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KAREN HERSHENSON
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Contra Costa Times

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Total Reviews: 28


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" Ricci has guts. Nonetheless, Black Snake Moan turned my stomach."
Posted Mar 2, 2007
 
Black Snake Moan (2007)66%
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" Even though it is relentlessly intense, at times even deeply moving, The Passion ultimately leaves you numb."
Posted Feb 25, 2004
 
The Passion of the Christ (2004)50%
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Smart and in the end feel-good, it's more an evening with a talented club band than the full-out stadium show.
Posted Mar 6, 2001
 
High Fidelity (2000)91%
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More well-intended than it is entertaining.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Anna and the King (1999)52%
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It's the Tin Man without much brain.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Bicentennial Man (1999)38%
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Chill Factor is just the kind of failed action picture one expects to see during these final days of August.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Chill Factor (1999)7%
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Here finally is the big, loud, jump-a-minute summer movie everyone's been craving!
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Deep Blue Sea (1999)57%
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A quick blast.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Dinosaur (2000)63%
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Let us be sustained by the knowledge that in just 38 more days, all this millennium nonsense will be over.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
End of Days (1999)11%
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A clever cast.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Gladiator (2000)77%
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That's how long it ought to last in theaters -- unless there's a hidden audience out there for formulaic movies with hack scripts.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Gone in 60 Seconds (2000)25%
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After weathering the movie's mood swings and enduring its overwrought ending, you'll be begging for satire on bended knees.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Here on Earth (2000)17%
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Plays dangerously close to Hogan's Heroes goes to Auschwitz.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Jakob the Liar (1999)30%
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They don't waste words in the space program, and I won't waste any more here. Let's call this one mission: improbable.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Mission to Mars (2000)23%
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Entertaining in its own wacky way.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Mission: Impossible II (2000)57%
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Movies like this make me cringe.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Pokémon the First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back (1999)15%
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To say [Li's] acting is 'wooden' would be kind.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Romeo Must Die (2000)33%
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The acting is crisp, and Dahl knows how to pace a movie and make it look good.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Rounders (1998)64%
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What we are witnessing here is a rather perfunctory conclusion to what was once an inspired burst of creativity.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Scream 3 (2000)39%
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The lack of emotion is glaring!
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)63%
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Never has a film deteriorated so abruptly and so completely.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The 13th Floor (1999)29%
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The new Flintstones movie is bad. Prehistorically bad. Neolithically bad. Bad enough that you should take your youngsters and run in the opposite direction to My Dog Skip.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)25%
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The movie is so crisply done, with such class, that it keeps you engrossed.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Ninth Gate (1999)40%
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Road to El Dorado has some nicely done visuals.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
The Road to El Dorado (2000)46%
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Time Code isn't so much a movie as an experiment in digital filmmaking, and one likely to induce nausea or migraines in the viewer.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Timecode (2000)66%
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"What Dreams May Come" is a like an abstract painting, full of vivid brushstrokes that hint at deeper meaning.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
What Dreams May Come (1998)55%
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It gives new meaning to the overused adage that men are from Mars, women are from Venus.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
What Planet Are You From? (2000)43%
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A heartwarming and sometimes inspirational couple of hours.
Posted Jan 1, 2000
 
Where the Heart Is (2000)35%

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