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Review of Mission to Mars (2000)

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

The film is a montage of showy effects, blatant product placement and ideas lifted wholesale from much better films…

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Review of Simpatico (1999)

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

Powerhouse performances can't save sloppy Simpatico from the glue factory…

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Review of Fargo (1996)

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

With the subtle, homespun and ironic performances of Macy and Frances McDormand…

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Review of Titanic (1943)

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

It is opulent, daring, detailed, vastly over-priced and incomparable…

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Review of The Next Best Thing (2000)

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

Its creaky, all-consuming insistence on its characters' normalcy entombs everything interesting about them in contrived schlock and transparent…

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Review of Dance with Me (1998)

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

The movie is largely gimmicky melodrama lathered with cheap, feel-good sentimentality…

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Review of Striptease (1977)

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

Let me be blunt: In three days of thinking, I cannot remember a movie worse than Striptease…

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Review of The Mask of Zorro (1998)

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

A decidedly clever, if largely unoriginal, update in which Banderas inherits blade bravado duties from retired Zorro Anthony Hopkins and crosses…

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Review of Hanging Up (2000)

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

A strongly (if predictably) acted, emotionally sincere and enjoyably capricious comedy-drama…

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Review of Gladiator (1992)

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

While Gladiator is nothing if not stimulating and richly visual, director Ridley Scott's sense of grandeur is inconsistent, and he often over-reaches…

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Review of The Road to El Dorado (2000)

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

How Hollywood's animated filmmakers can continue to crank out pictures built on the same template year after year and have them continue to…

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Review of Jawbreaker (1999)

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

Too dark to be funny and plagued by abyss-sized holes in the plot, slavish dialogue and sketch-quality acting, Jawbreaker is a 15 minute idea…

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Review of The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)

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

Is it funny? Sure -- although not as funny as the comics themselves seem to think it is…

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Review of The Big Tease (1999)

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

Little more than a tiresome, transplanted, sports underdog plot, complete with a showdown finale (exaggerated, six-foot-tall hair-chitecture)…

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Review of From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

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

From Dusk Till Dawn was probably spawned from an all night bender during which Tarantino and Rodriguez thought it would be fun to see if they…

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Review of The Iron Giant (1999)

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

The most extraordinary -- the coolest -- Hollywood cartoon since the genre was revived 10 years ago…

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Review of Armageddon (1998)

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

This is a tedious, tiresome embarrassment and is without question the worst movie I've seen in two years…

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Review of Scream 3 (2000)

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

The minute Kevin Williamson said no to writing Scream 3, that should have been the end of it…

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Review of Gone with the Wind (1939)

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

At the film's center, of course, is Leigh's strikingly sympathetic portrayal as Scarlett O'Hara, the irascible, manipulative bitch…

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Review of For Love of the Game (1999)

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

It's hard not to admire Kevin Costner for his stanch dedication to making old-fashioned movies that defy our acidic modern world…

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