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"A festive experience for those who are willing to embrace Latin jazz, but it doesn't reveal anything beyond a peek at a two hour celluloid concert in session."
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"...[a] revealing and intensely introspective biopic...an amazing character study of a complex man captivated by his erratic times."
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"...one comes away with a sense of angered sensationalism...Clearly, this odd and probing documentary is affecting in its seedy uncertainty."
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"...a pulsating actioner wedged in edginess and slick wit. Intense, provocative, complicated and daringly impish...all add that much to this hard-edged "Bond"-ing brouhaha."
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"In director Spielberg's charming and effervescently nostalgic adventure Catch Me If You Can, the nifty chase is definitely on."
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"...[an] implausible hyperactive giddy go-cart caper...this junior-sized Mission: Impossible wannabe is nothing but an overwrought knockoff that doesn’t measure up"
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"...doesn’t quite cut it as the escapist comic caper...this tepid and tired movie has all the appeal of a box of stale Tender Vittles"
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"After viewing the blistering thriller Changing Lanes, there's a whole new meaning to the phrase "driving each other crazy". Director Roger Michell pieces together a robust and energizing social drama"
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"...merely an act of sheer overkill...Full Throttle is just an excuse to deliver another random hyperactive fleshy fable and pass it off as a mainstream mega-snack."
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(2002) |
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"Fittingly probing, sensual, mysterious and raw. Byler’s exposition is vastly taut, revealing, and firmly perceptive. Charlotte Sometimes radiates with invigorating absorption"
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"Overall, it's a wacky and inspired little film that works effortlessly at delivering genuine, acerbic laughs."
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"Another disposable and quick-witted vehicle aimed at securing the generic feel good vibes for those begging for conveyor belt family fare that’s syrupy and indistinguishable."
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"When cutesy family-oriented comedies start to show the strained buffoonery of its leading star (Martin), you know it's time to hang up the hat and call it the day."
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(2002) |
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"In the rousing and rhythmically spry Chicago, Marshall delivers a finger-snapping gem that radiates jubilance and promotes its lyrical spirit -- its bounciness and endless energy will have audiences giddy with delight."
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"Chicken Little will automatically cluck gleefully for its youthful audience. But for others, this bland bird will take time to roast."
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"Immensely thought-provoking and chillingly insightful...a resilient sci-fi fantasy that dares to contemplate the fate of mankind's chaotic impulsiveness."
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"...one of the most woefully irritating and uneventful so-called comedic Yuletide yawners...a seedless slapstick romp that has all the bounce of a defective pogo stick"
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"Utterly ponderous and as clunky as a crater rock. Twohy forgot to inject his Diesel-fueled narrative with the spunk and drive that made his first installment so palatable"
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"If the film had only bothered to take it up a few notches and buck the superficial confines of a flavorless crime saga, then this vehicle would have been a lot more appetizing in its zealous state."
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"[A] painfully generic and gimmicky comedy. Relentlessly interminable, predictable and drowsy in concept. Sandler's man-child routine has already run its course ad nauseam."
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"...a hazy and hypnotic surge that more often than not resonates as an atmospheric chiller...this head-tampering frightfest is notably staggering"
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(2005) |
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"...familiar in its feel-good delivery...a solid student-athlete melodrama that creeps up on you more convincingly than a three-point shot at the buzzer"
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"Manor trickles along unconvincingly without once dispatching any genuine sense of supreme sadistic surprises. For this revelation alone, Cold Creek Manor certainly needs to be condemned."
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"Convincingly elegant and unsparing, Cold Mountain is a sweeping and enriching narrative that captures the fancy and flashiness of old-fashioned poetic storytelling.
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"A refreshingly mature and stable actioner with a gritty confidence. There’s an urban subtle slickness about Collateral that resonates so quietly and convincingly"
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(2002) |
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"The only one that can do damage in the collateral sense are indifferent, undemanding moviegoers willing to embrace an unpalatable and choppy absurd fantasy over an overwhelming and disheartening reality."
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(2007) |
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"Let's face it, folks...we need another repetitive spoof movie like a piglet needs dirty fingernails...never registers beyond aping its lazy connect-the-dots jocularity."
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"Comedian never comes full circle with the intimate details surrounding the personal life of Jerry Seinfeld. The real romanticism is about a man and his love affair with one main dancing partner—the companion called comedy."
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"Although delightfully overzealous, Clooney's field trip of loose-ended frivolity sputters aimlessly in our attempts to embrace a complicated soul being presented as a sympathetic human question mark."
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"Foley’s nourishing and naughty narrative provides plenty of “confidence” in which to draw upon. This is a gently convoluted but smooth scam piece that sucks the audience into its wily realm of mischievousness"
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"In director Michael Lembeck’s disjointed gender-bender musical comedy Connie and Carla, the mediocrity oozes out much like the intolerable sounds from a rusty trumpet
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"...[an] astoundingly gripping conspiracy thriller...there is an unblinking complexity about the socio-political climate that smothers this fetching African campus"
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"...a spiritually spry yet lumbering fantasy...The technological flourishes are a marvel to behold but the film’s erratic journey is as choppy as a country dirt road"
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"[An] intimate look at a tragic footnote in entertainment. A moody yet strangely melodic concoction about creativity and confusion in an overwhelming abyss of artistic isolation"
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"...a taxing and intolerable vehicle that has all the charm of a gold-toothed rapper’s root canal. The Cookout is certainly not any food for thought."
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"[a] quirky and disturbing melodrama...armed with a witty wickedness and intriguing premise that’s stylish and thoroughly exuberant"
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"Despite the boisterous production values of this overwrought and unevenly irreverent disaster B movie, The Core never really shows us anything worth exploring under its nonsensical albeit volatile crusty surface."
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(2001) |
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"The film is merely a myopic footnote that cannot match its own nonsensical raucous tone."
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(2002) |
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"...a plotline that's as lumpy as two-day old porridge...the filmmakers' paws, sad to say, were all over this "un-bear-able" project!"
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"This sophomoric supernatural stinker couldn't put a convincing spell on a disabled frog. The Covenant has all the intriguing mysticism of a bent magic wand."
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"...showy, shapeless, overwrought, senseless and arbitrary...Bartkowziak’s baby went rock-a-bye all right and the frantic wind did excessively blow—but this Cradle simply didn’t rock."
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"[A] monotonously mindless but colorful caper.Crank is banally boisterous...jolting junk that strangely is filling in its sneering, rambunctious spirit."
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"Brash, outrageously inane and chaotically crafty, Crank 2: High Voltage is unapologetic in its sheer penchant for graphic-induced ribaldry as its charismatic calling card."
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"...a gritty examination of misplaced tension and despair wrapped up in its makeshift boiling point...percolates with the right kind of toxic manipulation and complexity"
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"The kiddies may unknowingly take Irwin and company in acceptable, good-natured doses. But for most adults watching this hollow showcase, they're most likely to yell, "what a darn croc!" Let's put the shrimp on the barbie and call it a day, shall we?"
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(2002) |
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"Unfortunately, this young female-awakening dilapidated drama demands everything of Britney Spears as she juggles the rigors of being a sugar-coated lamb one moment than a rampaging rogue in a slinky bra the next."
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(2005) |
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"Squanders its potential with idiotic chilling flourishes that wouldn’t upstage a Halloween mask. Fittingly, this is one withering werewolf saga that certainly bites the dust"
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