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BRETT BUCKALEW
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" In the early scenes of the two lovers discovering each other's bodies and personal quirks, Coixet coaxes work from Kingsley and Cruz that is remarkably intimate." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Aug 8, 2008
 
Elegy (2008)74%
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Posted Jun 24, 2008
 
Crazy Love (2007)78%
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Posted Jun 24, 2008
 
Black Book (2007)76%
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" The best movie of the year so far by a wide mile." -- FilmStew.com
Posted May 12, 2008
 
The Fall (2008)58%
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" The journey has its charms, but the destination calls to mind Peggy Lee's "Is That All There Is?" " -- FilmStew.com
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)70%
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" Much of Stop-Loss' first act feels like the cast of Hee-Haw auditioning for a Best Years of Our Lives remake. " -- FilmStew.com
Posted Mar 31, 2008
 
Stop-Loss (2008)65%
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" A mildly engaging holiday season diversion that will evaporate from many viewers’ memories at a speed so rapid it may put Santa’s sleigh to shame." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Dec 21, 2007
 
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)83%
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" Reminiscent of the fiction of Kurt Vonnegut, with its mix of sci-fi mythology, absurdist humor and political outrage. " -- FilmStew.com
Posted Nov 14, 2007
 
Southland Tales (2007)34%
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" Treats sex slavery with roughly the same amount of tact and complexity with which the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Hard Target treated homelessness." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Oct 2, 2007
 
Trade (2007)27%
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" Next spurs unintended laughs." -- Metromix.com
Posted Sep 29, 2007
 
Next (2007)29%
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" In its nakedly revealed tremors of fear and insecurity, Affleck's tour de force is reminiscent of the similarly raw work of the late, great John Cazale." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Sep 20, 2007
 
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)75%
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" Roman Polanski has a confounding two-scene cameo as a customs official who gives Carter and Lee a full cavity search. (Har har.)" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Aug 10, 2007
 
Rush Hour 3 (2007)20%
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" Doesn’t quite keep up with the grand showmanship and emotional complexity of the performance at its center, but has a few impressive tricks up its sleeve." -- Metromix.com
Posted Jun 15, 2007
 
La Vie En Rose (2007)75%
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" You leave the theatre feeling like you’re walking on air. And isn’t that all you can ask of any musical?" -- Metromix.com
Posted May 24, 2007
 
Once (2007)97%
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" Luc Besson's characteristic flair for visual expression here manifests itself in the most subdued way imaginable." -- FilmStew.com
Posted May 22, 2007
 
Angel-A (2007)43%
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" Alexander Payne strikes the same balance of snarky humor and sneaky empathy that has made his body of work so distinct in contemporary American cinema." -- FilmStew.com
Posted May 22, 2007
 
Paris, Je T'aime (2007)85%
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" All but the most die-hard Texas Hold 'Em fans will be fighting the urge to snooze." -- Metromix.com
Posted May 3, 2007
 
Lucky You (2007)28%
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" Only slightly less clumsy overall than Against the Ropes, but at least it plays to co-star Meg Ryan’s ability to suggest volumes of repressed emotion." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Apr 24, 2007
 
In the Land of Women (2007)43%
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" The smart conclusion contains a pair of twists that are actually plausible (rare these days), and, all in all, Fracture is supremely solid stuff." -- Metromix.com
Posted Apr 20, 2007
 
Fracture (2007)71%
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" Like those gleeful, inner-child-pleasing pulp-horror rides that Steven Spielberg and Joe Dante perfected a couple decades ago." -- Metromix.com
Posted Apr 13, 2007
 
Disturbia (2007)67%
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" Gary is the kind of guy who can actually score with the pick-up line, ‘Damn! And I thought I was good-looking!’" -- Metromix.com
Posted Mar 30, 2007
 
The Lookout (2007)87%
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" Roger Waters' song is ultimately the work of a sell-out desperately trying to sound like a profound hippie prophet. As it happens, so is The Last Mimzy." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Mar 26, 2007
 
The Last Mimzy (2007)53%
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" Not a fully great film, but damn near close; witty, charming, and ultimately rather touching." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Mar 3, 2007
 
Avenue Montaigne (2007)74%
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" The titular novel is written by an anonymous scribe who goes by the moniker Topsy Kretts (Get it? Like “Top Secrets”? Yeah, I didn’t laugh either.)" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Feb 23, 2007
 
The Number 23 (2007)8%
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" If it was Brad Pitt carrying the coffee and Halle Berry saying she’s not serious about him to a buddy, this movie would make over $100 million." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Jan 25, 2007
 
Catch and Release (2007)22%
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" A sublime visionary achievement that not only outdoes Cuarón’s previous high-water mark, Y Tu Mamá También, but also manages to rank with other dystopian masterworks." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Jan 3, 2007
 
Children of Men (2006)92%
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" In making the leap this holiday season from a Dame to a Broad, Judi Dench has chosen to apply her inestimable talents to a tried and true fork in the thespian road." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Dec 28, 2006
 
Notes on a Scandal (2006)87%
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" While Stallone is appropriately fiery in key scenes, it’s his way with the character’s tossed-off pearls of wisdom and one-liners that makes him especially endearing." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Dec 20, 2006
 
Rocky Balboa (2006)76%
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" The idea of a Very Important Drama featuring rapper 50 Cent and vapid TV starlet Jessica Biel in major roles seems more like a gag straight out of Get Shorty." -- Metromix.com
Posted Dec 15, 2006
 
Home of the Brave (2006)23%
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" There’s good news for Jude Law fans. With The Holiday, the actor has taken a sad career song and started to make it better." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Dec 8, 2006
 
The Holiday (2006)48%
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" Ledger’s first film since the one-two punch of Brokeback and Casanova reinforces the almost always accurate admonition “Just say no to drug addiction films.”" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Dec 7, 2006
 
Candy (2006)50%
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" On screen, Gibson was a Lethal purveyor of hot dogging lunacy. Behind the camera, he has now subverted that Riggs energy more masterfully than ever before." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Dec 7, 2006
 
Apocalypto (2006)65%
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" The closest mirror image of Republican Mark Foley is Mr. Hector, an unconventional educator with a fondness for groping his students’ while giving them motorcycle rides." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Nov 22, 2006
 
The History Boys (2006)63%
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" While fans of the HBO-born duo are already giving this a Thunderous “A,” for the rest of us it’s ultimately a Tendencious “B.”" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Nov 21, 2006
 
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006)53%
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" Will Ferrell is a more than worthy heir to Lemmon, Hanks, Brazil’s Jonathan Pryce and Something Wild’s Jeff Daniels." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Nov 10, 2006
 
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)73%
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" Like Memento, Nolan's Prestige is an ever-shifting hall of mirrors so masterfully executed that its emotional hollowness actually manages to be beside the point." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Oct 20, 2006
 
The Prestige (2006)75%
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" An easy film to admire, but an impossible one to love." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Oct 20, 2006
 
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)73%
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" Terry Gilliam’s first collaboration with Jeff Bridges yielded The Fisher King. This time around, it amounts to something a whole lot fishier." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Oct 18, 2006
 
Tideland (2006)28%
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" Daniel Craig's performance is of young-Brando intensity, and a Supporting Actor nomination would be this movie’s most credible shot at duplicating Capote’s Oscar glory." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Oct 13, 2006
 
Infamous (2006)71%
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" Even though it's only two-thirds of a solid comedy, it doesn’t take a high-priced pollster to figure out that this is a far better ratio than a lot of other recent yukfests." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Oct 12, 2006
 
Man of the Year (2006)20%
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" The laughs here are so big - I’m talking doubled-over, fall-out-of-your-seat big - that they are meant to be shared in a theatre full of similarly helpless viewers." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Sep 24, 2006
 
Jackass: Number Two (2006)61%
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" Stranger still, the usually brilliant Mark Ruffalo is spacey and awkward, as if the marijuana-addled scientist he played in Eternal Sunshine has taken over the role." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Sep 21, 2006
 
All The King's Men (2006)11%
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" We’re supposed to scratch our chins and ponder the faux wisdom of lines of dialogue like, “relationships: they either work or they don’t.” Who knew?" -- FilmStew.com
Posted Sep 15, 2006
 
The Last Kiss (2006)46%
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" Imbues tried-and-true movie musical archetypes with sly but never campy contemporary flourishes, in a way that would make Baz Luhrmann proud." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Aug 25, 2006
 
Idlewild (2006)48%
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" Captures, with both accuracy and fleeting optimism, those domestic arguments that end in either irritataed silence or half-hearted, good-enough-for-now reconciliation." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Aug 24, 2006
 
Trust the Man (2006)27%
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" A braver, more female-empowering movie would have Molly come to her senses and realize that Dupree, hygiene and career problems aside, is twice the catch that Carl is." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Jul 14, 2006
 
You, Me and Dupree (2006)22%
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" Hilarious digressions like these are bound to induce chuckles even among viewers who, as Bill Clinton would say, have never inhaled." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Jul 7, 2006
 
A Scanner Darkly (2006)67%
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" Less interested in reinventing the non-fiction wheel than in providing a rousing, addictively brainy good time." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Jun 20, 2006
 
Wordplay (2006)95%
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" Creating hermetic worlds in a manner so reminiscent of Wes Anderson that the Rushmore auteur should consider suing, Hess shows little affection for his characters." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Jun 15, 2006
 
Nacho Libre (2006)39%
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" Each film throws two or three okay action scenes into an otherwise wobbly blend of macho posturing, philosophically windy chitchat and moldy archetypes." -- FilmStew.com
Posted Jun 15, 2006
 
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006)34%

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