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CHAUNCEY MABE
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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Total Reviews: 22


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" It would be impossible for any director to jam that much story into a 2 hour and 18 minute picture, but the elisions favored by Yates and screenwriter Michael Goldenberg are particularly unfortunate."
Posted Jul 10, 2007
 
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)77%
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1/4
 
" For those who love the fantasy genre known as sword and sorcery -- and I count myself in their number -- sitting through the movie version of Eragon will suck the will to live right out of you."
Posted Dec 14, 2006
 
Eragon (2006)15%
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2/4
 
" An impossible-to-follow story crammed full of cursed women, wily bloodsuckers, Highlander-style warriors, vortexes of crows, incoherent fight scenes, and more music-video-inspired action than any one movie can comfortably contain."
Posted Feb 23, 2006
 
Night Watch (2005)58%
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3.5/4
 
" As Harry, Ron and Hermione enter the awkward stage, the young people portraying them -- Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson -- grow ever more confident as professional actors."
Posted Nov 17, 2005
 
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)89%
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1/4
 
" The heart and soul of Foer's novel are sacrificed in the process. By trucking in broad Holocaust clichés, Schreiber repudiates his more nuanced source material."
Posted Sep 29, 2005
 
Everything is Illuminated (2005)67%
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1/4
 
" The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy does prove there's nothing more painful than antic comedy that isn't really funny."
Posted Apr 28, 2005
 
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)60%
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4/4
 
" Really, there will be no reason for anyone to make a comic-book movie ever again. Miller and Rodriguez have pushed the form as far as it can possibly go."
Posted Mar 31, 2005
 
Sin City (2005)77%
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2.5/4
 
" The brow may be low, but it's perfectly manicured: Grade A production values abound, as does superior kung fu choreography."
Posted Dec 8, 2004
 
Blade: Trinity (2004)27%
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3/4
 
" Lovers of Waugh should be generally satisfied by the clever wordplay, inventive madcap situations, and, most of all, by the profoundly conservative message that the frivolous society elites sober up only when confronted with a disaster."
Posted Sep 16, 2004
 
Bright Young Things (2004)65%
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3.5/4
 
" [Nair] has achieved a near-miracle of literary transmutation, taking a supremely rich, complicated and clear-eyed 19th century novel and turning it into a coherent and highly entertaining movie."
Posted Sep 1, 2004
 
Vanity Fair (2004)50%
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2/4
 
" King Arthur is another big, expensive opportunity inexplicably wasted by an army of extremely talented movie people."
Posted Jul 6, 2004
 
King Arthur (2004)31%
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2.5/4
 
" A crackerjack B-movie sci-fi adventure."
Posted Jun 10, 2004
 
Chronicles of Riddick (2004)30%
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3.5/4
 
" Almost everything about this movie looks and feels right."
Posted Jun 3, 2004
 
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)89%
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1/4
 
" A travelogue pretending to be a movie."
Posted Jan 29, 2004
 
The Big Bounce (2004)16%
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4/4
 
" A grand, richly achieved fantasy epic that exalts such previously uncool virtues as honor, loyalty, self-sacrifice and chivalry."
Posted Dec 15, 2003
 
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)94%
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3/4
 
" Runaway Jury may curdle into sentimental message-mongering in the closing minutes, but up to then it's a pungent potboiler cooked just so by skilled professionals."
Posted Oct 17, 2003
 
Runaway Jury (2003)72%
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3.5/4
 
" The grandest spectacle since David Lean hung up his light meter."
Posted Dec 17, 2002
 
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)96%
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3/4
 
" Red Dragon restores to Hannibal the dignity of pitiless evil that so terrified and enthralled us in Silence of the Lambs."
Posted Oct 4, 2002
 
Red Dragon (2002)68%
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3.5/4
 
" Together, Williams and Romanek have made a stalker thriller that's as much in sympathy with the loneliness and alienation of the putative villain as it is with the jeopardy of his potential victims."
Posted Aug 30, 2002
 
One Hour Photo (2002)81%
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3/4
 
" That avalanche, which Diesel's character causes on purpose, is one of the most impressive action sequences I've ever seen."
Posted Aug 8, 2002
 
XXX (2002)47%
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2/4
 
" The movie makes absolutely no sense. Its underlying mythology is a hodgepodge of inconsistencies that pose the question: Since when did dumb entertainment have to be this dumb?"
Posted Jul 12, 2002
 
Reign of Fire (2002)40%
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2/4
 
" Too much worn-out shtick, too little detail and way too little Dave Barry."
Posted Apr 5, 2002
 
Big Trouble (2002)49%

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