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BEN FALK
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• BBC
• Empire Magazine

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Total Reviews: 73


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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5  Spartacus
4/5  Forrest Gump
3/5  Three to Tango
2/5  Twin Falls Idaho
1/5  Little Nicky
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5  The Royal Tenenbaums
5/5  The Breakfast Club
5/5  Spartacus
5/5  This Is Spinal Tap
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/5  Bicentennial Man
1/5  Red Planet
1/5  Little Nicky
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 76% of the time.

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2/5
 
" While Toback certainly makes a game effort to study the infiltration of hip-hop into the mainstream, his inability to choose what ground to cover ultimately results in an episodic hotch-potch." -- BBC
Posted Jan 13, 2004
 
Black and White (1999)38%
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3/5
 
Click here to read article -- BBC
Posted Dec 23, 2003
 
Room to Rent (2000)n/a
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2/5
 
" The sort of feeble redemption story Hollywood often palms off on the film-going public." -- BBC
Posted Nov 11, 2002
 
Joe Somebody (2001)20%
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2/5
 
Click here to read article -- BBC
Posted Oct 24, 2002
 
Black and White (2002)50%
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4/5
 
" Touching, funny and strange." -- BBC
Posted Sep 23, 2002
 
Lilo & Stitch (2002)86%
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2/5
 
Click here to read article -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2002
 
The One (2001)13%
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4/5
 
" Intimate, gruelling, and in some strange way, uplifting." -- BBC
Posted Feb 17, 2002
 
Monster's Ball (2001)86%
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5/5
 
" Funny, touching, intelligent, strange... well, let's just stop before we run out of superlatives." -- BBC
Posted Feb 6, 2002
 
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)80%
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3/5
 
" A very watchable, very warm little Disney comedy." -- BBC
Posted Dec 3, 2001
 
The Princess Diaries (2001)49%
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2/5
 
" A rather dull movie, weighed down by its pretensions." -- BBC
Posted Nov 19, 2001
 
The Deep End (2001)81%
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3/5
 
" It's still funny, but the flabby bits in-between the comic set-pieces and character-driven scenes are, quite frankly, an annoyance." -- BBC
Posted Nov 12, 2001
 
Bandits (2001)63%
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4/5
 
" Funny, enjoyable and, above all, relaxing. You won't need much brain power, but you'll certainly have fun." -- BBC
Posted Oct 21, 2001
 
Legally Blonde (2001)68%
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2/5
 
" The script here is not funny, while the cast -- though star-studded -- is perfunctory." -- BBC
Posted Oct 8, 2001
 
America's Sweethearts (2001)31%
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4/5
 
" Writer Adam Herz has an uncanny knack of turning even the most predictable scenarios into slices of comedy magic." -- BBC
Posted Sep 24, 2001
 
American Pie 2 (2001)52%
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2/5
 
" A dull waste of a film, which will have you forgetting scenes, before they've even finished." -- BBC
Posted Jul 16, 2001
 
High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)20%
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3/5
 
" This is not just another monster movie. Ginger Snaps succeeds exactly because it is not 'just' anything." -- BBC
Posted Jun 18, 2001
 
Ginger Snaps (2001)91%
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4/5
 
" This fable structure is allied to both a witty cynicism and sense of fun, which pervades the entire movie in equal measure." -- BBC
Posted Jun 18, 2001
 
Shrek (2001)90%
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2/5
 
" Just not quite daring or spectacular enough." -- BBC
Posted Jun 12, 2001
 
Hamlet (2000)55%
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4/5
 
" Despite his usual ability to spend more time on set design than he does on actors, Schumacher handles the more intimate setting with great skill." -- BBC
Posted May 7, 2001
 
Tigerland (2000)76%
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2/5
 
Click here to read article -- BBC
Posted May 7, 2001
 
Sweet November (2001)16%
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2/5
 
" If this is [Smith's] one 'message' movie, let's hope he has got it off his chest." -- BBC
Posted Apr 24, 2001
 
Dogma (1999)68%
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5/5
 
" Shot in sequence during 1984, The Breakfast Club became a benchmark for all that followed in the genre." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
The Breakfast Club (1984)90%
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4/5
 
" This is mainstream Hollywood filmmaking at its best -- packed with intelligence, humour and pathos." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Big (1988)96%
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3/5
 
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Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Baby Boom (1987)80%
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4/5
 
" Visually stunning and creatively superior, Zemeckis's work is frequently staggering and always entertaining." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988)98%
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4/5
 
" Whenever Bill Murray is in a film, there's always one simple rule. Give him a decent set-up and you've got yourself a classic." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Scrooged (1988)61%
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4/5
 
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Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Six Degrees of Separation (1993)93%
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4/5
 
" Very few movies have ever won the five top Oscars: Best Actor, Actress, Screenplay, Director, and Picture." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Silence of the Lambs (1991)96%
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3/5
 
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Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
101 Dalmatians (1996)38%
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3/5
 
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Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
The Frighteners (1996)71%
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3/5
 
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Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Gun Shy (2000)24%
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3/5
 
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Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)40%
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1/5
 
" The worst kind of movie -- one with no direction, no identity, and above all no heart." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Bicentennial Man (1999)38%
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4/5
 
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Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Man on the Moon (1999)60%
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3/5
 
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Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Jack Frost (1998)16%
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4/5
 
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Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Cecil B. Demented (2000)51%
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4/5
 
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Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Small Time Crooks (2000)67%
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2/5
 
" If there was an Oscar for the Silliest Movie Category, then The Skulls might be in with a good chance of winning." -- BBC
Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
The Skulls (2000)8%
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4/5
 
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Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
Final Destination (2000)29%
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3/5
 
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Posted Apr 17, 2001
 
The Whole Nine Yards (2000)46%
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2/5
 
" If you've hidden from the scary killer, don't leave your hiding place after less than a minute! Why do they do that?" -- BBC
Posted Apr 16, 2001
 
Valentine (2001)9%
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3/5
 
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Posted Apr 16, 2001
 
Thirteen Days (2000)84%
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3/5
 
" It's a one-trick pony, but boy, is that trick a thoroughbred." -- BBC
Posted Apr 16, 2001
 
Shadow of the Vampire (2000)82%
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4/5
 
" A sprawling, artistic, superbly acted, informative, and mainstream Hollywood movie." -- BBC
Posted Apr 16, 2001
 
Traffic (2000)92%
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3/5
 
" A pleasant change of pace for both Cage and director Ratner." -- BBC
Posted Apr 16, 2001
 
The Family Man (2000)53%
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1/5
 
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Posted Apr 16, 2001
 
Red Planet (2000)13%
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1/5
 
" Creating perhaps his most irritating persona to date, Sandler manages to get through the entire movie with barely a single gag, save for a few uninspired chuckles." -- BBC
Posted Apr 16, 2001
 
Little Nicky (2000)22%
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2/5
 
Click here to read article -- BBC
Posted Apr 16, 2001
 
Blow Dry (2001)19%
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4/5
 
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Posted Apr 16, 2001
 
Requiem for a Dream (2000)78%
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4/5
 
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Posted Apr 16, 2001
 
Best in Show (2000)94%

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