Bob Campbell
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Boys on the Side (1995) |
Boys on the Side is more enjoyable than it has any right to be. Three smashing all-stops-out performances by Mary-Louise Parker, Whoopi Goldberg and Drew Barrymore endow this shameless ’90s tearjerker with a rowdy, bittersweet charm. - Newhouse News Service
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| Posted Mar 14, 2023
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Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1992) |
Something like an art movie for kindergartners. The weakly paced Little Nemo is probably too gentle and fanciful for TV-primed action-crazed older kids, but it is a pleasant magic carpet ride for younger children and dreamy adults. - Newhouse News Service
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| Posted Mar 07, 2023
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Go Fish (1994) |
The movie's underlying high spirits survive its desultory, day-to-day rhythms, contrasty photography and effusive amateur acting. - Minneapolis Star Tribune
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| Posted Aug 25, 2021
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The Apple (1998) |
Mixing documentary observation with unforced re-enactments, The Apple offhandedly exposes the deepest rifts in [Iranian] society and, despite digressions and imperfections, marks a fine debut. - Newhouse News Service
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| Posted Mar 31, 2021
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The Joy Luck Club (1993) |
Every few years, an American movie comes along so full of life and so rich in honest emotion that it sweeps away everything in its path. The Joy Luck Club is one of those rare, irresistible film experiences. It's almost unbelievably good. - Newhouse News Service
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| Posted Dec 17, 2020
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Shadow Hours (2000) |
Isaac Eaton's mucky morality play slips steadily from interesting to obvious to awful. Only Weller's spectral authority enlivens this ludicrous crawl through Los Angeles' lower depths. - Newhouse News Service
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| Posted Nov 06, 2019
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Hukkle (2002) |
It's bracingly funny to see the glorious human species redefined as just another set of moving parts in a huge machine lacking any evident purpose. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Dec 05, 2003
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El Bonaerense (2002) |
Credit El Bonaerense with journalistic single-mindedness and, given recent Argentine history, sheer guts. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Dec 05, 2003
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Honey (2003) |
Honey is a whole festival of bad movies, from Flashdance through Glitter. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Dec 05, 2003
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The Triplets of Belleville (2003) |
It's all trs charming. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Nov 28, 2003
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Mail Order Bride (2003) |
This harmless nickels-and-kopecks comedy goes by the theory that if one Mafia is funny, two must be hilarious. - Minneapolis Star Tribune
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| Posted Nov 26, 2003
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The Barbarian Invasions (2003) |
If secular humanism were an actual religion, The Barbarian Invasions would be recognized as a religious masterpiece. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Nov 21, 2003
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Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003) |
Flashy but flat. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Nov 21, 2003
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Tupac: Resurrection (2003) |
Intriguing but ultimately frustrating. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Nov 14, 2003
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
It's an adventure movie by an artist. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Nov 14, 2003
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My Architect (2003) |
Locates the human dimension the architect never grasped. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Nov 13, 2003
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The Singing Detective (2003) |
Virtuoso work by Robert Downey Jr. and an unrecognizable Mel Gibson (who also produced) can't keep The Singing Detective from degenerating into sheer noise. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Oct 24, 2003
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Radio (2003) |
The game plan is Inspiration or Death. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Oct 24, 2003
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Runaway Jury (2003) |
Grossly inauthentic but authentically engrossing entertainment. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Oct 17, 2003
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
Does convey the sense of being caught in a nightmare. A stupid person's nightmare. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Oct 17, 2003
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House of the Dead (2003) |
Takes out a moviegoer's limbic brain and cerebral cortex. All that's left functioning is the reptilian brain, droning: Kill The Things. Kill The Things... - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Oct 17, 2003
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The Flower of Evil (2003) |
The 73-year-old Chabrol has dashed off a near-abstract but infinitely intriguing formulation on guilt, recurrence and the perpetual present. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Oct 13, 2003
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Civil Brand (2002) |
It's guilty of gross B-movie meltdown, but mitigating circumstances include honest anger and a scattering of vivid scenes. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Oct 13, 2003
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The Event (2003) |
Fails equally as lament and celebration. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Oct 09, 2003
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Out of Time (2003) |
Out of Time is probably Hollywood's most seamless suspense trap since The Fugitive. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Oct 03, 2003
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Under the Tuscan Sun (2003) |
Alternately helped, hindered and (best) left alone by first-time director Wells, Lane fills the screen with her perceptive presence and lifts the undramatic story as high as gravity allows. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Sep 26, 2003
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Millennium Actress (2001) |
This is a screen trip that actually takes you someplace -- out of the world, around the world and straight to the heart of the world. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Sep 20, 2003
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The Fighting Temptations (2003) |
When Gooding and Knowles appear together, they drain off energy like batteries hooked in reverse. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Sep 19, 2003
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Lost in Translation (2003) |
The old adage says that poetry is what's lost in translation, but the poetry is all that survives in Sofia Coppola's wispy art film. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Sep 12, 2003
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Dummy (2003) |
Pritikin's shrewd comedy-drama catches a fine flock of family emotions on the wing, and not the over-exposed ones. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Sep 12, 2003
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Cabin Fever (2002) |
Like much of Cabin Fever, the performances are competent and uninteresting. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Sep 12, 2003
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) |
Rodriguez's movie aspires to trashy grandeur, and achieves it. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Sep 12, 2003
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Taking Sides: Le cas Furtwängler (2003) |
Taking Sides is a symphony played on two instruments, both somewhat out of tune. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Sep 05, 2003
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Where's the Party Yaar? (2003) |
An amiable city mouse/country mouse story. - Minneapolis Star Tribune
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| Posted Sep 05, 2003
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Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003) |
David Spade has two-thirds of a comic idea, and the jokes occasionally hit one of their hundred moving targets. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Sep 05, 2003
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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002) |
Should Blighty stake its screen future on action-adventure? Family fun? Sex satire? Modernized music hall? Post-modern movie-movie? Meadows' answer is 'All of the above.' - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Sep 03, 2003
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Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003) |
The new JC is more consistent and efficient than the first, with classier monster effects, but less compellingly weird. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Aug 29, 2003
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My Boss's Daughter (2003) |
Even after sitting through it you can't swear you've seen it. It vanishes while you watch, like disappearing ink. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Aug 25, 2003
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Marci X (2003) |
This is the kind of movie that would leave a hopeful crowd feeling let down, but might sparkle like a tiara in a trash can for someone who discovers it by chance. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Aug 25, 2003
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No News From God (2001) |
Consistently clever and inventive on a level a little below the inspired. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Aug 22, 2003
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The Medallion (2003) |
A B-movie worthy of the term. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Aug 22, 2003
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The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003) |
The half an idea in Erica Beeney's script is reduced by another half through the disjointed directing of Efram Potelle and Kyle Rankin. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Aug 22, 2003
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Step Into Liquid (2003) |
With neo-rock replacing beach boyisms and new optical technology permitting crisp Steadicam close-ups of ballet-like aquabatics, Step into Liquid is state-of-the-art non-art. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Aug 21, 2003
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Koi ... Mil Gaya (2003) |
Even for Bollywood, this is broad, corny stuff. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Aug 21, 2003
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Uptown Girls (2003) |
Yakin shuns caricature. His affection for all his feckless characters, even Fanning's narcissistic mom (Heather Locklear), is evident. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Aug 21, 2003
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Freddy vs. Jason (2003) |
Will satisfy the hordes who've awaited this heavyweight matchup for a decade. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Aug 21, 2003
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Grind (2003) |
Among those rare films that starts at the bottom and burrows downward. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Aug 21, 2003
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S.W.A.T. (2003) |
Schlocky, slam-bang fun. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Aug 08, 2003
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Seaside (2002) |
Touching, amusing, sometimes compelling, Seaside is ultimately little more revealing than a weekend visit. It's a sheaf of captivating postcards. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Aug 06, 2003
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American Wedding (2003) |
Even suckers for the first two American Pie courses will find this third helping indigestible. - Newark Star-Ledger
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| Posted Aug 01, 2003
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