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3/4 |
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A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
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"There's always something eye-catching on view." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3/5 |
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) |
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No article available. | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3/4 |
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About a Boy (2002) |
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"A thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses Grant's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3.5/4 |
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Across the Universe (2007) |
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"A magical mystery tour with the power to restore one's faith in both movies and music." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3/4 |
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Adaptation (2002) |
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"This loopy comedy certainly scores points for originality -- or at least until it writes itself into a corner during the final half-hour." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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1.5/4 |
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Aeon Flux (2005) |
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"An impersonal slab of sci-fi sameness, Aeon Flux wears its lethargy like a badge of honor." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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2/4 |
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After the Sunset (2004) |
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"Beyond the eye candy represented by the stars and their sun-soaked surroundings, there's little else that's memorable about this disposable tissue of a movie." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3/4 |
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After The Wedding (2007) |
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"Initially threatening to turn into the most shameless of melodramas, it instead builds upon its rickety foundation with such dexterity and grace that it eventually emerges as a deeply moving experience." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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1.5/4 |
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Against the Ropes (2003) |
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"Against the Ropes ... is "inspired" by Kallen's life but ultimately has as much to do with her story as Schindler's List did with the War of 1812." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3/4 |
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Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
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"What sets the film apart is the manner in which it details how Akeelah's triumphs end up lifting the entire community." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3/4 |
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Aladdin (1992) |
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"The humor quotient is high, thanks to such scene-stealers as the duplicitous parrot Iago, the mischievous monkey Abu and, of course, Robin Williams' motormouth Genie." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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1.5/4 |
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The Alamo (2004) |
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"The equivalent of one long drone from a stiff Social Studies teacher who can scarcely be bothered to add any sort of relevance to the topic." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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1/4 |
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Alexander (2004) |
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"This movie is unremittingly dull, visually unappealing, narratively muddled, inadvertently campy, wretchedly performed -- and that's just for starters." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3/4 |
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Alfie (2004) |
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"The key to this movie's success rests in the central performance by Jude Law -- this easily represents his best acting to date." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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4/4 |
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All About Eve (1950) |
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"My all-time favorite film." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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4/4 |
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All in the Family - The Complete Second Season (1971-72) |
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"The second season features many of the series' most enduring episodes, including the immortal show in which Sammy Davis Jr. visits the Bunker residence." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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1/4 |
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All The King's Men (2006) |
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"An unmitigated disaster, choked by miscast actors, suffocated by illogical editing and drowned by a choppy script that offers no real sense of period and no clear delineation of its central themes." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3.5/4 |
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All the Real Girls (2003) |
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"There's something about the simplicity and directness of the relationship in All the Real Girls that truly touches the heart." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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2.5/4 |
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Along Came Polly (2004) |
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"Two factors save this from being a disaster." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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1/4 |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
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"Desperately conceived on every level, this forlorn family film amounts to little more than celluloid roadkill." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3/4 |
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Amazing Grace (2007) |
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"Perhaps more Masterpiece Theatre than motion picture, Amazing Grace nevertheless tells a story that's compelling enough to compensate for the occasional stuffiness." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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2/4 |
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American Dreamz (2006) |
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"This isn't a black comedy -- it's more like a whiter shade of pale." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3/4 |
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American Gangster (2007) |
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"For all its familiar trappings, director Ridley Scott and writer Steven Zaillian invest their tale with plenty of verve, even if they frequently soft-pedal the deeds of their real-life protagonist." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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1/4 |
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The Amityville Horror (2005) |
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"I've seen episodes of Sesame Street that were more frightening than this generic junk." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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1.5/4 |
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) |
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"Aimed squarely at the open-mouth-breathers who turned Dumb and Dumber and Big Daddy into hits." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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2.5/4 |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
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"A pleasant diversion, but it still runs behind Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera and Claude Rains' The Phantom of the Opera." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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4/5 |
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Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) |
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Matt Brunson | |
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3/4 |
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Anger Management (2003) |
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"Both last fall's Punch-Drunk Love and now Anger Management demonstrate that Sandler can be an engaging presence when he drags himself away from projects aimed at mentally deficient frat boys." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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1.5/4 |
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The Ant Bully (2006) |
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"The only thing it inspired in me was a sudden urge to spray the screen with Raid." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3/4 |
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Anything Else (2003) |
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"Part of the appeal is that the creep-out factor has been excised -- namely, Allen's tendency to cast himself as elderly nebbishes who prove to be irresistible to young women." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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2/4 |
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Apocalypto (2006) |
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"Gibson isn't interested in educating either us or himself ... [and] the switch to pure action allows him to indulge in his by-now predictable sadism." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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1.5/4 |
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Around the Bend (2004) |
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"Given the plotline, how about a KFC promotion in which their chicken is sold in a bucket that's shaped like an urn?" | |
Matt Brunson | |
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1.5/4 |
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Around the World in 80 Days (2004) |
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"Everything about this production seems tired." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3/4 |
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Art School Confidential (2006) |
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"Starts out as a great movie that eventually devolves into a pretty good one." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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2.5/4 |
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Ask the Dust (2005) |
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"Difficult to swallow are the heavy-handed narrative developments that dominate the film's second half." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3.5/4 |
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
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"Hardly a straight shoot-em-up, it instead serves as a commentary on the manner in which Western fact morphed into Western myth even as the ink was still drying on that particular time in American history." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3/4 |
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The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) |
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"Sean Penn's reputation often exceeds his actual accomplishments (an Oscar for Mystic River? Please...), yet here's the actor delivering one of his finest performances." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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2/4 |
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Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) |
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"Expect no surprises from yet another needless remake." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3/4 |
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Atonement (2007) |
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"It's a shame that the denouement doesn't completely provide us with the emotional catharsis we require." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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2.5/4 |
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August Rush (2007) |
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"That Robin Williams' character turns out to be a controlling bully is one of the picture's few surprises; everything else falls neatly into place, thanks to a script that needs about 128 coincidences to retain its forward momentum." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3/4 |
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Auto Focus (2002) |
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"A distant, even sterile, yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3.5/4 |
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The Aviator (2004) |
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"A stirring tale about a man whose drive allowed him to climb ever higher, grazing the heavens before his demons seized the controls and forced the inevitable, dreary descent." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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2/5 |
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Awakenings (1990) |
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No article available. | |
Matt Brunson | |
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3.5/4 |
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Away From Her (2007) |
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"Portrays the ravages of [Alzheimer's] with clear-eyed honesty, tracking not only the effects on its victims but also on the caretakers who provide support even as their loved ones are fading away right before their eyes." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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4/4 |
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The Awful Truth (1937) |
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"Cary Grant ... delivers one of the greatest comic performances we'll ever have the pleasure of witnessing." | |
Matt Brunson | |
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