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2/4 |
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A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
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"A very talky and curiously uninvolving film." | |
David Hiltbrand | |
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2/4 |
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A Tout de Suite (2005) |
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2.5/4 |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
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"Involving and exasperating, stressing that the desired fusion of two spirits could, in this case at least, generate only friction." | |
Desmond Ryan | |
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3/4 |
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ABCD (2001) |
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"An involving study of sibling and interpersonal relationships." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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3.5/4 |
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Aberdeen (2001) |
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"A little European indie pic that digs down to the roots of its characters, describing people's lives and relationships in ways that resonate with clarity and heart." | |
Steven Rea | |
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3.5/4 |
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About a Boy (2002) |
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"Fans of the Hornby book should be pleased by the Weitzes' smart, faithful translation." | |
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About Adam (2001) |
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"For his part Townsend does Adam with a lightness of touch that fits in with the film's cheery view of his unscrupulousness." | |
Desmond Ryan | |
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About Schmidt (2002) |
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"A quiet, heart-rending masterpiece, one with an actor's turn that people will remember, and rediscover, eons into the future." | |
Steven Rea | |
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2/4 |
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Accepted (2006) |
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"Too bad what begins as a cheerfully irreverent comedy in the tradition of Animal House gets all pious when it slams fraternity culture at neighboring Harmon College." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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2.5/4 |
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Across the Universe (2007) |
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"Sometimes it works brilliantly, other times (masked dancers gyrating on ocean waves -- ick!) you just want to run." | |
Steven Rea | |
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2/4 |
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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
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"It leaves no bodily fluid unexpressed, no heartstring unplucked." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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3.5/4 |
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Adaptation (2002) |
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"Reverberates on so many levels, comic and cosmic, that it is as trippy fun to think about as it is to watch." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland (1999) |
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"Older kids weaned on Sesame Street might get a kick of nostalgia at the sight of Big Bird, Maria, the Count and all." | |
Steven Rea | |
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3/4 |
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The Adventures of Felix (2001) |
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"Poignant, funny and clear-eyed about some tough topics: homophobia, racism, AIDS." | |
Steven Rea | |
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2/4 |
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Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
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1/4 |
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Aeon Flux (2005) |
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"We know it's the future because everyone has the most ridiculous hairdos." | |
David Hiltbrand | |
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2/4 |
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The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
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"Shyer's film denies us the double dip of vice and virtue. It's moralistic." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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3/4 |
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After Innocence (2005) |
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"In her clear and compelling film, Sanders lets the innocents do the talking." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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1.5/4 |
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After the Sunset (2004) |
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"After the Sunset is the kind of glossy, Hollywood-forged waste of time that would depress even the most happily lackadaisical retiree." | |
Steven Rea | |
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1.5/4 |
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Against the Ropes (2003) |
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"A riotously awful biopic rife with stereotypes and boxing movie cliches." | |
Steven Rea | |
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1/4 |
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Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
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"A listless, tween James Bond wannabe." | |
Karen Heller | |
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2/4 |
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
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"Muniz is quite winning as a plucky teen who is constantly being thrown into situations over his head. But the usually reliable Anthony Anderson e-mails in his performance as Cody's handler." | |
David Hiltbrand | |
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3/4 |
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Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
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"Palmer soars, carrying writer/director Doug Atchison's film on new 'tween wings." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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2.5/4 |
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The Alamo (2004) |
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"Except for a handful of scenes, Hancock's film isn't good enough to be memorable." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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1/4 |
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Alex and Emma (2003) |
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"Silly slice of Lean Cuisine." | |
Karen Heller | |
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2.5/4 |
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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) |
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"Taken for what it is -- 'tweenage escapism -- Stormbreaker is moderately fun." | |
Steven Rea | |
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1/4 |
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Alexander (2004) |
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"So misconceived, so shrill, so fetishy is Oliver Stone's epic, so unintentionally hilarious a stew of paganism and Freudianism, that it makes Conan the Barbarian look like Gladiator." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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2/4 |
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Alfie (2004) |
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"The movie feels creaky and anachronistic." | |
Steven Rea | |
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3/4 |
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Ali (2001) |
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"Here Smith is not the gangly charmer beloved by his fans, but a solid mountain of a man." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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1.5/4 |
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Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
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"Anderson ... seems so pleased with the fact that he came up with a thinly plausible pretext for this clash of the popcorn titans that he didn't bother to develop the characters or fashion a plot with any suspense." | |
David Hiltbrand | |
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3/4 |
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Aliens of the Deep (2005) |
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"The experience is so immediate and immersive that you actually feel as if you are swimming with the krill." | |
David Hiltbrand | |
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1.5/4 |
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All About the Benjamins (2002) |
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"Riddled with so many bullets and tasteless jokes that it swiftly loses momentum." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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2.5/4 |
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All or Nothing (2002) |
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"It's a challenging film, one that rewards the committed filmgoer." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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3/4 |
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All Over the Guy (2001) |
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"A nicely turned and witty screenplay from Bucatinsky." | |
Desmond Ryan | |
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2/4 |
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All The King's Men (2006) |
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"In essence, a wild soap opera disguised as a political allegory, it's a movie, with its over-the-map performances, that is worth catching only for the inadvertent laugh or two." | |
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All the Pretty Horses (2000) |
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"Lacks an essential sense of purpose." | |
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3/4 |
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All the Real Girls (2003) |
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"A smartly acted, achingly simple love story." | |
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Almost Famous (2000) |
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"Crowe is so good on mood and milieu that when Elton John's bubblegum ballad 'Tiny Dancer' swells on the soundtrack, in this context it sounds like a hymn." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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1/4 |
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Alone in the Dark (2005) |
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"Never trust a movie that opens with a written introduction scrolling by that's longer than the collected works of Tom Clancy." | |
David Hiltbrand | |
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Along Came a Spider (2001) |
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"Detective yarns should be tauter than this slack affair." | |
Desmond Ryan | |
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2.5/4 |
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Along Came Polly (2004) |
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"Slight but occasionally riotous." | |
Steven Rea | |
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2.5/4 |
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Alpha Dog (2007) |
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"There's more voyeurism going on here, and less insight into a certain culture (the young and the wasted), than the filmmakers would probably admit to, but the performances are scarily real, and the outcome, well, is just scary." | |
Steven Rea | |
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2/4 |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
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"What happened to Alvin, the rodent counterpart of Dennis the Menace? Was he declawed in the translation to CGI?" | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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4/4 |
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Amelie (2001) |
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"There's real magic in this movie -- and enough energy to power a whole city on a dark and gloomy night." | |
Steven Rea | |
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2.5/4 |
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America's Heart and Soul (2004) |
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"A pumped-up, plotless montage of extraordinary landscapes, colorful wildlife, and interesting people performing feats of derring-do." | |
Steven Rea | |
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2.5/4 |
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America's Sweethearts (2001) |
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"A mildly amusing mess." | |
Steven Rea | |
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American Beauty (1999) |
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"American Beauty is able to burrow inside the cliche to understand how it came to be." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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3/4 |
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American Chai (2002) |
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"The picture uses humor and a heartfelt conviction to tell a story about discovering your destination in life, but also acknowledging the places, and the people, from whence you came." | |
Steven Rea | |
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3/4 |
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American Gangster (2007) |
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"Both he [Washington] and Ruby Dee, as his mother, give Oscar-caliber performances." | |
Carrie Rickey | |
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3/4 |
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American Hardcore (2006) |
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"American Hardcore, Paul Rachman's impressively thorough documentary, tells of the second-generation punk rockers who learned from the Sex Pistols and Ramones and then did their DIY thing." | |
Dan DeLuca | |
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