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Review of The Last King of Scotland (2006)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 01 Jun 2014

Drawing on a documentary visual style he deftly employed in One Day in September and Touching the Void, director Kevin Macdonald uses McAvoy's…

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Review of Crossroads (2002)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 30 May 2014

Not only makes excellent use of the singer's sweetly coltish acting abilities, but it also promotes a standardized set of sturdy values with…

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Review of Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 23 May 2014

No matter what panache Bier adds, Things We Lost is still a TV-scaled tear-duct drama about a beautiful woman who pushes past sadness in her…

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Review of Valhalla Rising (2009)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 18 May 2014

When it comes to crazy, violent, semidelirious, testosterone-laden, proto-Viking tales about a mute visionary one-eyed warrior who breaks skulls,…

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Review of In the Company of Men (1997)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 15 May 2014

Stunning, unsettling, beautifully written drama…

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Review of Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 13 May 2014

Thompson, who also wrote the script, has skittery, baffling fun enjoining her plummy guest actors (including Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, and…

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Review of The New World (2005)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 11 May 2014

Many have tried, but none can match Malick's touch for shuffling a deck of elegiac images (water/sky/clouds/rain) and fanning out the hand…

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Review of The Wood (1999)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 27 Apr 2014

A genial story of friendship among three young African-American men that gets far on charm even when the cinema technique falters and stalls…

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Review of The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 26 Apr 2014

Ed Helms and Ving Rhames score laughs. But the breakout is Step Brothers' Kathryn Hahn as the tough (sales)girl who keeps up with the boys…

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Review of RV (2006)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 25 Apr 2014

As Williams ricochets between playing submissive soft-drink executive tethered to the whims of a hysterical boss and pathetic dad at the wheel,…

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Review of I Spit on Your Grave (2010)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 19 Apr 2014

Now it's just some thin chick in her underwear, kicking butt…

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Review of Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 04 Apr 2014

Grant is the rare actor who can mix the characteristics of sex appeal and ambivalence in believable, rather than irritating, proportions…

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Review of Gentlemen Broncos (2009)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Apr 2014

The audience may have bought the act in Napoleon Dynamite. But this time, the act bombs…

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Review of Just Like Heaven (2005)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 25 Mar 2014

That Just Like Heaven succeeds at all - at least for teenage girls with limited interest in the drafting of living wills - is due entirely…

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Review of Nearing Grace (2006)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 24 Mar 2014

Scott Sommer's late-1970s coming-of-age novel, with little of the vivid specificity of Mean Creek, even though the two share a screenwriter…

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Review of The Longest Yard (2005)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 15 Mar 2014

Each joke and one-liner is a made-for-HBO zinger, each scene with Sandler a reaffirmation of the old friendship between the two successful SNL alums…

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Review of Blindness (2008)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 13 Mar 2014

As the players enact the fall and rebirth of civilization, Meirelles suggests that even a society gone to hell looks better with a little music-video-like…

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Review of Splinter (2008)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 13 Mar 2014

A nifty horror movie that doesn't claim to be anything other than a zippy exercise in creature-feature entertainment…

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Review of It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 08 Mar 2014

It's Kind of a Funny Story may be the first psych-ward drama to draw on John Hughes movies for tonal reference…

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Review of The Happening (2008)

By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 06 Mar 2014

Some sure symptoms: The movie demonstrates a smart movie geek's obsession with the rhythms and gory details of horror storytelling, undermined…

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