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98%
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The Fog of War - Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara (2003) |
"
A great and disturbing film."
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Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jul 7, 2009
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|
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84%
|
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"
Michael Moore's fierce and funny Fahrenheit 9/11 is not so much a documentary as a mythology, reducing geopolitical complexities to a neat, tawdry narrative."
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Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jun 3, 2009
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|
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80%
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The Aristocrats (2005) |
"
A joyful film, full of men and women alight with the pleasure that comes from negating every compliment civilization has ever paid itself."
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Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jun 3, 2009
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|
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92%
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Frost/Nixon (2008) |
"
The director of Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind serves up a merely pleasing, vaguely edifying tale of penitence and redemption, or something like that."
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Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Feb 18, 2009
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70%
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Last Chance Harvey (2009) |
"
These practiced charmers wring every effect they can think of from the corny material thrown their way."
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Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jan 27, 2009
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|
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61%
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Valkyrie (2008) |
"
Claus's Eleven"
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Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jan 13, 2009
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|
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55%
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Australia (2008) |
"
By the end, your wonderment at Luhrmann's inextinguishable enthusiasm for hokum starts to break you down and win you over."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Dec 10, 2008
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|
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88%
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Bolt (2008) |
"
Perfectly acceptable children's fare."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Dec 4, 2008
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|
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93%
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Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) |
"
Cheerleaders for melancholy have often linked it with profundity. But it's Leigh's achievement to show that happiness, too, can have its depths, and even its darkness."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Nov 13, 2008
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85%
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Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"
Has an improvised, documentary feel that jibes beautifully with the characters' own, often fumbling attempts to find the right form for their affections."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Oct 30, 2008
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59%
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Flash of Genius (2008) |
"
A thoughtful inquiry into the doubtful benefits of pursuing one's ideals 'to the end of the line,' as they say in Double Indemnity."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Oct 17, 2008
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|
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96%
|
Bigger, Stronger, Faster* (2008) |
"
The fault is not in our steroids, but in ourselves."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jul 16, 2008
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76%
|
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (2005) |
"
It is marked by a peculiarly English celebration of the Church Militant. That noted, it's also a ripping yarn."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 17, 2008
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|
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96%
|
Ratatouille (2007) |
"
Journey to the Center of the Broth"
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 10, 2008
|
|
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75%
|
Intolerable Cruelty (2003) |
"
A competent bit of work from which striking originality and idiosyncrasy have mostly been pruned away."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 6, 2008
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|
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94%
|
Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters) (The Counterfeiter) (2007) |
"
An especially impressive achievement."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 6, 2008
|
|
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79%
|
A Mighty Heart (2007) |
"
The signal achievement of A Mighty Heart, somewhat at odds with its affirmative title, is the sense it creates of universal complicity."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jun 27, 2007
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|
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84%
|
Breach (2007) |
"
The Spy Who Catechized Me"
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Feb 21, 2007
|
|
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93%
|
Children of Men (2006) |
"
The startling offhandedness with which tidings of the apocalypse are delivered is the keynote of this bracing, sometimes shocking new film."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jan 24, 2007
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|
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74%
|
The Illusionist (2006) |
"
Leaves you pleasantly tantalized."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Aug 30, 2006
|
|
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91%
|
United 93 (2006) |
"
A brilliant and harrowing document of human beings facing unanticipated terrors with a steadfastness that is all the more moving for being completely believable. "
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 10, 2006
|
|
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93%
|
The Squid and the Whale (2005) |
"
[Demonstrates], once again, that the thinnest line in the emotional realm can be the one between love and hate."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Nov 23, 2005
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37%
|
The Skeleton Key (2005) |
"
There are enough surprises to let you leave the theater mostly satisfied, if not exactly transformed."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Aug 24, 2005
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72%
|
Walk on Water (2005) |
"
In spite of the string of false notes struck at the close, Walk on Water leaves you with much to admire and to ponder, including a trio of fine performances."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jun 2, 2005
|
|
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87%
|
Millions (2005) |
"
An edgy and endearing exploration of childish faith knocking against the hard and mysterious facts of a world ruled by grown-ups."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Apr 20, 2005
|
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53%
|
Because of Winn-Dixie (2005) |
"
The movie offers a loving but strikingly tempered assessment of family and town life that one seldom finds in today's raucous family films."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Mar 2, 2005
|
|
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83%
|
In Good Company (2004) |
"
Slick, funny, smoothly functioning entertainment, served up with a small side of potted commentary on corporate ethics and intergenerational conflict."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Feb 2, 2005
|
|
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81%
|
Hellboy (2004) |
"
Hellboy sometimes pumps new life into the shopworn conventions on which it is based, but never entirely manages to transcend its pulpy origins."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Sep 23, 2004
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|
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70%
|
The Company (2003) |
"
[Altman] fondly documents the ins and outs of this notoriously exotic gang of artists as if he were an amateur anthropologist smitten by an eccentric tribe."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Sep 23, 2004
|
|
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91%
|
Shattered Glass (2003) |
"
Screenwriter and first-time director Billy Ray turns the story of Glass' self-destruction into a gripping psychological thriller."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Sep 23, 2004
|
|
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54%
|
Cellular (2004) |
"
A slick, unpretentious little film that's content with glowering villains, winsome protagonists and plot twists that provoke the occasional mild gasp."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Sep 22, 2004
|
|
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94%
|
Juno (2007) |
"
Little Miss Rain Clouds"
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jun 3, 2009
|
|
|
23%
|
Balls of Fury (2007) |
"
[Is it] good? Heavens, no. But it has its seedy charms."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jun 3, 2009
|
|
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26%
|
Seven Pounds (2008) |
"
Operates on an emotional level so crude that the sacrificial act at its heart appears not only kitschy, but also repellent%u2014not to mention icky."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Dec 28, 2008
|
|
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73%
|
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) |
"
MP3some"
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Oct 1, 2008
|
|
|
9%
|
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"
A perfectly uninvolving tale of errors acknowledged and manhood proved."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Sep 17, 2008
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|
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14%
|
Mirrors (2008) |
"
Sutherland does a passable job of clenching his jaw grimly %u2014 lest it, too, be torn from his skull, perhaps."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Aug 27, 2008
|
|
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68%
|
Pineapple Express (2008) |
"
Long on concept and short on most everything else except kinetic energy."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Aug 13, 2008
|
|
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76%
|
L'Auberge Espagnole (Pot Luck)(Euro Pudding)(The Spanish Apartment) (2003) |
"
A Big Mac with a mineral water chaser."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jul 29, 2008
|
|
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50%
|
Get Smart (2008) |
"
Another pop-culture icon lazily mined for ready cash. Mission accomplished."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jul 2, 2008
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|
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37%
|
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) |
"
Sandler's unflappable Jewish gigolo superhero hairdresser act is an overconceptualized drag."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jun 17, 2008
|
|
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79%
|
Open Range (2003) |
"
Something like...It's a Wonderful Life, only rich in slaughter."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jun 9, 2008
|
|
|
50%
|
Sex and the City (2008) |
"
As the movie drifts into its third hour, you start to feel that it's not joy that's keeping you in the theater. It's duty."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jun 4, 2008
|
|
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69%
|
Babel (2006) |
"
Babel...belongs to an unfortunately proliferating genre that might be called the higher kitsch."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jun 1, 2008
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|
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27%
|
What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"
It Happened One Drunken Night"
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 21, 2008
|
|
|
50%
|
The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
"
All [Gibson has] done...is to trade in the Hollywood conventions of yesteryear for the crasser, more bloodthirsty conventions of today."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 17, 2008
|
|
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63%
|
Love Actually (2003) |
"
Transfixed by the taboos of the...British class system, Curtis seems to think that nothing could be more erotic than the subordinate who fetches tea or dusts the crockery."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 17, 2008
|
|
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90%
|
Knocked Up (2007) |
"
For all its avowed interest in life -- as in, you know, the biological imperatives of our existence -- its characters seem acquainted only with television."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 10, 2008
|
|
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97%
|
Persepolis (2007) |
"
As a reminder that Iran is a complex society with a long tradition of cosmopolitan interchange with the West, Persepolis could hardly be more welcome. As a narrative, however, the film sometimes loses its way."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 10, 2008
|
|
|
80%
|
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) |
"
Lord of the Deathly Thingamabob"
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 7, 2008
|
63%
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