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KEVIN MAYNARD
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" A romantic comedy that's thinner than a copy of Bop magazine and proves, once again -- see Carey, Mariah -- that the transition from pop star to thespian is no easy leap to make."
Posted Oct 25, 2001
 
On the Line (2001)18%
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" By-the-numbers, ailment-of-the-week fodder dressed up with a classy cast."
Posted Oct 25, 2001
 
Life as a House (2001)46%
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" Arty lighting and shadows can't compensate for a plodding script and shallow characters."
Posted Oct 18, 2001
 
Focus (2001)56%
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2/5
 
" Disturbing and disjointed."
Posted Oct 15, 2001
 
Fat Girl (2001)72%
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" Lock these desperadoes up and throw away the key."
Posted Oct 11, 2001
 
Bandits (2001)63%
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" Frankly, there wouldn't have been enough shtick here to warrant an SNL skit."
Posted Oct 11, 2001
 
Corky Romano (2001)5%
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" A pretty minor affair, an outdated Aussie About Last Night."
Posted Oct 11, 2001
 
Better Than Sex (2001)47%
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" Turns into an overextended intellectual conceit when it ought to be simply sophisticated fun."
Posted Oct 11, 2001
 
Va Savoir (2001)85%
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2/5
 
" The movie's too mellow cool for its own good."
Posted Oct 5, 2001
 
Grateful Dawg (2001)70%
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" Nothing more than one more run-of- the-mill, surprise-free, suspense programmer."
Posted Sep 27, 2001
 
Don't Say a Word (2001)23%
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" Only diehard Mariah fans, 11-year-old girls, or anyone truly desperate to escape last week's terror might find some reason to sit through this bland, bloated, self-addressed valentine."
Posted Sep 20, 2001
 
Glitter (2001)6%
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2/5
 
" Badly employing all kinds of tricks ... [Lustig] ultimately overpowers her actors and does in her own film."
Posted Sep 17, 2001
 
Kill Me Later (2001)25%
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2/5
 
" Both an ode to the passion of Spanish flamenco dancing and a polemic about the transitory state of the gypsy people it sprang from, Vengo doesn't succeed as either."
Posted Sep 17, 2001
 
Vengo (2001)62%
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" A stinky wedge of domestic thriller cheese."
Posted Sep 13, 2001
 
The Glass House (2001)21%
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" There's more drama in one episode of VH1's Behind the Music, more irony in This Is Spinal Tap, and more reality in The Decline of Western Civilization Part II."
Posted Sep 6, 2001
 
Rock Star (2001)52%
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" Hard to watch -- not because of its unflinching realism, but rather for its mawkish reliance on every boy hooker flick from Midnight Cowboy to Johns."
Posted Sep 6, 2001
 
Speedway Junky (2001)33%
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" More about good intentions than great drama."
Posted Aug 30, 2001
 
O (2001)63%
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" Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is less a satire of the crass product Hollywood hurls at us than a reflection of it."
Posted Aug 24, 2001
 
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)53%
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" It takes a special kind of stinker to turn an up-and-comer with the wily presence of a young Steve McQueen into a tousle-haired action figure."
Posted Aug 16, 2001
 
American Outlaws (2001)13%
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" Its emotional sweep is ultimately undercut by murky characterizations and generic plotting."
Posted Aug 9, 2001
 
An American Rhapsody (2001)53%
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" Suffers from schizophrenia."
Posted Aug 9, 2001
 
Osmosis Jones (2001)53%
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" The more we realize that we're stuck in the company of a totally relentless loser, the drearier the entire experience becomes."
Posted Jul 26, 2001
 
Jackpot (2001)29%
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" It's dull, two-dimensional, and totally toothless."
Posted Jul 19, 2001
 
America's Sweethearts (2001)31%
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" There's nothing shocking anymore about [Clark's] zit-pocked brand of titillation."
Posted Jul 12, 2001
 
Bully (2001)52%
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" Overloaded with calculated stand-up-and-cheer moments, and there are far too many close-ups of Elle's cuddly Chihuahua."
Posted Jul 12, 2001
 
Legally Blonde (2001)68%
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" Monotonous and mangy."
Posted Jul 3, 2001
 
Cats & Dogs (2001)54%
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" The Closet has a blithe tone and a capable cast, but Veber's script is 100 percent laugh-free."
Posted Jun 28, 2001
 
The Closet (2001)87%
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" A preachy, monotonous failure."
Posted Jun 26, 2001
 
Baby Boy (2001)69%
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" Don't pack up your PC -- Tomb Raider the movie has nothing over its electronic counterpart."
Posted Jun 14, 2001
 
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)19%
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" Evolution doesn't deserve to spawn sequels."
Posted Jun 7, 2001
 
Evolution (2001)40%
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" Slow as a funeral dirge, the movie's all talk about art and passion and obsession without anything to show for it."
Posted Jun 7, 2001
 
Bride of the Wind (2001)10%
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" A pallid character drama that glosses over any interesting political or moral questions."
Posted May 25, 2001
 
The Man Who Cried (2001)35%
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" The backdrop of exotic pagodas and wartime woe isn't nearly potent enough to buoy the feeble drama that plays out in the foreground."
Posted May 17, 2001
 
Pavilion of Women (2001)6%
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" There's no real sense of tragedy when these lost souls begin to drop dead in their eleventh hour -- just more pain and suffering for an already strongly unsympathetic group."
Posted May 11, 2001
 
The King is Alive (2001)60%
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" Every scene is designed to cram in a motley combination of stars and send them flailing about screaming in lieu of any plot or character development."
Posted Apr 26, 2001
 
Town and Country (2001)13%
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" You're not likely to get much of a rise out of The Center of the World."
Posted Apr 19, 2001
 
The Center of the World (2001)33%
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" The script ... loses sight of the book's breezy wit and stacks up implausibilities as high as Bridget's half-eaten boxes of Cadbury's Milk Tray."
Posted Apr 12, 2001
 
Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)80%
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" One more attempt to pass off chopped liver as foie gras."
Posted Apr 5, 2001
 
Just Visiting (2001)33%
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" There's nothing else about Someone Like You to separate it from the herd."
Posted Mar 29, 2001
 
Someone Like You (2001)41%
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" Deserves to be applauded for not casting Freddie Prinze Jr., but this sloppy, somnolent, strung-together flick pales when compared to such other teenage riffs on classic literature as Clueless and 10 Things I Hate About You."
Posted Mar 9, 2001
 
Get Over It (2001)44%
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" The film comes off as little more than a contrived composite, despite the best efforts of pros Rickman, Richardson, and Griffiths."
Posted Mar 8, 2001
 
Blow Dry (2001)19%
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" Livingston and Cohen opt for mawkish formula in their third act."
Posted Mar 2, 2001
 
Hit and Runway (2001)33%
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28/100
 
" Spliced in are some really cheap animation segments and monotonous techno analog music, along with, alas, only the merest flashes of Dick's self-deprecating wit."
Posted Mar 1, 2001
 
The Gospel According to Philip K. Dick (2001)21%
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20/100
 
" Pretentious neo-Gothic hokum with yawning gaps in logic and credibility."
Posted Mar 1, 2001
 
The Caveman's Valentine (2001)44%
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63/100
 
" The Price of Milk is one of the oddest offerings of the season — albeit in a welcome way — but its creamy serendipity is a bit too thick to swallow."
Posted Feb 16, 2001
 
The Price of Milk (2001)49%
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30/100
 
" What keeps it (barely) from being completely intolerable is Keanu Reeves' hilariously awful lead performance."
Posted Feb 15, 2001
 
Sweet November (2001)16%
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60/100
 
" An exercise in whimsy."
Posted Feb 9, 2001
 
The Million Dollar Hotel (2001)24%
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50/100
 
" Hannibal is Godfather III-level slumming."
Posted Feb 8, 2001
 
Hannibal (2001)38%
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35/100
 
" Not even a giddy wrap-up featuring Diamond himself can atone for the dreck that's come before it."
Posted Feb 8, 2001
 
Saving Silverman (2001)17%
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" Transparently misogynist at its core."
Posted Feb 2, 2001
 
Maléna (2000)55%

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