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Hairspray (2007) |
"Travolta's bountiful dance floor booty steals the show." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Halloween (2007) |
"Many ambitious moviemakers have recklessly tread on John Carpenter's seriously hallowed ground anointed by the raving screen maniac's many fans, and found themselves sorely lacking." |
Prairie Miller |
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Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"Can a frustrated actor pen a Hamlet sequel reviving dead characters via a time machine with Jesus, Einstein and Hillary Clinton? If this daring, irreverent social satire has its say, those lunatic possibilities may prove just that on screen." |
Prairie Miller |
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Hancock (2008) |
"A superhero movie with soul, a magically endowed boozer, and quirky chemistry fueled between those two dramatic heavyweights, Will Smith and Charlize Theron, who go at it like Hillary and Obama duking it out at a presidential primary." |
Prairie Miller |
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The Happening (2008) |
"A numbing polemical morality tale in dreary doomsday thriller clothing, this dull downer for all its mass panic attack high alert mode, may be more effective in unintentionally boring people to death." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Happy Endings (2005) |
"There's a little fanciful magic to spread over this flighty romance on the run, or at least enough to take that hackneyed notion of the happy ending, and fashion something fresh and new." |
Prairie Miller |
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Harold (2008) |
"Abigail's older brother Spencer Breslin, does his own magnificent Little Mister Sunshine leading boy thing. Harold, a kinder, gentler Superbad minus the talking dirty teen motormouths. Move over, Judd Apatow." |
Prairie Miller |
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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) |
"A prison sex slave rebellion having to do with an organ sandwich, don't ask, and a detour over to Bush's secret sex den, make this ballsy doper duo and their Blue State versus Red State rant hard to resist." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"Rather than a brand new sense of adventure, there's a sense in this sequel of a rerun, a tendency that even Harry's extreme magic can't seem to overcome." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) |
"Rather than a brand new sense of adventure, there's a sense in this sequel of a rerun, a tendency that even Harry's extreme magic can't seem to overcome." |
Prairie Miller |
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He's Just Not That Into You (2009) |
"The Scarlett Johansson HJNTIY Interview: On getting dumped, digitally and otherwise, mating moments in life, the downside of buying toilet paper, and how crab can be a happening thing." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Head in the Clouds (2004) |
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If this film is any indication of how Hollywood is looking at history, then the turbulent events of WWII are mostly about whom you were dating." |
Prairie Miller |
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Health in America, Gary Null |
"LI Film Expo 2007: AIDS, INC. - Gary Null Interview: Look at Vyox. Nobody has ever been held accountable, as long as you've got a corporate title in front of you. Let's face it. Only in America could you kill a hundred thousand people, and get a raise!" |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Heartbreak Kid (2007) |
"An insane role reversal that positions the gorgeous trophy bride as the unrequited ugly duckling to Ben Stiller's geeky womanizing newlywed stud." |
Prairie Miller |
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The Heartbreak Kid (2007) |
"Expect the unexpected with those Farrelly Brothers cooking up their usual mischief." |
Prairie Miller |
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Henry Fool (1998) |
"A perverse Gothic comedy about a mostly mute Queens garbageman who is graced with the Nobel Prize for literature soon after drifting nearly by accident into the creative life." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Hero (2004) |
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A fanciful martial arts extravaganza with too winking a nod to Hollywood westerns, Hong Kong actioners, music videos and the market economy invasion." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
A History of Violence (2005) |
"It's that personal courage to question the way things are, that elevates this film way above even its impressive enough status as an exceedingly effective thriller." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Hitler's Hit Parade (2005) |
"Takes its chances on the viewer just 'getting it,' through the visual and musical cues threaded together - Hitler, war and death camp images intertwined with cheery chorus lines and ecstatic celeb crooners." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Hitler's Hit Parade (2005) |
"Takes its chances on the viewer just 'getting it,' through the visual and musical cues threaded together - Hitler, war and death camp images intertwined with cheery chorus lines and ecstatic celeb crooners." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Hoax (2007) |
"Though he seems to burrow knowingly into Irving's deeply flawed defective character, Gere's own celebrity-conscious, dramatically restrained performance strangely distances him from the charlatan's likely far more charming and darkly magnetic persona." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
The Hoax (2007) |
"Richard Gere takes on the seemingly unpleasant task of playing this exceedingly unlikeable egghead trickster." |
Prairie Miller |
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Home (2008) |
"An ironically titled, simultaneously lyrical and brutal window into cancer as a complex life altering experience, and the ordeal, not of facing death, but rather confronting life as a disfigured and scorned cancer survivor." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Homie Spumoni |
"Breezing along as an utterly confused, self-deluded but rarely defeated and always rebounding racially split personality, Faison's Renato/Leroy is a periodically freaked out, walking metaphor for America's ongoing tempestuous tango with race and identity." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Honey (2003) |
"Sparkling but slight glimpse into the lives of the lusty female dancers of the music video world." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Honeymooners (2005) |
"A stroll down sitcom memory lane in name only, The Honeymooners seems as if any resemblance to the original TV classic could only be accidental." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
Honeymooners (2005) |
"A stroll down sitcom memory lane in name only, The Honeymooners seems as if any resemblance to the original TV classic could only be accidental." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Hostage (2005) |
"Mostly a nerve jangling thriller, but you know there's something not quite right about a movie when you're wondering more about why such a plush mansion on fire doesn't have a better sprinkler system." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Hostage (2005) |
"Mostly a nerve jangling thriller, but you know there's something not quite right about a movie when you're wondering more about why such a plush mansion on fire doesn't have a better sprinkler system." |
Prairie Miller |
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Hostel: Part II (2007) |
"Takes gleeful satirical exception to some highly unnatural Western appetites for violence as routine entertainment, and unorthodox pleasures indulged elsewhere in the world, in particular the money can buy anything notion of sex tourism." |
Prairie Miller |
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The Hottest State (2006) |
"The most vividly etched, darkly comical scenes are surprisingly conveyed by the older generation surrounding these young characters bereft of any chemistry or 'heated state' despite their tender years and temperamental hormones." |
Prairie Miller |
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The Hottie & the Nottie (2008) |
"The Paris Hilton 'Hottie And The Nottie' Interview: On ugly ducklings, stalker moments, and the real me." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
House of D (2005) |
"Nothing wrong with working out borderline incestuous fixation issues. But a film still has to be more than your very own shrink, and reach out to the audience and rise above psychodrama interplay more suited to the therapist couch." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
House of D (2005) |
"Nothing wrong with working out borderline incestuous fixation issues. But a film still has to be more than your very own shrink, and reach out to the audience and rise above psychodrama interplay more suited to the therapist couch." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
House of Sand and Fog (2003) |
"Simplistic speculation that bases inner character on wrongheaded, at times offensive notions, of how a culture instead of the individual, gets revealed on screen." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
House of Wax (2005) |
"This Wax's infusion of Paris Hilton and flirty teen sex comedy retreads might have sent original wax maniac Vincent Price into spontaneous meltdown, without the need of heating fluid." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
House of Wax (2005) |
"This Wax's infusion of Paris Hilton and flirty teen sex comedy retreads might have sent original wax maniac Vincent Price into spontaneous meltdown, without the need of heating fluid." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) |
"The movie appears to be stocked with nine to five giggly runway models wearing $2,000 outfits, rather than your usual office drudges." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) |
"The movie appears to be stocked with nine to five giggly runway models wearing $2,000 outfits, rather than your usual office drudges." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
The Human Stain (2003) |
"Tries to hedge its bets by doing a conscious balancing act between page and screen, and ends up doing justice to neither." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
The Hunted (2003) |
"It tantalizes us with lingering questions about actual guilt, and then wraps it all up as if those questions had never been raised." |
Prairie Miller |
Splat |
The Hunting Party (2007) |
"The movie is more concerned with mounting big screen infotainment and sidebar issues like the lure of 'that adrenalin rush and nonstop erection of fear and war,' than making sense of the confounding stage of world history." |
Prairie Miller |
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