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 C- |
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(2001) |
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"In this case, unhappily, 'O' stands not so much for 'Othello' as for
'Zero.'"
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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| |
 A |
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(2000) |
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"Lighthearted and amiable, it may be a cinematic trifle, but it's a trifle that has been flawlessly fashioned and polished to a
brilliant sheen."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 |
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| |
 B+ |
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(2009) |
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"A gentle, deadpan comedy-drama...you shouldn't miss the opportunity to make the acquaintance of this wryly observant little film."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
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 |
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| |
 A- |
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(2004) |
|
"Its honesty and avoidance of comfortable closure make it a refreshing change from the sort of phony uplift such stories ordinarily receive on the screen."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
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| |
 C |
|
(2009) |
|
"It's Paul Blart with a nasty streak, a perverse kind of farce that most people will be more likely to recoil from than to laugh at."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
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 |
| |
 D |
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(2009) |
|
"Tawdry potboiler...a very bad rip-off of Fatal Attraction."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 B |
|
(2005) |
|
"Serves a useful public service; more important, it's an engrossing film in its own right."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
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| |
 B |
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(2001) |
|
"Bouncy and amusing...utter fluff, to be sure, but it's
highly enjoyable fluff, far superior to the earlier picture."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
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| |
 C+ |
|
(2007) |
|
"Bright and glitzy but ultimately ephemeral and rather silly, featherweight sleight-of-hand without much of a payoff."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C |
|
(2004) |
|
"Thinks it's hip, but its old-fashioned, anything-goes attitude is less engaging than vaguely obnoxious...far more fun for the performers than the viewers."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
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| |
 B |
|
(2006) |
|
"Tells a familiar story, but does it well enough to merit a passing grade."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C |
|
(2004) |
|
"Modestly engaging, but ultimately the fragile little movie wipes out, like a surfer who's misjudged a wave."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C |
|
(2005) |
|
"Proves a case of some very good actors crossing the boundary from the region of off-beat domestic drama into the dread realm of preciousness and pretension."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 D |
|
(2006) |
|
"Or more aptly, The Aw in Awful."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 D- |
|
(2009) |
|
"[A] sorry mess, a mangy, flea-bitten comedy of Daddy Day Care caliber."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
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 |
 |
| |
 C- |
|
(2006) |
|
"A minimalist stroll not worth taking...but if Old Joy doesn't do much, at least it doesn't do it for very long."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 F |
|
(2003) |
|
"A dismally unfunny, crass and rambling farce that flunks out on every conceivable level."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C+ |
|
(2005) |
|
"As ludicrously complex and silly as any of Brian De Palma's worst thrillers...suffers from an excess of filmmaking brawn and a lack of brains."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C+ |
|
(2005) |
|
"Like a Classics Comic Book adaptation of the story--tasteful, subdued and just a bit dull."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C- |
|
(2006) |
|
"Anybody who's seen the 1976 film will probably be pretty bored by this one, which is rather like an inferior copy of a painting that was no masterwork to begin with."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C |
|
(2006) |
|
"On a clear day, to misquote the old Broadway tune, you can see the cliches."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
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 |
 |
| |
 B+ |
|
(1997) |
|
"Vastly enjoyable--a stylish, affectionate, old-fashioned swashbuckler...staged with such elan that the result is completely winning."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 F |
|
(2001) |
|
"Abominably written, directed and acted...wretched from first
stop to last."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 B- |
|
(2005) |
|
"A sporadically powerful but uneven little film, in which moments of insight and conviction alternate with others that seem contrived and mawkish."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 B+ |
|
(2007) |
|
"Wins you over without appearing even to try... Once...is so emotionally resonant and exuberantly enjoyable that you might just want to see it more than that."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C- |
|
(2003) |
|
"Might have been intended as a homage, but winds up seeming more like a bad parody...pumps the adrenaline and feeds the eye but starves the brain."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C |
|
(2003) |
|
"This strange mixture never gels...the idea might be clever, but the realization doesn't do it justice."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C+ |
|
(2000) |
|
"Goes too far in the direction of reticence, deliberately dampening the emotional resonance of the story so persistently that the characters become opaque and the narrative overly flat and matter-of-fact, even at the most wrenching moments."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 D |
|
(2001) |
|
"An utterly negligible martial-arts flick--cheap-looking,
clumsily written, and not even very well staged, fight-wise."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 B |
|
(2000) |
|
"Has such a powerful subject...that it can hardly fail to make an emotional impact."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C+ |
|
(2002) |
|
"While unsettling, it's also chilly and unmoving. One has to admire its craftsmanship, but in the end it proves oddly unsatisfying--not unlike Williams' performance in it."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C |
|
(2005) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 F |
|
(2008) |
|
"Borrows so heavily from the corpus of J-horror flicks, and especially Hideo Nakata's, that it should really be titled The Ring Tone."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C |
|
(2001) |
|
"A picture whose wildly different components never really coalesce into a satisfying whole."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C |
|
(1999) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C |
|
(2009) |
|
"Not really a sequel but more a misguided prequelish follow-up...obviously enjoyed a much larger budget than its titular predecessor, but it's nowhere near as much fun."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 B |
|
(2005) |
|
"If you're a fan of old-style Hong Kong martial arts movies, you should find Ong-Bak a blast. And even if not, you may be surprised at how much dumb fun it is."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C+ |
|
(2006) |
|
"Amiable, and occasionally even insightful, but also sometimes just silly and at others a trifle tasteless...a mixed bag that, unhappily, doesn't deliver quite enough."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C- |
|
(2006) |
|
"There are times when cinematic heart-tugging takes on the character of a frontal assault. Opal Dream is one of them."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 B+ |
|
(2003) |
|
"A picture of lovely simplicity and directness that reveals something of the complexity of the human heart with marvelous understatement."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 B |
|
(2003) |
|
"If you like old-fashioned westerns filled with grandiose landscapes and even more extraordinary acts of heroism, this movie's for you."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 B |
|
(2006) |
|
"No classic but not a disaster...by comparison to the recent competition it hits the target, if not the bull's-eye."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C |
|
(2004) |
|
"Rarely as gripping as it wants to be; for the most part it treads water just as its lead characters do."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C |
|
(2001) |
|
"The kind of picture for which the phrase 'shows promise' was
invented...As a theatrical offering, though, it's way out of its
league."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C- |
|
(2000) |
|
Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 C |
|
(2002) |
|
"A distinctly mixed bag, the occasional bursts of sharp writing alternating with lots of sloppiness and the obligatory moments of sentimental ooze."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 F |
|
(2003) |
|
"A cheap, silly, tawdry supernatural thriller...a gloomy, goofy mess that's talky and tedious to boot."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 B+ |
|
(2000) |
|
"Easily the funniest movie of the summer."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 D |
|
(2001) |
|
"Can be recommended only to moviegoers who like pictures so
outrageously bad that you can revel in their awfulness."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
|
 |
 |
 |
| |
 D |
|
(2009) |
|
"The problem with Orphan isn't merely that the film is idiotic--it's that it's also sleazy, formulaic and repellant."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
|
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