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STEPHEN HUNTER
Stephen Hunter

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• Baltimore Sun
• Journal News (Westchester, NY)
• Washington Post

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Total Reviews: 786


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A SAMPLING OF THIS CRITIC'S CINEMATIC TASTE
 
BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5 Shrek
4.5/5 Boys Don't Cry
4/5 In Too Deep
3.5/5 Stepmom
B A Very Long Engagement
3/5 Croupier
2.5/5 The Big Kahuna
2/4 Chicken Little
2/5 Conspiracy Theory
1.5/5 Titan A.E.
1/5 Coyote Ugly
D Cursed
0.5/5 Beautiful
0/5 Saving Silverman
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 Our Song
5/5 Hedwig and the Angry Inch
5/5 Shrek
4.5/5 Murderous Maids
4.5/5 Nine Queens
4.5/5 Spider-Man
4.5/5 Kissing Jessica Stein
4.5/5 Last Orders
4.5/5 Monster's Ball
4.5/5 The Count of Monte Cristo
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WORST REVIEWED
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0/5 Wet Hot American Summer
0/5 Saving Silverman
0.5/5 Life or Something Like It
0.5/5 Rollerball
0.5/5 The Brotherhood of the Wolf
0.5/5 The Majestic
0.5/5 Vanilla Sky
0.5/5 The One
0.5/5 Bubble Boy
0.5/5 Sexy Beast
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 70% of the time.

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"The camera never leaves the beleaguered compound, and Beaufort itself becomes a character in the story, a surrealistic zone of tunnels, bunkers and sandbags, about as far from the possibility of heroism as possible." -- Washington Post
Posted May 16, 2008
 
Beaufort (2008)87%
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"Everyone in the movie...is fabulous, and Podeswa has an ability to distill history into a few powerful images." -- Washington Post
Posted May 16, 2008
 
Fugitive Pieces (2008)60%
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"What is memorable is the film's portrait of a man of honor in a sleazy world, possibly a metaphor for the struggle of the artist to stay honorable in a world of backbiting, betrayal and hunger for easy money." -- Washington Post
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)71%
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"Not that What Happens in Vegas is any kind of great movie, but it's an exceedingly bright comedy that never makes you feel stupid for enjoying its brisk pacing, smart lines, sound construction and superb comic acting." -- Washington Post
Posted May 8, 2008
 
What Happens in Vegas (2008)29%
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"If you don't fall in love with it, you've probably never fallen in love with a movie, and never will." -- Washington Post
Posted Apr 28, 2008
 
Dark City (1998)75%
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"I stayed to the bitter end out of some romantic sense of professional obligation. Don't make that same mistake!" -- Washington Post
Posted Apr 24, 2008
 
Zombie Strippers (2008)36%
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"Not merely Pacino's over-mannered, near-histrionic performance, but the movie itself could be characterized as busy, busy, busy. It's so full of plot twists and revelations and exploding sports cars that its very perkiness comes to seem comic." -- Washington Post
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
88 Minutes (2008)6%
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"Documentarian Stephen Walker's brisk, ironic style of narration and frank inclusion of himself in the observations contribute mightily to the enterprise, which is also aided by his honesty." -- Washington Post
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Young@Heart (2008)87%
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"Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? is so infantile you expect the answer to be, 'Not at my house!'" -- Washington Post
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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"It's pretty much for people who know the game well and want their perceptions massaged, not challenged." -- Washington Post
Posted Apr 17, 2008
 
The First Saturday in May (2008)72%
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"It is the ultimate in movie as pane of glass, completely un-self-conscious of its own movieness but simply an intensely focused examination of human behavior on a narrative armature." -- Washington Post
Posted Apr 10, 2008
 
The Duchess of Langeais (2008)68%
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"At its heart, the movie has a good story to tell: the lumbering oaf who’s not nearly as stupid and not nearly as gutless as all the hot dogs from the big city think." -- Washington Post
Posted Apr 9, 2008
 
Cop Land (1997)71%
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"The movie's proudest accomplishment is that it revises our version of Moses toward something more immediate and believable, more humanly knowable." -- Washington Post
Posted Mar 19, 2008
 
The Prince of Egypt (1998)79%
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"Do you like the clammy as opposed to the scary? Do you like dread rather than drama, anguish and emotional coagulation rather than screamfests?" -- Washington Post
Posted Feb 12, 2008
 
Chuck & Buck (2000)84%
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"The movie is as tawdry as someone else's lingerie, yet not without a certain prurient watchability." -- Washington Post
Posted Feb 11, 2008
 
Wild Things (1998)64%
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"What's both depressing and impressive about Cruel Intentions is the profound misanthropy of its meaning." -- Washington Post
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
Cruel Intentions (1999)48%
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"This is Cameron at his best." -- Washington Post
Posted Jan 29, 2008
 
Titanic (1997)82%
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"Marjane Satrapi, with co-director Vincent Paronnaud, has taken her work and turned it into a vigorous, revealing and tragic film." -- Washington Post
Posted Jan 24, 2008
 
Persepolis (2007)95%
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"A rouser, a stunner, almost a jubilee of emotion and suspense by the old standards of Hollywood melodrama, circa the time the actual events themselves took place." -- Washington Post
Posted Dec 26, 2007
 
The Great Debaters (2007)79%
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"Gosh, does this movie have it all or what? Smart dialogue, Julia Roberts in a bikini and looking grrrrrr-eattttt, and Russian helicopters going boom! It's also short! What's not to love?" -- Washington Post
Posted Dec 20, 2007
 
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)83%
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"Among the CGI monsterfests of the holiday film season, this quiet, humorous drama of oppositional wills from different generations coming to terms with each other is one of the miracles of the season." -- Washington Post
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Starting Out in the Evening (2007)86%
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"This film features what look like living plush toys." -- Washington Post
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)24%
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"The movie simply delivers too many colorfuls for its own good, none of whom establish a true emotional identity, and thus it isn't moving, it's busy." -- Washington Post
Posted Dec 6, 2007
 
The Golden Compass (2007)42%
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"Awake is a pleasing if negligible diversion." -- Washington Post
Posted Dec 3, 2007
 
Awake (2007)23%
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"The movie doesn't idealize, which makes it ideal." -- Washington Post
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
This Christmas (2007)53%
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"There's a glib twist at the end, which seems out of character, and the movie could easily lose 20 minutes, maybe 40." -- Washington Post
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
Stephen King's The Mist (2007)70%
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"The movie means to approach the creepy wonder of Roald Dahl but gets only the creepy part right." -- Washington Post
Posted Nov 15, 2007
 
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)36%
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"I say the story works, but I wish they'd teach these avatars to act." -- Washington Post
Posted Nov 15, 2007
 
Beowulf (2007)70%
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"The movie comes on as a novelty item, meaning it's so full of disparate parts and so unable to approach coherence, it just sits there and burns out." -- Washington Post
Posted Nov 8, 2007
 
Romance & Cigarettes (2007)53%
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"I just don't like it very much." -- Washington Post
Posted Nov 8, 2007
 
No Country for Old Men (2007)94%
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"Vaughn's con-man jive doesn't get much play in this one; he spends most of his time as a bitter creep, and the writing (by Dan Fogelman) isn't sharp enough to make the hipster-at-the-North-Pole theme pay off in any meaningful way." -- Washington Post
Posted Nov 8, 2007
 
Fred Claus (2007)22%
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"It's just gunfights strung together, without a whisper of coherence or meaning." -- Washington Post
Posted Nov 3, 2007
 
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)67%
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"It has the aspirations of an epic of crime and punishment, a superb feel for time and milieu, and an almost subliminal feel for myth." -- Washington Post
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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"Teenage suicide isn't that funny, and nothing in this movie changed my mind." -- Washington Post
Posted Nov 1, 2007
 
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2007)66%
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"A credible piece of pop entertainment of the hottie-in-distress genre." -- Washington Post
Posted Oct 27, 2007
 
I Know Who Killed Me (2007)8%
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"A panorama of European radicalism." -- Washington Post
Posted Oct 25, 2007
 
Terror's Advocate (2007)84%
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"It's fast and furious, and it proves that crime doesn't pay, unless you know how to do it right." -- Washington Post
Posted Oct 25, 2007
 
Mr. Untouchable (2007)74%
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"A brisk, entertaining and even moving exploration of the sometimes frayed intersection where Christianity meets homosexuality." -- Washington Post
Posted Oct 25, 2007
 
For the Bible Tells Me So (2007)93%
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"Things We Lost in the Fire veers away from the real and hard and toward the fantastic." -- Washington Post
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)65%
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"You know exactly where the story is going, and, dang, that's exactly where it goes." -- Washington Post
Posted Oct 19, 2007
 
Reservation Road (2007)36%
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Posted Oct 6, 2007
 
Journey From The Fall (2007)92%
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"As this old and twisted Jesse, Brad Pitt is quite good. But the movie really belongs to Casey Affleck as Robert Ford." -- Washington Post
Posted Oct 4, 2007
 
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)74%
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"Director Craig Gillespie clearly knows a few things; most important: If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten." -- Washington Post
Posted Sep 13, 2007
 
Mr. Woodcock (2007)13%
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"Haggis is an extremely talented man, and much of the film works brilliantly. But it misses the mark." -- Washington Post
Posted Sep 13, 2007
 
In the Valley of Elah (2007)71%
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"You may hate yourself for yielding to the expertise of the manipulation, but the vicarious thrill of The Brave One is the sense of pulling your own trigger on pure evil and watching the bullet tear through." -- Washington Post
Posted Sep 13, 2007
 
The Brave One (2007)43%
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"The movie feels like an uneasy combination of new and old western stylings." -- Washington Post
Posted Sep 7, 2007
 
3:10 to Yuma (2007)89%
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"Nothing original, nothing outrageous." -- Washington Post
Posted Aug 29, 2007
 
Balls of Fury (2007)23%
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"Hardly anything feels real, but what feels even more unreal is Hartnett with a cloying, sentimental, self-pitying performance. The liveliest thing in the film is the great Jackson, slumming again in a role miles beneath him." -- Washington Post
Posted Aug 23, 2007
 
Resurrecting the Champ (2007)61%
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"Linney -- this has happened too much to her -- is once again the best thing in a movie that at most achieves a certain mediocrity." -- Washington Post
Posted Aug 23, 2007
 
The Nanny Diaries (2007)34%
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"Do you Bean? If you do Bean, rejoice. Bean is back. If you don't Bean, here's a chance to start. Bean now, or forever hold your peace." -- Washington Post
Posted Aug 23, 2007
 
Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)50%

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