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BOB AULERT
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Total Reviews: 76


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Fresh  The Rookie
Fresh  Ice Age
Fresh  40 Days and 40 Nights
Fresh  The Count of Monte Cristo
Fresh  Black Hawk Down
Fresh  Orange County
Fresh  The Majestic
Fresh  Amelie
Fresh  K-Pax
Fresh  The Producers
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Rotten  Half Past Autumn
Rotten  Death to Smoochy
Rotten  Panic Room
Rotten  Showtime
Rotten  Harrison's Flowers
Rotten  The Time Machine
Rotten  We Were Soldiers
Rotten  Dragonfly
Rotten  A Rumor of Angels
Rotten  A Walk to Remember
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 77% of the time.

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" It's a sumptuous feast for the eyes, but never gives one's mind more than a few tantalizing appetizers to savor."
Posted Feb 14, 2005
 
Half Past Autumn (2001)n/a
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" Collapses under its own meager weight."
Posted Mar 29, 2002
 
Death to Smoochy (2002)42%
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" Tries to think 'outside the box,' but instead ends up being trapped in one."
Posted Mar 28, 2002
 
Panic Room (2002)77%
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" Takes a simple premise and carries it to unexpected heights."
Posted Mar 28, 2002
 
The Rookie (2002)82%
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" ... a pleasant enough way to spend a matinee afternoon with the children in life."
Posted Mar 15, 2002
 
Ice Age (2002)78%
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" [A] placebo of a film, bland and inert."
Posted Mar 15, 2002
 
Showtime (2002)24%
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" A violent and implausible fairy tale."
Posted Mar 15, 2002
 
Harrison's Flowers (2002)49%
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" little to recommend it beyond ... special effects technology."
Posted Mar 8, 2002
 
The Time Machine (2002)28%
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" A smart sex comedy that revels more in the gray matter than the groin."
Posted Mar 1, 2002
 
40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)38%
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" Sledgehammer-simplistic... piling on the Technicolor carnage and employing just about every stock war film cliché imaginable."
Posted Feb 28, 2002
 
We Were Soldiers (2002)62%
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" ...visual novocaine..."
Posted Feb 21, 2002
 
Dragonfly (2002)7%
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" The actors don't inhabit their roles -- they're trapped by them, forced to change behavior in bizarre unjustified fashion and spout dialog that consists mostly of platitudes."
Posted Feb 1, 2002
 
A Rumor of Angels (2002)36%
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" The only surprises are how quickly and unoriginally the banalities mount."
Posted Jan 24, 2002
 
A Walk to Remember (2002)27%
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" Its swashes are effectively buckled in all the right places."
Posted Jan 23, 2002
 
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)74%
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" A memorable paean to the human spirit."
Posted Jan 18, 2002
 
Black Hawk Down (2001)76%
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" Consistently funny and surprisingly inventive, it...serves up a much more rewarding stew than the swill normally targeted at 13-24 year olds."
Posted Jan 11, 2002
 
Orange County (2002)47%
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" culturevulture.net's Ten Best Films of 2001"
Posted Dec 28, 2001
 
2001 Year-in-Review (2001)n/a
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" Ali does the unthinkable: making its complex and dynamic subject smaller than life."
Posted Dec 24, 2001
 
Ali (2001)68%
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" A warm and loving ode to the magic of film and the golden age of movie making."
Posted Dec 20, 2001
 
The Majestic (2001)42%
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" Writer/director Crowe's screenplay is quite faithful to the original story, but he makes a confusing story even more so."
Posted Dec 14, 2001
 
Vanilla Sky (2001)39%
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" An effervescent world of unrequited love, suicidal goldfish, photo booth intrigue and elaborate courtship schemes."
Posted Dec 12, 2001
 
Amelie (2001)90%
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" Powerful performances from Stockard Channing and Julia Stiles are saddled with a slow-developing story."
Posted Dec 10, 2001
 
The Business of Strangers (2001)80%
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" Takes a simple premise and simplifies it even further; it's a comic book with very few of the frames colored in."
Posted Nov 29, 2001
 
Behind Enemy Lines (2001)36%
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" Lives up to its title, an inch wide and an inch deep."
Posted Nov 9, 2001
 
Shallow Hal (2001)50%
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" A small and fuzzy blip in an already very bad film year, as nondescript and uninvolving as its title."
Posted Nov 2, 2001
 
Domestic Disturbance (2001)24%
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" K-PAX suggests that perhaps the answers we find or conclusions we reach are less important than the questions we ask."
Posted Oct 26, 2001
 
K-Pax (2001)41%
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" The Last Castle takes [a] timeworn premise and steers it down a ludicrous and obvious path to a conclusion that will have most audience members rolling their eyes in disbelief rather than cheering."
Posted Oct 19, 2001
 
The Last Castle (2001)52%
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" This isn't a film so much as a smirk of a home movie that somehow got green-lighted as a film project and then ran wildly amuck."
Posted Sep 27, 2001
 
Zoolander (2001)62%
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" More than thirty years after its initial release, it's still outrageous as ever and one of the funniest films ever made."
Posted Sep 26, 2001
 
The Producers (1968)93%
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" Makes a concerted initial effort to construct a complicated and suspenseful scenario but then strangely and gleefully casts it aside."
Posted Sep 24, 2001
 
Don't Say a Word (2001)23%
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" Those who loved the original Apocalypse Now will find more to admire. Those who found the original self-indulgent and pompous may now find it even more so."
Posted Sep 19, 2001
 
Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)92%
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" An interminable oral sex and flatulence joke masquerading as a movie."
Posted Aug 21, 2001
 
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)53%
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" Don’t expect the usual Farrelly broad brush and grade-school animal humor, but instead prepare for acerbic wit and sly asides delivered in rapid fashion."
Posted Aug 10, 2001
 
Osmosis Jones (2001)53%
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" A spare and stylish thriller that intrigues with intelligence rather than cheap shocks."
Posted Aug 9, 2001
 
The Deep End (2001)81%
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" Wide parched vistas of monotony separate scrabbly oases of amusement and the payoff for a gag almost never matches the time devoted to its setup."
Posted Jul 19, 2001
 
America's Sweethearts (2001)31%
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" The action as presented is strictly rote and much more bloody than balletic."
Posted Jul 5, 2001
 
Kiss of the Dragon (2001)51%
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" Clever, technically accomplished, and consistently amusing -- it's a sunny summer treat."
Posted Jul 5, 2001
 
Cats & Dogs (2001)54%
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" The players are obviously having a great time and their comic energy is contagious."
Posted Jun 8, 2001
 
Evolution (2001)40%
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" Mostly standard gunfire and carnage at ear-splitting sound levels."
Posted Jun 8, 2001
 
Swordfish (2001)25%
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" Like being stuck inside a kaleidoscope for two hours while a madman plays a calliope next to your ear."
Posted Jun 1, 2001
 
Moulin Rouge (2001)78%
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" Angel Eyes is a romance without love, a suspense drama without tension, a thriller without excitement."
Posted May 18, 2001
 
Angel Eyes (2001)31%
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" The total package is magical to behold, clever and hugely entertaining for all ages."
Posted May 18, 2001
 
Shrek (2001)90%
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" There's no center to the film, no focal point to the story, no main character."
Posted Apr 27, 2001
 
Driven (2001)13%
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" A quietly moving film that delights in small things."
Posted Mar 30, 2001
 
The Dish (2001)96%
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" An original take on the quirks of relationships."
Posted Mar 29, 2001
 
Someone Like You (2001)41%
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" The jokes are sparsely sown and what happens between them is duller than C-SPAN during a filibuster."
Posted Mar 23, 2001
 
Say It Isn't So (2001)9%
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" A disjointed and frustrating mess."
Posted Feb 23, 2001
 
Monkeybone (2001)19%
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" Patently false and manipulative."
Posted Feb 16, 2001
 
Sweet November (2001)16%
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" It will resonate with anyone who's ever gone through adolescence. It ranks with the very best films of the year."
Posted Feb 14, 2001
 
The Virgin Suicides (1999)77%
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" This is not a neatly wrapped package -- it’s a noisy, messy, outrageous rampage most of the time. But enough sticks to the wall with sufficient frequency to recommend it."
Posted Feb 14, 2001
 
Dogma (1999)68%

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