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Review of Death of a President (2006)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 20 Sep 2007

Without directly confronting the behaviors and attitudes associated with its theory, the movie leaves us with uncertainty, vacillation, and…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 14 Jul 2007

Complex, meditative & inspired in the way it allows tug-of-war fantasy ideals to be combined with elements of human drama and political intrigue…

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Review of The Fountain (1988)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 30 Jun 2007

If one is to be left with something in the end, it is the realization that its creator is fully in love with not just the result of his art,…

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Review of The Fountain (2006)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 30 Jun 2007

If one is to be left with something in the end, it is the realization that its creator is fully in love with not just the result of his art,…

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Review of Hannibal Rising (2007)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 30 Jun 2007

The material knows it is a prequel, and acknowledges such with tactics that consist of taking viewers from beginning to end in the most straightforward…

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Review of The Fountain (1934)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 30 Jun 2007

If one is to be left with something in the end, it is the realization that its creator is fully in love with not just the result of his art,…

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Review of I Dreamed of Africa (2000)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 10 Mar 2007

The movie isn't just bad -- it's frustratingly fragmented…

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Review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 13 Jul 2006

the pace is better, the action is not flooding the screen every two seconds, and characters seem more like evolved concepts rather than…

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Review of Poseidon (2006)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 29 Jun 2006

Here we get the impression that the only thing on the minds of these filmmakers is how well they can polish up a turd before throwing it at…

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Review of Superman Returns (2006)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 29 Jun 2006

Sidelines the prospect of solid character exploration in favor of a plot so silly and clumsy that even children would find reason to roll their…

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Review of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 14 Jul 2005

Zany and unsystematic, and so encased by its own bizarre reality that at times you wonder whether you will need a few prescription drugs to…

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Review of Land of the Dead (2005)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 14 Jul 2005

While the film nowhere near matches the success of the director's earlier ventures, it nonetheless rises to the occasion in delivering a bit…

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Review of Batman Begins (2005)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 17 Jun 2005

Batman Begins comes rushing off the screen like a long-delayed form of enlightenment, finally realizing the full potential of its center…

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Review of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 18 May 2005

An ideal, convincing finale for this franchise…

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Review of The Amityville Horror (2005)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 05 May 2005

The remake does absolutely nothing to modify or improve upon its predecessor, which makes it completely pointless…

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Review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 05 May 2005

Once you get past all the impenetrable dialogue exchanges and meandering plot twists, what you have is, at the core, a film with solid vision…

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Review of Sin City (2005)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 29 Mar 2005

At long last, here is a film that fully justifies why we still love going to the movie theater…

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Review of The Ring Two (2005)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 22 Mar 2005

A long, exhausting and pointless 111-minute exercise in red herrings, dead-end justifications and contrived horror situations…

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Review of Robots (2005)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 14 Mar 2005

innocent, charming, colorful and vibrant, and made all the more rich by a narrative plunge that engages audiences of several ages…

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Review of Constantine (2005)

By David Keyes (623) for Cinemaphile.org (616) on 21 Feb 2005

painted in such broad strokes that potentially exciting context becomes little more than incessant hogwash…

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