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"Maybe it is just too soon, maybe we are just too used to the satire of "Saturday Night Live" maybe it's the kaleidoscopic structure, but this movie feels like a rough draft."
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(2006) |
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"It plays like an urban western: a strong, quiet loner takes on a corrupt man who runs the town with the help of a girl gone wrong with a heart of gold."
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(2005) |
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"Endlessly, tediously, mind-meltingly worthless.
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 4/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Animation serves the dialogue in this movie as it served the music in “Fantasia...” The monologues themselves are like jazz improvisations, wildly playful..."
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(1998) |
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"Delightful."
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 B+ |
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(2007) |
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""Walk Hard" is a spoof with wit as well as heft."
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(2005) |
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"Phoenix and Witherspoon and the conviction they bring to the connection between Johnny and June makes the movie work and takes us into their burning ring of fire.
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(2002) |
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"A syrupy retread of "Love Story" starring Teen Beat pin-ups."
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(2004) |
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"The original 1973 movie teetered on the brink of vigilantism. This remake produced by World Wrestling Entertainment unhesitatingly dives in with a triple gainer.
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 A- |
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(2008) |
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"Like the humble little hero of this film, Pixar holds onto its dreams. If that makes the films more challenging, less easily accessible, good for them and good for us, too."
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Beliefnet |
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 5/5 |
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(1993) |
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 A- |
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(2005) |
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"Every kind of funny: sophisticated wit, sly parody, outrageous puns, this-is- what-pause- buttons-on- DVD-players- are-made for detail, and fall-down, lose-the- toupee farce."
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 B |
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(2008) |
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"Nasty, twisted, pulpy, and brutally violent."
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 B+ |
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(2005) |
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"The images are fresh and imaginative and yet perfectly believable, mixing the normal with the inconceivable,"
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 2/5 |
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(2000) |
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"A couple of clever turns don't rescue this movie from its tired plot, laughable dialogue, and disastrous casting."
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 B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Faithfully and successfully grapples with the book's multi-layered storyline and fascinatingly flawed characters."
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Beliefnet |
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 B+ |
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(2007) |
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"This is a fine family film, filled with imagination and heart."
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Beliefnet |
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 1/5 |
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(1998) |
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Click here to see the review!
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 3/5 |
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(2000) |
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"McQuarrie shows a sure hand in his first time as director, with a muted color palatte, strong rhythm, and effective action sequences."
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 B |
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(2006) |
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"Its power dissipates by spreading over too many characters without grounding us enough in their stories, relying too much on signifiers of loss and moving on that are too familiar."
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 B |
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(2004) |
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"Somewhere between John Updike and "Knott's Landing," this is
suburban angst and adultery, with meaningful glances, inexpressible longing, fumbled groping, and hangovers."
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 B- |
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(2007) |
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"Despite a powerful chase scene and some affecting performances, the movie's retro slant makes it simplistic and superficial."
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 3/5 |
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(2002) |
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 B- |
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(2005) |
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"It's disconcerting that he continues to be self-centered and superficial while the point of view of the movie seems to be that he has had some kind of breakthrough."
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 C |
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(2005) |
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"All the romantic comedy gloss in the world can't save a script as stale as last week's wedding cake."
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 2/5 |
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(2001) |
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 C |
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(2008) |
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"There are a lot of outrageous, raunchy, and insulting comments from caricatured family members, but, surprisingly, considering that most of them are played by stand-up comics, very few actual jokes."
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Chicago Sun-Times |
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 3/5 |
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(2002) |
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 B- |
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(2004) |
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"If the script never rises above the sitcom level, at least the lines are delivered by people who are so good they almost seem like wit."
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 A- |
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(2003) |
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"The movie is not just genuinely lyrical, but, even harder to manage, it is lyrically genuine."
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 B |
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(2003) |
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"It may feel to other people like a adorableness overdose, but its intended audience will enjoy it very much."
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 3/5 |
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(1998) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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 C |
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(2008) |
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"What should have stayed in Vegas is this movie."
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Beliefnet |
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 2/5 |
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(2000) |
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"Another movie that fails so miserably."
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 4/5 |
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(2000) |
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"Gibson is sheer heaven in the movie."
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 3/5 |
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(2000) |
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"Chadha handles the multiple story lines and large cast with an expert hand, cutting back and forth to underscore the similarities and the differences."
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 2/5 |
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(2001) |
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"There is an overall slackness and an underlying cynicism that takes this outside of the category of mindless fun and makes it uncomfortably distasteful."
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 3/5 |
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(1972) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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 3/5 |
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(2000) |
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"This movie is worth seeing just to watch five of the finest actresses in movies."
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 3/5 |
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(2000) |
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"The script lets us down by conveniently skipping a few steps."
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 A- |
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(2009) |
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"Maurice Sendak's spare, poetic, and deeply wise book has been lovingly unfolded into a movie about the child -- and the wild things -- who live in all of us."
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Beliefnet |
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 B |
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(2009) |
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"Barrymore gently sells the niceness of it all. It turns out that roller girls just wanna have fun and that the sisterhood of the traveling skates is one big happy family."
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Beliefnet |
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 D |
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(2004) |
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"I knew we were in trouble when there was a "Hammer Time" joke in the first few minutes, a reference way past its sell-by date."
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 C |
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(2005) |
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"A barkingly dumb would-be thriller"
[movie review] |
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 4/5 |
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(2002) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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The Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
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 3/5 |
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(2000) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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The Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies |
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 F |
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(2004) |
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"Could it BE any more atrocious?"
[movie review] |
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 D |
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(2006) |
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"The gimmicky horror-flick conventions ultimately drag the film to a screeching halt."
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 C- |
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(2004) |
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"Harnett and Kruger move through the story like sleepwalkers who hope they won't wake up until the movie is over. I know how they feel.
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 B- |
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(2006) |
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"Most important, the story, even without the been-there-with-penguins feeling, is not very strong, leaving us wishing it was all a bit more...wild.
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