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100%
|
Hukkle (2001) |
"
It's bracingly funny to see the glorious human species redefined as just another set of moving parts in a huge machine lacking any evident purpose."
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Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Dec 5, 2003
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91%
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El bonaerense (2002) |
"
Credit El Bonaerense with journalistic single-mindedness and, given recent Argentine history, sheer guts."
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Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Dec 5, 2003
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20%
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Honey (2003) |
"
Honey is a whole festival of bad movies, from Flashdance through Glitter."
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Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Dec 5, 2003
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|
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94%
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The Triplets of Belleville (2003) |
"
It's all très charming."
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Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Nov 28, 2003
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29%
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Mail Order Bride (2003) |
"
This harmless nickels-and-kopecks comedy goes by the theory that if one Mafia is funny, two must be hilarious."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Nov 26, 2003
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|
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81%
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The Barbarian Invasions (Les Invasions barbares) (2003) |
"
If secular humanism were an actual religion, The Barbarian Invasions would be recognized as a religious masterpiece."
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Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Nov 21, 2003
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10%
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Dr. Seuss - The Cat in the Hat (2003) |
"
Flashy but flat."
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Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Nov 21, 2003
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78%
|
Tupac - Resurrection (2003) |
"
Intriguing but ultimately frustrating."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Nov 14, 2003
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85%
|
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
"
It's an adventure movie by an artist."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Nov 14, 2003
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|
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93%
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My Architect: A Son's Journey (2004) |
"
Locates the human dimension the architect never grasped."
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Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Nov 13, 2003
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39%
|
The Singing Detective (2003) |
"
Virtuoso work by Robert Downey Jr. and an unrecognizable Mel Gibson (who also produced) can't keep The Singing Detective from degenerating into sheer noise."
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Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 24, 2003
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36%
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Radio (2003) |
"
The game plan is Inspiration or Death."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 24, 2003
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72%
|
Runaway Jury (2003) |
"
Grossly inauthentic but authentically engrossing entertainment."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 17, 2003
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36%
|
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
"
Does convey the sense of being caught in a nightmare. A stupid person's nightmare."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 17, 2003
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4%
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House of the Dead (2003) |
"
Takes out a moviegoer's limbic brain and cerebral cortex. All that's left functioning is the reptilian brain, droning: Kill The Things. Kill The Things..."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 17, 2003
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65%
|
The Flower of Evil (2003) |
"
The 73-year-old Chabrol has dashed off a near-abstract but infinitely intriguing formulation on guilt, recurrence and the perpetual present."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 13, 2003
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16%
|
Civil Brand (2003) |
"
It's guilty of gross B-movie meltdown, but mitigating circumstances include honest anger and a scattering of vivid scenes."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 13, 2003
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42%
|
The Event (2003) |
"
Fails equally as lament and celebration."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 9, 2003
|
|
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66%
|
Out of Time (2003) |
"
Out of Time is probably Hollywood's most seamless suspense trap since The Fugitive."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Oct 3, 2003
|
|
2.5/4
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61%
|
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) |
"
Alternately helped, hindered and (best) left alone by first-time director Wells, Lane fills the screen with her perceptive presence and lifts the undramatic story as high as gravity allows."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 26, 2003
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92%
|
Millennium Actress (Sennen joyû) (2001) |
"
This is a screen trip that actually takes you someplace -- out of the world, around the world and straight to the heart of the world."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 20, 2003
|
|
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42%
|
The Fighting Temptations (2003) |
"
When Gooding and Knowles appear together, they drain off energy like batteries hooked in reverse."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 19, 2003
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95%
|
Lost In Translation (2003) |
"
The old adage says that poetry is what's lost in translation, but the poetry is all that survives in Sofia Coppola's wispy art film."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 12, 2003
|
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70%
|
Dummy (2003) |
"
Pritikin's shrewd comedy-drama catches a fine flock of family emotions on the wing, and not the over-exposed ones."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 12, 2003
|
|
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63%
|
Cabin Fever (2002) |
"
Like much of Cabin Fever, the performances are competent and uninteresting."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 12, 2003
|
|
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69%
|
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) |
"
Rodriguez's movie aspires to trashy grandeur, and achieves it."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 12, 2003
|
|
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73%
|
Taking Sides (2003) |
"
Taking Sides is a symphony played on two instruments, both somewhat out of tune."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 5, 2003
|
|
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69%
|
Dude Where's the Party (2003) |
"
An amiable city mouse/country mouse story."
—
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Posted Sep 5, 2003
|
|
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23%
|
Dickie Roberts - Former Child Star (2003) |
"
David Spade has two-thirds of a comic idea, and the jokes occasionally hit one of their hundred moving targets."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 5, 2003
|
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51%
|
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2003) |
"
Should Blighty stake its screen future on action-adventure? Family fun? Sex satire? Modernized music hall? Post-modern movie-movie? Meadows' answer is 'All of the above.'"
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Sep 3, 2003
|
|
|
23%
|
Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) |
"
The new JC is more consistent and efficient than the first, with classier monster effects, but less compellingly weird."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 29, 2003
|
|
|
9%
|
My Boss's Daughter (2003) |
"
Even after sitting through it you can't swear you've seen it. It vanishes while you watch, like disappearing ink."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 25, 2003
|
|
|
9%
|
Marci X (2003) |
"
This is the kind of movie that would leave a hopeful crowd feeling let down, but might sparkle like a tiara in a trash can for someone who discovers it by chance."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 25, 2003
|
|
|
38%
|
Sin noticias de Dios (Don't Tempt Me) (2003) |
"
Consistently clever and inventive on a level a little below the inspired."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 22, 2003
|
|
2.5/4
|
18%
|
The Medallion (2003) |
"
A B-movie worthy of the term."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 22, 2003
|
|
|
41%
|
The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003) |
"
The half an idea in Erica Beeney's script is reduced by another half through the disjointed directing of Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 22, 2003
|
|
|
82%
|
Step Into Liquid (2003) |
"
With neo-rock replacing beach boyisms and new optical technology permitting crisp Steadicam close-ups of ballet-like aquabatics, Step into Liquid is state-of-the-art non-art."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 21, 2003
|
|
|
75%
|
Koi... Mil Gaya (I Found Someone) (2003) |
"
Even for Bollywood, this is broad, corny stuff."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 21, 2003
|
|
|
14%
|
Uptown Girls (2003) |
"
Yakin shuns caricature. His affection for all his feckless characters, even Fanning's narcissistic mom (Heather Locklear), is evident."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 21, 2003
|
|
|
41%
|
Freddy vs. Jason (2003) |
"
Will satisfy the hordes who've awaited this heavyweight matchup for a decade."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 21, 2003
|
|
|
8%
|
Grind (2003) |
"
Among those rare films that starts at the bottom and burrows downward."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 21, 2003
|
|
|
48%
|
S.W.A.T. (2003) |
"
Schlocky, slam-bang fun."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 8, 2003
|
|
|
75%
|
Seaside (2002) |
"
Touching, amusing, sometimes compelling, Seaside is ultimately little more revealing than a weekend visit. It's a sheaf of captivating postcards."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 6, 2003
|
|
|
55%
|
American Wedding (2003) |
"
Even suckers for the first two American Pie courses will find this third helping indigestible."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Aug 1, 2003
|
|
|
80%
|
Mondays in the Sun (Los Lunes al sol) (2003) |
"
Shot in lustrous, muted color with a sure sensitivity to emotional states and mood swings, it's an elegy on wasted time and waning energies."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jul 31, 2003
|
|
|
38%
|
Hotel (2003) |
"
It's a love-it-or- hate-it proposition."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jul 31, 2003
|
|
|
45%
|
Lucia, Lucia (La Hija del caníbal) (2003) |
"
A comedy-mystery that's neither funny nor mysterious."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jul 25, 2003
|
|
|
77%
|
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"
Seabiscuit is resoundingly well made and emotionally satisfying."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jul 25, 2003
|
|
|
28%
|
How to Deal (2003) |
"
Promising to serve up life's complexity, Clare Kilner's movie doles it out in bite-sized, predigested portions."
—
Newark Star-Ledger
Posted Jul 18, 2003
|
87%
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