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Review of Little Children (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 03 May 2007

The Godfather (a little), Gone with the Wind (quite a bit), Jaws (infinity plus one)...and Little Children. What've they all got in common…

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Review of Fracture (2007)

By Markb. (197) on 01 May 2007

Many critics and moviegoers have noted the many apparent similarities in characterization and performance between Anthony Hopkins's Ted Crawford,…

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Review of Reign Over Me (2007)

By Markb. (197) on 26 Apr 2007

A broken clock is right twice a day, and Rolling Stone critic Peter Travers is absolutely spot-on in his evaluation of this film…

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Review of Vacancy (2007)

By Markb. (197) on 24 Apr 2007

Woe be to any thriller (and its audience) where the biggest and most effective thrills by far appear in the opening and closing credits sequences…

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Review of Grindhouse (2007)

By Markb. (197) on 20 Apr 2007

Pastiche movies--films in which the makers attempt to communicate the themes of a past director or genre by trying to perfectly reproduce the…

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Review of Freedom Writers (2007)

By Markb. (197) on 19 Apr 2007

The dedicated-teacher-teaching-in-the-slums/ ghetto/ projects/ 'hood (depending on when the film was made) who-Makes-A-Difference, dammit movie…

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Review of Disturbia (2007)

By Markb. (197) on 17 Apr 2007

In David Mamet's recent, witty examination of what's right and (mostly) wrong with Hollywood, Bambi vs…

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Review of Wild Hogs (2007)

By Markb. (197) on 16 Apr 2007

There are definite reasons why this is, as of now, the #2 box office hit of 2007...even though this admittedly derivative slapstick farce about…

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Review of Norbit (2007)

By Markb. (197) on 10 Apr 2007

This cheerfully overinflated, cheekily offensive comedy will retain a permanent footnote in movie history as The Movie That Cost Eddie Murphy…

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Review of Meet the Robinsons (2007)

By Markb. (197) on 09 Apr 2007

Rarely has any movie--any genre, animated or not--so completely, frustratingly, maddeningly self-destructed in so many different ways after…

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Review of Shooter (2007)

By Markb. (197) on 26 Mar 2007

Stephen Hunter, on whose novel Point of Impact this is based, is not only a crack writer of thrillers, but in his other life is one of the…

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Review of Zodiac (2007)

By Markb. (197) on 23 Mar 2007

Director David Fincher is certainly both a sick puppy and an odd duck…

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Review of Miss Potter (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 22 Mar 2007

It's hard to believe that all those itty-bitty (and, to their detractors, somewhat twee) little books about rabbits, ducks and frogs were such…

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Review of We Are Marshall (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 09 Mar 2007

Learning that McG, the dude who brought you the glitzy and trashy Charlie's Angels and the glitzier and trashier Charlie's Angels 2: Full Throttle…

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Review of Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 22 Feb 2007

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country, uttered General George Patton as memorably interpreted by George C…

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Review of The Queen (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 20 Feb 2007

If you had told me two years ago that the tragic death of Princess Diana, of all things, would provide the fulcrum for one of the smartest,…

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Review of Notes on a Scandal (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 16 Feb 2007

Since Closer scribe Patrick Marber is typically so gleefully misanthropic about people in general and relationships in particular that he can…

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Review of Night at the Museum (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 08 Feb 2007

And a long, slow, boring and seemingly endless night it is, too...in short, everything that the Museum of Natural History absolutely is NOT…

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Review of The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 07 Feb 2007

Horatio Alger meets The Bicycle Thief…

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Review of Rocky Balboa (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 06 Feb 2007

What is it about Sylvester Stallone that inspires such vehement bouts of schaudenfraude in otherwise rational people…

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