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A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
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"Scene after scene of verbose fiddle-faddle: Characters orate at each other, while sitting in cars, sitting at dining tables, sitting in living rooms, sitting at office desks. The film might be better titled The Big Sit." | |
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A Tout de Suite (2005) |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
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"Never less than fascinating." | |
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A/K/A Tommy Chong (2005) |
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"First-time filmmaker Josh Gilbert, whose skills behind the camera are rudimentary, might be a bit too close to his subject to do disinterested viewers justice." | |
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Abandon (2002) |
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"A highly schizophrenic movie that clearly wants to explore the lives of university students under stress their senior year but is forced to do so within a thriller format that requires spooky moments and malevolent ghosts." | |
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The Abduction Club (2002) |
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"The film rarely musters any great sense of passion or excitement." | |
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Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2007) |
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"There's no denying the fascinating nature of the story, about a 13-year-old Japanese girl whose mysterious 1977 disappearance was ultimately credited to nothing less than a kidnapping by North Korean spies." | |
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Abominable (2006) |
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"You keep looking for a sign that its young writer-director, Ryan Schifrin, is going for a tongue-in-cheek romp. But no, he seems to be deadly earnest." | |
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About a Boy (2002) |
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"Beautifully written and directed and packed with excellent performances." | |
Mark Adams | |
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About Schmidt (2002) |
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"It's a commanding Jack Nicholson lead performance that puts it into a sublime league of its own." | |
Michael Rechtshaffen | |
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Absolute Wilson (2006) |
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"The film includes generous amounts of archival footage of his work, but the film's genius is to get us inside those works. Wilson's own recollection of his work is the biggest key to understanding what make him and it tick." | |
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Absurdistan (2008) |
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"An attempt at comic allegory that stretches a thin premise to feature length." | |
Justin Lowe | |
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Accepted (2006) |
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"Despite some genuine laughs, this underdog college comedy fails to live up to its promising potential." | |
Michael Rechtshaffen | |
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Across the Universe (2007) |
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"Despite all the inventive work, the film never achieves the soaring sense of bliss that would place it in the pantheon of movie musicals." | |
Stephen Farber | |
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The Actors (2003) |
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"Enjoyable lightweight entertainment and marks stand-up comedian Dylan Moran as an endearing talent to watch." | |
Mark Adams | |
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Adam & Steve (2006) |
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"Adam & Steve mainly goes to prove that indie gay romantic comedies can be just as witless, vulgar and over the top as their straight, major studio counterparts." | |
Frank Scheck | |
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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
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"The animation is rudimentary and imagination virtually absent." | |
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Adam's Apples (2007) |
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"Its screenplay attempts to blend outrageous black humor with biblical allegory in an ultimately unsuccessful fashion." | |
Frank Scheck | |
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Adaptation (2002) |
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"Kaufman and Jonze take huge risks to ponder the whole notion of passion -- our desire as human beings for passion in our lives and the emptiness one feels when it is missing." | |
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Adored - Diary of a Porn Star (2004) |
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"Offers a few surprisingly sweet moments but never overcomes the narcissism it's ostensibly deconstructing." | |
Sheri Linden | |
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Adrift in Manhattan (2007) |
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"The film's most effective moments are its quietest." | |
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The Adventures of Felix (2001) |
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"Sufficiently aimless to make moviegoers wish he had taken the train." | |
Frank Scheck | |
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The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) |
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"Even Murphy's expert comic timing and famed charisma can't rescue this effort." | |
Frank Scheck | |
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Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
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"An often imaginative though less than magical family feature." | |
Michael Rechtshaffen | |
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) |
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"Many actors have tried, but none has surpassed Basil Rathbone's embodiment of Sherlock Holmes." | |
Glenn Abel | |
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Aeon Flux (2005) |
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"Simultaneously silly, ostentatious and terribly boring." | |
Michael Rechtshaffen | |
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The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
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"As a history lesson, the movie is entertaining enough, but at times you long to get out of Versailles and join the rabble in Paris." | |
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After Innocence (2005) |
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"Sanders' report from a new frontier in American jurisprudence is filled with the hopeful, haunted look of men who won't easily be forgotten." | |
Sheri Linden | |
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After Midnight (2004) |
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"Ultimately sinks under the weight of its often pretentious quirkiness, but it does offer some pleasures along the way, especially for nostalgia-minded cinephiles." | |
Frank Scheck | |
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After the Apocalypse (2004) |
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After the Life (2002) |
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"The strongest film [of the trilogy]." | |
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After the Sunset (2004) |
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"The movie comes off more like a watered-down film version of an Elmore Leonard crime novel set in tropical climes, only without his gritty edge or sagacious take on the human condition." | |
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After The Wedding (2007) |
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"A filmmaker who excels in peeling back those delicate layers of human frailty, Denmark's Susanne Bier returns to Toronto, which premiered her previous two films, with another powerful family portrait." | |
Michael Rechtshaffen | |
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Aftermath (2004) |
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Against the Ropes (2003) |
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"Meg Ryan's swell, but this 'Erin Rocky-vich' inspirational story lacks punch." | |
Michael Rechtshaffen | |
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Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
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"A wholly uninspired Spy Kids knockoff that squanders some decent high-tech gadgetry with its slipshod plotting and clunky pacing." | |
Michael Rechtshaffen | |
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
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"The teen Bond's latest mission finds the would-be franchise creatively Banks-rupt." | |
Michael Rechtshaffen | |
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Agnes and His Brothers (2006) |
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"The film's outrageousness would be more palatable if leavened with more wit, or if the characterizations possessed more nuances." | |
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Agnes Browne (1999) |
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The Agronomist (2004) |
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"An engrossing, entertaining and highly moving portrait of a man who was martyred for his strong beliefs." | |
Frank Scheck | |
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Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) |
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"A profoundly disturbing film." | |
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AKA (2002) |
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"Needlessly distracting and off-putting." | |
Frank Scheck | |
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Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
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"Effectively anchoring the picture is Keke Palmer's lovely lead performance as Akeelah Anderson." | |
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Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) |
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"The film only sporadically succeeds in providing biographical information or thematic depth, but Franken is such a witty and thoughtful presence that these flaws don't matter greatly." | |
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The Alamo (2004) |
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"A respectable and at times an exciting film that should appeal to males of all ages, history buffs and -- yes, it's inevitable -- patriots." | |
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Alatriste (2006) |
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"The Arturo Perez-Reverte novels come to vivid life in this beautifully shot, if unevenly paced epic." | |
Michael Rechtshaffen | |
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Alex and Emma (2003) |
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"Pairing two bankable actors as likable Kate Hudson and Luke Wilson in a romantic comedy would seem like a recipe for success, but the end result proves to be a dull, draggy disappointment." | |
Michael Rechtshaffen | |
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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker (2006) |
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"A lame and disappointing affair." | |
Ray Bennett | |
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Alexander (2004) |
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"The storytelling is so ham-fisted as to induce titters." | |
Kirk Honeycutt | |
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Alexandra (2008) |
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"Stark but moving snapshot of men on the front line of a nation's nightmare." | |
Ray Bennett | |
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