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85%
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Spider (2002)
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"An emotionally compelling puzzle seen largely and effectually from inside this unsound character's head, Spider is one of the director's best, most measured works."
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Rob Blackwelder
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38%
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Career Opportunities (1991)
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Rob Blackwelder
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97%
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8 1/2 (1963)
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Rob Blackwelder
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61%
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A Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
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Rob Blackwelder
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91%
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Edward Scissorhands (1990)
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Rob Blackwelder
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62%
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Clue (1985)
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Rob Blackwelder
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26%
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Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
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"...when the asinine plutonium subplot hijacks the last act, the flick goes into an unrecoverable tailspin."
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Rob Blackwelder
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71%
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All the Real Girls (2003)
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"...now that I sit down to review the picture a couple weeks later, I barely remember it. Whatever positive impression it left sure didn't last."
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Rob Blackwelder
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68%
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Jeffrey (1995)
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Rob Blackwelder
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61%
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Gerry (2003)
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"An inexplicably compelling, far-outside-the-box excursion from director Gus Van Sant...and a welcome return to his roots as one of American cinema's more daring filmmakers."
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Rob Blackwelder
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19%
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The Life of David Gale (2003)
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"The Life of David Gale acts as its own executioner, injecting the very first scene with a lethal cliché from which the film never recovers."
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Rob Blackwelder
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89%
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They Live (1988)
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Rob Blackwelder
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71%
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Forrest Gump (1994)
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Rob Blackwelder
|
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87%
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Seconds (1966)
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Rob Blackwelder
|
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58%
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Dark Blue (2003)
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"Its imagined grittiness is polished to a Hollywood high gloss. Its hard-edged dialogue...has had all its shock value re-written and over-rehearsed right out of it."
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Rob Blackwelder
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60%
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Old School (2003)
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"...goes so far beyond hackneyed, laughless, tiresome incompetence that it may be one of the most unwatchable movies I've seen in 11 years as a film critic."
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Rob Blackwelder
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8%
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Gods and Generals (2003)
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"If the 3 hour and 49 minute Civil War epic Gods and Generals is any indication, the Union and the Confederate armies must have talked each other to death."
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Rob Blackwelder
|
|
98%
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Babe (1995)
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|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
88%
|
Russian Ark (2002)
|
"There is a genius to (this) experimental and utterly surreal historical epic that has nothing to do with the fact that it was shot in one uninterrupted, mind-boggling take..."
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Rob Blackwelder
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73%
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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2002)
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"The director keeps secrets from the audience so she can spring them later as "surprises." (But) it isn't long before any savvy filmgoer will (be) 10 steps ahead..."
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Rob Blackwelder
|
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92%
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The Last Emperor (1987)
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|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
45%
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Daredevil (2003)
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"...unremarkably routine...plays like a C-grade grad project for a night school course called Superhero Filmmaking 101."
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Rob Blackwelder
|
|
87%
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The Quiet American (2003)
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"Emotionally and politically complex beyond what most filmmakers would dare attempt."
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Rob Blackwelder
|
|
44%
|
Deliver Us from Eva (2003)
|
"(Features) the same tiresome, misogynistic so-called happy-ending in which women forgive...men for acting unforgivably stupid and take them back. Awww, ain't that romantic?"
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Rob Blackwelder
|
|
42%
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
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"If you want to lose a guy in one day, drag him to see this movie."
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Rob Blackwelder
|
|
66%
|
Shanghai Knights (2003)
|
"Hilariously tongue-in-cheek and packed with comical homages to everything from the Keystone Kops and Harry Houdini to The Beatles and Taxi Driver."
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Rob Blackwelder
|
|
47%
|
Final Destination 2 (2003)
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"How the movie-going public hasn't become bored senseless with such tediously low-standard, so-called scary movies is beyond me."
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Rob Blackwelder
|
|
43%
|
The Recruit (2003)
|
"...long before any real intrigue begins, the film's litany of elementary plot twist are stretched out on the screen like a road map."
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Rob Blackwelder
|
|
75%
|
Father Goose (1964)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
23%
|
Biker Boyz (2003)
|
"For what it is, Biker Boyz is a satisfying ride. But that satisfaction is empty calorie entertainment."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
57%
|
The Guru (2002)
|
"Making fun of its own light comedy clichés could have added an extra layer of laughs...if it wasn't entirely dependent on those same clichés to drive its plot."
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Rob Blackwelder
|
|
69%
|
Max (2002)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
79%
|
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2003)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
10%
|
Darkness Falls (2003)
|
"...so unoriginal in its execution that it serves to prove two things: 1) this genre is played out, and 2) as long as crap makes money, studios will continue to make crap."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
84%
|
Morvern Callar (2002)
|
"Morton's penetrating but minute expressions of deflected grief are the picture's potent touchstones of emotional veracity..."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
8%
|
Kangaroo Jack (2003)
|
"Even though there are laughs to be had in this movie, it was a clearly minimal effort outting."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
11%
|
National Security (2003)
|
"Rent-a-cop bullplop."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
24%
|
A Guy Thing (2003)
|
"(Jason Lee and Julia Stiles) couldn't be more mismatched as romantic leads."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
20%
|
Da wan (Big Shot's Funeral) (2003)
|
"Problematic but passably enjoyable, the appeal of Big Shot's Funeral may be more a matter of taste than quality."
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Rob Blackwelder
|
|
40%
|
Breast Men (1997)
|
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
19%
|
Just Married (2003)
|
"None of (the) problems impede the movie's funny concept and fun performances -- and that's what counts."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
83%
|
Narc (2002)
|
"A rogue-cop drama with such robust performances and realistic grit that its flirtation with clichés hardly matters."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
100%
|
Before Sunrise (1995)
|
"Seemingly improvised and entirely natural but still structured and splendidly directed by writer Richard Linklater."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
96%
|
The Pianist (2002)
|
"It's a film whose every moment bristles with the weight of these events on Szpilman's psyche, thanks to a devastating performance by Adrien Brody."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
77%
|
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
|
"The characters are largely one-dimensional -- implausibly sweet & naive or absurdly ruthless & cruel without reason -- and they invite second-guessing to a distracting degree."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
81%
|
The Hours (2002)
|
"...a triumph of emotionally and narratively complex filmmaking."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
87%
|
Chicago (2002)
|
"Chicago is, quite simply, one of the two or three best movie musicals I've ever seen."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
96%
|
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
|
"Steven Spielberg's best movie in at least a decade."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
78%
|
25th Hour (2003)
|
"Lee's personal touches...bring heft and import to the movie, but also turn (it) into a momentous metaphor for the strength, fortitude and resiliency of post-Sept. 11 New York."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
|
79%
|
Antwone Fisher (2002)
|
"Fisher has bared his soul and confronted his own shortcomings here in a way...that feels very human and very true to life."
|
Rob Blackwelder
|
87%
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