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Review of Charlotte's Web (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 25 Jan 2007

One of 2006's more noteworthy cinematic quirks was Michael Winterbottom's amusing stab at filming Laurence Sterne's (The Life and Opinions…

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Review of Charlotte's Web (1973)

By Markb. (197) on 25 Jan 2007

One of 2006's more noteworthy cinematic quirks was Michael Winterbottom's amusing stab at filming Laurence Sterne's (The Life and Opinions…

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Review of Blood Diamond (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 19 Jan 2007

Back in 1997, when Titanic was breaking all kinds of box office records and creating a few of its own, Leonardo DiCaprio suddenly started being…

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Review of Apocalypto (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 17 Jan 2007

Nearly three years ago, while squeamishly preparing myself to see Mel Gibson's now-legendary The Passion of the Christ, I stopped in a favorite…

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Review of Bobby (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 08 Jan 2007

If I were Catholic, I'd probably have to go to confession for feeling this way, but given that this film deals with one of the most pivotal…

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Review of Babel (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 05 Jan 2007

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga (Amores Perros and 21 Grams, their best film) reunite again for this exceedingly…

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Review of Casino Royale (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 03 Jan 2007

Chomp, chomp, (choke), gulp…

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Review of Happy Feet (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 18 Dec 2006

You've got to give this to us Americans: we may be polarized as never before on war, politics and religion, and completely unable to come to…

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Review of Running with Scissors (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 15 Dec 2006

If you want to argue that American Beauty was an overrated, superficial wet firecracker tossed at white bread suburban America, with nothing…

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Review of Flushed Away (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 12 Dec 2006

Following the box office disappointment of this animated feature (you don't have to be Jimmy the Greek to correctly bet that viewers young…

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Review of Marie Antoinette (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 11 Dec 2006

The apple really doesn't fall far from the tree…

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Review of Gridiron Gang (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 30 Nov 2006

Fade this football drama to black and white, substitute Pat O'Brien for Dwayne The Rock Johnson, omit the street language and drive-by shootings,…

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Review of Flyboys (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 29 Nov 2006

Too bad they marred this otherwise very entertaining World War I action drama by banishing the cigarettes from it…

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Review of The Guardian (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 28 Nov 2006

Yes, this military melodrama about the Cocky-But-Troubled-Recruit-Who-Makes-Good DOES travel the well-worn path of An Officer and a Gentleman…

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Review of The Guardian (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 28 Nov 2006

Yes, this military melodrama about the Cocky-But-Troubled-Recruit-Who-Makes-Good DOES travel the well-worn path of An Officer and a Gentleman…

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Review of Employee of the Month (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 14 Nov 2006

Lionsgate Films is definitely falling into some familiar patterns…

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Review of The Black Dahlia (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 13 Nov 2006

The long, slow, sad descent of Brian De Palma continues unabated…

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Review of Invincible (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 10 Nov 2006

This theoretically true-to-life-except-for-the-facts saga about Vince Papale, who became a gridiron hero when the perpetually losing Philadelphia…

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Review of Hollywoodland (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 09 Nov 2006

There are very good reasons why Orson Welles made Jerry Thompson a shadowy, almost faceless figure in Citizen Kane…

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Review of The Last Kiss (2006)

By Markb. (197) on 08 Nov 2006

Paul Haggis's and Tony Goldwyn's entertaining meditation on twentysomething yuppie angst (if those last three words didn't scare you away,…

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