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Review of The Spirit (2008)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 31 Mar 2011

The Spirit feels like an extended trip through Frank Miller's personal fantasyland, and it's easy to guess how interesting a film made for…

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Review of The Social Network (2010)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 31 Mar 2011

The Social Network is so engrossing you don't even notice how heavy handed the films central dramatic irony could be -- that the greatest tool…

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Review of The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 31 Mar 2011

It also looks quite nice with some well-designed adventure moments and clean camera work that's flashy but usually elegant…

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Review of The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 31 Mar 2011

The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising isn't an out and out bad film, there have certainly been worse films and recently, but it's not particularly…

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Review of The Science of Sleep (2006)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 31 Mar 2011

It's kind of weird and very French, but don't let that scare you. The Science of Sleep is well worth your time…

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Review of The Spirit (1987)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 31 Mar 2011

The Spirit feels like an extended trip through Frank Miller's personal fantasyland, and it's easy to guess how interesting a film made for…

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Review of The Soloist (2009)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 31 Mar 2011

The subject matter is a little too easy to overdo for that, but it is pretty good, thanks to a pair of fine performances from its leads and…

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Review of The Simpsons Movie (2007)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 31 Mar 2011

The Simpsons Movie doesn't ever reach its real potential, but there's enough good material at the start to mostly make up for a draggy second…

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Review of Serenity (2005)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 29 Mar 2011

New viewers will be a little bit lost, and old fans won't get quite everything they wanted, but there's enough going on in Serenity and it's…

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Review of Semi-Pro (2008)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 29 Mar 2011

Semi-Pro isn't the most well-designed of comedies, it's far too disjointed without enough thought given to making it work as a whole, but there…

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Review of Spartan (2004)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 29 Mar 2011

He'll always be writer first, but for a relentless entertainment with actual with wit and soul, Spartan may just be the best thing David Mamet…

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Review of Slither (1973)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 29 Mar 2011

Done with a knowing wink and a nod, Slither doesn't offer much in the way of scares, but makes up for it in laughs and decent banter and a…

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Review of Star Trek (2009)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 29 Mar 2011

Star Trek has needed this kind of face lift for years…

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Review of Shrek Forever After (2010)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 29 Mar 2011

Shrek Forever After is the latest in a long, mediocre tradition. What charms it does have can't really compete with the charms it doesn't have…

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Review of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 29 Mar 2011

Scott Pilgrim will make your head explode. But in a good way, not with brains and stuff…

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Review of A Scanner Darkly (2006)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 29 Mar 2011

In the end, it offers only the slightest of answers and the slimmest of hopes, because that is often all life offers as well…

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Review of Serenity (2015)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 29 Mar 2011

New viewers will be a little bit lost, and old fans won't get quite everything they wanted, but there's enough going on in Serenity and it's…

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Review of Sherlock Holmes (2009)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 29 Mar 2011

Purists can, and certainly will, spend much time arguing how much is true to the material and how much was changed but the rest won't, and…

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Review of Stay (2005)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 29 Mar 2011

It is both straightforward and abstract, using cinematic tricks to put the audience in Sam/Henry's headspace…

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Review of Shutter Island (2010)

By Joshua Starnes (554) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 29 Mar 2011

As hard as Shutter Island works to convince you that is a dumb but flashy thriller when it is actually a fairly smart one, it may well be as…

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