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5/5
 
"Alejandro Amenabar announced himself in the category of the top level of directors working today."
Posted Dec 6, 2005
 
Open Your Eyes (1997)84%
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3.5/5
 
"Fascinating."
Posted Dec 6, 2005
 
My Life Without Me (2003)65%
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1.5/5
 
"An in-name-only remake of a moonshine classic that feels recycled from frame one."
Posted Apr 6, 2004
 
Walking Tall (2004)24%
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4/5
 
"The kind of joyous horror-viewing experience where you yell at the screen and cheer for the victims and the zombies with equal venom."
Posted Mar 24, 2004
 
Dawn of the Dead (2004)77%
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2.5/5
 
"A film that betrays itself by not following its story through to a believable and psychological conclusion."
Posted Feb 8, 2004
 
Mindhunters (2005)26%
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3.5/5
 
"Powerful in its recreation of a magical time and place and it really does make us believe that miracles are possible."
Posted Feb 8, 2004
 
Miracle (2004)79%
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3.5/5
 
"A very good film with a special performance by Ben Kingsley."
Posted Dec 23, 2003
 
House of Sand and Fog (2003)76%
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3.5/5
 
"Dante's much more confident in this combined world of animation and live-action than we saw in the interesting but uneven Small Soldiers."
Posted Nov 18, 2003
 
Looney Tunes - Back in Action (2003)57%
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1/5
 
"A film that’s so bad, so grievously awful in so many ways, that you’re convinced that it was meant to be a comedy."
Posted Oct 22, 2003
 
House of the Dead (2003)4%
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3.5/5
 
"The film has a lot of humor and joy in it."
Posted Oct 1, 2003
 
My Life Without Me (2003)65%
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3/5
 
"What's fun about the film are its goofy sense of humor, wild and crazy stunts, and the cheerful willingness of The Rock to poke fun at himself."
Posted Oct 1, 2003
 
The Rundown (2003)71%
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3/5
 
"The film delivers."
Posted Aug 19, 2003
 
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)41%
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3/5
 
"What I really enjoyed was just seeing the characters again, possibly for the last time."
Posted Aug 5, 2003
 
American Wedding (2003)57%
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1/5
 
"Has no story, no redeeming characters that anyone could care about, and the actors are all on autopilot, completely soaked with their own vanity."
Posted Aug 5, 2003
 
Gigli (2003)6%
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2.5/5
 
"Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines unfolds as a thrilling piece of entertainment, but it has a third act and ending that don't work and shouldn't ever work."
Posted Jul 8, 2003
 
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)70%
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3/5
 
"Proof that an old genre can still have life as long as filmmakers are willing to fill it with energy, humor and respect for the genre."
Posted Jun 3, 2003
 
Wrong Turn (2003)41%
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2.5/5
 
"The film is corny, predictable, and manipulative to the point that you feel like there's electrodes attached from the screen to your brain, but, by the end of this film, I’ll be damned if I didn't feel genuine affection for it and Lizzie in particular."
Posted May 4, 2003
 
The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003)40%
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2/5
 
"There's nothing epic here, just lots of constant viscera ground out over a bruising two plus hours."
Posted Mar 23, 2003
 
Dreamcatcher (2003)29%
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3/5
 
"An entertaining action-thriller, nothing more, nothing less."
Posted Feb 18, 2003
 
Dark Blue (2003)57%
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2/5
 
"A lazy and limp film, completely forgettable."
Posted Feb 10, 2003
 
Shanghai Knights (2003)65%
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3.5/5
 
"It grabs us with the premise and holds our attention and doesn't let go."
Posted Jan 21, 2003
 
Insomnia (2002)92%
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2/5
 
"Like a head on collision between some nice performances and a really stupid plot."
Posted Jan 16, 2003
 
Just Married (2003)20%
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1/5
 
"Low rent from frame one."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Jason X (2002)21%
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3.5/5
 
"A film that has many strengths, not the least of which is its towering ambition."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Ararat (2002)58%
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3/5
 
"The plot of the comeback curlers isn't very interesting actually, but what I like about Men With Brooms and what is kind of special is how the film knows what's unique and quirky about Canadians."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Men With Brooms (2002)63%
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3/5
 
"A cold war thriller told from the Russian point of view which gives it the appearance of having more credibility and dark truth than if this were an American story."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
K-19: The Widowmaker (2002)60%
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2/5
 
"The film is like a series of beginnings and middles that never take off."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Stealing Harvard (2002)8%
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5/5
 
"Arguably, the greatest horror film of the past thirty years."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Halloween (1978)90%
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1.5/5
 
"This film would've been a lot funnier if the filmmaker's had shown the slightest bit of imagination in terms of the plot's comic possibilities."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)38%
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3/5
 
"The Rock is ceaselessly entertaining, it's fun to see the characters get killed(good or bad, I didn't care), and the women are so beautiful I thought I was watching Kama Sutra 2."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
The Scorpion King (2002)40%
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0.5/5
 
"The film is so bad it doesn't improve upon the experience of staring at a blank screen."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Kung Pow! (2002)12%
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1/5
 
"If Sinise's character had a brain his ordeal would be over in five minutes but instead the plot goes out of its way to introduce obstacles for him to stumble over."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Impostor (2001)15%
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4/5
 
"Long before Jason, and the endless machinations of dumb sequels, Friday the 13th represented the purest form of terror."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Friday the 13th - Part 1 (1980)69%
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4/5
 
"A very scary film, well made and lovingly dark, and it illustrates how terrified we are of becoming the victims we see on TV."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Panic Room (2002)77%
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3/5
 
"An entertaining action movie, nothing more, nothing less."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Collateral Damage (2002)18%
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1/5
 
"A seriously bad film with seriously warped logic by writer-director Kurt Wimmer at the screenplay level."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Equilibrium (2002)35%
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1.5/5
 
"I have no problem with the fact that [Seagal] doesn't use a Russian accent (Do they ever?), but he looks out of shape and tired."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Half Past Dead (2002)2%
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4/5
 
"I suppose Brett Ratner seemed like a controversial and odd choice to make this film but he outdoes himself here."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Red Dragon (2002)68%
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2.5/5
 
"The film is fun, energetic, and brightly colored and I think kids will love it a lot."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Return to Never Land (2002)44%
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3/5
 
"More than passable summer entertainment and I think if they were still making war westerns today, it would feel right at home."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Windtalkers (2002)35%
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2.5/5
 
"It doesn't show us anything new or really funny, certainly nothing that we can’t get on HBO."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Analyze That (2002)27%
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1/5
 
"Such a brain dead, jukebox of a movie, it should've been called Tron for Dummies."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Rollerball (2002)4%
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4/5
 
"This is a good film; strong, honest, strikingly photographed (by Dean Semler) and appropriately devastating."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
We Were Soldiers (2002)63%
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2.5/5
 
"I'll bet the video game is a lot more fun than the film."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Resident Evil (2002)33%
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1/5
 
"A graceless and miserable film."
Posted Dec 8, 2002
 
Enough (2002)22%
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4/5
 
"It's a great comedy, and a deeply touching one, too."
Posted Jun 11, 2002
 
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)97%
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3.5/5
 
"Rare Birds has more than enough charm to make it memorable."
Posted Jun 11, 2002
 
Rare Birds (2001)62%

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