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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul

Rating Title | Year Quote Author
92%

Tarnation (2004)

David Ng

81%

Ray (2004)

39%

Birth (2004)

92%

Vera Drake (2004)

85%

The Yes Men (2004)

84%

The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) (2004)

Laura Sinagra

——

Uncovered (1994)

50%

Vanity Fair (2004)

Laura Sinagra

95%

Hero (2004)

50%

Reunion (2002)

86%

Garden State (2004)

86%

Collateral (2004)

"The essence of Mann."

Rob Nelson

100%

The Leopard (1963)

43%

The Village (2004)

"When Night Falls"

Rob Nelson

81%

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

90%

The Corporation (2004)

——

Miffo (2003)

"The cliché of the idealistic young preacher learning a few lessons from the real world gets an energetic workout in this Swedish import."

Eric Henderson

56%

Jalla! Jalla! (The Best Man's Wedding) (2001)

"Or, as more than a few IMDB reviewers have hinted: My Big Fat Swedish Wedding."

Eric Henderson

27%

The Stepford Wives (2004)

Kate Sullivan

78%

The Saddest Music in the World (2004)

86%

Giulietta degli Spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits) (1965)

85%

About Schmidt (2002)

95%

Before Sunset (2004)

31%

King Arthur (2004)

"If the film's only great scene is a direct lift from Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky, the remainder is a dour Braveheart rehash."

Eric Henderson

——

Linda Lovelace for President ()

"A testament to the Right's continued attempts to slap a chastity belt on pop."

Eric Henderson

43%

The Clearing (2004)

"The Clearing? It's more like The Obscuring."

Eric Henderson

15%

Sleepover (2004)

"Doesn't anyone from The Daily Show do anything worthwhile on his down time?"

Eric Henderson

70%

Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story (2004)

60%

The Terminal (2004)

"Dinner and a DreamWork"

Rob Nelson

91%

Baadasssss! (2003)

"Is it political? You bet your asssss."

Rob Nelson

80%

American Reunion ()

96%

Control Room (2004)

"The Revolution Will Be Televised"

Rob Nelson

64%

Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)

——

The Worm Eaters (2005)

"An acutely confused vehicle for writer-director-star Herb Robins to film one of his most memorable childhood fever-dreams."

Eric Henderson

25%

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004)

"The sort of film wherein Bobby can't win a tournament until he can control his temper."

Eric Henderson

80%

Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)

"Plays attractively like Intro to Anticapitalism 101."

Eric Henderson

25%

Off the Lip (2004)

"The film's biggest flaw is that it never settles on and adheres to the basic rules of any given genre."

Eric Henderson

——

Meatcleaver Massacre ()

"You know a flick is gunning for bad-movie notoriety when its claim to fame comes from a precredit intro delivered by Christopher Lee."

Eric Henderson

89%

Shrek 2 (2004)

"Dreamworks' attempt to turn random, satire-devoid pop cultural references into the new language of fairy tales."

Eric Henderson

33%

The Truth About Charlie (2002)

75%

Gangs of New York (2002)

"Gangs is Scorsese's impassioned, elegiac portrait of a time when blows were delivered with fists, bats, and blades rather than airplanes, anthrax, or keyboard strokes; it's his look back at a lost world, his urban western."

Rob Nelson

71%

The Ring (2002)

42%

People I Know (2003)

46%

One From The Heart (1982)

"With more than 200 salaried employees on a 10-acre lot that included 9 soundstages, 34 editing suites, and a gigantic trailer that the mogul dubbed the Silver Fish, Coppola videotaped rehearsals in an effort to cut down on film costs. Alas..."

Rob Nelson

92%

The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)

96%

Missing (1982)

67%

The Return of the King (1980)

Laura Sinagra

73%

The Matrix Reloaded (2003)

8%

Grind (2003)

72%

Elephant (2003)

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