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43%
|
Big Fat Liar (2002) |
"
Where there's dumb and dumber, there's invariably dumbest, a case in point being Big Fat Liar."
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Boston Globe
Posted Feb 8, 2002
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76%
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Black Hawk Down (2001) |
"
Despite all the hard work by an army of craftsmen working on location in Morocco, the film takes the easy way out, subsiding into a thing of technical challenges met rather than attempting to probe the events at a deeper level."
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Boston Globe
Posted Jan 18, 2002
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15%
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The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
"
The entire film seems a series of disjointed pieces, a screenful of iron filings waiting in vain for the magnet that will line them up in a unified field."
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Boston Globe
Posted Dec 26, 2001
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56%
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Focus (2001) |
"
Seems embalmed in its own time, an earnest and handsomely crafted museum piece."
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Boston Globe
Posted Nov 9, 2001
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44%
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Lisa Picard is Famous (2001) |
"
An intermittently engaging but inescapably overextended mockumentary."
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Boston Globe
Posted Nov 2, 2001
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81%
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The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) |
"
More gris than noir."
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Boston Globe
Posted Nov 2, 2001
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23%
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Domestic Disturbance (2001) |
"
Replacing suspense with formula, Domestic Disturbance doesn't make nearly the ripple it could have made."
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Boston Globe
Posted Nov 2, 2001
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14%
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The One (2001) |
"
A dimwitted parallel-universe slugfest that sets a new low for a Hollywood martial arts extravaganza built around a major star."
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Boston Globe
Posted Nov 2, 2001
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47%
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Life as a House (2001) |
"
The difference between the house and the film is that the house is brought to completion in satisfying fashion. The film isn't."
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Boston Globe
Posted Oct 26, 2001
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19%
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On the Line (2001) |
"
In the end, it's much ado about not very much, certainly not enough to catapult Bass into a film career, but probably enough to satisfy 'N Sync fans."
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Boston Globe
Posted Oct 26, 2001
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22%
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Bones (2001) |
"
Too earthbound to get anywhere near terror."
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Boston Globe
Posted Oct 24, 2001
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57%
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From Hell (2001) |
"
It's one thing for Graham to drive Austin Powers nuts, but it's quite another to ask her to carry this grand guignol."
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Boston Globe
Posted Oct 19, 2001
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65%
|
Bandits (2001) |
"
Bandits is inescapably lite, lite, lite, unfolding on the level of a factory product, not a human experience."
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Boston Globe
Posted Oct 12, 2001
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6%
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Corky Romano (2001) |
"
Can best be described as 86 minutes of nonstop forgettableness."
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Boston Globe
Posted Oct 12, 2001
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24%
|
Don't Say a Word (2001) |
"
The problem faced by Don't Say a Word is that it's hard to care about characters who make cardboard look complex and multifaceted."
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Boston Globe
Posted Sep 28, 2001
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38%
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Hardball (2001) |
"
So much a copycat film, with so low a level of originality, that it makes almost superhuman demands on its cast of young actors, who need only the love of Keanu Reeves to turn them into a field of winners."
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Boston Globe
Posted Sep 14, 2001
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43%
|
All Over The Guy (2001) |
"
Sweet but often tedious."
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Boston Globe
Posted Sep 7, 2001
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11%
|
The Musketeer (2001) |
"
The images are pretty, and Gene Quintano's screenplay gets everybody from point A to point B, though with no discernible knack for wit or subtlety."
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Boston Globe
Posted Sep 7, 2001
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31%
|
Wet Hot American Summer (2001) |
"
There's no getting around the fact that it's a hit-and-miss proposition."
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Boston Globe
Posted Aug 31, 2001
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7%
|
Summer Catch (2001) |
"
Bull Durham for dummies."
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Boston Globe
Posted Aug 24, 2001
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21%
|
Ghosts of Mars (2001) |
"
Slides instantly into the realm of the forgettable."
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Boston Globe
Posted Aug 24, 2001
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29%
|
Bubble Boy (2001) |
"
Goes through the motions of being outrageous when all it's really got is a rage to conform to formula."
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Boston Globe
Posted Aug 24, 2001
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44%
|
Rat Race (2001) |
"
The sight gags are too few and far between and the characters, in varying degrees, all seem pale refugees from sitcomland."
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Boston Globe
Posted Aug 17, 2001
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29%
|
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001) |
"
Captain Corelli's Mandolin doesn't so much strike a lot of sour notes as fail to strike the right ones."
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Boston Globe
Posted Aug 17, 2001
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14%
|
American Outlaws (2001) |
"
A slick but mindless throwback to the kind of Western that reminds you what revisionist Westerns revised."
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Boston Globe
Posted Aug 17, 2001
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84%
|
The Others (2001) |
"
The film has everything you want in a supernatural thriller except thrills."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 10, 2001
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62%
|
Session 9 (2001) |
"
As the violence escalates, the store of ominousness shrinks and gives way to silliness, leaving some talented actors high and dry."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Aug 10, 2001
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29%
|
Jackpot (2001) |
"
Gries labors mightily, in an imploded way, to convince us that the charmless Sunny has talent enough to warrant chasing the brass ring. But Jackpot is bummer theater."
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Boston Globe
Posted Aug 3, 2001
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12%
|
Original Sin (2001) |
"
Original Sin, despite the heavy-handedness, isn't awful enough to be a hilarious howler. But neither is it good enough to become the tropical noir it could have been."
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Boston Globe
Posted Aug 3, 2001
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46%
|
Brother (2001) |
"
There's nothing noble about Aniki's steadfastness; he's a violent thug who's simply more skilled and efficient than the other thugs surrounding him."
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Boston Globe
Posted Jul 27, 2001
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45%
|
Planet of the Apes (2001) |
"
This will not be remembered as the finest hour for Burton's neo-Goth sensibilities."
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Boston Globe
Posted Jul 27, 2001
|
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71%
|
Made (2001) |
"
Likely to leave fans missing the fresh hit of Swingers and leave newcomers wondering what some of the fuss was about."
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Boston Globe
Posted Jul 20, 2001
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31%
|
America's Sweethearts (2001) |
"
The film is longer on one-liners than inventiveness, focus, and sharp characterization."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 20, 2001
|
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61%
|
Der Krieger und die Kaiserin (The Princess and the Warrior) (2000) |
"
Nowhere near as dynamic as the title implies."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jul 6, 2001
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63%
|
Crazy/ Beautiful (2001) |
"
As Hollywood teen movies go, crazy/beautiful takes two steps forward and one step back. It's at war with itself. On the one hand, it wants to push the genre envelope, and does. But then it suffers a failure of nerve."
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Boston Globe
Posted Jun 29, 2001
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11%
|
Bride of the Wind (2001) |
"
It skims Alma's life like a thrown rock skipping over a pond."
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Boston Globe
Posted Jun 22, 2001
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42%
|
Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001) |
"
Warmer and fuzzier than the first film, though every bit as tedious."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 22, 2001
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|
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60%
|
The King Is Alive (2001) |
"
Sinks under the weight of its ever more inescapably apparent contrivance."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 15, 2001
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35%
|
The Man Who Cried (2000) |
"
The story is pretty cornball, with an ending that can only be called pure Hollywood."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 15, 2001
|
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19%
|
Lara Croft - Tomb Raider (2001) |
"
While Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is as cumbersome as most films in this subgenre, Angelina Jolie makes it watchable."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 15, 2001
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49%
|
Atlantis - The Lost Empire (2001) |
"
It should have been more daring, and gone for the grandeur and even poetic dimension its subject invites."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 15, 2001
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32%
|
Hit and Runway (1999) |
"
Does have moments, but it also seems a couple of years behind the times."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 8, 2001
|
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26%
|
Swordfish (2001) |
"
Too much routine stuff amid the excess relegates the hyperactive Swordfish to the level of costly dross."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 8, 2001
|
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76%
|
Moulin Rouge! (2001) |
"
Chokes on its own artifice."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 1, 2001
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10%
|
What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001) |
"
The film starts out riding a pretty thin premise, totters along on the strength of a few one-liners, then slowly deflates, like a souffle made of synthetic eggs."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Jun 1, 2001
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34%
|
The Center of the World (2001) |
"
The unflinching honesty promised by the film's choice of subject and style is never delivered at any involving level."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 4, 2001
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47%
|
The Mummy Returns (2001) |
"
If you liked the earlier Mummy, you'll probably like this one. In fact, at many points you'll probably think you are watching the earlier one."
—
Boston Globe
Posted May 4, 2001
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11%
|
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001) |
"
Lacking enough energy to even be really bad, the low-energy ramble goes through the same fish-out-of-water routines that didn't look spiffy when Paul Hogan's Croc went to NYC in 1988."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 20, 2001
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32%
|
Along Came a Spider (2001) |
"
Along Came a Spider is efficient, but in the end quite pedestrian."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 6, 2001
|
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55%
|
Blow (2001) |
"
Languishes nondescriptly in a vast powdery wasteland, somewhere between Boogie Nights and Scarface."
—
Boston Globe
Posted Apr 6, 2001
|
67%
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