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Review of Ghost Rider (2007)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 19 Feb 2007

Nicolas Cage wangs it up with a not-so-subtle Elvis impersonation as Johnny Blaze, the comic book hero who transforms into a flaming skeleton…

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Review of The Hitcher (2007)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 19 Feb 2007

Hollywood's endless string of no-account remakes gets another knot with this Michael Bay-produced lukewarm update of Robert Harmon's 1986 original…

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Review of Starter for 10 (2006)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 19 Feb 2007

For as lighthearted as Starter For 10 seems on the outside, there is plenty of subtle interpretation about how radically social freedoms have…

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Review of Venus (2011)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 19 Feb 2007

Newcomer Jodie Whittaker fulfills the elusive arc of her budding character, but it is the great Peter O'Toole who makes every ticking of the…

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Review of Venus (2010)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 19 Feb 2007

Newcomer Jodie Whittaker fulfills the elusive arc of her budding character, but it is the great Peter O'Toole who makes every ticking of the…

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Review of Venus (2006)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 19 Feb 2007

Newcomer Jodie Whittaker fulfills the elusive arc of her budding character, but it is the great Peter O'Toole who makes every ticking of the…

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Review of Charlotte's Web (2006)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 19 Feb 2007

Steve Buscemi's invigorating vocal characterization of Templeton the rat is the only high point in this sleep-inducing live action-animated…

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Review of Bridge to Terabithia (2007)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 19 Feb 2007

Haphazardly adapted from Katherine Paterson's popular 1977 coming-of-age children's book, Bridge to Terabithia is a problematic movie held…

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Review of Venus (2006)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 19 Feb 2007

Newcomer Jodie Whittaker fulfills the elusive arc of her budding character, but it is the great Peter O'Toole who makes every ticking of the…

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Review of Dreamgirls (2006)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 19 Feb 2007

Newcomer Jennifer Hudson owns the movie with her magnetic presence and go-tell-it-on-the-mountain voice.* *…

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Review of The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 18 Feb 2007

The film is an exceptional work of vigorous cinematic art filled with dynamic performances by its all-Irish cast…

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Review of Hannibal Rising (2007)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 09 Feb 2007

There is nothing to be frightened of here…

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Review of Factory Girl (2014)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for Daily Radar (12) on 07 Feb 2007

Sienna Miller embodies Edie Sedgwick with a thoroughly convincing highwire act to match Guy Pierce's incarnation of Andy Warhol in Hickenlooper's…

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Review of Factory Girl (2006)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for Daily Radar (12) on 07 Feb 2007

Sienna Miller embodies Edie Sedgwick with a thoroughly convincing highwire act to match Guy Pierce's incarnation of Andy Warhol in Hickenlooper's…

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Review of To Return (1982)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 31 Jan 2007

The way that Almodovar's resilient women rise above their traumatic pasts to serve one another and their community is a microcosm of idealized…

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Review of Volver (2009)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 31 Jan 2007

The way that Almodovar's resilient women rise above their traumatic pasts to serve one another and their community is a microcosm of idealized…

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Review of Volver (2006)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 31 Jan 2007

The way that Almodovar's resilient women rise above their traumatic pasts to serve one another and their community is a microcosm of idealized…

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Review of Blood and Chocolate (2007)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 25 Jan 2007

Blood & Chocolate is a werewolf movie for teen girls to giggle at when they aren't contemplating their own quest for sensual and societal freedom…

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Review of Smokin' Aces (2006)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 25 Jan 2007

Writer/director Joe Carnahan (see Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane and Narc) makes an overreaching but inspired effort at reinventing the dumb…

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Review of Freedom Writers (2007)

By Cole Smithey (1,865) for ColeSmithey.com (1,853) on 15 Jan 2007

LaGravenese (The Horse Whisperer) has a tendency to sanitize every scene, and when he hits the audience's emotional sweet spot and a few tears…

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