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C |
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(2007) |
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"Sienna Miller embodies Edie Sedgwick with a thoroughly convincing highwire act to match Guy Pierce's incarnation of Andy Warhol in Hickenlooper's perfunctory biopic."
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Daily Radar |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Norwegian director Bent Hamer ("Kitchen Stories") mines the rich literary soil of poet/novelist Charles Bukowski to issue forth a piquant cinematic showcase for Bukowski's talent and malaise."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2004) |
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"Populist documentarian Michael Moore raises crucial questions about the ersatz presidency of George Bush in an air of simplicity and honest curiosity."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"A limp romantic comedy, this cut-and-paste bookend to last year's "Hitch" finds Sarah Jessica Parker playing Paula a demoralized romantic turned "professional interventionist.""
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Little boys that play with action figures might get juiced up from cameos by the likes of Carrie Fisher and William Shatner, and the promise of a booby flash, but "Fanboys" is not an enjoyable ride for the rest of humanity."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"Director Tim Story ("Barbershop") sets an uneven tempo for the embarrassingly clunky script by Michael France ("Hulk") and Mark Frost ("Storyville")."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Anderson's lavish attention to visual detail supports the dry wit on display in a highly original animated film geared to appeal equally to adults and children."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Chris Morgan (the screenwriter on "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" - 2006) is to blame for a script that runs more like a '70s Ford Pinto than the hopped up muscle cars burning rubber onscreen."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2001) |
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"Sure it's a guilty pleasure watching stunt drivers put flashy state-of-the-art streetcars through impossibly daring maneuvers, but it's a happy indulgence nonetheless."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"Padded with relatively unknown actors, "Tokyo Drift" is more of an actors' showcase than fully fleshed-out movie."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Where this year’s mushy tobacco satire “Thank You For Smoking” failed due to its filmmakers’ refusal to take enough of a stand, “Fast Food Nation” has no such pretense."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(1965) |
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"Russ Meyer's fetishistic vision of powerful bisexual amazons of mixed nationalities engaged in criminal super action exists in a cartoonish world of black and white humor where anything is possible"
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D |
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(2004) |
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"Director Joel Zwick ("My Big Fat Greek Wedding") helms this redundant and distinctively shabby movie that wasn't even filmed in Philly."
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D |
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(2007) |
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"Amateurish to distraction, this modern-day satire about growing up gay in a small town has such a minimal pulse that you may well wonder if first-time writer/director/actor Ash Parish didn't burn his script before shooting began."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2006) |
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""Fateless" is an essential film in the canon of holocaust film because it vividly tracks the specific brand of hatred that torture and genocidal murder inures."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2007) |
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""Fay Grim" is the most inarticulate and grueling of all Hal Hartley's films, and a complete waste of time."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2006) |
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"Significantly, the movie breaks the standard revenge model of the martial arts film genre to embrace the grace and restraint that underlines the philosophy of wushu (the comprehensive term for martial arts that means 'avert fighting' or 'stop war')."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2007) |
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""The Feast of Love" is a hodgepodge of sentimentality that's neither funny nor tragic. It's just bland."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Former stuntman Rick Waugh turns writer/director to make a compelling and gritty drama that is as much a commentary on America's failed justice/prison system as it is about the devastation suffered by an honest family man imprisoned for killing a burglar"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"The Farrelly brothers soften their customary inclination toward gross-out humor with a tender and earnest adaptation of a novel by Nick Hornby ("High Fidelity")."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"The movie happily rolls out retro trappings that promise some salient social commentary, perhaps about illegal immigrants, that never comes to fruition."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2009) |
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"This explosive genre-buster about Ireland's '80s era "troubles," centered in the town of Belfast, drills down deep into the true story of controversial IRA figure Martin McGartland (brilliantly played by Jim Sturges) who worked as an undercover "tout" for"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(1999) |
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""Fight Club" is a cinematic Hail-Mary pass from David Fincher that the audience desperately wants to catch."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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""Fighting" seems like a no-brainer project for Dito Montiel that he needed to get out of his system before he can move back into an emotionally rarefied world as complex as that of his first film."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2003) |
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"The indifferent gospel music that permeates the movie never solidifies with the dramatic might that the genre is known for..."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1999) |
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""The Filth and the Fury" is the first punk rock documentary to lay out, in an editorial style, a thorough linear account of the last major musical movement of the twentieth century by way of that genre's fiercest example."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2008) |
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"Fans of Eugene Holtz may get a brief charge from his Ukrainian-inflected irony that saturates every word he utters, but all others should beware of giving this sloppy film the time of day."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Whether conscious or not on the part of the filmmakers, the gory logic follows America's understandable desire to rationalize the effects of such physical violence that its invisible soldiers are suffering in Afghanistan and Iraq."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"If watching a jury disregard mountains of damning evidence in favor of a charismatic gangster who calls himself a "gagster" seems a morally challenging proposition, well that's all part of the bargain in Lumet's topical drama."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2007) |
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"Besmirching Bruce Lee's name like this should be a punishable offense."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"There isn't anything special here, but "Fired Up!" is still a lot more fun than the adult romantic comedies Hollywood has trotted out so far this year."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2006) |
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"The movie is so disposable that you won't remember you've seen it."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2006) |
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""Flags of Our Fathers" is a tremendous film about the very beginning of celebrity worship, and our need to invent and memorialize brave men."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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". The persuasive force of the film falls squarely on Lindhardt's and Mikkelsen's shoulders as experienced actors whose gifts for sustaining layers of motivational subtext is utterly satisfying."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2004) |
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"Remake of Robert Aldrich's revered 1965 classic would be 15% better if not for its abysmal use of pop music, and 100% better if Aldrich's son William had never thought to ride on his father's coattails by producing it in the first place."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"You'll never want to buy a bottle of water again after seeing this essential documentary about the blatant theft being committed by companies like Nestle that have helped make water the third biggest global industry behind electricity and oil."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"The characters, although based on real life people, are one-dimensional stereotypes that exist for the sole purpose of presenting indistinguishable flesh-and-blood pilots for superabundant air battles."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(2003) |
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"This is the most culturally significant documentary imaginable and should be mandatory for repeated viewing by all public officials the world over."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"For a low budget, independent comedy made in 19 days, "The Foot Fist Way" is a clever and surprisingly satisfying effort from first-time director and co-writer Jody Hill."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"While the movie seems tilted toward Christian families attempting to work through issues of having a gay son or daughter, "For the Bible Tells Me So" fills a yet another heretofore blank chapter on Gay rights."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"The film-within-a-film narrative device falls flat because the inner story is a melodrama with no comic momentum of its own."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1952) |
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"Rene Clement's 1944 adaptation of Francois Boyer's novel is an exquisitely unsentimental movie about the corruptive effect of war on children."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"From a philosophical viewpoint it's fitting that the inaugural movie to unite martial arts legends Jackie Chan and Jet Li is a fantasy film for young teenagers. Forbidden Kingdom" may not be "Enter the Dragon," but it's not supposed to be."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"...provides a clear-eyed perspective of a charismatic con artist weaving a spell of deception with every word she utters."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a romantic comedy for guys, but there’s plenty of material aimed at female audiences as well, not the least of which are the full-frontal male assaults. We’re all friends in Judd Apatow’s comedic vision."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"Darren Aronofsky is a stylistically visionary director trapped by the limitations of his writing abilities. The Fountain works best as a high-concept sci-fi film with all of its seams showing."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"Although it starts out as a zippy holiday comedy "Four Christmases" loses focus and disperses into a less than satisfying comic experience."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"...even if "The Fourth Kind" came out ten years ago it still wouldn't stand up to overrated "Blair Witch Project.""
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2001) |
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"For every person who walks out of "When Freddy Got Fingered" in disgust, there will be two hundred others howling in laughter."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Soft-peddled father issues, and race relations get coasted over like so much conveyor-belt product in director William Dear's oh-so-safe kids' romantic sports drama."
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