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Review of First Daughter (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 23 Sep 2004

Could well be the most hackneyed and insipid movie of 2004...Cutesy-poo to a sickening degree, yet peppered with pseudo-political sincerity…

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Review of A Dirty Shame (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 22 Sep 2004

Mercilessly mocking those who fear sexual tolerance will unravel society, Waters delights in taking both puritanism and prurience to satirical…

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Review of The Forgotten (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 22 Sep 2004

Raises more (and rather obvious) questions than it answer about the impetus and intelligence behind the eventual truth -- and especially about…

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Review of Shaun of the Dead (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 21 Sep 2004

A guaranteed gut-buster for anyone even vaguely familiar with the fundamentals of zombiedom…

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Review of Silver City (1984)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 16 Sep 2004

The most deadpan, dead-on, sharply focused political satire in recent memory…

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Review of Silver City (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 16 Sep 2004

The most deadpan, dead-on, sharply focused political satire in recent memory…

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Review of Wimbledon (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 14 Sep 2004

More moderately charming than a romantic comedy should be with stars as charismatic and irresistible as Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany - but…

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Review of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 13 Sep 2004

So perfectly captures the sci-fi wonder of '30s serials...that watching it doesn't arouse a modern reaction of wow! or cool…

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Review of Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 09 Sep 2004

In an era of resurgent zombie-flick creativity (28 Days Later, Dawn of the Dead), this leaden mindlessness is nothing short of pathetic…

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Review of Bright Young Things (2003)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 08 Sep 2004

A terribly witty romp...but director Fry furtively hints at shades of compunction and misfortune...taking the film to unexpected level of empathy,…

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Review of Cellular (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 07 Sep 2004

has all the earmarks of a genuinely smart thriller rewritten by a studio-lapdog script doctor who was told it didn't have enough car chases…

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Review of Iron Jawed Angels (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 06 Sep 2004

A stunning true story unfortunately tarted up for modern audiences, infused with modern informalities, fictional romances and wildly incongruous…

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Review of Wicker Park (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 01 Sep 2004

Three of the four leads are terrible (but) keen and cunning storytelling makes it possible to see Wicker Park for its strengths despite its…

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Review of Suspect Zero (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 24 Aug 2004

enough of a departure from genre routine to keep thriller-savvy film watchers engaged, but not enough of a departure to leave a lasting impression…

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Review of Without a Paddle (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 17 Aug 2004

bad almost by default, as if everyone involved had a few yuks then bailed out mid-stream...leaving the movie adrift and appropriately titled…

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Review of Garden State (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 12 Aug 2004

May just be The Graduate for the arrested-development generation…

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Review of Little Black Book (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 04 Aug 2004

It's not a major departure from the sugary genre norm, but Little Black Book definitely doesn't go where romantic comedy convention says it should…

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Review of Collateral (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 03 Aug 2004

Mann works intelligent, polished magic on a B-movie noir script that would (have been) a catch-phrase-fraught action-explosion flick in the…

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Review of Touch of Pink (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 30 Jul 2004

Oh, goodie, another my old-country ethnic family doesn't understand me comedy…

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Review of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004)

By Rob Blackwelder (857) for SPLICEDWire (872) on 29 Jul 2004

There is a key to good'n'stupid lowbrow comedy:...be proudly, shamelessly, flippantly stupid…

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