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Review of Changing Lanes (2002)

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

It has all the right ingredients (but) 60 percent of the movie is spent trying to make a rich, lying, conniving, completely unprincipled Manhattan…

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Review of New Best Friend (2002)

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

plays like a badly edited, 91-minute trailer (and) the director can't seem to get a coherent rhythm going…

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Review of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 04 Apr 2002

The film remains the kind of unabashed delight that can make even the most cynical filmgoer feel like a kid wrapped up in the fantasy of it all…

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Review of Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 04 Apr 2002

Just like his characters, writer-director Alfonso Cuarón...takes the road less traveled…

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Review of National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 03 Apr 2002

When Van Wilder sticks to its wits, its comedy is unstoppable. But...there's an equal (amount) of acute unoriginality and beyond-belief bad taste…

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Review of High Crimes (2002)

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

There are few things more frustrating to a film buff than seeing an otherwise good movie marred beyond redemption by a disastrous ending…

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Review of No Such Thing (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 30 Mar 2002

On a cutting room floor somewhere lies...footage that might have made No Such Thing a trenchant, ironic cultural satire instead of a frustrating…

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Review of Death to Smoochy (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 28 Mar 2002

It is so refreshing to see Robin Williams turn 180 degrees from the string of insultingly innocuous and sappy fiascoes he's been making for…

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Review of The Rookie (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 28 Mar 2002

The fact that The Rookie is a nearly impeccable cinematic experience -- and a wonderful all-ages triumph besides -- is a miracle akin to the…

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Review of Clockstoppers (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 26 Mar 2002

infused with entertaining energy and written with an adult-friendly crispness that's especially rare in movies aimed squarely at pre-teens…

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Review of Sorority Boys (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 20 Mar 2002

When the casting call for this movie went out, it must have read 'seeking anyone with acting ambition but no sense of pride or shame…

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Review of Blade II (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 20 Mar 2002

The vampires are so ridiculously easy to kill that it's hard to not wonder why the world needs someone like Blade at all…

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Review of Harrison's Flowers (2000)

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

Every moving performance or brain-searing battle scene is counteracted by...contrivances, narrative blunders & continuity gaffes...too obtrusive…

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Review of Ice Age (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 13 Mar 2002

The lack of a original themes is largely made up for by the movie's sharp and spirited sense of humor and by its entirely unconventional visuals…

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Review of Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 13 Mar 2002

Gay or straight, Kissing Jessica Stein is one of the greatest date movies in years…

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Review of Resident Evil (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 13 Mar 2002

It's been 13 months and 295 preview screenings since I last walked out on a movie, but Resident Evil really earned my indignant, preemptive departure…

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Review of Monsoon Wedding (2001)

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

The humor and humanity of Monsoon Wedding are in perfect balance…

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Review of All About the Benjamins (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 06 Mar 2002

in no way original, or even all that memorable, but as downtown Saturday matinee brain candy, it doesn't disappoint…

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Review of We Were Soldiers (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 27 Feb 2002

Captures the chaos..., the grave danger breathing down the neck of every combatant, and especially the heroism that resulted…

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Review of 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 27 Feb 2002

delightfully surprising freshness and soul where all the hackneyed conventions usually are…

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