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2/4 |
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"The director's understatement is married to a story that's frustratingly unexceptional."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Minor but moving, it's a story about, and for, outsiders...and PETA members as well."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"HBO's 1990s cartoon series Happily Ever After multiculturalized traditional fairy tales, and Year of the Fish may as well be a live-action episode of the now-defunct program."
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Fashioned with all the objectivity and insight of a promotional special on NBA TV."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Year One is a slapdash film in desperate need of more authoritative stewardship."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Far less concerned with character development than with bludgeoning clues to the drama's true nature."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"That stink emanating from the vicinity of Yes Man is desperation."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Yonkers Joe confirms that writer-director Robert Celestin knows his way around a local cash-stakes game of craps. It also proves, unfortunately, that his scripting skills need substantial honing."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Too reserved to be funny and too trivial to be moving."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Zohan is, against all odds, Sandler's funniest effort in close to a decade. Not exactly a monumental feat given the junk he's recently made a mint foisting on the American public, but still."
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The most clever aspect of You, Me and Dupree is its rhyming title...after that, it's one long, steep decline into suffering."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Dreams figure prominently in You, the Living, which posits reveries as articulations of--or refuges from--deep-seated fears."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Young@Heart's worst enemy is its director, Stephen Walker, whose incessant pushing and prodding strives to manipulate in ways both needless and trite."
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(2007) |
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"Those on both sides of the animal rights issue will find much to fume over in ... Curt Johnson's in-depth, eye-opening examination of the movement."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The director treats his material as if it were Last Year at Marienbad, yet his story's particulars are too goofy and too incompatible to result in something haunting or beguiling."
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