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2/4	"Like being stuck behind an old man on the highway." -- Slant Magazine Posted Dec 19, 2005	White Countess (2005)	51%
3/4	"Jones carries Pete's weight of grief but without betraying the character's emotional impenetrability or slack conscience." -- Slant Magazine Posted Dec 14, 2005	The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)	84%
4/4	"A mind-blowing modern allegory in the exceedingly persuasive guise of an art house thriller." -- Slant Magazine Posted Oct 8, 2005	Cach� (2005)	88%
3/4	"*As in The Center of the World, July's focus is on people's deformed longing for human connection." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Jun 14, 2005	Me and You and Everyone We Know (2005)	83%
2.5/4	"Played so broadly as to be mocking." -- Slant Magazine Posted Feb 23, 2005	Up and Down (2005)	84%
1.5/4	"Paul Weitz warms over the cold truth of corporate globalization in this sub-Ephron gloss on the white-middle-class-in-peril." -- Slant Magazine Posted Dec 31, 2004	In Good Company (2004)	83%
3/4	"*In a post-November 2nd world, Kinsey* is just what we need.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Nov 11, 2004	Kinsey (2004)	90%
2/4	"So oppressively identified with its predecessor�s look, sound, and design that Doug Liman warrants a co-director credit." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 21, 2004	The Bourne Supremacy (2004)	81%
1.5/4	"The Clearing needed the firm hand of a Hollywood insubordinate, not a sycophant." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jul 3, 2004	The Clearing (2004)	45%
2.5/4	"If Wolfgang Peterson had any guts, she would have been offered Helen of Troy." -- Slant Magazine Posted Jun 25, 2004	The Intended (2004)	31%
	"Crudely embraces reverse ethnic stereotypes." -- Village Voice Posted May 13, 2004	Breakin' All the Rules (2004)	32%
2.5/4	"*For Visnjic, who is sometimes associated with George Clooney because of the ER hand-off, this is his Out of Sight." -- Slant Magazine* Posted Apr 21, 2004	Close Your Eyes (2004)	47%
2/4	"*Magnanimous yet slapdash, The Blonds* records Carri�s effort to satiate her�and her nation�s�parentless identity.*" -- Slant Magazine* Posted Apr 5, 2004	The Blonds (2004)	63%
2/4	"There is a noticeable stench in the air when the movie makes a reference to Billy Bob Thornton�s performance in Sling Blade. It�s stale ink." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 30, 2004	Home on the Range (2004)	54%
1.5/4	"Julianne Moore currently essays maybe the most obnoxious white woman in a Hollywood movie since Erin Brockovich." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 30, 2004	Laws of Attraction (2004)	19%
2/4	"Scottish director Paul McGuigan is fast approaching Baz Luhrmann status in the wasteland of stylistic braggadocio." -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 4, 2004	The Reckoning (2004)	40%
1.5/4	"*There�s a reason why the poster for Taking Lives* is better than the movie itself�those lips ain�t made for talking.** " -- Slant Magazine Posted Mar 2, 2004	Taking Lives (2004)	23%
1/4	"Represents the latest pestilence from DreamWorks's subterranean id-grinder." -- Slant Magazine Posted Feb 20, 2004	Eurotrip (2004)	46%
	"Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has an unparalleled knack for assembling Z-grade talent, particularly when operating in family-fun mode." -- Village Voice Posted Jan 18, 2003	Kangaroo Jack (2003)	8%
	"Chicago represents something of an artifact from a dark and dangerous era, reconstructed with lots of zest and little depth." -- Premiere Magazine Posted Jan 1, 2003	Chicago (2002)	87%
	"*Rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword, Jiang Wen's Devils on the Doorstep* is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of Joseph Heller or Kurt Vonnegut.*" -- Premiere Magazine* Posted Dec 20, 2002	Devils On The Doorstep (2000)	90%
	"The band scenes are downright gladiatorial in their visceral impact and energy...edited with the tightness of a snare drum and photographed with the geometrical majesty of a Busby Berkeley musical." -- Premiere Magazine Posted Dec 14, 2002	Drumline (2002)	79%
1.5/4	"[Seagal's] strenuous attempt at a change in expression could very well clinch him this year's Razzie." -- Premiere Magazine Posted Nov 20, 2002	Half Past Dead (2002)	2%
short	"A ringing reminder of Joe Dante�s unerring wit and cinematic significance." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Oct 19, 2002	Gremlins (1984)	78%
	"Anglosized Indian director Mira Nair pilfers every lame ceremonial clich� through the ages." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2002	Monsoon Wedding (2002)	94%
B+	Click here to read article -- Matinee Magazine Posted Oct 8, 2002	10 (1979)	70%
B+	"Olivier Gourmet's touching performance is an act of meticulousness that you will either catch out of the corner of your eye, or not at all." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 29, 2002	The Son (2003)	88%
C+	"Contains about a half-dozen intellectually stimulating moments of discourse but is drowned out by Bellocchio's reluctance to carry through all the way with any of them." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 29, 2002	My Mother's Smile (2005)	84%
	"A porn film without the sex scenes." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 29, 2002	The Uncertainty Principle (2002)	20%
B	"As the voyage progresses towards its tremendous conclusion, it becomes tempting to ignore the subtitles so that your eyes can fully comprehend the suspended opulence." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2002	Russian Ark (2002)	88%
	"An artistic expression that could easily have been bitter and threatening to the point of impatience, yet comes off as not only fluid and honest, but even a little lovely." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2002	Ten (2003)	86%
	"Westfeldt characterizes Jessica Stein with ample neurosis yet never draws her as a pathetic figure." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 24, 2002	Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)	84%
C	"Rides a standard trajectory with meager little surprise in the details." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Sep 4, 2002	The Good Girl (2002)	81%
	"The sight gags and poop jokes are mercifully unsafe and unhinged, and many composed with the kind of primordial, dank wit reminiscent of old John Waters." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 25, 2002	National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)	18%
	"Instilled with every awful clich� and stereotype available--and even invents anachronistic ways to perpetuate new ones." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 24, 2002	We Were Soldiers (2002)	63%
F	"Solondz hates himself so deeply and single-mindedly that contempt is the only sensibility he is able to express." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 11, 2002	Storytelling (2002)	55%
D	"A Hollywood satire made by people who clearly hate movies but love Hollywood." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 11, 2002	Full Frontal (2002)	37%
C+	"Evans's "brass knuckles in the balls" personality is simply too hollow for any lasting profundity to stick." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Aug 5, 2002	The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)	91%
C	"A movie that, while impressed with its own style, is truly ignorant and terrified of itself -- of its own heart, its soul and its moral awareness." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Jul 16, 2002	Road to Perdition (2002)	82%
D+	"Heavy with flabby rolls of typical Toback machinations." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Jul 10, 2002	Harvard Man (2002)	33%
C+	"The greatest myth on display here is the belief that ostensible impoliteness somehow equals a break from the norm." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Jun 21, 2002	Lilo & Stitch (2002)	86%
C+	"The corniness and contrivance that has marked Schumacher's movies all along is not suddenly absent here." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2002	Tigerland (2000)	76%
B	"Athletically limber and enthusiastically offbeat, both serious and fun." -- Matinee Magazine Posted Jun 17, 2002	The Bourne Identity (2002)	83%
B	"*Fulfills the mandate for outrageous comic adventurism ignored by the rigidly coordinated Spider-Man* and the insipidly plagiaristic Austin Powers.*" -- Matinee Magazine* Posted Jun 1, 2002	Undercover Brother (2002)	76%
B-	"Photographed with melancholy richness and eloquently performed yet also decidedly uncinematic." -- Matinee Magazine Posted May 30, 2002	The Sleepy Time Gal (2002)	78%
D-	"Pity the masses of tired and poor women who will flock to Jennifer Lopez's latest loud blast of self-empowerment." -- Matinee Magazine Posted May 22, 2002	Enough (2002)	22%
F	"*The most repugnant adaptation of a classic text since Roland Joff� and Demi Moore's The Scarlet Letter." -- Matinee Magazine* Posted May 22, 2002	Bartleby (2002)	36%
	"Inappropriate for audiences of all ages." -- Village Voice Posted May 19, 2002	Diamonds (1999)	25%
D	"The definitive example of a wolf in sheep's clothing--a slick, manipulative, amateurishly acted, blandly shot, foolishly plotted drama." -- Matinee Magazine Posted May 17, 2002	The Believer (2002)	81%
B	"*A bold re-visitation of themes last explored in Schroeder's 1987 masterpiece Barfly." -- Matinee Magazine* Posted May 16, 2002	Our Lady of the Assassins (2001)	77%

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