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Review of Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 25 May 2002

An intelligent, earnest, intimate film that drops the ball only when it pauses for blunt exposition to make sure you're getting its metaphysical…

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Review of Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 21 May 2002

Take away (the) gratingly whiney soundtrack anthems by Bryan Adams, and Spirit has the heart of a winning animated mini-epic…

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Review of Insomnia (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 21 May 2002

While Insomnia is in many ways a conventional, even predictable remake, Nolan's penetrating undercurrent of cerebral and cinemantic flair lends…

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Review of About a Boy (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 15 May 2002

So refreshingly incisive is Grant that for the first time he'll probably appeal more to guys than to their girlfriends who drag them to this…

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Review of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 08 May 2002

as the story congeals you feel the pieces of the Star Wars saga falling into place in a way that makes your spine tingle with revelation…

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Review of Unfaithful (2009)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 07 May 2002

Adrian Lyne has a chance to twist Unfaithful into a subtle psychological puzzle (but he's) far more interested in psychosexual sensationalism…

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Review of Unfaithful (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 07 May 2002

Adrian Lyne has a chance to twist Unfaithful into a subtle psychological puzzle (but he's) far more interested in psychosexual sensationalism…

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Review of Unfaithful (1931)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 07 May 2002

Adrian Lyne has a chance to twist Unfaithful into a subtle psychological puzzle (but he's) far more interested in psychosexual sensationalism…

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Review of The New Guy (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 07 May 2002

As soon as we've seen Qualls entire comical cool-jerk repertoire, the movie plum runs out of ideas and putters along on fumes until the closing…

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Review of Stolen Summer (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 May 2002

tackling a low-budget movie in which inexperienced children play the two main characters might not be the best way to cut your teeth in…

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Review of Very Annie Mary (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 May 2002

Beware the quirky Brit-com. They can and will turn on a dime from oddly humorous to tediously sentimental…

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Review of Spider-Man (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 May 2002

with the candy-like taste of it fading faster than 25-cent bubble gum, I realized this is a throwaway movie that won't stand the test of…

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Review of Dogtown and Z-Boys (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 29 Apr 2002

This flick is about as cool and crowd-pleasing as a documentary can get…

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Review of The Cat's Meow (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 25 Apr 2002

Most film directors dream about making their Citizen Kane...Peter Bogdanovich has found a way to do the next best thing…

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Review of Jason X (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 23 Apr 2002

Whether Jason X is this bad on purpose is never clear. But one thing's for sure: It never comes close to being either funny or scary…

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Review of Life or Something Like It (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 22 Apr 2002

But even with the two-wrongs-make-a-right chemistry between Jolie and Burns...this otherwise appealing picture loses its soul to Screenwriting…

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Review of Lucky Break (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 18 Apr 2002

Even if it ultimately disappoints, the picture does have about a matinee admission's worth of funny to keep it afloat…

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Review of Murder by Numbers (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 16 Apr 2002

Sandra Bullock's best dramatic performance to date (is) almost enough to lift (this) thrill-kill cat-and-mouser...above its paint-by-numbers plot…

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Review of The Scorpion King (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 15 Apr 2002

Why wasn't The Mummy Returns this much fun…

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Review of The Sweetest Thing (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 10 Apr 2002

In the process of trimming the movie to an expeditious 84 minutes, director Roger Kumble seems to have dumped a whole lot of plot in favor…

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