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Review of The Wackness (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 19 Jan 2009

Dumb title? Certainly. Perfectly proportioned? Nope. True-to-life? Certainly not. An enjoyably quirky indie comedy? You bet…

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Review of The Pink Panther (2006)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 16 Jan 2009

I hope nobody misunderstands when I say: Steve Martin, you are no Peter Sellers. And while I'm at it; Shawn Levy, you are no Blake Edwards…

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Review of City of Ember (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 13 Jan 2009

In addition to being fascinating and exciting, City of Ember invites its young viewers to constantly ask questions and never give up…

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Review of Space Chimps (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 12 Jan 2009

It's likely that few people will ever even notice the success it might have been or the unremarkable failure it turned out to be…

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Review of Babylon A.D. (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 12 Jan 2009

With bland protagonists and power figures unpleasant enough for us to want them out of our sight more than we want them defeated, it doesn't…

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Review of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 06 Jan 2009

A fascinating tall tale until the incredible Tilda Swinton appears, vulnerable, full of regrets and compelling us to start thinking, but from…

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Review of Swing Vote (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 06 Jan 2009

Goes for cheap laughs with its politics, but wins back at least some respect when it presents its central characters as real people and their…

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Review of Swing Vote (1999)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 06 Jan 2009

Goes for cheap laughs with its politics, but wins back at least some respect when it presents its central characters as real people and their…

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Review of Days of Thunder (1990)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 03 Jan 2009

The story is predictably pedestrian, the conflict laughable and the dialogue too lifeless to be laughable, but closer to that than convincing…

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Review of Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 01 Jan 2009

It's like getting two movies for the price of one %u2013 light romantic comedy and a relatively effective human drama at the same time…

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Review of Southland Tales (2007)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 30 Dec 2008

This is not just another hodgepodge of a movie that's all noise and excess; writer/ director Richard Kelly has a point here; he has plenty to say…

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Review of Eagle Eye (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 21 Dec 2008

Lowest-common-denominator filmmaking at its most discouraging, with makers who believe moviegoers too stupid to think, so instead opt for constant…

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Review of American Teen (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 20 Dec 2008

Doesn't take full advantage of the opportunity offered by a year-long glimpse into young lives…

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Review of Pineapple Express (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 19 Dec 2008

More an inconsistent collection of gags and skits than a cohesive feature, but the highs are funny and the lows hard to get worked up about,…

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Review of Last Chance Harvey (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 15 Dec 2008

Dustin Hoffman is subtly brilliant, Emma Thompson is tremendous, and writer/ director Joel Hopkins deserves our thanks for creating such a…

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Review of The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 12 Dec 2008

How anyone ever thought there was more than one movie in the Mummy concept, I don't know…

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Review of Standard Operating Procedure (2008)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 05 Dec 2008

Fascinating and horrifying, especially if you take a step back and view it thinking about what it tells us about the society in which these…

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Review of Standard Operating Procedure (2013)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 05 Dec 2008

Fascinating and horrifying, especially if you take a step back and view it thinking about what it tells us about the society in which these…

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Review of Stranger Than Fiction (2000)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 03 Dec 2008

Some of Will Ferrell's biggest fans might find it overly tame and subtle, but it's interesting, enjoyable and a revelation to see he can keep…

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Review of Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

By Brian Webster (658) for Apollo Guide (1,430) on 03 Dec 2008

Some of Will Ferrell's biggest fans might find it overly tame and subtle, but it's interesting, enjoyable and a revelation to see he can keep…

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