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Review of Thank You for Smoking (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 23 Mar 2006

Thank You For Smoking, the low-tar adaptation of Christopher Buckley's satirical novel, never feels as if it's been fully absorbed by the screen…

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Review of Eight Below (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Feb 2006

Following the success of last year's March of the Penguins, and now Eight Below -- an equally triumphal processional of dogs across the bottom…

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Review of Freedomland (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 16 Feb 2006

The film is filled with good performances, though most of them are frittered away by director Joe Roth, who can never find a focus for the story…

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Review of Why We Fight (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 11 Feb 2006

There is plenty here that should worry members of both political parties…

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Review of Roving Mars (2006)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 27 Jan 2006

That's about what it plays like: a gigantic commerical for more space travel, from a contractor who stands to benefit financially if we go,…

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Review of Nanny McPhee (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 26 Jan 2006

Thompson never allows Nanny McPhee to become cute or cuddly, but manages to make the children -- and us -- love her, warts and all…

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Review of The New World (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 19 Jan 2006

The movie's gorgeous pictorialism draws us toward the shore, but Malick often leaves us marooned in the shoals, waiting for a story to arrive…

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Review of Match Point (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 Jan 2006

England clearly agrees with Allen, and in Match Point he has hit a top-spin winner…

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Review of Match Point (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 05 Jan 2006

England clearly agrees with Allen, and in Match Point he has hit a top-spin winner…

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Review of Munich (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 22 Dec 2005

Munich rarely rises above its own predictability to become more than a noble failure…

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Review of Fun with Dick and Jane (1977)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 21 Dec 2005

Other than its 85-minute running time, the movie is in all other ways imperfect, which is just about what you want from one of Jim Carrey's…

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Review of Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 21 Dec 2005

Other than its 85-minute running time, the movie is in all other ways imperfect, which is just about what you want from one of Jim Carrey's…

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Review of Brokeback Mountain (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 17 Dec 2005

If the cowboy movies of John Wayne and John Ford were about the opening of the American West, Brokeback Mountain is the somber slam of its closing…

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Review of King Kong (1976)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 Dec 2005

Peter Jackson has run the original 1933 King Kong through his epic imaginarium and given us the year's most thrilling entertainment…

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Review of King Kong (2012)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 Dec 2005

Peter Jackson has run the original 1933 King Kong through his epic imaginarium and given us the year's most thrilling entertainment…

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Review of King Kong (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 13 Dec 2005

Peter Jackson has run the original 1933 King Kong through his epic imaginarium and given us the year's most thrilling entertainment…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 17 Nov 2005

The visual magic of the story, as well as some enormously welcome glimmerings of humor, gives it the solid feel of a well-tended franchise…

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Review of Walk the Line (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 17 Nov 2005

Walk the Line has plenty of chemicals, but very little chemistry between its stars…

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Review of Derailed (2002)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 10 Nov 2005

As a thriller, Derailed proceeds with the same unearned swagger as a bad magic act, revealing its astonishments to the evident surprise of…

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Review of Derailed (2005)

By Bruce Newman (268) for San Jose Mercury News (757) on 10 Nov 2005

As a thriller, Derailed proceeds with the same unearned swagger as a bad magic act, revealing its astonishments to the evident surprise of…

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