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Review of Space Cowboys (2000)

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

Director Eastwood takes [an] utterly predictable script about retired test pilots in space and turns it into gold…

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Review of Star Wars (1977)

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

This special edition re-release really drives home the differences between seeing a movie in the theater and seeing it on video…

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Review of Unbreakable (2000)

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

A masterfully crafted film with a precision plot, full of extraordinary, allusionary storytelling and fine-tuned scenes…

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Review of Flawless (1999)

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

Flawless could have been a quality character piece if only writer-director Schumacher had written deeper characters or exercised even a modicum…

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Review of Stealing Beauty (2007)

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

An intriguing, good-looking movie, and character-driven in the best sense. But truly, it's fanciful…

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Review of Get Shorty (1995)

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

It's Hollywood happily mocking itself, with stock characters breaking their molds and digs at everything that is the movie business…

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Review of Wonder Boys (2000)

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

Wonder Boys is an effortlessly off-kilter comedy with an impeccable cinema pedigree that serves its quirky story well…

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Review of Idle-Hands (2010)

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 Hackers (1995)

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

Hackers looks and sounds like an Intel Inside commercial produced by MTV…

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Review of Titanic (1984)

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 Wild Wild West (1999)

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

I figured the screenwriters would rape the show for its best elements, then stoke it with paint-by-numbers action and effect sequences, and…

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Review of The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

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

Gratuitous, far-fetched and a lot of fun…

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Review of Down to You (2000)

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

The inexperienced Isacsson's muddled stew of styles and story asides often leaves the movie flailing around like a dying fish…

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Review of Road Trip (2000)

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

I'm a little ashamed to say, I laughed my butt off all the way through it…

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Review of Boogie Nights (1997)

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

It simply tells a compelling story about shallow, damaged people trying in earnest to gain any kind of respect they can find, even through…

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Review of Three Kings (1999)

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

A Desert Storm action flick with conscience…

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Review of X-Men (2000)

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

As overwrought, over-buzzed, F/X-driven, pure-popcorn summer escapist flicks go, X-Men delivers the goods better than most…

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Review of Fight Club (1999)

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

Dares to question American values in the most inventive ways since Dr. Strangelove…

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Review of Cop Land (1997)

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

Mangold's script was interesting enough to draw enormous stars willing to work their buns off for scale…

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Review of Breaking the Waves (2014)

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

Quite simply the most emotionally devastating film I have ever seen....There is no better example of why film is such a powerful medium…

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