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Review of Bedtime Stories (2008)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 24 Dec 2008

Kids will have the best time, because the comedy is geared toward them and they won't remember the Sandler who wouldn't sleepwalk through roles…

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Review of Yes Man (2008)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 18 Dec 2008

There's also satisfaction in more of the same, and that's exactly what Carrey dishes out in this return to form…

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Review of Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 18 Dec 2008

Hardscrabble British director Danny Boyle does an astounding job at building and maintaining suspense…

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Review of Seven Pounds (2008)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 18 Dec 2008

But even without the head-shaker ending, the movie would have been a failure due to Smith's lackadaisical performance…

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Review of Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 11 Dec 2008

There's nothing like a holiday film that gets you in the spirit of family reunions in all their disastrous glory…

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Review of Let the Right One In (2008)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 04 Dec 2008

The best fantasy stories excel because they give new perspective to real-life issues through the lens of the supernatural, and the Swedish…

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Review of Four Christmases (2008)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 26 Nov 2008

Vaughn has little romantic rapport with Witherspoon, so the love story has no pull, but Vaughn is in top center-of-attention form and Witherspoon…

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Review of Synecdoche, New York (2008)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 26 Nov 2008

He goes for Fellini's 8 1/2 but comes up 8 short…

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Review of Twilight (1994)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 21 Nov 2008

I'm glad I saw Twilight for one reason: It made the phrase jump the shark obsolete, to be potentially replaced with The vampires are playing baseball…

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Review of Twilight (2008)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 21 Nov 2008

I'm glad I saw Twilight for one reason: It made the phrase jump the shark obsolete, to be potentially replaced with The vampires are playing baseball…

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Review of Twilight (1998)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 21 Nov 2008

I'm glad I saw Twilight for one reason: It made the phrase jump the shark obsolete, to be potentially replaced with The vampires are playing baseball…

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Review of Twilight (1969)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 21 Nov 2008

I'm glad I saw Twilight for one reason: It made the phrase jump the shark obsolete, to be potentially replaced with The vampires are playing baseball…

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Review of Twilight (2015)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 21 Nov 2008

I'm glad I saw Twilight for one reason: It made the phrase jump the shark obsolete, to be potentially replaced with The vampires are playing baseball…

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Review of Twilight (1990)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 21 Nov 2008

I'm glad I saw Twilight for one reason: It made the phrase jump the shark obsolete, to be potentially replaced with The vampires are playing baseball…

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Review of Twilight (1944)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 21 Nov 2008

I'm glad I saw Twilight for one reason: It made the phrase jump the shark obsolete, to be potentially replaced with The vampires are playing baseball…

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Review of Twilight (2001)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 21 Nov 2008

I'm glad I saw Twilight for one reason: It made the phrase jump the shark obsolete, to be potentially replaced with The vampires are playing baseball…

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Review of Evening (1966)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 21 Nov 2008

I'm glad I saw Twilight for one reason: It made the phrase jump the shark obsolete, to be potentially replaced with The vampires are playing baseball…

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Review of Pokkuveyil (1982)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 21 Nov 2008

I'm glad I saw Twilight for one reason: It made the phrase jump the shark obsolete, to be potentially replaced with The vampires are playing baseball…

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Review of Happy-Go-Lucky (2008)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 20 Nov 2008

And, boy, do you pull for her, because if the indomitable Poppy can't find what she's looking for, then there's no hope for the rest of us…

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Review of Bolt (2008)

By Phil Villarreal (1,289) for Arizona Daily Star (983) on 19 Nov 2008

Pixar masterpieces aside, it's been quite a while since Disney cranked out an animated movie worthy of its fairy-dust-sprinkled castle logo…

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