�why do you make me hurt you?�
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (guest reviewer)
�we end each adventure partly satisfied, but partly eager for the next installment.�
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
�noun-pronoun agreement can�t be squeezed in with flying brooms and magic weed�
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
�reaches past all the magic and special effects and shows three teens gradually becoming disillusioned...and realizing that their elders were once as young and as stupid as they are.�
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer�s Stone
�slight, energetic�mainstream entertainment.�
Heavenly Creatures (1994)
�the story of an amazingly tender yet ultimately diseased friendship�
Heist (2001)
�we�watch with giddy anxiety to see who will double-cross whom first.�
Hell Boy
"enormously preposterous and enormously entertaining."
Hero (2002)
�the fable opens up like a brilliant puzzle box�
A History of Violence
�a whole lotta nothing�
The Hitchhiker�s Guide to the Galaxy (1981)
�I�ve seen the sunrise. It�s rubbish.�
The Hitchhiker�s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
�mostly harmless�
Hollywood Ending
�fallen director is given one last chance at greatness, only to be stricken with psychosomatic blindness�
Hotel Rwanda
�he thought the West would...do better this time around�
The Hours
�a day in the lives of three different women in three different eras�
House of Flying Daggers
�a better place to live than the House of Sand and Fog.�
House of Sand and Fog
�a story of weak and erring people�
How to Kill Your Neighbor�s Dog
�one of those guys who�s turned self-loathing, self-pity, and general contempt for the universe into an artform.�
Hurlyburly
�these people want and want but don�t know what�s good for them�
Hustle & Flow
�Whoop that trick!�
I Capture the Castle
�newness of adolescent romance�
An Ideal Husband (1999)
�Wilde�s wit is best delivered when tossed off, casually, whimsically, the lighter the better.�
Identity
�definitely a �deus ex machina,� but there are genuine clues pointing to it along the way.�
I�ll Sleep When I�m Dead
�nothing and no one matters, because everything that is not forgotten is warped.�
The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
�charming, brightly-paced, and absolutely carefree�
�a gentle story�about a family that is looking to come back to life�
The Incredibles
�Pixar Animation specializes in enormously popular Friday night cinema�
In Good Company (2005)
�a genuine office feeling, in which men need their jobs not just for money but for dignity and purpose�
INLAND EMPIRE (2006)
�strange (what love does)�
Insomnia (2002)
�moral weight tied around Pacino�s neck, and his attempts to resolve it are more dramatic than any fistfight.�
In the Bedroom
�A marriage and a tragedy . . . documented so effectively that what is painful to the characters becomes painful to us.�
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
�they call me Mr. Tibbs�
In the Mood for Love
�smoking�smoking�still smoking��
The Interpreter (2005)
�uncritically translates the style, as well as the content, of a too-serious trash airport novel directly to the screen�
Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
�68 minute cartoon without dialogue and sound effects, only music.�
Intolerable Cruelty
�it�s a joy to behold George Clooney sometimes�
I, Robot
�Will Smith is right at home in movies like this.�
The Italian Job (1969)
�wonderfully, quintessentially '60s�
Jersey Girl (2004)
�a valiant effort from a maturing director�
Kill Bill: Volume 1
"combines crap with art."
Kill Bill: Volume 2
"veers into the territory of actually being about something."
Killing Zoe
�I fear to watch yet cannot turn away.�
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
�you can�t spell �kingdom� without �dumb.��
King Kong (1933)
�step right up!�
King Kong (2005)
�monkeys throw their poo�
Kinsey
�descends into a delirium montage of...director Condon lecturing us...to soppy music.�
Kung-Fu Hustle
�Children are peed on�
Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist
�it is what it is.�