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Stephen Himes
Tomatometer-approved critic
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Kansas City, MO
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Movies reviews only
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The Pink Panther (2006) |
It has some interesting riffs on French/American clichés, but it isn't interested in creating something other than a string of gags. - Flak Magazine
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| Posted Jun 07, 2018
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Pineapple Express (2008) |
David Gordon Green seems to have used this template as some sort of experiment... Green's method is like a stone-cold killer in a John Woo movie: He makes us laugh, then immediately shoots us in the face. - Flak Magazine
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| Posted Jun 07, 2018
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Friends With Benefits (2011) |
A Central Station flashmob of a movie. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Aug 01, 2011
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Bad Teacher (2011) |
The only way to understand this movie's argument about performance pay is to imagine Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker watching it. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jul 26, 2011
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) |
Harry Potter isn't about the wand choosing the wizard; it's about what education should be about: transforming imagination into reality. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jul 15, 2011
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Everything Must Go (2010) |
Will Ferrell isn't stunt casting--his size and deadpan are essential to the character. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jul 05, 2011
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The Beaver (2011) |
Jodie Foster invites us to laugh at this guy who talks through a puppet, then scolds us for doing so. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jul 05, 2011
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The Hangover Part II (2011) |
More a horror than a comedic film, as if Todd Phillips is making a kind of "Heart of Darkness" argument with Bangkok as his backdrop. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jul 05, 2011
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Bridesmaids (2011) |
By filling the plot hole of Lillian's cluelessness with explosive diarrhea, the film undermines the whole "Apatowian Female Comedy" idea. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jul 05, 2011
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Midnight in Paris (2011) |
"Midnight in Paris," a parable about romanticism and nostalgia, recalls Early Owen as much as Early Woody. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jul 05, 2011
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Larry Crowne (2011) |
"Larry Crowne" is made precisely for people like Larry Crowne. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jul 05, 2011
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The A-Team (2010) |
Ocean's Eleven if conceieved by Tony Scott. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jun 20, 2010
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Ghost Writer (1989) |
Polanski creates a sublime image of Tony Blair: A man who traps himself in a storm-battered glass house because he lacks the courage of his convictions. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jun 10, 2010
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Sex and the City 2 (2010) |
Samantha does everything but draw a picture of the Prophet Muhammad on a pair of crotchless panties. - Flak Magazine
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| Posted Jun 10, 2010
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Iron Man 2 (2010) |
Tony Stark is Dick Cheney's foreign policy driven by Grover Norquist's fiscal policy, sold to the public by Ari Gold. Very confusing. - Flak Magazine
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| Posted Jun 10, 2010
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MacGruber (2010) |
Perhaps a satire of Nicolas Cage's Jerry Bruckheimer movies. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jun 10, 2010
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Letters to Juliet (2010) |
Asking Juliet Capulet for relationship advice is a little bit like asking John McCain for campaign consulting, isn't it? - Film Snobs
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| Posted May 17, 2010
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Kick-Ass (2010) |
It's deeply immoral to turn a ten year old girl into The Bride from "Kill Bill" and pretend it's just a cartoon. - Film Snobs
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| Posted May 13, 2010
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Date Night (2010) |
Instead of shooting for 'It Happened One Night,' it opts for being 'The Hangover' for married people. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Apr 08, 2010
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Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) |
John Cusack's response to the canonization of John Hughes. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Apr 06, 2010
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Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) |
'This is It' is tied together by an aesthetic that can only be called Synthetic Intimacy. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jan 08, 2010
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Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire (2009) |
To say 'Precious' is exploitative because it's bleak is to argue that Jonathan Kozol shouldn't have written 'Savage Inequalities' because it shows urban schools in a bad light. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jan 08, 2010
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The Young Victoria (2009) |
If Molly Ringwold had taken a shot at 'respectability' in a Merchant Ivory Oscar-bait film, this might have been the perfect screenplay. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jan 08, 2010
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Crazy Heart (2009) |
The difference between 'Crazy Heart' and 'The Wrestler' is the quality of the female characters. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jan 08, 2010
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Me and Orson Welles (2008) |
Linklater shows how Welles' hubris take him from the Caesar of his own theater to playing Falstaff on 'The Dean Martin Show.' - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jan 08, 2010
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Appaloosa (2008) |
A western bromance. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Nov 20, 2008
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Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008) |
Kevin Smith sees homemade porn as the end of the empire. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Nov 20, 2008
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W. (2008) |
Josh Brolin develops an ingenious physical tic that encompasses the President: He talks with his mouth full, like a man who's bitten off more than he can chew. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Nov 20, 2008
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Mamma Mia! (2008) |
As for Meryl Streep, you sense that she's thinking what you're thinking: That she can't actually be in this movie. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Nov 20, 2008
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Tropic Thunder (2008) |
A journey into Hollywood's heart of darkness. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Nov 20, 2008
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Ghost Town (2008) |
If, say, Tom Hanks had been cast in the lead rather than Rickey Gervais, "Ghost Town" would be "Wings of Desire" for the "You've Got Mail" crowd. Thankfully, it's more cantankerous. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Nov 20, 2008
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Burn After Reading (2008) |
Tries to be "The Big Lebowski" of the War on Terror. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Nov 20, 2008
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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) |
Introducing the new Lloyd Dobler! - Film Snobs
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| Posted Nov 20, 2008
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Swing Vote (2008) |
You can smell the inauthenticity and condescension - Swing Vote seems like it was written by the kind of guy who talks about Applebee's salad bar. - Flak Magazine
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| Posted Aug 06, 2008
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) |
Del Toro seems to use this movie as batting practice for The Hobbit. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jul 22, 2008
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Wanted (2008) |
Never has a mainstream movie made more of a fetish from splattered brains. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jul 22, 2008
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The Happening (2008) |
Shyamalan's religious ideas are a lot like Bush's: Nearly theology free. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jul 10, 2008
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Kung Fu Panda (2008) |
'Chinese' in the way that Springfield-style cashew chicken is 'Chinese.' - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jul 10, 2008
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Hancock (2008) |
Hancock suggests the Colin Powell 'Pottery Barn' argument, but before it gets really interesting, veers wildly off course. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jul 10, 2008
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Get Smart (2008) |
Hollywood has no idea what to do with Steve Carell. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jul 03, 2008
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
You sense that if Lucas had his way, Harrison Ford would have measured Shia LeBeouf's midiclorian levels. - Flak Magazine
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| Posted Jun 03, 2008
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Iron Man (2008) |
The brillance of Downey's performance is that Tony Stark is more of an impenetrable, unstoppable force than Iron Man. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Jun 03, 2008
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Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
If you're really, really high, you might think that H&KEfGB suggests that we are only truly free when we transcend our own racial identities. - Film Snobs
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| Posted May 08, 2008
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) |
The difference between Apatow and Hornby is that Hornby has written at least one compelling female character. - Flak Magazine
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| Posted May 08, 2008
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Leatherheads (2008) |
Clooney tries to Flags of Our Fathers if directed by Preston Sturges. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Apr 16, 2008
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Semi-Pro (2008) |
Jackie Moon is every other Will Ferrell character in John Stockton shorts. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Apr 16, 2008
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Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008) |
The metaphysical angle is too awkward: Horton comes off like a Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Apr 16, 2008
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The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008) |
Like "Terabithia," willfully darker than most children's fare. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Feb 26, 2008
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Definitely, Maybe (2008) |
Will Hayes' only flaw is that he's too idealistic--in the same way that John Edwards cares too much for poor people. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Feb 26, 2008
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Hairspray (2007) |
Like your high school's production of "Grease": A musical about sex with a chastity belt strapped to its waist. - Film Snobs
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| Posted Dec 11, 2007
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