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Wag the Dog (1997) |
"Director Barry Levinson and writers Hilary Henkin and David Mamet (no less) have obviously known their share of Stanleys, and we have no trouble believing in him." |
Richard Schickel |
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Waitress (2007) |
"There's something spunky about those pies and there's something spunky about Waitress in general." |
Richard Schickel |
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007) |
"Call me a cynic, call me a curmudgeon, call me perverse -- I loved every moment of Dewey Cox's story." |
Richard Schickel |
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Walk the Line (2005) |
"[Director] James Mangold's mostly excellent Walk the Line is designed as a Christian epic." |
Richard Corliss |
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WALL-E (2008) |
"Time Names Its Favorite Films of '08" |
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WALL-E (2008) |
"It works; this is Pixar's most enthralling entertainment since Nemo." |
Richard Corliss |
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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) |
"The final work justifies every meticulous, monastic, masochistic effort." |
Richard Corliss |
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Wanted (2008) |
"Directed at a pitch of gritty giddiness by the Kazakhstan-born Timur Bekmambetov, this hard-R splatter-fest about a team of sanctified assassins is also the summer's zazziest action movie." |
Richard Corliss |
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Watchmen (2009) |
"Watchmen has moments of greatness. It proves again that the action movie is where the best young Hollywood brains have gone to bring flesh to their fantasies." |
Richard Corliss |
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Watership Down (1978) |
"A rare movie that keeps kids on the edge of their chairs without inducing in their parents an overwhelming desire to escape theirs for a smoke in the lobby." |
Richard Schickel |
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Wayne's World (1992) |
"Hollywood surely accepts the movie's message: laughter is the least expensive therapy. And audiences may happily parrot another Wayneism to Myers: 'He shoots! He scores!'" |
Richard Corliss |
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West Side Story (1961) |
"Unhappily, the film shares a serious flaw in the essential conception of the show; both are founded on a phony literary analogy and on some potentially vicious pseudo-sociology." |
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What About Bob? (1991) |
"Murray, with his curious blend of pathos and aggressiveness, is terrific, and so is an acutely uptight Dreyfuss, never once copping a plea for our sympathy." |
Richard Schickel |
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What Happens in Vegas (2008) |
"Why do we have to suffer through movies like What Happens in Vegas, which is the worst-in-breed not only for this year, but very likely in living memory." |
Richard Corliss |
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) |
"Suggests that the true heroes are those people who day by day must tend to misfits, and do so with love, tenacity and a determination not to go terminally sour in the process." |
Richard Corliss |
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When Harry Met Sally... (1989) |
"Can a man and a woman be friends without worrying about having sex? Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan spend a beguiling dozen years trying to figure it out." |
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When We Were Kings (1996) |
"If anyone deserves an award, it is Ali; his charisma makes the film." |
Richard Corliss |
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009) |
"The beasts are recognizable from Sendak's pages, but Jonze gives them names and distinct personalities that connect to aspects of Max's psyche and to the people he loves. (Freud would adore this movie.)" |
Mary F. Pols |
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While You Were Sleeping (1995) |
"Recaptures the true spirit of the best kind of modern fairy tale." |
Richard Schickel |
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Whip It (2009) |
"Even if a tale of female empowerment through roller derby is not your particular cup of tea, Barrymore delivers it with such a giddy good sense of fun that it's easy enough to go along with." |
Mary F. Pols |
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White (1993) |
"The film works fine on its own." |
Richard Corliss |
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White Heat (1949) |
"Brilliantly directed by Raoul Walsh, an old master of cinema hoodlumism, it returns a more subtle James Cagney to the kind of thug role that made him famous." |
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White Hunter, Black Heart (1990) |
"Especially for those who have pegged Clint Eastwood too quickly as a masculine traditionalist, White Hunter, Black Heart is a movie to conjure with." |
Richard Schickel |
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The White Ribbon (2009) |
"This is among the most luminous and painterly of black-and-white films, but what's portrayed will shock or numb you." |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) |
"The opening cartoon upstages the movie that emerges from it." |
Richard Corliss |
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Who Killed The Electric Car? (2006) |
"Chris Paine's documentary makes an unapologetic case for the car and an unofficial indictment of the forces allied against it." |
Richard Corliss |
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The Widow of St. Pierre (2001) |
"Issues of life and death, love and friendship play out delicately and powerfully." |
Richard Corliss |
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2007) |
"... despite its length (over two hours) and some structural problems, it is an absorbing, worthwhile and often passionate movie." |
Richard Schickel |
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Windtalkers (2002) |
"The energy and conviction of the action sequences don't quite compensate for Windtalkers' emotional cliches and historical heedlessness." |
Richard Schickel |
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Winged Migration (2003) |
"Whether we're seeing a startled flock taking sudden flight or zapping into a mountain lake to catch fish, our eye is constantly bedazzled." |
Richard Schickel |
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Wings (1927) |
"The audience gulped down the plot as conventional but reliable stuff, watched with waning interest while spinning, swerving, dodging planes grew into confused monotony against a background of unpicturesque ether." |
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The Witches of Eastwick (1987) |
"John Updike: 1932-2009" |
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Without Limits (1998) |
"Whether he would have won at the next Olympics, we'll never know. What we do know is that Towne, a man of ruefully romantic temperament, has found a soulmate in Steve Prefontaine." |
Richard Schickel |
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The Wizard of Oz (1939) |
"Lavish in sets, adult in humor, it is a Broadway spectacle translated into make-believe." |
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The Women (2008) |
"One of the worst movies I've ever seen." |
Richard Schickel |
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Wordplay (2006) |
"Every bit as smart as the Times puzzles, puzzlemakers and puzzle solvers." |
Richard Corliss |
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World Trade Center (2006) |
"A powerful movie experience, a hymn in plainsong that glorifies that which is best in the American spirit." |
Richard Schickel |
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Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993) |
"Wrestling Ernest Hemingway aspires to be serious about its subject. Yet in a curious way this sobriety works against it. Frank and Walt turn into schematically contrasting case studies, and the movie's sympathy for them eventually becomes patronizing." |
Richard Schickel |
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