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C- |
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A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
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C- |
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A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
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"In A Scanner Darkly, we're watching other people freak out, but the film is maddening to sit through because their freak-outs never become ours." | |
Owen Gleiberman | |
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A Tout de Suite (2005) |
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A Tribute to Stanley Kubrick (1999) |
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Ty Burr | |
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A- |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
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"A.I. is a clash of the titans, a jumble, an oedipal drama, a carny act. I want to see it again." | |
Lisa Schwarzbaum | |
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B |
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A/K/A Tommy Chong (2005) |
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"It is also a portrait of resilience: Chong does his time (nine months) and has the last laugh, emerging as a born-again activist-survivor of the culture wars." | |
Owen Gleiberman | |
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B |
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Abandon (2002) |
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"A competently made, mildly diverting collegiate thriller." | |
Bruce Fretts | |
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D- |
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The Abandoned (2007) |
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"The movie sinks so deep into deathly atmosphere that there's no life to it." | |
Owen Gleiberman | |
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C |
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ABC Africa (2002) |
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"The people in ABC Africa are treated as docile, mostly wordless ethnographic extras." | |
Owen Gleiberman | |
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B- |
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Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2007) |
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"... as thickets of history and culture are (too) neatly avoided, the viewer is also left in the dark." | |
Scott Brown | |
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B+ |
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About a Boy (2002) |
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"The movie sticks much closer to Hornby's drop-dead confessional tone than the film version of High Fidelity did." | |
Owen Gleiberman | |
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C- |
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About Adam (2001) |
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"Calculated, cold, and damply demeaning." | |
Lisa Schwarzbaum | |
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A |
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About Schmidt (2002) |
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"One of the best films of the year." | |
Lisa Schwarzbaum | |
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B |
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Absolute Wilson (2006) |
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"Intriguing." | |
Lisa Schwarzbaum | |
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B- |
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Accepted (2006) |
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"Accepted's winning dumbness and breezy bons mots save it from the pit." | |
Scott Brown | |
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F |
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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
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"The most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 dog Rover Dangerfield." | |
Bruce Fretts | |
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A- |
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Adaptation (2002) |
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"Demonstrates that Kaufman, the real Charlie Kaufman, has a rare and really weird talent not only for finding portals into other people's psyches but also for Silly Puttying his own into the stories he tells." | |
Lisa Schwarzbaum | |
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The Addams Family (1991) |
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) |
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B+ |
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) |
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The Adventures of Pete and Pete - Season One (1993-1994) |
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D- |
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) |
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"How on earth, or anywhere else, did director Ron Underwood manage to blow $100 million on this?" | |
Owen Gleiberman | |
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C- |
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Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
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C- |
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Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
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"A strenuously merry, digitally produced folly that cavorts weakly like a parent over-involved in his kid's playtime." | |
Lisa Schwarzbaum | |
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C |
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Aeon Flux (2005) |
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"Theron plays Aeon as a reluctant cipher who yearns to get back to a real existence. By the end, you'll know the feeling." | |
Owen Gleiberman | |
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C |
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The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
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"There's no fury to the movie, repressed or otherwise, which may be why when the Revolution arrives, it has all the impact of a guillotine with a deadly dull blade." | |
Owen Gleiberman | |
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After the Life (2002) |
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"Each film stands satisfyingly on its own as a genre piece, but the triplex provides added understanding of character and consequence." | |
Lisa Schwarzbaum | |
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B- |
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After the Sunset (2004) |
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"The result is a knowingly preposterous toy thriller -- a sheer escape from consequence." | |
Owen Gleiberman | |
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A- |
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After The Wedding (2007) |
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A- |
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After The Wedding (2007) |
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"Talented filmmaker Susanne Bier, armed with an outstanding compositional sense, keeps control over the storms of melodrama that swirl in this rich weepie." | |
Lisa Schwarzbaum | |
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D+ |
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Against the Ropes (2003) |
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D+ |
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Against the Ropes (2003) |
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"What [Ryan] appears to be doing is an impression of Johnny Depp doing an impression of Keith Richards doing an impression of Liz Taylor." | |
Scott Brown | |
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C+ |
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Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
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"The movie seems to be set against the silvery backdrop of the Sharper Image catalog." | |
Scott Brown | |
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C- |
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
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"There's just too much spy in young Cody, and too little kid." | |
Scott Brown | |
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C |
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Agnes and His Brothers (2006) |
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"Writer-director Oskar Roehler spends all his energy on cataloging ''outrageous' behavior, and none on giving the transgressions any meaning." | |
Lisa Schwarzbaum | |
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B- |
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The Agronomist (2004) |
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B- |
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The Agronomist (2004) |
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"Works best as an homage." | |
Lisa Schwarzbaum | |
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A- |
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Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) |
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"It's a far more gripping documentary than Broomfield's 1992 Wuornos film." | |
Owen Gleiberman | |
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Aimee & Jaguar (2000) |
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"Färberböck's engrossing debut conveys the devotion between Aimée (Juliane Köhler) and Felice Schragenheim (Maria Schrader)." | |
Lisa Schwarzbaum | |
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B+ |
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Air Guitar Nation (2007) |
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"It's hard not to grin and admit that, yes, this is almost an art form." | |
Owen Gleiberman | |
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B+ |
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Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
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"Akeelah and the Bee may spell it out for you, but it pulls few punches in its depiction of the hurdles a verbally gifted South Central L.A. 11-year-old (Keke Palmer) must clear." | |
Scott Brown | |
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A |
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Aladdin (1992) |
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C+ |
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The Alamo (2004) |
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"Never harmonizes into a cinematic experience any more resonant than the average, manly, why-we-fight pic, or coalesces into a stirring cry for freedom." | |
Lisa Schwarzbaum | |
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Alex and Emma (2003) |
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"The film is a cross between When Harry Met Sally... and The Princess Bride, says Kate Hudson ..." | |
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D+ |
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Alex and Emma (2003) |
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"Could almost be a Mad TV parody of a god-awful modern romantic comedy." | |
Owen Gleiberman | |
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C |
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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) |
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"Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker is Agent Cody Banks played British and kinda straight -- that is, as straight as you can when your villain is played by a toothpick-chomping Mickey Rourke in purple eye shadow." | |
Gregory Kirschling | |
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C- |
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Alexander (2004) |
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C- |
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Alexander (2004) |
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"Everything we're told about Alexander remains an abstraction, an index-card idea for a character pasted onto Farrell's less-than-mythic presence." | |
Owen Gleiberman | |
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B- |
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Alfie (2004) |
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B- |
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Alfie (2004) |
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"Law makes self-satisfaction beguiling, and in an odd way that's his, and the movie's, limitation." | |
Owen Gleiberman | |
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