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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."
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Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Dec 28, 2008
|
|
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73%
|
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) |
"
MP3some"
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Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Oct 1, 2008
|
|
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9%
|
Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"
A perfectly uninvolving tale of errors acknowledged and manhood proved."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Sep 17, 2008
|
|
|
14%
|
Mirrors (2008) |
"
Sutherland does a passable job of clenching his jaw grimly %u2014 lest it, too, be torn from his skull, perhaps."
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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
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
50%
|
Get Smart (2008) |
"
Another pop-culture icon lazily mined for ready cash. Mission accomplished."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jul 2, 2008
|
|
|
37%
|
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) |
"
Sandler's unflappable Jewish gigolo superhero hairdresser act is an overconceptualized drag."
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Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jun 17, 2008
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
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
|
|
|
84%
|
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) |
"
The trademark Apatow mix of pasty, media-addled boy-men and the gorgeous, gorgeous women who badger them into an imitation of maturity already feels dated."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 7, 2008
|
|
|
71%
|
Cold Mountain (2003) |
"
A kitschy, lugubrious and deeply unhistorical exercise in self-congratulation."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 6, 2008
|
|
|
65%
|
Stop Loss (2008) |
"
The Worst Years of Our Lives"
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Apr 11, 2008
|
|
|
50%
|
Doomsday (2008) |
"
The only thing that saves Doomsday from complete disgrace is that it knows it's trash."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Mar 28, 2008
|
|
|
76%
|
Cidade dos Homens (City of Men) (2007) |
"
An efficient, simply told story...in spite of the plot's neat contrivances and the movie's determination to pull some edifying nugget from the heartbreak and hopelessness at its core."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Mar 12, 2008
|
|
|
41%
|
27 Dresses (2008) |
"
Like its protagonist, 27 Dresses undoes itself with niceness."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Feb 4, 2008
|
|
|
89%
|
The Savages (2007) |
"
The latter half suffers from degenerative indie-itis, that epidemic syndrome whose main symptom is unwarranted interest in the ennui afflicting well-read urban misfits."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jan 23, 2008
|
|
|
71%
|
Beowulf (2007) |
"
Although the word 'wench' may go unuttered, most of the time this earthbound adaptation is hardly distinguishable from ye olde kitsch."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Nov 21, 2007
|
|
|
64%
|
Dan in Real Life (2007) |
"
Like the movie itself, Carell's performance doesn't really give you a reason to leave home, but if you find yourself watching it, you will be pleasantly surprised. To a degree."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Nov 7, 2007
|
|
|
35%
|
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) |
"
F. Scott Fitzgerald once remarked that there are no second acts in American lives. If only the same could be said about Shekhar Kapur's 1998 Elizabeth."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Oct 24, 2007
|
|
|
57%
|
We Own the Night (2007) |
"
Leave the gun. Take the blini."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Oct 10, 2007
|
|
|
43%
|
The Brave One (2007) |
"
Dirty Jodie"
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Sep 26, 2007
|
|
|
33%
|
The Nanny Diaries (2007) |
"
Even a high-powered cast proves unequal to the task of breathing life into these bloodless, lazily conceived phantoms."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Aug 30, 2007
|
|
|
52%
|
Introducing the Dwights (2007) |
"
Director Cherie Nowlan is far too intent on serving up searing pathos washed down, inevitably, with a tub of soaring affirmation."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Aug 15, 2007
|
|
|
91%
|
Hairspray (2007) |
"
A mostly buoyant, candy-colored diversion, leavened by perky performances and upbeat numbers whose lyrics and melodies you'll be hard-pressed to recall once you've left the theater."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jul 25, 2007
|
|
|
17%
|
Georgia Rule (2007) |
"
[An] unruly, often bracing misfire."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 23, 2007
|
|
|
63%
|
Spider-Man 3 (2007) |
"
As the Goblin and Sandman and whatnot multiply and start whizzing about, the proceedings in this grand hodgepodge are so disordered that it would be no surprise were a Nazg? wing into the scene, perhaps ridden by Dr. Zaius."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 9, 2007
|
|
|
44%
|
In the Land of Women (2007) |
"
Unintentionally makes a case for believing that the young have nothing of interest to say to their seniors, and very little of interest to say to each other."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted May 3, 2007
|
|
|
8%
|
The Reaping (2007) |
"
Makes The Omen look like a masterpiece of spiritual probing and cinematic integrity."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Apr 18, 2007
|
|
|
63%
|
Reign Over Me (2007) |
"
Reign Over Me surrounds its weighty subject with so much contrived nonsense that after a while the film feels like an affront to real suffering."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Apr 4, 2007
|
|
|
66%
|
Miss Potter (2007) |
"
Something of a muddle....The level of social criticism and psychological portraiture shifts from Howard's End to Mary Poppins."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Mar 21, 2007
|
|
|
70%
|
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"
History as one might wish it to be taught to an earnest child."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Mar 7, 2007
|
|
|
14%
|
Black Christmas (2006) |
"
It's hard to get worked up over the fate of characters whose identities remain largely a matter of conjecture."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jan 10, 2007
|
|
|
67%
|
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) |
"
Smith's bottomless capacity for charm saves the movie from itself."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Dec 31, 2006
|
|
|
51%
|
The Fountain (2006) |
"
A cross between Stanley Kubrick's 2001 and Douglas Sirk's delicious 1954 soaper, Magnificent Obsession."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Dec 6, 2006
|
|
|
55%
|
Marie Antoinette (2006) |
"
Films, like royalty, it turns out, cannot survive on style alone."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Nov 1, 2006
|
|
|
32%
|
The Black Dahlia (2006) |
"
Forget it, Jake. It's not Chinatown."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Sep 27, 2006
|
|
|
42%
|
Gridiron Gang (2006) |
"
Bad News Bangers"
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Sep 20, 2006
|
|
|
69%
|
World Trade Center (2006) |
"
Stone isn't cut out for making big, simple affirmative statements."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Aug 16, 2006
|
|
|
54%
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) |
"
Yo Ho Hum"
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jul 19, 2006
|
|
|
91%
|
Water (2005) |
"
The movie's sentimental vision rests on the flimsy idea that 'real' religion never sanctions cruelty."
—
Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)
Posted Jun 7, 2006
|
63%
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