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Review of Bad Santa (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Nov 2003

A one-joke conceit that can't sustain itself over feature length, a good idea drowned in a sea of crudity and ineptitude…

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Review of The Haunted Mansion (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 24 Nov 2003

A busy, over-produced special effects extravaganza that tries to be both funny and mildly scary but manages to be neither…

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Review of Tupac: Resurrection (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 13 Nov 2003

Even if the warts in the portrait are reduced to mere blemishes, it provides as full a picture of a gifted artist as can be expected of an…

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Review of Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 13 Nov 2003

An exceptionally intelligent and robust old-fashioned maritime yarn that has the snap of fresh sea air...impeccably realized by a director…

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Review of The Singing Detective (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 11 Nov 2003

A cinematic belly-flop rather than a beautiful swan dive...to emulate the bad hard-boiled dialogue, you're going to need buns of steel to sit…

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Review of Party Monster (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 10 Nov 2003

As a human document 'Party Monster' is pretty much a disaster...shapeless and sloppy…

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Review of The Flower of Evil (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 10 Nov 2003

Seductively sinister...an exercise in mood and style, experting creating an atmosphere of understated anger and vague dread…

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Review of Pieces of April (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 07 Nov 2003

What raises 'Pieces of April' above its flaws is the emotional investment that Hedges and his cast have made in it…

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Review of Love Actually (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 06 Nov 2003

Like watching a dozen or so ultra-cute mini-movies simultaneously. Unfortunately, almost all of them are bad…

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Review of Elf (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 04 Nov 2003

A cheerfully inoffensive cinematic bauble that may be no more durable than a tree ornament but should charm the parents and kids who will flock to it…

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Review of The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 04 Nov 2003

A mixture of frantic but empty action and solemn, even more vacuous philosophizing that ends up simultaneously pretentious and puerile…

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Review of Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 03 Nov 2003

Bad camp...despite the stylistic similarity, about as far from 'Far from Heaven' as you can get…

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Review of Shattered Glass (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 31 Oct 2003

A tragedy told sotto voce with a streak of mordant humor added to the mix...an absorbing drama that just happens to be based on real life…

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Review of In the Cut (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 31 Oct 2003

A supremely distasteful exercise in gloom and violence, a thriller that never thrills, a romance that never engages, a feminist tract that…

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Review of Shattered Glass (2002)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 31 Oct 2003

A tragedy told sotto voce with a streak of mordant humor added to the mix...an absorbing drama that just happens to be based on real life…

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Review of Shattered Glass (2014)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 31 Oct 2003

A tragedy told sotto voce with a streak of mordant humor added to the mix...an absorbing drama that just happens to be based on real life…

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Review of Scary Movie 3 (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 22 Oct 2003

To call the humor sophomoric would be an insult to second-year students everywhere...far too stale and puerile to generate much besides groans…

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Review of Brother Bear (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 21 Oct 2003

A pretty tepid affair...these bears aren't as irritating as the country cousins that Disney foisted on us last year, but they're not terribly…

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Review of Radio (2003)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 20 Oct 2003

It's likely to make you weep--either because you're a sucker for such manipulation or because you'll be depressed about having wasted two hours…

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Review of Radio (2001)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 20 Oct 2003

It's likely to make you weep--either because you're a sucker for such manipulation or because you'll be depressed about having wasted two hours…

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