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AMY BIANCOLLI
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Houston Chronicle

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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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4/4 Letters From Iwo Jima
3.5/4 Pan's Labyrinth
3/4 Breach
2.5/4 The Good German
2/4 The Astronaut Farmer
1.5/4 Because I Said So
1/4 Norbit
.5/4 Alpha Dog
0.5/4 Bratz: The Movie
 
 
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4/4 The Dark Knight
4/4 Standard Operating Procedure
4/4 In Bruges
4/4 Persepolis
4/4 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
4/4 No Country for Old Men
4/4 Into the Wild
4/4 Away From Her
4/4 Mafioso
4/4 Letters From Iwo Jima
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/4 The Celestine Prophecy
0.5/4 The Strangers
0.5/4 88 Minutes
0.5/4 Bratz: The Movie
.5/4 The Condemned
.5/4 Smokin' Aces
.5/4 Alpha Dog
.5/4 RV
.5/4 The Shaggy Dog
.5/4 Domino
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2.5/4
 
"On the downside: There is a wackness to The Wackness, a saggy psychic undertow that drags down its lighter and smarter aspects."
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
The Wackness (2008)63%
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1/4
 
"The truth is, they're boring now."
Posted Jul 25, 2008
 
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)33%
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2/4
 
"If you're invited, you might as well enjoy yourself. Just don't say I didn't warn you. And don't you dare say I hate ABBA."
Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
Mamma Mia! (2008)53%
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0.5/4
 
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Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
The Strangers (2008)41%
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2.5/4
 
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Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)34%
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3.5/4
 
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Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
Kung Fu Panda (2008)88%
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2.5/4
 
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Posted Jul 18, 2008
 
The Incredible Hulk (2008)67%
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4/4
 
"This is not merely a Batman movie. It is not merely a comic-book movie. It is not merely gripping summer entertainment. It is, with Wall-E, one of the two best mainstream films to be released all year and far and away the most hypnotic chiller."
Posted Jul 16, 2008
 
The Dark Knight (2008)95%
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3/4
 
"Melds the original Hellboy's kibitzy humor and crushing action with Labyrinth's darkest fairy-tale imaginings."
Posted Jul 11, 2008
 
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)87%
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3.5/4
 
"A thoroughly rousing hunk of celluloid, a war saga that blends the sturdiest conventions of old-fashioned heroic storytelling with a few pixilated battle enhancements — check out the soaring blood globs — of the kind that spattered across 300."
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
Mongol (2008)88%
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2/4
 
"It's a chance to watch a bullet explode from the forehead of a killer -- and an invitation to laugh at the spectacle. See what you do, then tell me who's sicker: Bekmambetov or us."
Posted Jun 27, 2008
 
Wanted (2008)72%
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2.5/4
 
"Chipper, energetic and unimaginatively plotted re-do."
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
Get Smart (2008)53%
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2.5/4
 
"It's a sturdy film, vivid if utterly workmanlike, that builds to a crescendo of personal sacrifice and misty noble uplift."
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)26%
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3.5/4
 
"This fine and surprising documentary asks an even more challenging question: Can music promote nonviolence, prevent bloodshed and successfully overthrow an oppressive regime? Again -- astonishingly -- the answer is 'yes.'"
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
The Singing Revolution (2007)83%
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2/4
 
"This is dangerous advice for a writer to give (talk about glass houses), but Mike Myers needs an editor. He needs someone with a fat red pen to scratch out a few of his worst bad habits."
Posted Jun 20, 2008
 
The Love Guru (2008)15%
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4/4
 
"The result is a devastating film, and an important one."
Posted May 30, 2008
 
Standard Operating Procedure (2008)78%
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3.5/4
 
"A bewitching movie, rich in ideas and humanity, and it reminds us that fiction is real to the one who imagines it. Adults might read with detachment, but kids know the truth: It matters who lives and who dies in a story. It matters for them, and for us."
Posted May 30, 2008
 
The Fall (2008)53%
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2/4
 
"It's not bad, exactly. It's not a desecration of the franchise. It's just . . . tired."
Posted May 22, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)76%
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3.5/4
 
"If I could, I would spin on my head to express how much I enjoyed Planet B-Boy."
Posted May 16, 2008
 
Planet B-Boy (2008)91%
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2.5/4
 
"The struggles remain, but [director] Adamson has tweaked the plot, rejiggered the character dynamics and piled on the epic warfare. By the end I had overdosed on surly Peter, pouty Caspian and over-digitized shock-and-awe."
Posted May 16, 2008
 
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)66%
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2/4
 
"It gave me a headache, a stomach ache and the less-defined unease that comes from witnessing a major change in the zeitgeist. Because the zeitgeist, judging from this movie, now embraces rattle-headed visual delirium at all costs."
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)36%
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3/4
 
"After 2003's Elf and 2005's Zathura, Favreau has now made three smart, family-friendly, high-concept popcorn movies."
Posted May 1, 2008
 
Iron Man (2008)93%
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3/4
 
"The funny, felicitous Baby Mama exploits every stage of pregnancy except the first. No hanky-panky to bump this plot in motion."
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)61%
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2.5/4
 
"The aim of Spurlock's mission is less a matter of actually finding the man than exploring the everyday beliefs and attitudes of Muslims around the globe."
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)35%
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0.5/4
 
"What a bore. I guessed the identity of the killer from the character's second appearance, and I'm not that smart."
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)6%
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3/4
 
"It's well-made. Searingly acted. Potent. And by the time it was over, its climax realized at the water's edge of insanity and grief, I felt beaten about the head with sticks."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Snow Angels (2008)67%
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3/4
 
"The thorny dialogue, the rancorous arguments, the unexplained surliness of Lawrence's son -- all that nasty stuff melts away, covering up plot weaknesses in a warm glow of nuclear-family bonhomie."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Smart People (2008)49%
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2/4
 
"Nim's Island is a pleasant-enough jaunt for a family outing, but it never fully arrives at that 'perfect, secret world.'"
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Nim's Island (2008)49%
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2.5/4
 
"Everyone's too mannered, and most everything's too slow. Especially for a throwback."
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)53%
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2.5/4
 
"It's more a sweaty assemblage of dramatic high-points than a coherent, persuasive story of wounded warriors trying to make it."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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3/4
 
"This is not a film with blazingly original ideas or a groundbreaking script - I guessed the ending before the movie even started - but it has a sweet nature, an abundance of laughs and plenty of Pegg to spare."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)48%
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2.5/4
 
"Regarding Paranoid Park as an elongated short rather than a feature helps a bit, because it's a miniature in spirit -- a small-format portrait of psychic malaise that just happens to last 84 minutes."
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Paranoid Park (2008)74%
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2.5/4
 
"For all its mawkish plot turns and indecipherable trippiness, this is not a boring movie. It's just wiggy. And schmaltzy. And Spielbergian. And, uh ... wait. I think I've got a Jujube in my teeth."
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
CJ7 (2008)45%
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1.5/4
 
"Watching kids being forced to pee on each other isn't actually funny. Neither is watching those same kids get chased down by a pair of thugs in a sports car."
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Drillbit Taylor (2008)26%
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3.5/4
 
"Is this the last word on the Holocaust? No. But nothing is. And nothing ever should be."
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
The Counterfeiters (2008)94%
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3/4
 
"On the 14th of March, from the Land of L.A., comes a film based on Seuss that I'm happy to say, isn't overblown junk like The Cat in The Hat -- a movie that messed with the book and fell flat."
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)78%
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2/4
 
"The worst of the violence occurs off-screen, but Funny Games is still a vicious, vicious movie."
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Funny Games (2008)50%
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3/4
 
"It survives on its versatile leads, its smoky cinematography (courtesy of Dick Pope) and its seductive musical performances, which run from gospel to jazz to blues to the to the electrifying kick-start of early rock 'n' roll."
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
Honeydripper (2007)68%
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1/4
 
"The mammoths are cool. The squealing killer ostriches, perhaps inspired by ancient phorusrhacid fossils, are idiotic but... okay, they're idiotic."
Posted Mar 7, 2008
 
10,000 B.C. (2008)9%
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2/4
 
"The film's seduction is all too obvious to ravish anyone."
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)42%
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2/4
 
"It's long on shorts but short on punchlines."
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
Semi-Pro (2008)21%
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3/4
 
"A nice, straightforward, good old-fashioned geopolitical conspiracy thriller with no pretentions."
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)35%
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4/4
 
"'After I killed him, I dropped the gun in the Thames' -- so begins In Bruges, an insanely clever thug's tale so rife with obscenity that those 11 words form one of the longest complete sentences that can be repeated safely here."
Posted Feb 15, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)80%
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1.5/4
 
"It's a paradox, but science fiction has to make sense: It can rest on the world's most outlandish premise, but only if its internal logic holds up to scrutiny. And Jumper can't make that leap."
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
Jumper (2008)16%
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3/4
 
"It has plentiful whimsy, a big enough heart and Joan Plowright in one fine scene, burbling magnificently. It treats its archetypes with all due seriousness: Good must engage evil in a final stand. And fatherless children must try to save the world."
Posted Feb 14, 2008
 
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)79%
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2.5/4
 
"After a while the movie's inside chumminess and the overgrown-boy schtick start to wear thin, making me wonder whether Sarah Silverman or Margaret Cho might consider filming a sequel with a busload of neurotic girlfriends."
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland (2008)57%
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1.5/4
 
"You might even forget you're watching a movie and think you're having flashbacks to Us Weekly."
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Fool's Gold (2008)10%
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2/4
 
"An unsurprising entry in that hoary micro-genre of romantic comedies to feature a fresh-from-the-corpse disembodied spirit who just can't seem to get a move-on."
Posted Feb 1, 2008
 
Over Her Dead Body (2008)14%
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1.5/4
 
"Good intentions can only go so far."
Posted Jan 25, 2008
 
Grace is Gone (2007)57%
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4/4
 
"A film as personal and eccentric as Satrapi's original book, a black-and-white, hand-drawn memoir of growing up and away from Iran."
Posted Jan 25, 2008
 
Persepolis (2007)96%

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