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KEVIN WILLIAMSON
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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5 The Bourne Ultimatum
4.5/5 Ratatouille
4/5 Collateral
3.5/5 Open Water
2.5/4 Stone Angel
3/5 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2.5/5 XXX
2/5 Chronicles of Riddick
1.5/5 S1m0ne
1/5 My Boss's Daughter
0/5 Good Luck Chuck
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5 U2 3D
5/5 The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
5/5 The Bourne Ultimatum
4.5/5 The Visitor
4.5/5 Superbad
4.5/5 Ratatouille
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0/5 Good Luck Chuck
1/5 Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?
1/5 Vantage Point
1/5 National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets
1/5 P.S. I Love You
1/5 Saw IV
1/5 License To Wed
1/5 Rise: Blood Hunter
1/5 Premonition
1/5 Without A Paddle
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1/5
 
"Spurlock approaches the state of the Middle East -- and therefore our world -- with an asinine every-dude-ness that isn't just simple-minded but wincingly self-absorbed."
Posted May 16, 2008
 
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)36%
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2.5/4
 
"Ultimately, though, the story is defined by searing turns from the enjoyably crotchety Burstyn and Horne, who shepherds Hagar from prideful wild child to soul-sapped middle-aged mother."
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Stone Angel (2008)n/a
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2.5/5
 
"As entertaining as a sugar-addled 5-year-old, Speed Racer left me feeling like I'd been in a hit and run with a box of Crayolas."
Posted May 9, 2008
 
Speed Racer (2008)35%
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2/5
 
"None of this is anything we haven't seen countless times before in rom-com land, of course, and it would be giving the filmmakers way too much credit to say they have entertainingly tweaked a winning but cob-webbed formula."
Posted May 9, 2008
 
What Happens in Vegas (2008)29%
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3.5/5
 
"Like the Holocaust survivor who occupies its wounded centre, Jeremy Podeswa's elegant, stern adaptation of Anne Michaels' novel Fugitive Pieces keeps us quietly, intractably, at a distance."
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Fugitive Pieces (2008)60%
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4.5/5
 
"Awards season may still be many months away, but it's not too early to declare both the filmmaker and Jenkins Oscar-worthy."
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
The Visitor (2008)92%
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2/5
 
"What's the difference between a vasectomy and Baby Mama? Baby Mama only lasts 93 minutes."
Posted Apr 25, 2008
 
Baby Mama (2008)61%
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2/5
 
"What a waste. It's easy to see how Kingdom would have benefited from focusing on the interplay between its superstars. At times they're like kung-fu Ernie and Bert (minus the sexual tension)."
Posted Apr 18, 2008
 
The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)62%
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2.5/5
 
"Like so many thrillers with crooked moral backbones, Street Kings glamourizes the very behaviour it's condemning, lest audiences get bored by too much talk and not enough killing."
Posted Apr 11, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)33%
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3/5
 
"As eye-rolling as the premise sounds, and as awful as the trailers make it look, The Ruins is a cut -- or slash, hack and chop, as it were -- above other lowest-common-denominator shockers about victimized vacationers (yes, I mean you, Hostel)."
Posted Apr 7, 2008
 
The Ruins (2008)42%
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2.5/5
 
"Clooney can't quite decide what he wants to make. A retro screwball comedy? A romance? A rough-and-tumble underdogs farce? A parable about how we invent our heroes?"
Posted Apr 4, 2008
 
Leatherheads (2008)53%
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2/5
 
"What happened in Vegas should have stayed in Vegas."
Posted Mar 28, 2008
 
21 (2008)31%
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3/5
 
"Throughout, Green's command of time and place proves unfaltering, carefully unspooling revelations that surprise, enlighten and haunt to the bitter end."
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
Snow Angels (2008)68%
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2/5
 
"It's more disjointed than stirring, more listless than wounding and mostly a misfire -- despite some memorable performances and the fittingly desolate backdrop of Saskatchewan."
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Sleepwalking (2008)16%
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2.5/5
 
"Funny Games may be too skillfully executed and acted to dismiss, but it is also easily despised and certain to be loathed."
Posted Mar 14, 2008
 
Funny Games (2008)49%
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3/5
 
"Thanks to director Mark Palansky's understated direction -- the fantastical trappings never overwhelm the characters -- and especially with the performances of Ricci and McAvoy, it emerges a charming diversion."
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
Penelope (2008)53%
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"After four jock-themed comedies in three years, Semi-Pro -- his latest reiteration of growth-stunted masculinity -- can't help but make you feel it's time he benched the routine."
Posted Feb 29, 2008
 
Semi-Pro (2008)21%
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1/5
 
"The first 15 minutes of Vantage Point are the worst. Then you only have to sit through them seven more times."
Posted Feb 22, 2008
 
Vantage Point (2008)37%
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3/5
 
"While [director McDonagh] proves less skilled at managing a plot-driven narrative, sensational performances from all involved -- Farrell, dangerous and dim, hasn't been this natural in ages -- more than shoulder the burden."
Posted Feb 8, 2008
 
In Bruges (2008)78%
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5/5
 
"U2 3D is no less than an electrifying, immersive marvel of music, showmanship and spectacle."
Posted Jan 25, 2008
 
U2 3D (2008)92%
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2/5
 
"Like any diagnosis, things here can go one of two ways and -- considering the presence of its acting titans -- it's not a stretch to hope the film would traffic in truth, profundity or the slightest ounce of soulfulness."
Posted Dec 26, 2007
 
The Bucket List (2007)40%
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3.5/5
 
"There may be little here we haven't seen before, but rarely has it been executed this expertly."
Posted Dec 26, 2007
 
The Great Debaters (2007)79%
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3/5
 
"For a satire to bite, someone has to draw blood."
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)83%
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1/5
 
"Book of Secrets isn't just outlandish or ludicrous -- these are embraceable qualities -- but stupefying lazy."
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
National Treasure 2 : Book of Secrets (2007)32%
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1/5
 
"A low point in the tear-stained history of sappy, shallow chick drivel."
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
P.S. I Love You (2007)21%
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3/5
 
"I Am Legend may be the umpteenth variation on the post-apocalyptic zombie genre, but, for the first two-thirds, it's nervy and haunting and creepily adroit."
Posted Dec 14, 2007
 
I Am Legend (2007)68%
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3/5
 
"Awkward, a tad loopy but unmistakably engaging."
Posted Dec 7, 2007
 
Walk All Over Me (2007)n/a
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3/5
 
"It's novel, it's amusing and it can't help but peter out in the third act as the screenplay trucks toward a Big Apple showdown between good and evil. By this time, Enchanted is merely coasting on Adams' considerable charm. It's enough."
Posted Nov 21, 2007
 
Enchanted (2007)94%
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4/5
 
"Beowulf is a spellbinder for the senses -- immersive, electrifying, a landmark for techno-fetishist Robert Zemeckis and his throngs of giga-nerd worker drones."
Posted Nov 16, 2007
 
Beowulf (2007)70%
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3/5
 
"It knows what it is and never purports to be anything but efficient and engrossing."
Posted Nov 9, 2007
 
P2 (2007)35%
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2.5/5
 
"Lurches between sappiness and self-consciousness -- resulting in a movie which, for all its charms, fails to convince on either dramatic or whimsical terms."
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
Martian Child (2007)29%
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4/5
 
"One of this year's most accomplished entertainments."
Posted Nov 2, 2007
 
American Gangster (2007)79%
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1/5
 
"Fortunately, amid all the slavishly photographed grotesquery, there's comic relief. It's called the script."
Posted Oct 29, 2007
 
Saw IV (2007)19%
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2/5
 
"Want to know what a gifted actress Cate Blanchett is? Watch her keep a straight face throughout Elizabeth: The Golden Age."
Posted Oct 27, 2007
 
Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)34%
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3.5/5
 
"As scripted and directed by Mike Cahill, King of California reveals itself to be a moving, bemusing gem embellished by standout work from Douglas and the habitually marvellous Evan Rachel Wood."
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
King of California (2007)64%
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2.5/4
 
"A second-rate Trainspotting."
Posted Oct 12, 2007
 
Weirdsville (2007)56%
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2.5/5
 
"Reviewing Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is like critiquing a belch."
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)60%
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3.5/5
 
"A spellbinder of desire, hurt and nerve-rattling betrayal."
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
Lust, Caution (2007)69%
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3.5/5
 
"Ace work from all involved..."
Posted Oct 5, 2007
 
Michael Clayton (2007)91%
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2/5
 
"Johnson, as he's proven before, has all the stuff movie stars do. Well, except a decent script."
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
The Game Plan (2007)27%
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2/5
 
"Never feels much more than a softly-lit, meandering, slightly senile made-for-cable television movie."
Posted Sep 28, 2007
 
Feast of Love (2007)41%
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2.5/5
 
"For much of its scant 96 minutes Mimzy is rudderless in a muddle of metaphysical malarkey and time-travelling science fiction."
Posted Sep 22, 2007
 
The Last Mimzy (2007)54%
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5/5
 
"This is a masterpiece."
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)74%
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2/5
 
"That Sydney White is as tolerable as it is -- you're more likely to gently nod off than storm out of the theatre in a rage -- is due largely to the presence of Amanda Bynes."
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
Sydney White (2007)37%
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0/5
 
"Let me say that I have seen this hump-obsessed raunch-com, but you haven't. And, hopefully, you'll be working to keep it that way."
Posted Sep 21, 2007
 
Good Luck Chuck (2007)3%
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2.5/5
 
"The actors, unquestionably and predictably, are leagues better than the material deserves."
Posted Sep 7, 2007
 
Shoot 'Em Up (2007)67%
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3.5/5
 
"If you don't recognize Samuel L. Jackson at first in Resurrecting the Champ, it may be because the movie is actually good."
Posted Aug 24, 2007
 
Resurrecting the Champ (2007)61%
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2/5
 
"The music in the film is exhilarating, but there isn't enough information about anyone or anything, and the film feels slight overall. And scattered. You'll leave hungry for more."
Posted Aug 17, 2007
 
Gypsy Caravan (2006)85%

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