Cars |
A |
Great animated story, if a little too Disney. |
X-Men: The Last Stand |
B |
Another good comic book movie. |
The Da Vinci Code |
C |
Wait for it on video. An ok adaptation until the end. |
Ultraviolet |
F |
Boring fight scenes; lots of incoherence in the plot. |
V for Vendetta |
B |
Cool visuals, nicely done atmosphere. |
Underworld: Evolution |
C |
Worth a look. Werewolves vs. Vampires II. |
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
B |
A good adaptaption of the story. |
Aeon Flux |
C |
Worth a look, good live version of the anime. |
Pride and Prejudice |
F |
Dreadful. A gothic recasting of the book! |
Serenity |
A |
Firefly lives! A fantastic transfer of the series to the big screen. |
The Constant Gardener |
B |
Suspenseful and highly entertaining, the movie is a bit too distant to be engrossing. |
The Island |
C |
Watchable modern re-telling of Logan's Run. |
Batman Begins |
A |
Wow! It rocks! |
Fantastic Four |
B |
Great rendition of the comic book. |
Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith |
A |
It's Star Wars. The third best Star Wars movie. |
Constantine |
B |
A good adaptation; exciting. |
Hitch
|
D |
Not much to recommend it - a few laughs. |
Million Dollar Baby
|
B |
Fine performances, good story - very enjoyable. |
Sideways |
B |
A good movie, not a great one, but interesting and worth seeing. |
Assault on Precinct 13
|
C |
Not a bad action flick; worth checking out. |
Elektra |
F |
A dismal movie, both boring and exasperating. |
National Treasure
|
B |
No surprises here, but the well-told adventure is worth watching. |
The Incredibles |
A |
Pixar's best so far, it's really for the adults. |
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow |
B |
Didn't achieve all it went for, but interesting and worth seeing. |
The Manchurian Candidate |
B |
For the most part predictable, gripping and well-paced. |
Fahrenheit 9/11 |
A |
Propaganda, but well-done propaganda. |
The Bourne Supremacy |
C |
An OK sequel; lots of action, confusing editing. |
I, Robot |
C |
An entertaining action-flick, but it's not Asimov. |
Before Sunset |
A |
A conversation movie; an enchanting sequel, though it stands on its own . |
Spider-Man 2 |
A |
Very engaging action. In many ways superior to the first film. |
Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
B |
Entertaining and good, but definitely an adaptation. |
The Day After Tomorrow |
D |
Many incongruities. Forget everything you know about heat transfer. |
Man on Fire |
C |
Some good things here, but cliche in many ways. |
Van Helsing |
C |
OK. Dracula meets the Werewolf meets Frankenstein with Bond gadgets thrown in. |
Super-Size Me |
B |
An interesting documentary, in the style of Michael Moore. |
Hellboy |
B |
A pretty good comic-book adaptation. |
Cold Mountain |
A |
Ignore the bad southern accents and you've got a great Civil War film. |
Last Samurai |
C |
Shogun-lite. |
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King |
F |
Take away the special effects and, well, you have nothing. |
Mona Lisa Smile |
D |
Total miscasting in Julia Roberts. The film can't decide what story its telling. |
Paycheck |
B |
One of the better Philip Dick adaptations. Engaging if typical. |
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World |
A |
A rollicking naval saga. Extremely well-done and interesting. |
Elf |
F |
This movie fails in about every way possible: not funny, not coherent. |
Love Actually |
A |
One of the best Christmas movies to appear in a long time. A great braided narrative. |
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life |
B |
Quite satisfying as an action film. |
Pirates of the Caribbean |
B |
Very entertaining and very Disney-ish. |
Alex and Emma |
F |
Unfortunately, this movie is simply mediocre in all ways. |
The League of Extraordinary Gentleman |
C |
Not boring, but badly lacking in disbelief suspension, continuity, and fight choreography. |
Finding Nemo |
B |
Fantastic animation and graphics. While very funny in places, the story is so-so. |
Terminator 3: The Rise of the Machines |
D |
Formulaic, lacking the suspense of its predecessors. One long chase with lots of explosions interspersed. |
White, and Blonde Legally Blonde 2: Red |
D |
Trite, pink, and cutesy. Agonizing in many places, funny in a few. |
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle |
B |
So campy and flashy that it's fun to watch. |
Whale Rider |
A |
A captivating movie with a sense of place reminiscent of The Secret of Roan Innish. |
The Hulk |
C |
Watchable but uneven; the story needed editing. |
The Italian Job |
C |
A predictable if enjoyable caper film. |
Bend It Like Beckham |
B |
A feel-good movie - fun to watch. |
The Matrix Reloaded |
C |
Yawn. Another triumph of style over substance. |
X2: X-Men United |
A |
The bad guys are better in this great comic-book movie. |
The Recruit |
D |
Full of plot holes, quite predictable. |
Daredevil |
C |
Enjoyable, but nothing particularly great. |
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
F |
Very bad. I could elucidate, but why kick a dead horse? |
Star Trek: Nemesis |
A |
Star Trek! Star Trek! |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets |
A |
A better Potter movie, with more character and plot . |
Die Another Day |
B |
A pretty good Bond film. |
Catch Me if You Can |
B |
An interesting and enjoyable tale, surprisingly well-acted. |
The Santa Clause 2 |
C |
An OK sequel. Entertaining and watchable. |
My Big, Fat Greek Wedding |
A |
Fresh and Funny. |
The X-Men |
B |
Nicely done comic-book movie. |
Attack of the Clones |
A |
It's Star Wars (a better Star Wars than Episode I). |
Spider Man |
A |
Very much like a comic book, and very well done. |
A Beautiful Mind |
B |
A very well-acted, well-directed, and entertaining story. |
The Count of Monte Cristo |
C |
Incredible liberties with the story, but entertaining nonetheless. |
The Lord of the Rings |
D |
An incoherent travesty of a Tolkien adaptation. Bakshi was better. A longer review is here. |
Amelie |
B |
Funny, original, and thoroughly enjoyable. |
Vanilla Sky |
D |
Hmmm. Good acting but an essentially pointless movie. |
Monsters, Inc. |
B |
Great animation, pretty good story. |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone |
B |
Remarkably true to the book. Maybe you won't read the book after seeing it. |
The Musketeer |
F |
Bad in all respects, but especially bad fight choreography. |
The Others |
D |
A yawn-inspiring, exploitive ghost story with many "ice-box" moments. |
K-PAX |
B |
Unusual, entertaining, and well-done. |
The Score |
B |
A bit slow, a bit predictable, but a well-acted and interesting story. |
The Fast and the Furious |
C |
An enjoyable cheap thrill. |
Atlantis: The Lost Empire |
B |
Entertaining. A welcome release from the usual Disney cliche. |
Shrek |
C |
Great animation, but only moderately engaging. |
Planet of the Apes |
F |
What a horrible movie. See the original. |
Jurassic Park III |
D |
A tired, cliched plot with nothing extra in terms of special effects. |
Final Fantasy |
C |
Great graphics, so-so animation, no plot. |
Legally Blonde |
D |
Totally cliche, mildly amusing in spots, but mostly boring. |
Down From the Mountain |
A |
A look behind the scenes at the bluegrass music in
O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider |
B |
A surprisingly good adaptation of the video game. |
Swordfish |
B |
Entertaining with a couple of good plot twists. |
The Mummy Returns |
C |
Not as good as the first: silly, visually uninteresting, mildly entertaining. |
Gladiator |
B |
Not deep, but highly entertaining with good special effects. |
Battlefield Earth |
F |
Probably the worst movie I've ever sat through. |
Rules of Engagement |
D |
Mostly unconvincing and unappealing. |
Erin Brockovich |
C |
More Julia Roberts. |
Mission
to Mars |
C |
Incrediby corny, in several places quite bad, yet it manages to be
entertaing. |
The Cider House
Rules |
A |
A well-told tale; altogether enjoyable. |
The Hurricane |
C |
Too long and not edited well, but a great performance by
Denzel Washington. |
Any Given Sunday |
B |
Interesting; one of Oliver Stone's best movies. |
Galaxy Quest |
A |
A hilarious spoof of TV science fiction and its fan culture. |
Man on the Moon |
D |
Dissapointing. More wierd than funny. |
The Green Mile |
B |
The time flies in this long but well-told story. |
Bicentennial Man |
D |
Maybe it will appeal to adolescents, but I found it superficial. |
End of Days |
C |
Reasonably entertaining, lots of gore, typical
Schwarzenegger. |
Anywhere But
Here |
B |
Low on plot, high on acting, enjoyable. |
Sleepy
Hollow |
C |
Entertaining with good special effects, but predictable. |
The Best Man |
C |
A funny derivative of The Big Chill . |
Dogma |
D |
Long on the sermon, short on the humor, Mallrats was funnier. |
The World is Not Enough |
B |
A more intriguing Bond movie than many, but a bit low on action. |
Random Hearts |
D |
Implausible, cold, and unappealing. |
Fight Club |
C |
Surprising, a bit long, pointless, with some great one-liners. |
Happy, Texas |
B |
A funny movie that exploits the talents of the actors, especially Steve Zahn , very well. |
Three Kings |
C |
An entertaining western disguised as an Iraqi war movie. |
American Beauty |
A |
An extremely good film with excellent acting about a dysfunctional family coping with mid-life crisis. |
Double Jeopardy |
C |
Mildy entertainting, the plot is predictable and the acting seems a bit tired. |
The Sixth Sense |
B |
A cool drama, one of Bruce Willis ' better roles. |
The Thomas Crown Affair |
D |
This movie is cold, and pretty boring, although it does have a few moments. Not enough though. |
Blue Streak |
D |
A comedy-caper movie, it's not very good. |
Deep Blue Sea |
F |
Could this movie have been any more stupid? I don't think so. |
The Blair Witch Project |
C |
A great idea, but as a movie it kind of failed. |
American Pie |
D |
A very juvenile drive-in movie (that's where I saw it). |
Tea with Mussolini |
B |
An interesting movie taking place around WWII, with a great cast and very good role for Cher . |
EdTV |
B |
Entertaining. Similar to The Truman Show, but better. |
Shakespeare in Love |
A |
Witty and entertaining, Tom Stoppard is in top form. |
Dancing at Lughnasa |
D |
I expected a lot from such a good cast, but this moving is pretty boring. |
Patch Adams |
C |
Robin Williams in another dramatic role. |
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me |
C |
Funnier, though more tasteless, than Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery . |
A Civil Action |
D |
A boring court-room drama about evil polluters. Robert Duvall does a great job. |
At First Sight |
D |
A love story, involving a blind man, yawn. |
The Phantom Menace |
A |
It's Star Wars. |
Elizabeth |
A |
An enthralling historical drama similar to Queen Margot . |
Waking Ned Devine |
B |
A very funny comedy about winning (or trying to win) the lottery. |
You've Got Mail |
B |
So it's another Meg Ryan love story, it's still really well done. |
Stepmom |
C |
A typical tear-jerker, only Jena Malone breathes some life to this movie. |
Star Trek: Insurrection |
A |
It's Star Trek, you can't expect me to be objective, can you? |
The Siege |
D |
An utterly forgettable movie. |
Practical Magic |
B |
An entertaining magic and love story. The book is better. |
Pleasantville |
B |
A very well-made and well thought-out film, almost an A, that has a lot of interesting detail. |
A Bug's Life |
C |
Gorgeous animation, tired story. |
The Prince of Egypt |
D |
The story of Moses for Saturday morning cartoons. |
Meet Joe Black |
C |
A good job by Claire Forlani , with beautiful photography, it's still a bit long. |
Enemy of the State |
C |
Conspiracy-theorist as hero, it's cliche but fairly enteraining. |
Antz |
D |
Extremely tedious for the few cool bits of animation. |
Next Stop, Wonderland |
A |
A very well-made movie (except for the camera work). It does everything well. |
Pecker |
F |
Could this movie be any more cliche? I don't think so. Nothing works. |
Ronin |
C |
Great car chases; in the style of French Connection and Three Days of the Condor. |
One True Thing |
B |
Incredibly well-acted, this movie avoids a lot of cliches, and is better than the book. |
Rush Hour |
B |
A "finesse" Jackie Chan movie; Chris Tucker is funny too. |
Rounders |
C |
This movie is entertaining, and good because of the Poker, but it never quite works. |
The Parent Trap |
C |
Pretty good once it gets over being cutsie. |
Snake Eyes |
C |
It's very watchable, although pretty predictable. |
There's Something About Mary |
A |
Absolutely hysterical. The funniest movie since Chasing Amy . |
Six Days, Seven Nights |
C |
A cliche story with good performances by Harrison Ford and Ann Heche. |
Saving Private Ryan |
B |
Good acting, lots of violence, predictable plot. |
The Opposite of Sex |
C |
A good but very off-beat comedy |
The Negotiator |
C |
Good acting, but way too predictable. |
The Mask of Zorro |
C |
Enjoyable, but it never really clicks. |
Lethal Weapon 4 |
B |
Better than 2 and 3 |
Hope Floats |
C |
Sandra Bullock does an ok job in this very predictable but watchable movie. |
Ever After |
C |
Chick-flick! |
Blade
|
C |
This is actually entertaining in a C-movie kind of way. |
The Avengers |
D |
Only go to see Uma Thurman in a skin-tight rubber outfit. |
54 |
B |
Entertaining, but not as good as The Last Days of Disco . |
Armageddon |
D |
Lots of explosions. Otherwise it's inconsistent, incoherent, and hokey. |
|
|
|
Out of Sight |
A |
It's witty, well-made, and entertaining.
George Clooney's
best film. |
The X files |
B |
A two hour TV episode. |
Mulan |
A |
A good Disney film, well-animated. I liked it better than
The Lion King. |
Dirty Work |
F |
An idiotic, poorly acted, tasteless and incredibly unfunny movie. |
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas |
D |
It's really boring unless you enjoy two actors acting stoned all the time. |
The Truman Show |
C |
An entertaining film, but Jim Carrey doesn't quite pull a dramatic role off. |
The Last Days of Disco |
B |
A great soundtrack only adds to this well-acted, wonderfully scripted film. |
The Horse Whisperer |
B |
Overly-sentimental and predictable, this movie is still entertaining with beautiful cinematography. |
Godzilla |
C |
A big lizard trashes Manhattan; you have to love it. |
Deep Impact |
B |
Everyone does a creditable job in this entertaining but no surprises comet movie |
The Spanish Prisoner |
C |
David Mamet's intellectual thriller is too predictable to be too thrilling. |
The Gingerbread Man |
C |
It tries to be suspenseful; it ends up predictable. |
Species II |
F |
You might imagine this is a terrible movie, and you'd be right. |
The Chinese Box |
B |
An interesting film about a reporter's last days in British Hong Kong. |
Sliding Doors |
A |
A very well-made and entertaining film about fate and parallel lives. |
The Big Hit |
B |
A tongue-in-cheek action comedy in the Hong Kong style (without the fight choreagraphy). |
Irma Vep |
A |
A delightful French satire. |
The Object of My Affection |
C |
Entertaining fluff, with an ending that's a square peg fit into a round hole. |
Ulee's Gold |
A |
Victor Nunez does another fabulous job. |
Sling Blade |
A |
A carefully developed, enthralling story with great acting. |
Wild Things |
B |
A nice twist on Body Heat. |
Mercury Rising |
C |
A typical Bruce Willis film. |
Lost in Space |
C |
An ok homage to the series, but substandard special effects |
Primary Colors |
B |
Very entertaining, but too much of it we see coming.
Travolta and
Thompson are at the top of a wonderful cast. |
The Wedding Singer |
B |
A nostalgic and funny romantic comedy, looking back at the 80's. |
Dangerous Beauty |
B |
An entertaining film, but a bit too melodramatic in its closing moments. |
The Big Lebowski |
C |
Pretty funny; it's not Fargo though. |
U.S. Marshals |
D |
Predictable and trite. No surprises. |
Sphere |
F |
Predictable. Mostly boring. Dumb ending. |
Dark City |
C |
This style-over-substance film starts out well, but falters along the way. |
The Apostle |
D |
Excruciating. |
Replacement Killers |
C |
A John Woo tribute film. |
Wag the Dog |
B |
A humorous political satire. |
Good Will Hunting |
D |
Dissapointing. Tries to do lots, doesn't do anything well. |
As Good As it Gets |
B |
Ejoyable for the acting of both Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt . |
Wings of the Dove |
C |
I didn't think much of this movie that was carried by
Alison Elliot.
|
Titanic
|
A |
Wonderful. Moves quickly. The ship sinks in the end. |
Tomorrow Never Dies |
A |
A breakthrough Bond movie. |
L.A. Confidential |
B |
A very good Chinatown-ish movie. |
Men in Black
|
A |
Hilarious, inventive spoof. |
Starship Troopers |
A |
A wonderful, over-the-top satire/parody with amazing special effects. |
In & Out |
D |
Jeffrey was much better. This
was tired. |
Grosse Point Blank
|
A |
Wonderfully funny black comedy. |
The Full Monty |
B |
I thought this was pretty funny, but a friend hated it. |
Air Force One |
B |
Non-stop action and suspense. |
Mrs. Brown |
B |
A gorgeous period piece. |
My Best Friend's Wedding |
C |
This movie is carried by Rupert Everett and Cameron Diaz . |
Face/Off |
A |
Wow! John Woo all the way. Constant Action. |
The Fifth Element |
B |
Luc Besson 's weakest film is highly entertaining. |
The Lost World: Jurassic Park |
F |
The special effects don't save this one. |
Donnie Brasco |
C |
A gangster film. With Al Pacino. Unremarkable otherwise. |
When We Were Kings |
A |
A great documentary. |
Event Horizon |
F |
Why did I sit through this? |
Mimic |
F |
I tried to leave, but the person I saw it with was training for a marathon and learning pain endurance. |
Spawn |
F |
This was so laughably bad I had to stay until the end. |
Maia Lin: A Strong Clear Vision
|
A+ |
The best documentary I've ever seen. |
Mortal Kombat II: Annihilation
|
F |
Why did I go to this? |
Chasing Amy |
A |
Kevin Smith's
best movie is hilariously funny. |
Mallrats |
D |
Kevin Smith
didn't do so well here. |
Clerks |
B |
Hilariously funny, very raunchy humor. |
Ruby in Paradise |
A |
A great coming of age story. |
A Man For All Seasons |
A+ |
One of the best movies ever. |
Tequila Sunrise |
A |
This is a great story. With Michelle Pfeiffer . |