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Review of Jaws (1975)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 11 May 2009

In the end, the shark is a MacGuffin necessary for the men to bond and test themselves against what they fear most--their own mortality…

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Review of The Cooler (2003)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 10 May 2009

The Cooler is a complex 'small' movie that packs a big punch…

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Review of The Statement (2003)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 10 May 2009

The film operates well as a thriller and probably goes further than intended in extracting sympathy for its reprehensible protagonist…

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Review of Blue Velvet (1986)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 10 May 2009

In 1986 David Lynch broke the language of cinema wide open in the same way that Jackson Pollock did with the art world in the early '40s…

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Review of Paycheck (2003)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 10 May 2009

Paycheck is a no-brainer action movie with just enough sci-fi thematic input to keep it spicy…

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Review of An American in Paris (1951)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 May 2009

George Guetary's singing scenes should have been left on the cutting room floor, but Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron are mesmerizing, and Oscar…

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Review of Timeline (2014)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 May 2009

A competent cast keeps this eccentric time travel movie (based on a Michael Crichton novel) amusing if far from successful…

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Review of Timeline (2006)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 May 2009

A competent cast keeps this eccentric time travel movie (based on a Michael Crichton novel) amusing if far from successful…

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Review of Shattered Glass (2002)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 May 2009

Journalistic ethics are scrupulously explored in this crystal-clear dramatization of real-life New Republic feature writer Stephen Glass's…

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Review of Timeline (2003)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 May 2009

A competent cast keeps this eccentric time travel movie (based on a Michael Crichton novel) amusing if far from successful…

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Review of The Haunted Mansion (2003)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 May 2009

When a Disney ride becomes a movie, there's not much hope that things will turn out as well as they do in this tame horror comedy…

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Review of Shattered Glass (2014)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 May 2009

Journalistic ethics are scrupulously explored in this crystal-clear dramatization of real-life New Republic feature writer Stephen Glass's…

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Review of Shattered Glass (2003)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 May 2009

Journalistic ethics are scrupulously explored in this crystal-clear dramatization of real-life New Republic feature writer Stephen Glass's…

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Review of Timeline (2013)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 May 2009

A competent cast keeps this eccentric time travel movie (based on a Michael Crichton novel) amusing if far from successful…

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Review of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 May 2009

This essential documentary skillfully maps out the shady mark to market accounting device that the men who called themselves the smartest guys…

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Review of Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 May 2009

The film is an intriguing speculative account of the creation of one of Vermeer's most famous and sensual paintings…

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Review of Stuck on You (2003)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 May 2009

In spite of a convincing make-up job and the best efforts of its cast, Stuck On You falls as far short of the mark as the Farrelly Brothers…

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Review of The Singing Detective (2003)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 May 2009

The film's colorful song-and-dance set pieces rely on lip-synced '50s songs that are the weakest link in a bumbling but gregarious movie…

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Review of House of Sand and Fog (2003)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 May 2009

A lack of empathetic characters cripples this poorly paced but well acted drama about an Iranian family who purchase a city-auctioned bungalow…

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Review of Stuck on You! (1983)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 08 May 2009

In spite of a convincing make-up job and the best efforts of its cast, Stuck On You falls as far short of the mark as the Farrelly Brothers…

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