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Sara Brady

Sara Brady's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Film Critic, Premiere Magazine

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Because I Said So (2007) 3% 1/4 EDIT “Diane Keaton's dizzy iconoclast shtick was kind of cute, rather endearing, and even a little feminist 30 years ago. Now it's just nails-on-a-chalkboard obnoxious.” – Premiere Magazine Feb 2, 2007 Full Review Shut Up and Sing (2006) 89% 4/4 EDIT “The film as a whole is less a political document than it is a sensitively detailed backstage portrait of a unique musical phenomenon.” – Premiere Magazine Nov 16, 2006 Full Review Cocaine Cowboys (2006) 71% 2/4 EDIT “Aiming for encyclopedic coverage of the drug epidemic and its effect on the city, Corben packs much too much into one movie.” – Premiere Magazine Nov 3, 2006 Full Review Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006) 66% 3/4 EDIT “The story of a woman who confides in her fianc that she once gave her dog a blow job, Dogs had the potential to be a raunchfest, but Goldthwait's take is much more affecting.” – Premiere Magazine Sep 28, 2006 Full Review Jesus Camp (2006) 89% 3/4 EDIT “Evangelism's views on science and politics are so polarizing that almost any viewer, whether Orthodox, agnostic, or atheist, is bound to have an elemental reaction from the first shot of six-year-olds weeping in religious ecstasy.” – Premiere Magazine Sep 21, 2006 Full Review The Ground Truth (2006) 87% 4/4 EDIT “This film, a raw howl of outrage and pain, is proudly one-sided, allowing a generation of wounded men and women to scream their betrayal.” – Premiere Magazine Sep 15, 2006 Full Review Monster House (2006) 75% 3.5/4 EDIT “Monster House is crammed to the rafters with the kind of satisfying horror-lite scares that make it a perfect midsummer diversion.” – Premiere Magazine Jul 27, 2006 Full Review Superman Returns (2006) 72% 3/4 EDIT “This Superman is like nothing you've ever seen before, but it tickles something primitive and comforting at the back of the mind. Gorgeously detailed and meticulously realized, it's a homecoming of a movie.” – Premiere Magazine Jun 26, 2006 Full Review Civic Duty (2006) 56% EDIT “Tensely plotted and suffused with an eerie gloom.” – Premiere Magazine Jun 12, 2006 Full Review Akeelah and the Bee (2006) 86% 3/4 EDIT “A lovely, touching story, Akeelah might be too pretty to be believable, but it's transporting nonetheless.” – Premiere Magazine Jun 3, 2006 Full Review Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) 88% 4/4 EDIT “Even though Goblet of Fire clocks in at a robust 157 minutes, Newell handles the massive story with seeming ease, keeping the pace taut and intensifying the pervasive menace that lurked more subtly in the previous films.” – Premiere Magazine Dec 27, 2005 Full Review The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) 82% 4/4 EDIT “Sisterhood inhabits a tricky slot -- the subject matter is a little mature for tween audiences, and too glossed over for adults -- but succeeds, due entirely to charismatic Tamblyn and devastating Ferrera.” – Premiere Magazine Jun 7, 2005 Full Review The Upside of Anger (2005) 74% 3/4 EDIT “Admit it: You thought Kevin Costner's best performances were miles behind him.” – Premiere Magazine Apr 5, 2005 Full Review Coach Carter (2005) 63% 3/4 EDIT “A sports flick that's a worthy addition to the genre.” – Premiere Magazine Jan 18, 2005 Full Review Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) 27% 2/4 EDIT “[Zellweger's] never allowed to be quite as human, quite as pained. She's only allowed to be ridiculous.” – Premiere Magazine Nov 16, 2004 Full Review A Home at the End of the World (2004) 50% 3/4 EDIT “Mayer, a theater director making his film debut, has a sure hand with the finely calibrated emotions of his ensemble, and the intricately knotted chain of love, dependence, and dissatisfaction that twines them together.” – Premiere Magazine Jul 27, 2004 Full Review Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) 91% 4/4 EDIT “An adaptation worthy of Rowling's marvelous creation-a chapter that spins the story to ever more thrillingly dark, treacherous heights.” – Premiere Magazine Jun 4, 2004 Full Review Troy (2004) 53% 3/4 EDIT “Recalls an age when Hollywood not only gambled on but flourished with grandiose epics and casts of thousands, and brings megawatt star power to what is, at root, a brilliantly told story.” – Premiere Magazine May 18, 2004 Full Review New York Minute (2004) 11% 1/4 EDIT “Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have many millions of dollars... But in New York Minute, despite a lavish budget and one of the most expensive movie sets in the world -- the island of Manhattan -- they can't buy love, talent, or a decent script.” – Premiere Magazine May 11, 2004 Full Review Laws of Attraction (2004) 18% 3/4 EDIT “Brosnan's effortlessly charming performance, paired with Moore's prickly likeability, makes it a rather attractive proposition, all in all.” – Premiere Magazine May 11, 2004 Full Review Home on the Range (2004) 51% .5/4 EDIT “Just about everything that can be wrong with an animated movie is wrong with Home on the Range . . .” – Premiere Magazine Apr 5, 2004 Full Review Hellboy (2004) 81% 3/4 EDIT “Thanks to the singular vision of director Guillermo del Toro and Mike Mignola's gloriously dark source material, Hellboy is a wicked trip into the fantastic.” – Premiere Magazine Apr 5, 2004 Full Review Hidalgo (2004) 46% 2.5/4 EDIT “The visual effects are almost seamlessly integrated and very effective, especially in the claustrophobic brutality of the dust storm sequence. It's brief, but terrifying.” – Premiere Magazine Mar 8, 2004 Full Review Twisted (2004) 2% 1/4 EDIT “What the hell was Ashley Judd thinking? I've seen better at 3 A.M. on Cinemax.” – Premiere Magazine Feb 26, 2004 Full Review 50 First Dates (2004) 45% 4/4 EDIT “. . . a gently silly comedy that's actually romantic without making anyone sick in the process.” – Premiere Magazine Feb 24, 2004 Full Review
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