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CRITICS / AUTHORS REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
CHRIS HEWITT (ST. PAUL)
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St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Total Reviews: 2191


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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
3.5/4 Control
3/4 Saw IV
2.5/4 Bee Movie
2/4 Music Within
1.5/4 Bella
1/4 Martian Child
0/4 Shelter
2.5 George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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4/4 Be Kind Rewind
4/4 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4/4 My Kid Could Paint That
4/4 The Bourne Ultimatum
4/4 Away From Her
4/4 Zodiac
4/4 The Lives of Others
4/4 Letters From Iwo Jima
4/4 Little Children
4/4 Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
 more...
 
 
WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 88 Minutes
0/4 Shelter
0/4 The Brothers Solomon
0/4 Balls of Fury
0/4 I Know Who Killed Me
0/4 Introducing The Dwights
0/4 Let's Go to Prison
0/4 Tideland
0/4 Trust the Man
0/4 Barnyard: The Original Party Animals
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 69% of the time.

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3/4
 
"It's an unusually intimate portrait."
Posted May 16, 2008
 
Body of War (2008)72%
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3/4
 
"My Brother Is an Only Child is a buoyant, handsomely crafted film."
Posted May 16, 2008
 
My Brother is an Only Child (2008)90%
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1.5/4
 
"At least we're already acquainted with the kids, so we know their story, but Caspian, loosely based on C.S. Lewis' novel, misses the opportunity to deepen it."
Posted May 16, 2008
 
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)70%
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1/4
 
"One of those dopey romantic epics in which many lives are ruined with gorgeous scenery in the background."
Posted May 16, 2008
 
Before the Rains (2008)38%
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1/4
 
"Classy? Yes, is classy. Boring? Yes, The Duchess of Langeais is deeply boring."
Posted May 9, 2008
 
The Duchess of Langeais (2008)68%
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3/4
 
"A heartfelt, feel-good movie that underscores one of the great things about the cinema: Going to the movies is not a passive or solitary experience but one that brings us together, in a group, to try to understand how other people live and behave."
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Son of Rambow (2008)77%
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3/4
 
"Chop Shop has the feel of a foreign film, but what is most likely to horrify audiences is that it's set in America."
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Chop Shop (2007)94%
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3.5/4
 
"A blind man climbs to the top of Mount Everest in Blindsight, and that's just the beginning of the drama."
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Blindsight (2008)100%
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3/4
 
"Speed Racer doesn't resemble any movie you've ever seen."
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)35%
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2.5/4
 
"Watching Redbelt is like watching a chess game. As Mamet manipulates his characters, it's involving and occasionally thrilling, but it never makes you feel much."
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)72%
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1/4
 
"What happens in Vegas is nobody has much fun."
Posted May 9, 2008
 
What Happens in Vegas (2008)29%
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1/4
 
"Made of Dreck is more like it."
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Made of Honor (2008)12%
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3.5/4
 
"Jon Favreau has directed Iron Man with a wit and intelligence to match Downey's."
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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1.5/4
 
"A proud throwback to '70s family melodramas, such as Where the Red Fern Grows, Plumm seems slow, melodramatic and contrived when compared to contemporary movies."
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
A Plumm Summer (2008)25%
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3/4
 
"A moody, beautiful romance."
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
My Blueberry Nights (2008)49%
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3/4
 
"A smart, beautifully acted character drama."
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)91%
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2/4
 
"Might there be a way to get to God through science? It's a fascinating notion and I wish the slickly produced Expelled investigated it more thoroughly."
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)9%
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3.5/4
 
"While there is a significant cute factor built into that conceit, the strength of Young @ Heart is it takes the music seriously."
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Young@Heart (2008)87%
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2.5/4
 
"It's supposed to be about the two guys, played by Ewan McGregor and Hugh Jackman, but they both fade next to Williams' incandescent talent."
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Deception (2008)12%
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3/4
 
"The fun of the movie is watching Fey's Type A+ character, who's fairly similar to the one Fey plays on 30 Rock, bounce off Poehler's dopey slacker, who blurts out every thought that drifts into her head."
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)61%
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2.5/4
 
"Did I really just compare H and K to a Neil Simon comedy?"
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)56%
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2/4
 
"The reason I don't love the Kentucky Derby documentary The First Saturday in May is because it's about a bunch of dull people who keep blocking our view of beautiful, fascinating horses."
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
The First Saturday in May (2008)72%
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3/4
 
"It might remind you of those early-'60s capers that starred a different Audrey -- Hepburn."
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Priceless (2008)85%
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1/4
 
"'I need to try to understand what drives an Osama bin Laden,' filmmaker Morgan Spurlock tells us at the beginning of Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? And then, for the film's entire 90 minutes, he fails to address that issue."
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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3/4
 
"A Brazilian dramedy that touches on politics, sex, family and religion but is interested in them only to the extent that they rub off on the movie's people."
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2008)84%
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3/4
 
"A clever script and likable performers sell Marshall, even though Stoller's clunky pacing and drab camerawork (it can't be easy to make Hawaii look so ugly) are like a weight around their necks."
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)84%
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0/4
 
"The script is a confused jumble that director Jon Avnet cannot wrestle into shape."
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)6%
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3/4
 
"The characters know they're in a movie that references lots of other movies and they want to share with us how much fun those movies can be."
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)62%
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1/4
 
"What do you call a slasher movie with no slashing? Dull, for starters."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Prom Night (2008)9%
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3/4
 
"It's smart, funny and, of course, sweet."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Caramel (2008)91%
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2.5/4
 
"Planet B-Boy effortlessly makes the case that breakdancing is a genuine art form. Mixing ballet and the street, the crews are dazzling."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Planet B-Boy (2008)90%
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2.5/4
 
"It's a semi-infuriating movie, and yet, I think I'd recommend it."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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3/4
 
"Street Kings is a lean, energetic film that takes us through increasingly brutal scenes until it climaxes with a burst of violence so baroque and intense that you're not sure which part of the screen you're supposed to be looking at."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)33%
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3.5/4
 
"If you're into grim, relentless drama that acknowledges the grief that comes with unspeakable tragedy (the recent The Descent comes to mind), then you are in luck."
Posted Apr 7, 2008
 
The Ruins (2008)42%
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1/4
 
"Clunky and smug, Meet Bill isn't convincing for one moment."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Meet Bill (2008)11%
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2.5/4
 
"Worth a gamble."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
The Grand ()42%
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0/4
 
"An awkward, phony melodrama you don't need to be homophobic to hate."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Shelter (2008)53%
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2/4
 
"I'm not convinced the world needs a handsomely assembled movie of the Stones doing their songs exactly the way they've been doing them for 40 years, especially since it's easy to dig up a dozen previous Stones concert films."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Shine a Light (2008)86%
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3.5/4
 
"[Director] Riggen coaxes fine, understated performances from her actors, whose faces are all she needs to sell the movie's heartfelt climax, a graceful scene that makes us feel what Rosario and little Carlitos feel."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Under the Same Moon (2008)74%
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3.5/4
 
"This Island is surrounded by warmth, suspense and good humor."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Nim's Island (2008)48%
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3/4
 
"Just when you think, 'Enough already on the sliding-in-the-mud jokes,' Leatherheads tosses up a great joke that is the cinematic equivalent of a Hail Mary pass that sends the home team to victory."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)53%
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2.5/4
 
"Super? No. But it's not bad."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Superhero Movie! (2008)15%
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1.5/4
 
"The result is never boring, but it's often inexplicable."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
CJ7 (2008)45%
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2.5/4
 
"Caine alone is worth the price of admission."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Flawless (2007)62%
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2/4
 
"The movie is oddly structured, taking too long to set up a premise that anyone who has seen an ad for 21 already knows and that I just managed to encapsulate in one sentence."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
21 (2008)31%
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3/4
 
"Graceful, intelligent and respectful of the complex feelings generated by war."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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2.5/4
 
"Run Fatboy Run is largely content to follow the formula, guide us on a sunny tour of downtown London's tourist hot spots and transform Pegg from paunchy schlub to Runderella with a few decent laughs along the way."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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2/4
 
"Your soul will be intact after Shutter, but it will cost you 85 minutes."
Posted Mar 24, 2008
 
Shutter (2008)9%
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1/4
 
"It's all too aptly named."
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Sleepwalking (2008)16%
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3.5/4
 
"[The narrative is] as speedy and graceful as the skateboarders it lingers over in Paranoid Park, where their daredevil moves are often shot in dreamily beautiful slow motion."
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Paranoid Park (2008)76%

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