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4/5 |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
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"The ambition lends it nobility, and for once the awe-inspiring visual effects serve the story rather than vice versa." | |
Jim Lane | |
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1/5 |
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The Abandoned (2007) |
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"...inert and inept..." | |
Jim Lane | |
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Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
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Aeon Flux (2005) |
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An Affair of Love (2000) |
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3/5 |
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After Innocence (2005) |
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"A rough but engrossing sketch of what freedom feels like, and what it costs, for seven men who've endured that national nightmare." | |
Jonathan Kiefer | |
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4/5 |
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After The Wedding (2007) |
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"...a rare film of conflict without villains." | |
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Against the Ropes (2003) |
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Mark Halverson | |
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2/5 |
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Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
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"There's nothing really wrong with Agent Cody Banks. Parents will find it a harmless and reasonably efficient time-killer, I suppose. But it's unimaginative and passionless." | |
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1/5 |
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
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Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
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"This is the kind of movie that audiences gather to their hearts (see Finding Neverland, Good Will Hunting, etc.), and it seems almost churlish to resist." | |
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3/5 |
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Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) |
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"As a record of the Al Franken you already know and love, Hegedus and Doob's rather slapdash movie is fun." | |
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2/5 |
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The Alamo (2004) |
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"In trying to give human dimension to one of the legendary events of American history, the creators of The Alamo succeed only in making it dull." | |
Jim Lane | |
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3/5 |
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Alex and Emma (2003) |
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"Wilson and Hudson's chemistry is spectacular." | |
Jim Lane | |
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2/5 |
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Ali (2001) |
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"Mann gets most of the basics right but doesn't quite capture Ali's soul or spiritual growth and commitment." | |
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3/5 |
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Alien Autopsy (2006) |
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"It’s a droll story, told with a straight face that makes the quintessentially British shuck-and-jive all the more hilarious." | |
Jim Lane | |
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3/5 |
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Alien: The Director's Cut (2003) |
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"The original has aged with surprising grace; despite the rise of digital video and home computers, this is still a convincing future." | |
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2/5 |
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Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) |
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"...wastes no money on stars, no time on plot or character, and no lighting on the set..." | |
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1/5 |
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All About the Benjamins (2002) |
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"Bray is completely at sea; with nothing but a Savage Garden music video on his resume, he has no clue about making a movie." | |
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3/5 |
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All or Nothing (2002) |
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"The kind of hardscrabble, slice-of-life story [Leigh's] best known for." | |
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1/4 |
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All The King's Men (2006) |
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"Zaillian’s movie is bloated, literary and highfalutin, looking and sounding like it’s been reverently adapted from the kind of novel Willie Stark’s hicks would never read into the kind of movie they wouldn’t be caught dead going to see." | |
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Along Came a Spider (2001) |
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"In movies like this, plot twists can make you gasp, 'Of course!' or they can make you snort, 'Oh, brother!' Patterson, Moss, and Tamahori don’t seem to see the difference." | |
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2/5 |
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Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
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"...disposable junk that'll probably be forgotten in a month." | |
Jim Lane | |
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4/5 |
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Amazing Grace (1979) |
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"...an inspiring story of moral rectitude overcoming impossible odds..." | |
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The American Astronaut (2001) |
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"Every once in a blue moon some inexplicable force of cinema pushes all sanity and sense of aesthetics aside and leaves me defenselessly embracing a movie that has no apparent redeeming factor other than its cheesy eccentricity." | |
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American Dreamz (2006) |
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"his movie, full of easy swipes at easy targets, comes off like that overly chummy guy at a party who got drunk too early and goes around taking too long to set up a joke that’s already been beaten to death." | |
Jonathan Kiefer | |
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3/5 |
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American Gangster (2007) |
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"Once we ignore that nagging sense that American Gangster is sidestepping the best parts of the story...the movie has plenty of pleasures." | |
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An American Haunting (2006) |
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"Director Courtney Solomon’s script is a catalogue of the standard Exorcist-style special effects, hammered home by Caine Davidson’s musical score, one of the most irritating and nerve-wracking assemblies of noise in movie history." | |
Jim Lane | |
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2/5 |
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An American Rhapsody (2001) |
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"Begins with harrowing detail but develops gaping holes as a decade and a half of potentially volcanic events and relationships is molded into a 106-minute movie." | |
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5/5 |
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American Splendor (2003) |
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"The film's style is as unorthodox as the original comic book, and just as funny and true." | |
Jim Lane | |
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2/5 |
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American Wedding (2003) |
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"Jesse Dylan's direction is slapdash and lackluster; sometimes he can't seem to decide where to point the camera, or who should be in focus." | |
Jim Lane | |
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Amores Perros (2001) |
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"Seething, unsettling." | |
Mark Halverson | |
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2/5 |
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Analyze That (2002) |
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"It's pretty much of a mess, and the more you think about it, the worse it gets." | |
Jim Lane | |
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4/5 |
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Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides: Working With Time (2003) |
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"Goldsworthy is mostly fascinating, occasionally exasperating, and so is Riedelsheimer's film." | |
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Angel Eyes (2001) |
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"Lopez and Caviezel do fine work, energized by the perceptive, intelligent script of Gerald Di Pego and Luis Mandoki's sympathetic, sure-footed direction." | |
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4/5 |
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Angel-A (2007) |
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"Besson gives the movie a warmth and charm all its own..." | |
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Angela's Ashes (1999) |
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"Faithful to the letter of McCourt's book but miss the spirit entirely." | |
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Annapolis (2006) |
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"It’s never less than excruciatingly predictable, unintentionally funny and dripping with moldy clichés." | |
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3/5 |
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Anything Else (2003) |
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"Lightweight and pleasant, the film is a blizzard of airy persiflage, expertly purveyed by the usual array of fine actors eager to bite into Allen's dialogue." | |
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Apocalypto (2006) |
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"Apocalypto is assertive with its demand for suspended disbelief. Clearly Gibson has some powerful, elemental moviemaking stuff going on." | |
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Apres Vous (2005) |
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Jonathan Kiefer | |
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Aquamarine (2006) |
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"It’s silly and trivial but harmless enough for undemanding teenage girls, and Roberts and Levesque make a vivacious team." | |
Jim Lane | |
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4/5 |
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Ararat (2002) |
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"A haunted, bountiful film that demands patience -- and rewards it." | |
Jim Lane | |
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3/5 |
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Arctic Tale (2007) |
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"...sometimes the contrivance is obvious." | |
Jim Lane | |
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1/5 |
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Are We Done Yet? (2007) |
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"...ostensibly based on the old Cary Grant classic Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, but you'd never guess it." | |
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The Aristocrats (2005) |
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Jim Lane | |
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Art School Confidential (2006) |
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"It’s fine that this film feels uncomfortable indulging the shopworn tropes of coming-of-age story or black comedy or romance or mystery thriller, but, well, ambivalence is self-propagating." | |
Jonathan Kiefer | |
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3/5 |
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Arthur and the Invisibles (2007) |
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"The story isn't terribly original, but Besson gives it a fuel-injected energy..." | |
Jim Lane | |
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Ask the Dust (2005) |
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"The elements never quite come together, and the main characters never quite spring to life." | |
Jim Lane | |
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5/5 |
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
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"...a stark, clear-eyed picture of outlaw life in the real wild west." | |
Jim Lane | |
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