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B+ |
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"Rowan Atkinson ("Mr. Bean") plays straight-man Reverend Walter Goodfellow to Grace Hawkins (acted with keen wit by Maggie Smith) his genteel serial-killer housekeeper in this delicious British black comedy."
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D |
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(2005) |
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"Tom Arnold wrote and stars in this heart-on-sleeve "comedy" that will go down in cinema history as one of the most awkward additions ever made to the genre."
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"Quentin Tarantino's long awaited fourth film finds the pop culture carnivore of filmmaking reinvigorating cinema a second time over with a single-plot-trajectory revenge movie that utilizes samurai sword action with a shifting score of infectious guitar d"
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A |
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(2004) |
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"Although it's a gigantic shame that Miramax split Quentin Tarantino's long awaited 'kung-fu samurai Spaghetti Western love story' epic into two halves, "Kill Bill Vol. 2" pays off in spades..."
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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""King Kong" is a rare film that would be improved with a "director's cut" that excised rather than added."
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Here's one of those unfolding documentaries where unforeseen events and deeds make the subject more appealing than even the filmmaker expected.Hope, pride, personal identity and an air of fierce competition underlie the enjoyable action."
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"This slapdash comedy barely coughs up more than a couple of funny scenes as the story moves in predictable fits and starts before sputtering out of fuel half way through."
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"Zealotry is all around, and it's a product that certain CEOs know how to package with impunity. How long do we have to stare into the abyss? From the message of "The Kingdom," we'll hit rock bottom before we get the answer."
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C+ |
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(2005) |
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"Cinema's least potent leading man, Orlando Bloom, stinks up the screen in Ridley Scott's unsatisfying "epic" about the Crusades..."
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C |
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(2006) |
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"The film falls short of its initially obvious dramatic goals due to the shallow depths that screenwriters Geoff Deane and Tim Firth take their characters."
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A |
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(2004) |
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""Kinsey" is itself a sex education movie that uses historical fact and personal stories to articulate things that statistics can't reveal, like the uniqueness of every individual's imagination."
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A- |
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(2005) |
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" Slick, sassy and downright delicious "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" is a royal cinematic treat."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"High production values, and a cast that includes Joan Cusack and Stanley Tucci, elevate the movie above its after-school-special limitations."
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Stories of unethical treatment of its child actors by the filmmakers has tarnished The Kite Runner as a film made of the same brand of hubris that its lead character carries for most of the story."
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C- |
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(2001) |
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"Endless jousting tournaments transpire with lots of balsa wood jousting poles splintering across the screen. It's a classic example of a "'what-on-earth-were-they-thinking" movie that no group of filmmakers and actors could have ever pulled off with much"
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"Writer/director Judd Apatow ("The 40 Year Old Virgin") shatters romantic comedy conventions to create a side-splitting movie hinged on fundamental differences between men and women."
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"The ever-shifting genre of martial arts films takes on yet another variation with writer/director/actor Stephen Chow's CGI spectacle infused comic Kung Fu adventure."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"Jack Black inhabits the animated panda called Po with so much of his signature whimsy that audiences get a double dose of Black's comic persona."
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