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Review of The Fountain (2006)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 21 Nov 2006

[It is] an impressionistic film, with death as its muse, sticking out so confidently from the current crop of...well, anything…

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Review of For Your Consideration (2006)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 17 Nov 2006

[Guest] regards his oddball characters with the same warmth and affection that audiences have for his stellar cast…

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Review of Babel (2008)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 08 Nov 2006

No character is on hand to neatly tie up the film's themes (like how we all Crash into each other), and there is an overall feeling of empathy…

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Review of Babel (2006)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 08 Nov 2006

No character is on hand to neatly tie up the film's themes (like how we all Crash into each other), and there is an overall feeling of empathy…

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Review of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 02 Nov 2006

The fact that this mercilessly funny film is based in reality makes a bigger statement about who we are as a country…

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Review of Running with Scissors (2006)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 25 Oct 2006

It is essentially a tale of the me decade run amok, with the open attitudes of the hippie generation exploding in a fractured mess all over…

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Review of Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 19 Oct 2006

Clint Eastwood's Flags of our Fathers is a powerful condemnation of America's tasteless commercialism and the selling of war…

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Review of The Prestige (2006)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 19 Oct 2006

M. Night Shyamalan could learn a thing or two from the Nolans when it comes to dramatic tension and payoff…

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Review of The Departed (2006)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 04 Oct 2006

Scorsese's latest is an anti-war movie that is firmly dedicated to the idea that neither side in this war will ever be declared the winner…

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Review of The Girl Next Door (2004)

By Eric Melin (822) for Lawrence.com (115) on 28 Sep 2006

It is a movie full of contradictions that plays like a bad The Sure Thing melded uncomfortably together with an exploitative Risky Business…

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Review of Walking Tall (2004)

By Eric Melin (822) for Lawrence.com (115) on 28 Sep 2006

It is not quite violent, drunken, or naked enough to be as trashily entertaining as the Patrick Swayze cult favorite Roadhouse…

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Review of Hellboy (2004)

By Eric Melin (822) for Lawrence.com (115) on 28 Sep 2006

As expertly played by Perlman, even with tons of make-up and prostheteics, our hero is a good 'monster' whose origin haunts him to the bone…

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Review of Jersey Girl (2004)

By Eric Melin (822) for Lawrence.com (115) on 28 Sep 2006

It takes more than a couple of dirty one-liners to retain your edge in light, predictable fare…

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Review of Walking Tall (1973)

By Eric Melin (822) for Lawrence.com (115) on 28 Sep 2006

It is not quite violent, drunken, or naked enough to be as trashily entertaining as the Patrick Swayze cult favorite Roadhouse…

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Review of 13 Going on 30 (2004)

By Eric Melin (822) for Lawrence.com (115) on 28 Sep 2006

While [it's] the Keystone Light of Vice Versa movies, it also annoyingly adds itself to the ever-growing list of movies that think being kitschy…

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Review of The Ladykillers (2004)

By Eric Melin (822) for Lawrence.com (115) on 28 Sep 2006

The story, adapted by the Coens themselves, is reduced to a series of hoops the characters must jump through to prove just how strange they are…

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Review of The Fog of War (2003)

By Eric Melin (822) for Lawrence.com (115) on 28 Sep 2006

[It] raise[s] complex questions about man's role in that most awful and inherent of human characteristics: our penchant for war…

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Review of Soul Plane (2004)

By Eric Melin (822) for Lawrence.com (115) on 28 Sep 2006

Soul Plane is like seeing an uncomfortably unfunny stand-up comedy routine acted out and stretched to a feature-length film…

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Review of Jersey Girl (1992)

By Eric Melin (822) for Lawrence.com (115) on 28 Sep 2006

It takes more than a couple of dirty one-liners to retain your edge in light, predictable fare…

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Review of Jackass Number Two (2006)

By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 20 Sep 2006

You can be offended all you want, but laughing at a guy who craps on a miniature toilet is only one step away from the cute baby who slips…

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