but these infelicities,... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Man Without a Past, The Release date: 4/4/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) It is at once artful and unpretentious, sophisticated and completely accessible, sure of its own ... 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Levity Release date: 4/4/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Mr. Thornton's ostentatious restraint and his bottomless melancholy cry out for a mask and cape, ... 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tears of the Sun Release date: 3/7/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The audience's tears are more likely to result from boredom, irritation at Hans Zimmer's wretched... 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: All the Real Girls Release date: 2/14/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Mr. Green, with unabashed sincerity and exquisite tenderness, captures both the world-stopping in... 94 other reviews of this movie Movie: National Security Release date: 1/17/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) National Security lacks the wit to do anything new and instead recycles tired jokes and attitudes... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Drumline Release date: 12/13/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) As you watch the drummers pound out their polyrhythms and twirl their sticks, you may find it har... 60 other reviews of this movie Movie: Maid in Manhattan Release date: 12/13/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) In general the picture is so committed to inoffensiveness and to hammering home its uplifting, bo... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Treasure Planet Release date: 11/27/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The adventures that youngsters act out on the french fry-littered seats of the family minivan wil... 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Way Home, The Release date: 11/15/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The story, touching though it is, does not quite have enough emotional resonance or variety of in... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: God is Great, I'm Not Release date: 11/8/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) How much you are moved by the emotional tumult of [François and Michèle's] relationship depends a... 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: Formula 51 Release date: 10/18/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The problem with the mayhem in Formula 51 is not that it's offensive, but that it's boring. 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Welcome to Collinwood Release date: 10/4/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) An enjoyably half-wit remake of the venerable Italian comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street. 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: City by the Sea Release date: 9/6/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The furious coherence that [DeNiro] brings to this part only underscores the fuzzy sentimentality... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: In Praise of Love Release date: 9/6/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The beautiful images and solemn words cannot disguise the slack complacency of [Godard's] vision,... 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Signs Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Skillful as he is, Mr. Shyamalan is undone by his pretensions. 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Country Bears, The Release date: 7/26/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The plot combines The Blues Brothers and Almost Famous (but with bears, and a G rating), with an ... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Men in Black II Release date: 7/3/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Within the trivial, ingratiating scope of its ambition, though, the sequel is pleasant enough. Th... 153 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bourne Identity, The Release date: 6/14/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Free from the encumbrances of history and of Ludlum's cloddish prose, The Bourne Identity, like i... 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spider-Man Release date: 5/3/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The filmmakers have succeeded in rejuvenating the character while staying faithful to his roots. 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cat's Meow, The Release date: 4/12/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) A modest, restrained picture, as small and satisfying as one of Woody Allen's better recent effor... 74 other reviews of this movie Movie: High Crimes Release date: 4/5/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The problem -- a small one, apparently, in the view of the screenwriters, Yuri Zeltser and Cary B... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sorority Boys Release date: 3/22/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Wolodarsky has made a film that even a rabid lowbrow like Homer Simpson (or, when the mood strike... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Real Young Girl, A Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:43 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) A surreal voyage into adolescent sexuality. 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Others , The Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:40 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The director's technical rigor, in other words, outstrips his conceptual discipline, and midway t... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Born Romantic Release date: 9/28/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) In its own modest, genial terms, the picture succeeds. 20 other reviews of this movie Movie: Don't Say A Word Release date: 9/28/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) A confused and confusing enterprise. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: A.I. Artificial Intelligence Release date: 6/29/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) The best fairy tale -- the most disturbing, complex and intellectually challenging boy's adventur... 145 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bread and Roses Release date: 5/11/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Makes a powerfully persuasive case. 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Freddy Got Fingered Release date: 4/20/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (7/0) Less about the dangers and pleasures of the unchained id than the giddy anarchy of the unbound im... 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hairspray Release date: 7/20/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (5/5) Login Required That Hairspray is good-hearted is no surprise. The surprise may be that this Hairspray, s... 27 other reviews of this movie Movie: Talk to Me Release date: 7/13/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Talk to Me offers uplift without phoniness, history without undue didacticism and a fair number o... 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: 300 Release date: 3/9/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required 300 is about as violent as Apocalypto and twice as stupid. 188 other reviews of this movie Movie: Abandoned, The Release date: 2/23/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Through the murk and gloom of The Abandoned; a mystery emerges: Why didn't this go straight to DV... 24 other reviews of this movie Movie: Venus Release date: 12/20/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A modest, diverting, touching tale of a young woman who attracts the interest of an aging actor, ... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Night Listener, The Release date: 8/4/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Based on a novel by Armistead Maupin, which was based in turn on an episode in Mr. Maupins life, ... 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: Inconvenient Truth, An Release date: 5/24/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required I can't think of another movie in which the display of a graph elicited gasps of horror... 65 other reviews of this movie Movie: Turtles Can Fly Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:45 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/5) Login Required Bahman Ghobadi's third film presents a harsh account of war, displacement and deprivation that is... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Power of Nightmares, The Release date: 12/31/2005 11:01:41 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A sprawling, intellectually ambitious documentary about the political phenomenon usually referred... 6 other reviews of this movie Movie: Match Point Release date: 12/28/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required You would have to go back to the heady, amoral heyday of Ernst Lubitsch or Billy Wilder to find c... 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rumor Has It... Release date: 12/25/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...a movie that can't even seem to sustain interest in itself. 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Producers, The Release date: 12/16/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...aggressively and pointlessly shiny, noisy spectacle. 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: King Kong Release date: 12/14/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...gargantuan, mightily entertaining... 203 other reviews of this movie Movie: Walk the Line Release date: 11/18/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...settles down in the fat middle of the bell curve, providing, if nothing else, an excuse to go ... 177 other reviews of this movie Movie: Get Rich or Die Tryin' Release date: 11/9/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...an awkward, sometimes engaging blend of two well-worn formulas. 99 other reviews of this movie Movie: Get Rich or Die Tryin' Release date: 11/9/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Jim Sheridan's film, loosely based on the experiences of its star, the glowering rapper 50 Cent, ... 99 other reviews of this movie Movie: Chicken Little Release date: 11/4/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...a terrible movie... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Prime Release date: 10/28/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required [Thurman's] summery radiance helps make this thin romantic comedy hard to dislike. 62 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang Release date: 10/21/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...a flashy, trifling throwaway whose surface cleverness masks a self-infatuated credulity. 61 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shopgirl Release date: 10/21/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...elegant and exquisitely tailored... 122 other reviews of this movie Movie: Elizabethtown Release date: 10/14/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...has a loose, unforced friendliness that makes it hard to dislike, in spite of its many lapses ... 140 other reviews of this movie Movie: Greatest Game Ever Played, The Release date: 9/30/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Predictable though it is, the picture is rousing and well paced, and the final competition is eff... 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Greatest Game Ever Played, The Release date: 9/30/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Predictable though it is, the picture is rousing and well paced, and the final competition is eff... 54 other reviews of this movie Movie: Oliver Twist Release date: 9/30/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...wonderful... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dear Wendy Release date: 9/23/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...it is disappointing to see filmmakers who have in the past been so aggressively forward-thinki... 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: Thumbsucker Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Mike Mills's feature-film debut manages to show how calamitous and out of control (and also how t... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Just Like Heaven Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Given its somewhat morbid premise, this metaphysical second-chance comedy is impressively nimble ... 130 other reviews of this movie Movie: Just Like Heaven Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Given its somewhat morbid premise, this metaphysical second-chance comedy is impressively nimble ... 130 other reviews of this movie Movie: Everything Is Illuminated Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...whimsical when it should be darkly funny and poignant when it should be devastating. 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Everything Is Illuminated Release date: 9/16/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling novel is whimsical when it should be darkly... 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Release date: 9/9/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (5/5) Login Required While not especially good, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, directed by Scott Derrickson, is still a f... 139 other reviews of this movie Movie: Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Release date: 9/9/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The tale is fairly simple, and curiously lacking in suspense. 139 other reviews of this movie Movie: Constant Gardener, The Release date: 8/31/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Fernando Meirelles's excellent adaptation of the novel by John le Carré is likely to linger ... 128 other reviews of this movie Movie: Games of Love and Chance Release date: 8/26/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required This graceful and sympathetic look at how the lives of teenagers intersect with a work of literat... 15 other reviews of this movie Movie: Games of Love and Chance Release date: 8/26/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...a spirited and insightful comedy of manners. 15 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dukes of Hazzard, The Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The Dukes of Hazzard is the latest evidence that, for Hollywood studios at least, there can never... 143 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dukes of Hazzard, The Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The Dukes of Hazzard is the latest evidence that, for Hollywood studios at least, there can n... 143 other reviews of this movie Movie: Broken Flowers Release date: 8/5/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...sly, touching... 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress Release date: 7/29/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Dai Sijie's tender, touching adaptation of his own novel of the same title. 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Edukators Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ... a slyly effective thriller and of a deft comedy of romantic confusion. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Edukators Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Three young Berliners frustrated at the iniquities of global capitalism cross the line that separ... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hustle & Flow Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required There is a lot of heart in Hustle & Flow, Craig Brewer's first feature film, and a lot of non... 22 other reviews of this movie Movie: Island, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required This lavish, exhaustingly kinetic film is smarter than you might expect, and at the same time dum... 161 other reviews of this movie Movie: Island, The Release date: 7/22/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Michael Bay's lavish, exhaustingly kinetic film is smarter than you might expect, and at the same... 161 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Release date: 7/15/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...wondrous and flawed... 204 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beautiful Country, The Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required It is hard not to admire the independence and ambition of The Beautiful Country, even if the film... 64 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dark Water Release date: 7/8/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A dull and occasionally risible remake... 125 other reviews of this movie Movie: War of the Worlds Release date: 6/29/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...reasonably entertaining... 207 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Summer of Love Release date: 6/17/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Pawel Pawlikowski's lovely film tells a modest story. But it is a triumph of mood and implication... 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Me and You and Everyone We Know Release date: 6/17/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required While Miranda July's first feature film might be classified as romantic comedy, it introduces the... 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: Me and You and Everyone We Know Release date: 6/17/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...introduces the playful qualities of installation art to the conventions of narrative cinema. 76 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Summer of Love Release date: 6/17/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Pawel Pawlikowski's lovely film tells a modest story. But it is a triumph of mood and implication... 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Honeymooners, The Release date: 6/10/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Superfluous though it may be, The Honeymooners is not so bad. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Honeymooners, The Release date: 6/10/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The committee-written script has an impressively high quotient of funny lines, and leaves room fo... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: 5x2 Release date: 6/10/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...it feels more like a story you've heard about distant acquaintances than like something you've... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Howl's Moving Castle Release date: 6/10/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required For newcomers to his (Miyazaki's) world, Howl's Moving Castle is a fitting introduction to on... 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Release date: 5/19/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...it's better than (the original) Star Wars. 250 other reviews of this movie Movie: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Release date: 5/19/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required This is by far the best film in the more recent trilogy, and also the best of the four episodes M... 250 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mad Hot Ballroom Release date: 5/13/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...a slight, charming documentary... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: House of Wax Release date: 5/6/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Everything goes pretty much according to formula... 138 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crash Release date: 5/6/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...the failure of Crash is that it states its ideas, again and again, without realizing them ... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mysterious Skin Release date: 5/6/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Mysterious Skin is infused with remarkable tenderness and beauty. 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: House of Wax Release date: 5/6/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The set design is fairly elaborate by the standards of the genre, and the victims don't die in pr... 138 other reviews of this movie Movie: Holy Girl, The Release date: 4/29/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/5) Login Required Lucrecia Martel's elusive, feverish and altogether amazing second feature seems to communicate as... 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Funny Ha Ha Release date: 4/29/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A small, plain movie, shot in 16 millimeter in dull locations around Boston; but also, like its p... 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Interpreter, The Release date: 4/22/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...is as apolitical as it is unthrilling. 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Release date: 4/22/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required This sober, informative chronicle of the biggest business scandal of the decade is almost indecen... 97 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kung Fu Hustle Release date: 4/8/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...has a demented appeal not limited to specialists or aficionados. 139 other reviews of this movie Movie: Look At Me Release date: 4/1/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A witty and acute examination of friendship, ambition and betrayal in the Parisian literary world... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Look At Me Release date: 4/1/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...witty and acute... 82 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beauty Shop Release date: 3/30/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...not so much a sequel as an old-fashioned sitcom spinoff squeezed onto the big screen... 86 other reviews of this movie Movie: Guess Who Release date: 3/25/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...mild and thin... 130 other reviews of this movie Movie: Guess Who Release date: 3/25/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required This loose, pointless remake of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner at least suggests that American raci... 130 other reviews of this movie Movie: Jacket, The Release date: 3/4/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...this movie is terribly silly, but it's not completely terrible. 146 other reviews of this movie Movie: Best of Youth (La Meglio gioventu), The (2005) Release date: 3/2/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...as accessible and engrossing as a grand 19th-century novel. 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Up and Down Release date: 2/25/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The Czech Republic's nominee for the best foreign film Oscar skips from buoyant satire to domesti... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Downfall Release date: 2/18/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...painstaking (and sometimes painful)... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Constantine Release date: 2/18/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required Keanu Reeves plays a haunted, expressionless traveler in an overblown theological thriller based ... 180 other reviews of this movie Movie: Downfall Release date: 2/18/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required This suspenseful German drama is set during the final days of Adolph Hitler's life, when the once... 109 other reviews of this movie Movie: Constantine Release date: 2/18/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...overblown, overlong... 180 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hitch Release date: 2/11/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required As soft and sweet as a marshmallow and about as interesting... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Assault on Precinct 13 Release date: 1/19/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The main thing this Assault lacks is a point. 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Assault on Precinct 13 Release date: 1/19/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Don't avoid the new Assault on Precinct 13 because it's a remake. There are plenty of other reaso... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Coach Carter Release date: 1/8/2005 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...both a rousing, by-the-book sports story...and a critique of the place of sports in American c... 11 other reviews of this movie Movie: You See Me Laughin' Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:50 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A churning, affectionate group portrait, a cinematic pendant to a New Yorker piece Jay McInerney ... 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Father and Son Release date: 12/31/2004 11:01:31 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Alexander Sokurov's new film is like a dream, or a half-translated poem. Its images and emotions ... 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Million Dollar Baby Release date: 12/15/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required Clint Eastwood's drama about a grizzled boxing trainer and a spunky young fighter is the best mov... 178 other reviews of this movie Movie: Million Dollar Baby Release date: 12/15/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...feels at once contemporary and classical, a work of utter mastery that at the same time has no... 178 other reviews of this movie Movie: Born Into Brothels Release date: 12/8/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...moving, charming and sad... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Born Into Brothels Release date: 12/8/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Zana Briski's documentary about children growing up in Calcutta's rough and squalid red light dis... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Aryan Couple, The Release date: 12/3/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A minor example of a major genre: the feel-good Holocaust movie. 17 other reviews of this movie Movie: House of Flying Daggers Release date: 12/3/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Though it is in constant, breathtaking motion, Zhang Yimou's gorgeous entertainment is not especi... 136 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kinsey Release date: 11/12/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Though it has its share of carnality, Bill Condon's wise and witty biography of the sex researche... 148 other reviews of this movie Movie: Incredibles, The Release date: 11/5/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required It comes tantalizingly close to greatness, but seems content, in the end, to fight mediocrity to ... 85 other reviews of this movie Movie: Incredibles, The Release date: 11/5/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Pixar's new animated action-comedy, about a superhero family stuck in middle-class suburban exile... 85 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sex is Comedy Release date: 10/20/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Rather than delve into the clinical details of sexual desire and behavior, Catherine Breillat's r... 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cafe Lumiere Release date: 10/16/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A fascinating curiosity, a chance to witness one major filmmaker paying tribute to another in the... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: Team America: World Police Release date: 10/15/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required Much as it may pretend otherwise, the movie has an argument, but if you try to argue back, the j... 58 other reviews of this movie Movie: Being Julia Release date: 10/15/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Playing a star of the prewar London theater uneasily stepping into middle age, Annette Bening man... 78 other reviews of this movie Movie: Friday Night Lights Release date: 10/8/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Peter Berg directs this Texas high school football extravaganza in a tough, gritty style that giv... 135 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stage Beauty Release date: 10/8/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required At times, the movie feels like a fancy-dress version of A Star Is Born, with especially tortu... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shark Tale Release date: 10/1/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required All in all, Shark Tale is reasonably good fun, even if, in the end, it's not really very inte... 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shark Tale Release date: 10/1/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Swimming in the lucrative wake of Finding Nemo, DreamWorks's foray into computer-generated underw... 110 other reviews of this movie Movie: Motorcycle Diaries, The Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Walter Salles's stirring and warm-hearted film reconstructs a journey across South America taken ... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dirty Shame, A Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required John Waters's first film in four years is a grindingly anarchic attempt to have it both ways, to ... 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Last Shot, The Release date: 9/24/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The premise of this Disney-funded movie, based on a true story, is promising, but the film itself... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Goodbye, Dragon Inn Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Its simple, meticulously composed frames are full of mystery and feeling; it's an action movie th... 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: Goodbye, Dragon Inn Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Its simple, meticulously composed frames are full of mystery and feeling; it's an action movie th... 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: Silver City Release date: 9/17/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ... the problem is, once again, that Mr. Sayles is less interested in telling a story than in tea... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Paperclips Release date: 9/8/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required This film of middle school students who managed to create a Holocaust memorial is so self-congrat... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bright Young Things Release date: 8/20/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Period dramas set on the eve of World War II are a dime a dozen, but what distinguishes this one ... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bright Young Things Release date: 8/20/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Stephen Fry's adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies honors its source with vigor and gusto, ca... 49 other reviews of this movie Movie: Catwoman Release date: 7/23/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...a howlingly silly, moderately diverting exercise in high, pointless style. 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: I, Robot Release date: 7/16/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required 'Suggested by' Isaac Asimov's book of short stories, Alex Proyas's hectic thriller engages some i... 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Door in the Floor, The Release date: 7/14/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Jeff Bridges offers perhaps the wittiest and richest piece of screen acting by an American man so... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Door in the Floor, The Release date: 7/14/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...surely the best movie yet made from Mr. Irving's fiction. 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Outfoxed Release date: 7/13/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Methodically works to disarm the ready-made accusation that it is outfoxing Fox by stooping to it... 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Release date: 7/9/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...its cheerful dumbness is hard to resist. 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Release date: 7/9/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky turn what might have been a conventional behind-t... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Before Sunset Release date: 7/2/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...the movie's prodigious verbiage is also enthralling, precisely because of its casual disregard... 46 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spider-Man 2 Release date: 6/30/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (4/5) Login Required ...its distinguishing features...are strong characters and honest feelings. 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Terminal, The Release date: 6/18/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Rarely have I been so acutely aware of a movie's softness and sentimentality, and rarely have I m... 154 other reviews of this movie Movie: Grand Theft Parsons Release date: 6/18/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required But the movie really has no place to go: the most interesting character is sealed up in a coffin.... 7 other reviews of this movie Movie: Seducing Doctor Lewis Release date: 6/16/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Its warm, sweet sentiments are genial and unchallenging, and its jokes are low-key and gentle. 2 other reviews of this movie Movie: I'll Sleep When I'm Dead Release date: 6/16/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...a fine stylistic showpiece. 22 other reviews of this movie Movie: Napoleon Dynamite Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A small-scale, deadpan film. 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: Garfield Release date: 6/11/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...you are likely to leave this one feeling as grouchy and put-upon as the title character. 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Release date: 6/4/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (4/5) Login Required ...devilish magic. 70 other reviews of this movie Movie: Day After Tomorrow, The Release date: 5/28/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...most entertaining when it acknowledges its ties to the melodramatic calamity freak-outs of the... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Day After Tomorrow, The Release date: 5/28/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The picture is most entertaining when it acknowledges the swaggering cheesiness of [the melodrama... 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shrek 2 Release date: 5/19/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (4/5) Login Required Certainly Shrek 2 offers rambunctious fun, but there is also something dishonest about its bl... 75 other reviews of this movie Movie: Troy Release date: 5/14/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...for what it is â€” a big, expensive, occasionally campy action movie full of well-known actors... 117 other reviews of this movie Movie: New York Minute Release date: 5/7/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Mary-Kate and Ashley sprint through Manhattan on the run from a truant officer and a limo driver ... 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: Van Helsing Release date: 5/7/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Despite the rococo obsessiveness of its special effects and its voracious sampling of past horror... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: New York Minute Release date: 5/7/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...polished and bouncy without being overly mawkish or unduly obnoxious. 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: Super Size Me Release date: 5/7/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required An entertaining, and occasionally horrifying, statement of the obvious. 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Van Helsing Release date: 5/7/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...Van Helsing is mostly content to offer warmed-over allusions and secondhand thrills. 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: Saddest Music in the World, The Release date: 4/30/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required It is a tribute to, and a sendup of, old movies that never quite existed. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Laws of Attraction Release date: 4/30/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The efforts of the cast are not enough to lift Laws of Attraction above the cautious banality of ... 67 other reviews of this movie Movie: Laws of Attraction Release date: 4/30/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...Laws of Attraction...seems desperately unsure of itself at crucial moments. 67 other reviews of this movie Movie: Young Adam Release date: 4/16/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The narrative scheme, the brooding period atmosphere, the understated score and the precision of ... 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Girl Next Door, The Release date: 4/9/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A lumpy blend of sweet teen romance and naughty, R-rated prurience, this comedy follows the impro... 120 other reviews of this movie Movie: Johnson Family Vacation Release date: 4/7/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...feels more like a grueling road trip in search of a family comedy. 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Johnson Family Vacation Release date: 4/7/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Cedric the Entertainer stars in a long drive in search of a family comedy, which is found too lat... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ladykillers, The Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (4/5) Login Required ...while this Ladykillers is a bit of a throwaway, it does have its moments. 148 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ladykillers, The Release date: 3/26/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (4/5) Login Required Tom Hanks seizes the chance to play a comic villain with almost indecent vaudevillian glee in thi... 148 other reviews of this movie Movie: Taking Lives Release date: 3/19/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...things unfold in the usual hyped-up, improbable fashion. 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Taking Lives Release date: 3/19/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Angelina Jolie plays an F.B.I. profiler on the trail of a sick and ingenious serial killer. Is th... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: Reckoning, The Release date: 3/5/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...The Reckoning...turns it into an occasion for speechifying and self-important acting. 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Reckoning, The Release date: 3/5/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A talky, sententious affair. 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Passion of the Christ, The Release date: 2/25/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The Passion of the Christ is so relentlessly focused on the savagery of Jesus' final hours that t... 203 other reviews of this movie Movie: 50 First Dates Release date: 2/13/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...a surprisingly graceful and, in the end, impressively daring romantic comedy. 84 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monsieur Ibrahim Release date: 2/13/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required This modest, sentimental film looks nostalgically back on Paris in the mid-1960's and casts a lov... 65 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dreamers, The Release date: 2/6/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Bernardo Bertolucci's new film is an ardently romantic love song to sex, cinema and the spirit of... 117 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dreamers, The Release date: 2/6/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...disarmingly sweet and completely enchanting... 117 other reviews of this movie Movie: Perfect Score, The Release date: 1/30/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...likely to appeal to young people in need of relief from their post-holiday academic stress. 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Big Bounce, The Release date: 1/30/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...a loose and lazy caper... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tokyo Godfathers Release date: 1/16/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Loosely based on 3 Godfathers, John Ford's maudlin 1948 western, this movie, a sweet fable of dec... 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crimson Gold Release date: 1/16/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ....the occasional obviousness of the film's themes is more than balanced by the subtlety of its ... 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crimson Gold Release date: 1/16/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Jafar Panahi's film exposes the cruelties and inequities of a society sharply polarized by class ... 40 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tokyo Godfathers Release date: 1/16/2004 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...a heartfelt urban fable about human decency among the down-and-out. 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Good Morning, Night Release date: 12/31/2003 11:01:32 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Ms. Sansa is an actress of exquisite sensitivity. 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Japanese Story Release date: 12/31/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...ultimately too thin for its length and too dependent on easy assumptions about its characters. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cold Mountain Release date: 12/25/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required As they might have said in the old days, this sweeping historical romance is one heck of a classy... 156 other reviews of this movie Movie: Big Fish Release date: 12/10/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...unpersuasive and ultimately forgettable... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Honey Release date: 12/5/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Honey brings out the wholesome, affirmative side of the hip-hop aesthetic without being overl... 90 other reviews of this movie Movie: Cooler, The Release date: 11/26/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Luckily this picture is rescued from clichÃ© by the quality of the acting... 12 other reviews of this movie Movie: In America Release date: 11/26/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...modest, touching... 10 other reviews of this movie Movie: Barbarian Invasions, The Release date: 11/21/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required What makes The Barbarian Invasions much more than a facile exercise in generational conflict is t... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Release date: 11/21/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...a vulgar, uninspired lump of poisoned eye candy... 108 other reviews of this movie Movie: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World Release date: 11/14/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...stupendously entertaining... 157 other reviews of this movie Movie: Love Actually Release date: 11/7/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (4/5) Login Required ...more like a record label's greatest-hits compilation or a 'very special' sitcom clip-reel show... 149 other reviews of this movie Movie: Matrix Revolutions, The Release date: 11/5/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required There is very little that is tantalizing or suspenseful. 158 other reviews of this movie Movie: Singing Detective, The Release date: 10/24/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...its themes jut out awkwardly, rather than being enfolded in drama or spectacle. 47 other reviews of this movie Movie: Veronica Guerin Release date: 10/17/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...a flat-footed, overwrought crusader-against-evil melodrama... 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kill Bill Vol. 1 Release date: 10/10/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Way too cool? Not cool enough? As I said, it depends. The movie-geek in-jokes are sometimes amusi... 163 other reviews of this movie Movie: Mystic River Release date: 10/8/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Mystic River is the rare American movie that aspires to â€” and achieves â€” the full weight ... 142 other reviews of this movie Movie: Matchstick Men Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by A. O. 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Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The movie often feels meandering and anecdotal. 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bad Boys II Release date: 7/18/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Mr. Bay (director) may lack restraint (also taste, wit and shame), but he does have an undeniable... 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Northfork Release date: 7/11/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required There is nothing quite like this movie, and I'm not altogether sure there is much more to it than... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines Release date: 7/2/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...Terminator 3 is essentially a B movie, content to be loud, dumb and obvious... 89 other reviews of this movie Movie: 28 Days Later Release date: 6/27/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required When 28 Days Later is not scaring you silly, it invites you to reflect seriously on the fragi... 60 other reviews of this movie Movie: Hulk, The Release date: 6/20/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...incredibly long, incredibly tedious, incredibly turgid. 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: 2 Fast 2 Furious Release date: 6/6/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required 2 Fast 2 Furious is among the most lethargic action movies I have ever seen: when Mr. Walker and ... 106 other reviews of this movie Movie: Woman Is a Woman, A Release date: 5/16/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Godard's whimsical celebration of romance, sentiment, musical comedy, color film, the city of Par... 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: L'Auberge Espagnole Release date: 5/16/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...a bit shapeless and sloppy... 67 other reviews of this movie Movie: Spellbound Release date: 4/30/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...not only exciting but also tremendously moving... 105 other reviews of this movie Movie: Confidence Release date: 4/25/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...very little to enjoy... 57 other reviews of this movie Movie: Head of State Release date: 3/28/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...curiously tentative and unfocused. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Head of State Release date: 3/28/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A political comedy that refuses to address a single real political topic. 91 other reviews of this movie Movie: Japon Release date: 3/19/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...if JapÃ³n is unapologetically abstract, preferring metaphysics to narrative, it is also br... 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: Under the Skin of the City Release date: 3/14/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required There is a great deal of palpable political sentiment in this film... 23 other reviews of this movie Movie: Ten, The Release date: 3/5/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...a work of inspired simplicity. 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: Chi-Hwa-Seon Release date: 2/14/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required For viewers (like this one) not versed in Korean history, the movie's broader narrative currents ... 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days Release date: 2/7/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...does have its tart, fizzy moments. 43 other reviews of this movie Movie: Recruit, The Release date: 1/31/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...tiresomely predictable... 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Recruit, The Release date: 1/31/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...tiresomely predictable... 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Recruit, The Release date: 1/31/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Everything else in The Recruit may be tiresomely predictable, but [Pacino], at least, is not. 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Recruit, The Release date: 1/31/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Everything else in The Recruit may be tiresomely predictable, but [Pacino], at least, is not. 159 other reviews of this movie Movie: Amen Release date: 1/24/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...laden with difficult, fascinating themes. 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kangaroo Jack Release date: 1/17/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...tiresome high jinks. 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: National Security Release date: 1/17/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ... the problems of National Security are extensive enough to defy summary in the available s... 73 other reviews of this movie Movie: Son, The Release date: 1/10/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Nothing about The Son is easy... 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Son, The Release date: 1/10/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Like the homely, useful boxes Olivier teaches his prodigals to build, it is sturdy, durable and, ... 45 other reviews of this movie Movie: Red Circle, The Release date: 1/10/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Le Cercle Rouge offers the kind of experience that makes you glad movies exist. 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Second Time Around Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:44 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A Lifetime movie about men. 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: Murderous Maids, The Release date: 12/31/2002 11:01:38 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required It presents the Papin sisters' lives with ferocious clarity, shedding a painful light on emotions... 37 other reviews of this movie Movie: Gangs of New York Release date: 12/20/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...a near-great movie. 149 other reviews of this movie Movie: Adaptation Release date: 12/6/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...brilliantly scrambled... 141 other reviews of this movie Movie: Emperor's Club, The Release date: 11/22/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Life, the movie concludes, is not as simple as most movies like it would have you believe, but it... 98 other reviews of this movie Movie: Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times Release date: 11/22/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required General outline of his critique of American power, which has been consistent since the early days... 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: Way Home, The Release date: 11/15/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...a slight, sweet new movie... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Release date: 11/15/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...by the end, instead of feeling stirred to a high pitch of anxiety and excitement, you may feel... 195 other reviews of this movie Movie: God is Great, I'm Not Release date: 11/8/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required There is some thin, pleasant humor in all of this... 25 other reviews of this movie Movie: Far From Heaven Release date: 11/8/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...ardent and intelligent... 147 other reviews of this movie Movie: Femme Fatale Release date: 11/6/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...far more absorbing and tantalizing than most of the plodding, overworked thrillers the studios... 112 other reviews of this movie Movie: Femme Fatale Release date: 11/6/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Far more absorbing and tantalizing than most of the plodding, overworked thrillers the studios ch... 112 other reviews of this movie Movie: Punch-Drunk Love Release date: 10/11/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required No mere plot summary can do justice to the wild, sweet pleasures of Punch-Drunk Love... 42 other reviews of this movie Movie: Welcome to Collinwood Release date: 10/4/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...has an eager, slapdash energy... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Moonlight Mile Release date: 9/27/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...has an understated, lived-in quality and a wry, unforced sense of the absurd. 129 other reviews of this movie Movie: His Secret Life Release date: 9/20/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...has the scope and shape of an especially well-executed television movie. 14 other reviews of this movie Movie: 8 Women Release date: 9/20/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...a rickety, elaborate artifice on which the cast members are displayed like gilded ornaments. 87 other reviews of this movie Movie: Children of the Century Release date: 9/13/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ... though well dressed and well made, ultimately falls prey to the contradiction that afflicts s... 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Children of the Century Release date: 9/13/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Children of the Century, though well dressed and well made, ultimately falls prey to the contradi... 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stealing Harvard Release date: 9/13/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A shambling, incoherent story ... manages to abuse both Mr. Lee's good nature and his comic gift. 95 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blue Crush Release date: 8/16/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...it's hard to resist being swept up in Blue Crush... 63 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blood Work Release date: 8/9/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...what Blood Work lacks in speed and surprise it almost makes up for in doughty professional... 48 other reviews of this movie Movie: Full Frontal Release date: 8/2/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Full Frontal, which opens today nationwide, could almost be classified as a movie-industry satire... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Fast Runner (Atanarjuat), The (2002) Release date: 6/7/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...a masterpiece. 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Undercover Brother Release date: 5/31/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...a reasonably pleasant experience. 60 other reviews of this movie Movie: Thirteen Conversations About One Thing Release date: 5/24/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required ...thrillingly smart... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Murder By Numbers Release date: 4/19/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...follows well-worn paths of the cops-and-psycho-killer routine. 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: High Crimes Release date: 4/5/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...(Franklin's) direction is far from terrible, but it feels singularly uninspired, a flurry of f... 102 other reviews of this movie Movie: Panic Room Release date: 3/29/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required [Fincher's] camera sense and assured pacing make it an above-average thriller. 126 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sorority Boys Release date: 3/22/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...Some Like it Hot and Animal House slammed together and reworked as a Bazooka Joe comic... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: We Were Soldiers Release date: 3/1/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Like the best war movies -- and like martial literature going back to the Iliad -- it balances th... 56 other reviews of this movie Movie: Big Bad Love Release date: 2/22/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...a self-indulgent celebration of self-indulgence. 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Snow Dogs Release date: 1/18/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Disney's latest update of the lame live-action B comedies that have been among the studio's more ... 59 other reviews of this movie Movie: Chi-hwa-seon Release date: 1/1/2002 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Mr. Im's own aesthetic command is evident in the movie's wealth of beautiful, perfectly framed im... 20 other reviews of this movie Movie: Soigne ta droite Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:44 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Offers pleasure as well as frustration and engages even as it baffles. 4 other reviews of this movie Movie: Baise Moi Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:27 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The result is like something you'd see momentarily unscrambled on a hotel television set, but wit... 31 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monster's Ball Release date: 12/26/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Mr. Thornton, one of the most gifted screen actors working today, outdoes himself. 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: A Beautiful Mind Release date: 12/21/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/6) Login Required [The paradox] is that the story...is almost entirely counterfeit. 151 other reviews of this movie Movie: Texas Rangers Release date: 11/30/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Enough horse-opera clichés to shame the makers of Gunsmoke. 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Happenstance Release date: 11/2/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A celebration of the surprises that pop up like sidewalk blossoms through the gray surface of dai... 19 other reviews of this movie Movie: Burnt Money Release date: 10/19/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required These characters exist without motive, but they pulse with a despairing, intensely erotic energy. 22 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rock Star Release date: 9/7/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Has enough wit and insight to make it worth watching. 93 other reviews of this movie Movie: Djomeh Release date: 9/5/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required An investigation, at once lucid and enigmatic, of exile, loneliness and the fragile possibility o... 17 other reviews of this movie Movie: Tell Me Something Release date: 8/24/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Though it comes from halfway across the world, the movie, directed by Chang Youn-hyun, shows a de... 13 other reviews of this movie Movie: Legally Blonde Release date: 7/13/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Doesn't offer enough occasions for real spontaneous laughter to justify the cost of a full-price ... 100 other reviews of this movie Movie: Down From the Mountain Release date: 6/15/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required If you have any affection at all for traditional American music, the movie itself ... is pretty c... 21 other reviews of this movie Movie: King Is Alive, The Release date: 5/11/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The unsparing, invasive naturalism of digital video, which seems specially calibrated to register... 29 other reviews of this movie Movie: Under the Sand Release date: 5/4/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required ...Ms. Rampling's performance is like a perfectly executed piano Ã©tude, finding precise, impossi... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Luzhin Defence, The Release date: 4/20/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Turturro, by conveying his character's painful, ecstatic inwardness, creates a bond of sympathy w... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shadow Magic Release date: 4/6/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Gentle and easy to take. 35 other reviews of this movie Movie: Blow Dry Release date: 3/7/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Blow Dry seems both overplotted and underimagined. 41 other reviews of this movie Movie: Monkeybone Release date: 2/23/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A welcome antidote to the epidemic of witless, frenetic, secondhand low comedies that gnaw at our... 69 other reviews of this movie Movie: Head Over Heels Release date: 2/2/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Head Over Heels, like Mr. Prinze's other movies, exists in a realm beyond sense, and it induces i... 34 other reviews of this movie Movie: Invisible Circus, The Release date: 2/2/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The Invisible Circus ... doesn't so much illuminate Phoebe's confusion as share it. 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sugar & Spice Release date: 1/26/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required You get the feeling that it's bad on purpose, which makes it, given the number of teenage movies ... 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Low Down, The Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required By the film's end [Gillen and Ashfield's characters] seem as complicated, and as incomplete, as y... 28 other reviews of this movie Movie: Last Resort Release date: 1/19/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Last Resort shares with movies like Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher and Emmanuel Finkiel's Voyages a si... 51 other reviews of this movie Movie: Shadow of the Vampire Release date: 12/29/2000 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Shadow of the Vampire has a weird, flickering magic that is hard to dispel. 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: O Brother, Where Art Thou? Release date: 12/22/2000 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A rambunctious and inspired ride. 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Little Nicky Release date: 11/10/2000 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required It's a clever idea bogged down in sophomoric sloppiness. 52 other reviews of this movie Movie: Wonder Boys Release date: 11/8/2000 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Wonder Boys is like a George Cukor movie with a bad head cold -- slow, muffled and vague. 53 other reviews of this movie Movie: Charlie's Angels Release date: 11/3/2000 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Sure, it's easy on the eyes, but would a little brains be too much to ask? 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pay It Forward Release date: 10/20/2000 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required So enamored of its own upbeat view of human nature that it expects you to overlook its stick-figu... 72 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dr. T And The Women Release date: 10/13/2000 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The slightly anachronistic absurdity of the conceit -- the travails of a lone gentleman in a worl... 30 other reviews of this movie Movie: Crime and Punishment in Suburbia Release date: 9/15/2000 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Mopes along without a thought in its head. 16 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bring It On Release date: 8/25/2000 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The fact that a bouncy teenage sports comedy can even gesture toward serious matters of race and ... 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Timecode Release date: 4/28/2000 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Most movies offer carefully calibrated insults to the intelligence. This one just might make you ... 20 other reviews of this movie Movie: Whatever It Takes Release date: 3/24/2000 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required The script's way of handling its romantic complications is unusually obtuse and insensitive. 36 other reviews of this movie Movie: Not One Less Release date: 2/18/2000 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Despite its deliberate austerity, Not One Less is extraordinarily rich. 26 other reviews of this movie Movie: Down to You Release date: 1/21/2000 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Flees from anything that might involve real human emotion, or for that matter any credible human ... 38 other reviews of this movie Movie: Big Red One, The Release date: 12/31/1980 11:01:27 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Seven years after Fuller's death, 24 years after its initial, botched release, and almost 60 year... 28 other reviews of this movie Movie: Billy Liar Release date: 1/1/1963 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required One of the great movies of the 1960's. 1 other reviews of this movie Movie: Pandora's Box Release date: 12/31/1928 11:01:41 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required Neither an exposé of social conditions nor a psychological case study and certainly not a mo... 18 other reviews of this movie Movie: Beyond the Rocks Release date: 12/31/1922 11:01:27 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/5) Login Required A marvelously overripe 1922 silent melodrama starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino. 9 other reviews of this movie Movie: Starting Out in the Evening Release date: 11/23/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/3) No reference It has the quiet beauty of a late afternoon, late in the autumn, when New York seems to be not ju... 33 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bee Movie Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/3) No reference The most genuinely apian aspect of Bee Movie is that it spends a lot of its running time buzzing ... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Bee Movie Release date: 11/2/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/3) No reference The most genuinely apian aspect of Bee Movie is that it spends a lot of its running time buzzing ... 44 other reviews of this movie Movie: Rendition Release date: 10/19/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/3) No reference Its clumsy efforts are toward an honest and difficult goal, which is to use the resources of main... 124 other reviews of this movie Movie: My Kid Could Paint That Release date: 10/5/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/3) No reference An intimate, sometimes unsettling family drama. 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: No End in Sight Release date: 7/27/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/1) No reference No End in Sight offers an emphatic, well-supported answer to a question that has already begun to... 80 other reviews of this movie Movie: Golden Door Release date: 5/25/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/3) No reference What makes Mr. Crialese’s telling unusual, apart from the gorgeousness of his wide-screen composi... 65 other reviews of this movie Movie: Away From Her Release date: 5/4/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/1) No reference In a refreshingly direct, unassuming manner, Away From Her considers two great human mysteries: t... 92 other reviews of this movie Movie: Smokin' Aces Release date: 1/26/2007 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/4) No reference Smokin Aces is a Viagra suppository for compulsive action fetishists and a movie that may not onl... 133 other reviews of this movie Movie: Stranger Than Fiction Release date: 11/10/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/1) No reference While Stranger Than Fiction traffics in a bit of darkly funny existential anxiety, it also finds ... 131 other reviews of this movie Movie: Running With Scissors Release date: 10/20/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/1) No reference The problem is that the efforts of the actors don't add up to much more than a series of uncomfor... 101 other reviews of this movie Movie: Man of the Year Release date: 10/13/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/1) No reference In a pre-election season full of drama, contention and surprise, Man of the Year arrives on the s... 83 other reviews of this movie Movie: Strangers With Candy Release date: 6/28/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/1) No reference Like many feature films based on small-screen, short-form comedy, Strangers With Candy feels more... 79 other reviews of this movie Movie: Road To Guantanamo, The Release date: 6/23/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/1) No reference The Road to Guantanamo, based on the testimony of three British Muslims captured in Afghanistan i... 77 other reviews of this movie Movie: Lower City Release date: 5/26/2006 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/1) No reference The movie turns out to be a predictable and somewhat sentimental lower-depths love triangle, but ... 50 other reviews of this movie Movie: Matchstick Men Release date: 9/12/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/4) No reference An emotional shell game that leaves you feeling cheated even though, on the surface at least, eve... 116 other reviews of this movie Movie: And Now Ladies and Gentlemen Release date: 8/1/2003 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/4) No reference The film goes on too long and adds up to very little, but the director's undisguised pleasure in ... 32 other reviews of this movie Movie: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang Release date: 12/31/2001 11:01:36 PM Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/4) No reference Shane Black's film noir is a movie with no particular reason for existing, a flashy, trifling thr... 55 other reviews of this movie Movie: Dr. Dolittle 2 Release date: 6/22/2001 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (6/1) No reference Offers benign Darwinian amusement for young animal lovers and parents in search of 90 minutes of ... 39 other reviews of this movie Movie: Sweet Smell of Success Release date: 6/27/1957 Review by A. O. Scott of New York Times: (3/3) No reference Its pleasures are almost obscenely abundant. 12 other reviews of this movie Served turbo style