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13%
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Welcome To Mooseport (2004)
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"This lackluster production fails to generate much in the way of tension and less in the way of merriment."
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Kam Williams
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68%
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Barbershop 2 - Back in Business (2004)
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"Schoolyard jokes about religious faiths, genetic traits, and sexuality which only work if you enjoy laughing at people because they are darker-skinned, or curlier-haired, or perverted, or have emigrated from another continent."
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Kam Williams
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72%
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Girl With a Pearl Earring (2004)
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"An entertaining but inauthentic adaptation, a production which reads more like a Hollywood teensploit than a historical epic from Holland."
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Kam Williams
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70%
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The Company (2003)
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"Eschews any concern with the cinematic foreground in favor of wide-angled pans across an expanded back cast encouraged to indulge in Altman's trademark overlapping dialogue."
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Kam Williams
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82%
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Monster (2004)
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"Charlize Theron's Oscar-winning toure de force!"
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Kam Williams
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89%
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In America (2003)
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"A sappy, self-congratulatory tale of triumph of penniless newcomers over every sort of adversity, and a close brush with death every time they set foot outside of their apartment."
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Kam Williams
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71%
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Cold Mountain (2003)
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"A love story likely to leave you cold."
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Kam Williams
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94%
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
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"An absolutely absorbing finale which establishes the trilogy as perhaps the best mythic fable ever brought to the big screen."
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Kam Williams
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60%
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Stuck On You (2003)
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"When not overindulging in birth defect humor, this shock comedy divides its attention between two equally-annoying sub-themes: degrading females and prominent product placements."
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Kam Williams
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71%
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Something's Gotta Give (2003)
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"Vintage Nicholson and Keaton, like fine wines, improve with age."
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Kam Williams
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Haunted Mansion (1999)
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"A mind-numbing misadventure more funereal than funny or frightening. Yawn."
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Kam Williams
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10%
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Dr. Seuss - The Cat in the Hat (2003)
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"Unless you are prone to laugh at endless urination, expectoration, regurgitation, defecation, flatulence, and belching, avoid this rip-off at all costs."
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Kam Williams
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85%
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
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"Too closely cropped to allow for the expansive feel of an oceanic epic, and fails to develop any meaningful relationships among its characters."
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Kam Williams
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63%
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Love Actually (2003)
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"Without ever sounding a false note, this endearing ensemble holiday flick manages to be nuttier than Notting Hill, more satisfying than Bridget Jones' Diary, and even more intricate than Four Weddings and a Funeral."
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Kam Williams
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84%
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Pieces of April (2003)
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"A delightful, charming, instant holiday classic which makes us laugh repeatedly while delivering an emotionally satisfying message about unconditional love."
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Kam Williams
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88%
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Freaky Friday (2003)
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"A hilarious, heartwarming remake."
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Kam Williams
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85%
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The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
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"An infuriatingly-offensive, soft-porn primer on how to treat girls as objects who exist at the disposal of men."
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Kam Williams
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93%
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Spider-Man 2 (2004)
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"Spider-Man wrestling with demons, literally and figuratively!"
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Kam Williams
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63%
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Music and Lyrics (2007)
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"The casting of Hugh Grant opposite Drew Barrymore was a stroke of genius both in terms of chemistry and comedy, as his self-deprecating vulnerability serves as the perfect foil for her zaniness, and their repartee is reminiscent of Hepburn and Tracy."
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Kam Williams
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76%
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Being Julia (2004)
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"Annette Bening landed an Oscar nomination for her measured performance in this adaptation of 'Theatre,' a 1937 novel by W. Somerset Maugham."
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Kam Williams
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76%
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Being Julia (2004)
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"A beguiling romance about an aging actress at the peak of her career who embarks on an ill-advised, illicit affair with an admirer half her age."
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Kam Williams
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15%
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
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"Imagine a cross between Martin Lawrence's Big Momma's House and Eddie Murphy's The Klumps with Christian and Cinderella themes."
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Kam Williams
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15%
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)
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"What ruins this revenge flick is Madea's boorish, bull in the china store act reminiscent of the sassy black woman stereotype popularized by Sanford and Son's Aunt Esther. Loud and ignorant, Medea tends to trivialize every scene."
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Kam Williams
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84%
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The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro) (The Sea Within) (2004)
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"Bio-pic chronicles quadriplegic Ramon's Sampredo's 28-year crusade to legalize euthanasia in order that he be allowed to die with dignity."
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Kam Williams
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64%
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Robots (2005)
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"A computer-generated animated adventure featuring few product placements, which is quite a departure from the norm for such children's fare."
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Kam Williams
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75%
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Wedding Crashers (2005)
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"Unless you check your political correctness at the box office, expect to be offended."
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Kam Williams
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76%
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