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TOM BLOCK
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" A breezy but incomplete valentine to the most fertile period in American film"
Posted May 25, 2003
 
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)76%
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" A solid film...but more conscientious than it is truly stirring."
Posted Feb 14, 2002
 
Hart's War (2002)57%
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" A lifeless vacuum."
Posted Jan 18, 2002
 
Final (2001)42%
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" What 'Blade Runner' would’ve looked like as a low-budget series on a UHF channel."
Posted Jan 3, 2002
 
Impostor (2001)15%
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" an Oprah-mistic movie in which people overcome a lifetime’s worth of bad habits by 'opening up.' "
Posted Dec 25, 2001
 
Monster's Ball (2001)86%
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" The man who helped spark the indie revolution is now making pictures that bow and scrape before the most depleted Hollywood conventions."
Posted Dec 7, 2001
 
Ocean's Eleven (2001)80%
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" ...begins evaporating in your mind before it’s even over."
Posted Oct 4, 2001
 
Joy Ride (2001)74%
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" weighted down by conventional morality and predictable storytelling"
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Broken Vessels (1998)62%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)43%
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" ...offers more pleasure as a jigsaw puzzle than it does as a movie. "
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Following (1998)81%
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" ...could have been a superb dark fantasy, but takes its own malarkey seriously."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Arlington Road (1999)60%
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" ...more rewarding to analyze than it is to see."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)78%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
The Haunting (1999)17%
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" ...the movie isn’t half as diabolical as its marketing plan. "
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
The Blair Witch Project (1999)85%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
The Minus Man (1999)59%
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" After wooing the likes of Hawks, Peckinpah, and Pontecorvo, 'Three Kings' decides in the end to go steady with Ron Howard."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Three Kings (1999)93%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
The Third Miracle (1999)68%
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" ...a kitchen-sink drama that’s full of old dishwater."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Orphans (1997)44%
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" ...all of the bad things that make up what we call 'independent film.'"
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Treasure Island (1999)33%
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" ...a two-ring circus that fails as entertainment and stinks as a sermon. "
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Gladiator (2000)77%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
8 1/2 Women (1999)43%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Entrapment (1999)38%
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" Cheesy but not much fun, and it never reaches the level of pulp poetry."
Posted Jul 27, 2001
 
Planet of the Apes (2001)45%
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" affable but disastrously clichéd"
Posted Jul 12, 2001
 
The Score (2001)74%
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" ...diminishes what happened on December 7, 1941."
Posted May 23, 2001
 
Pearl Harbor (2001)24%
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" The world needs this movie the way it needs a comeback of the plague."
Posted Apr 30, 2001
 
Baise Moi (2001)23%
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" Throws jokes at the audience like alms for the poor; unfortunately, they’re all pennies."
Posted Apr 26, 2001
 
One Night at McCool's (2001)33%
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" ...a sanctimonious and doughy look at a man who in the end just isn’t very interesting."
Posted Apr 5, 2001
 
Blow (2001)54%
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" Nothing in The Caveman's Valentine feels properly grounded or set up."
Posted Mar 1, 2001
 
The Caveman's Valentine (2001)44%
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" Only in Hollywood is ineptitude and crassness rewarded so richly."
Posted Feb 14, 2001
 
Deterrence (1998)45%
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" The film gets off on the wrong foot and never recovers."
Posted Feb 14, 2001
 
Dick (1999)70%
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" So logy and doom-laden that watching it feels like a hike through waist-deep snow."
Posted Jan 18, 2001
 
The Pledge (2001)77%
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" A series of emotionally stillborn incidents."
Posted Dec 26, 2000
 
All the Pretty Horses (2000)32%
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" The result of what happens when a pedestrian director shoots a tone-deaf script."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
A Map of the World (1999)65%
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" American Psycho has all the trappings of a thoughtful film except profundity -- it's a swimming pool without a deep end."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
American Psycho (2000)66%
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" You keep waiting for the movie to start. It never does, though."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Best in Show (2000)94%
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" Combines what seems like every indie cliché into a single motion picture."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Committed (2000)46%
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" Jimmy Stewart in a see-through blouse."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Erin Brockovich (2000)83%
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" So hyper-conscious of its own movie-ness that it’s hard to care very much about the characters moving listlessly through its scenery."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Eye of the Beholder (1999)9%
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" Gone in 60 Seconds goes so stale in its last 10 minutes that it makes The Rock look like some experimental flick."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)25%
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" The biggest disappointment of the year."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Magnolia (1999)84%
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" A coy and hollow parody."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Mission: Impossible II (2000)57%
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" ...its emotions are so counterfeit that the Treasury Department should be alerted."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Mystery, Alaska (1999)38%
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" Snow Falling on Cedars falls victim to its own reverential attitude: it forgets to include some human beings in its passionate defense of them."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)40%
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" Lee sabotages his material by overloading it with splashy visual effects."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Summer of Sam (1999)50%
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" ...an epic for pipsqueaks."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Beach (2000)19%
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" What is Denzel Washington doing in trash like this?"
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Bone Collector (1999)28%
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" Singh has concocted a flick for people who think that mere sensation can sustain a movie, and who don’t require any more coherence than what can be gotten from flipping through a fashion magazine."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Cell (2000)43%
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" Painful to watch The Ninth Gate’s meticulous tone and rhythms go for naught in its final half-hour."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Ninth Gate (1999)40%
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" A threepenny opera of lurid plot turns, oceanic bloodletting, and pseudo-existential dialogue."
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Way of the Gun (2000)48%

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