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Anna: Ot shesti do vosemnadtsati (Anna: From Six Till Eighteen) (1999)
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Rob Blackwelder
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43%
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Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
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"If this were a movie about characters rather than overcooked situations and desperate slapstick -- and a lot shorter -- we might have had something. "
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Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Ghost Rock (2004)
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Rob Blackwelder
|
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10%
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House of D (2004)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
47%
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Don't Move (Non ti muovere) (2004)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
86%
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Howl's Moving Castle (2005)
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"Click to see review."
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Jeffrey M. Anderson
|
|
79%
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Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)
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"One of the most delightful, family-friendly animated films in some time."
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Jeffrey M. Anderson
|
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6%
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Underclassman (2005)
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"Here we have a definite candidate for the year's worst picture."
|
Jeffrey M. Anderson
|
|
87%
|
A History of Violence (2005)
|
"David Cronenberg is out of his element in A History of Violence, and it shows."
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Rob Blackwelder
|
|
37%
|
Dear Wendy (2005)
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"The film's last act almost completely self-destructs, falling into blind, metaphor-baiting machinations."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
64%
|
Roll Bounce (2005)
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"Director Malcolm D. Lee has a gift for finding gold nuggets of personality and comedy in the tailings of over-mined plots."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
38%
|
Flightplan (2005)
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"The third act begins with another twist - but this one is so arduous, absurd and out of character for the film that the entire plot, stretching back to Scene One, is sabotaged"
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
83%
|
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride (2005)
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"Blessed with memorably iconic characters and a creative, if fairly predictable plot, Corpse Bride is quick, droll, and destined to be a perennial Halloween favorite."
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Rob Blackwelder
|
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56%
|
Just Like Heaven (2005)
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"When it comes to romantic chemistry, they never quite mesh, no matter what twinkle effect Waters puts on the screen when Ruffalo's hand touches Witherspoon's ethereal plane."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
81%
|
Clueless (1995)
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"The movie's simple yet spot-on characters and performances make the laughs timeless, no matter how firmly the film is set in 1995."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
44%
|
The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
|
"Part spine-tingling horror movie, part unorthodox courtroom drama, Emily Rose runs into trouble because it's ironically more credible as the former than the latter."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
79%
|
The Thing (1982)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
11%
|
The Man (2005)
|
"A boring, all-you-can-regurgitate buffet of buddy-movie/cop-movie banality, it would collapse under the weight of its own generic stupidity (without) Jackson and Levy."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
92%
|
The Sting (1973)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
95%
|
The Candidate (1972)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
53%
|
An Unfinished Life (2005)
|
"Another sleepy, sweeping soft-serve melodrama from director Lasse Hallstrom...the story arc seems to have been drawn on graph paper rather than written in a script."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
77%
|
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
84%
|
De Zaak Alzheimer (The Memory of a Killer) (The Alzheimer Case) (2005)
|
"The only thing that prevents The Memory of a Killer from seeming 100-percent Hollywood is the characters' speaking in subtitled Dutch."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
6%
|
A Sound of Thunder (2005)
|
"A catastrophe of bad acting, ludicrous science and conspicuously cheap special effects that can't even follow its own internal logic from one scene to the next."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
51%
|
Transporter 2 (2005)
|
"Few bad movies are more aggravating than a sequel that betrays everything which made its predecessor entertaining."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
83%
|
The Constant Gardener (2005)
|
"A preachy but gripping socio-political thriller...directed by Fernando Meirelles with the same unblinking, sweaty, ground-level grittiness he brought to City of God."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
32%
|
Pretty Persuasion (2005)
|
"Puerile social satire, stinging only insomuch as its unsophisticated wit and overwhelming smugness are painful to sit through."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
7%
|
Undiscovered (2005)
|
"Can somebody tell me why we're supposed to care about these one-dimensional MTV-spawned caricatures? Writer John Galt and director Meiert Avis sure haven't offered any clues."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
21%
|
Congo (1995)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
38%
|
The Brothers Grimm (2005)
|
"A movie with a Terry Gilliam look and feel but without a Terry Gilliam soul. (The director) seems to have had his spirit broken by studio mandates and commercial constraints."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
93%
|
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows) (Lift to the Scaffold) (Frantic) (1958)
|
"In backwards-thinking terms, Malle was the Tarantino of his day, giving French cinema a creative, influential shot in the arm that opened new horizons in directorial thinking."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
100%
|
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
85%
|
The 40 Year Old Virgin (2005)
|
"Since the clever, off-kilter, off-color, surprisingly character-driven guffaws just keep coming and coming, the movie is side-splitting in spite of its fundamental flaws."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
37%
|
Asylum (2005)
|
"A mid-20th-century bodice-ripper about sexual obsession and questionable sanity, Asylum doesn't live up to its admirable pedigree."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
79%
|
Red Eye (2005)
|
"Wes Craven tries his hand at Hitchcockian suspense in Red-Eye, and turns in a modest B-movie thriller that's just as invigorating as it is easy to pick apart."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
9%
|
Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)
|
"I did get through it without being overwhelmed by the urge strangle myself, so the movie has that going for it."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
52%
|
Four Brothers (2005)
|
"Singleton fills the screen with moody darkness (but) Four Brothers falls apart completely in the last act."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
100%
|
The Gold Rush (1925)
|
"Curiously melancholy yet packed with laughs, the picture's funniest moments aren't even the famous ones."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
86%
|
Junebug (2005)
|
"A dreary, stagnant story about people who make no effort to think or grow."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
37%
|
The Skeleton Key (2005)
|
"A first-rate concept for a spine-tingling tale...rendered impotent by bland, generic execution."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
85%
|
2046 (2005)
|
"Another achingly evocative and melancholy near-masterpiece from Wong Kar-Wai...blessed with vivid, visceral performances that burst at the seams with reserved passion."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
88%
|
Broken Flowers (2005)
|
"...has a bottomless poignancy that Jarmusch cements in quiet character moments, symbolic imagery and out-of-reach temptations that wiggle effectively into the subconscious."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
13%
|
The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
|
"Too much blah-blah, not enough 'Yeeehawww!'"
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
32%
|
November (2005)
|
"Those who give themselves over to Harrison's compelling machinations will be rewarded with a superbly unnerving mystery."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
100%
|
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
34%
|
Must Love Dogs (2005)
|
"The film's curdled aftertaste is so frustrating that it may be hard to remember why Must Love Dogs ever seemed so endearing and entertaining in the first place."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
73%
|
Sky High (2005)
|
"A cliché-dependent Disney cheapy that aims no higher than the unsophisticated standards of its pre-adolescent target audience -- and somehow succeeds in spite of itself."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
100%
|
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
100%
|
Star Wars Trilogy ()
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
46%
|
Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
87%
22%
90%
