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Review of The Boxer (1997)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

The Boxer would be only a strongly-directed special interest film if it wasn't for the emotional intensity provided by Day-Lewis and Watson…

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Review of Mars Attacks! (1996)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

As sci-fi spoofs go, Mars Attacks! may never be topped…

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Review of Sgt. Bilko (1996)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

The movie is saturated with stagnant, one-note performances from stagnant, one-note actors…

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Review of Hideous Kinky (1999)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

Although Winslet's performance is absorbing and flushed with vitality, her character is shallow and self-absorbed…

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Review of The Perfect Storm (2000)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

Somewhere inside The Perfect Storm there's a near-perfect movie drowning under gale-force swells of romanticized sea-faring melodrama…

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Review of On the Pole: Eddie Sachs (1961)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

Eddie certainly would have been a mess without Goldberg to add an unexpected feminine view…

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Review of Sliding Doors (1998)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

Colorful and energetic, Sliding Doors balances its two stories with such smooth dexterity that is has no problem even overlaping them occasionally,…

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Review of The Waterboy (1998)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

This picture is almost entirely unintelligible three- or four-minute set pieces loosely held together by the football theme…

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Review of Toy Story 2 (1999)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

Part of the delight of this sequel its bottomless well of inventive wit…

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Review of Cruel Intentions (1999)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

I fully expected it to be dumbed down beyond all recognition. I expected Dangerous Liaisons 90210. But I can admit when I'm wrong…

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Review of Contact (1997)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

An intellectually and theologically challenging, $100 million summer blockbuster? Who'd have imagined…

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Review of The Rock (1996)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

Despite ample gunfights, chases and explosions, the tension in The Rock never translates into excitement for the audience…

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Review of The Best Man (1999)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

Lee spins an engaging yarn of funny and true-to-life emotional complexities, but his characters resolve all their issues far to easily as the…

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Review of 200 Cigarettes (1999)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

There are no wasted scenes, no busted jokes, and a number of comedic crescendos that will send you roaring over the back of your chair…

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Review of The Sixth Sense (1999)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

But this movie stunned me. The hair on the back of my neck stood up five or six times in this picture…

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Review of Kikujiro (1999)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

If distracting the audience from the movie's ingrained blunders is what he's[Kitano] trying to accomplish, it doesn't work…

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Review of Tarzan (1999)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

This is a Tarzan unlimited by what human actors are capable of physically, and in terms of authenticity it makes all the difference in the world…

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Review of Mission: Impossible II (2000)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

This flick has little intrigue to tie it to its namesake and it comes off more like a very expensive John Woo spoof…

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Review of Idle Hands (1999)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

Even under the best of circumstances, there's nothing redeemable here…

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Review of Jackie Brown (1997)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Jan 2000

Jackie Brown isn't a great film, but it has the air of its director's wicked brilliance…

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