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A film that tries to take itself seriously and self-parody, but can't have it both ways.
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By:
Brian Marder
September 07, 2007 6:32am EST
There’s no true grit to be found in James Mangold’s fun but safe Western remake. Nitpicking, however, is no way to treat a movie that gives us two heavyweights like Russell Crowe and Christian Bale on top of their games.
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By:
Kit Bowen
February 23, 2007 6:04am EST
Billy Bob Thornton finally sheds his Bad Santa-ness to play an everyday hero in the uplifting, if slightly cornball, family drama The Astronaut Farmer.
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By:
Fred Topel
November 17, 2006 6:07am EST
Chow down on this taste of life inside the meat packing and “Happy Meal” Fast Food Nation.
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By:
Brian Marder
January 27, 2006 9:34am EST
Big Momma's House 2 is precisely what you'd expect from a sequel whose title no longer has any affiliation with the current "story": a few harmless, lowbrow laughs, all of which are forever indebted to the formulas of crap past.
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By:
Jennifer Simonovic
September 16, 2005 5:05am EST
Just Like Heaven is sweet enough for some but it's going to be "just like hell" for boyfriends who are dragged kicking and screaming to this boring chick flick.
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By:
Brian Marder
August 29, 2005 12:37pm EST
Undiscovered is like a MTV show the studio execs thought was too rich for the channel. They were wrong--dead wrong.
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By:
Kit Bowen
May 06, 2005 4:26am EST
Every once in a while you need a movie like this to come crashing down on you. To shake you up, make you think about the world around you, and, one would hope, to open yourself up to the possibilities of our shared humanity.
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By:
Kit Bowen
November 10, 2004 8:37am EST
Even though it may lack a human touch here and there, The Polar Express is still a brilliant effort in CGI-animation and will certainly evoke the Christmas spirit in us all.
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By:
Kit Bowen
November 13, 2003 1:17pm EST
It's James Bond! It's Indiana Jones! It's Ocean's Eleven! It's too much. Looney Tunes: Back in Action misses out on a brilliant opportunity to tell a simple story about a rabbit vs. a duck.