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 3/4 |
A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"There's always something eye-catching on view." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/5 |
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) |
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Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
About a Boy (2002) |
"A thoroughly entertaining comedy that uses Grant's own twist of acidity to prevent itself from succumbing to its own bathos." |
Matt Brunson |
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3.5/4 |
Across the Universe (2007) |
"A magical mystery tour with the power to restore one's faith in both movies and music." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
Adaptation (2002) |
"This loopy comedy certainly scores points for originality -- or at least until it writes itself into a corner during the final half-hour." |
Matt Brunson |
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 1.5/4 |
Aeon Flux (2005) |
"An impersonal slab of sci-fi sameness, Aeon Flux wears its lethargy like a badge of honor." |
Matt Brunson |
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2/4 |
After the Sunset (2004) |
"Beyond the eye candy represented by the stars and their sun-soaked surroundings, there's little else that's memorable about this disposable tissue of a movie." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
After The Wedding (2007) |
"Initially threatening to turn into the most shameless of melodramas, it instead builds upon its rickety foundation with such dexterity and grace that it eventually emerges as a deeply moving experience." |
Matt Brunson |
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1.5/4 |
Against the Ropes (2003) |
"Against the Ropes ... is "inspired" by Kallen's life but ultimately has as much to do with her story as Schindler's List did with the War of 1812." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
Akeelah and the Bee (2006) |
"What sets the film apart is the manner in which it details how Akeelah's triumphs end up lifting the entire community." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
Aladdin (1992) |
"The humor quotient is high, thanks to such scene-stealers as the duplicitous parrot Iago, the mischievous monkey Abu and, of course, Robin Williams' motormouth Genie." |
Matt Brunson |
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1.5/4 |
The Alamo (2004) |
"The equivalent of one long drone from a stiff Social Studies teacher who can scarcely be bothered to add any sort of relevance to the topic." |
Matt Brunson |
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1/4 |
Alexander (2004) |
"This movie is unremittingly dull, visually unappealing, narratively muddled, inadvertently campy, wretchedly performed -- and that's just for starters." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
Alfie (2004) |
"The key to this movie's success rests in the central performance by Jude Law -- this easily represents his best acting to date." |
Matt Brunson |
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4/4 |
All About Eve (1950) |
"My all-time favorite film." |
Matt Brunson |
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4/4 |
All in the Family - The Complete Second Season (1971-72) |
"The second season features many of the series' most enduring episodes, including the immortal show in which Sammy Davis Jr. visits the Bunker residence." |
Matt Brunson |
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1/4 |
All The King's Men (2006) |
"An unmitigated disaster, choked by miscast actors, suffocated by illogical editing and drowned by a choppy script that offers no real sense of period and no clear delineation of its central themes." |
Matt Brunson |
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3.5/4 |
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"There's something about the simplicity and directness of the relationship in All the Real Girls that truly touches the heart." |
Matt Brunson |
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2.5/4 |
Along Came Polly (2004) |
"Two factors save this from being a disaster." |
Matt Brunson |
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1/4 |
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) |
"Desperately conceived on every level, this forlorn family film amounts to little more than celluloid roadkill." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"Perhaps more Masterpiece Theatre than motion picture, Amazing Grace nevertheless tells a story that's compelling enough to compensate for the occasional stuffiness." |
Matt Brunson |
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2/4 |
American Dreamz (2006) |
"This isn't a black comedy -- it's more like a whiter shade of pale." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
American Gangster (2007) |
"For all its familiar trappings, director Ridley Scott and writer Steven Zaillian invest their tale with plenty of verve, even if they frequently soft-pedal the deeds of their real-life protagonist." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
American Teen (2008) |
"As a movie character, [Hannah's] a keeper; if she didn't really exist, Diablo Cody would probably have to create her." |
Matt Brunson |
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1/4 |
The Amityville Horror (2005) |
"I've seen episodes of Sesame Street that were more frightening than this generic junk." |
Matt Brunson |
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1.5/4 |
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) |
"Aimed squarely at the open-mouth-breathers who turned Dumb and Dumber and Big Daddy into hits." |
Matt Brunson |
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2.5/4 |
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
"A pleasant diversion, but it still runs behind Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera and Claude Rains' The Phantom of the Opera." |
Matt Brunson |
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4/5 |
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) |
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Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
Anger Management (2003) |
"Both last fall's Punch-Drunk Love and now Anger Management demonstrate that Sandler can be an engaging presence when he drags himself away from projects aimed at mentally deficient frat boys." |
Matt Brunson |
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1.5/4 |
The Ant Bully (2006) |
"The only thing it inspired in me was a sudden urge to spray the screen with Raid." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
Anything Else (2003) |
"Part of the appeal is that the creep-out factor has been excised -- namely, Allen's tendency to cast himself as elderly nebbishes who prove to be irresistible to young women." |
Matt Brunson |
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2/4 |
Apocalypto (2006) |
"Gibson isn't interested in educating either us or himself ... [and] the switch to pure action allows him to indulge in his by-now predictable sadism." |
Matt Brunson |
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1.5/4 |
Around the Bend (2004) |
"Given the plotline, how about a KFC promotion in which their chicken is sold in a bucket that's shaped like an urn?" |
Matt Brunson |
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1.5/4 |
Around the World in 80 Days (2004) |
"Everything about this production seems tired." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
Art School Confidential (2006) |
"Starts out as a great movie that eventually devolves into a pretty good one." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
Ashes of Time Redux (2008) |
"The motion picture as mood ring." |
Matt Brunson |
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2.5/4 |
Ask the Dust (2005) |
"Difficult to swallow are the heavy-handed narrative developments that dominate the film's second half." |
Matt Brunson |
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3.5/4 |
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"Hardly a straight shoot-em-up, it instead serves as a commentary on the manner in which Western fact morphed into Western myth even as the ink was still drying on that particular time in American history." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
The Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004) |
"Sean Penn's reputation often exceeds his actual accomplishments (an Oscar for Mystic River? Please...), yet here's the actor delivering one of his finest performances." |
Matt Brunson |
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2/4 |
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) |
"Expect no surprises from yet another needless remake." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
Atonement (2007) |
"It's a shame that the denouement doesn't completely provide us with the emotional catharsis we require." |
Matt Brunson |
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2.5/4 |
August Rush (2007) |
"That Robin Williams' character turns out to be a controlling bully is one of the picture's few surprises; everything else falls neatly into place, thanks to a script that needs about 128 coincidences to retain its forward momentum." |
Matt Brunson |
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2.5/4 |
Australia (2008) |
"The worst culprit of overacting is David Wenham, whose dastardly henchman Fletcher ends up perhaps the most risible movie villain since Billy Zane's Cal Hockley took shots at Leonardo DiCaprio's Jack Dawson as the Titanic sank into the chilly depths." |
Matt Brunson |
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3/4 |
Auto Focus (2002) |
"A distant, even sterile, yet compulsively watchable look at the sordid life of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane." |
Matt Brunson |
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3.5/4 |
The Aviator (2004) |
"A stirring tale about a man whose drive allowed him to climb ever higher, grazing the heavens before his demons seized the controls and forced the inevitable, dreary descent." |
Matt Brunson |
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2/5 |
Awakenings (1990) |
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Matt Brunson |
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3.5/4 |
Away From Her (2007) |
"Portrays the ravages of [Alzheimer's] with clear-eyed honesty, tracking not only the effects on its victims but also on the caretakers who provide support even as their loved ones are fading away right before their eyes." |
Matt Brunson |
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4/4 |
The Awful Truth (1937) |
"Cary Grant ... delivers one of the greatest comic performances we'll ever have the pleasure of witnessing." |
Matt Brunson |
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