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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle
“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”
In America
“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.”