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Rapid Fire (1992) 
Oh my, but is there ever a mess of broken glass in this movie. A more apt title would be Rapid Shatter. Yet, as long as you don't have to sweep up, I guess it's okay. ...
Rapid Response (2019, 99 min., PG-13)
A quiet celebration of the medics who make motorsports safer
The Rapture (1991) 
I've been trying to remember another recent debut film from a novice director that packs as much of a punch as Michael Tolkin's The Rapture, and I can't. Set in modern Los Angeles, young, single Sharon ...
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010, 80 min., R)
Quite the opposite of treacly holiday fare, this European import features one very bad Santa.
Raspad (1990)
On April 26, 1986 in the Ukraine region of what was then the Soviet Union, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in a catastrophic meltdown and released massive, deadly amounts of radioactivity into ...
Rat Race (2001, 105 min., PG-13)
Why some Paramount production executives thought that now was a good time to revive the big-ensemble chase comedy formula is anyone's guess. It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world, indeed. Given that emulation is the dubious ...
Ratatouille (2007, 110 min., G)
Pixar scores another triumph of animated wonder with this story of a rat who craves haute cuisine over garbage.
Ratcatcher (1999, 93 min., NR)
Glasgow, mid-Seventies. A garbagemen's strike afflicts the city. While boys muck around in the diseased water, a drowning occurs, and 12-year-old James Gillespie's life changes forever. From the first moments of this bleak Scottish export, the misery of these people is deeply felt. Children come of age long before their time as families are broken by poverty, drink, death, and grime. Yet writer/director Ramsay produces poetry in all this devastation. Ratcatcher is an inner-city tragedy that plays its story simply, sorrowfully, and beautifully.
Ratchet (1998, 114 min., NR)
This latter-day film noir set on the sandy beach fronts of Nantucket is as convoluted as the kelp beds that bob listlessly in its high-tide pools, though not nearly as enticing. Tangled plot lines and enervated ...
Ratchet & Clank (2016, 94 min., PG)
This animated video-game spin-off fails on every level
The Raven (2012, 111 min., R)
John Cusack plays Edgar Allan Poe in this historically imaginative but dull and off-putting detective story set in old Baltimore.
Ravenous (1999, 100 min., R)
Antonia Bird is best known for the unsettling Priest, which tackled the issue of gay clergy head on. Ravenous is devoid of such contemporary sociological mores, but that doesn't stop it from being a minor masterpiece ...
Raw (2017, 99 min., R)
A coming-of-age cannibal tale with teeth
Ray (2004, 152 min., PG-13)
Ray Charles, we can't stop loving you, even though this formulaic biopic lacks your original style.
Raya and the Last Dragon (2021, 114 min., PG)
Disney's new Southeast Asian fantasy is a landmark, but loses its way
RBG (2018, 96 min., PG)
Loving look at the Supreme Court member, and unlikely pop culture icon
The Re-Education of Molly Singer (2023, 120 min., R)
Back-to-school comedy updates the curriculum for modern laughs
Read My Lips (2002, 118 min., NR)
In this startling thriller, a mousy but frustrated office worker and an unrepentant thief pull off a heist that depends in equal measures on quick thinking and creative choreography.
The Reader (2008, 123 min., R)
Stephen Daldry, working from a superior script by David Hare, has crafted a film about guilt, love, and history which stars Ralph Fiennes, Kate Winslet, and newcomer David Kross.
Ready or Not (2020, 82 min., NR)
Campaign doc charts the gap between youthful enthusiasm and electability
Ready or Not (2019, 95 min., R)
Party games will be the death of Samara Weaving in this raucous black comedy
Ready Player One (2018, 140 min., PG-13)
Video gaming and Eighties culture get the Spielberg treatment
Ready to Rumble (2000, 100 min., PG-13)
I'm sorry. I laughed. I know the whole country has spent the past week trashing this wrestling comedy's asinine plot, premise, and performances. And I agree with the naysayers 100% -- as long as they notice ...
Ready to Wear (Pret-A-porter) (1994)
Ready to Wear is no designer item. Director Robert Altman trips on the fashion world's runway in his latest release whose title has been Americanized from its original Pret-a-Porter moniker. As is typical of Altman's career ...
The Real Blonde (1998, 105 min., R)
Indie-darling Tom DiCillo (Living in Oblivion) fails to capture the hearts and minds of his core audience in this fourth film which is nearly as meandering as his last (Box of Moonlight), but this time out ...
The Real Cancun (2003, 97 min., R) 
New Line wins the race to become the first company to transfer the TV reality-show craze to the movie theatres. Rest assured, there are plenty of these projects in the works (New Line has already beat ...
The Real McCoy (1993)
For once, it's good to see an actress step into the lead role of an action-adventure film -- a place that is usually reserved exclusively for men. But on the other hand, it's not so good ...
Real Steel (2011, 127 min., PG-13)
Mix Rocky with The Transformers and you'll wind up with something like Real Steel.
Real Women Have Curves (2002, 90 min., PG-13)
Two women, Carmen (Ontiveros) and Anna (Ferrara), are locked in an age-old struggle. It's the struggle between mothers and daughters, expectations and possibilities, cultural constraints and individual potential -- the struggle of a first-generation Mexican-American Latina ...
Reality Bites (1994, 99 min., PG-13)
Stiller's first feature film as a director captured the zeitgeist and is imbued with an honest and sarcastic wit.
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