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The Cheetah Girls (2003) Jacqueline Cutler
Posted Sep 11, 2019
Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (2014) Jean Bentley
Posted Jan 27, 2014
Flowers in the Attic (2014) Jean Bentley
Posted Jan 21, 2014
Burton and Taylor (2013) Billy Nilles
Posted Oct 18, 2013
B+
Prince Avalanche (2013) Geoff Berkshire Prince Avalanche is a film to get lost in, while also proving [David Gordon] Green is back on track.
Posted Aug 07, 2013
C+
Lovelace (2013) Geoff Berkshire
Posted Aug 07, 2013
B
V/H/S/2 (2013) Geoff Berkshire The four shorts this time share a unifying structure: they start calmly enough and then build to frenzied -- and usually very bloody -- heights.
Posted Aug 07, 2013
B+
Behind the Candelabra (2013) Geoff Berkshire Miraculously avoiding caricature and only going as camp as necessary, Douglas makes Liberace something of a sympathetic monster.
Posted May 28, 2013
C
Phil Spector (2013) Geoff Berkshire A stronger film could have inspired questions about the legal system, celebrity or the actual personalities involved in this case. The only question Phil Spector inspires is, "What's the point?"
Posted May 22, 2013
B-
Oblivion (2013) Geoff Berkshire The characters aren't quite deep enough and the story's twists are too dependent on murky motivations and head-slapping coincidences to satisfy.
Posted Apr 22, 2013
C-
Beautiful Creatures (2013) Geoff Berkshire If the best thing that can be said about a bad melodrama is that the actors are in on the joke, it's probably time to rethink the approach.
Posted Feb 14, 2013
C-
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) Geoff Berkshire This is not the Die Hard you're looking for.
Posted Feb 14, 2013
C
Identity Thief (2013) Geoff Berkshire Plays like one of those junky '80s vehicles Whoopi Goldberg got saddled with because Hollywood didn't know what the hell else to do with her.
Posted Feb 08, 2013
C+
Side Effects (2013) Geoff Berkshire The narrative twists and turns ... are no match for the far more interesting mystery still unfolding off screen.
Posted Feb 08, 2013
Weight of the Nation (2012) Jacqueline Cutler
Posted Aug 31, 2012
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2009) Elizabeth Snead
Posted Aug 23, 2010
3/4
Casino Royale (2006) Daniel Fienberg Craig is a marvel, but the decision to have Bond engaged in a game of Hold 'Em poker is a betrayal of the character and an embarrassing bit of pandering. Small detail, I know.
Posted Nov 17, 2006
3/4
This Film Is Not Yet Rated (2006) Daniel Fienberg The movie is driven not by the desire to explore one or two specific aspects of the problem in any depth, but to run through the long list of Dick's frustrations superficially
Posted Sep 04, 2006
1/4
Crank (2006) Daniel Fienberg It boils down to 83 minutes of Chev journeying through LA's ethnic 'hoods dispatching minorities. Granted the movie can't be taken seriously, its cavalier racism is shocking.
Posted Sep 04, 2006
2/4
Idlewild (2006) Daniel Fienberg There's a certain oddness to a movie that casts Paula Patton as a singer only to dub her voice but leaves legends like Ben Vereen and Patti LaBelle in non-musical parts.
Posted Aug 25, 2006
3/4
Invincible (2006) Daniel Fienberg Credit Invincible with varying the Disney formula just a bit. While still a "feel good" movie, it's a dark and miserable road that must be traveled along the way.
Posted Aug 25, 2006
2/4
Beerfest (2006) Daniel Fienberg Beerfest is a one-joke movie ("Hey what if the Olympics had cool competitions like beer pong?") and the level to which it sustains that one joke is almost admirable.
Posted Aug 25, 2006
2.5/4
The Illusionist (2006) Daniel Fienberg The story is about ineffable things, but the police procedural aspects of The Illusionist make it all too effable.
Posted Aug 18, 2006
2.5/4
Accepted (2006) Daniel Fienberg Unlike recent supposedly pro-outcast movies like "Napoleon Dynamite" and "Benchwarmers," "Accepted" seems to have actual affection for its characters.
Posted Aug 18, 2006
1.5/4
Zoom (2006) Daniel Fienberg Featuring a bizarrely dated soundtrack fueled by new music from Smash Mouth, Zoom was designed as a film of training montages. I stopped counting after a half-dozen.
Posted Aug 11, 2006
1.5/4
Step Up (2006) Daniel Fienberg The stars blend decently when they're flailing their limbs, but faced with the horribly earnest dialogue written by Duane Adler and Melissa Rosenberg, neither stands out
Posted Aug 11, 2006
3/4
World Trade Center (2006) Daniel Fienberg Stone doesn't shy from bawling wives, gauzy sentimental flashbacks or rousing musical cues, but there's little doubt that he could have gone more overboard.
Posted Aug 11, 2006
2.5/4
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006) Daniel Fienberg Talladega Nights is a tighter, more structured film than Anchorman, which is probably both to its advantage and determent.
Posted Aug 05, 2006
3.5/4
The Descent (2005) Daniel Fienberg Can audiences weaned on the murky sadism of the Saw movies and the Hills Have Eyes remake even recognize what a truly scary movie looks and feels like?
Posted Aug 05, 2006
2.5/4
Scoop (2006) Daniel Fienberg Scoop is surely a slight and flimsy film, but it's pleasant to watch Woody Allen wander around London and to watch Allen's new favorite leading lady expand her range.
Posted Jul 28, 2006
2.5/4
Little Miss Sunshine (2006) Daniel Fienberg A Sundance-tested slice of American Domestic Dysfunction proving, once again, that no matter what Tolstoy said, sometimes unhappy families are unhappy in very familiar ways.
Posted Jul 28, 2006
1.5/4
Lady in the Water (2006) Daniel Fienberg Lady is a solipsistic and sour fairy tale that sets out to be about the value of community and magic, but ends up as the director's somber celebration of himself.
Posted Jul 24, 2006
2.5/4
Monster House (2006) Daniel Fienberg Ultimately, the environments are far more interesting than the humans navigating within them.
Posted Jul 24, 2006
2.5/4
Clerks II (2006) Daniel Fienberg Although it's as funny as any movie this summer, Clerks II has to struggle to achieve the level of universality that the original "Clerks" seemed to hit effortlessly.
Posted Jul 24, 2006
2.5/4
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) Daniel Fienberg Watching Depp in The Black Pearl was like discovering a new acting continent. Watching him here is like returning to a warm, familiar place - nice and all, not exciting
Posted Jul 04, 2006
2/4
Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006) Daniel Fienberg No matter how fine Paine's intentions, he can't obscure that the movie is, at day's end, the tragic tale of rich people whining because somebody took their trendy toys away.
Posted Jun 30, 2006
3/4
Superman Returns (2006) Daniel Fienberg Overlong and occasionally unfocused, it may have flaws, but like its formerly unknown star, it weathers its early uncertain steps by providing memorable moments of its own.
Posted Jun 28, 2006
2/4
Click (2006) Daniel Fienberg While Sandler shouldn't be advised to shun movies with heart, he needs to recognize the difference between genuine emotions and this sort of decidedly unfunny mawkishness.
Posted Jun 23, 2006
2/4
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) Daniel Fienberg A couple bravura set pieces and a surprise cameo may make fans forget that for much of the time, this "Fast and the Furious" is closer to "Sluggish and the Dispassionate."
Posted Jun 16, 2006
2/4
Nacho Libre (2006) Daniel Fienberg Someday, Jared Hess will aspire to make a movie that goes a bit deeper than just a geeky outsider with bad hair, a funny name and an exaggerated accent. But not today.
Posted Jun 16, 2006
1.5/4
The Lake House (2006) Daniel Fienberg If Kate (Bullock), a doctor with easy access to computers, would just take 10 seconds to Google the man she professes to love so much, the movie could be over in five minutes.
Posted Jun 16, 2006
3/4
A Prairie Home Companion (2006) Daniel Fienberg Such is Altman's gift with actors that he even makes Lindsay Lohan seem fresh-faced, building the film to a climax in which the pop tartlet makes the most of her thin voice.
Posted Jun 12, 2006
2.5/4
Cars (2006) Daniel Fienberg I'm wondering if the Piston Cup conceit of huge crowds of cars watching fellow cars race around a track crashing is perverse in a "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" sort of way.
Posted Jun 12, 2006
The Break-Up (2006) Daniel Fienberg A wishy-washy little relationship comedy that's nowhere near as nasty as it evidently wants to be.
Posted Jun 01, 2006
2/4
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) Daniel Fienberg Ratner has taken a series characterized by subversive wit and intelligence and put it in a bland box -- It could be worse, but it couldn't be less distinctive.
Posted May 25, 2006
1.5/4
The Da Vinci Code (2006) Daniel Fienberg Langdon's not a human character, but an amalgamation of pop-up trivia and pensive stares and there's nothing Hanks can do to make him sympathetic, interesting or engaging.
Posted May 18, 2006
1.5/4
Poseidon (2006) Daniel Fienberg There are several characters you're happy to see go -- Try not to cheer when Fergie takes a blast of water to the face -- but there's nobody you'd particularly want to save.
Posted May 13, 2006
3.5/4
Down in the Valley (2005) Daniel Fienberg As he did in Primal Fear, American History X and Fight Club, Norton generates suspense by never tipping viewers off if he's supposed to be trusted.
Posted May 13, 2006
2/4
Wah-Wah (2005) Daniel Fienberg Although it's clearly a personal story, Wah-Wah proves as formulaic and meandering as its satirical targets are bloated and obvious.
Posted May 13, 2006
2/4
Hoot (2006) Daniel Fienberg There has to have been a way for Hoot to have preached the gospel of wildness preservation, grabbed a PG rating and still maintained Hiaasen's delirious nastiness.
Posted May 05, 2006
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