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Review of Miracle (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 05 Feb 2004

Could it be that Disney, the studio that holds the trademark on triteness, has developed a true flair for non-patronizing, fact-based feel-good…

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Review of 21 Grams (2003)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 03 Feb 2004

A non-linear, emotionally escalating collage of three lives on a tragic collision course, the film is blessed with innovative storytelling…

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Review of The Big Bounce (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 28 Jan 2004

Winningly wry and roguish Owen Wilson seems very much at home in the cheeky, tropical-noir world of Elmore Leonard…

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Review of Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 21 Jan 2004

Win a Date... gives these characters more character than they've had since the genre's 1940s hay day of Betty Grable musicals…

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Review of American Splendor (2003)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 16 Jan 2004

Inventive and blessed with uncommonly human-yet-cartoony performances, this film is one of a kind…

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Review of Chasing Liberty (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 07 Jan 2004

It's hard not to wonder...when Mandy Moore -- whose potential is so palpable it's like a hand grenade with the pin pulled -- will pick a script…

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Review of Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 28 Dec 2003

There are several moments in the picture so evocative, so stunning that they literally make you hold your breath…

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Review of House of Sand and Fog (2003)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 24 Dec 2003

It's a film...absent of easy black-or-white ethics, which makes for some powerful emotions…

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Review of Cold Mountain (2003)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 22 Dec 2003

When all of your supporting characters are more compelling and charismatic than your leads, your movie is in trouble…

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Review of Paycheck (2003)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 21 Dec 2003

The Swiss could take lessons...on how to mold something so cheesy and full of holes (but) the picture (gets by on) Woo's distinctively, gratifyingly…

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Review of The Cooler (2003)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 20 Dec 2003

Nobody plays a rube as well as William H. Macy, and Bernie Lootz is a rube of epic proportions…

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Review of Mona Lisa Smile (2003)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 17 Dec 2003

An ironically conformist piece of mock-intellectual fluff... [and] such an appalling waste of talent it actually made me mad. Scratch that - furious…

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Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 16 Dec 2003

Jackson's vision, and his capacity for bringing it to life…

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Review of Big Fish (2003)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 14 Dec 2003

Like a child with a wonderful imagination...(Burton) can extrapolate the extraordinary from the ordinary, and through the conviction of his…

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Review of Honey (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 03 Dec 2003

It can't even be said that the film has good intentions, because to have any intentions at all would have required at least a modicum of imagination…

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Review of Honey (2003)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 03 Dec 2003

It can't even be said that the film has good intentions, because to have any intentions at all would have required at least a modicum of imagination…

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Review of Honey (2013)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 03 Dec 2003

It can't even be said that the film has good intentions, because to have any intentions at all would have required at least a modicum of imagination…

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Review of Lost in Translation (2003)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Dec 2003

Extraordinary in its beautiful, lyrical simplicity...Coppola's seemingly effortless, flawlessly fluid command of the film's moods and unspoken…

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Review of Timeline (2013)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 24 Nov 2003

It's a ridiculous, paradox-packed, sci-fi/action contrivance...but I'd be lying if I said I didn't get some guilty pleasure out of this inflated…

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Review of Timeline (2014)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 24 Nov 2003

It's a ridiculous, paradox-packed, sci-fi/action contrivance...but I'd be lying if I said I didn't get some guilty pleasure out of this inflated…

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