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You, Me and Dupree
(2006)
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Dawn Taylor
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The slow decline of Owen Wilson's career continues with this pedestrian sitcom-on-celluloid.
Posted Apr 10, 2007
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The Black Dahlia
(2006)
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Dawn Taylor
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It's hard to tell what De Palma wanted to achieve with this film. Whatever it was, what ended up on the screen is a confused, ugly mess.
Posted Apr 10, 2007
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The War Tapes
(2006)
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Dawn Taylor
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A moving, very personal document, one that's as revealing as it is disturbing.
Posted Apr 10, 2007
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
(2006)
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Dawn Taylor
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Shainberg manages the tricky task of showing us how the decidedly strange Arbus [saw] the world.
Posted Apr 10, 2007
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Volver
(2006)
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Dawn Taylor
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... teeters delicately on the edge of black comedy while still warming the heart.
Posted Apr 10, 2007
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Notes on a Scandal
(2006)
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Dawn Taylor
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A thriller for those who might not otherwise be drawn to one, with performances that will knock your socks off
Posted Apr 10, 2007
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The Lives of Others
(2006)
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Dawn Taylor
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... delivers on several levels, offering multitextured characters who make no facile decisions, and re-creating the paranoia of Cold War-era Germany with an assured hand.
Posted Apr 10, 2007
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The Namesake
(2006)
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Dawn Taylor
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Whatever your background, the yearning of Nair's characters for a place in the world where they truly belong is a feeling that strikes deep in the heart.
Posted Apr 10, 2007
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Old Joy
(2006)
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Dawn Taylor
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... a beautiful, melancholy film that illustrates the inevitable losses that accompany adulthood.
Posted Aug 25, 2006
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The Devil Wears Prada
(2006)
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Dawn Taylor
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The Devil Wears Prada is like that perfect couture sundress -- feather light, amusing and just the sort of thing for a warm summer evening.
Posted Aug 15, 2006
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Scoop
(1987)
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Dawn Taylor
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... a delightful return to Allen's sillier territory.
Posted Aug 15, 2006
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World Trade Center
(2006)
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Dawn Taylor
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... a thoughtful, sensitive and ultimately despairing film that avoids both nut job proselytizing and sugarcoated sentimentality.
Posted Aug 15, 2006
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Nacho Libre
(2006)
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Dawn Taylor
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Jack Black capers, cavorts and makes funny faces in an attempt to wring comedy out of wood, and it's just plain embarrassing to watch.
Posted Jun 18, 2006
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X-Men: The Last Stand
(2006)
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Dawn Taylor
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Ratner's slick, smugly inept take on the X-Men is more than an ending to a series -- it's like a stake in its heart, making the entire enterprise smell like a rotting corpse.
Posted May 26, 2006
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Hard Candy
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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A masculine nightmare run amok"
Posted Apr 28, 2006
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Lucky Number Slevin
(2006)
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Dawn Taylor
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Perhaps George Clooney and his effortlessly cool Ocean's 11 series is to blame for this wave of insubstantial, inept caper flicks with Rat Pack ambitions.
Posted Apr 07, 2006
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Sky High
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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... this Spy Kids-meets-The Incredibles mash-up is funny, smart and consistently entertaining.
Posted Dec 21, 2005
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Brokeback Mountain
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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... a beautiful tragedy about the anguish of unfulfilled love. It's an absolute triumph, in every way.
Posted Dec 21, 2005
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The Little Chinese Seamstress
(2002)
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Dawn Taylor
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As lovely as it is, "Balzac" is also frustratingly episodic and, ultimately, not really about a lot.
Posted Dec 21, 2005
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The Weather Man
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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... a beautifully photographed, tragic and sincere film about a man who discovers that life is hard, and that he may never become the man he wishes he was.
Posted Dec 21, 2005
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North Country
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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... an overblown, overlong soap opera about a woman who never learns how to truly stand up for herself.
Posted Dec 21, 2005
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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... a ripping good yarn with just the right amount of delicious cheese.
Posted Dec 21, 2005
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Red Eye
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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Craven serves up a number of delightful twists and distractions to keep things consistently entertaining ... a snappy, diverting little popcorn-muncher.
Posted Dec 21, 2005
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The Skeleton Key
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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The wide, unmoving forehead of Kate Hudson floats with torporific ennui through this clip show of all the slowest, most boring bits from every spook movie you've ever seen.
Posted Dec 21, 2005
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The Fantastic Four
(1994)
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Dawn Taylor
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Fantastic Four, with its characters spending so much time talking about their feelings, seems more like a spandex-clad support group session.
Posted Dec 21, 2005
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Land of the Dead
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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This is Romero's best zombie film yet %u2014 perhaps the best ever made, period.
Posted Dec 21, 2005
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The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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... exceedingly long and pointless
Posted Dec 21, 2005
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Madagascar
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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The animation is predictably spectacular, the pace (once you get through the first sluggish 15 minutes) is brisk enough to maintain adult interest, and kids will love it.
Posted Dec 21, 2005
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Kingdom of Heaven
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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As with Gladiator, Scott's Kingdom is a busy but empty place with no heart.
Posted Dec 21, 2005
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The Amityville Horror
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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... a lousy pastiche of quick edits, light switches that drip blood, family home-movie footage and incessantly shirtless comedy actor Ryan Reynolds
Posted Apr 15, 2005
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Hide and Seek
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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... ultimately nothing more than a derivative slasher film
Posted Mar 04, 2005
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Be Cool
(2005)
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Dawn Taylor
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... not as clever as its predecessor, suffering from somnambulant pacing and a flaccid, underwritten script.
Posted Mar 04, 2005
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Kinsey
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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... creates a dialogue about not just the diversity of human sexuality but the dangers of embracing deliberate ignorance.
Posted Dec 01, 2004
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The Incredibles
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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... an exciting, funny, smart and delightful adventure made with the usual eye-popping Pixar brilliance.
Posted Nov 05, 2004
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Surviving Christmas
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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... as cinematic gifts go, this one's less a shiny new Red Rider BB gun than it is a $10 gift certificate for Wal-Mart.
Posted Oct 22, 2004
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Team America: World Police
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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Team America nails every hackneyed close-up, loving explosion and sappy revelatory scene of the films that it mimics.
Posted Oct 19, 2004
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Shark Tale
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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... an extraordinarily irritating, aesthetically unappealing and poorly written movie.
Posted Oct 01, 2004
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The Forgotten
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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... repeatedly promises to offer some sort of wicked twist à la M. Night Shyamalan ... but never delivers anything other than exactly what you think is going to happen
Posted Sep 24, 2004
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Wimbledon
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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... a surprisingly winning, if overwhelmingly trivial, film.
Posted Sep 22, 2004
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Wicker Park
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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... a lot of self-conscious, Brian DePalma-like, Hitchcock-ripoff camera tricks, painfully scene-specific pop songs and Hartnett brow-furrowing.
Posted Sep 03, 2004
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Hero
(2002)
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Dawn Taylor
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If they got into a rumble in the courtyard of a mountaintop dojo, Hero would kick the butt of Crounching Tiger.
Posted Aug 27, 2004
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The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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... a G-rated, girl-centric fairy tale of a movie, sweet enough for the 'tweens but smart and goofy enough that parents won't mind sitting through it, too.
Posted Aug 13, 2004
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The Corporation
(2003)
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Dawn Taylor
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... offers a wealth of information about the megalithic entities that - to the almost certain detriment of humanity - have come to dictate how we eat, shop, live and think.
Posted Aug 06, 2004
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The Bourne Supremacy
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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... essentially, a movie about a man taking public transportation.
Posted Jul 23, 2004
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I, Robot
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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... a solidly entertaining Smith vehicle.
Posted Jul 16, 2004
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Napoleon Dynamite
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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A strangely charming, thoroughly original movie ...
Posted Jul 02, 2004
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Fahrenheit 9/11
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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... [an] enlightening, heart-wrenching and, yes, viciously slanted broadside.
Posted Jun 25, 2004
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The Terminal
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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Spielberg falls back on his penchant for sappiness and paints everything in the film with a thick coat of the cutes.
Posted Jun 18, 2004
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The Stepford Wives
(2004)
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Dawn Taylor
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An inoffensive, often amusing comedy - despite flying rather spectacularly off the rails in a weak, logic-less ending that was obviously re-shot and tacked on ...
Posted Jun 11, 2004
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The Return
(2003)
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Dawn Taylor
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... fascinates with the questions it raises and the believable internal voyage of the central characters
Posted Jun 04, 2004
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