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About a Boy (2002) |
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"Chris and Paul Weitz talk to Andrea Chase about overcoming the legacy of AMERICAN PIE, the importance of wardrobe, and the controversy of Hugh Grant's hair (streaming audio 20:36)" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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4/5 |
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About Schmidt (2002) |
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"This is Nicholson’s most mature work and along with FIVE EASY PIECES and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST, the one for which he will be best remembered." | |
Andrea Chase | |
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0/5 |
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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
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"it’s got all the warmth and charm of the Bataan Death March" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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5/5 |
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Adaptation (2002) |
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"The irresistibly wicked humor of this film is firmly rooted in despair. We can all relate." | |
Andrea Chase | |
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1/5 |
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Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
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"will, one fervently hopes, put an end to Robert Rodriguez’s foray in children’s films." | |
Andrea Chase | |
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2/5 |
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Against the Ropes (2003) |
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"all the spark and imagination of a mediocre Lifetime Television for Women movie" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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4/5 |
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Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
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"When [Muniz's] Cody gets close to a girl, there is an eager terror on his face and in his body language that hits the adolescence angst nail squarely on the head." | |
Andrea Chase | |
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4/5 |
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Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
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"There's some welcome steel to the story that keeps it from being a fairy tale, but doesn't prevent it from being magical" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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1/5 |
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The Alamo (2004) |
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"The filmmakers have obviously decided to use as their model those educational films. . .that are inflicted on soon to be history-hating students at the middle school level" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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2/5 |
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Alex and Emma (2003) |
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"Luckily, everyone looks fetching in the period garb." | |
Andrea Chase | |
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1/5 |
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Alexander (2004) |
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"This is not so much a film as an amorphous blob that has suffocated the idea of a film somewhere within its vast and gooey structure" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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Alfie (2004) |
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"Charles Shyer interviewed by Andrea Chase" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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4/5 |
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Alfie (2004) |
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"all of Law’s talents are called into play and displayed to exquisite advantage" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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0/5 |
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Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
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"a murky film that looks as though it were shot through several layers of black tulle, where the most frightening thing around is a surfeit of slime" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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0/5 |
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Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
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"a murky film that looks as though it were shot through several layers of black tulle, where the most frightening thing around is a surfeit of slime" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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2/5 |
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All The King's Men (2006) |
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"so swept up in being an important and timely film that it somehow never quite gets around to being either, much less both" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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0/5 |
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Alone in the Dark (2005) |
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"as predictable as watching a bag of microwave popcorn pop and as terrifying as a herd of dust bunnies" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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5/5 |
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Amazing Grace (2007) |
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"an intelligent film about serious thinkers and their ideas, and it's director Michael Apted's spare, incisive vison that prevents the film from becoming either cloying or maudlin, though the screen is painted with emotion" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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4/5 |
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American Dreamz (2006) |
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"takes no prisoners when it comes to making a statement. Smart, pointed, yet fearlessly silly, it might just shift a few paradigms." | |
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American Dreamz (2006) |
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"Paul Weitz talks to Andrea Chase about satire, reality television, and humoring Hugh Grant. (streaming audio 8:04)" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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4/5 |
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American Dreamz (2006) |
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"Weitz has a clear-eyed vision of the zeitgeist and tosses it up on the screen with a deadpan veracity that is as unflinching as it is hilarious" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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4/5 |
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American Experience - Daughter from Danang (2002) |
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Andrea Chase | |
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2/5 |
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An American Haunting (2006) |
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"Despite . . . general bumpings in the night, not to mention several rounds of people getting smacked around by unseen hands, [it's] just a whole lot of nothing going on" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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4/5 |
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An American Rhapsody (2001) |
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Andrea Chase | |
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1/5 |
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The Amityville Horror (2005) |
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"You’d think that in 86 minutes of screen time that the makers of THE AMITYVILLE HORROR’s 2005 incarnation could come up with at least one genuinely scary moment" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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2/5 |
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Analyze That (2002) |
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". . .a pale and languid thing that rarely rises to the level of mildly amusing as characters with essentially nothing to do putter about on screen. . ." | |
Andrea Chase | |
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2/5 |
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) |
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"so many ways to go with something witty, sharp, or just plain fun . . .the filmmakers instead went with pointless, dull, obvious, and sophomoric" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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4/5 |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
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"an unrestrained flight of Gothic fantasy, a romance unafraid and unapologetic in letting its emotions run to a fevered pitch while still maintaining its heart and soul." | |
Andrea Chase | |
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5/5 |
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Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides: Working With Time (2003) |
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Angels in America (2003) |
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"Interview by Andrea Chaswe with James Cromwell" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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3/5 |
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Anger Management (2003) |
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"Adam Sandler continues those first few tentative steps he took with ... PUNCH DRUNK LOVE towards appealing to an audience over the age of eight and other than male." | |
Andrea Chase | |
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1/5 |
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Annapolis (2006) |
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"If the powers behind this pasteboard mockup of a film wanted to remake AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN, why didn't they just go ahead and do that? . . . [I]f they wanted to remake ROCKY, why didn't they just go ahead and do that?" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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3/5 |
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The Ant Bully (2006) |
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"first-rate animation, dizzying action sequences, and masses of imagination, but no real heart" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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5/5 |
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Antwone Fisher (2002) |
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Andrea Chase | |
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2/5 |
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Apocalypto (2006) |
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"[Gibson]is at once vibrant and excessive as he plows along using as his motto that too much is never enough" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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1/5 |
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Appleseed (2004) |
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"So much to work with and all of it tossed in favor of banal platitudes and a star-crossed romance with all the tension of an oil-change and all the gravitas of an Archie comic" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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1/5 |
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Appleseed (2004) |
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"So much to work with and all of it tossed in favor of banal platitudes and a star-crossed romance with all the tension of an oil-change and all the gravitas of an Archie comic" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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3/5 |
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Art School Confidential (2006) |
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"Less satisfying overall than it could have been, it nonetheless boasts a sublime cynicism and just enough of a twinkle in its metaphorical eye to let most of us in on the joke" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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5/5 |
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950) |
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"They don't get more noir than this." | |
Andrea Chase | |
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3/5 |
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Assassination Tango (2003) |
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"When Duvall films the tango, his passion for it is palpable. You can feel the wonder he feels at its emotion and its precision." | |
Andrea Chase | |
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1/5 |
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Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) |
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"we learn two important lessons. One, that remakes fail, and badly, much more often than they succeed. Two, Laurence Fishburne can make even trash like this seem important" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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5/5 |
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The Astronaut Farmer (2007) |
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"challenges the status quo with a gentle but insistent nudge, celebrating personal freedom over the restraints of a big government that answers to no one. It's quintessentially American and quintessentially enchanting" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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1/5 |
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Asylum (2005) |
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"turgid, trite, and painfully puffed-up with its completely delusional sense of self-importance" | |
Andrea Chase | |
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Atonement (2007) |
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"James McAvoy and Joe Wright talk to Andrea Chase about class, sound, received wisdom." | |
Andrea Chase | |
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5/5 |
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Atonement (2007) |
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"As close to perfection as mere mortals can aspire to." | |
Andrea Chase | |
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4/5 |
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Audition (2001) |
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Click here to see the review. | |
Andrea Chase | |
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5/5 |
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The Aviator (2004) |
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". . . sprawling, ambitious, and visually dynamic, echoing the sweeping, mythic quality of its subject. This is a masterpiece." | |
Andrea Chase | |
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