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Review of Strauss R: Elektra (2010)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

For all its slow-mo kick-flying and computer-generated mysticism, the story is tissue-thin and simple to the point of being simpleminded…

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Review of Undertow (1996)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The actors grapple manfully with the ersatz rural poetry of the dialogue, but Green's pacing is slow and self-indulgent, and the action often…

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Review of Day Watch (2006)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Let's hope the humor is intentional; it's frankly hard to tell…

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Review of Over the Hedge (2006)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The story is no grabber, and the sight gags are labored, but the animation is sleekly pretty, and it goes by painlessly enough…

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Review of Wild Wild West (1999)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The gimmicky, light-hearted 1960s TV series comes to the screen as an ungainly, clanking, gooey box of eye candy, a vehicle for star Will Smith…

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Review of Wonder Boys (2000)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Writer Steven Kloves and director Curtis Hanson turn Michael Chabon's novel into a quirky goofball pleasure…

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Review of Deck the Halls (2006)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The distasteful formula is even more sour and ham-handed than usual; Broderick's and DeVito's natural likeability never stands a chance…

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Review of Material Girls (2006)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The Duff sisters are pleasant personalities, but the vapid bimbosity of their characters quickly becomes grating…

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Review of Invincible (2013)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Ricson (who doubles as cinematographer) has a good feel for urban grit and blue-collar dreams, and he gets good, unpretentious performances-especially…

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Review of Zoom (2006)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The story is muddled and slovenly, and the execution is unbelievably cheap-looking, with special effects that are miles beyond cheesy…

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Review of A Prairie Home Companion (2006)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The movie is a shaggy-dog trifle, but it's a sweet and lovely one…

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Review of Elektra (2010)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

For all its slow-mo kick-flying and computer-generated mysticism, the story is tissue-thin and simple to the point of being simpleminded…

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Review of Elektra (2005)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

For all its slow-mo kick-flying and computer-generated mysticism, the story is tissue-thin and simple to the point of being simpleminded…

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Review of Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The script by Ferrell and director Adam McKay, a parody of sports biopics, takes the same freewheeling approach that served them well on Anchorman,…

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Review of Elektra (2005)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

For all its slow-mo kick-flying and computer-generated mysticism, the story is tissue-thin and simple to the point of being simpleminded…

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Review of Notting Hill (1999)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

It's a crowd-pleaser, all right (so were public hangings, once), but with all the emotional resonance of a tap on the knee with a rubber hammer…

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Review of Notes on a Scandal (2006)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Eyre paces it with an eye for the telling detail, and Blanchett and Dench give harrowing, fearless performances…

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Review of Lost Souls (2000)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The anticlimactic, is-that-all-there-is ending winds everything up not with a bang, but a whimper…

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Review of Invincible (2001)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

Ricson (who doubles as cinematographer) has a good feel for urban grit and blue-collar dreams, and he gets good, unpretentious performances-especially…

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Review of American Pie (1999)

By Jim Lane (1,151) for Sacramento News & Review (1,702) on 06 Aug 2008

The production is amateurish and cheap-looking, but two decent performances are worth mentioning: Chris Klein as a sensitive jock and Alyson…

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