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2.5/4 |
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A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
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"As plentiful as its ideas are, A Scanner Darkly often feels hollow, and more than a little monotonous, because Linklater has not quite succeeded in overcoming the aggressively uncinematic nature of Dick's novel." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
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"The most puzzling, trippiest piece of pop fantasy of Spielberg's career." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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2/4 |
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Abandon (2002) |
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"Too much of this well-acted but dangerously slow thriller feels like a preamble to a bigger, more complicated story, one that never materializes." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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3.5/4 |
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About a Boy (2002) |
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"The summer movie season has barely begun, and already we have its first big surprise." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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4/4 |
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About Schmidt (2002) |
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"A cuttingly funny, moving portrayal of a man searching for meaning in his unremarkable, unmemorable life." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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2/4 |
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Accepted (2006) |
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"The hijinks in Accepted are as wild as a sixth-grade prom." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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3/4 |
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Across the Universe (2007) |
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"Across the Universe can't achieve the transcendence and exhilaration musicals strive for, but it often generates a singular kind of magic you've never experienced before." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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1.5/4 |
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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
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"Do not, under any circumstances, consider taking a child younger than middle school age to this wallow in crude humor." | |
Christine Dolen | |
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4/4 |
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Adaptation (2002) |
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"With Adaptation, Kaufman has found an entirely new way of telling a story, belying the old credo that there's nothing left that's new for the movies to show us." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland (1999) |
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"It's difficult for even the cynic in the audience to resist giggling at the sight of a grown man and a tiny-voiced Muppet arguing whether or not the Blanket an entire film has been built around should be called "Wubby" instead." | |
Phoebe Flowers | |
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The Adventures of Felix (2001) |
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"Although the movie never so much as flirts with melodrama, there is still a bittersweet undercurrent throughout Adventures of Felix." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) |
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"The movie's attempts at zaniness are flat, almost embarrassing." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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2/4 |
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Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
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"It's pretty clear that all those terrific ideas could use a little discipline and maturity before they ever amount to a truly great movie." | |
Peter Debruge | |
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3/4 |
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After Midnight (2004) |
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"A girl, a boy and a few days among reels of film: For a cinema lover it is heaven in celluloid." | |
Marta Barber | |
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2.5/4 |
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After the Sunset (2004) |
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"A feature-length travel destination video about how your next Bahamas getaway will leave you feeling like a millionaire." | |
Peter Debruge | |
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3/4 |
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After The Wedding (2007) |
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"After the Wedding ends up feeling far weightier than it first appears, with its plot contrivances and unlikely coincidences generating such a messy range of emotions, they end up feeling a lot like real life." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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1.5/4 |
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Against the Ropes (2003) |
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"A cliché-ridden, condescending and ham-handed film that clumsily fails to bring to life what should be an interesting story." | |
Connie Ogle | |
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3.5/4 |
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The Agronomist (2004) |
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"Reminds us of previous events in the country's history, as told by a Haitian who impresses us as someone honestly looking for nothing more than peace." | |
Marta Barber | |
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3/4 |
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Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) |
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"It does ... make a powerful argument against capital punishment, no matter which side of the debate you happen to take." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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3/4 |
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AKA (2002) |
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"Coupling the plot with the presentation -- and the appealing cinematography -- makes AKA a film not to miss." | |
Marta Barber | |
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2.5/4 |
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Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) |
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"Whether one agrees with his point of view or not, it's a message worth hearing." | |
Marta Barber | |
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1/4 |
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The Alamo (2004) |
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"A crushing bore." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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1/4 |
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Alex and Emma (2003) |
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"Watching Wilson and Hudson toil thanklessly through this mess is more laborious than writing the Great American Novel. And a lot less lucrative." | |
Connie Ogle | |
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2.5/4 |
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Alexander (2004) |
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"Often skates dangerously close to camp (less forgiving viewers will find the movie hysterical), but the director's daringness to play things so boldly has a grand appeal of its own." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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3/4 |
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Alfie (2004) |
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"Alfie is such smooth, crisp entertainment, you barely even notice it has nothing new to say." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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3/4 |
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Alice's House (2008) |
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"First-time director Chico Teixeira, an accomplished maker of documentaries in Brazil, brings a similar nonfiction feel to this melodramatic milieu, which is kick-started when Alice contemplates having an affair of her own with a former sweetheart." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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2.5/4 |
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All About the Benjamins (2002) |
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"It's fun to watch the stocky, scowling Ice Cube and skinny, jittery Epps play off each other." | |
Connie Ogle | |
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2.5/4 |
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All or Nothing (2002) |
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"The film feels uncomfortably real, its language and locations bearing the unmistakable stamp of authority." | |
Connie Ogle | |
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1/4 |
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All The King's Men (2006) |
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"It's the kind of picture that is so eager to celebrate its self-importance and social significance, it suffocates under its own seriousness." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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All the Pretty Horses (2000) |
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"Feels at once too slow and yet oddly truncated." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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3/4 |
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All the Real Girls (2003) |
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"A wise, delicate and immensely touching romance." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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Almost Famous (2000) |
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"A rich, marvelous movie -- the kind that enchants on so many different levels, it leaves you feeling giddy." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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2.5/4 |
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Almost Peaceful (2004) |
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"An intimate tale of how a group of strangers scarred by the past and with heavy personal burdens attempts to break the years of mistrust and suspicions built up during the war years." | |
Marta Barber | |
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Along Came a Spider (2001) |
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"A mediocre widget stamped straight out of the mold of the popular police procedural, the kind featuring a master detective." | |
Curtis Morgan | |
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2/4 |
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Along Came Polly (2004) |
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"Something we've all seen before, far too many times, not only in its premise but also in its lame parade of scatological jokes and its sad, tired pratfalls." | |
Connie Ogle | |
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2/4 |
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Alpha Dog (2007) |
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"As successful as the unlikely casting of Timberlake turns out to be, some of Cassavetes' other choices are disastrous." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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Amelie (2001) |
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"A blast of pure movie bliss, a hilarious, imaginative and exhilarating love letter to the romantic in all of us." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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3/4 |
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Amen (2003) |
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"Although the unrelenting pursuit of making the Vatican listen becomes a bit tiresome, the portrayals of the two men by Tukur and Kassovitz are engaging." | |
Marta Barber | |
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1.5/4 |
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America's Heart and Soul (2004) |
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"This film might work OK as a holiday TV special, but anyone who spends eight bucks on it is bound to end up cranky and disappointed." | |
Connie Ogle | |
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America's Sweethearts (2001) |
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"For the farce it so desperately wants to be, the film often feels slack and too reliant on so-so punch lines for laughs." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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American Beauty (1999) |
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"The real star of the film is Alan Ball's exceptional script, which continually reveals new, surprising layers in characters that initially seem like cartoonish types." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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1.5/4 |
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American Dreamz (2006) |
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"Most of American Dreamz has a curiously dated, been-there feel: It's a redundant comedy, like hearing the same tired joke for the 100th time." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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3.5/4 |
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American Gangster (2007) |
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"What American Gangster does have -- what makes it such a commanding, exhilarating movie -- is a consummate love and understanding of story." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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American Outlaws (2001) |
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"The dumbest, most risible retelling ever made of the exploits of legendary bank robber Jesse James." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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American Pie 2 (2001) |
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"It has a cheap, slapdash look that indicates no one behind the camera was interested in anything other than another fat payday." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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American Psycho (2000) |
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"The movie has the feverish intensity of a bad dream, leavened with a subversive sense of humor that is both sophisticated and cracked." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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An American Rhapsody (2001) |
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"A story this compelling deserves a better telling." | |
Connie Ogle | |
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3.5/4 |
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American Splendor (2003) |
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"Reminds you that sometimes, simply getting out of bed each morning can be the most heroic of acts." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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3/4 |
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American Teen (2008) |
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"American Teen finds the truth in the trite and the cliched: It's a wonderful look at why growing up is so hard to do." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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2/4 |
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American Wedding (2003) |
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"[An] uneven but undeniably sweet movie." | |
Rene Rodriguez | |
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