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"An assured first film."
Posted May 12, 2005
 
Lost (2004)n/a
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"If Wranovics is somewhat too noncommittal in his presentation, he still shows a great eye for detail."
Posted May 12, 2005
 
Up for Grabs (2005)93%
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"Anchored by Eddie Jones’ passionate performance as the trainer dragged from mysterious retirement, the film also benefits from its convincing milieu."
Posted May 5, 2005
 
Fighting Tommy Riley (2005)63%
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"All the shallow, self-absorbed denizens of Malibu seem relieved."
Posted Apr 6, 2005
 
Smile (2005)15%
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"A pleasantly nonsensical roller-coaster ride."
Posted Sep 22, 2004
 
The Forgotten (2004)31%
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"Fails to allow the talented ensemble ... time to develop Sunshine State's fine, Altmanesque ensemble feel, again and again missing the human and leaving cartoons that satisfy only as agitprop."
Posted Sep 15, 2004
 
Silver City (2004)47%
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"It all adds up to pleasantly nonsensical mayhem."
Posted Sep 9, 2004
 
Vlad (2003)n/a
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"Diaz's portrait of Imelda Marcos attempts to get beyond the shoe thing, into the gothic heart of 40 years of Philippine politics."
Posted Aug 19, 2004
 
Imelda (2004)94%
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"Targets 'the decline of ethics ... from the boardroom to the bedroom,' and misses on both fronts."
Posted Jul 28, 2004
 
She Hate Me (2004)20%
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"If Kaena's alternate universe isn't nearly as fully realized as Fantastic Planet's, the 3-D imagery is often gloriously turbocharged."
Posted Jul 8, 2004
 
Kaena: The Prophecy (2004)7%
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"Louis Schwartzberg both surprises and frustrates with this schizophrenic feature debut."
Posted Jun 30, 2004
 
America's Heart and Soul (2004)49%
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"Charms with its scruffy characters and nuanced multiculturalism."
Posted Jun 30, 2004
 
Bought & Sold (2003)n/a
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"Where so many Scorsese wannabes jettison sociology in favor of mayhem, Babaian burrows into the hearts of these first- and second-generation immigrants."
Posted May 12, 2004
 
After Freedom (2004)n/a
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"Surfer farce that chafes like sand in a wetsuit."
Posted May 6, 2004
 
Off the Lip (2004)25%
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"The titular precipitation in Lana's Rain is a manifestation of the badness in the world -- but here, badness is pure Lifetime Channel."
Posted Apr 15, 2004
 
Lana's Rain (2004)22%
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"If first-time writer-director Julian Hernandez lets his knotted narrative get away from him too often, he nevertheless shows a miraculous sense of style for a 31-year-old."
Posted Apr 15, 2004
 
A Thousand Clouds Of Peace (2003)31%
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"Japanese art collective t.o.L. (Tree of Life) have taken the hipster kitsch of Hello Kitty to a delirious extreme."
Posted Mar 31, 2004
 
Tamala 2010 (2003)46%
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"Hickenlooper can't contain Bingenheimer's incredibly generous spirit -- so generous that, while obviously uncomfortable, he lets the director into his most private moments."
Posted Mar 25, 2004
 
The Mayor of the Sunset Strip (2003)88%
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"The filmmakers are once again able to attract comic talent to languish in underwritten villain roles (Peter Boyle), and Scooby Doo still looks more like a bobble-head doll in the rear window of a Gremlin than a dog or a cartoon."
Posted Mar 25, 2004
 
Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)20%
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"Bose deserves credit for the wide-eyed verve of his highly original, if over-the-top, storyline."
Posted Mar 19, 2004
 
Everybody Says I'm Fine (2006)47%
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"This earnest, shoestring indie that makes use of some sharp location shooting and sympathetic performances to rise above its often awkward staging and writing."
Posted Mar 18, 2004
 
The Gatekeeper (2002)50%
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"The first Cody Banks worked by playing on the immense gap between secret-agent sophistication and hormonal teenage awkwardness; volume 2 never finds a similar conceit to milk."
Posted Mar 11, 2004
 
Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)12%
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"Some critics are touting Korea as the new Hong Kong, but Baek never gets out from under his H.K. precedents."
Posted Feb 26, 2004
 
Tube (2003)n/a
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"If the plot comes off more like a reworking of Scorsese's tales of Italian-American mobsters, Boursinhac nevertheless shows a sure hand with his story."
Posted Feb 11, 2004
 
La Mentale: The Code (2004)33%
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"A parade of missed opportunities."
Posted Feb 5, 2004
 
Catch That Kid (2004)11%
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"Too smart for a mindless actioneer, and too slick to capture the full moral weight of Dick's dystopia."
Posted Dec 23, 2003
 
Paycheck (2003)28%
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"Nobody here, especially Martin, looks as if he's having much fun, apart from a dizzy cameo by Ashton Kutcher."
Posted Dec 23, 2003
 
Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)23%
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"The 26-year-old Argentine director Diego Lerman shows a sure hand in his debut, from his contrasty black-and-white compositions to his sly, jumpy edits, reminiscent of Godard."
Posted Oct 30, 2003
 
Suddenly (2003)95%
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"The film is naive in its glorification of violence and vengeance."
Posted Sep 24, 2003
 
Blue Hill Avenue (2001)n/a
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"All the fine cinematography can't hide the sad fact that the second half of the film delivers none of the shocks and starts required of atmospheric horror."
Posted Sep 11, 2003
 
The Order (2003)7%
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"A meditation on what we are left with when life has let us down, played out in the haunted eyes of Jean Gabin."
Posted Sep 4, 2003
 
Touchez Pas Au Grisbi (1953)100%
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"Eric Eason's assured debut succeeds in the way Larry Clark's Kids succeeded -- through a feel for the rhythms of street life, and some extraordinary casting."
Posted Jun 12, 2003
 
Manito (2003)94%
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"Daddy Day Care feels like a movie cribbed together from outtakes of other hapless Hollywood comedies."
Posted May 8, 2003
 
Daddy Day Care (2003)28%
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"Camel-fart jokes, 'local color' dialogue from those Paul Hogan Qantas ads, computer-generated flora and fauna, and a criminal waste of the talented Anderson."
Posted Jan 16, 2003
 
Kangaroo Jack (2003)8%
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"Never amounts to more than a glossy comic book."
Posted Jan 3, 2003
 
The Bank (2002)59%
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"It's doubtful the 'tweens' they're aiming at here still embrace Disney, and little kids don't care about back story."
Posted Nov 27, 2002
 
Treasure Planet (2002)71%
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Posted Nov 14, 2002
 
Interview with the Assassin (2002)66%
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"If all this sounds impossibly turgid, it is."
Posted Nov 14, 2002
 
Ararat (2002)58%
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"While the film is not entirely successful, it still manages to string together enough charming moments to work."
Posted Oct 31, 2002
 
The Santa Clause 2 (2002)55%

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