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67%
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Kalifornia (1993)
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"A gritty, haunting voyeur's peek into the human condition."
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Jonathan R. Perry
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36%
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Shark Tale (2004)
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"We needn't look further than 'Shark Tale' to realize the studio that revolutionized the art of CGI animation doesn't own the patent on wit and imagination."
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Jonathan R. Perry
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31%
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The Forgotten (2004)
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"Any film capable of simultaneously causing me to douse my lap with Mountain Dew in surprise and inspiring the biggest unintentional laugh I've had all year deserves credit."
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Jonathan R. Perry
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72%
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
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"What we should expect of a night at the movies: Bold, clever, inventive, exhilarating - and often enough, magical."
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Jonathan R. Perry
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61%
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Wimbledon (2004)
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"Joins 'Four Weddings and a Funeral,' 'Notting Hill' and 'About a Boy' in that distinctly British niche of 'chick flicks' that can be enjoyed without a lobotomy."
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Jonathan R. Perry
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21%
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Resident Evil - Apocalypse (2004)
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"Nemesis looks like what would happen if The Toxic Avenger ate The Terminator. He fires a rocket launcher. Stuff 'splodes, people die. Get back to your Cheetos."
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Jonathan R. Perry
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50%
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Vanity Fair (2004)
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"The director's vision seems as obstructed by affectation as the vision of the classist characters in her film."
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Mark Collette
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48%
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Undisputed (2002)
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"We have no idea where these characters have been, so we don't care where they're going."
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Mark Collette
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18%
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Trapped (2002)
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"... so many directions with so much silliness that a surprise no longer surprises."
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Mark Collette
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33%
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The Truth About Charlie (2002)
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"... a story as mixed up (yet with an outcome as predictable) as a plate of spaghetti."
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Mark Collette
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2%
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Half Past Dead (2002)
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"... satisfies neither intellectually nor viscerally."
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Mark Collette
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12%
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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
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"... a story whose cleverness and meaning is sullied among horseplay we can't take the kids to see."
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Mark Collette
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30%
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Dreamcatcher (2003)
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"What begins as a pique to our collective curiosity quickly degenerates into what is essentially a shootout between the good guys and the monsters."
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Mark Collette
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31%
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Head of State (2003)
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"Not merely satisfied with stereotyping whites, Rock insists on taking shots at blacks, fat people, poor people and even spina bifida patients."
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Mark Collette
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62%
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Identity (2003)
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"... every predictable move comes unraveled again with an uncanny discovery."
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Mark Collette
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11%
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Alex & Emma (2003)
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"Delves into ... all the odious cliches of the romantic comedy genre, but Reiner justifies it by laughing at the ridiculousness of his own story."
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Mark Collette
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38%
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Legally Blonde 2 - Red, White & Blonde (2003)
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"The expression of horror and amazement upon Bob Newhart's face captures, in one split second, the essence of the entire film."
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Mark Collette
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17%
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)
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"[Director] Norrington has spent too much effort trying to include too much of the comic book."
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Mark Collette
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28%
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How to Deal (2003)
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"Fails to acknowledge the real problems teenagers face."
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Mark Collette
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24%
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Lara Croft Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003)
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"... true to the look and spirit of the game and ... more fun than watching someone else play 'Tomb Raider,' which was the bane of the first Lara Croft installment."
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Mark Collette
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7%
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Gigli (2003)
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"Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez ... each spend several shocking minutes expounding upon the wonders of their own nether regions."
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Mark Collette
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79%
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Open Range (2003)
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"... needs a better story, better characters, better source material; and fewer aphorisms, fewer long glances and sweeping scores, fewer chunks of cheese."
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Mark Collette
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18%
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The Medallion (2003)
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"... enough distractions to carry us through the doldrums."
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Mark Collette
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9%
|
The Order (The Sin Eater) (2003)
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"... it has a curious disorder, one that makes it both interesting and pallid."
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Mark Collette
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82%
|
Matchstick Men (2003)
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"... tenuous and beautiful interaction between Cage and Lohman."
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Mark Collette
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|
75%
|
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
|
"The Coens ... have taken a typically trite target for ridicule and splayed it out for an attack from outer space, where Coen brothers scripts tend to originate."
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Mark Collette
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14%
|
Beyond Borders (2003)
|
"...brutally haunting images ... in a setting where sappy dialogue evaporates like water."
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Mark Collette
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56%
|
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003)
|
"Perfect fare for a 5-year-old on an Apple Jacks sugar high, but scarcely tolerable for anyone moving toward the Raisin Bran end of the aging spectrum."
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Mark Collette
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15%
|
Gothika (2003)
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"... the 80-minute setup for the shock has nothing to do with engaging the deep-seated fears and emotions that really plague us all, at some level, every day."
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Mark Collette
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12%
|
Timeline (2003)
|
"Jeff Maguire, in adapting Crichton's novel, clearly had trouble explaining all the nuances of the story with the constraints of a Hollywood time limit."
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Mark Collette
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13%
|
Love Don't Cost a Thing (2003)
|
"High school films don't have to be dull or juvenile; this one suffers tremendously from the former."
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Mark Collette
|
|
35%
|
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
|
"...would have been better served by characters with a little less formula than the paint-by-numbers projects so loved by these women of Wellesley College."
|
Mark Collette
|
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52%
|
Win A Date With Tad Hamilton! (2004)
|
"We might have to use our seat cushions to float on all this goo."
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Mark Collette
|
|
17%
|
The Perfect Score (2004)
|
"The work of a filmmaker and team of writers so conscious of their own formulaic crutch that they demand a production that feels like more than the sum of its parts."
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Mark Collette
|
|
80%
|
Miracle (2004)
|
"It's not too hokey, not politically correct, not a mass of chewy, Disney-fried steak, not even a miracle -- it's just good storytelling."
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Mark Collette
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13%
|
Highwaymen (2004)
|
"Elicits groans and the wrong kind of laughter."
|
Mark Collette
|
|
49%
|
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
|
"Those with a spiritually vibrant personal relationship to the story may find it as affirming as it is oppressive."
|
Mark Collette
|
|
29%
|
Club Dread (2004)
|
"The film's creators use sexual humor as a stand-in when they run out of vacuous little sub-sketches."
|
Mark Collette
|
|
46%
|
Hidalgo (2004)
|
"Will Hidalgo survive the brutal desert to demand more creative control over his next film?"
|
Mark Collette
|
|
22%
|
Taking Lives (2004)
|
"It both startles and sedates."
|
Mark Collette
|
|
81%
|
Hellboy (2004)
|
"The trouble with computer graphics in films these days is that a computer doesn't have half the imagination of a human."
|
Mark Collette
|
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4%
|
The Whole Ten Yards (2003)
|
"One must ask why sequels such as this come to be."
|
Mark Collette
|
|
93%
|
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004)
|
"Carrey gracefully paints the neuroses of a man who has no security or intimacy beyond the close grip of his gloomy knit hat."
|
Mark Collette
|
|
65%
|
13 Going on 30 (2004)
|
"Sickeningly cute, surprisingly energetic and alarmingly clever."
|
Mark Collette
|
|
17%
|
Laws of Attraction (2004)
|
"The two lead players ... seem the least likely of anyone in the film to fight for themselves, unless you give them very large cocktails."
|
Mark Collette
|
|
31%
|
Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
|
"Digresses into that hazy zone where we're not sure if we're watching overwrought drama or a joke that just isn't funny."
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Mark Collette
|
|
23%
|
Raising Helen (2004)
|
"Tries to tell in excruciating detail the stories of at least six characters, but succeeds in showing us they are only cardboard cutouts."
|
Mark Collette
|
|
15%
|
Garfield - The Movie (2004)
|
"Imagine the comic strip as a lone enchilada stretched to feed the whole dinner crowd at Pancho's."
|
Mark Collette
|
|
52%
|
The Notebook (2004)
|
"One of those films you want to like and want to keep watching because it looks so pretty."
|
Mark Collette
|
|
66%
|
Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (2004)
|
"Ferrell wrenches every drop of ingenuity from a lackluster screenplay and amplifies it through his face, his voice, his gut - even his underwear."
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Mark Collette
|
73%
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