Rabbit-Proof Fence - In every way it is an important film and one that elevates the human spirit.

Race the Sun - At times, the film also seems like an "After School Special.

Radio - A film that does everything perfectly.

Radio Free Steve - There has to be a more clear line between the back story and the back back story. Whew - now I'm confused.

Rainbow Child - I have seen a lot of self- indulgent, egotistical crap on screen in my day but this film sets a new standard for the mode.

Raising Victor Vargas - Captivates us with its stark reality and its golden hued teenage sexuality.

Ram Dass: Fierce Grace - There's a hell of a lot more going on here than exaultation.

Rat Race - The movie is just damn funny, especially if you can disengage the old brain.

Rave - It's obvious within the first five minutes of the film that the entire movie is going to be a piece of shit.

Ray - Even a blind man could see that the biopic "Ray" is lacking.

The Real Cancun - The producers lensed, edited and released this feature film in less than 5 weeks. And it shows.

Real Women Have Curves - The scripters here are just too lazy to work on the script and make stuff believable and justifiable.

Rear Window - Is about nothing but claustrophobia. Not the clinical and scientific of it, but the Americanism of it.

The Reckoning - I reckon it's a pretty decent movie.

Red Eye - Craven is an odd choice for director here but he brings the film around easily and makes it work well.

Red Planet - A blatant rip-off of Kubrick's "2001" with just enough stuff morphed into something new and just enough action popped in to placate sci-fi's less demanding (and youthfully ignorant) fans.

Red Trousers: The Life of the Hong Kong Stuntmen - A really lazy movie that has nuggets of gold stashed away in mounds of shit.

Reeker - It took me at least thirty minutes to get into "Reeker," and then, I loved it!

Reel Paradise - What an experience it is.

The Reflecting Skin - Wow. What can you say about "The Reflecting Skin?" Neverbefore has the incomprehensible horror of life been so eloquently and abstractly put up on the screen.

Reflections on Love - This is a silly and wonderfully groovy little 12 minute pop film from the mid-60's.

Rent - The anti-Rumplestiltskin, turning gold into SHIT.

The Replacement Killers - Imagine John Woo on qualude and you get a general idea.

The Replacements - The film truly begins to win us over. Or, at least, we find it easier to give ourselves over to it.

Requiem for a Dream - Is continually visually amazing with each and every frame a well composed and engrossing picture that never ceases to engage and draw in the viewer.

Respiro - Go see it!

The Return - What's amazing about the film is that it allows the viewer to piece together whatever they want about the film.

Return to Me - Really, never goes anywhere except exactly where you expect it to go.

Reversal - This is a film that explores an area of the teenage condition that has rarely been discussed, that of young males body image.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Such a one-sided, biased, blatant display of political filmmaking.

Rick - A cool, edgy and dark tale.

Riders - Watching this film you get the impression that scripter and director Doug Sadler watched far to many TV-Movies-of-the-Week as a child.

Riding Giants - It's difficult not to dismiss the film in its early minutes because of Peralta's cinematic hot-dogging.

Riding in Cars with Boys - Is one of the most annoying and amateurish pieces of slop that a female has made since Lizzie Borden's "Love Crimes."

The Ring - Is a nicely built, solid story that is fresh and original.

The Ringer - This movie makes its point loud and clear!

Rivers and Tides - Every moment of this film is important and beautiful.

The Road to El Dorado - Dreamworks does some bold things here really, turning Disney on it's ear and getting a PG rating.

Road Trip - uses many sexual situations to open our eyes to the wonderful humor and beautiful openness our sexuality can take.

Robots - A pointless, insipid, boring and obvious marketing ploy masked as an animated feature.

Robot Stories - The true delight of “Robot Stories” is its unique qualities.

The Rock - Does indeed rock.

Rock 'n' Roll High School - Captures the abandon of punk. It's all rebellion for rebellion's sake and mocks authority.

Rocket Man - Harland Williams could give Jim Carrey a run for his money. He's like the 90's Don Knotts.

Rock Opera - Loud, bold, vulgar and fast, "Rock Opera" uses the Austin music scene as the backdrop for a story about drugs and druggies.

Rock School - Watching Green at work here is simply amazing.

Rock Star - Make no mistake about it though, "Rock Star" is an awesome film.

Rocky and Bullwinkle - This is one that can wait for the dollar cinema or 50 cent rental night.

Rocky Horror Picture Show - Seeing it again for the 70th- some-odd-time makes me feel young and old.

Roll Bounce - There's not only nothing new here, there's nothing that isn't standard and typical.

Rollins Talking from the Box - Henry Rollins is the true post-nuclear Renaissance man.

Rollercoaster - Chock full of more teen angst per second than Melissa Joan Hart having her period, "Rollercoaster" is an awesome film.

Romeo + Juliet (1996) - It is stunning, stylized, sweet, poetic, heartbreaking and beautiful. 

Ronin -John Frankenheimer takes us on an interesting ride that often requires our attention and intelligence.

Room - Is a allegorical masterpiece which exposes the subtle ways in which the drudgery and frustration of daily life can overwhelm and debilitate us.

Rosenstrasse - Is so distanced and so cold that it becomes a bit difficult to care about what is going on here.

Rosewater - Perfect, intricate, surreal, experimental, avant-garde... these terms seem inadequate.

The Royal Tenenbaums - This is not "Rushmore," it's Rush-less...

R.S.V.P. - It was such an unmitigated piece of shit that I just couldn't wait to get home and sit down in front of my trusty word processor and piss all over it from a great height.

Rules of Attraction - A typically sophomoric cynical and dark film.

Rules of Engagement - This film is a shambles. A Shambles! But it is saved, just barely, by the audacity of it's script's theme and the sheer acting will of it's two male leads.

Rules of the Game - Long considered one of the greatest films of all time.

Rumor Has It... - This unusual and flimsy romantic comedy is saved only by the talents of Jennifer Aniston and Mark Ruffalo.

Rumble in the Bronx - What is so amazing and amusing about the movie is that it plays on almost every cliche in Kung-Fu movies with hilarious delight.

Runaway Brain - Runaway Brain is a new 8 minute Mickey Mouse cartoon that could have been shown before "Face\Off."

Runaway Bride - The film has the ability to charm us.

Runaway Jury - isn't the best movie one will ever see but it certainly wins over its audience as every frame goes through the projector.

Run Lola Run - Frenetic and poetic at the same time.

Running Scared - If you don't enjoy Tarantino and films like "Sin City," then this film may indeed have you running, scared for you sanity.

Running with Scissors - Will have you running to the box office with your ticket stub, screaming for your money back.

Rush Hour -Sure the plot is stupid but who cares!

Rush Hour 2 - It's dumb and poorly directed and ad-libbed and pointless. Yet it is still damn fun.

Rushmore - There is not a dull frame in the piece.

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