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(1999) |
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"I doubt I would be able to find ten things I hate about 10 Things I Hate About You, but the positive aspects of the film far out-number ten."
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(2007) |
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"Underneath the atmosphere and pizzazz is an intimate and thoughtful portrait of one man's return from an abyss infinitely more haunting than any old, evil hotel room."
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Has something to say, and it says it remarkably well."
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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"An often funny, always engaging romantic comedy filmed in a documentary format."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Giant-sized, explosive and technically astounding. This is no less than the end of the world Roland Emmerich is dealing with, and he tosses into the pot so much delirious spectacle that, yes, there are even kitchen sinks in sight."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A pulse-poundingly high-spirited and extremely well-directed drama. If 21 is only one thing, it's intoxicating."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"[A]n imaginative, heartbreaking film -- one of 2003's best -- that you won't easily forget."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Indelibly works its way underneath the skin."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"28 Days Later had its moments, to be sure, but 28 Weeks Later is the real deal--scarier, darker, uncompromising, and more emotionally complex."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A good-hearted entertainment with real crossover appeal. Successful enough to leave viewers with a warm feeling inside and a smile on their face."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Nowhere near as good as The Wedding Singer...but what Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore share on film is most certainly no flash in the pan."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Funny, poignant and uncommonly perceptive, growing all the more so the longer one thinks about it."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"One of the most daring and attentive films of the year."
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DustinPutman.com |
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4/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Filled with endless imagination and wonder...sure to go down, in time, as one of the brilliant achievements in modern moviemaking."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"A comical, heartfelt gem that sidesteps an easy maudlin tone for something more grounded in reality."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"That a film such as About Schmidt can be so dark and yet so funny, so poignant and yet so uplifting, is something of a miracle."
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DustinPutman.com |
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4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Endlessly enlightening, always fascinating, and nothing short of miraculous, to see Adaptation is to live, see, breathe, and feel in an entirely different way than any other motion picture released this year has offered."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"As a universal tale of the post-adolescent experience, Adventureland is knowledgeable and wise, virtually every bone in its body an honest one."
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DustinPutman.com |
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4/4 |
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(1997) |
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"Such an angry and bitter motion picture that you can almost physically feel the emotional coldness that is brewing under the surface."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A winning and suitably uplifting way to spend a couple hours."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A gratifying early surprise of the autumn movie season, an intelligent and wise film that finds vast entertainment value in one man's own existential crises."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"One of the more memorable teen-oriented horror movies of the last few years. As much a comment on the objectification of women as it is a grimy, violent, enthralling slasher pic."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"Perfectly cast from top to bottom, with many fine performances shining through."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Not completely agreeable, but nonetheless, it manages to somehow remain a strong entertainment."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Overly glorifies its human subject, cautious to get its hands dirty and dig beneath the surface of Earhart's public life. And yet, even so, Hilary Swank is a joy to watch."
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DustinPutman.com |
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4/4 |
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(1999) |
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"American Beauty is a devastating motion picture of unconceivable power."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(1999) |
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"The biggest laugh I've had at the movies all year."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"When it comes to sheer, unadulterated laughs, one couldn't hope for much better...Alyson Hannigan is absolutely charming."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"If American Teen isn't a particularly deep documentary, it is an entertaining one."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A resonant coming-of-age story, at once tough and delicate, that signifies how much times have changed in the proceeding fifty years, and, in other ways, how much they have stayed the same."
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"One of the most entertaining motion pictures of the year, The Phantom of the Opera is a cinematic gift for the ages that finds profundity in its thematic innocence."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"An intelligent, impassioned adult romance that has a lot to say, and doesn't feel the need to let a rock soundtrack full of love ballads explain it."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Stacked with unoriginal plot elements hot off the assembly line, yet still manages to present said story with conviction, tough rings of truth, and a rooting attentiveness."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A striking triumph!"
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A more slapdash affair than its predecessor, but writer-director Todd Stephens has retained enough sunshine, sweetness, and bravely go-for-broke showmanship to keep things moving at an amiable pace."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A fairy tale gone fatalistically wrong, the stark opposite of happily ever after. Impresses with its sheer dauntless, sobering nerve."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"A nicely-drawn, humanistic character study and a genuinely romantic romance."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"An exceptional motion picture. A true-to-life examination of the bond between a mother and a daughter, and has universal appeal for anyone who has ever had a parent."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(1986) |
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"Even today, it holds up as a spooky, flirty entertainment, doing justice to the folly and mirth of its namesake holiday."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The most in-depth study of a single joke that has likely ever been attempted on film."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"A pulse-pounding paranoia thriller."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"One of the most cinematically assured works of the year. Blows most tried-and-true westerns out of the water."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Graphically violent and merciless...refreshingly unpretentious in its goal to entertain and put a jolt in any non-squeamish viewer sick to death of cookie-cutter genre movies."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Since January is usually the time of year that is known as the dumping ground from bad movies, At First Sight comes as a refreshing and sophisticated change of pace."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Has a relaxed and understated tone that blindsides the viewer at key moments with its dramatic potency."
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A solid, albeit flawed, effort. Stellar work by Leonardo DiCaprio, but Cate Blanchett's masterful, Oscar-worthy performance steals the film."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A road movie made up of what feels like a half-dozen exquisitely realized short films, Away We Go sends the viewer out smiling."
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Thought-provoking long after its haunting final frame, Babel is a weighty and complex spellbinder."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Baby Boy is not a great movie, and lacks the overall realism and intensity of Boyz N the Hood, but it is a good one."
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3/4 |
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(1987) |
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""Back to the Beach" is, by no means, a deep and thought-provoking motion picture, [but] when you're dealing with Frankie and Annette, what more could you ask for?"
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