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Review of Ready to Rumble (2000)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Dec 2005

A movie made by yahoos for yahoos...the cinematic equivalent of a body-slam in which the viewer is on the receiving end…

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Review of Keeping the Faith (2000)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Dec 2005

Well-meaning and decently put together, and it has occasional moments of charm...[but] more than a trifle stale…

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Review of Joe Gould's Secret (2000)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Dec 2005

Like its lead character, eventually becomes so aggravating that it long overstays its welcome…

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Review of The Tao of Steve (2000)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Dec 2005

Though employing an utterly conventional romantic design, it tweaks the formula sufficiently...to come across as charmingly distinctive rather…

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Review of One Day In September (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Dec 2005

Has such a powerful subject...that it can hardly fail to make an emotional impact…

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Review of U-571 (2000)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Dec 2005

Like the rusted old subs deployed in the story, the picture seems designed to stay in the safe shallows and not to plumb any real dramatic depths…

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Review of Saving Grace (2000)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Dec 2005

A pleasant little comedy with the soul of one of those old, much loved Ealing pictures of the forties and fifties but overlayed with a coating…

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Review of One Day in September (1999)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Dec 2005

Has such a powerful subject...that it can hardly fail to make an emotional impact…

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Review of Pay It Forward (2000)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Dec 2005

Despite a ton of good intentions, the picture is numbingly obvious and crushingly sentimental…

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Review of Scary Movie (2000)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Dec 2005

Does its spoofing with a blunt instrument instead of a scalpel, and it's engineered to appeal to the lowest instincts of its targeted adolescent…

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Review of Venus Beauty Institute (1999)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Dec 2005

While almost aggressively French in tone and style, nonetheless an affecting, if fragile and flawed, meditation on the realities of romance and aging…

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Review of The Virgin Suicides (2000)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Dec 2005

A rather stunted and sliggish exercise in style whose sporadically haunting visual quality doesn't make up for its shallowness and ponderous pace…

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Review of The Ladies Man (2000)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Dec 2005

A putrid mess...simultaneously vulgar and boring…

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Review of Waking the Dead (2000)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Dec 2005

Waking the Dead is D.O.A., and none of its manifest good intentions are capable of resuscitating it…

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Review of Æon Flux (2005)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 02 Dec 2005

Flashy but incredibly dull...a real catastrophe, the cinematic equivalent of a tsunami…

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Review of The Dying Gaul (2005)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 27 Nov 2005

[A] combination of pretentiousness and banality...Lucas has wronged not just Clarkson but all of his fine cast--and us along with them…

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Review of New York Doll (2005)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 26 Nov 2005

You needn't be a fan of rock and roll to be both amused and moved by this documentary...a winningly bittersweet little film…

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Review of Ushpizin (2004)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 26 Nov 2005

It raises our cultural awareness a bit, as well as generating some gentle smiles along the way…

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Review of The Ice Harvest (2005)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 22 Nov 2005

Smart rather than smart-alecky, it captures the gleefully cynical tone of its models while adding a strain of grim humor that never degenerates…

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Review of Yours, Mine & Ours (2005)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 21 Nov 2005

At once so bland and so frantic that it's almost unendurable...will no one save us from this plague of alternately messy and mawkish comedies…

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