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Review of Cookie's Fortune (1999)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 22 Jun 2002

Though it's the screen equivalent of cotton candy,Fortune is made with a very high grade of sugar…

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Review of Deconstructing Harry (1997)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 22 Jun 2002

By turns clever, devestating, bitter and delightful, this challenging piece of work is easily one of Allen's most mature efforts to date…

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Review of Drowning Mona (2000)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 22 Jun 2002

He sort of thing that will probably become a staple on Comedy Central in about five years, resting comfortably alongside such snoozers as Once…

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Review of Dirty Work (1998)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 22 Jun 2002

Why does Hollywood think that everyone who ever appeared on Saturday Night Live deserves a film career as a reward…

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Review of Any Given Sunday (1999)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 20 Jun 2002

When pressed to say what has changed football from an all-American game into the sleazy business it is today, Stone feebly points a finger…

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Review of Lilo & Stitch (2002)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 20 Jun 2002

Despite its Hawaiian setting, the science-fiction trimmings and some moments of rowdy slapstick, the basic plot of Lilo could have been pulled…

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Review of The Avengers (1998)

By James Sanford (927) for James Sanford on Film (34) on 20 Jun 2002

The film plays like some sort of feverish hallucination with no real logic or continuity…

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Review of Armageddon (1998)

By James Sanford (927) for James Sanford on Film (34) on 20 Jun 2002

Breathless and utterly brainless... makes the similarly themed and much more sentimental 'Deep Impact' look like 'Schindler's List' by comparison…

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Review of Brokedown Palace (1999)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 20 Jun 2002

About as thrilling as a long line at customs. The screenplay (is)apparently based on those recorded warnings played in airports…

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Review of Armageddon (1996)

By James Sanford (927) for James Sanford on Film (34) on 20 Jun 2002

Breathless and utterly brainless... makes the similarly themed and much more sentimental 'Deep Impact' look like 'Schindler's List' by comparison…

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Review of Armageddon (1997)

By James Sanford (927) for James Sanford on Film (34) on 20 Jun 2002

Breathless and utterly brainless... makes the similarly themed and much more sentimental 'Deep Impact' look like 'Schindler's List' by comparison…

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Review of Babe: Pig in the City (1998)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 20 Jun 2002

Despite its G-rating, the movie includes numerous scenes of animals in peril, including a pit bull that nearly hangs himself, a crippled dog…

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Review of Beyond the Mat (1999)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 20 Jun 2002

Turns out to be less interested in the cartoonish brutality of pro wrestling than it is with the lives of the people who make their living…

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Review of Boiler Room (2000)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 20 Jun 2002

Perhaps in an attempt to ape David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross, Younger's script is proudly profane and goes out of its way to make almost…

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Review of BASEketball (1998)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 20 Jun 2002

The studio should have furnished each ticket-buyer with a free six-pack…

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Review of Armageddon (1989)

By James Sanford (927) for James Sanford on Film (34) on 20 Jun 2002

Breathless and utterly brainless... makes the similarly themed and much more sentimental 'Deep Impact' look like 'Schindler's List' by comparison…

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Review of The Blair Witch Project (1999)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 20 Jun 2002

The movie's unfinished, catch-as-catch-can look, complete with jiggly camerawork and sometimes blurred imagery, is one of the primary reasons…

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Review of My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 17 Jun 2002

Even if you can't pronounce gyro correctly, you'll appreciate much of Vardalos' humor, which transcends ethnic boundaries…

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Review of Minority Report (2002)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 17 Jun 2002

A provocative message about free will ought to be a formidable challenge, yet the movie sails along astonishingly smoothly under Spielberg's control…

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Review of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 14 Jun 2002

Like being absorbed into the pages of every adventure story you loved as a child…

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