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Review of Impostor (2001)

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

Tells (the story) with such atmospheric ballast that shrugging off the plot's persnickety problems is simply a matter of (being) in a shrugging mood…

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Review of Gosford Park (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 27 Dec 2001

Carpeted with dry wit and filled to the rafters with salacious secrets and unspoken animosity…

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Review of Piñero (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 24 Dec 2001

Who'd have thought Benjamin Bratt could give such an impassioned, stormy, totally absorbing performance that he would leave you gaping in astonishment…

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Review of The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 24 Dec 2001

You could probably watch this film 10 times over and still discover different levels of its multifaceted wit with each viewing…

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Review of The Shipping News (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 24 Dec 2001

The kind of mundanely well-tuned movie designed for the singular purpose of winning undeserved Oscars…

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Review of A Beautiful Mind (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 20 Dec 2001

What it lacks in ingenuity, A Beautiful Mind makes up for in superb performances, potent emotions and graceful, emblematic (if safe and conventional)…

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Review of How High (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 19 Dec 2001

If (it had) hung on to the consistency of comedy ...How High might have been funny enough that its pointlessness and incongruous storytelling…

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Review of Kate & Leopold (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 19 Dec 2001

Kate and Leopold might warm the easy heart, but it will most certainly numb the brain…

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Review of The Majestic (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 18 Dec 2001

A heartfelt and surprisingly successful revival of the cinema-idyllic world of Frank Capra movies…

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Review of Joe Somebody (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 18 Dec 2001

How can screenwriter John Scott Shepherd look at himself in the mirror after turning out such uninspired, immature, mechanical, cliche-driven,…

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Review of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 18 Dec 2001

This spirited CGI kiddie creation...is absolutely popping with personality and prodigious production design…

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Review of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 16 Dec 2001

For once, here's a gigantic-budget movie that wears its outsized grandiosity well and lives up to its hype and ambition…

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Review of Texas Rangers (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 30 Nov 2001

plays like it was led to slaughter in the editing room after being taken away from a director who'd read Westerns for Dummies…

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Review of Spy Game (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 20 Nov 2001

takes you on a great ride while not really being a great movie…

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Review of Black Knight (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 20 Nov 2001

minimal effort put into this movie's hit-or-miss humor…

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Review of Tape (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 15 Nov 2001

The one-room structure almost sinks the film because the more uncomfortable the situation becomes, the more you wonder why characters don't…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 15 Nov 2001

Columbus could have cut out the entire middle hour...and if you hadn't read the book, you'd never know the difference…

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Review of Shallow Hal (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 07 Nov 2001

A nearly laughless, woefully under-written romantic comedy that flaunts its political incorrectness only to conclude with an insultingly insincere…

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Review of Heist (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 07 Nov 2001

An exhilaratingly tense thriller that benefits from an elaborate array of rapid-fire twists and the sharp, delicious, cadence of David Mamet dialogue…

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Review of The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 06 Nov 2001

Thornton...has the most subtly expressive, heavily crevassed film noir face to smoke a dangling cigarette since Humphrey Bogart…

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