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The Take (2008) |
"Actor Interview: Says John Leguizamo: "This [film] is for a point, man. It's the randomness of crimes. Living in this world is frightening."" |
Ian Spelling |
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Take the Lead (2006) |
"Celebrity Interview - Antonio Banderas' immediate thoughts about the afterlife? "I don’t care what people are going to say when I die. ***** ’em, I don’t care.”" |
Brent Simon |
Tomato |
Take the Lead (2006) |
"In refusing to sugarcoat the harsh realities of an impoverished region, the filmmakers make the ultimate message of hope that much more genuine and stirring." |
Brett Buckalew |
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Taking Lives (2004) |
"Celebrity Interviews - Angelina Jolie, Ethan Hawke and Olivier Martinez take turns explaining how they attacked their piece of the Michael Pye novel adaptation." |
Ian Spelling |
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Taking Lives (2004) |
"Red Carpet Report - In addition to being voted last fall the woman males would most like to spend New Year’s Eve with in a poll conducted by Blockbuster..." |
Richard Horgan |
Splat |
Taking Lives (2004) |
"Sadly, nothing in this thriller comes close to the intensity of last year’s media coverage of star Ethan Hawke’s alleged infidelities on location in Montreal." |
Todd Gilchrist |
Splat |
The Talent Given Us (2004) |
"As a sheer comedy, The Talent Given Us is head and shoulders above most if not all comedies of 2005 thus far." |
Kevin Biggers |
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Talk to Me (2007) |
"Another rich time-and-place tapestry that begs the question, how does Kasi Lemmons so fantastically get her period groove on?" |
Richard Horgan |
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Talk to Me (2007) |
"If Don Cheadle is producing, you can count on it being a passion project." |
Richard Horgan |
Tomato |
Talk to Me (2007) |
"Ejiofor recalls Ray Sharkey in The Idolmaker, but thankfully stops just short of Alan Bates in The Rose and Eric Roberts in Star 80." |
Telly Davidson |
Tomato |
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) |
"With another deadpan turn under his belt, Ferrell seems that much closer to the biopic he will one day be unable to deny: White House Nights: The Ballad of George W.." |
Brent Simon |
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Tamara (2006) |
"Jeffrey Reddick's cinematic journey began with glimpses of drive-in movies at age 12 and continues today with the likes of Tamara and a remake of Day of the Dead." |
Daniel Robert Epstein |
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Tarnation (2004) |
"Filmmaker Interviews - Jonathan Caouette joins producers Stephen Winter and John Cameron Mitchell to paint the vivid picture of one man's cinematic odyssey." |
Pam Grady |
Tomato |
Tarnation (2004) |
"The images are hypnotic and unnerving, elevating what might have been a masturbatory exercise into something transcendent and genuinely moving." |
Todd Gilchrist |
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The Taste of Others (2001) |
"The 100% Tomatometer query function is just about the most perversely fascinating one this side of IMDB’s Complex Name Search." |
Richard Horgan |
Splat |
Taxi (2004) |
"Maybe Queen Latifah should just drop off Jimmy Fallon where he belongs: 50 Rockefeller Center." |
Brett Buckalew |
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Taxi (2004) |
"Can Jimmy Fallon find success alongside Queen Latifah in a French movie remake? More importantly, did he really need to leave SNL to find out?" |
Richard Horgan |
- |
Team America: World Police (2004) |
"A blurred out orgy in Eyes Wide Shut. Abbreviated puppet sex in Team America. Is the MPAA Ratings Board protecting America or just wasting our time?" |
Richard Horgan |
Tomato |
Team America: World Police (2004) |
"Forget about Fahrenheit 9/11; this is the most incisive political film of 2004." |
Todd Gilchrist |
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Team America: World Police (2004) |
"Filmmaker Interviews - Trey Parker and Matt Stone both agree; the real fun of Team America was lampooning the incumbent leader of big-budget Hollywood filmmaking." |
Todd Gilchrist |
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Teeth (2008) |
"Unlike Fiona Horsey, the talented newcomer who has done nothing of note since Penetration Angst, Jess Weixler is already headed for bigger things." |
Richard Horgan |
Tomato |
The Ten (2007) |
"Any film that casts Oliver Platt as an Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator and takes the name of Dianne Wiest in vain gets my vote." |
Richard Horgan |
Tomato |
The Ten Commandments (1956) |
"On the seventh day of the assignment, FilmStew reviewer Todd Gilchrist was finally able to create a review. And it was good." |
Todd Gilchrist |
Tomato |
Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny (2006) |
"While fans of the HBO-born duo are already giving this a Thunderous “A,” for the rest of us it’s ultimately a Tendencious “B.”" |
Brett Buckalew |
Tomato B- |
The Terminal (2004) |
"An occasionally inspired, somewhat confused, utterly watchable film featuring some of the biggest stars in Hollywood." |
Larry Carroll |
- |
The Terminal (2004) |
"Did Spielberg and Dreamworks miss a golden opportunity by sidestepping the real-life Paris airport inspiration for Tom Hanks' character in The Terminal? Absolutely." |
Richard Horgan |
- |
The Terminal (2004) |
"The most refreshing aspect of next year’s Steven Spielberg-Tom Hanks collaboration The Terminal is its gargantuan set in the Palmdale desert." |
Todd Gilchrist |
- |
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) |
"Celebrity Interview - Arnold Schwarzenegger returns for his third film as the Terminator. In this interview he is joined by cast members Nick Stahl, Kristanna Loken and director Jonathan Mostow." |
Christina Radish |
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Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) |
"Celebrity Interview - Casting directors Sarah Halley Finn and Randi Hiller quietly string together three of this year's biggest action movies." |
Richard Horgan |
Splat |
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) |
"The film’s elaborate, high-tech chase and fight scenes are deliriously entertaining. . . but those hidden gaps in continuity, story and pacing reveal what’s truly missing from this effects-laden behemoth: a soul." |
Todd Gilchrist |
- |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
"Celebrity Interviews - Cinematographer Daniel Pearl joins producer Michael Bay and director Marcus Nispel to explain how he up wound shooting The Texas Chainsaw Massacre a second time." |
Anthony D'Alessandro |
Tomato |
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
"All in all, Massacre is proud to be nothing more than it intends to be, namely a straightforward, non-moralizing and unrepentant horror flick." |
Ian Spelling |
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) |
"There are some very basic ways mainstream horror films can steer clear of The Hollywood Critics Massacre." |
Todd Gilchrist |
Tomato |
Thank You For Smoking (2006) |
"Eckhart is a perfect antihero, melding the abhorrent masochism of In the Company of Men with the endearing biker-with-a-heart-of-gold of Erin Brockovich." |
Annlee Ellingson |
- |
Thank You For Smoking (2006) |
"Even though Jason Reitman has had every opportunity to do the rich kid thing in Hollywood, the filmmaker insists he has never even seen a pile of the white stuff." |
Brett Buckalew |
- |
The Polar Express (2004) |
"Filmmaker Interview - While the media tallies up the ominous totals for Robert Zemeckis’ new holiday offering, the filmmaker prefers to focus on the script." |
FilmStew Staff Report |
Tomato |
The Polar Express (2004) |
"The first spectacular surprise of this holiday season." |
Todd Gilchrist |
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The Signal (2007) |
"Filmmaker Interviews - Says co-writer-director Dan Bush: "The bigger the challenge you overcome, the more exhilarated you feel."" |
Pam Grady |
Tomato |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"More technically marvelous than Citizen Kane; more epic than Treasure of the Sierra Madre; more thrilling than any Malick film (yes, even Badlands)." |
Kevin Biggers |
- |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"If the prospect of Daniel Day-Lewis as John Huston isn’t enough to get you to start counting down the days to December 26th, you must be more of a comic book fan." |
Richard Horgan |
- |
There Will Be Blood (2007) |
"What really separates the two films is the fact that the evil of Plainview is pitted against religious salvation and all that this entails." |
Richard Horgan |
- |
The Thing About My Folks (2005) |
"Celebrity Interviews - Peter Falk, Paul Reiser and director Raymond De Felitta chat about an autobiographical road movie some twenty-two years in the making." |
Brent Simon |
- |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"Never has Del Toro looked so much like 1950’s icon James Dean – and for the span of an entire movie – as he does here." |
Richard Horgan |
Tomato |
Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
"It’s an old adage that the really great film actors put it across with expressions rather than words, and in Things there are about a hundred such moments for Del Toro." |
Richard Horgan |
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Thirteen (2003) |
"Celebrity Interview - To take an informative look at modern day adolescence, filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke teamed up with a real teenager, Nikki Reed, to write the script. They discuss their collaboration in this interview." |
Christina Radish |
Splat |
Thirteen (2003) |
". . .no adult, and certainly no parent, should have to endure the attention-grabbing temper tantrum that is Thirteen." |
Todd Gilchrist |
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This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006) |
"Filmmaker Interview - MPAA buster Kirby Dick is cautiously optimistic about the organizational changes he helped bring about." |
Brent Simon |
Tomato |
This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006) |
"For all the sound and fury, Kirby doesn’t seem to entirely “get” that the only purpose of the Ratings System in today’s Information Age is as a Clintonesque symbolic gesture." |
Telly Davidson |
Tomato |
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) |
"Like Richard Farnsworth, L. Q. Jones or even Steve McQueen in his later performances, Jones’ world-weary western masculinity transcends “movie acting.”" |
Todd Gilchrist |
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) |
"It was a question designed to shine a light on the perennial topic of art vs. commerce. But it quickly segued into the territory of me vs. Tommy Lee." |
Todd Gilchrist |
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