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A |
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(1991) |
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"...very nearly accomplishes the book's goal of "extinguishing all rational thought.""
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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""The Namesake" is a hurried tapestry of cross-cultural experience that periodically derails due to episodic hopscotching in Sooni Taraporevala's script adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's debut novel about."
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"It's an utter embarrassment that this movie should even carry the Nancy Drew name."
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A |
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(2007) |
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"Documentarians Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman brilliantly combine archive footage from Japan's 1937 massive attack on China's former capital of Nanking with heartbreaking interviews of Chinese survivors, guilty Japanese soldiers, and actors giving stage r"
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C- |
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(2007) |
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""The Devil Has a Nanny" should have been the title of this "Devil Wears Prada" knock-off that squanders the talents of everyone associated."
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"The movie is hampered by production designer Michael Howell's garish neon color palate contrasted against clownish costumes by Nic Ede..."
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"Yesterday's Fight Club is today's "Combat Club" in this battle of teen six-pack abs."
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B- |
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(2009) |
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""New In Town" is an uncomplicated fish-out-of-water romance with just enough modern-day social commentary to give it some substance."
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Co-writer/director Chris Mason Johnson's amateur debut effort could be credited with creating a new genre of pretentious triteness tailored to define of the pop slang word "Redonkulous.""
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D- |
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(2005) |
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""The New World" is a movie that promises to leave its viewers with a bigger headache than you'd get contemplating the current state of global affairs."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Who needs to go to New York for a weekend when you can let Nick and Norah take you with them?"
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"This pastiche comedy is a piecemeal procedure in Hollywood excess."
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"The film's over-leveraged plot imparts diminishing results as its predictable revelation arrives with an unsatisfying anticlimax."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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""Nights in Rodanthe" is a passable tearjerker for aging women, but less so for the rest of us."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Based on Wendy Orr's youthful feminized spin on Robinson Crusoe, "Nim's Island" is a low-key adventure comedy for preteens that will touch the hearts of their gooey-eyed parents."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2007) |
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"The Coen Brothers have gotten their mojo back with the help of Cormac McCarthy."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"Organized, concise and plain as day, "No End In Sight" is necessary viewing for audiences the world over."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"As much a sociological study, of the way a modern urban couple relate and negotiate for individual priorities, as a practical experiment of living a sustainable lifestyle, "No Impact Man" is a thought provoking documentary that's as entertaining as it is"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"For all of the zesty food that's cooked, it's the organic quality of the performances that evoke just the right amount of tenderness without any aftertaste of sentimentality. The texture is just right."
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Eddie Murphy steals more than a few ideas from Tyler Perry for his multi-character comedy that has Murphy playing an obese wench named Rasputia, to whom Norbit is married."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(2005) |
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"Charlize Theron gives an excellently modulated performance as Josey Aimes."
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A+ |
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(1979) |
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"Werner Herzog's 1979 homage to F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent film is an appropriately chilling telling of the Gothic tale filled with delightfully scary touches and recreated camera angles from Murnau's original."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"...more than a few of banana splits' worth of cinematic ice cream."
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"Without a clear protagonist, "Notes On a Scandal" collapses under the weight of its significant subject matter. Nevertheless, Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench rise above the ill- prepared source material with their passionate performances. "
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Lurie balances the tragic repercussions of two women drawn into a swirling riptide of political neglect, judicial irresponsibility, and sudden violence."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"Beautifully stylized but emotionally flat, "The Notorious Bettie Page" is a confined but enjoyable conception of Bettie Page's brief-but-influential career."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D- |
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(2007) |
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""The Number 23" is a movie that doesn't believe in itself."
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