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Review of Synecdoche, New York (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 22 Oct 2008

Pretentiously convoluted...in the case of Synecdoche, New York--to garble Plato's version of Socrates--the examined life is not worth watching…

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Review of Pride and Glory (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 20 Oct 2008

Covers territory that would be familiar even if We Own the Night hadn't taken us there just a year ago, to equally boring effect…

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Review of Max Payne (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 16 Oct 2008

Given the effect Max Payne has, by the close you may feel that they've misspelled the hero's last name…

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Review of W. (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 15 Oct 2008

Neither satire nor drama but a sort of stream-of-consciousness rumination on Bush past and present, Stone's film is little better than a stunt,…

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Review of City of Ember (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 08 Oct 2008

For youngsters used to more exciting fare even on the small screen, City of Ember is likely to be more like City of Slumber…

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Review of Body of Lies (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 08 Oct 2008

Curiously lightweight...escapes neither the slick histrionics of a typical studio blockbuster nor the clumsiness that afflicts movies with…

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Review of Religulous (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 05 Oct 2008

A Maher riff that's amusing enough, but hardly profound--one that's unlikely to alter your views on religion, whatever choir you're in…

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Review of Flash of Genius (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 01 Oct 2008

Earnest but artless...not only exhibits no signs of genius but barely registers on the competence gauge…

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Review of Appaloosa (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 01 Oct 2008

Takes the old western conventions and juggles them in very odd but mostly satisfying ways…

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Review of Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 01 Oct 2008

Compared to the best doggie flicks, it may be the runt of the litter, but like most mutts it grows on you…

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Review of Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 30 Sep 2008

Nick and Norah's playlist may be infinite, but the enjoyment they provide is definitely limited…

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Review of How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 30 Sep 2008

This isn't Prada, but a cheap, crummy knock-off…

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Review of Nights in Rodanthe (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Sep 2008

Redolent of the schmaltziest weepies of a half-century or more ago...strong evidence for the proposition that Nicholas Sparks must have been…

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Review of Miracle at St. Anna (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Sep 2008

[Has] sporadic moments of brilliance, but...winds up being more well-meaning muddle than miracle…

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Review of Choke (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Sep 2008

Strains to be wickedly funny and provocative, but comes across feeling curiously pedestrian and tepid…

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Review of Eagle Eye (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Sep 2008

A very juvenile copy of its Hitchcock-Kubrick models, efficiently made in the overwrought mold of contemporary action-adventure movies but…

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Review of Choke (1971)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Sep 2008

Strains to be wickedly funny and provocative, but comes across feeling curiously pedestrian and tepid…

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Review of Towelhead (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 11 Sep 2008

If you're willing to take a chance on a daring film that's likely to make you laugh one moment and cringe the next, you may find it as haunting…

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Review of I Served the King of England (2007)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 10 Sep 2008

A brilliant, witty and profound tragicomedy that reflects on recent Czech history with a highly imaginative, darkly humorous and strongly sensual…

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Review of Burn After Reading (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 09 Sep 2008

Isn't much more than an extravagantly complicated joke, [but] it's a pretty funny one, with plenty of those mordantly humorous jolts the [Coens]…

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