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47%
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The Holiday (2006)
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"Myers has established herself as Nora Ephron Lite, which is the same as establishing yourself as white bread without the crust."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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62%
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Blood Diamond (2006)
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"A top-notch adventure movie with fantastic production values and the cold, sharp edge of a machete."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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65%
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Apocalypto (2006)
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"The plot has been stripped to the essence of chase and survival."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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89%
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
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"McCabe & Mrs. Miller is as signficant, as unusual and as haunting today as when it premiered 35 years ago."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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38%
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The Nativity Story (2006)
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"Many moments are overpowering and humbling, thanks to the source material. This is not a great film or an especially good one, but I don't have to remind you where its story ranks among those ever told."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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50%
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Flannel Pajamas (2006)
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"With "Flannel Pajamas" Lipsky has written an excellent off-Broadway play, not a film."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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46%
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Bobby (2006)
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"As we experience Kennedy's compassion and eloquence in newsreel footage and hear the campaign speech he delivered that night, we comprehend the film's overwhelming sense of loss."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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55%
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Déjà Vu (2006)
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"Not a thing about this story withstands two second's worth of scrutiny."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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32%
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
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"In Fur the filmmakers have created something more unbearable than the pretentious biopic of a suffering artist: the pretentious pretend biopic of a suffering artist."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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75%
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Happy Feet (2006)
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"While the film's visual inventiveness and technological innovations can be daunting at the start, Miller chose his featured animal well. No creatures are more irresistible than penguins, even when they sing disco."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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95%
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Casino Royale (2006)
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"Casino Royale is the riskiest of Bonds, and it immediately establishes itself among the series' top tier because almost every gambit pays off."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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25%
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A Good Year (2006)
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"The humor is fast and witty - P.G. Wodehouse on rocket fuel."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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72%
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Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
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"Indulge the movie's excesses, and it rewards the viewer's intelligence with humor mingled with insight, warmth and painless lessons in literary theory."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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72%
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Flushed Away (2006)
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"This is one of those movies that sends kids - and adults - out of the theater listing dozens of things that made them laugh."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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91%
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
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"A cinematic stunt that works occasionally, but not often enough."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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75%
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Catch a Fire (2006)
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"Noyce's instincts for suspense are so potent that Catch a Fire works as a thriller even if you ignore his politics."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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30%
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Running With Scissors (2006)
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"Running With Scissors loses its edge because we want to see more of Baldwin and less of everyone else."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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76%
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The Prestige (2006)
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"Following The Illusionist, The Prestige is this season's second thriller about stage magic at the end of the 19th century. The Prestige is the more satisfying."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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87%
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The Last King of Scotland (2006)
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"Amin's story is so thick with drama, terror and bloodshed, why create a fictional character to serve as a vantage point?"
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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73%
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Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
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"The most intriguing, and in some ways most courageous, aspect of Flags is how Eastwood deconstructs the use of the word 'hero.'"
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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33%
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Stormbreaker (Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker) (2006)
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"If Pettyfer approached the material as a teenage James Bond movie, the actors playing the villains approached Stormbreaker as a teenage Austin Powers movie."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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73%
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Jet Li's Fearless (Huo Yuan Jia) (Legend of a Fighter) (2006)
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"If Li must leave his signature genre, better this entertaining bit of history than the wall-to-wall boredom of Hero."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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93%
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The Departed (2006)
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"It may not be vintage Scorsese, but it is exciting Scorsese."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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11%
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All The King's Men (2006)
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"Like Polonius in "Hamlet," All the King's Men takes on airs as it pretends to explain the mysteries of life although it really says nothing of significance."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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69%
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Hollywoodland (2006)
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"The fatal flaw of Hollywoodland is as basic as the mystery genre gets: too much detective, not enough detecting."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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93%
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Lassie (2006)
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"Lassie achieves greatness through its rich supply of goodness."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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100%
|
The Fallen Idol (1949)
|
"Many themes are tragic, but Fallen Idol also extols the resilience of innocence. "
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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58%
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How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
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"The lessons about bullying and standing up for yourself aren't forced too strongly, giving How to Eat Fried Worms the same appeal as the best Little Rascals shorts."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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36%
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Accepted (2006)
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"You have to cheer a film that chooses the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" as its anthem and not something by Matchbox 20."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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68%
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Snakes on a Plane (2006)
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"Snakes on a Plane is good fun that could have been great fun."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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19%
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Step Up (2006)
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"Despite being declared 'one of the film industry's most sought-after choreographers' in the press notes, director Anne Fletcher often films her principal dancers from the waist up."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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39%
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Scoop (2006)
|
"Jackman slips easily into the ambiguous menace of his Cary Grant role."
|
Jeffrey Westhoff
|
|
91%
|
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
|
"Despite the indie-film stereotypes in the character profiles, the actors find the humanity in their roles and stick to it through every joke and tragedy."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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47%
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Miami Vice (2006)
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"Several voters at Jumptheshark.com believe the Miami Vice TV show jumped the shark when Don Johnson married Sheena Easton. The big-screen version of Miami Vice jumps the shark about 45 minutes into the movie."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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63%
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The Ant Bully (2006)
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"It does have a spunky pace and the clever humor Davis' team brought to the Jimmy Neutron movie and TV series."
|
Jeffrey Westhoff
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68%
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World Trade Center (2006)
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"Stone taps into great reserves of undiscovered subtlety."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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|
74%
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Monster House (2006)
|
"The ultimate movie for 10-year-old boys."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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|
63%
|
Clerks II (2006)
|
"With Smith, you have to take the crass with the inspired, but unlike Quentin Tarantino, Smith has something to say. Sometimes it's worth sitting through a ton of sick jokes to hear it. Clerks II is one of those times."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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24%
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Lady in the Water (2006)
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"For a movie constantly explaining itself, M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water doesn't make a drop of sense."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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21%
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You, Me and Dupree (2006)
|
"When your straight man gets more laughs than you, it's time to modify your act."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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82%
|
Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos (2006)
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"This is not an exercise in fabricated nostalgia, but a raucous chronicle of defeat snatched from the jaws of victory. "
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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52%
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Strangers with Candy (2005)
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"Strangers With Candy is Nacho Libre for the self-proclaimed cool kids."
|
Jeffrey Westhoff
|
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69%
|
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
|
"Linklater wants A Scanner Darkly to be a thought-provoking, living graphic novel. But he floods the script with multiple meanings and loses himself in the hydra-headed metaphors."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
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54%
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
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"Taking Dead Man's Chest for what it is, half a movie, this is a rollicking half a movie that restores glory to the phrase 'production values.'"
|
Jeffrey Westhoff
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76%
|
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
|
"Andy's corruption is so gradual she doesn't realize it is happening. While this is probably truer to life, it doesn't make for interesting drama."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
|
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76%
|
Superman Returns (2006)
|
"Its deliberate lack of originality is demoralizing."
|
Jeffrey Westhoff
|
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27%
|
Waist Deep (2006)
|
"The problem with Waist Deep is that it has too many small parts. Individually, the parts are fine. Once assembled, though, they don't add up to much."
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Jeffrey Westhoff
|
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33%
|
Click (2006)
|
"It is basically a lowbrow and secular rehash of A Christmas Carol, although Sandler creates a character more hateful than Ebenezer Scrooge. "
|
Jeffrey Westhoff
|
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36%
|
The Lake House (2006)
|
"The relationship that grows between Bullock and Reeves is beguiling, as are the emotional parallels their characters share."
|
Jeffrey Westhoff
|
|
40%
|
Nacho Libre (2006)
|
"Nacho Libre was made for those who didn't consider Napoleon Dynamite weird enough. "
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Jeffrey Westhoff
|
76%
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