
Vic Vogler
Denver Post Staff Writer
Movies reviews only
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The Skeleton Key (2005) |
The Skeleton Key opens a very different door into its tale of black magic in a Louisiana plantation home. - Denver Post
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| Posted Aug 12, 2005
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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005) |
Schneider, who co-wrote the script, has succeeded in making a film that's nearly review-proof: Most of the dialogue -- packed with names for fictitious sex acts and the gigolos who perfect them -- is unrepeatable in a newspaper. - Denver Post
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| Posted Aug 12, 2005
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Code 46 (2003) |
More a collage than a movie. - Denver Post
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| Posted Sep 10, 2004
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Crimson Gold (2003) |
The movie can feel slow and tedious, but the supper it makes us work for is nourishing. - Denver Post
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| Posted Jun 25, 2004
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Two Men Went to War (2002) |
Endearing little film. - Denver Post
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| Posted Jun 04, 2004
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Japanese Story (2003) |
Fails to engage us in the lives of its characters because it never really introduces them. - Denver Post
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| Posted Apr 09, 2004
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In July (2000) |
The journey's the thing, and nearly every kilometer of it holds adventure, charm and laughter. - Denver Post
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| Posted Dec 19, 2003
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Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) |
Bubba Ho-Tep succeeds as goofy-yet- tender wish fulfillment, offering an Elvis who tries to redeem his self-indulgent persona and become a hero. It fails as the sort of Campbell vehicle that wears out VCRs and haunts midnight-movie houses. - Denver Post
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| Posted Nov 21, 2003
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Derrida (2002) |
Exhibits a devotion to its subject that just might drive you to his books and make you wish for tea with the man who wrote them. - Denver Post
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| Posted Oct 24, 2003
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The Bread, My Sweet (2001) |
After sampling the crostini and extended-family love baked by the Brothers Pyzola, you might make the Biscotti Co. a second home. - Denver Post
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| Posted Sep 20, 2003
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The Holy Land (2001) |
Gorlin lacks a coherent recipe for his savory ingredients. - Denver Post
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| Posted Sep 12, 2003
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Dirty Pretty Things (2002) |
Few movies create such perfect pitch among character, plot and setting. - Denver Post
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| Posted Aug 15, 2003
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I Capture the Castle (2003) |
Never shies from indulging us and our desire for a gentle and generous world that doesn't slip into easy answers. - Denver Post
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| Posted Jul 25, 2003
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Levity (2003) |
Slow and satisfying. - Denver Post
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| Posted Jun 27, 2003
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Owning Mahowny (2003) |
Collapses into a public service announcement on gambling. - Denver Post
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| Posted Jun 13, 2003
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Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2002) |
The movie, with room to gallop through nearly two hours and an R rating, often just kicks around in the stable. - Denver Post
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| Posted Jun 06, 2003
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Chaos (2001) |
The men, filled with brutality and neglect, make for rather obvious targets, yet we come to care about the women in their lives beyond any agenda Chaos might have. - Denver Post
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| Posted May 23, 2003
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XX/XY (2002) |
XX/XY expresses and explores this universal yearning without becoming stuck in it. In this and many other respects, few movies are so mature and satisfying. - Denver Post
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| Posted May 16, 2003
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Nowhere in Africa (2001) |
The film has the glorious sweep of an epic. - Denver Post
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| Posted May 09, 2003
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The Shape of Things (2003) |
Intellectually, Shape is a tour de force that can't be dismissed merely for the coldness it makes us feel. Artistically, it should have been called 'Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here.' - Denver Post
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| Posted May 09, 2003
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A Mighty Wind (2003) |
Guest's previous films offer essential windows into the absurd and the lovable and, in its own way, so does his latest. - Denver Post
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| Posted Apr 16, 2003
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The Good Thief (2002) |
Jordan's approach assumes a certain intelligence, and attentiveness, in his audience, but his joyride through the French Riviera always keeps us belted in. - Denver Post
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| Posted Apr 11, 2003
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Laurel Canyon (2002) |
Never reaches the bar it sets for itself. - Denver Post
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| Posted Apr 04, 2003
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Spider (2002) |
A dark, brilliant journey into memory and schizophrenia whose peeled-back layers reveal an unexpected heroism. - Denver Post
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| Posted Mar 28, 2003
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Basic (2003) |
John Travolta is having fun -- a lot of it -- and that may be all the reason you need to wedge Basic into your post-Oscars film schedule. - Denver Post
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| Posted Mar 28, 2003
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The Safety of Objects (2001) |
In boldly departing from the safety of a strong, unifying plot, Troche makes virtual objects of her characters by showing us plenty that intrigues and not enough that enlightens. - Denver Post
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| Posted Mar 14, 2003
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The Hunted (2003) |
An intense, if terse, character study that does not let us settle into comfortable delineations of good and evil. - Denver Post
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| Posted Mar 14, 2003
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