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2/5
     (2002)      "Whether Gaghan is striving for abusive psychological test of torture or plodding teen drama, he ends up with both." [movie review]      Filmcritic.com   
  
3/5
     (2008)      "It's a limiting move, making a specific film about people who adore a specific film" [movie review]      Filmcritic.com   
  
1.5/4
     (2007)      "A low-rent, off-Broadway spectacle that's desperately in need of a stage" [movie review]      Charlotte Weekly   
  
3/4
     (2009)      "Adam's disorder is but one piece of a tender relationship puzzle that's nurtured out of its shell by the performers." [movie review]      Charlotte Weekly   
  
C+
     (2002)      "Jonze and Kaufman’s imaginations may be limitless, but their film could use some intentional grounding." [movie review]      Eclipse Magazine   
  
1.5/4
     (2009)      "A pretentious, naval-gazing pity party thrown for condescending, affected blowhards." [movie review]      Charlotte Weekly   
  
1.5/4
     (2005)      "Movies this tiresome and obvious have no business in multiplexes." [movie review]      Charlotte Weekly   
  
2.5/4
     (2006)      "The message remains fantastic for kids, even if the director allows his events to teeter toward comical near the end." [movie review]      Charlotte Weekly   
  
C+
     (2003)      "Wilson and Hudson can two-step with the best of them, but the music they sway to is repetitive and indistinguishable, a tune heard in countless romantic comedies of the past." [movie review]      Flipside Movie Emporium   
  
1/5
     (2004)      "A big misfire, a big bore, and a big fat waste of time." [movie review]      Filmcritic.com   
  
     (2001)      "Does pack plenty of punches, most notably the mesmerizing turn by Smith." [movie review]      Eclipse Magazine   
  
B+
     (2003)      "The introspective Girls is frequently beautiful, though it occasionally slips out of focus for brief stints." [movie review]      Eclipse Magazine   
  
B
     (2004)      "Another high-brow laugher that delights in running (Ben Stiller) through the ringer." [movie review]      Eclipse Magazine   
  
2/5
     (2009)      "A quiet, reserved, and unexpectedly small picture about an aviation pioneer whose historical legacy ... has become larger than life." [movie review]      Filmcritic.com   
  
     (2001)      "When Sweethearts runs out of sharp gags or crafty in-jokes, it leans too heavily on misplaced, cartoonish slapstick." [movie review]      Eclipse Magazine   
  
1.5/4
     (2006)      "Pokes fun at a program that doesn't take itself seriously, cutting down easy targets like an eighth-grade bully picking fights with first graders." [movie review]      Charlotte Weekly   
  
     (2001)      "Just never quickens your pulse." [movie review]      Eclipse Magazine   
  
     (2001)      "With Pie 2, Biggs' Jim finally rises to the challenge of being the main character the first film desperately needed him to be." [movie review]      Eclipse Magazine   
  
A-
     (2003)      "A blast of originality, an oddly poignant and viciously entertaining glance into the conflicted mind of a genius." [movie review]      Eclipse Magazine   
  
B-
     (2003)      "We didn't need a third American Pie, but you'll still get a few laughs out of it." [movie review]      Flipside Movie Emporium   
  
3/4
     (2005)      "On almost every level, this remake is a marked improvement." [movie review]      Charlotte Weekly   
  
3/4
     (2009)      "A handsomely crafted and beautifully acted awakening story that's predictable but consistently rewarding." [movie review]      Charlotte Weekly   
  
C
     (2002)      "No sooner had I left the theater than I already started to fughedaboutit." [movie review]      Eclipse Magazine   
  
C+
     (2004)      "We really can’t call this a sophomore slump. Does sophomoric slump work?" [movie review]      Eclipse Magazine   
  
2/5
     (2004)      "no passion, no thrill, no showmanship" [movie review]      Filmcritic.com   
  
3/5
     (2009)      "never comes close to duplicating the urgent pacing of Brown's crackling source material" [movie review]      Filmcritic.com   
  
B
     (2003)      "Though Management might be the comedian’s most mainstream effort to date, the end result is still very much an Adam Sandler comedy." [movie review]      Eclipse Magazine   
  
2/5
     (2006)      "Saying Annapolis is predictable is like saying water is wet." [movie review]      Filmcritic.com   
  
2/5
     (2006)      "It's not that Bully bugged me. It just never managed to fly." [movie review]      Filmcritic.com   
  
4/5
     (2002)      "Uniformly well-performed and blessed with a spotless screenplay that could easily pass a naval inspection." [movie review]      Filmcritic.com   
  
     (1999)      "The brutal game sequences, combined with a thumping soundtrack you feel in your stomach, should make his target audience drool." [movie review]      Citysearch   
  
1/5
     (2006)      "suffers the carte blanche excesses of a successful director who believes he's earned the right not to be told "no."" [movie review]      Filmcritic.com   
  
D-
     (2004)      "(Owes) more to Verne 'Mini Me' Troyer than author Jules Verne." [movie review]      Eclipse Magazine   
  
3/4
     (2006)      "Takes some getting used to, but ends up being as bleak as Zwigoff's coal-blackened Bad Santa." [movie review]      Charlotte Weekly   
  
2.5/5
     (2007)      "We are told a lot about Jesse James during the elongated run time -- but learn very little about the man at all." [movie review]      Filmcritic.com   
  
2/5
     (2006)      "doesn't offer anything we haven't seen in an after-school special. " [movie review]      Filmcritic.com   
  
3.5/4
     (2007)      "Smaller than you'd expect, though many may remember it for the exquisite period detail, production design or fluid camera work." [movie review]      Charlotte Weekly   
  
B-
     (2002)      "Falls short of being a 24-karat comedy, but might be as funny as an Austin Powers movie gets." [movie review]      Eclipse Magazine   
  
2.5/5
     (2008)      "There's enough material in Australia to warrant a mini-series, which is how the feature film plays out. In one sitting, it's a tough sit." [movie review]      Filmcritic.com   
  
C+
     (2002)      "Translates into a mediocre episode of E!’s True Hollywood Story with more nudity." [movie review]      Eclipse Magazine   
  
     (2000)      "The predictable screenplay overcomes the obvious age difference and eventually generates genuine emotion." [movie review]      Citysearch   
  
3.5/4
     (2009)      "The first film I've seen this year that made me feel something." [movie review]      Charlotte Weekly   
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