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3/4 |
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A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
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"This is a movie about losing one's grip and like any addict's story, it's boring, ugly, sad, and terribly human. And surprisingly funny." | |
Ty Burr | |
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2.5/4 |
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A Tout de Suite (2005) |
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"Crazy things certainly happen to Lili, but Le Besco drifts through most of the proceedings as though she were following a checklist: long face (done), three-way with lithe Athenians (yup), the occasional suggestion of zombietude (mission accomplished)." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
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"A posthumously completed step for Kubrick and a step forward for Spielberg." | |
Jay Carr | |
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2.5/4 |
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A/K/A Tommy Chong |
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"This isn't a great piece of nonfiction filmmaking, but it has its moments." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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1.5/4 |
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Abandon (2002) |
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"It can't make up its mind whether it's a serious drama, a swoony romance, or a psychological thriller." | |
Ty Burr | |
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1.5/4 |
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The Abandoned (2007) |
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"Perhaps the worst offense of The Abandoned, however, is that so little effort is made by the screenwriters to make any 'sense' of it all." | |
Erin Meister | |
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Aberdeen (2001) |
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"An uncompromising family tale, one that's dark but lyrical and moving in its rendering of the ties that bind even the most dysfunctional families, despite valiant efforts to destroy them." | |
Loren King | |
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2.5/4 |
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About a Boy (2002) |
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"A timid, soggy near miss." | |
Renee Graham | |
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2.5/4 |
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About Adam (2001) |
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"Stembridge keeps things bustling along at a lively enough pace to deflect any introspective focus on the matchups that are never presented as relationships, only flings." | |
Jay Carr | |
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3/4 |
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About Schmidt (2002) |
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"A brutally dry satire of Middle American numbness." | |
Ty Burr | |
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2.5/4 |
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Absolute Wilson (2006) |
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"Absolute Wilson may not be original, but Wilson absolutely is." | |
Louise Kennedy | |
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2.5/4 |
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Accepted (2006) |
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"Low of brow and pure of heart, the movie plays like Animal House extra-lite, and as such it's decent indecent fun." | |
Ty Burr | |
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1.5/4 |
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Across the Universe (2007) |
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"Contrary to what you may have heard, love isn't all you need." | |
Ty Burr | |
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2/4 |
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Adam & Steve (2006) |
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"For every shtick that works, there are two that don't. Adam & Steve is not the knee-slapper it wants to be, but it's endearing nonetheless." | |
Bobby Hankinson | |
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3/4 |
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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
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"Priceless." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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2.5/4 |
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Adam's Apples (2007) |
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"Jensen is an accomplished screenwriter with a knack for developing people amid comic nonsense." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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4/4 |
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Adaptation (2002) |
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"This is epic, funny, tragic, demanding, strange, original, boldly sincere filmmaking." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland (1999) |
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"The Jim Henson folks, who earlier this year gave us Muppets from Space, come up with another winner." | |
Betsy Sherman | |
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The Adventures of Felix (2001) |
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"A thoroughly engaging road movie that's as affable and charming as its title character." | |
Loren King | |
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) |
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"A film made with as little wit, interest, and professionalism as artistically possible for a slummy Hollywood caper flick." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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1/4 |
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Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
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"Sounds like a grand old time -- a hip fusion of Nickelodeon attitude, the wittier children's books, and retro kitsch culture. In fact, it's a nearly unwatchable combination of the worst elements of all three." | |
Ty Burr | |
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1/4 |
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Aeon Flux (2005) |
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"Thanksgiving is over, but those gluttons still hungry for turkey should enjoy picking at the carcass of Aeon Flux." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
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"The entire film seems a series of disjointed pieces, a screenful of iron filings waiting in vain for the magnet that will line them up in a unified field." | |
Jay Carr | |
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3/4 |
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After Innocence (2005) |
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"Sanders is more interested in specific human struggles than in larger political points, but she knows these men form a mosaic with a message that's unmistakable." | |
Ty Burr | |
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2.5/4 |
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After Midnight (2004) |
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"There's plenty here to delight cinephiles." | |
Janice Page | |
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3.5/4 |
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After the Life (2002) |
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"If you have committed to the entire project ... this chapter leaves you not only with a sense of completion but of an ascension to a hard-won grace." | |
Ty Burr | |
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1.5/4 |
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After the Sunset (2004) |
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"After the Sunset is content to take in the sights and ogle the ladies." | |
Ty Burr | |
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3/4 |
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After The Wedding (2007) |
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"Life’s a mess, it says, but you can’t sweep up the dirt until you’ve taken a good, hard look at it." | |
Ty Burr | |
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2/4 |
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Against the Ropes (2003) |
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"Written by Cheryl Edwards, Kallen's story is pumped with artificial sweeteners, hokey inevitabilities, and denaturing oversimplifications." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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2/4 |
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Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
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"[Muniz] keeps Cody Banks watchable on energy alone but his scenes with the pallid, uncharismatic Duff are as dull as watching two actual pubescents meet at the mall." | |
Ty Burr | |
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2/4 |
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
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"No matter how adorable you think Muniz is, it's becoming increasingly hard to buy him as a socially inept teenager/spy." | |
Janice Page | |
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2.5/4 |
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Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World (2007) |
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3/4 |
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The Agronomist (2004) |
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"The film crackles with Dominique's voice and personality -- but not, unfortunately, his ideas." | |
Ty Burr | |
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3/4 |
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Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) |
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"The film stands quite chillingly as a final statement from a woman trying to fight her own commodification." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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2.5/4 |
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Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
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"The suggestion is that C-Diddy can be seen as a sort of ambassador for the 'make air, not war' sentiment. Why not? Even as real ambassadors go, we could do worse." | |
Janice Page | |
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3.5/4 |
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AKA (2002) |
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"The three-panel format gives the digitally shot picture enormous psycho-emotional layering." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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3.5/4 |
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Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
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"If Akeelah and the Bee is a generic, well-oiled commercial contraption, it is the first to credibly dramatize the plight of a truly gifted, poor black child." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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2.5/4 |
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Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) |
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"What this documentary lacks in intent, insight, and surprise it makes up for in thoroughness." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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2.5/4 |
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The Alamo (2004) |
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"A deeply compromised film, if not a broken one." | |
Ty Burr | |
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1.5/4 |
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Alex and Emma (2003) |
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"Alex and Emma is a film for people who haven't been to the movies since the silent era." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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2.5/4 |
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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) |
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"Geoffrey Sax's filmmaking holds few surprises -- Whiz! Bang! Boom! Ha ha ha! -- but it's swift and competent." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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2.5/4 |
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Alexander (2004) |
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"Alexander is pulled in so many directions that both Farrell's performance and the character are stretched thin." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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1/4 |
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Alfie (2004) |
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"It's a steep task to consider Alfie anything other than a Vanity Fair pictorial." | |
Wesley Morris | |
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Ali (2001) |
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"Smith makes contact with enough of Ali's swagger, sweetness, wit, and pride to convince us that justice is being done to the boxing champion." | |
Jay Carr | |
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2.5/4 |
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Alias Betty (2002) |
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"A pleasant enough valentine to Rendell's The Tree of Hands, if a story that deals with child abuse and sexual obsession could be described in those terms." | |
Ed Siegel | |
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2.5/4 |
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Alice Neel (2007) |
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"For all the juicy storytelling, Alice Neel remains, in this film, a cipher: brash, grandmotherly, and beyond understanding." | |
Cate McQuaid | |
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3/4 |
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Alice's House (2008) |
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"Like a Brazilian telenovela unfolding in real time, the film fans its cards out slowly until we can see for ourselves the deck is stacked." | |
Ty Burr | |
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3.5/4 |
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Alien (1979) |
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"What's most unusual about the original 24 years later, though, is its elegant minimalism." | |
Ty Burr | |
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2/4 |
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Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
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"A movie based on a video game based on two entirely separate sci-fi horror series -- so whatever was interesting in the originals has long been bred out, like double-jointedness." | |
Ty Burr | |
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3.5/4 |
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Alien: The Director's Cut (2003) |
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"Looks more like a classic than ever." | |
Ty Burr | |
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