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45%
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The Fan (1981)
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Jon Niccum
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81%
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Three Seasons (1999)
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Jon Niccum
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98%
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Airplane! (1980)
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Jon Niccum
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81%
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Innerspace (1987)
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Jon Niccum
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66%
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She's So Lovely (1997)
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Jon Niccum
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24%
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Lady in the Water (2006)
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"Lady in the Water appears to be a creepy fairy tale, but it's really a psychological thriller. Trouble is, the psychology involves the mindset of its writer-director."
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Jon Niccum
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21%
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You, Me and Dupree (2006)
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"It simply fades into Wilson's growing résumé of watchable but unremarkable comedies."
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Jon Niccum
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54%
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
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"At more than two-and-a-half hours, this second installment veers toward overkill"
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Jon Niccum
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76%
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The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
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"Come February, it might be very fashionable to present Streep with another Oscar"
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Jon Niccum
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76%
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Superman Returns (2006)
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"It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a downer."
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Jon Niccum
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93%
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An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
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"the documentary is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers."
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Jon Niccum
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40%
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Nacho Libre (2006)
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"What is least appealing about the Hesses is the sense that they are always laughing 'at' rather than 'with' their characters"
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Jon Niccum
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74%
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Cars (2006)
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"Apparently, anthropomorphized machines are a whole lot less fun than anthropomorphized fish, insects, toys or monsters. Remember last year's Robots? Yeah, me neither"
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Jon Niccum
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34%
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The Break-Up (2006)
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"It's at least trying to stay anchored in the real world, where cute couples don't always make up and walk hand-in-hand into the sunset."
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Jon Niccum
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57%
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X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)
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"The main downfall of X-Men: The Last Stand is also its biggest guilty pleasure: watching just how many mutant baddies they can throw on the screen."
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Jon Niccum
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25%
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The Da Vinci Code (2006)
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"Ideas that are genuinely challenging to people's beliefs don't come from sources like Ron Howard. His movie is a professional, workmanlike effort -- a passable potboiler and not much more."
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Jon Niccum
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32%
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Poseidon (2006)
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"It's the cinematic equivalent of a Carnival Cruise"
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Jon Niccum
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70%
|
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
|
"The movie is why popcorn was invented."
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Jon Niccum
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91%
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United 93 (2006)
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"The very act of depicting the events with such detached frankness makes for a far more gripping experience than any cinematic embellishments might provide."
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Jon Niccum
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41%
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American Dreamz (2006)
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"The film is tailor-made for the vast audience that can't wait to watch Fox's Idol each week while still intellectually grasping what a glossy hunk of junk it is."
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Jon Niccum
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86%
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Thank You For Smoking (2006)
|
"a comedy both as dark as a black lung and as illuminating as a stadium full of flicked lighters."
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Jon Niccum
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51%
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Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
|
"What at first appears to be heading into Quentin Tarantino or Guy Ritchie turf steadily finds its own violent voice"
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Jon Niccum
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7%
|
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
|
"Stone's every line of dialogue, every gesture, every hussy lip smack screams 'I'm too sexy for this movie.' And it's often hilarious."
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Jon Niccum
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73%
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V for Vendetta (2006)
|
"V for Vendetta is a confounding exercise that has no trouble getting people to think, but it's far less successful at getting them to feel."
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Jon Niccum
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50%
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The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
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"So visceral is the carnage and so believable are the victims' reactions to it that it's impossible not to get caught up in the story."
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Jon Niccum
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55%
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16 Blocks (2006)
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"the quieter scenes far outweigh the noisier ones"
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Jon Niccum
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40%
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Running Scared (2006)
|
"For a picture so fetishistically obsessed with death, Running Scared is vibrantly alive."
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Jon Niccum
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47%
|
Hoodwinked (2005)
|
"an irreverent, imaginative and often just plain weird spin on the classic fairy tale"
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Jon Niccum
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19%
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Firewall (2006)
|
"once the fistfights, car chases and stray explosions begin to mount, the movie veers into exponentially dumb overkill."
|
Jon Niccum
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90%
|
Capote (2005)
|
"it does a capable job of capturing a time and place, bringing to life several unforgettable personalities and illustrating the moral self-loathing of a writer whose real-life subject must die before he has a decent ending to his book."
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Jon Niccum
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100%
|
S.O.B. (1981)
|
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Jon Niccum
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73%
|
Sleepers (1996)
|
"Disturbing and powerful"
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Jon Niccum
|
|
92%
|
The Parallax View (1974)
|
"Among the top paranoid thrillers of the 1970s"
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Jon Niccum
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73%
|
Backdraft (1991)
|
|
Jon Niccum
|
|
65%
|
Live and Let Die (1973)
|
|
Jon Niccum
|
|
50%
|
Hard Target (1993)
|
"Hysterically inept attempt at action filmmaking"
|
Jon Niccum
|
|
85%
|
Death Race 2000 (1975)
|
|
Jon Niccum
|
|
75%
|
Benny & Joon (1993)
|
|
Jon Niccum
|
|
84%
|
Eating Raoul (1982)
|
|
Jon Niccum
|
|
40%
|
End of the Spear (2006)
|
"This generally engrossing Christian parable is the type of film that conservatives will overpraise and liberals will overcriticize."
|
Jon Niccum
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|
54%
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Last Holiday (2006)
|
"somehow the conviction that Queen Latifah brings to the project makes some of the film's dopier choices easier to forgive."
|
Jon Niccum
|
|
87%
|
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
|
"a monotonous and often inadvertently campy romance that rivals The Hours as the most overrated movie of the decade"
|
Jon Niccum
|
|
100%
|
Brother's Keeper (1992)
|
|
Jon Niccum
|
|
11%
|
In Love and War (1996)
|
"Boring and artificial"
|
Jon Niccum
|
|
51%
|
The Producers (2005)
|
"The 'zany' performances are like a well-oiled machine, and, consequently, much of the movie comes across as mechanical."
|
Jon Niccum
|
|
93%
|
Good Night, And Good Luck (2005)
|
"When Murrow cautions viewers they should 'not be driven by fear into an age of unreason,' the film seems more culturally relevant than anything playing at the multiplex."
|
Jon Niccum
|
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59%
|
The Doors (1991)
|
"Tedious and self-important"
|
Jon Niccum
|
|
85%
|
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)
|
|
Jon Niccum
|
|
82%
|
Tightrope (1984)
|
|
Jon Niccum
|
|
93%
|
James and the Giant Peach (1996)
|
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Jon Niccum
|
73%
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