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21%
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You, Me and Dupree (2006)
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"The slow decline of Owen Wilson's career continues with this pedestrian sitcom-on-celluloid."
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Dawn Taylor
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32%
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The Black Dahlia (2006)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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98%
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The War Tapes (2006)
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"A moving, very personal document, one that's as revealing as it is disturbing."
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Dawn Taylor
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32%
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Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
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"Shainberg manages the tricky task of showing us how the decidedly strange Arbus [saw] the world."
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Dawn Taylor
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92%
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Volver (2006)
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"... teeters delicately on the edge of black comedy while still warming the heart."
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Dawn Taylor
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87%
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Notes on a Scandal (2006)
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"A thriller for those who might not otherwise be drawn to one, with performances that will knock your socks off"
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Dawn Taylor
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93%
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The Lives of Others (2006)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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86%
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The Namesake (2006)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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85%
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Old Joy (2006)
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"... a beautiful, melancholy film that illustrates the inevitable losses that accompany adulthood."
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Dawn Taylor
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76%
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The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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33%
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Scoop (2004)
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"... a delightful return to Allen's sillier territory."
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Dawn Taylor
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68%
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World Trade Center (2006)
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"... a thoughtful, sensitive and ultimately despairing film that avoids both nut job proselytizing and sugarcoated sentimentality."
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Dawn Taylor
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Interkosmos ()
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"Here, outer space isn't the realm of epic explosions and action-packed battles. Instead, it's a slow, quiet place in which to ponder capitalism and mortality -- with a retro-pop soundtrack."
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40%
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Nacho Libre (2006)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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57%
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X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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68%
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Hard Candy (2006)
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"A masculine nightmare run amok""
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Dawn Taylor
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51%
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Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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73%
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Sky High (2005)
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"... this Spy Kids-meets-The Incredibles mash-up is funny, smart and consistently entertaining."
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Dawn Taylor
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87%
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Brokeback Mountain (2005)
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"... a beautiful tragedy about the anguish of unfulfilled love. It's an absolute triumph, in every way."
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Dawn Taylor
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77%
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2005)
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"As lovely as it is, "Balzac" is also frustratingly episodic and, ultimately, not really about a lot."
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Dawn Taylor
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59%
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The Weather Man (2005)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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68%
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North Country (2005)
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"... an overblown, overlong soap opera about a woman who never learns how to truly stand up for herself."
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Dawn Taylor
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95%
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
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"... a ripping good yarn with just the right amount of delicious cheese."
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Dawn Taylor
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79%
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Red Eye (2005)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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37%
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The Skeleton Key (2005)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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33%
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The Fantastic Four ()
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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74%
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Land of the Dead (2005)
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"This is Romero's best zombie film yet %u2014 perhaps the best ever made, period."
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Dawn Taylor
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20%
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The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005)
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"... exceedingly long and pointless"
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Dawn Taylor
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55%
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Madagascar (2005)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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39%
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Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
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" As with Gladiator, Scott's Kingdom is a busy but empty place with no heart."
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Dawn Taylor
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23%
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The Amityville Horror (2005)
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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"
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Dawn Taylor
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13%
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Hide and Seek (2005)
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"... ultimately nothing more than a derivative slasher film"
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Dawn Taylor
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30%
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Be Cool (2005)
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"... not as clever as its predecessor, suffering from somnambulant pacing and a flaccid, underwritten script."
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Dawn Taylor
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90%
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Kinsey (2004)
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"... creates a dialogue about not just the diversity of human sexuality but the dangers of embracing deliberate ignorance."
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Dawn Taylor
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97%
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The Incredibles (2004)
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"... an exciting, funny, smart and delightful adventure made with the usual eye-popping Pixar brilliance."
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Dawn Taylor
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7%
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Surviving Christmas (2004)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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77%
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Team America - World Police (2004)
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"Team America nails every hackneyed close-up, loving explosion and sappy revelatory scene of the films that it mimics."
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Dawn Taylor
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36%
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Shark Tale (2004)
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"... an extraordinarily irritating, aesthetically unappealing and poorly written movie."
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Dawn Taylor
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31%
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The Forgotten (2004)
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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"
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Dawn Taylor
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61%
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Wimbledon (2004)
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"... a surprisingly winning, if overwhelmingly trivial, film."
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Dawn Taylor
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23%
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Wicker Park (2004)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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95%
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Hero (2004)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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26%
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The Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement (2004)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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90%
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The Corporation (2004)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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81%
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The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
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"... essentially, a movie about a man taking public transportation."
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Dawn Taylor
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58%
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I, Robot (2004)
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"... a solidly entertaining Smith vehicle."
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Dawn Taylor
|
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71%
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Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
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"A strangely charming, thoroughly original movie ..."
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Dawn Taylor
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83%
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Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
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"... [an] enlightening, heart-wrenching and, yes, viciously slanted broadside. "
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Dawn Taylor
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60%
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The Terminal (2004)
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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."
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Dawn Taylor
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27%
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The Stepford Wives (2004)
|
"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 ... "
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Dawn Taylor
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87%
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