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Review of Pieces of April (2003)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 31 Oct 2003

Hedges brings some refreshing new wrinkles to a familiar plot, and he further spices it up by having the meal in question being prepared by…

Review of In the Cut (2003)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 31 Oct 2003

Plays like a lurid, sexed-up Lifetime movie…

Review of Brother Bear (2003)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 31 Oct 2003

There's a nagging sameness here that dwarfs the film's noble intentions and rather striking cinematics…

Review of Casa de los Babys (2003)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 02 Oct 2003

A collaborative triumph in which the right actresses in the right roles respond to Sayles' ever-gentle touch…

Review of The School of Rock (2003)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 02 Oct 2003

I like this film. But that doesn't deny it's naggingly familiar…

Review of The Magdalene Sisters (2002)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 19 Sep 2003

Harsh and angry, this Oscar-worthy film stages a deliberately paced, thoroughly researched indictment of institutionalized cruelty and the…

Review of Thirteen (1988)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 04 Sep 2003

You don't necessarily have to be a parent to get the shivers from Hardwicke's detailed delineation of one young girl's shocking descent from…

Review of Thirteen (2003)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 04 Sep 2003

You don't necessarily have to be a parent to get the shivers from Hardwicke's detailed delineation of one young girl's shocking descent from…

Review of The Secret Lives of Dentists (2002)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 04 Sep 2003

It's often been said that we don't really know people, that we don't know what goes on in other people's marriages, no matter how intimate…

Review of Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 04 Sep 2003

Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star is alert fun as long as it stays on Hollywood and Vine…

Review of Thirteen (1974)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 04 Sep 2003

You don't necessarily have to be a parent to get the shivers from Hardwicke's detailed delineation of one young girl's shocking descent from…

Review of Step Into Liquid (2003)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 28 Aug 2003

Step Into Liquid is the perfect way to end the summer…

Review of American Splendor (2003)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 28 Aug 2003

Pulcini and Berman have inventively rethought the notion of the biopic, and the results are audacious…

Review of Dirty Pretty Things (2002)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 21 Aug 2003

These are characters that draw you in and make you care, making it impossible to pull away…

Review of Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 14 Aug 2003

The expression 'bloody bore' takes on a new, deeper meaning with Freddy Vs. Jason…

Review of Uptown Girls (2003)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 14 Aug 2003

It's excruciating, a film of forced humor and fake, grating sentimentality, featuring two lead performances that elicit neither affection nor empathy…

Review of Passionada (2003)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 14 Aug 2003

Ireland ... keeps matters small and intimate here, wisely focusing almost exclusively on his attractive two stars…

Review of Camp (2014)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 07 Aug 2003

Like that summer holiday -- that vacation -- that you hope will never end…

Review of Camp (2003)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 07 Aug 2003

Like that summer holiday -- that vacation -- that you hope will never end…

Review of Freaky Friday (2003)

By Joe Baltake (424) for Sacramento Bee (806) on 05 Aug 2003

While it's a perfectly competent and affable film, the new version doesn't have anything to prompt much enthusiasm…

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