Bruce Fretts
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Dirty Work (1998)
19%
D-
“Director Bob Saget stages gags with all the subtlety you’d expect from a guy who spent too many years on Full House.” –
Entertainment Weekly
May 14, 2025
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Military Wives (2019)
77%
4/5
“Director Peter Cattaneo, a veteran of The Full Monty, hits the right notes, finding laughs in the familiar yet satisfying story while never losing sight of the situation's underlying seriousness.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
May 29, 2020
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61* (2001)
86%
“The filmmakers depict the teammates' relationship with a gratifying complexity -- they're both competitive and protective of each other.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Mar 25, 2020
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The Way Back (2020)
85%
4/5
“It's cinematic comfort food solidly crafted by skilled professionals... that [Ben] Affleck can elevate this material to genuine poignance - well, that's a more impressively superheroic feat than anything he ever pulled off with the Justice League.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Mar 5, 2020
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Dark Waters (2019)
89%
3/5
“In the end, Dark Waters remains frustratingly murky.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Nov 22, 2019
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Ad Astra (2019)
83%
3/5
“Visually spectacular but dramatically inert sci-fi snoozer...” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Sep 27, 2019
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American Dreamer (2018)
57%
5/5
“It's a captivating ride.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Sep 27, 2019
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After the Wedding (2019)
45%
4/5
“Seek out this sleeper in theaters, where it deserves to be seen.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Aug 9, 2019
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Luce (2019)
91%
5/5
“It is, in a word, brilliant.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Jul 31, 2019
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Wild Rose (2018)
92%
5/5
“Oscar nominee Walters (Billy Elliot, Educating Rita) could be a 2019 contender for this feel-great charmer.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Jul 15, 2019
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Yesterday (2019)
63%
“If you don't think about it too much, there's much to be enjoyed here...” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Jun 28, 2019
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Trial by Fire (2018)
63%
4/5
“The actress (Dern) brings her trademark intelligence and tenacity to the character, and the film also features strong supporting performances.” –
AARP Movies for Grownups
Jun 4, 2019
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The Legend of 1900 (1998)
56%
B-
“A trio of fine performances keeps it from curdling into magical schmaltz. Roth projects a disarmingly elegant presence, and he's equaled by Clarence Williams III, who challenges 1900 to a piano showdown in the film's exuberant centerpiece.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Mar 6, 2019
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Dinner With Friends (2001)
90%
“Astringently witty and ultimately heart shattering, ''Dinner With Friends'' is an expertly prepared gourmet feast in a world of 온라인카지노추천 dinners.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Oct 7, 2011
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Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974)
100%
B
“Darren McGavin's disheveled newspaper reporter Carl Kolchak might not be as hunky as David Duchovny's Agent Fox Mulder, but he shares an equally paranoid obsession with the paranormal.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Oct 24, 2008
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Returner (2002)
38%
D+
“While watching the movie, you may also feel like you've traveled back in time -- to the plots of any number of better films.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Oct 16, 2003
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American Wedding (2003)
53%
D-
“A groin-numbing onslaught of sexual-humiliation and emission-ingestion gags.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Jul 30, 2003
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Rugrats Go Wild (2003)
40%
C+
“Mildly amusing, but compared to Pixar's splashy fish story, the rudimentary drawings and childish gags of Nickelodeon's latest feature look, in a word, cartoonish.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Jun 11, 2003
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Final Destination 2 (2003)
52%
D+
“Opens with a horrific traffic accident, which seems apt since what follows is the cinematic equivalent of rubbernecking.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Jan 29, 2003
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Darkness Falls (2003)
10%
D-
“Like something salvaged from Stephen King's wastebasket.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Jan 25, 2003
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Empire (2002)
21%
B+
“Between bursts of automatic gunfire, the story offers a trenchant critique of capitalism.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Dec 5, 2002
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Extreme Ops (2002)
7%
D-
“The film's most improbable feat? It didn't go straight to video.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Dec 5, 2002
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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
13%
F
“The most ill-conceived animated comedy since the 1991 dog Rover Dangerfield.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Nov 27, 2002
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Half Past Dead (2002)
3%
D
“It's no use: At this point, the bloated action figure [Seagal] couldn't restore his street cred if he joined the Wu-Tang Clan.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Nov 13, 2002
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Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie (2002)
64%
B-
“Bouncy animation and catchy songs keep the film from tasting too much like spinach.” –
Entertainment Weekly
Oct 24, 2002
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