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Review of Hotel Rwanda (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 06 Jun 2005

The fact-based story it tells of instinctual heroism in the face of unspeakable horror is powerful enough to overcome its flaws…

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Review of Lords of Dogtown (2005)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jun 2005

doesn't have half the spontaneity and maverick spirit of the vivid, kinetic, crowd-pleasing documentary that inspired it…

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Review of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 30 May 2005

Exponentially more earnest, affecting and credible than 90 percent of movies aimed at teenage girls…

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Review of Madagascar (2005)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 24 May 2005

Unlike the vocal talents used in Pixar cartoons, the celebrities cast in this DreamWorks production bring nothing distinctive to their roles…

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Review of Roly Poly (1968)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 19 May 2005

A stylish, dynamic thicket of thorny underworld twists and deceptions…

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Review of Layer Cake (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 19 May 2005

A stylish, dynamic thicket of thorny underworld twists and deceptions…

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Review of Unleashed (2005)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 11 May 2005

The few unfortunate nods to convention are certainly forgivable when the rest of the picture stands uncommonly above the genre norm…

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Review of Mindhunters (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 11 May 2005

These clowns couldn't get jobs as dogcatchers, let alone FBI agents…

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Review of Kicking & Screaming (2005)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 10 May 2005

Most agonizing is the sting of watching Ferrell, after (his) witty performances in Elf and Melinda & Melinda, revert to the same old one-note,…

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Review of Monster-in-Law (2005)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 10 May 2005

Is it worth 10 bucks to watch Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda retread the same sitcom territory trampled twice by Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro…

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Review of Kicking and Screaming (1995)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 10 May 2005

Most agonizing is the sting of watching Ferrell, after (his) witty performances in Elf and Melinda & Melinda, revert to the same old one-note,…

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Review of Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 09 May 2005

It may well be the best of all six Star Wars movies…

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Review of Palindromes (2005)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 07 May 2005

It's a film that demands you get deep inside its troubled heroine's psyche by continually yanking the rug out from under you with her inconsistent…

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Review of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 30 Apr 2005

Alex Gibney's film, based on the book by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind, feels rushed, slight and ultimately inconclusive…

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Review of Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 29 Apr 2005

The hugely enjoyable Kung Fu Hustle races across the screen in a colorful collage of various styles, from classic kung fu films to silent comedies…

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Review of It's All Gone Pete Tong (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 28 Apr 2005

A charismatically raucous and appropriately rhythmic fictional biopic...both darkly hilarious and surprisingly emotive…

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Review of Harry and Max (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 28 Apr 2005

incest...pedophilia...the film seems to be nothing more than an attempt to affirm a sense of I'm-OK-you're-OK normality for any viewers…

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Review of xXx: State of the Union (2005)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 26 Apr 2005

XXXcrement. If it weren't for Ice Cube's charismatic bad attitude, State of the Union would be downright unwatchable…

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Review of A Lot Like Love (2005)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 19 Apr 2005

Deliciously fresh, ingenuous and beguiling...until its out-of-character finale of contrived misunderstandings that stink of a studio-mandated rewrite…

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Review of Oldboy (2003)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 16 Apr 2005

Fills the screen with enough show-stopping images to put an entire circus out of work…

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