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A |
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(2002) |
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"Stories of injustice have been told before, but rarely have they been told with such artistry. This is a film that lingers."
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"...a numbing, pedestrian outing. It looks cheesy too."
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Reeling Reviews |
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A |
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(2008) |
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"Anchored by a revelatory performance by Anne Hathaway as a little-girl-lost hiding behind an abrasive narcissist, "Rachel Getting Married" ... is almost a new form of filmmaking."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"a lyrically moody, poetically foreboding coming of age tale"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2003) |
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"Sollett's writing is strong, achieving his goal of innocence regained by the purity of first love and the hilariously misguided efforts of a well-meaning, immigrant grandmother."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2001) |
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"While "Rat" offers some boisterous fun, in the end it doesn't add up to much
more than paean to family values."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Remy discovers he can control Linguini's movements using his hair like a puppeteer's strings...And while that last idea never really works and proves the film's imaginative failing, Ratatouille has other ideas that do..."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"Foxx is terrific and the music is great, but Ray is an overlong, meat and potatoes biopic with a not particularly likable hero"
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"The Reader hasn't been flawlessly adapted from the page, but the film is sure to inspire just as much debate as its source. Winslet's Hannah Schmitz is unforgettable."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2002) |
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"While "Real Women Have Curves" suffers from an obvious and simplistic screenplay, it's a bright looking, well-acted charmer."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"A murder mystery becomes the catalyst for a showdown between truth and art, but while both triumph in the end, there is no mystery to the murder"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"at once a thought-provoking puzzle and a revel in the sad beauty of the emotion called love"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C |
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(2003) |
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"We're in serious trouble if The Recruit even approaches accuracy about CIA operations."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"a historical epic featuring great characters, extremely clever tactical maneuvering, and scope, scope, scope..."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C- |
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(2003) |
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"Some individual scenes... are beautiful, but others run on too long with lesser impact."
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Reeling Reviews |
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D |
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(2005) |
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"Current 'it' girl Rachel McAdams and Irish heartthrob Cillian Murphy had best hope this one passes beneath the radar at supersonic speed."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"...a moody, gritty exploration of working class Glasgow that features terrific performances but suffers from an over reliance on misdirection and an underlying motivation which...doesn't sit quite right."
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Reeling Reviews |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"its scattershot structure makes it disappointing and its preeminent focus on the social problems the Piersons encounter grows tiresome"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2002) |
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"This is popcorn movie fun with equal doses of action, cheese, ham and cheek (as well as a serious debt to The Road Warrior), but it feels like unrealized potential"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"If only [they] had resisted the urge to make a condescending and sentimental romantic pairing at the end of their movie, "Reign Over Me" may have been just about perfect."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"...while [Maher's] amused analyses of the basic tenets of multiple faiths are, indeed, funny and true, he'll be mostly singing to the choir of doubters he claims makes up America's largest minority.."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2000) |
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"The ensemble cast does its best to flesh out their cliched, symbolic characters."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"...it is easy to understand how this play made stars of its then unknowns. The cast is fabulous.
"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"...owes more than a nod to Tom Tykwer's fate-bending fairy tale, "Run Lola Run," with its narrated 'what if' and flight of fancy' scenarios which continually spin off the main action."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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8/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Will put you through an emotional wringer even as you're wondering what the point is."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2002) |
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"a thoroughly unoriginal, but fast-paced and entertaining genre B-flick"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2003) |
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"Crialese does wonderful work with his actors in a stunningly filmic location, but his story is unoriginal and any new ideas underdeveloped."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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A |
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(2004) |
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"Director Andrey Zvyagintsev has a strong visual sense and an ear for unsettling sound that strengthen the feeling of foreboding pervading this psychological mystery"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2002) |
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"enough new twists to make a second helping enjoyable"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"In Austria's submission for the 2009 Foreign Language Picture Oscar, writer/director Götz Spielmann works a tricky little bit of business"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"this riveting piece of work should encourage viewers to continue to investigate the subject on their own after leaving the theater"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"By emphasizing the breakdown of a marriage without ever establishing the hope and dreams that gave birth to it, Mendes has made leaden and incessantly depressing what was insightful and breathlessly dramatic on the page."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"The story may be sentimental, but Yimou layers it by adding cultural clash to the generational ones."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2001) |
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""Riding in Cars with Boys" has its moments along the way, but it sputters
and stalls before completing its journey."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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D |
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(2008) |
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"Lazy, muddled and so misdirected it should be a felony itself, "Righteous Kill" is nothing but a cheap trick."
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Reeling Reviews |
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C- |
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(2002) |
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"gets too literal, then goes overboard into outright ludicrousness"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2005) |
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"...may be the first sequel where I actually wish they'd made another copy"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2002) |
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"John Malkovich is perfectly cast as the amoral epicurean"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"an interior novel that has been rendered on the screen with post apocalyptic drear and actors trying their damndest, but Hillcoat's episodic tale only strikes a real emotional chord once."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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A- |
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(2001) |
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"'Know the past, know the present' chant the students. "The Road
Home" poignantly shows us both through the eyes of a son just
coming to understand his father's lesson."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"...its setup is muddled and its subjects' motivations befuddling. It works as a strong indictment of the United States' actions in Guantanamo, but it is far from Winterbottom's most compelling work.
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[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"Pak relies on the basics of writing and acting to express his ideas, but only "The Robot Fixer" fully makes up for cinematic shortcomings"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"....clever writing, ingenious throwaway sight gags, in-jokes galore, good messages and cute characters"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2001) |
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"Mark Wahlberg gives an engaging central performance... keeping the movie marginally
entertaining."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"In yet the umpteenth arrested development manchild comedy, Rainn Wilson lets his inner Jack Black out with a good dose of Will Ferrell style body barement and mines some laughs out of a largely forgettable film."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"...a slight coming of age tale with some natural moments, yes, but also with obvious humor (when there is any), racist undertones, and an underwhelming lead. Rocket Science never made me crack a smile."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"The ensemble cast of his latest is so massive, they can't all be done justice and by the time the story's come to a close it's a bit of an untidy mess, even if all the pieces, technically, have been accounted for."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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A- |
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(2006) |
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"Shadow-boxing his original film in every respect without ever cannibalizing it, Stallone's Rocky Balboa is a joyous thing."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"Kidd and Scott have created one of the year's most memorable characters"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"...finds its humor in excess, the best of it from supporting players. Jane Lynch is at her most inspired..."
[movie review] |
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