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Review of Premonition (2007)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 17 Dec 2016

Bullock is so good, working hard to pull off the transition from grief-stricken wife and mother to reluctant time traveler, you want to pull…

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Review of Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic (2005)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 16 Dec 2016

Sarah Silverman says things you wouldn't expect a nice, attractive Jewish girl to say. But that's only half her appeal…

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Review of Thumbsucker (2005)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 09 Dec 2016

Pucci pulls off Justin's transformation without resorting to histrionics; it's like a radio-station signal finally coming in clearly…

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Review of The Guardian (2006)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 06 Dec 2016

The Guardian is that rarest of cinematic commodities: an action movie displaying brains and heart and the opportunity for its stars to do something…

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Review of The Village (2004)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 28 Nov 2016

It doesn't take a genius IQ to figure out the movie's final twist far in advance, leaving the attentive viewer to wonder only about how Shyamalan…

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Review of Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 21 Nov 2016

This is a movie that falls short only because it insists on grabbing for so much…

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Review of 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 16 Nov 2016

So what do we have here? Lots of cars going very fast…

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Review of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 01 Nov 2016

Takes a great idea -- what if the inhabitants of a museum came to life at night? -- and milks it for every drop of fun it's worth…

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Review of Final Destination 3 (2006)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 22 Oct 2016

Signs of fatigue are all over the film itself…

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Review of The New Guy (2002)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 10 Oct 2016

A Jekyll-and-Hyde teen comedy that sounds like a Pauly Shore reject, but Qualls moves his marionette body around with a true clown's effervescence,…

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Review of Charlie Bartlett (2008)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 02 Oct 2016

Spending more time with Downey's character would have benefited this movie no end…

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Review of State of Play (2009)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 21 Sep 2016

Nothing is as it seems in State of Play, a crackerjack political thriller in which no individual, profession or institution gets away clean…

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Review of Step Up 2: The Streets (2008)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 29 Aug 2016

Scores some serious points for its dance moves but does a lousy job of remembering there's a lot more to this big old world than moving your feet…

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Review of Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 22 Aug 2016

There's a funny movie struggling inside of Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star. Too bad it never gets out…

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Review of Love Me If You Dare (2003)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 14 Aug 2016

Two of the most insistently unlikable movie creations to afflict audiences in some time, a pair of self-obsessed anti-romanticists who spend…

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Review of RV (2006)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 07 Aug 2016

What makes RV work are some genuinely funny bits (one of which is not an overlong sequence in which Bob has trouble emptying the R.V.'s toilet)…

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Review of My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 28 Jul 2016

Five minutes into the film, I relaxed, knowing it was set in the real world, and not in the Hollywood alternative universe where Julia Roberts…

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Review of Hot Fuzz (2007)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 23 Jul 2016

It's not hard to imagine these characters in a straight-faced Hollywood blockbuster…

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Review of Flightplan (2005)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 15 Jul 2016

For at least two-thirds of its length, all elements combine for a taut thriller, a Hitchcockian exercise in suspense pitting human frailty…

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Review of The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)

By Chris Kaltenbach (562) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 03 Jul 2016

The Dukes of Hazzard may mark some sort of nadir when it comes to movies made from TV shows…

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