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American Pie 2 (2001) |
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"[It] has an edge over its predecessor: the uninteresting characters in the cast are shunted aside, and the funnier ones are given more emphasis." | |
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An American Rhapsody (2001) |
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"[It] will resonate with anybody in the audience who's an immigrant or a child of immigrants, even though Gardos loses her grip on the material in the third act." | |
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8/10 |
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Amores Perros (2001) |
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"Few directorial debuts are as accomplished and striking ... I think the uproar over the dog scenes is getting out of hand ... These scenes are necessary ..." | |
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The Art of War (2000) |
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Bad Santa (2003) |
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"A Christmas movie that would make old Bukowski's bloodshot eyes shine." | |
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4/10 |
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Blow (2001) |
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"For a while, Demme keeps things moving along at a taut and buoyant pace. But unfortunately, on the stylistic side, he opts for trite GoodFellas-ese." | |
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7.5/10 |
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Bring It On (2000) |
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5/10 |
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Catfish in Black Bean Sauce (2000) |
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"Catfish is shaky for a first film, but because of his insight on Asian American identity, I'm looking forward to Lo's next effort." | |
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Charlotte Sometimes (2002) |
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"The film produces enough sexual tension to power a small island and fuel hours of cafe discussion." | |
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Dark Days (2000) |
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"There are shots in Dark Days that rank with the best black-and-white photojournalism pieces of the '30s and '40s." | |
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6.5/10 |
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The Debut (2000) |
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"I would rather have the Filipino-American cinema movement be jumpstarted by this flawed yet honest indie effort than by Asian male-bashing tripe like The Joy Luck Club." | |
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Disney's The Kid (2000) |
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Down to Earth (2001) |
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2/5 |
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Eastern Condors (1986) |
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Richard von Busack | |
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2/5 |
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Eclipse (1997) |
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4/5 |
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Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) |
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""The last great Universal Frankenstein movie, despite the overstuffed title."" | |
Richard von Busack | |
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7.5/10 |
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George Washington (2000) |
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The Gift (2001) |
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Gloomy Sunday (2003) |
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"Erika Marozsan's frequent bathtub scenes suggests how a movie called “Gloomy Sunday” hopes to appeal to today’s sugarfed film audience." | |
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Gossip (2000) |
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The Haunted Mansion (2003) |
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"A dispirited, so to speak, adaptation of the best ride at Disneyland. As such, it's one more treasured piece of your childhood mangled on screen." | |
Richard von Busack | |
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I'm the One That I Want (2000) |
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Jackpot (2001) |
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"[Garrett Morris has] never been this good or given a character this wonderful to play--not even Chico Escuela counts." | |
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Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (2001) |
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"The screenplay is a cut above cheesecake-and-carnage schlockiness...Too bad the dialogue often sounds as stilted as it did in Ghost in the Shell." | |
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6.5/10 |
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Jump Tomorrow (2001) |
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"[It] may be a fluffy leap into screwball romance territory, but it's anything but banal." | |
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Keane (2004) |
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"There's more than a few spots where the improvisation [in Keane] spins out of control..." | |
Richard von Busack | |
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Keeping the Faith (2000) |
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The Legend of Drunken Master (1994) |
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The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2004) |
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"directror Larry Blamire has understood it all perfectly: the tautological dialogue
Stiff-as-a-plank thespians in spacesuits, waterlogged messages of interstellar brotherhood." | |
Richard von Busack | |
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Lost Souls (2000) |
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Jimmy Aquino | |
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Love Actually (2003) |
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"There's good acting in Love Actually, but director Richard Curtis threatens to take the cool out of London." | |
Richard von Busack | |
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Love and Basketball (2000) |
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Jimmy Aquino | |
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2/5 |
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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) |
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Maryam (2002) |
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4/10 |
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The Monkey's Mask (2001) |
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"Porter's turn as a lesbian sleuth is too big for a picture that's small...Porter reveals depths about her character that [the film] is too lead-footed to further explore." | |
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Monsoon Wedding (2002) |
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"A feast for the eyes and the ears, and sometimes... the brain." | |
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Monsters, Inc. (2001) |
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Jimmy Aquino | |
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2/5 |
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The Mosquito Coast (1986) |
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North by Northwest (1959) |
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Nurse Betty (2000) |
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6/10 |
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O (2001) |
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"There are episodes of Boston Public that are far more exploitative than O." | |
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Phish - Bittersweet Motel (2000) |
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Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2007) |
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"Plagues and Pleasures is the best kind of short vacation; you get to lounge with some interesting people, plus you get to learn a little something about the local environment and what can be done to keep it going." | |
Richard von Busack | |
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6/10 |
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Remember the Titans (2000) |
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Jimmy Aquino | |
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The Replacements (2000) |
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2/5 |
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Riff Raff (1990) |
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2/4 |
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Rory O'Shea Was Here (2005) |
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"Tries and fails to juggle humor, sentimentality and political correctness with its punk war cry." | |
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4.5/10 |
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Rush Hour 2 (2001) |
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"The Rush Hour movies are far from the prime of Chan's Police Story and Armour of God days." | |
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The Score (2001) |
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"As a heist movie, The Score is adequate, but as a historic meeting of the minds of Robert De Niro and Marlon Brando, it's an underwritten disappointment." | |
Jimmy Aquino | |
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1.5/10 |
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Screwed (2000) |
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